Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-06-11

2001-06-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:41:56PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: In other news: Microsoft SQL Server sucking (SQueaL), Sun Ultra Enterprise 1, google++, the Sony Clie being small and cute, checking out pubs for the next meet, buffy, search.cpan.org being hacked (Catalog module apparently),

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-06-04

2001-06-07 Thread Robert Shiels
From: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] whether there were any Masai tribespeople on the list. Anyone? Anyone? reminds me of that Reggie Perrin snippet .. 'Is there anyone here from Tarporley ...' I dunno .. maybe I'm getting old. pass the earwig would you please... /Robert

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-06-04

2001-06-07 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: From: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] whether there were any Masai tribespeople on the list. Anyone? Anyone? reminds me of that Reggie Perrin snippet .. 'Is there anyone here from Tarporley ...' I dunno .. maybe I'm getting old. pass the

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-06-04

2001-06-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:25:17AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: I didn't get where I am today by saying 'earwig' instead of 'thank you' Might it've helped? P

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-06-04

2001-06-06 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: whether there were any Masai tribespeople on the list. Anyone? Anyone? reminds me of that Reggie Perrin snippet .. 'Is there anyone here from Tarporley ...' I dunno .. maybe I'm getting old. -- Robin Szemeti

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21

2001-05-26 Thread Dave Cross
At 14:31 25/05/2001, Leon Brocard wrote: Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: there is also an unofficial technical meet for practicing TPC talks on Saturday from noon at state51: Just to confirm, this is still on. state51 is at 8-10 rhoda street, london e2 7ef:

Re: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-26 Thread Will Jessop
- Original Message - From: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 3:54 PM Subject: Re: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21) So a program of vaccination and slaughter to erradicate the disease will firstly benefit the tourist

FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-25 Thread Nathan Torkington
Redvers Davies writes: About that flyer... FMD presents no risks to humans but is a serious threat to animal health. That is not strictly true... FMD is not a threat to animal health, the MAFF slaughters are. I'm not taking sides about whether the slaughters are justified. Here, though,

Re: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-25 Thread will
In countries where the virus is endemic, veterinarians must vaccinate at regular intervals. The vaccines only offer protection for a short period of time, are expensive, and in some cases contain live viruses that may infect the animals. Added to this, it is almost (completely?) impossible

Re: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-25 Thread Paul Mison
On 25/05/2001 at 15:08 +0100, will wrote: In countries where the virus is endemic, veterinarians must vaccinate at regular intervals. The vaccines only offer protection for a short period of time, are expensive, and in some cases contain live viruses that may infect the animals. Added to

Re: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-25 Thread Paul Mison
On 25/05/2001 at 15:40 +0100, will wrote: The massive British export meat market was worth... 300 million UKP last year. Tourism makes billions. The British rural economy could survive with no exported meat. So a program of vaccination and slaughter to erradicate the disease will firstly

RE: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-25 Thread Robert Thompson
From: will Of course we could just build a super-gun (a-la iraq) and shoot bloated carcasses at Redmond. This is my favouite idea. Pigs In Space Rob --- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender,

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21

2001-05-25 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:25:43PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: That is not strictly true... FMD is not a threat to animal health, the MAFF slaughters are. There was me thinking the threat to animal health was the six inch bolt that gets driven thru' their skulls and ultimately them being

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21

2001-05-25 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:25:43PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: That is not strictly true... FMD is not a threat to animal health, the MAFF slaughters are. There was me thinking the threat to animal health was the six inch bolt that gets driven

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21

2001-05-24 Thread Redvers Davies
http://www.maff.gov.uk/animalh/int-trde/misc/foot/flyer.pdf About that flyer... FMD presents no risks to humans but is a serious threat to animal health. That is not strictly true... FMD is not a threat to animal health, the MAFF slaughters are.

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21

2001-05-24 Thread Piers Cawley
Redvers Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.maff.gov.uk/animalh/int-trde/misc/foot/flyer.pdf About that flyer... FMD presents no risks to humans but is a serious threat to animal health. That is not strictly true... FMD is not a threat to animal health, the MAFF slaughters are.

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21

2001-05-24 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Redvers Davies wrote: http://www.maff.gov.uk/animalh/int-trde/misc/foot/flyer.pdf About that flyer... FMD presents no risks to humans but is a serious threat to animal health. That is not strictly true... FMD is not a threat to animal health, the MAFF slaughters

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21

2001-05-24 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Piers Cawley wrote: Redvers Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.maff.gov.uk/animalh/int-trde/misc/foot/flyer.pdf About that flyer... FMD presents no risks to humans but is a serious threat to animal health. That is not strictly true... FMD is not a

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21

2001-05-24 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:00:53PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: Redvers Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.maff.gov.uk/animalh/int-trde/misc/foot/flyer.pdf About that flyer... FMD presents no risks to humans but is a serious threat to animal health. That is not strictly

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-14

2001-05-18 Thread Simon Cozens
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:21:47PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: Now all I have to do is not volunteer for the p5p summary, Leon You're a marked man, you realise? -- If that makes any sense to you, you have a big problem. -- C. Durance, Computer Science 234

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-07

2001-05-10 Thread Richard Clamp
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:30:59PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: Paul Mison wrote a quick thanks / report of the London.pm - New York trip, with links to photos: And seconds too late I put my photos online: http://www.unixbeard.net/~richardc/Photos/ It's all the photos that have ever passed

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-07

2001-05-10 Thread Matthew Jones
http://www.unixbeard.net/~richardc/Photos/2001-04-30/2001-04-30.14:42:51.jpe g heh: http://www.snurfer.org/sands/gfx/vertigo.jpg Did your palms sweat too, richard? -- matt | CHOPS

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-07

2001-05-10 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.snurfer.org/sands/gfx/vertigo.jpg Did your palms sweat too, richard? That slightly golden building is the Millennium hotel. I had a room on the 54th floor. Lovely view :-) -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-30

2001-05-03 Thread Paul Mison
On 03/05/2001 at 13:56 +0100, Leon Brocard wrote parenthetically: some of London.pm were over in NYC - is anyone going to write a report? Yes, eventually; I sent a message about this earlier but forgot to mung the sender address so it'll need approving (Mr Stowe?) but the plan is photos and

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-30

2001-05-03 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Paul Mison wrote: On 03/05/2001 at 13:56 +0100, Leon Brocard wrote parenthetically: some of London.pm were over in NYC - is anyone going to write a report? Yes, eventually; I sent a message about this earlier but forgot to mung the sender address so it'll need approving

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-30

2001-05-03 Thread Leon Brocard
Philip Newton sent the following bits through the ether: I missed the mention that london-list may be moving to london.pm.org at some point. There's no point in mentioning it again until it happens, surely. So, when's it gonna happen list-meisters? Leon -- Leon

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-23

2001-04-26 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:05:38PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: Jon Galliers asked about naming a file correctly when downloading from a CGI. Niklas Nordebo and Merijn Broeren provided solutions: http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg04654.html Doh! We entirely missed

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-23

2001-04-26 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:17:01PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: Doh! We entirely missed this: http://www.mysql.com/news/article-57.html That's an amusing read! 'spos it legitimises us, but, but! Which links to (not sure if it's working right now):

Re: [london-list-summary] London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-23

2001-04-26 Thread Nathan Torkington
Leon Brocard writes: Registration has opened for this year's Perl Conference in San Diego. It's gonna be a great conference - the talks all look excellent (thanks gnat!) You're welcome. I'm going to give a lightning talk at YAPC or TPC about just what a clusterfuck it was this year. Many

Re: [london-list-summary] London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-23

2001-04-26 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Leon Brocard writes: Registration has opened for this year's Perl Conference in San Diego. It's gonna be a great conference - the talks all look excellent (thanks gnat!) You're welcome. I'm going to give a lightning talk at YAPC or TPC

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-16 (Attempt 2)

2001-04-23 Thread Simon Wistow
Leon Brocard wrote: Leon, who didn't get as many points snowboarding than he does in SSX. Somehow falling hurts more... *cough* Deja-Angst : http://www.inktank.com/index.cfm?toon=02-26-01

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-16 (Attempt 2)

2001-04-23 Thread Leon Brocard
Simon Wistow sent the following bits through the ether: Deja-Angst : http://www.inktank.com/index.cfm?toon=02-26-01 Hmmm, that came out on my birthday. I think it's a Sign... Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-16 (Attempt 2)

2001-04-22 Thread Leon Brocard
Simon Wistow sent the following bits through the ether: This is the thirteenth of hopefully many weekly summaries of the London Perl Mongers mailing list. For the week starting 2001-04-16: Gosh, that was a hard week to summarise. Thanks Simon! Back to me next week... Leon, who didn't get as

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-16 (Attempt 2)

2001-04-20 Thread Simon Wistow
Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: segwayed I dont think so Simon ... Neither did I. But i was tired. /me waves hands vaguely

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-16

2001-04-19 Thread AEF
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: This is the thirteenth of hopefully many weekly summaries of the London Perl Mongers mailing list. For the week starting 2001-04-16: Greg McCarroll asked about online brokers, Robert and :) Tony

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-16

2001-04-19 Thread Simon Wistow
Simon Wistow wrote: This is the thirteenth of hopefully many weekly summaries of the London *cough* Frscking, sucking, send shortcuts in netscape. Apologies.

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-16

2001-04-19 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: Simon Wistow wrote: This is the thirteenth of hopefully many weekly summaries of the London ^^ *cough* Frscking, sucking, send shortcuts in netscape. Apologies. I guess it was inevitable really /J\

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-16

2001-04-19 Thread Greg McCarroll
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: This is the thirteenth of hopefully many weekly summaries of the London Perl Mongers mailing list. For the week starting 2001-04-16: Greg McCarroll asked about online brokers, Robert and *GUNSHOT* *queue eastenders theme track* ( or dallas if you

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-16

2001-04-19 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: This is the thirteenth of hopefully many weekly summaries of the London Perl Mongers mailing list. For the week starting 2001-04-16: Greg McCarroll asked about online brokers, Robert and *GUNSHOT*

Re: perlcert list?

2001-04-13 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Is it me or is the perlcert list dead? I've not seen any messages for days and one I tried now just vanished? Er no. You appear to have sent thed message from an account that is not subscribed. I have approved the message now, I was a little

Re: perlcert list?

2001-04-13 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Is it me or is the perlcert list dead? I've not seen any messages for days and one I tried now just vanished? Er no. You appear to have sent thed message from an account that is not subscribed.

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-09

2001-04-11 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:00 PM The social meeting last week was a lot of fun, if a little crazy. However, we really need to start organising the meetings (hey, even Lonix is more organised!), as it was too loud and crowded: Not sure I like the

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-09

2001-04-11 Thread Dean
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:00:16PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: crazy. However, we really need to start organising the meetings (hey, even Lonix is more organised!), as it was too loud and crowded: You have a weird idea of organized ;) We tried to get 60 people into 30 places... Dean

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-09

2001-04-11 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 2:39 PM dcross - David Cross sent the following bits through the ether: Not sure I like the idea of 'organised' social meetings. Sounds a bit too 'SPUG' to me. However, I'm quite happy to listen to any alternative

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-09

2001-04-11 Thread Neil Ford
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:17:37PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:00 PM The social meeting last week was a lot of fun, if a little crazy. However, we really need to start organising the meetings (hey, even Lonix

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary (list!)

2001-04-09 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: This is the eleventh of hopefully many weekly summaries of the London Perl Mongers mailing list. For the week starting 2001-04-02: I've been asked repeatedly (mostly by Pete Berlin ;-) to set up a seperate list for the london-list weekly

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary (list!)

2001-04-09 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 12:41:56PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: Note that I'll still post the summary to london-list (for now at least). Why should you stop? You *can't* be worried about the traffic! :-) dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Hat! Hat! Hat!

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-02

2001-04-04 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:36:22AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: Martin Ling delurked and couldn't believe we were all nutters and Buffy fans. David Adler added "drunks". Jonathan Stowe added "skateboarders, musicians". Lucy McWilliam (who has very amusing taglines) added "geeks, goths,

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-05

2001-03-26 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:47:47AM +, Leon Brocard wrote: realised that this makes three consecutive weeks with conferences this summer that I want to go to: O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, yapc::Europe, and HAL2001. I threw together a quick-reference page for conferences I'd *like*

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-05

2001-03-26 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: Oops sorry about that - I approved this twice :( Too long a break I would suggest ... /J\

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread James Powell
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:45:54PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: And finally, it appears that Schwern, Michael is an Alien Drag Queen: http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03105.html http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103645 Excellent, Trevor McDonald style "And finally"

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Andrew Bowman
From: "James Powell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps - For an extra point, what show had an impression of Trevor McDonald called "Trevor McDoughnut"? Trevor McDoughnut is/was a Lenny Henry character - so it was probably Three of a Kind (remember that?), or another programme with Lenny H. in it. For

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Simon Wilcox
At 05:25 23/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote: For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry appeared on? Dave... Tiswas ! Actually - I think this was where McDoughnut first appeared ? Simon.

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Matthew Jones
For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry appeared on? Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And White Minstrel Show. Ph3@r my Lenny Henry trivia skills! -- matt "'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today? hey, baby, don't be pulling on my

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Simon Wistow
Dave Cross wrote: For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry appeared on? Black and White Minstrel show IIRC . Although I think he was a on a couple of talent shows first.

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Dave Cross
At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 05:31:25 -0500 (EST), Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:30:19 -, Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry appeared on? Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Matthew Jones
Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And White Minstrel Show. Hmm... now you've gone and made me doubt myself. I thought it was New Faces. http://homepages.go.com/~chefjunkie/Lennysnotlaughing.html http://ayup.co.uk/gods/gods0-4.html Search for "Minstrel". Okay, so he was

Re: Mailing list details

2001-03-14 Thread Dave Cross
At Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:52:33 -, "Robert Shiels" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking for the mailing list subscription details on our london.pm.org website, and thought they were a bit hidden down on the "what we've done" page. I think they should probably be more prominent, probably

Re: Mailing list details

2001-03-14 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Dave Cross [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *Exclusivity! Take a good look round next time you're at a meeting and *tell me how exclusive you think we are :) * *But, yes, I have _lots_ of ideas for a revamp of the web site. I might *even have time to do it some time this year. There is also a

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-12

2001-03-14 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:02:04PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: a picture of him drinking a beer from the London.pm website. Misparse! Misparse! Misparse! -- We use Linux for all our mission-critical applications. Having the source code means that we are not held hostage by anyone's support

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-12

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Fowler
Leo Lapworth was trying to debug something with Devel::DProf and couldn't understand why BEGIN was called more than once. Robert Price and Mark Fowler pointed out that 'use Module LIST' is exactly equivalent to 'BEGIN { require Module; import Module LIST; }', so the module was being use-d in

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-12

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Fowler
Content-type: matter-transport/beer-stream That's not right. MIMEs do type/format (e.g. image/gif.) So it'd more likely be: Content-type: beer/guinness Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title =

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-12

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:19:54PM +, Michael Stevens wrote: Content-type: matter-transport/beer-stream Isn't that what happens in the bogs of Penderels Oak? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-12

2001-03-14 Thread Roger Burton West
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:39:12PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: * David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:19:54PM +, Michael Stevens wrote: Content-type: matter-transport/beer-stream Isn't that what happens in the bogs of Penderels Oak? Is it just me who has

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-12

2001-03-14 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:19:54PM +, Michael Stevens wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:18:09PM +, Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:02:04PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: a picture of him drinking a beer from the London.pm website. Misparse! Misparse! Misparse!

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-26

2001-03-03 Thread Leon Brocard
Simon Wistow sent the following bits through the ether: Well ladies and germs, time for London Perl Mongers mailing list summary numero seven for the week starting 2001-02-26. Great! Many thanks to Simon! Let's all buy him a beer at the weekly london.pm meet ;-) Leon is away talking at the

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-26

2001-03-02 Thread Philip Newton
Greg McCarroll wrote: * Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This summary has been bought to you by the letters Alpha, Beta and Gamma, the numbers 1,3,5,7 all superimposed and the colour Octarine. and 2, please 2, it'll keep me happy, then we can discuss if 1 is a prime number,

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-26

2001-03-02 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg McCarroll wrote: * Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This summary has been bought to you by the letters Alpha, Beta and Gamma, the numbers 1,3,5,7 all superimposed and the colour Octarine. and 2, please 2, it'll keep me

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-26

2001-03-02 Thread Piers Cawley
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg McCarroll wrote: * Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This summary has been bought to you by the letters Alpha, Beta and Gamma, the numbers 1,3,5,7 all superimposed and the colour

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-16 Thread pmh
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:02:36 +, Leon Brocard wrote: And finally, dumrats used naughty words and got attacked by a daemon: http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02186.html Finally, due to this and other contextual clues, I've figured out who some of these IRC names

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-16 Thread Steve Mynott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For someone who's never used IRC at all, it's particularly annoying. I'm no Luddite though, I was using Cheeseplant's house over a decade ago, and wrote my own chat system, but just never got round to IRC. I was on Cheeseplant's House as well! I recently noticed

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-15 Thread Philip Newton
acme wrote: This london-list weekly summary has been brought to you with IRC nicknames instead of, err, real names. This is just an experiment - we reckon it's a bit silly and more confusing. What do you reckon? I didn't know who "dumrats" was but it didn't take long to figure out. Whether

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-15 Thread Robin Szemeti
This london-list weekly summary has been brought to you with IRC nicknames instead of, err, real names. This is just an experiment - we reckon it's a bit silly and more confusing. What do you reckon? hmmm .. dunno .. you start off ok with 'blech' but then go on to use the same name spelt the

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-15 Thread Robin Houston
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: [...] summaries of #london.pm traffic :) Now _there's_ an idea :-) Is anyone feeling really, really bored? .robin.

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-15 Thread Philip Newton
Robin Houston wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: [...] summaries of #london.pm traffic :) Now _there's_ an idea :-) Is anyone feeling really, really bored? Isn't 30% of the traffic of the type "dadadodo for cream nauseous disgrace extensibility"? :-)

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-15 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Robin Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: [...] summaries of #london.pm traffic :) Now _there's_ an idea :-) Is anyone feeling really, really bored? No, but I'm getting hungry... -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Pony and Buffy (was Re: Mailing List Stuff)

2001-02-15 Thread Mark Fowler
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Michael Stevens wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:34:15PM +, Robin Houston wrote: what is it with ponys? I've wondered that too. Seems to be a #perl obsession... purl pony [purl] pony is replyGimme a Pony! Pony! Pony! Pony Pony Pony! Pony Pony

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-05

2001-02-12 Thread Dave Cross
At Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:00:21 +, Steve Purkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg McCarroll wrote: [ The same old tired nonsense about london.pm meeting dates ] Absolutely! I mean, does anyone actually *believe* that life is as simple as "The first Wednesday of every month" ?!? C'mon -

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-05

2001-02-09 Thread Philip Newton
Leon Brocard wrote: On Thursday, a London.pm Heretic Meeting happened in a lovely pub with a nice warm fire by the Thames. For the uninitiated, a Heretic Meeting happens when the first thursday of the month is the 1st. Heretic meetings thus happen on the 7th, and are

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-05

2001-02-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Leon Brocard wrote: On Thursday, a London.pm Heretic Meeting happened in a lovely pub with a nice warm fire by the Thames. For the uninitiated, a Heretic Meeting happens when the first thursday of the month is the 1st. Heretic meetings thus

Re: Mailing List Stuff

2001-02-05 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:34:15PM +, Robin Houston wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:27:16PM +, Struan Donald wrote: * at 02/02 12:29 + Jonathan Stowe said: On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Dave Cross wrote: Any questions? Yeah, can I have a pony ? what is it with

Re: Mailing List Stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Dave Cross wrote: Any questions? Yeah, can I have a pony ? /J\ -- Jonathan Stowe | http://www.gellyfish.com | I'm with Grep on this one http://www.tackleway.co.uk |

Re: Mailing List Stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Struan Donald
* at 02/02 12:29 + Jonathan Stowe said: On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Dave Cross wrote: Any questions? Yeah, can I have a pony ? what is it with ponys? struan

Re: Mailing List Stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Robin Houston
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:27:16PM +, Struan Donald wrote: * at 02/02 12:29 + Jonathan Stowe said: On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Dave Cross wrote: Any questions? Yeah, can I have a pony ? what is it with ponys? I've wondered that too. Seems to be a #perl obsession... .robin.

Re: Mailing List Stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Michael Stevens
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:34:15PM +, Robin Houston wrote: what is it with ponys? I've wondered that too. Seems to be a #perl obsession... purl pony [12:39] [purl] pony is replyGimme a Pony! Pony! Pony! Pony Pony Pony! Pony Pony

Re: Mailing List Stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Simon Wistow
Robin Houston wrote: I've wondered that too. Seems to be a #perl obsession... As in "stroke the pony"?

Re: Mailing List Stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Robin Houston
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:40:18PM +, Michael Stevens wrote: purl pony [purl] pony is replyGimme a Pony! Pony! Pony! Pony Pony Pony! Pony Pony Pony! Pony Pony Pony! Pony Pony Pony! Pony Pony Pony! Pony Pony Pony! Pony Pony Pony! robin literal pony pony pony purl robin: pony pony pony

Re: Mailing List Stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Robin Houston wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:27:16PM +, Struan Donald wrote: * at 02/02 12:29 + Jonathan Stowe said: On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Dave Cross wrote: Any questions? Yeah, can I have a pony ? what is it with ponys? I've wondered

Re: Mailing List Stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.fly.net/~shiva/complain.txt Spamford Wallace. Those were the days. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl,

Re: Mailing List Stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On 2 Feb 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.fly.net/~shiva/complain.txt Spamford Wallace. Those were the days. On the subject of Ponies - check out this aw350m3 site - http://members.tripod.com/~ponyland/ /J\ -- Jonathan Stowe

Re: the list

2001-02-01 Thread pmh
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:21:47 +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:04:54PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: everyone is probably reading up on ruby in preparation for it taking over the world Well, there's a good article on it in the "25th anniversary" Dr Dobbs magazine.

RE: the list

2001-01-31 Thread Matthew Jones
It's oh so quiet. After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. OK, just in the interests of making traffic, then, here's a picture of me as a baby: http://website.lineone.net/~vineleaf/sands/gfx/mattjones.jpg You see, you have ot get your priorities right at an early age. -- matt

Re: the list

2001-01-31 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It's oh so quiet. After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. everyone is probably reading up on ruby in preparation for it taking over the world -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net

Re: the list

2001-01-31 Thread Michael Stevens
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:04:54PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It's oh so quiet. After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. everyone is probably reading up on ruby in preparation for it taking over the world Surely you mean python?

Re: the list

2001-01-31 Thread Richard Clamp
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:50:45AM +, Michael Stevens wrote: It's oh so quiet. After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. I don't know, before it was fast as lightning. Which was a little bit frightening. -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Mailing List Archive

2001-01-26 Thread Mike Davis
Title: RE: Mailing List Archive Why don't we make our own archive and ask mail-archive.com to stop doing their thing? Then we have control of what is published and everyone's happy... -Original Message- From: alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 3:22 AM

RE: Mailing List Archive

2001-01-26 Thread Dave Cross
At Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:23:17 -, Mike Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't we make our own archive and ask mail-archive.com to stop doing their thing? Then we have control of what is published and everyone's happy... I don't think that mail-archive would be amenable to removing the

Re: Mailing List Archive

2001-01-26 Thread Mark Fowler
This is my two pence worth: 1. I stand by everything I've ever said on the the list. If I didn't mean it I wouldn't have said it. 2. However, I can see problems with people taking things I've said out of context. Pah, so be it. This is the problem with the world. 3. If I wanted

RE: Mailing List Archive

2001-01-26 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Best idea that I came up whilst thinking about it last night was to configure majordomo to automatically add an 'X-No-Archive' header to all mails on the list. But even that only avoids archives that play by the rules. Seems like a good idea to me. The fact that mailing lists are ultimately

Re: Mailing List Archive

2001-01-26 Thread jduncan
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:07:18AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: * James Powell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: To make it harder for google to find you - change your name Prince style. good idea! - greg of wales This is the best laugh I've had in a little while. Thanks. james. --

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