On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:22:43AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Apparently my reputation on the list as a paragon of reason and
eloquence isn't as widespread as I had assumed. I threw caution to the
wind my ommitting a this post is ironical smiley to the end of my
post. Alas, I am
In tribute to Douglas Adams, today is Towel Day.
http://towelday.org/
Still time to pick up yours and come to drink at the Captain's Cabin
tonight:
http://greatzarquon.tripod.com/
Martin
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:08:49PM +0100, will wrote:
Ressurect the RIP flames, why not.
Jack Straw will be answering your questions on 24 May, live at 1645 BST.
Use the form below to send them so they can be logged and we will then know
who you are and what your opinions you have.
I'm
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:06:13PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
But they fixed references in 6.0! No, wait, they just introduced a
load of Thread-* headers :-( Fucking morons.
They just innovated threading!
Tell me you're joking.
If I was joking I wouldn't have ignore Thread-
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:25:36PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
Thanks, that's going in my sigfile.
Your sigfile is a mighty repository of evil.
Martin
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:11:23AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
I *loathe* Exchange.
But they fixed references in 6.0! No, wait, they just introduced a
load of Thread-* headers :-( Fucking morons.
They just innovated threading!
Tell me you're joking.
Martin
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:49:48PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:19:20PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
1. For some unknown reason it doesn't let you use mail filters on IMAP
messages, thereby rendering it completely unsuited to my needs
The Mac version does
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:47:43AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
I suspect the current 'Lad's' magazines phase is a backlash against the
crazy political correctness of the 80's .. hopefully the whole thing will
settle down eventually. I don't particularly care that much about it. The
women in
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:04:15PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote:
If you're getting it for the piccies, I would suggest you don't bother.
Whilst SMG gets a full page, the picture of Miss Hannigan is small and a
reprint of one of the ones from the photo shoot she did for FHM last year.
Give me a
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:01:11AM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
find / -name *your_base* -exec chown us:us {} \;
If I had a penny for every variation on this sig I'd seen, I'd... er,
well, I might have a cheap Mars bar. But still.
Martin
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:41:06PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
find / -name *your_base* -exec chown us:us {} \;
If I had a penny for every variation on this sig I'd seen, I'd... er,
well, I might have a cheap Mars bar. But still.
*mumble* xargs(1) *mumble*
find / -user you
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:42:43PM -0500, will wrote:
rm -f zig
?
No!
for GREAT_JUSTICE in $WAY_TO_DESTRUCTION; do mv zig $WHAT_YOU_DOING; done
Martin
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:36:12PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote:
Just picked up the latest FHM to check out the above mentioned list...
The interesting bits are as follows;
At no. 11, Sarah Michelle Geller
At no. 10, Alyson Hannigan!!!
Nuff said :-)
Oh, you bastards. You utter, utter,
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:10:23AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
a delightfully Heath-Robinson mechanical whatsit which will clip on to
the inside of your letter box, and will reject spam with GREAT VENGEANCE
and FURY.
But you're missing a critical feature. If the thoughtful Spam M[oi]ngers
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:04:24PM +0100, James Powell wrote:
Heh, don't forget to have a RBL-like list of source telephone numbers.
Definitely. A whitelist too, of course.
And if it's withheld, answer with a terse message and disconnect.
No; many people withhold automatically, it a
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:22:35PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
Definitely. A whitelist too, of course.
Now *this* is why I want programmable mobile phones.
The particularly (interesting|annoying) bit is that recent phones have
hardware capabilities sufficent for a procphone - same code as
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:30:59PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
The particularly (interesting|annoying) bit is that recent phones have
hardware capabilities sufficent for a procphone - same code as does the
voice dialling.
Ho hmm... Nokia appealing to Linux coders to help with their new
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:38:16PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Now *this* is why I want programmable mobile phones.
nokia 9210
Bleh, wearable and a GSM card.
Martin
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:48:26PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
No; many people withhold automatically, it a legitimate privacy concern.
??? ... its simple. If they choose to withhold their number I choose to
reject their call.
Okay, whatever, I don't, it's an *option*.
Martin
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 05:43:52PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
nokia 9210
Which is still, AFAIK, unobtainium.
I know someone who knows someone who has a test model - I'll prod on
programmability.
Martin
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:00:54PM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
What's in the box?
...
NOTHING!
STPPPIDD!
Youre so STUUUPPIID!
Martin
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:57:59AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
I appoint Greg as my Culture Adviser and as head of the church. Any
volunteers for my other minions? Even if you don't want a cabinet
post, please feel free to volunteer as a Henchman. You'll get 25 days
holiday a year, a
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:27:20PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
OoOoOoh, Red Snapper! Very tasty!
/obscure_quoting
Heh. It's *so* good, and has even managed to remain obscure. This is
probably because you can't get it anywhere any more, of course...
Martin
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:50:27PM +0100, duncan wrote:
its rumoured to be released on dvd at the end of the year. one of my
favorite films ever... badgers? we dont need no stinking badgers!
*Show Me This Rumour*
I have still not seen the bits cut out of the Conan the Librarian scene.
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:56:03PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
So how, pray, do I opt out of the international oil companies' cartel?
With a solar panel and some batteries.
Martin
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:56:03PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
So how, pray, do I opt out of the international oil companies' cartel?
Adapt that gas-guzzling beast of yours to run on rape seed oil.
Martin
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:30:42PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
That's genius! I know, I'll call it.. Charismatic Leadership Theory.
Wait. Someone already did, rather a long time ago now.. :)
Don't start me on all the stating-the-obviousness in psychology.
Martin
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:45:05PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Or what happens fairly frequently over here: companies which have
http://www.company.de/ but their email address is company@$NATIONALISP or,
worse, company@$FREE_EMAIL_SERVICE. Looks pretty stupid to me.
There's a (now
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:54:26PM +0200, Niklas Nordebo wrote:
Isn't that more of a Microsoft Driving License?
To be fair to it - I would have expected so, but a quick inspection
seems to show it is entirely generic. Utterly basic too, yes, but one
less class of stupid question would always
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 06:02:41PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
There's a (now unsurprisingly defunct) computer shop just up the road
from me with a www.name-censored.freeserve.co.uk address - up in
three-inch letterrs on a huge full-length sign. Classic.
:) Especially since some free
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:14:21PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
What do you mean `naked'? As in one of those freaky hairless ones? Or
are you in the habit of dressing your cats up in little outfits? Do lots
of people dress their cats up? Is there a GAP for cats? Complete with
irritatingly
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:42:56AM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
Totally. I mean, if they can make Antitrust.. :)
:still laughs at: I've fixed our bottleneck! What, you realised that you've
been writing Java?..
Hmm. Now, am I really sad enough to sit down and do a complete
bastardisation...?
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:37:43AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
Snow Crash, essentially.
I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film.
You're obviously not the only one:
http://www.corona.bc.ca/films
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:42:00PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:35:24PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Do the Lib Dems think along these lines? No-one knows cos the LDs have
never seemed to have any policies ever.
Actually, I like the idea of parties which don't
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:38:45PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
Democracy is overrated. I think a meritocracy is needed. Perhaps measured by
Perl competence.
It's a fairly well-arguable stance that *any* form of meritocracy is a
reasonable system - certainly an improvement on, for example, a
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:44:07PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Hey, what if we had a system where we just elected a *candidate* we
liked, like one for each local area or something? Pretty crazy, huh?
It'll never work remember the people outside the M25 get a vote as well,
and we don't
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea!
As I was saying to someone only yesterday, movies made by a bunch of
crazy geeks would be an absolute riot. Go for it.
Martin
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Somehow I see b-movie horror mixed with independence day style
computer geek saves the world.
ObRant (sigh, becoming a habit again):
'Oh, hey! Like, I saw that Antitrust movie! I remember you're one of
those Linux guys, so you
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:38:08PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young
people from the world and has lots of flashy stuff on it (ok it would be
flash, but
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:01:26PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Evil Dead - the Language of Darkness.
Or some kind of bizzaro martial arts fest pitching the Heretics
against the True London.pm'ers (tm)...
And has someone stolen our Illustrious Leader's Secret Manual?
Y'know, if we
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:32:15AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
ObRant: computers and OSes in their current state are not consumer devices.
ObRantContinuation:
It goes a little further than that. Cars are now consumer devices; but
if you were deploying a fleet of new company vans, you
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:05:21PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
The average bottom rung mechanic knows as much about cars as the average
bottom rung tech support guy knows about computers.
Okay. I know very little of the vehicle maintenance industry, so it was
a poor choice of analogy,
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
How many things do you have on top of your monitor?
Deja vu, I had this thread elsewhere recently (although it was 'things
behind'...)
Here I have nowt, what with it being a laptop and all. At home, er...
more monitors?
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:18:14PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Barbie wrote:
Currently just Tux, who thankfully doesn't get used as Nerf gun target
practice since leaving tw2.
Heh. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~siona/captions/january.html
Suggestions
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:21:41AM +0100, Dean wrote:
I'll see what they cost. It might be prohibitively expensive to get
anyone who's cute.
Get Willow then ;)
It's big, slippery, and is frequently sighted in rivers and IRC. And
it's comin right atcha...
Martin
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:25:23AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
and while i'm on a roll, how about the fact that TV license vans
are actually mind control devices sent by the government which is
in fact controlled by scientologists who are using the vans to
reduce peoples IQ to the point
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:30:02PM +0100, Robert Price wrote:
Maybe we should send him the London pm review copy of the new Learning Perl
when it arrives. I'm sure he'll appreciate this goodwill jesture,
especially if a certain few take the trouble to autograph it for him.
And our masterful
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:33:16PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
On or about Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:29:10PM +0100, Martin Ling typed:
And our masterful social engineering strategy for getting his address
is...?
Tell him he's gay if he doesn't admit his address.
...say YOUR GAY
As a side note, when we do get it together, would it be alright to come
along as an ordinary paying zoo entrant? Or does being a camelite
confer extraordinary priviliges within the confines of the zoo?
Yes, we get to ride the camel and take it to conferences!
... m/conventions/ ?
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:11:40AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Ho ho, you should have heard the stick that support got from that little
prank. Have you been sent a green CD, sir? We'd better send you an
orange one to recover your system... It went on for *weeks*.
I take it this
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:55:58PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote:
Dean (Cordelia fan)
heresy is all very well and good but surely there are limits?
Hmm. I know someone who quite fancies Anya.
Martin
$willow++;
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:29:13AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
nah you didn't say something weird like Willow (or Riley) is the
sexiest in BtVS.
But but...
Martin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:57:38AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ooh .. that reminds me .. the Census man has just dropped a form in .. I
didn't reallise it was this year .. excellent .. now dont forget .. your
religion is 'Jedi' ok ?
putting
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:42:21AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:04:15AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
ooh .. that reminds me .. the Census man has just dropped a form in .. I
didn't reallise it was this year .. excellent .. now dont forget .. your
religion is
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 06:19:46PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Dean wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:52:32PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
Last time I went to Lonix, it was full of w4r3z d00dz. :( The kind of
people who only used linux because they
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:54:25PM +0100, wrote:
All this said, there were an obscene number of people at Lonix last
night, who once again I have no idea about other than that they were
being given advice by the people I steer clear of for asking long, slow
and stupid questions.
Grr. I
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:28:24PM +0100, Dean S Wilson wrote:
Stick with drunks, it'll save time. And the meetings on Thursday so
you announced yourself just in time! ;)
I'm not sure I'll be able to make it though - I've got things to prepare
for this talk at GLLUG on Saturday.
Martin
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:05:17PM -0400, Alex Page wrote:
But where would we find a camping ground with a fast net connection
and wireless LAN connections?
The bit of park that the Laurie bros' consume nodes cover?
Martin
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:14:28AM +0100, Dean wrote:
I'm not sure I'll be able to make it though - I've got things to prepare
for this talk at GLLUG on Saturday.
Which is on a subject a lot of people on the list are interested in,
wireless networking and the Consume.net project so you
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:12:56PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote:
Which reminds me of the time someone shorted out a mains socket with a
paper clip "to see what happened".
Or the case of taking the wire from inside a scalextric hand controller,
attaching on end to a sucker, affixing that to
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:52:32PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Dean wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:14:48AM +0100, Dean wrote:
Lonix is normally pub, pub, food, pub maybe club. It covers as much Linux
as the London PM social nights do Perl ;)
Last time I
Oh, so this list was a bunch of nutters and Buffy fans the whole time
and no-one told me?
Martin
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:23:15PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
Oh, so this list was a bunch of nutters and Buffy fans the whole time
and no-one told me?
YOu havent been around here very long have you :)
Indeed, that was just my observation on a few posts' worth. Who *knows*
what I
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