Re: [HELP] Traceroute

2001-04-06 Thread Alex Page

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:37:34PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:

> You probably want:

> TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols, 

Gah, I've got a copy of that on my shelf. Really should get round
to reading it at some point...

Alex
-- 
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 can have everything that you want." - Jareth, Labyrinth



Torvalds not impressed with OS X

2001-04-06 Thread Paul Makepeace

http://www.msnbc.com/news/555930.asp

Sadly, lacking on details.

Paul, who still likes it.



Re: Silly postings

2001-04-06 Thread Paul Makepeace

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:44:59PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
> You *used* a public toilet in nyc???  eek.

I've slept in Central Park too.

(I was so ill from sleeping with the 10th floor window open there wasn't
much else I could do.)

Paul



Re: Silly postings

2001-04-06 Thread David H. Adler

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:29:03PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:25:21AM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
> > But what is it about NY toilets that only about three of them flushed
> > properly during my entire visit?
> 
> First time I went into a NY public toilet, er, bathroom, I thought
> "my god -- it's exactly like Duke Nukem" and looked arond for a
> ventilation duct to blast.

You *used* a public toilet in nyc???  eek.

dha
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Re: Silly postings

2001-04-06 Thread Paul Makepeace

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:25:21AM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
> But what is it about NY toilets that only about three of them flushed
> properly during my entire visit?

First time I went into a NY public toilet, er, bathroom, I thought
"my god -- it's exactly like Duke Nukem" and looked arond for a
ventilation duct to blast.

Paul



Re:

2001-04-06 Thread Paul Makepeace

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:34:03AM +0100, Natalie Ford wrote:
> ...and maybe people who prefer a GUI?  :)

http://www.thebat.net/ is good I hear. You can poke around on the server
before doing a download which is a neat feature.

Paul



Re: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)

2001-04-06 Thread Barbie

From: "Dave Hodgkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> "Barbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Quite. I'm 35 and was given a good basic education at Primary school of
the
> > english language, together most of it's idyosyncrasies. I was lucky
enough
> > to go to a Grammar (when there were still such things) so probably
faired
> > better than most.
>
> Fared?
>
> *ducks*

Senility is setting in early.

I thought it was bit strange my message not appear after posting Wed, 4 Apr
2001 13:01:32. Looking at the header it's certainly dome the rounds!

Barbie.






RE: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)

2001-04-06 Thread pmh

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 12:16:18 +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
> > I was at school from up to 1995 and grammer, hand writing and 
> > similar were only lightly touched upon. IT was another subject that we 
> > never actually did (other than read about spreadsheets leading to my
> > adult hatred of Excel) and as far as I'm aware none of my friends of
> > the same age did any real grammer in school so you can expect a fair
> > size chunk of  20-22 year olds to have no real grasp of what constitutes
> > good grammar.
> 
> Right, well there's the difference then. I'm 29 this year and I was schooled
> during the seventies. Was anyone else of a similar age *not* taught proper
> punctuation and grammar at school?

I'm 30, and I don't *remember* being taught grammar at all. It confused the hell out 
of me when we were all expected to know what prepositions, adverbs and the perfect 
present were when I started learning French. Although I vaguely remember apostrophes, 
I'm pretty sure I was never taught the proper uses of (semi)colons and dashes.

> Anyway, back to the point. Many of my peers and friends who were taught
> exactly the same punctuation stuff as me just ignored it and used things
> like "could'nt" and "samwich's" and so on. I reckon it's less to do with it
> being taight in schools and more to do with how much someone reads. If you
> read a lot, you see the correct forms a lot and it sinks in. Similarly with
> grammar, I reckon, although I have absolutely zero evidence to back that up.

Maybe I don't remember the grammar lessons because they were boring, or maybe they 
were taught after I left at the place I move away from, and before I arrived at the 
place I moved to.

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 points in car registration numbers as a game."
-- Paul Makepeace



Re: Certing

2001-04-06 Thread Robin Szemeti

On Fri, 06 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> * David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > 
> > Robin is mistaken.  We had a very serious discussion which covered a
> > number of difficult topics.  Greg was volunteered to take minutes, and
> > will be posting a summary shortly.
> > 
> 
> Err, yes exactly as Dave says it. The minutes will take the form
> of an agreed plan of action, that we will kick off. I seem
> to remember Leon looking over the plan and thinking it was
> jolly good

absolutely .. whenever you are so umm 'relaxed' that you think you will
have difficulty remembering your own name in the morning, always write
down any plans you might have ... ;))

-- 
Robin Szemeti

The box said "requires windows 95 or better"
So I installed Linux!



Re: Ummm... Perl not professional??

2001-04-06 Thread Marty Pauley

On Fri Apr  6 07:12:33 2001, Andy Williams wrote:
> 
> Just looking for a good book on Email I can across the review for
> Programming Internet Email (Oreilly) by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

He's probably lucky that he's wrong.  His ISP, NTL, employ many
professional Perl programmers to write Perl systems to supply idiots
with email addresses.

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Re: Silly postings

2001-04-06 Thread David H. Adler

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:25:21AM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
> Hm. Looking over this you might not want to read it if you're eating or
> anything.
> 
> > I reserve judgement until I've had a NY pizza and a NY 
> > coffee.  However, I expect neither to be up to the standards
> > I expect :-)  You have to beat Roma* to be acceptable.
> 
> I've had a NY pizza and it was certainly the most *foul* pizza I have ever
> had the misfortune of not being able to avoid eating (*inlcuding* McCain
> frozen pizza). It was soggy, in fact, *wet*, the topping slid off the base
> like scabs slipping off a weeping sore, and it fell to bits. Only a sample
> of one, I know, but on the stength of that, {NY Pizza}--

Ok, where was this?  I never said you *couldn't* get bad pizza here,
y'know...

dha
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Re: Ummm... Perl not professional??

2001-04-06 Thread jduncan

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:18:13PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:36:40AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Unfortunatly this is largely a valid point.  Perl is not used by
> > many *professional* people.  Perl is used by a lot of people, and some of
> > them are professional, but I wouldn't consider it the
> > majority.
> 
> A professional is someone with a profession.

Chuckle.

I think you are focusing on the definition rather than the
sentiment.  DWIM.  There are an awful lot of people out there that
download a MW script, change a few variables, and wack 'perl programmer'
on their CV.  I'd say 35-45% of CVs that are sent to me by recruitment
agencies fall into this category, or perhaps a little more skilled.  My
point is that while just getting your job done to keep the boss happy is a
valid use for Perl, I'd rather see someone who can get the job done in a
manner that will let (you|me|us) maintain, extend, and understand the code
that is written.  It is a both a pity and a fact that these people are
relatively few and far between.

The guy's point may be uneducated but it isn't wrong just because
(I|you|we) don't like the sentiment.

--james.


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Re: Silly postings

2001-04-06 Thread David Cantrell

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:57:45AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
> 
> > Which is of course wrong.  Russia makes the best firearms, Australia makes
> > the best wine, and .us produces the best bloodthirsty maniacs.  I believe
> > they recently elected one as their Fuhrer.
>  
> Elect is a harsh term here. The man was appointed, crowned if you will.

ohmigod, my sincere apologies!

> Not unlike youre queen, from what I can tell, though I've to date never
> seen her described as a bumbling idiot. Maybe the BBC keeps that quiet?

Hmmph.  She's not *my* queen.  Anyway, I believe the description du jour
is that she is a "sweet old dear".

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RE: Ummm... Perl not professional??

2001-04-06 Thread Matthew Jones

> I certainly don't consider myself "professional", even though I 
> try to ply my trade in what I believe to be a "professional" manner.

"I'm not a professional, I'm a gifted amateur."

The source of that escapes for the moment.

-- 
matt
"'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today?
hey, baby, don't be pulling on my socket, okay?"



Re: Ummm... Perl not professional??

2001-04-06 Thread Dominic Mitchell

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:18:13PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:36:40AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Unfortunatly this is largely a valid point.  Perl is not used by
> > many *professional* people.  Perl is used by a lot of people, and some of
> > them are professional, but I wouldn't consider it the
> > majority.
> 
> A professional is someone with a profession.

Indeed.  How many computer professionals are out there?  As opposed to
cowboys of the Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert variety.  I
certainly don't consider myself "professional", even though I try to ply
my trade in what I believe to be a "professional" manner.

As a trade, we have a long way to go before we are as respected[1] as
those in (say) accountancy, engineering and law.

I leave it to yourselves to judge whether or not this is a Good Thing.

-Dom

[1] In some senses only, I assure you.



Re: Ummm... Perl not professional??

2001-04-06 Thread Simon Cozens

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:36:40AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Unfortunatly this is largely a valid point.  Perl is not used by
> many *professional* people.  Perl is used by a lot of people, and some of
> them are professional, but I wouldn't consider it the
> majority.

A professional is someone with a profession.

-- 
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sheik your booty

2001-04-06 Thread Matthew Jones

> Elect is a harsh term here. The man was appointed, crowned if 
> you will. Not unlike youre queen, from what I can tell, though I've to 
> date never seen her described as a bumbling idiot. Maybe the BBC keeps 
> that quiet?

Heh, have you never *seen* "our" royal family in action?

It's not just the Inbred German Bint who's a bumbling idiot:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1263000/1263458.stm

-- 
matt
"'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today?
hey, baby, don't be pulling on my socket, okay?"



Re: Silly postings

2001-04-06 Thread Chris Devers

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote:

> Which is of course wrong.  Russia makes the best firearms, Australia makes
> the best wine, and .us produces the best bloodthirsty maniacs.  I believe
> they recently elected one as their Fuhrer.
 
Elect is a harsh term here. The man was appointed, crowned if you will.
Not unlike youre queen, from what I can tell, though I've to date never
seen her described as a bumbling idiot. Maybe the BBC keeps that quiet?
 


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Re: Ummm... Perl not professional??

2001-04-06 Thread jduncan

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:12:33AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote:
> 
> Just looking for a good book on Email I can across the review for
> Programming Internet Email (Oreilly) by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
>http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565924797/o/qid=986555353/sr=8-1/026-4687583-3140411
> 
> Comments?

Unfortunatly this is largely a valid point.  Perl is not used by
many *professional* people.  Perl is used by a lot of people, and some of
them are professional, but I wouldn't consider it the
majority.  It is a shame.

--james 


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Re: Ummm... Perl not professional??

2001-04-06 Thread Ian Brayshaw

Andy Williams wrote:

>Just looking for a good book on Email I can across the review for
>Programming Internet Email (Oreilly) by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565924797/o/qid=986555353/sr=8-1/026-4687583-3140411
>
>Comments?

Time to add chlorine to the gene pool.


Ian

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Re:

2001-04-06 Thread David Cantrell

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:34:03AM +0100, Natalie Ford wrote:
> At 22:42 04/04/01, David Cantrell wrote:
> >They should run, not walk, to sourceforge, and get mutt for Win32.
> 
> I have tried www.sourceforge.net and i get a server / dns error.

Without the www it works fine for me - sourceforge has been geborkled
rather a lot recently though so you may have just got unlucky and hit
it at the wrong phase of the moon of something.

> I have also tried mutt.sourceforge.net which resolves OK but does not 
> mention a win32 version.
> 
> Any more pointers?  I want to try this out!  :)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/unixmail-w32/ or
http://unixmail-w32.sourceforge.net/

Requires perl and cygwin.  As well as mutt, it provides fetchmail, gnupg,
[ap]spell and ssmtp.

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RE: Ummm... Perl not professional??

2001-04-06 Thread dcross - David Cross

From: Andy Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 06 April 2001 12:13

> Just looking for a good book on Email I can across the review for
> Programming Internet Email (Oreilly) by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565924797/o/qid=986555353/sr=8-1/0
26-4687583-3140411
> 
> Comments?

"not many professional developers use Perl and anyway it's only really
useful on a UNIX platform"

Typical FUD. He probably has never spoken to anyone who actually knows
anything about Perl.

I thought the book was really useful. Maybe I'll write a review to that
effect.

Dave...

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RE:

2001-04-06 Thread dcross - David Cross

From: Natalie Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 06 April 2001 11:55

> At 11:34 06/04/01, Natalie Ford wrote:
> >At 22:42 04/04/01, David Cantrell wrote:
> > >They should run, not walk, to sourceforge, and get mutt for Win32.
> >
> >I have tried www.sourceforge.net and i get a server / dns error.
> >
> >I have also tried mutt.sourceforge.net which resolves OK but does not
> >mention a win32 version.
> >
> >Any more pointers?  I want to try this out!  :)
> 
> Could this (http://unixmail-w32.sourceforge.net/) be what you meant?

Yep. That's the one.

Dave...

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Ummm... Perl not professional??

2001-04-06 Thread Andy Williams


Just looking for a good book on Email I can across the review for
Programming Internet Email (Oreilly) by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565924797/o/qid=986555353/sr=8-1/026-4687583-3140411

Comments?

Andy



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Re:

2001-04-06 Thread Struan Donald

* at 06/04 11:34 +0100 Natalie Ford said:
> At 22:42 04/04/01, David Cantrell wrote:
>  > PC-Pine is suitable only for small children recovering from major surgery.
> 
> ...and maybe people who prefer a GUI?  :)

isn't that what he said? :)

struan



Re:

2001-04-06 Thread Natalie Ford

At 11:34 06/04/01, Natalie Ford wrote:
>At 22:42 04/04/01, David Cantrell wrote:
> >They should run, not walk, to sourceforge, and get mutt for Win32.
>
>I have tried www.sourceforge.net and i get a server / dns error.
>
>I have also tried mutt.sourceforge.net which resolves OK but does not
>mention a win32 version.
>
>Any more pointers?  I want to try this out!  :)

Could this (http://unixmail-w32.sourceforge.net/) be what you meant?




Re:

2001-04-06 Thread Natalie Ford

At 22:42 04/04/01, David Cantrell wrote:
>They should run, not walk, to sourceforge, and get mutt for Win32.

I have tried www.sourceforge.net and i get a server / dns error.

I have also tried mutt.sourceforge.net which resolves OK but does not 
mention a win32 version.

Any more pointers?  I want to try this out!  :)

 > PC-Pine is suitable only for small children recovering from major surgery.

...and maybe people who prefer a GUI?  :)

Natalie




Re: Test

2001-04-06 Thread Mark Fowler

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Merijn Broeren wrote:

> # Else use lynx to view it as text
> text/html; lynx -dump %s; copiousoutput

Quick question for us non mutt users that may one day consider using
it.  Does this run throgh the shell?  And what's %s in this?  I'm kinda
hoping it's not able to be '; rm -rf ~/*' or worse, if you get my drift

Later.

Mark.

-- 
print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_>6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
   Name  => 'Mark Fowler',Title => 'Technology Developer'  ,
   Firm  => 'Profero Ltd',Web   => 'http://www.profero.com/'   ,
   Email => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]',   Phone => '+44 (0) 20 7700 9960'  )








RE: the 2nd best london.pm meeting of all time

2001-04-06 Thread Mark Fowler

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote:

> > The stolen wine by the thames at 1am was a particularly nice feature.
> 
> Oh $deity. Are we going to be barred from Vinopolis now?

To clarify: We did actually pay for the wine IIRC, but strictly speaking
we shouldn't have removed it from the resturant.

Later.

Mark.

-- 
print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_>6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
   Name  => 'Mark Fowler',Title => 'Technology Developer'  ,
   Firm  => 'Profero Ltd',Web   => 'http://www.profero.com/'   ,
   Email => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]',   Phone => '+44 (0) 20 7700 9960'  )








Re: Test

2001-04-06 Thread Dominic Mitchell

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:37:54AM +0200, Merijn Broeren wrote:
> On the risk of offending the person who gets really tired of the
> w3m-is-better meme, I prefer w3m because I get send so many tables in
> html, they show up real nice.

I found a problem with w3m (which I admittedly didn't look at for very
long): It doesn't handle   at all.  It made for some very weird
message from NS Confusicator.

-Dom



Re: the 2nd best london.pm meeting of all time

2001-04-06 Thread Neil Ford

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:00:17AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> 
> I nominate last night as the 2nd best social meeting of all time, just
> behind the TVR train and toilet seat nicking of a previous meeting.
> 
> The stolen wine by the thames at 1am was a particularly nice feature.
> 
Not wishing to be a sourpuss but personally last night was one of the worst
social meetings ever. The noise level, being unable to hear people, the lack
of space, unavailability of food, etc. made it one of the least pleasent
venues we've used. I wasn't at all unhappy about leaving early. However I 
suspect I'm in the minority.

I can imagine The Anchor is a great pub in the summer when you can sit out by
the river.

Neil.



Re: [HELP] Quick question about Red Hat and gb keyboards

2001-04-06 Thread Leon Brocard

Merijn Broeren sent the following bits through the ether:

> Anybody got an easy answer?

One of the more annoying RH bugs. Just do:

xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"

in a relevant startup script (.bashrc will do).

HTH, Leon
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... Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity



[HELP] Quick question about Red Hat and gb keyboards

2001-04-06 Thread Merijn Broeren

Hi,

My experience with Red Hat is none existant, and I haven't installed a n
desktop Linux system in ages, so turn to you lot to ask a quick question
about something that isn't immediatley obvious to me. 

If I change in /etc/X11/XF86config the keyboard setting to 'gb' from
'us', the backspace and delete key give me a forward delete.  I don't
care that much since I can't type on a gb keybaord anyway, but one of my
collegues here is much annoyed by the ctrl-H :-) I tried stty erase and
looked with jwz's [1] xkeycaps. Xmodmap seems to make no difference. 

Anybody got an easy answer?


Cheers,
[1] Correct single quote usage?
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Re: the 2nd best london.pm meeting of all time

2001-04-06 Thread Struan Donald

* at 06/04 10:16 +0100 dcross - David Cross said:
> From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: 06 April 2001 10:00
> 
> > I nominate last night as the 2nd best social meeting of all time, just
> > behind the TVR train and toilet seat nicking of a previous meeting.
> 
> It _was_ a lot of fun. Thanks everyone for coming.
> 
> > The stolen wine by the thames at 1am was a particularly nice feature.
> 
> Oh $deity. Are we going to be barred from Vinopolis now?

i should sincerely hope so. we have standards you know.

struan



Re: Certing

2001-04-06 Thread Leon Brocard

Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether:

> I seem to remember Leon looking over the plan and thinking it was
> jolly good

Yes. The plan of actually was remarkable in its shortness and
sweetness and I agree with it whoheartedly.

Leon
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Re: Test

2001-04-06 Thread Merijn Broeren

Quoting Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> This is great, thanks! Is it possible to get it to do this *only* when
> the email is content-type: text/html; rather than displaying it instead
> of the text/plain in a multipart/alternative?
> 
Yeah, you set it up in .muttrc :

auto_view text/html application/msword
alternative_order text/enriched text/plain text

set mailcap_path="~/.mutt-mailcap:~/.mailcap:/etc/mailcap"

My .mutt-mailcap looks like this :

# Try w3m first
text/html; cathtml.sh %s; copiousoutput

# Send html to a running netscape by remote
text/html;  netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)'; test=RunningNetscape

# Else use lynx to view it as text
text/html; lynx -dump %s; copiousoutput

text/*; cat %s ; copiousoutput

application/msword;  catdoc; copiousoutput
application/postscript; ps2ascii %s; copiousoutput

And loads more for images and stuff. Especially catdoc is a godsend. 

Oh, my cathml.sh looks like this :

#!/bin/sh

eval `resize`;

w3m -T text/html -cols $COLUMNS -dump $1;

On the risk of offending the person who gets really tired of the
w3m-is-better meme, I prefer w3m because I get send so many tables in
html, they show up real nice.

Cheerrs,
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Software Geek | memory of temptation resisted.
  | 



Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-06 Thread pmh

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:08:09 +0100 (BST), Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > Paul, whose uni got nicked in fscking cambridge. "Ooh, it's got a wheel!
> > Not the usual two, but fuck it, let's steal it anyway!"
> 
> Ah, but people so often have quick release front wheels... erm.

I've yet to see a unicycle with a quick release wheel, though. However, mine
does have a quick release saddle. That's to say, last time I mounted it, the
saddle snapped in two. That was over six months ago, and I still haven't got
round to fitting the new saddle I immediately bought.

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  the microwave oven.  Real programmers use the heat from the CPU.
  They can tell which jobs are running from the rate of popping.



Re: CiP value =1.5?

2001-04-06 Thread Merijn Broeren

Quoting Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> It's probably worrying if I can look at the above and think "That looks like
> MJD's code".
> 
Nah, the p;p;p;p;p is a dead give away. And the fnord ofcourse :-)
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Software Geek | memory of temptation resisted.
  | 



RE: the 2nd best london.pm meeting of all time

2001-04-06 Thread dcross - David Cross

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 06 April 2001 10:00

> I nominate last night as the 2nd best social meeting of all time, just
> behind the TVR train and toilet seat nicking of a previous meeting.

It _was_ a lot of fun. Thanks everyone for coming.

> The stolen wine by the thames at 1am was a particularly nice feature.

Oh $deity. Are we going to be barred from Vinopolis now?

Dave...

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Re: Certing

2001-04-06 Thread Struan Donald

* at 05/04 21:37 + Robin Szemeti said:
> On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> > * Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > * Dean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > > Will the Perl Cert discussion/brainstorming be taking part at todays meet
> > > > or the technical one?
> 
> > > todays
> 
> > having said that i think it will be pretty damn informal
> 
> judging by the way grep appeared late, informed everyone he'd had 'a hell
> of a day' and then went to the bar and bought two 6 pint pitchers of 6X
> I think it fair to say it might well be a little more informal than
> people might possibly have imagined . :))
 
and this i why i would like to nominate that the phrase of the day is
"I blame greg"

struan (who really drank far more than he intended)



Re: Test

2001-04-06 Thread Dominic Mitchell

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:57:08PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:40:03PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > Anyway, tip-o-the-day for mutt users.  How to get HTML viewed easily and
> > automatically.  I'm not 100% sure of the security aspects, but it's
> > still better than Lookout.  ;-)
> > 
> > [ ~/.mailcap ]--
> > text/html; /usr/bin/lynx %s; nametemplate=%s.html
> > text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput 
> > 
> > 
> > [ ~/.muttrc ]---
> > set mailcap_path=~/.mailcap
> > auto_view text/html
> > 
> 
> This is great, thanks! Is it possible to get it to do this *only* when
> the email is content-type: text/html; rather than displaying it instead
> of the text/plain in a multipart/alternative?

Pass, I'm afraid.

> Another mutt question: How do you send To: a whopping list of
> recipients? It's a nightmare copy/pasting on a single line. I ended
> up editing the headers with E (on the final page) and reading the
> recip.'s in from a file. Seems laborious.

Umm, I find that editing my headers with the message makes the most
sense:

set edit_headers

Then, you can do things like:

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

ie: indent all following lines, ala RFC822.

-Dom



the 2nd best london.pm meeting of all time

2001-04-06 Thread Greg McCarroll


I nominate last night as the 2nd best social meeting of all time, just
behind the TVR train and toilet seat nicking of a previous meeting.

The stolen wine by the thames at 1am was a particularly nice feature.

-- 
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RE: Silly postings

2001-04-06 Thread Matthew Jones

Hm. Looking over this you might not want to read it if you're eating or
anything.

> I reserve judgement until I've had a NY pizza and a NY 
> coffee.  However, I expect neither to be up to the standards
> I expect :-)  You have to beat Roma* to be acceptable.

I've had a NY pizza and it was certainly the most *foul* pizza I have ever
had the misfortune of not being able to avoid eating (*inlcuding* McCain
frozen pizza). It was soggy, in fact, *wet*, the topping slid off the base
like scabs slipping off a weeping sore, and it fell to bits. Only a sample
of one, I know, but on the stength of that, {NY Pizza}--

> Said standards, BTW, give every single London / Paris  pizza 
> / coffee a fail mark, except the coffees I brew.

NY cawwfee, OTOH, really impressed me. I loved it. Merkan diner breakfasts
are great. Bacon and waffles and pancakes and syrup and eggs over easy and
home fries. They were very fulfilling indeed.

But what is it about NY toilets that only about three of them flushed
properly during my entire visit? Almost every time I or the people I was
with went into a kludgie, we found it blocked up by a grim combination of
ordure and bogroll. Didn't matter where we were, the hostel we stayed in,
the diners we went to, the tourist attractions, any publicly-available lav.
Ewww.

Oh and mm, turkish coffee. Yowsa.

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hey, baby, don't be pulling on my socket, okay?"



Re: Certing

2001-04-06 Thread Greg McCarroll

* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> Robin is mistaken.  We had a very serious discussion which covered a
> number of difficult topics.  Greg was volunteered to take minutes, and
> will be posting a summary shortly.
> 

Err, yes exactly as Dave says it. The minutes will take the form
of an agreed plan of action, that we will kick off. I seem
to remember Leon looking over the plan and thinking it was
jolly good

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