Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 30/06/2014 03:16, waben...@gmail.com wrote: This isn't the first time a topic has started or ended up being not related to Gentoo or even computers. You are really tenacious. :-) It seems that I should lower my expectations regarding what's on-topic and what's not. Lets say, every topic

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 30/06/2014 01:40, waben...@gmail.com wrote: ...I decided that I will not receive this mailing list on my smartphone any longer. Reading it on my Desktop-PC is sufficient. This will help me to calm down. ;-) Good idea. This is a high-volume list with an extraordinarily high signal-to-noise

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-30 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 30/06/2014 03:16, waben...@gmail.com wrote: This isn't the first time a topic has started or ended up being not related to Gentoo or even computers. You are really tenacious. :-) It seems that I should lower my expectations regarding what's on-topic and what's not.

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-30 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday 30 June 2014 10:22:42 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 29 June 2014 11:38:11 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't know when we'll get the Hurricane one - the man with the camera just put a two-word entry on Twitter this morning: Hashtag HEADACHE Oooops. Here's the

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-30 Thread Mick
On Monday 30 Jun 2014 08:17:44 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 30/06/2014 03:16, waben...@gmail.com wrote: This isn't the first time a topic has started or ended up being not related to Gentoo or even computers. You are really tenacious. :-) It seems that I should lower my

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 29 June 2014 11:38:11 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't know when we'll get the Hurricane one - the man with the camera just put a two-word entry on Twitter this morning: Hashtag HEADACHE Oooops. Here's the Hurricane: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=880028802011336

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 30 June 2014 11:37:02 Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Monday 30 June 2014 10:22:42 Peter Humphrey wrote: ---8 I'll stop now. Don't stop on my account ;) OK, so shall we start discussing the difference between a clock and a timepiece? Maybe better not... -- Regards Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 28 June 2014 11:25:10 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On 28 June 2014 16:54:52 CEST, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 29 June 2014 00:18:06 Alan McKinnon wrote: I suppose that's what happens when you don't fact-check. That'll teach me :-) You reckon? :-) -- Regards Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, June 29, 2014 09:46:12 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 28 June 2014 11:25:10 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On 28 June 2014 16:54:52 CEST, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane from

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: Here's the Spitfire run. Hurricane to follow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHuVn7R4AcY Wow. Video is good but I bet being there is much better. I live about 4 or 5 miles from a air force base here. We have mostly training type planes that fly over us but on

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 29 June 2014 04:22:16 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Here's the Spitfire run. Hurricane to follow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHuVn7R4AcY Wow. Video is good but I bet being there is much better. Of course! I missed the Spitfire, so I don't know how high it flew, but

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: Of course! I missed the Spitfire, so I don't know how high it flew, but the Hurricane sound from no more than a couple of hundred feet or so was among the two or three most impressive of my life. Both planes have V12 Rolls-Royce Merlin engines (I think). As each

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 11:38 schrieb Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Peter Humphrey wrote: Of course! I missed the Spitfire, so I don't know how high it flew, but the Hurricane sound from no more than a couple of hundred feet [...] Please folks, stop that crap. It has nothing to do with

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 29 June 2014 18:38:11 CEST, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Of course! I missed the Spitfire, so I don't know how high it flew, but the Hurricane sound from no more than a couple of hundred feet or so was among the two or three most impressive of my life. Both planes

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/06/2014 18:38, Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Of course! I missed the Spitfire, so I don't know how high it flew, but the Hurricane sound from no more than a couple of hundred feet or so was among the two or three most impressive of my life. Both planes have V12 Rolls-Royce

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/06/2014 18:51, waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 11:38 schrieb Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Peter Humphrey wrote: Of course! I missed the Spitfire, so I don't know how high it flew, but the Hurricane sound from no more than a couple of hundred feet [...] Please

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:28:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The Harvard trainers we were using when I was in the military all used 140-odd octane gasoline, I beleive that's normal for aircraft piston engines. It's still gas, but not what you put in the car. You should see what that stuff does

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:29:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Please folks, stop that crap. It has nothing to do with gentoo or computers at all. If you wanna discuss the delightfulness of war machines then please to this at another place and not on this list. Allow me to introduce your to my

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 20:38 schrieb Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:29:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Please folks, stop that crap. It has nothing to do with gentoo or computers at all. If you wanna discuss the delightfulness of war machines then please to

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread Dale
waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 20:38 schrieb Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:29:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Please folks, stop that crap. It has nothing to do with gentoo or computers at all. If you wanna discuss the delightfulness of war

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:46:50 +0200, waben...@gmail.com wrote: That's not the point. If you wanna talk about stuff that's apparently absolut useless to almost every member of this ML, then you should do this at another place. Especially discussions with politically and or military background

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 16:26 schrieb Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 20:38 schrieb Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:29:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Please folks, stop that crap. It has nothing to do with

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 22:59 schrieb Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:46:50 +0200, waben...@gmail.com wrote: That's not the point. If you wanna talk about stuff that's apparently absolut useless to almost every member of this ML, then you should do this at

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread Dale
waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 16:26 schrieb Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 20:38 schrieb Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:29:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Please folks, stop that crap. It has

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-29 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 19:12 schrieb Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 16:26 schrieb Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 20:38 schrieb Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Sun, 29 Jun 2014

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 28 June 2014 16:54:52 CEST, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a Spitfire. Yoo-hoo! I think I can just about remember the sound of those

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On 28 June 2014 16:54:52 CEST, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a Spitfire. Yoo-hoo! I think I can just about

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 28.06.2014 16:54, schrieb Peter Humphrey: It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a Spitfire. Yoo-hoo! I think I can just about remember the sound of those magnificent beasts from the

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/06/2014 16:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a Spitfire. You have an actual flying Spitfire nearby? Wow! I thought Evelyn was the last airworthy model left

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:33:05 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: On 28/06/2014 16:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a Spitfire. You have an actual flying

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/06/2014 22:44, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:33:05 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: On 28/06/2014 16:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, June 29, 2014 12:18:06 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: On 28/06/2014 22:44, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:33:05 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: On 28/06/2014 16:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane from the