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Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: He was touring with Norman Lovett, who wasn't nearly as good. I found Norman Lovett really funny. Managed to keep the whole audience laughing without actually saying anything for a few minutes and thena few minutes more just by saying what? Simon [easily amused]
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From: Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 11:04 AM Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: He was touring with Norman Lovett, who wasn't nearly as good. I found Norman Lovett really funny. Managed to keep the whole audience laughing without actually saying anything for a few minutes and thena few minutes more just by saying what? (Norman Lovett)++ I've got a recording of Lovett telling a joke about my school. I went to a comprehensive school in Clacton-on-Sea[1]. (pause) I left that school with one O Level. (longer pause) But they caught up with me and made me give it back. Dave... [1] I have no reason to believe that Norman Lovett actually _did_ go to my school[2]. [2] Sade did tho'. She was a couple of years older than me. Everyone hated her because she was a stuck-up bitch. I still can't listen to her music. The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
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On or about Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:57:23AM +0100, Greg McCarroll typed: Does anyone have a recommendation for an online provider of PC components, i'm looking for a couple of big hard drives (50Gb+). I've had success with DABS - just make sure the thing's in stock before ordering. Roger
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:57:23AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Does anyone have a recommendation for an online provider of PC components,
i'm looking for a couple of big hard drives (50Gb+).
Dabs.com is fine. Scan.co.uk has great deals, but if you get some kind of
after-sales it seems you're one of the lucky few. I've got multiple orders
from both with no probs, but heard many Stories Of Badness about both, too.
~C.
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On Thu, 17 May 2001, Roger Burton West wrote: On or about Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:57:23AM +0100, Greg McCarroll typed: Does anyone have a recommendation for an online provider of PC components, i'm looking for a couple of big hard drives (50Gb+). I've had success with DABS - just make sure the thing's in stock before ordering. When I last ordered a HDD from Dabs, they mailed me a couple of days later to say that it wasn't in stock (there website said it was). However, ordering the same thing from http://www.simply.co.uk/ worked. I need to buy a new ATAPI CDROM drive today (my old one won't read CDRs). Is there anything choose between different models, or do I just get any old one? Tony
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Greg McCarroll wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for an online provider of PC components, i'm looking for a couple of big hard drives (50Gb+). -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net www.scan.co.uk paul -- Paul Sharpe Tel: +44 (20) 7407 5557 Miraclefish Ltd. Fax: +44 (20) 7378 8711 Studio 12 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Tanner Street http://www.miraclefish.com/ London SE1 3LF UNITED KINGDOM
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On Thu, 17 May 2001, AEF wrote: later to say that it wasn't in stock (there website said it was). However, ^ Ugh! I can't believe I did that... Tony
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From: Roger Burton West [EMAIL PROTECTED] On or about Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:57:23AM +0100, Greg McCarroll typed: Does anyone have a recommendation for an online provider of PC components, i'm looking for a couple of big hard drives (50Gb+). I've had success with DABS - just make sure the thing's in stock before ordering. I ordered something from dabs recently, it was in stock before the order, and mysteriously not in stock afterwards. I cancelled the order. I'd probably check online, and phone them just to make sure they really have it. /Robert
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:03:35AM +0100, AEF wrote: When I last ordered a HDD from Dabs, they mailed me a couple of days later to say that it wasn't in stock (there website said it was). My motherboard from Dabs has spent two days awaiting credit card clearance and two days awaiting despatch. It *is* in stock, it's just taking them four days - and counting - to get around to shipping it. Simply aren't much better. Took them three weeks to get stuff in stock. -- but I'm one guy working weekends - what the hell is MS's excuse? We don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company. - Ben Jemmet, Paul Tomblin.
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-Original Message- From: Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] My motherboard from Dabs has spent two days awaiting credit card clearance and two days awaiting despatch. It *is* in stock, it's just taking them four days - and counting - to get around to shipping it. If your in London then forget mail order and go to TCR on a Saturday, you get to take home what you pay for and with the drop in spending lately its getting easier to haggle the price down. And afterwards you can come to one of the almost weekly geek meets in a nearby pub. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon
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Thinking of big hard drives... http://www.dabs.com/products/compare.asp?action=selectedprodtype=14 Nice feature. Bugger I bought a 41.1Gb IBM Deskstar the other month from Dabs and now they've drop their price by £25. Barbie
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:01:11AM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
find / -name *your_base* -exec chown us:us {} \;
If I had a penny for every variation on this sig I'd seen, I'd... er,
well, I might have a cheap Mars bar. But still.
Martin
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:36:58PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:01:11AM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
find / -name *your_base* -exec chown us:us {} \;
If I had a penny for every variation on this sig I'd seen, I'd... er,
well, I might have a cheap Mars bar. But still.
*mumble* xargs(1) *mumble*
-Dom
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* Dean S Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: -Original Message- From: Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] My motherboard from Dabs has spent two days awaiting credit card clearance and two days awaiting despatch. It *is* in stock, it's just taking them four days - and counting - to get around to shipping it. If your in London then forget mail order and go to TCR on a Saturday, you get to take home what you pay for and with the drop in spending lately its getting easier to haggle the price down. And afterwards you can come to one of the almost weekly geek meets in a nearby pub. I quote like the dabs site and will probably end up using them, unless i find some nice shiny hardware shops in new yourk this weekend. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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On Thu, 17 May 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:03:35AM +0100, AEF wrote: When I last ordered a HDD from Dabs, they mailed me a couple of days later to say that it wasn't in stock (there website said it was). My motherboard from Dabs has spent two days awaiting credit card clearance and two days awaiting despatch. It *is* in stock, it's just taking them four days - and counting - to get around to shipping it. Simply aren't much better. Took them three weeks to get stuff in stock. Simply have a habit of sending me things in a really big brown paper bag, and while I quite like the Santaesque overtones, I'd prefer to see things nicely wrapped so I don't receive more (albeit smaller) items than I'd ordered. Dabs are fine, but their shop lies.
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On Thu, 17 May 2001, Alex Gough wrote: Simply have a habit of sending me things in a really big brown paper bag, Simply sent my HDD in a big brown box. Which was in a really big brown paper bag. Tony
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:41:06PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
find / -name *your_base* -exec chown us:us {} \;
If I had a penny for every variation on this sig I'd seen, I'd... er,
well, I might have a cheap Mars bar. But still.
*mumble* xargs(1) *mumble*
find / -user you -name base -print | xargs chown us:us
is one of the more popular ones.
I haven't seen a really good one for SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB yet.
apt-get install the-bomb doesn't qualify.
Martin
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:25:22PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: I haven't seen a really good one for SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB yet. apt-get install the-bomb doesn't qualify. dpkg --configure ? -- I don't think so, said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
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At 14:48 17/05/01 +0100, you wrote: If your in London then forget mail order and go to TCR on a Saturday, you get to take home what you pay for and with the drop in spending lately its getting easier to haggle the price down. Are you refering to the 'computer fair' or just TCR in general? Also, if any London person is unaware of it, the shop CEX (Computer EXchange) on TCR (just north of Goddge St Stn) sells excellent 2nd hand hardware, are very knowledgeable, will accept returns with no hassle, and have never let me down etc etc etc. And they sell 2nd hand software too, esp. MS development stuff. -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:32:03PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: apt-get install the-bomb doesn't qualify. dpkg --configure ? *laughs out loud in the middle of easyEverything* Nice one. :-) ~C. -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I must not edit articles with vi. I must not editarticles with thvi. I must not editarticles with vi. I must not editarticles with thvi. jI must not editarticles with vi:wq:wq1
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- Original Message -
From: Martin Ling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: pc components
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:41:06PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
find / -name *your_base* -exec chown us:us {} \;
If I had a penny for every variation on this sig I'd seen, I'd... er,
well, I might have a cheap Mars bar. But still.
*mumble* xargs(1) *mumble*
find / -user you -name base -print | xargs chown us:us
is one of the more popular ones.
I haven't seen a really good one for SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB yet.
apt-get install the-bomb doesn't qualify.
rm -f zig
?
:-)
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-Original Message- From: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 14:48 17/05/01 +0100, Dean wrote: If your in London then forget mail order and go to TCR on a Saturday, you get to take home what you pay for and with the drop in spending lately its getting easier to haggle the price down. Are you refering to the 'computer fair' or just TCR in general? Both to a degree. From the shops I've been in recently it seems that they are more willing to drop the price a bit than see you go to one of the fairs. For once the consumers the winner. The fairs do a more mixed selection of stuff than the shops do, where you go depends on what your looking for. Also, if any London person is unaware of it, the shop CEX (Computer EXchange) on TCR (just north of Goddge St Stn) sells excellent 2nd hand hardware, are very knowledgeable, will accept returns with no hassle, and have never let me down etc etc etc. And they do a nice selection of cheep DVD's. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon
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- Original Message - From: Dean S Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 10:51 AM Subject: Re: pc components If your in London then forget mail order and go to TCR on a Saturday, you get to take home what you pay for and with the drop in spending lately its getting easier to haggle the price down. Are you refering to the 'computer fair' or just TCR in general? Both to a degree. From the shops I've been in recently it seems that they are more willing to drop the price a bit than see you go to one of the fairs. For once the consumers the winner. I got a 30Gig 7200 RPM (Samsung I think) disk for £95 at the fairs. Works like a dream. The Geek meet afterwards in a nearby watering hole is good fun too. Apparently it is Craig 'Red Dwarf' Charles's regular and he was there a few weeks ago when we were there. Not as pretty as Buffy or Willow about as close as you can get (sort of).
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- Original Message - From: will [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 4:47 PM Subject: Re: pc components Not as pretty as Buffy or Willow about as close as you can get (sort of). In terms of celebrity status I mean. Quick, someone pass me a shovel.
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will wrote: rm -f zig mv zig/* CATS/ , surely? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:42:43PM -0500, will wrote: rm -f zig ? No! for GREAT_JUSTICE in $WAY_TO_DESTRUCTION; do mv zig $WHAT_YOU_DOING; done Martin
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will [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote something that looked like the following: Apparently it is Craig 'Red Dwarf' Charles's regular and he was there a few weeks ago when we were there. Not as pretty as Buffy or Willow about as close as you can get (sort of). I saw Craig Charles at the Melbourne Comedy Festival a couple of years ago and it was a waste of time and money. He walked out on stage, said he was p1ssed, drank beer in front of the audience for an hour, occasionally screamed juvenile jokes centred around his manhood, then suddenly declared that he'd had enough and swaggered off stage. Complete w4nker, really, given the price of the tickets. Ian (who'd like to meet either Buffy or Willow in a dark alley...) _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
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- Original Message - From: Ian Brayshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 11:18 AM Subject: Re: pc components will [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote something that looked like the following: Apparently it is Craig 'Red Dwarf' Charles's regular and he was there a few weeks ago when we were there. Not as pretty as Buffy or Willow about as close as you can get (sort of). I saw Craig Charles at the Melbourne Comedy Festival a couple of years ago and it was a waste of time and money. He walked out on stage, said he was p1ssed, drank beer in front of the audience for an hour, occasionally screamed juvenile jokes centred around his manhood, then suddenly declared that he'd had enough and swaggered off stage. Complete w4nker, really, given the price of the tickets. His stand up comedy is a big pile of turd and he looks like a hampster, but it was wierd seeing *Lister* in the pub all the same. He may be a tosser but Red Dwarf was great. will. (who'd like to meet Buffy AND Willow a dark alley all at the same time...)
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Simon Cozens sent the following bits through the ether: My motherboard from Dabs has spent two days awaiting credit card clearance and two days awaiting despatch. The same happened to me. I've given up buying things on the Internet. I do all my research on the web, and then head down to Tottenham Court Road to actually buy it. The prices are generally comparable, and you get it *there and then*. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software...http://www.iterative-software.com/ ... Useless invention no. 404: Caffeine-free Diet Coke
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:12:52PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: The same happened to me. I've given up buying things on the Internet. I do all my research on the web, and then head down to Tottenham Court Road to actually buy it. The prices are generally comparable, and you get it *there and then*. Comparable to http://www.pricewatch.com/ ? I buy stuff online because it's less hassle/takes less time than finding parking downtown :-) And besides, by the time it arrives (few days later, I'm a cheapskate Ground shipping junkie) I've usually forgotten about it so it's a nice surprise. Paul
