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Re: Ladakh Vacation – last days

Ashwin Nanjappa — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:38:46 -0000

I see, I was not aware of these special restrictions. I would have also followed the rules in that case :-)

Re: Ladakh Vacation – last days

deepakg — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:19:06 -0000

It's actually 'officially' allowed when you are flying into Ladakh. But they don't allow batteries on board when flying out from J&K - i.e. from Ladakh or Srinagar. In hindsight it all turned out to be a sham.

Re: Ladakh Vacation – last days

deepakg — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:36:04 -0000

Hi Marcia,

Thanks.

We stayed at Padma Ladakh. It is a family-run guest house and we had a great time. They have a website with upto-date contact info: http://www.padmaladakh.net/. They are indeed open during winters.

Cheers!

Re: Enabling two-sided (duplex) printing on Mac

deepakg — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:16:33 -0000

That's because this printer doesn't support Duplex printing. Please see:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/1... (look under Paper Handling)

"Duplex printing (printing on both sides of paper)
None (not supported)"

Re: Enabling two-sided (duplex) printing on Mac

Neerav Kothari — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:21:33 -0000

My HP PhotoSmart 4500 driver on snow leopard dosn't list any option.

Re: Enabling two-sided (duplex) printing on Mac

deepakg — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:56:40 -0000

That's right.

Re: Apple’s iMac announcement – India pricing and availability

anand — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:54:51 -0000

Thanks !

Previously, apple prices have not included taxes - the online site has fine print indicating taxes are extra ("End user price local taxes and levies extra").

Re: Apple’s iMac announcement – India pricing and availability

deepakg — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:31:52 -0000

I think this includes taxes, but I am not sure. Will update the post once we find out.

The entry level Mac Mini costs Rs. 33, 900 (2.26 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2 GB DDR3 memory, 160GB hard disk). The next SKU costs Rs. 43, 900 (2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB DD3 memory, 320 GB hard disk). Both have NVIDIA 9400M graphics, 5 USB ports and 1 FireWire 800 port and SuperDrive). We don't have any info on the "server" edition with 2 HDD and no SuperDrive yet.

Re: Apple’s newest iPods (Sep’09 Edition): Disappointing India Pricing

deepakg — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:02:20 -0000

Thanks for the update! I'll update the status here once the iPods land at their shop. They claimed the same last year but ultimately things got delayed by 2-3 weeks. I've found imagine in Bangalore to be a lot more accurate with their shipment estimates.

Re: Ladakh Vacation – Day 2

deepakg — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:27:36 -0000

It wasn't necessary. The worst we experienced was a little difficulty in breathing and a mild headache which was gone by our 3rd day. A lot of rest and a lot of water helped.

Re: Ladakh Vacation – Day 1

deepakg — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:05:03 -0000

Day 2 is up. Will try to get it all up by the next weekend.

Re: And There Was Light

deepakg — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:50:07 -0000

Hi Rajesh, having never used a Canon S2 IS I cannot say for sure, but I have a feeling that you might be getting too close to the flowers. Each lens has a minimum focussing distance and if you cross that the lens will be unable to focus on your subject. Try standing a little farther, zoom in as much as your camera's zoom will allow and click.

Re: Most people in India are born in August..

deepakg — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:02:44 -0000

Thats interesting read and could well be the reason why the data is so skewed but I need to research if such a cut-off does exist for the domestic cricketing tournaments.

Here's another paper that explores the relationship between DOB and "luck" (PDF link).
http://www.psy.herts.ac.uk/wiseman/papers/Born%...

Re: Most people in India are born in August..

deepakg — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:59:53 -0000

It could be - but I am not aware of a single cut off like this that works across the entire country. Someone did explore the connection between cricketers' DOB and their performance but I don't think it established a conclusive theory:

http://blogs.cricinfo.com/diffstrokes/archives/...

I am aware of another such study on DOBs influencing how lucky someone is/feels:
http://www.psy.herts.ac.uk/wiseman/papers/Born%...

Re: Notes from a Coorg visit in June

deepakg — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:04:56 -0000

Glad some one noticed it - I think it got lost amidst the photos :)

Re: Two Worlds

boundlessdreamz — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:41:31 -0000

I understood why many wouldn't want to work in such a company. But reading the post I got a feeling that you condemned all such companies. To me, every company has a place. What saddens me is that there are very few companies in India which look beyond services and into product development.

Re: Two Worlds

deepakg — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:29:02 -0000

Software factory - the 'factory' bit is the one that makes me queasy. No innovation, assembly-line processes. It has its place in the industry - 'regular' work needs to be done after all but I'd rather stay clear of it :)

Re: Mail.app tips

boundlessdreamz — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:18:20 -0000

Thanks :) This can be quite useful.

Re: Mail.app tips

deepakg — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:18:41 -0000

Character Palette.

Select "All Characters" from the "View" drop down at the top left corner of the Character Palette.

Then make sure you have "by Category" tab selected.

From the "Symbols" group select "Technical Symbols". You'll find symbols for Command and Alt here (Unicode code points: 2318 (Command) and 2325 (Alt))

The symbol for the Shift key is found under the "Arrows" group. Look for code point 21E7.

Not used here, but might be handy to know that the Apple () symbol can be typed using Shift+Alt+K.

Re: About

deepakg — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:42:03 -0000

Hi Jay, thanks for attending the session yesterday. I've put the slides and demos up.

Re: Devdas - of the Kamal Haasan variety

deepakg — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:25:27 -0000

Ah! Good find!

Re: Devdas - of the Kamal Haasan variety

deepakg — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:25:03 -0000

:) I just skimmed through it. Still the 30 minutes or so it took me to run through the 2 VCDs were torture enough :-)

Re: The problem of unreadable CAPTCHAs

deepakg — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:52:33 -0000

Oh yes, read about them a while ago and found them very interesting indeed. Makes you wonder that even outside captchas, are we indeed part of some grand computer - what Douglas Adam has been saying all along ;-)

Re: Install and enable Apache2::Request on Ubuntu Server 8.10

deepakg — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:57:53 -0000

Testing disqus.

Re: In summers, the grass smokes

deepakg — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:28:44 -0000

You forgot Smoking Grass! Update: drat, you had it covered with Speaking Truth on Grass.