* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Oddly enough, I'm not subscribed to ny.pm, even though I've been in NY or the
burbs for a month now. I may have to sub soon if they're as freakish as
london.pm.
its a weird group, full of _merkins_ ;-)
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the occupant (jacob) in a far louder way
that he might of wished on the morning after
i've got more stories about jacob, and drinking competitions and indeed
my entire university career, but they are all only available at your local
london.pm meeting ;-)
Greg
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saw this bad joke today ...
what outfit do programmers wear on halloween?
a santa clause outfit
why?
Because 31 Oct is really the same as 25 Dec...
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interested in contractors?
The answer is NO, is many many ways. We here at Emap Online all have
lots of free time now. Dim sum today anyone?
err i could do this
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court" is reportedly by Vince Beiser
of MotherJones.com. My apologies for the lack of attribution - ed.
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it was
released in 1999 in the UK
as for Fight Club and High Fidelity, i haven't seen either yet, although
i do have Fight Club on DVD to watch sometime soon
Greg
p.s. Satan's school for girls is definetly a film to miss
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this represents a paradigm shift for london.pm ;-)
greg
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of it ;-) unlike euro-leon with his 21 languages on a one
night stand - i don't know where that last bit came from
oh well i've just got another 4.5 days (ish) of drinking left before
its dry january - apart from time during the month of january spent
abroad or places i can claim are abroad
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ke at shep. bush market
;-)
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* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:35:00PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Benjamin Holzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
It's still on MTV. Tom Green is a sick fuck, BTW. Funny, though.
ah, but i take it you mean MTV USA, not MTV Europe, personally i
(ish) sections so far i come in as ...
C W+++ R++ M++ O+++ C+ X++ WP PM++ o CO+ LCJP uBLS Ee
i'm just surprised that this hasnt been done as XML from v1 so
it would be easier to write the code2plaintext ;-)
greg
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i must learn to use mutt properly one of these days (even when drunk) ;-)
* Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
i vote that dave can organises it, i can host it if you like in
the shit hole that is my flat, someone want to let the other guy
who was new to london know
* jo
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll wrote:
[1] chad is tom greene if i recall correctly, and i just discovered he
has a series, does anyone know anything about this series?
yes. And he was in Road Trip. Which was my favourite film of 2000.
Simon
[who's looking
and then
in between the songs it will play any messages - such as detected
portscans / important incoming email / etc. then get back to the music.
I'm still cleaning it up, but i thought you guys would be interested.
I'll through up a webpage about it once It's finished with the code etc.
Greg
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. Empire Records # not crap, but badly reviewed
greet scene as the guy trys and explains why he took the kitty and
gambled it in a casino
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exactly do you need a high quality paused image? tony - check his
records, has he bought basic instinct recently? ;-)
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, were you to order now there'd be 16 people in front of you
in the queue, and as we've only found 2 copies of it in 18 months you
may be waiting a while :)
check beano's in croydon, they can be quite good - also skoob do some
rare tapes (in sicillian ave, next to pc bookshop)
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. UHF
And, how can I forget
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Ok. Let's be clear here.
There is. No reason. On Earth. To watch. This film.
donald sutherland's facial hair
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be there too. There will be moaning about firewalls :(
i'm already planning my drinks, virgin marys, pints of coke and more
virgin marys
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are there, apart
from that its a great place, cheap housing, good pubs, nice people,
5~10 minute commutes, lost of spare cash as everything is so cheap
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* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
check beano's in croydon, they can be quite good - also skoob do some
rare tapes (in sicillian ave, next to pc bookshop)
Wow, Beano's still there ? Its been there since I was a kid.
good
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll wrote:
next youll be saying top gun is considered bad
Top Gun is a top film (no pun intended) and Quentin Tarantino is a
jumped up little pissant wannabe with 'I wanna be a cool gang-sta but
I'm actually a white geek with bad hair
* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:49:58AM +, Aaron Trevena wrote:
erm.. whats the irc channel for london.pm again.
I spose I'll have to download bitchx as well now.
irc.rhizomatic.net #london.pm
london.rhizomatic.net
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* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:56:38PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:49:58AM +, Aaron Trevena wrote:
erm.. whats the irc channel for london.pm again.
I spose I'll have
position - in the 35k+ range. (That's
an NI salary - not sure what the equivalent London salary would be).
the equivalent for London would be (works out the house prices, COL etc)
50~55K, imho
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)
also i started laying out the few mp3's i have and some of the schedule
of the conference into a website tonight, so expect movement on that
front rsn,
greg
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i was just reading comp.unix.programmer and saw GREP and thought who's
talking about me,
this is all your fault!
greg
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to teach one of the staff in their
computing section how to spell the word 'silicon'. So he could put it into
their computer and find the book I wanted, for which I knew both title
and author.
That was Sili of you
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well they know too much about monty python
dha : you mean things like ``the how to recognise body parts'' sketch
from series 2 took 18 takes, as palin and cleese couldn't stop
laughing at each other
alex : yeah thats right, say ..
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ill stick more details about this here
http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net/
including a method for generating a character
* Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
there has been some talk, of playing a one off (ish) rpg, the night is
probably next thursday night and the game is open
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
As always I'm looking for volunteers to speak at the meeting. If you've
got anything really cool[1] to tell us about then please let me know.
i can do 20 minutes on SOAP (not 20 mins squeezed into 5) ;-)
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* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I want to see someone do a lightning talk on musical interpretations
of common Compsci algorithms.
i could clean up Devel::MIDI if you really waned Piers
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;-)
-greg
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/me is thinking of a new london.pm project called ``ignore the perl 6 body
and parallel to it lets create our own perl propoganda/marketting/best
practice/for the good fo the language movement''
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.
" Dave, is it true that as well as munging data, this book will teach me
how to munge perldoc into printed books? "
DUCK COVER
Laugh? I thought I'd never start...
sounds like its time to dust my DBI book off and warm up the old scanner ;-)
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in Sicilian Avenue or Virgin Megastore on TCR, both walking
distance.
I'll submit to the popular vote of course, though a central London pub would
be easier if we have to change. Why don't people like the PO?
have we ever tried reservin tables in PO?
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* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll wrote:
oh well i've just got another 4.5 days (ish) of drinking left before
its dry january - apart from time during the month of january spent
abroad or places i can claim are abroad
Ah, so you'll be spending a lot of time
the wall.
All the *.pm groups up here have Marie-Celeste websites. Has there been a
pogrom in the North?
is a pogrom something that brings grimness to a region?
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that the
book was nothing more than the online manual :-)
Yes, but that's because you have such a good reputation for delivering
*more* than the online manual!
yip they have the pretty cover animals as well ;-)
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* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:25:18AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
6.) regular expressions are not the only
on the
development and design of the beastie
Greg
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* Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Thou shalt optimise for programmer time unless absolutely necessary,
Thou shalt optimise for programmer time unless O(x(n)) O(y(n)) and n is
what are O(x(n)) and O(y(n)), i'm not familiar with the x and y notation
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. But it was worth
reading. It was by that guy. Y'know, the guy who wrote that paper.
ah, but its half the difference and thats whats important in this context,
besides i think we'll all agree we are not talking about magnitudes of
difference in this advice
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rs instead of a test set of five.
the best way to do this, if you see something is N^2 is to figure out
how you could do it with a sort and hey presto it usually can be turned
into NlogN+N .. NlogN
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of hell when it
is office party season
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all be over by 9:30 and we can all bugger off to the
nearest hostelry.
ack, if i'm going to speak i'll have to allow myself a one beer
ration
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because we are the perl community, all we ever do is talk or if you are
lucky work on personal projects
/previous_comment
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and i want london.pm to work to help perl
-greg
[1] double double quotes to indicate how much removed this is from the
crap some of us suffer at work
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t properly - anyway see the other mail i sent
recently
thanks again for the offer!
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as
comments? suggestions?
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somehow.
While talking about it, i have a very very old memory of it being
the cover story in computer and video game annual or some such
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cool name Case - sorry this was just a bad attempt to justify my
experimental use of replying to multiple emails
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;-)
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* James Powell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
You can't beat marble madness for old arcade games though...
and it runs nicely in MAME.
apparently its one of the most in demand video game cabinet/controller
combo's as the whell broke so much
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it was a good way to meet a brand new batch of girls. I stopped soon after.
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you before, i'm greg
X
why thats a lovely name
X
oh really, what do you think of this japanese class
X
yes i have exactly the same opinion as you
X
etc
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* Tony Bowden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 04:53:57PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
I started learning Japanese when the NI administration decided to teach
it to joint classes of catholic children and protestant children. Hence
it was a good way to meet a brand new
)
however, having said that, still like the # , ! , perl one ;-)
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don't even come into effect (See page 'iv' of Programming
Perl for trademark discussion) and it's really, really got nothing to do
with them.
besides, ``Icon'' smoking joint has been done to death, hash bang perl is
original
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thats right its meet
the parents, with Robert De Niro as an ex-CIA guy who is equally
surprised at PtMD being about this.
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ship and sale it across to london - of course someone should make
sure we shoot the cook before the operation starts, oh and fire
a couple of rounds into the birthday cake while your at it.
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they use a CE device and i've seen palm pilots
used - now if it was EPOC say a nice R380 (with non-standard ROM)
sure, but PalmOS, CE .. nah
Greg - who is easily bought
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* Mike Wyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Also, as it is a modern cruise ship, we will use Grep's l33t hacking skills
to gain control of all the automated systems from his Psion 5, whereupon we
don't
this settled.
ah the joy of 7 degrees of seperation
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Apologies one and all,
i am not going to be able to make it tonight, today is my first day
back at work after some flu like illness. i had hoped to make it
tonight but currently feel like matt wrights code,
see you all at the next meeting,
Greg
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of this, if its a later its a good idea
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ike double that.
yes, but if it was a proper consultancy youd be expected to write off some
of that occasionally and also maybe have some centralised support
of the course the real cash comes from ongoing support contracts
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* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:56:43PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
there is a big question here, do people want to create a small business
with a few perl programmers all on largish salaries or do people want
to create a proper consulting business
for consultancy
Location
snip ;-)
have to pay them back with interest and stuff.
equity surely? ;-)
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* Tony Bowden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:42:55PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
have to pay them back with interest and stuff.
equity surely? ;-)
Yes. But if you're successful the "interest" rate is huge ;)
But if you're not, well, they lose
* Steve Mynott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Aaron Trevena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Also many hackers have more business sense than their MDs - look at
success of projects started by hackers or engineers versus that of those
started
* Greg Cope ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Thats were a few people have gone wrong lately then ;-)
yup
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* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:32:16AM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:42:11AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
yes and no. If you need to do an allnighter and its unavoidable (due to a
client suddenly changing ther mind
things are more expensive
and in some cases involve disgarding existing equipment
and at the end of the day its a hobby machine that currently is lucky
to have an average CPU usage of 0.1% per hour
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10~20 people on this list? ;-)
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on is what are people trying
to do - create a Jobs or a Wozniak consultancy?
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not sure
if there are direct flights to .us - but that's OK, there's no direct
flights from .eu to Monterey :-)
or better still consider Dublin or Edinburgh
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* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:33:09PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
No, I'm not going to code a forum
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote:
On 21 Jan 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:33:09PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote
would create the most technically
brilliant corporatopia (i just made that up ;-) ), Jobs would make the
most money - i'm certainly arguing in this ``debate'' (although that
implies too much conflict) that job's way is best others may feel woz's
way is best
Greg
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* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:36:25AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Dave's new SUPER CHARGED TURBO NUTTER 2001 pc reminded me of the good
old days of distributed.net. Is anyone still participating in this?
I've just threw some keys at PMU
and a law that alows be to
go around and shooting people who work in IT and i deep unworthy[1].
Greg
[1] i'm willing to limit this law to semi-automatic weapons - i'm that
reasonable
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.
the standardisation on the bloody massacre part?
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is it still 12:30 at the new world today?
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* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Andy Wardley wrote:
So without wishing to start another holy war, is it possible to change
the mailing list configuration to have a more sensible default Reply-to?
rant
I have arguments with Leon about this. He usually quotes 'Reply To
munging
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll wrote:
reply-to having the address of the sender is the right thing,
it means when you reply to a message you reply to author of
that message, when you reply-all you reply to all
No. When you reply-all it replies
(they
didn't realise the significance of this and so were flamed, the flame
got to abou)
grep - i was called this by a non-london.pmer recently
[1] you++ to anyone who gets the joke apart from stevem
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, archiving of this email
is strictly prohibetted
and then call them up/fax them/go sit in their lobby/email them etc.
telling them how they shouldnt be doing this
better still if everybody did this for just one or two messages
a year it would cause chaos
muhahahahahahahaha
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* James Powell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
To make it harder for google to find you - change your name Prince style.
good idea!
- greg of wales
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it was happening.
how about if we notified the list everytime someone subscribed or
unsubscribed
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* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
this is forwarded from manning and they are offering each pm group a
free copy of data munging with perl by dave cross.
Hey! Now Dave can have his very own free copy of DMWP!
and we can all sign it!
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* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
If no-one objects I will put this in place this weekend. I guess it will
result in ~ 10 excess messages a week.
with current volumen, this is a drop in the pond
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by posting so
much that they get overloaded and fall over? ;-)
they wouldn't fall over if ..
they were written using java on a windows platform and using
DB2 as the database
;-)
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some goats going over my bridge
at 9
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* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Doesn't bi-monthly mean every tw months?
yes, and if there is any doubt, i recommend looking up ``bi'' on
your favourite search engine ;-)
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* Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, you wrote:
Here's a top tip. Don't try to video two hours of programs on an hour and a
half of video tape.
can't you just gzip it?
only if its a GNU video recorder
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.. ho hum.
don't look at bad technology that becomes the de facto choice as bad
technology, look at it as a catalyst to the next generation of
technology
Greg
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i got a shiny copy of Dave's book in the post on saturday, very nice
indeed
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