Re: [OT] Flecktones in London next month
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:50:52AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: My favourite band in the whole world, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, plays in London. I urge you to see them. It's an unholy blend of jazz, rock, and bluegrass. They have *the* best electric bass player in the entire world, *the* best banjo player, and the best whatever that thing that makes drum sounds is 'cos it sure isn't a drum kit player. http://www.flecktones.com/dates.html 5/1/2001 Dingwalls London, England 5/2/2001 Pizza Express London, England I can now confirm this is at The Pizzaexpress Jazz Club, 10 Dean Street, Soho, London W1 - Reservations: 020 7439 8722 (the new listings arrived this morning!). Of course, this being the evening the tube strike starts, getting there and back could be fun. Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.yacsc.com
Re: Mailbox power ..
this mornings powerdown @ 06:00 .. what time did yours come back up and has it gone up and down again since then .. mines been down twice :( Oh bcks. Mine hasn't come back up at all. H.. I have a feeling Sun's netra t1's don't auto power up. Design flaw. Must phone mailbox. Grrr. -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Company Name
From: Redvers Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] How did contractors here come up with the names for their companies, and can you think of anything with Shiels in the name that sounds good. I will mainly be doing SAP work, but hope to get other IT work too, so don't want SAP in the name. I've always tried to avoid names which conjour up in the minds of customers (or more importantly, the revenue) a small company. So, Redvers Davies Ltd or Name Based names were always out the window for me. Thanks for this, and other advice. One good thing about advice, is that you don't have to take it :-) So Shiels Consulting Ltd is now active and ready for business! I will be leaving my current employer very soon, maybe even today if we can get the paperwork sorted out. Wish me luck... /Robert
Re: Mailbox power ..
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:04:39AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: this mornings powerdown @ 06:00 .. what time did yours come back up and has it gone up and down again since then .. mines been down twice :( Oh bcks. Mine hasn't come back up at all. H.. I have a feeling Sun's netra t1's don't auto power up. Design flaw. Must phone mailbox. Grrr. If you're running Solaris on it, check out the eeprom setting: # eeprom 'auto-boot?' If it returns 0, then turn it on to 1 using the eeprom command (see manual page, I can't remember how it works). Of course, if it's still sitting at the prom, you can do: ok printenv auto-boot? ok setenv auto-boot? 1 I hope that you have a serial console connection which will let you do this! -Dom
Re: Mailbox power ..
I hope that you have a serial console connection which will let you do this! Yeah, like we'd be using Mailbox if we could afford a terminal server. :-O Tnx for the info tho' I can never rember stuff like that. -Dom -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: US$ bank account
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:03:12AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Anyone know of a bank that will let non US residents have a workable US$ account with dollar credit card and check (narf) book? When you're at TPC open a bank account and ask them to have the address in the UK. I've done this before with some random bank in Illinois. Be prepared to leave at least a couple of thousand there. Forget getting a credit card in the US unless you have a credit history here (it's taken me nearly 2yrs to get a credit limit beyond something most people would laugh at). You can get debit (like Switch) cards that will behave like credit cards when you buy things, that's standard practice now. Paul
Re: US$ bank account
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:03:12AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Anyone know of a bank that will let non US residents have a workable US$ account with dollar credit card and check (narf) book? Pretty nearly any UK high st bank will open accounts in funny money. There's usually a minimum balance, but US$10K just sounds silly. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our latest and greatest operating system which we couldn't be arsed to complete
Re: US$ bank account
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:03:12AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Anyone know of a bank that will let non US residents have a workable US$ account with dollar credit card and check (narf) book? Pretty nearly any UK high st bank will open accounts in funny money. Indeed, I have one already, but they charge like fuck for banking cheques, have stupid settlement times and not hook 'em up to their online banking. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
Re: US$ bank account
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:28:00AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Indeed, I have one already, but they charge like fuck for banking cheques, have stupid settlement times and not hook 'em up to their online banking. How much is a lot? I'm about to dump a few thousand into a UK bank (HSBC) and maybe it's cheaper to convert here? This is a funny Flash story of a Canadian guy banking US checks: http://www.xdude.co.uk/flashed-mar2001.htm Er, cheques, whatever. Paul
Re: US$ bank account
Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:28:00AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Indeed, I have one already, but they charge like fuck for banking cheques, have stupid settlement times and not hook 'em up to their online banking. How much is a lot? I'm about to dump a few thousand into a UK bank (HSBC) and maybe it's cheaper to convert here? On the premise that HSBC are truly international, they were my first stop. Barclays charge between £5 and £10 to bank a check. Which for a month's work is fine, but for an Amazon affiliates payment is in the realm of ouchie. And this gross assumption that I'll be at TPC...sheesh. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
Re: Migrating South (was Good Accountants)
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:50:50PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Long dark hair, ankhs and beer - the Egyptions were the original goths. Hmmph. Goths wouldn't know good beer if it grabbed them by the goolies and swung them round over its head whilst shouting I'm good beer, I'm good beer, and if you disagree I'll cut your head off and shit down your neck Well, I'm affiliated with both gothdom and CAMRA, so just call me the exception that proves the rule (or summat equally pretentious). 'Course, it would help if I could spell Egyptian. L. Cambridge Beer Festival, 21-26 May, Jesus Green http://www.cam.net.uk/camra/2001/28cbf.html
Installing Oracle (was: DBD::*-bind_param() ?)
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:31:16PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Does anyone? Every time I've used Oracle, it's been installed by someone else who was supposedly an expert. Although I remain to be convinced that any of them really *was* an expert. I've installed Oracle a few times, and I'm certainly not a Jedi-level DBA. It really helps to have some DBA experience, and if you want it to run efficiently you have to be prepared to hand-tune the caches, block sizes etc. I tend to get it started using the GUI, then tweak it manually and run the rest from the command line using svrmgrl. And if you want to use JDBC, then don't be tempted to use the ISO-8859-15 charset. Changing the charset without reinstalling the database is very scary indeed, and entirely unsupported and undocumented. I had to update SYS.COL$ manually, and still can't quite believe that it worked... .robin. -- Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!
OS X talk
Neil Ford wrote: A dedicated OSX list might be a good idea. tada http://www.osxphiles.com/mm/listinfo/osx-talk /tada Today I feel like a monkey that only knows one trick, monkey see, monkey set up mailing list. At least I'm not a fairy. Anyway -- feel free to forward off list. We can always split it later. Yeah, I know, the site *really* sucks. Someone ported photoshop to Cocoa yet? ;-) Paul (doesn't have Classic anymore)
Re: Mailbox power ..
Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It sounds more like your file system has corrupted and needs manual fsck (problem common to any version of UNIX running non-logging/journeling file system). If you have a remote console on it then you can fix this remotely. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. And there's me with no laptop. H... Netras have those RJ45 serial ports don't they? The kind that no-one sells cables for (well, no-one on Tottenham Court Rd) so you have to make you own? It's all coming back to me now. Those serial cables come with all kinds of stuph, Netgear ISDN routers, Cisco and so on. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
Re: Mailbox power ..
Those serial cables come with all kinds of stuph, Netgear ISDN routers, Cisco and so on. Sure, but I'll eat my hat if I can buy one on its own on TCR. It really is too bad that CEX don't have a decent cable selection, since you can get everything else from them. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailbox power ..
Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Those serial cables come with all kinds of stuph, Netgear ISDN routers, Cisco and so on. Sure, but I'll eat my hat if I can buy one on its own on TCR. It really is too bad that CEX don't have a decent cable selection, since you can get everything else from them. Nah, blag one...I'm sure there are people round here with spares... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
Not Matt's Scripts
I've got someone needing a form to mail script. Where's ours[0]? Ta, Dave [0] Oh, all right, yours since I bottled out. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
