Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-28 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Eugen Leitl wrote: > I'm going to be terribly lame, and comment my own post. > Perhaps it's going to make more sense now, perhaps not. Yes, a lot clearer now, thanks. > Isn't it fun when networking becomes indistinguishable > from physics? Indeed. Udhay

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:50:19AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > I *am* a machine elf from hyperspace. One of the hyperspaces, aynway. :) "I sank to the floor," recalls McKenna, in a recording of the 1987 lecture. "I [experienced] this hallucination of tumbling forward into these fractal geo

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:46:38AM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: I'm going to be terribly lame, and comment my own post. Perhaps it's going to make more sense now, perhaps not. If it doesn't, this conversation is perhaps not sufficiently intelligent, and I'll drop it. > A lot of the original design f

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-26 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Eugen Leitl wrote: [ on 10:01 PM 2/26/2007 ] It's not worth it, unless you're interested in grand scale restructuring of the universe, and whatever protocols machine elves from hyperspace find cool. I *am* a machine elf from hyperspace. One of the hyperspaces, aynway. :) Udhay -- ((Udhay Sh

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:35:45PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Mostly, the latter. Just figuring out context in some of your posts > takes a lot of effort, which I'm not always willing to expend. It's not worth it, unless you're interested in grand scale restructuring of the universe, and wh

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-26 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Eugen Leitl wrote: [ on 07:36 PM 2/26/2007 ] How exactly am I opaque? Weird words, too much shorthand? Mostly, the latter. Just figuring out context in some of your posts takes a lot of effort, which I'm not always willing to expend. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:55:07PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > However, as an aside: Eugen, you'd get a LOT more discussion around > your (very interesting) thoughts if you were a little less opaque. How exactly am I opaque? Weird words, too much shorthand? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-26 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Eugen Leitl wrote: [ on 03:16 PM 2/26/2007 ] I did a (very bad and purple, I was dumb, 1994/95) writeup on http://leitl.org/oldcontent/ui22204/.html/txt/8uliw.txt (I think I did manage to do a fairy well kook impersonation here) I'm not commenting on the protocol design for now, as I'm not su

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 05:18:03PM +0800, Gautam John wrote: > Saw this post on his Hyderabad talk: > > http://gauteg.blogspot.com/2007/02/vint-cerfs-talk-in-hyderabad.html A lot of the original design for the protocols didn't address several basic issues. - the network was small and irregular -

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-26 Thread Gautam John
Saw this post on his Hyderabad talk: http://gauteg.blogspot.com/2007/02/vint-cerfs-talk-in-hyderabad.html On 2/22/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:03:05PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Vint covered that kind of store and forward thing - the differe

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:03:05PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Vint covered that kind of store and forward thing - the difference is > that right now, the earth's rotation, and the transmission lag, mean > that this wont work too well Of course it doesn't work right now. The sky is not

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 06:59:32PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >> How do you propose that this situation comes about? The shortest > > Populate space, turning it into active medium. The same thing > will happen to terrestrial lines, too. Vint covered that kind of store

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 06:59:32PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > How do you propose that this situation comes about? The shortest Populate space, turning it into active medium. The same thing will happen to terrestrial lines, too. > distance between any point on earth (this includes satellite

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-02-22 18:59:32 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > You don't need new protocols, just less distance between nodes. > > How do you propose that this situation comes about? Just wait for the Big Crunch. -- ams

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-22 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Eugen Leitl wrote: [ on 11:27 AM 2/22/2007 ] > That said - it was, as I said, competently executed. I wish he'd > spent some more time on the interplanetary internet project. You don't need new protocols, just less distance between nodes. How do you propose that this situation comes about? Th

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
right. your wedding was the one time i've been to bangalore in all that time Srini RamaKrishnan [22/02/07 08:54 +0530]: Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: [...] (which is how long since I've been in bangalore) :) Ahem, I have evidence to the contrary, but never mind :-) Cheeni -- Suresh Ramas

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 10:52:06AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > That said - it was, as I said, competently executed. I wish he'd > spent some more time on the interplanetary internet project. You don't need new protocols, just less distance between nodes. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-21 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Binand Sethumadhavan wrote [at 09:10 AM 2/22/2007] : Mouthwatering stuff aside, how was the talk? What was the talk about? Well-executed, but curiouslyflat, to my mind. The talk suffered due to the following things: * Too many concepts to do justice to any one (a high level overview of

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-21 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 22/02/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well it was a great meal - nobody did order steak at the end but that did help - lots of beef salad as a result. Delicious, as usual. Mouthwatering stuff aside, how was the talk? What was the talk about? Binand

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-21 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: [...] (which is how long since I've been in bangalore) :) Ahem, I have evidence to the contrary, but never mind :-) Cheeni

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Madhu Menon [21/02/07 19:02 +0530]: Charles Haynes wrote: Ok I'm assuming plan is to go to Shiok after Vint's Tak. At least that's my plan. Mobile in case people need to get in touch: Can you folks give me a rough time and rough numbers so I can keep a table ready? Well it was a great meal

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-21 Thread Madhu Menon
Charles Haynes wrote: Ok I'm assuming plan is to go to Shiok after Vint's Tak. At least that's my plan. Mobile in case people need to get in touch: Can you folks give me a rough time and rough numbers so I can keep a table ready? Thanks, Madhu PS: Only SRS asked for steak so I haven't order

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-21 Thread Biju Chacko
I may turn up for a bit. -- b On 21/02/07, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok I'm assuming plan is to go to Shiok after Vint's Tak. At least that's my plan. Mobile in case people need to get in touch: 99 007 55622 -- Charles On 2/14/07, Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-21 Thread Charles Haynes
Ok I'm assuming plan is to go to Shiok after Vint's Tak. At least that's my plan. Mobile in case people need to get in touch: 99 007 55622 -- Charles On 2/14/07, Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > Oh and Charles - can you get Vint along to the meet by any

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-14 Thread Madhu Menon
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Oh and Charles - can you get Vint along to the meet by any chance? srs ps: Madhu, if its shiok, make sure you have steak available - Biju and Gabin kind of made me hungry with their ecstatic descriptions of what you can do to a steak. Yes, I can do stea

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Aditya Kapil wrote: > This only rules out Udhay from a pub-crawl. > Adit. > An early morning flight + staying at a relative's place kind of rules me out of a pub crawl, unfortunately. Well, there's a more than half decent pub I remember in homely old indira nagar from my days there (6 years back

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-14 Thread gabin kattukaran
On 2/14/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Though maybe if I can promise steaks at Shiok he'll agree. Well, I'm sure Madhu can do that .. easy recipe really, starts off with "First catch your cow" :) I wish I could make it B'luru. Both the talk and the steaks sound ir

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-14 Thread Aditya Kapil
This only rules out Udhay from a pub-crawl. Adit. On 2/14/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Udhay says he has meetings on the 22nd morning which kind of rules out a stately crawl through the various pubs of downtown bangalore ..

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-14 Thread Biju Chacko
On 14/02/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ps: Madhu, if its shiok, make sure you have steak available - Biju and Gabin kind of made me hungry with their ecstatic descriptions of what you can do to a steak. And I've been feeling guilty ever since. Hope cooking it wasn't a nu

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Charles Haynes wrote: > On 2/14/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Oh and Charles - can you get Vint along to the meet by any chance? > > I'll get right on that... > > Though maybe if I can promise steaks at Shiok he'll agree. Well, I'm sure Madhu can do that .. easy rec

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-14 Thread Charles Haynes
On 2/14/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh and Charles - can you get Vint along to the meet by any chance? I'll get right on that... Though maybe if I can promise steaks at Shiok he'll agree. -- Charles

[silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Well, I'll be in town for that Vint Cerf speaker series thingy. So will quite a few other silklisters, I dare say. Anybody up for a silk meet? Say at Shiok or someplace else where there's good food to be had. Udhay says he has meetings on the 22nd morning which kind of rules out a stately crawl