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
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:03:46AM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
OK, so I was just being nosy - as opposed to being in the position of
offering a job - and noticed Alex is: a) younger than me (makes a
change!), and b) went to UMIST. Hmmm, would it be bad form to reminisce
about all things
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Chris Ball wrote:
[ I sent this earlier on, but it doesn't seem to have gone through -
I'm trying again using the address I subscribed with, but I'm sure
I've used a non-subscription address before. Are postings subscriber
only ..? ]
Yes. postings are subscriber
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Alex Page wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 07:47:47PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:56:22PM -0400, Alex Page wrote:
Hmm, I'm feeling like this is getting waaay too off-topic
What is this off-topic you speak of? Is it a custom of your
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Yeah. I think I should cop more praise for being such a sweet, lovely
forgiving moderator :)
hey you'd get drinks for it, if you ever turned up that is ;-)
--
Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:53:14AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, you wrote:
What is this off-topic you speak of? Is it a custom of your people?
Yeah... I'm on this mailing list called goats-fans, for fans of Goats:
the Comic Strip (http://www.goats.com - NOW!),
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:33:36PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
actually .. nutscrape under Linux annoys me when it insists on looking up
a hostname no matter how hard you click on the stop button .. bad
threading.
Excellent reason to use a proxy. Junkbuster's good...
Roger
Robin Szemeti wrote:
now I am absolutely totally 100% certain that some web browser (and thats
all it is) should *not* mess around with the way I view folders. I think
that was a turning point for me and my judgement is probably clouded and
No, no, no, that's _not_ all it is. IE is a
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, you wrote:
Well, if you're daft enough to install Turdpoke you deserve all you
get.
In my defence your Honour, this relates to the BL[1] period of my life and
I am now a reformed character. I have worshipped at The Shrine Of The
Penguin for many moons now, broken bread
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:41:00AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
[ and don't even ask me about the time Demon distributed some pox ridden
disk with IE4.1 on it ..'err I just installed the latest version of
Turnpike and seem to have inherited IE4 .. how do I get rid of it as its
screwed my
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:23:16AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Robin Szemeti wrote:
now I am absolutely totally 100% certain that some web browser (and thats
all it is) should *not* mess around with the way I view folders. I think
that was a turning point for me and my judgement is
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, you wrote:
Ho ho, you should have heard the stick that support got from that little
prank. Have you been sent a green CD, sir? We'd better send you an
orange one to recover your system... It went on for *weeks*.
umm .. I went for the 'format from the ground up'
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 07:21:35AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:33:36PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
actually .. nutscrape under Linux annoys me when it insists on looking up
a hostname no matter how hard you click on the stop button .. bad
threading.
Excellent
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Lucy McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmmm, would it be bad form to reminisce
about all things Manc on a London.pm list?!
Given the number of people I've seen from Manchester Uni at the
technical meetings, probably not...
--
From: Chris Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on 27/4/01 11:08 am, Rob Partington wrote:
about all things Manc on a London.pm list?!
Given the number of people I've seen from Manchester Uni at the
technical meetings, probably not...
Y'see I was a Salford problem kid...
I always knew
[ I sent this earlier on, but it doesn't seem to have gone through -
I'm trying again using the address I subscribed with, but I'm sure
I've used a non-subscription address before. Are postings subscriber
only ..? ]
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:03:46AM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
OK, so I
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:11:40AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Ho ho, you should have heard the stick that support got from that little
prank. Have you been sent a green CD, sir? We'd better send you an
orange one to recover your system... It went on for *weeks*.
I take it this
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, you wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:11:40AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Ho ho, you should have heard the stick that support got from that little
prank. Have you been sent a green CD, sir? We'd better send you an
orange one to recover your system... It went
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:59:53PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, you wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:11:40AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Ho ho, you should have heard the stick that support got from that little
prank. Have you been sent a green CD, sir? We'd
Chris Ball wrote:
Are postings subscriber only ..? ]
As far as I know, yes; Jonathan Stowe has to hand-approve non-subscriber
postings for them to make it to the list.
Cheers,
Philip
--
Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All opinions are my own, not my employer's.
If you're not part of the
Philip Newton wrote:
Chris Ball wrote:
Are postings subscriber only ..? ]
Subscriber not even, more like. I bet this email never makes it to the
list for a start.
I blame majordomo, when's that mailman thing getting here?
Jonathan Peterson
Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:30:20PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Philip Newton wrote:
Chris Ball wrote:
Are postings subscriber only ..? ]
Subscriber not even, more like. I bet this email never makes it to the
list for a start.
I blame majordomo, when's that mailman thing getting
Dominic Mitchell wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:30:20PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
I blame majordomo, when's that mailman thing getting here?
Well, it is based on Python, which might cause a few stirrings around
here...
You think the Perl community is proud of the majordomo code?
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:03:46AM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
Hmmm, would it be bad form to reminisce
about all things Manc on a London.pm list?!
Given that I didn't learn perl until after I graduated, and Buffy
isn't Manc-specific, then probably :-)
Hazy tales of drunken nights in Jilly's
Hazy tales of drunken nights in Jilly's drinking too much snakebite
and falling over while trying to dance to the Sisters of Mercy
probably won't interest most of london.pm
How can you fall over doing one step forward one step backward with your
arms out for balance?
Or was it the one
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, will wrote:
Alex page wrote:
Hazy tales of drunken nights in Jilly's drinking too much snakebite
and falling over while trying to dance to the Sisters of Mercy
probably won't interest most of london.pm
Cheap bottles of calsberg and rage against the machine...
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:50:50PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On topic - how come all the decent jobs are dahn sarf?
Dunno. A lot of my coursemates ended up working for a Manchester-based IT
company (Lantara?) doing network admin and web coding, but the pay wasn't
great and I'd had a better
Slimelight: Been a member for the last 3 or 4 years. The club venue is good,
the music on the downstairs floor is OK, and the top venue is hard tecnho crap.
I basically go there to see my friends rather than for any other reason. Going
there tomorrow, actually - I'll be the one in black *g*
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:25:23PM +0100, Barbie wrote:
I always knew Manchester was the centre of the Universe.
Ahem.
I suggest you go look at the entry for NY.pm at
http://www.pm.org/groups/north_america.shtml :-)
dha
--
David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:30:20PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
I blame majordomo, when's that mailman thing getting here?
Actually that's my fault I said I'd look into it about a year ago (or
so it feels). I'll do it this weekend. As to whether penderel gets used
for this mailing list is
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yeah, but only testing it on one browser, ignoring the - what, 30%? - that
don't use IE - that's kinda silly.
On a random band's site that number is more like, per hits:
3959719 IE
662895 Netscape
10 the rest
It's a pity, but it's life.
(And
Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:33:36PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
well .. it *does* handle them .. but ,,, errr .. sort of non cascading
IYSWIM ...
No it doesn't. It has almost no clue about stylesheets at all. Have you
ever developed a CSS site for
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:50:15PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
How can you fall over doing one step forward one step backward with your
arms out for balance?
Or was it the one where you hold you arms over your head in an
impression of someone trying to get out of a too-tight jumper in
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:55:06PM -0400, Alex Page wrote:
Blimey, there's an Oxford perl mongers! You mean I'm not the
only perl coder in this city?!?
No.
--
I find that anthropomorphism really doesn't help me with a place full
of bugs. -- Megahal (trained on asr), 1998-11-06
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:00:40PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:55:06PM -0400, Alex Page wrote:
Blimey, there's an Oxford perl mongers! You mean I'm not the
only perl coder in this city?!?
No.
By which I mean, yes, you're not. And, of course, we've got Malcolm
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
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:26:04PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:25:23PM +0100, Barbie wrote:
I always knew Manchester was the centre of the Universe.
Ahem.
I suggest you go look at the entry for NY.pm at
http://www.pm.org/groups/north_america.shtml :-)
Yes
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:22:50PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
I thought it closed down, actually. Is it still bring your own booze? Do
they still have a silly entrance exam?
Hmm, I'm feeling like this is getting waaay too off-topic, especially while
Dave the Goth is on sabbatical, so...
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:56:22PM -0400, Alex Page wrote:
Hmm, I'm feeling like this is getting waaay too off-topic
What is this off-topic you speak of? Is it a custom of your people?
:-)
--
David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/
My theory is that his ignorance
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 07:47:47PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:56:22PM -0400, Alex Page wrote:
Hmm, I'm feeling like this is getting waaay too off-topic
What is this off-topic you speak of? Is it a custom of your people?
Yeah... I'm on this mailing list called
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, you wrote:
What is this off-topic you speak of? Is it a custom of your people?
Yeah... I'm on this mailing list called goats-fans, for fans of Goats:
the Comic Strip (http://www.goats.com - NOW!), and flaming and off-topic
posting leads to the moderators kicking your
Can any of you contractor types recoomend a good accountant, as the one I
was using (a friend of the family) suggested that I use an accountant who
was more familiar with the IT contracting business, as he was more suited to
much larger companies.
Thanks
Gareth Harper
Subject: Good Accountants
Can any of you contractor types recoomend a good accountant, as the one I
was using (a friend of the family) suggested that I use an accountant who
was more familiar with the IT contracting business, as he was more suited
to
much larger companies.
Thanks
Gareth Harper
- Original Message -
From: Gareth Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 April 2001 09:09
Subject: Good Accountants
Can any of you contractor types recoomend a good accountant, as the one I
was using (a friend of the family) suggested that I use an accountant who
:09
Subject: Good Accountants
Can any of you contractor types recoomend a good accountant, as the one I
was using (a friend of the family) suggested that I use an accountant who
was more familiar with the IT contracting business, as he was more suited
to
much larger companies
Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On a similar point, can anyone recommend a good business bank account?
Oxymoron.
I went with Barclays because they gave 12 months free banking and
could group the online banking with my personal accounts.
--
Dave Hodgkinson,
From: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, you wrote:
recommended Menzies (www.menzies.co.uk) to me, and I went to see
On a similar point, can anyone recommend a good business bank account?
Flemings Premier Banking
01708 713317
basically free for contractors (up to 20
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:49:34AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
I went with Barclays because they gave 12 months free banking and
could group the online banking with my personal accounts.
On a side issue, do you know of any online banks that allow personal
accounts to download historical
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, you wrote:
Flemings Premier Banking
01708 713317
basically free for contractors (up to 20 cheques a month) and pay
interest. I got several hundred quid in intrest last year. Telephone
service and all that stuff.
most impressed .. and I do have other business
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, you wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:31:31AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
http://www.flemingbank.com/
crap website, but I think it sums em up.
Yep, so crap that it gives nothing but a splash screen with no links on it
whatsoever. If that sums them up, then I
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:39:45AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
Flemings Premier Banking
01708 713317
God help you if you put your company into dormancy however. Then they
get really arsey since you're not depositing huge amounts of cash into
it any more.
They unilaterally decided to close my
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 06:52:59PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:31:31AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
http://www.flemingbank.com/
crap website, but I think it sums em up.
Yep, so crap that it gives nothing but a splash screen with no links on it
whatsoever.
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:13:50PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, you wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:31:31AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
http://www.flemingbank.com/
crap website, but I think it sums em up.
Yep, so crap that it gives nothing but a splash
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:02:48PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Yeah, but only testing it on one browser, ignoring the - what, 30%? - that
don't use IE - that's kinda silly. And unprofessional. Sure, the bank
Anything that displays in IE will display fine in Opera. Mozilla
is OK. Netscape
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, you wrote:
Anything that displays in IE will display fine in Opera. Mozilla
is OK. Netscape 4.x deserves to have sites intentionally break it
(ooh, tricky, miss a closing table tag!) because it is shit must die.
depends dunnit ...
on the one hand i _almost_ like IE as
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:04:36PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
depends dunnit ...
Not really, Netscape 4.x sucks. No two ways about it.
and height tags) ..it doesnt care about missing /table tags, it
handles tables and CSS somewhat better than 4.7 OTOH its so far from being
You mean it
At 10:04 PM 2001.04.26 +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
What would be nice would be a nutscrape-alike that put colored blobs or
somesuch where errors were.. with hyperlinks to details of the error ... ;)
Starting point: Using CSS as a Diagnostic Tool
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:20:35PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
But, how is it non compliant? And when was 75MB of diskspace an issue?
That's about 20p.
Where do you get sensible disk (including
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:33:36PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
well .. it *does* handle them .. but ,,, errr .. sort of non cascading
IYSWIM ...
No it doesn't. It has almost no clue about stylesheets at all. Have you
ever developed a CSS site for Netscape? And got it to work in anything
like a
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:04:36PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
on the one hand i _almost_ like IE as it displays images as they load and
doesn't wait unitl it has em all b4 showing you the page (unless width
and height tags) ..it doesnt care about missing /table tags, it
handles tables and
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:31:31AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
http://www.flemingbank.com/
crap website, but I think it sums em up.
Yep, so crap that it gives nothing but a splash screen with no links on it
whatsoever. If that sums them up, then I want nothing to do with such
manifest
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, you wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:04:36PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
depends dunnit ...
Not really, Netscape 4.x sucks. No two ways about it.
and height tags) ..it doesnt care about missing /table tags, it
handles tables and CSS somewhat better than 4.7 OTOH
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