Re: upgrade fund
i'd like to do it via dabs.com, because their interface is useable and i've not personally had any problems with them. i'll pick only in-stock stuff because i understand that they can be slacker than they advertise when it comes to re-stocking. jo would hopefully oversee the process so i don't end up ordering bananas by mistake. I ordered a HD from dabs.com last Thursday, the interface said they had 76 in stock. After registering, paying and completing the order, suddenly all the stock had vanished. It's now Monday and they are still awaiting stock. This could be an isolated case I suppose...but I've bought one from a computer fair now and have cancelled the order. Yes - RAM is sooo cheap at the moment - get loads! /Robert
Re: April Meetings
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:25:39AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Thanks for the offer Simon, but I've already postponed this meeting once and am loathe to do it again. Shame :-( I was hoping to be able to make it to my first non-Damian tech meet, but my sister's visiting that evening. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons.
Re: April Meetings
At Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:20:41 +0100, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:25:39AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Thanks for the offer Simon, but I've already postponed this meeting once and am loathe to do it again. Shame :-( I was hoping to be able to make it to my first non-Damian tech meet, but my sister's visiting that evening. And you don't think she'd like to come along? Dave...
Re: April Meetings
On Sun Mar 25 19:05:36 2001, Tony Bowden wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: The April meetings are approaching and we have no firm plans for them yet. The social meeting will be on April 5th. Last plan I remember was that mstevens was going to investigate booking the cellar bar at the Cittie of Yorke. Did that happen? Hmmm or, you could have your social meeting in Belfast, while Schwern is still here ... It might be cheaper to fly Schwern and you to London. You could get your Grand Visir to arrange a belfast.pm thingie as well. -- Marty PGP signature
Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 19:07:16 +, Dave Cross wrote: At 17:48 23/03/2001, you wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote: Well, I can make a guess at what the first number represents. Those expansion plans really are short-term. Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Put down those Windows disks Dave Dave? DAVE!!" -- HAL 9000 and for a bonus half point (cos its easy) .. why was HAL called HAL? Well, Arthur C Clarke claims it's a pure coincidence, but if you take the letters after each of H, A and L - you get IBM. I vaguely recall it standing for something like "Heuristic Algorithmic Logic," but that doesn't really set it apart from anything. -- Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary had a little key - she kept it in escrow. And every thing that mary said, the feds were sure to know. -- Sam Simpson
Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I vaguely recall it standing for something like "Heuristic Algorithmic Logic," but that doesn't really set it apart from anything. how does that explain SAL9000? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. -- Michelangelo
Job: I'm looking for one..
Just to let you all know I'm on the market again. Looking for Senior Developer, permanent position in London. CV at: http://www.cuckoo.org/people/leo/ Please feel free to forward to anyone looking. Thanks Leo
Re: upgrade fund
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, you wrote: [buying a hard disk] Anyone know of any good sources of cheap, BIG hard disks atm? Like in the 70 to 100Gb range, IDE? Speed not an issue, reliability is as these are for my server. I need^Wwant six, and would rather not pay the 250-odd quid for reliability you want scsi .. ever wondered why scsi costs more? .. the drives are generally built to a better spec. when it comes to servers for speed you want scsi ...esp under linux .. (ISTR that the 2.4 kernel will have ultra-ata 66 support .. prior to that you just get basic IDE AFAIK) scsi multithreads, IDE doesn't.. this makes quite a difference on multi-process applications .. esp. servers when a scsi device goes down it often leaves the bus usable, when an IDE goes down it usually kills the other drive its master/slave to. Its not uncommon for the other port of the usually integrated IDE controller to hang at this point. If you are going to use multiple IDE try and hang them all as masters on as many controller cards as you can .. this can be a problem with PC architecture .. ( whose bright idea was it that 16 interrupts would be enough then ?) but if reliabilty really is important its the way to go. (after scsi, natch :) -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!
originality
Tim Maher from SPUG just arranged a great ``damian activity'', a river cruise with DC. It occurs to me when we have the ``gliteratti'' of the perl world in town we have to come up with something even better. The problem of course with London (London.pm?) is that every activity we can think of is drink related. Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: upgrade fund
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote: scsi multithreads, IDE doesn't.. this makes quite a difference on multi-process applications .. esp. servers I will vouch for this having just loaded a ~1Gb database on my laptop - it takes about 2-3 times longer on IDE here than it would on an otherwise similarly specified machine with SCSI disks - this is because IDE has a greater need to serialize the multiple reads and writes required for this operation /J\
white wine
Just to get us back on topic I heartilly recommend Terrazaz Chardonnay, its very nice for a chardonnay - which reminds me of one of the most pretentious things i ever heard said ( i can't remember if it was on tv, radio or in the flesh, but i have a horrible feeling it was in the flesh ) When asked what wine someone wanted, they replied `ABC'. When the recipient of this response said, quite naturally - `What?', he first person replied - `Anything But Chardonnay'. Now if this isn't justification to beat someone to death with the arm you've just ripped out of their socket i don't know what is. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-05
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:47:47AM +, Leon Brocard wrote: realised that this makes three consecutive weeks with conferences this summer that I want to go to: O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, yapc::Europe, and HAL2001. I threw together a quick-reference page for conferences I'd *like* to get to (assuming Many Worlds): http://www.oxlug.org/majorevents.html It doesn't fill 52 weeks of the year - yet:-) Currently I'm trying to round up some international speakers - and sponsorship - for: http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2001/CFP.shtml (Last year more than half the speakers came from abroad.) Alasdair -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-05
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: Oops sorry about that - I approved this twice :( Too long a break I would suggest ... /J\
Re: white wine
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: Just to get us back on topic I just had to buy a bottle of Pendulum Zinfandel at the weekend - its Italian and comes in a shiny gold bottle ... and despite appearances its actually a fairly good red wine. /J\
Re: white wine
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:34:38PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: I just had to buy a bottle of Pendulum Zinfandel at the weekend - its Italian and comes in a shiny gold bottle ... and despite appearances its actually a fairly good red wine. Ooh good. I got one of them for Christmas and still haven't gotten around to drinking it. Not sure I'll like it though, because Italian reds tend to be very thin, and I like chewy wines. We'll see. -- Disillusion? I can make it for you at home!... Besides, why else did you come to the City of Expiring Dreams (apologies to Matthew Arnold)? -- Katherine Kaye, on Oxford.
Re: Not Matt's Scripts
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: At Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:21:52 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: I've had a bit of a go at some of these today and they're up at http://www.dave.org.uk/scripts/notmatt/ if anyone's interested. You might want to change the content-type on that directory as I get a funny error :) Hmm... What error are you getting? Works ok for me. htmlbody bgcolor=#ff h2Script execution error/h2 pUnable to execute script due to a configuration problem. brPlease notify the webmaster of this error. pexec() returned: b13: Permission denied/b /body/html Anyhow what are we going to do about the 'C++' ones :) Ignore them. Pretend they aren't there :) Oh go one, wipes paw on table sooty style /J\
Re: upgrade fund
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:02:59PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David Cantrell: Anyone know of any good sources of cheap, BIG hard disks atm? Like in the 70 to 100Gb range, IDE? Speed not an issue, reliability is as these are for my server. I need^Wwant six, and would rather not pay the 250-odd quid for reliability you want scsi .. ever wondered why scsi costs more? .. the drives are generally built to a better spec. No, the drives are frequently exactly the same mechanics with a different board. Anyway, by reliable I mean "not sold by some dodgy bloke in a computer fair who threw them down the stairs a few times" and. AFAICT SCSI costs more because you're paying for the 'brand'. when it comes to servers for speed you want scsi ...esp under linux .. It is my impression that SCSI only becomes worthwhile if you're expecting lots of reads and writes at the same time. (ISTR that the 2.4 kernel will have ultra-ata 66 support .. prior to that you just get basic IDE AFAIK) Naah, it's a personal server, which I should probably have pointed out. It has one user - me - and is used mainly for backups and for burning CDs. I believe you get ATA 33 in 2.2.something, but I don't particularly give a shit. scsi multithreads, IDE doesn't.. this makes quite a difference on multi-process applications .. esp. servers I don't need that. It matters not to me if it takes a few seconds extra to copy a file. And in any case, I'll be spreading the load over at least two - possibly three - IDE controllers which should mitigate this to a certain extent. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature
Re: white wine
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:07:30AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: I don't want to sound like a twat, but it may be too late already so here goes, one of the things i hate about going out to a italian restaurant is the wine. twat me too /twat but then I don't like the wine in many other restaurants either. Beer all the way for me. Unfortunately, the lovely Italian wine I found in caffs throughout Naples back in November does not seem to be available over here at all. I keep meaning to ring the vinyard to see if they can send me a case, or at least point me at a merchant over here who can. According to the critics, it is 'acceptable if not great' but fuck it, *I* liked it. Lachryma Christi del Vesuvio, in case anyone is interested. The red is an excellent accompaniment to spicy pizzas, and the white is fooking great for quaffing during a day lazing in the sun chugging around Sicily's offshore islands in a boat. I bought a mixed case before we headed south from Naples, brought a few bottles back with me but have finished them all now. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature
Re: Job: I'm looking for one..
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:19:12PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: Just to let you all know I'm on the market again. Me too. Looking for senior developer/senior unix admin (ideally a blend of the two), permanent, London, no Windows. CV on request. Roger
Re: white wine
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Unfortunately, the lovely Italian wine I found in caffs throughout Naples back in November does not seem to be available over here at all. Why ship the good stuff to the ignorant Brits when they can keep it for themselves? Sounds like pretty good thinking to me. -- teco /dev/audio - Ignatios Souvatzis PGP signature
Re: upgrade fund
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, you wrote: No, the drives are frequently exactly the same mechanics with a different board. Anyway, by reliable I mean "not sold by some dodgy bloke in a computer fair who threw them down the stairs a few times" and. AFAICT SCSI costs more because you're paying for the 'brand'. Naah, it's a personal server, which I should probably have pointed out. It has one user - me - and is used mainly for backups and for burning CDs. right .. got it .. I thought you meant the 'must run for 10,000 hrs, hot swap PSU's and a generator outside' type reliability .. you jsut mean 'don;t fall over every week' sort of reliability .. Usually when people talk about servers with 600 gigabytes of data its fair to assume that their will be a considerable load on them, clearly thats not the case here .. so I'm sure IDE will be just fine. Pity, I know of some very nice rack mount RAID solutions with fibrechannel architecture and up to a terrabyte in 3U ... sure you can;t be tempted ? ;) -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!
Re: white wine
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, you wrote: * Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: know what is. ughh ,,, chardonay .. toilet water :) it all depends, the one i recommeded has body I am of cours always ready to be educated .. by practical demonstration ;) then we get on to the 'wine so sweet you could stand a spoon up in it'. I well here we go into the realms of hungarian desert wine, now i am going to try this one phonetically (i.e. i have no chance at getting the spelling right), anyway its called ... too-kai its measured with a number and thats the number of shovels of over ripe grapes in each barrel, the higher the number the sweeter the wine Also (being half Hungarian) am rather fond of Tokai .. 5 Putonyos of course. Quite a different taste to most other things. ah, this is one of the cases where one should read then reply, rather than reply as one reads ooh I dunno .. so much more fun this way :) his use of 5 is the shovels i believe it is indeed .. My Father who has knowledge of such things tells me 5 'large wickerwork baskets' of over ripe grapes .. but baskets, shovels .. the principles the same. Bigger the number, sweeter (and more honey coloured) the wine. As far as I know it only gos up to 5 .. but if anyone has a 6, I'll help them test it. -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!
Re: Job: I'm looking for one..
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: y* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:41:33PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roger Burton West wrote: Just to let you all know I'm on the market again. Me too. er.. and me. Who was it that was saying that the contract market was great just now? i think it was me, i dont want to go into this too much, but i think that a general perl consultancy (you know who you are) can take these guys, be very clever at marketting yourselves and prosper Possibly. But given that our first client has just gone titsup.com before we actually did any work for them (thank heavens for small mercies,) I want to be in the position of having work lined up before I start recruiting again. Or were you talking about NetThink? -- Piers
mmm ... toys ..
mmm .. by some dint of fate I appear to be the proud owner of a rather nice new Dell laptop. Bit slow ( 850mhz P3 ) and 128 mb of ram is hardly enough to run Vi in is it .. a poxy 32Gb hard disc means I'll probably run out of space soon too. (thinks .. this is considerably more powerful than my workstation .. h..) the best bit is the video card .. 32mb ATI Mobility .. runs two monitors in 1400 * 1050 high colour .. and you can move between one and the other (just like you;ve been able to do on Macs since the years dot.) .. the 15in 1400*1050 screen is good too and seems to allow a decent viewing angle instead of the usual 5 degrees or so. all I need to do now is partition magic it and install Linux ... does anyone know if fips.exe can resize partitons without hoovering the lot ?? or shuold I get partition magic anyway ? -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!
Re: white wine
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: meaning to ring the vinyard to see if they can send me a case, or at least point me at a merchant over here who can. Alternatively, if TPC5 is held in Monterey again you can partake of the local plethora of vineyards in the area. They do very enjoyable and cheap, often free, tastings all the way down the peninsula and you could return to the UK with some excellent Syrahs and Merlots (my personal faves) at wholesale prices. That is of course if you don't pass out with a blissful expression in some field somewhere... Paul, central coast local
Re: white wine
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:17:29PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: meaning to ring the vinyard to see if they can send me a case, or at least point me at a merchant over here who can. Alternatively, if TPC5 is held in Monterey again you can partake of the local plethora of vineyards in the area. On the other hand, since it's going to be in San Diego, maybe not... dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a red headed girl" - James Adie
Re: That book
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:04:03PM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote: MBM wrote: Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive it won't be. The other possibility, I guess, given that it's london.pm is to make it relate to buffy in some way :) Or beer. Or both ;-) The CaveSlayer Archive. Or has that not gotten across the great wide ocean yet? dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ TINC, fnord, tinc.
Re: Debuggers (was Re: Perl Training Courses)
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:09:19AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: Let me explain the set-up. I have a PC running Win95. OK, so the contract market's gone to the dogs. Paul
Re: Not Matt's Scripts
At 22:46 26/03/2001, you wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: At Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:21:52 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: I've had a bit of a go at some of these today and they're up at http://www.dave.org.uk/scripts/notmatt/ if anyone's interested. You might want to change the content-type on that directory as I get a funny error :) Hmm... What error are you getting? Works ok for me. Script execution error Unable to execute script due to a configuration problem. Please notify the webmaster of this error. exec() returned: 13: Permission denied OK. When I said "works", I hadn't actually tried to _view_ on of the scripts. I've renamed them to .pl.txt and it seems to work now. PowerHost seem to have that server configured in a really weird way - I'll get on to them later. Thanks for pointing it out. Now, do you know why [EMAIL PROTECTED] has suddenly be subscribed to this list? I keep getting everything twice? Dave... -- http://www.dave.org.uk SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] plugData Munging with Perl http://www.manning.com/cross//plug
Re: Job: I'm looking for one..
* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Possibly. But given that our first client has just gone titsup.com before we actually did any work for them (thank heavens for small mercies,) I want to be in the position of having work lined up before I start recruiting again. Or were you talking about NetThink? i just meant a `perl consultancy', i.e. both/either/another/etc. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: white wine
* Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: it is indeed .. My Father who has knowledge of such things tells me 5 'large wickerwork baskets' of over ripe grapes .. but baskets, shovels .. the principles the same. Bigger the number, sweeter (and more honey coloured) the wine. As far as I know it only gos up to 5 .. but if anyone has a 6, I'll help them test it. there is a large agricultural show every year in edinburgh, called - the royal highland show (IIRC), it was here that a rather nice wine promooter took me on ... gusto the Tokai trail ! /gusto it was basically going from 3 upwards to 6,7,+ (can't quite remember) and its quite a journey -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: white wine
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, you wrote: Just to get us back on topic I heartilly recommend Terrazaz Chardonnay, its very nice for a chardonnay - which reminds me of one of the most pretentious things i ever heard said ( i can't remember if it was on tv, radio or in the flesh, but i have a horrible feeling it was in the flesh ) When asked what wine someone wanted, they replied `ABC'. When the recipient of this response said, quite naturally - `What?', he first person replied - `Anything But Chardonnay'. Now if this isn't justification to beat someone to death with the arm you've just ripped out of their socket i don't know what is. ughh ,,, chardonay .. toilet water :) I my favourites 'light' wines at the moment are the Mosel Valley, (Trauben Traubach and Erden in particular) ... much under rated and often lumped together with some very poor wines, but actually quite good, if you like that sort of thing. then we get on to the 'wine so sweet you could stand a spoon up in it'. I am a complete sucker for anything from Sauternes, Lupiac, Pauliac, Graves, Monbazilac etc. and had a very nice Trochenbeerenauslese a month or so ago that I reckon was just s good (and it should have been too at that price) Sadly you rarely see that at a price that doesn't make you cringe... Also (being half Hungarian) am rather fond of Tokai .. 5 Putonyos of course. Quite a different taste to most other things. -- Robin Szemeti The box said requires windows 95 or better So I installed Linux!
Re: Job: I'm looking for one..
y* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:41:33PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roger Burton West wrote: Just to let you all know I'm on the market again. Me too. er.. and me. Who was it that was saying that the contract market was great just now? i think it was me, i dont want to go into this too much, but i think that a general perl consultancy (you know who you are) can take these guys, be very clever at marketting yourselves and prosper -- Greg McCarroll
