RE: early peek at a bit of fun
oh yes, and I am still here...just very very quiet andy > -- > From: Paul Makepeace > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 10:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: early peek at a bit of fun > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:38:02PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > > Paul Makepeace wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:33:11AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > > > > Who holds the distance record? dha, presumably? > > > > > > Me & Andy M. probably, living on the left coast. > > > > You forgot Damian (as had I). > > I've never been able to keep track of jetsetting rockstars... Wasn't his > Mayfair penthouse good enough? > > Paul > > -- > Put in earplugs > >
RE: US$ bank account
The best way I found of dealing with dollars was opening up a bank account with citibank. They allow you to have a dollar account and a sterling account and transfer between the two at the day's exchange rate with no charges or commission. They also give you dollar cheque books, and sterling cheque books. It proved to be very handy for my first four months work in the US. Their Telephone banking service is good as is their on-line banking. The only downside is the requirement to have 2k in your account (in either sterling or dollars). andy
RE: Wavelan
Robin Szemeti wrote on Sunday, April 01, 2001 3:29 PM > > > I'm assuming you already have a basestation. If not, you'll > probably be wanting > > one of those too. I can personally recommend the Apple > Airport basestation > > yes .. I'd heard Airport was good .. can you still configuer > it if you > don't have an apple to talk to it with? indeed is there any > configuration > to do .. or is it jusrt a plain ethernet bridge? > I use the Apple airport and a Farallon Skyline 11mb pcmcia card - the Airport is connected to a Linksys router (A great piece of kit) into my DSL modem (It's the DSL bit that's shit). Configuring the Apple Airport isn't too hard - there are a number of custom made configurators out there, some VB, some Java (just do a web search) - If I recall there's hardly anything you need to do. There's also one with the Farallon card. andy
RE: The Conway Lecture
> > THE CONWAY LECTURE > > "Quantum::Superpositions" > by Damian Conway > > In the Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL > On Monday 26th Feb, 2001 > At 7pm Having seen him give this lecture last week at the Silicon Valley Perl Mongers meeting, I can't stress how good a lecture it is. It's one of the best I've ever been to. Mind you, does anyone need encouraging to go and see Damian Conway talk? andy
RE: RE:Consultancy company was [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered
> From: Paul Makepeace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > From: "David Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Is a million considered a lot in the UK still? > > > > Not by people who can add up. > > OK, same here then. Having said that, it's amazing how much people can > stretch a few $currency_unit if they *don't* have investment :-) > > > > But then so's a 24hr stretch of uninterrupted electricity > > > > Yeah, it's always amazed me just how crap the north > American power system > > seems to be. Even in cities. > > This is a different issue, > http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/power.crisis/ > > The US has much more to worry about than the UK, like high > water tables, > vicious weather and earthquakes. The smart money goes on > hosting in Texas > (San Antonio) not California though -- relatively > earthquake/tornado/storm/etc-free! > > On the upside, the US doesn't have BT "engineers" to deal with... > No, the US has PacBell engineers and countless tin-pot, unregulated ISPs who offer you DSL service, take your deposit money and then promptly go bust FSCKRS Oh, and none of these people ever talk to each other. mail to DSL provider: Where's my DSL? Reply: problems with PacBell. We'll get back to you 2 weeks later: mail to DSL provider (COVAD): Where's my DSL? Reply: Please contact your ISP. mail to ISP:Where's my DSL eh? It's been four weeks since you mailed me to expect a visit from PacBell 'within the next few days'. Reply: SILENCE Call ISP to shout at automated call-handler: WHERE's MY DSL!! Reply: Sorry, due to the number of enquiries, we're unable to take your call at present. please call back. mail to DSL provider: I can't get through to my ISP, either by phone or email, will you please cancel the order Reply: Please contact your ISP. Oh, well, that's a $50 deposit blown away. rant over...idleness resumed. andy
