My new venture

1999-10-08 Thread Martin Cosgrave
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- I resigned my job yesterday - I'm off to start my own business Wish me luck :-) And if anyone has any work to put my way (specialising in backend) ... luvonya martian -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at

RE: Notebook users

1999-10-08 Thread Martin Cosgrave
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Hehe - you must have been identified as a potential Acer customer - I got Fujitsu ads each time I reloaded... Original Message On 10/8/99, 11:35:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding RE: Notebook users: --- F R E N D Z of martian --- I'll take

RE: Notebook users

1999-10-08 Thread Ben_Humphry
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Martin: Recently I've used the following... 1. Dell Latitude CPi 366 Very tidy machine, good looking, but v. v. pricey. 2. HP OmniBook 4150 Similar in look, performance and price to the Latitude. 3. Dell Inspiron 7000 All the bells and whistles, but big and

News about Monsanto's sterile seeds policy

1999-10-08 Thread hondinia
For all those following the GMO debate: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/22131.html "Monsanto would never have abandoned the profit-generating potential of sterile seeds just because it was an immoral technology," said RAFI's research director, Hope Shand. "The company finally

Fwd: GeeK: Re: TBTF for 1999-10-05: Offlist

1999-10-08 Thread Martin Cosgrave
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- OK, a little bit techie... I came across FPGAs while at college - they are reprogrammable logic devices. Here's a VHDL model of a SPARC chip to play with. FPGA chips cost from a tenner and are usually programmed at bootup via an EPROM. Original Message

RE: Notebook users

1999-10-08 Thread Martin Cosgrave
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- IIRC, the Cpi was the first Dell-manufactured notebook, whereas the Xpi I have was pretty much a badged machine Original Message On 10/8/99, 12:42:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding RE: Notebook users: --- F R E N D Z of martian --- Sure, but I

MP3.com - martian

1999-10-08 Thread martian
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- My latest tunes will be appearing at this URL. Once mp3.com have sorted it out, the URL http://www.mp3.com/martian/ should redirect to this. My latest tune 'Kyn' is there now. 'In a cafe with Cath' (which is slightly older) should appear shortly.

Fwd: GeeK: visualroute

1999-10-08 Thread Martin Cosgrave
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Pretty funky traceroute (from Fairfax VA (whatever VA stands for...)) Original Message On 10/8/99, 3:31:25 PM, Paul Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding GeeK: visualroute: There's a fun traceroute java program at http://visualroute.datametrics.com/

Fwd: [visionaries] Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic?

1999-10-08 Thread Martin Cosgrave
--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Original Message On 10/8/99, 3:10:49 PM, webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [visionaries] Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic?: From: webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Believers and Chemists! Please help! Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or