Re: Mac OS X (was Re: mmm ... toys ..)

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:11:13PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > I don't suppose anyone else chose 'root' as their primary account > name during install? > > I did and am wondering if this is why my OS X installation is totally > hosed & useless: I can't open folders in my (own!) Home (Insuffici

Re: Mac OS X (was Re: mmm ... toys ..)

I don't suppose anyone else chose 'root' as their primary account name during install? I did and am wondering if this is why my OS X installation is totally hosed & useless: I can't open folders in my (own!) Home (Insufficient Privileges), all Applications in Finder appears as folders, all non-Fi

Re: white wine

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:31:00PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > then we get on to the 'wine so sweet you could stand a spoon up in it'. I > am a complete sucker for anything from Sauternes, Lupiac, Pauliac, > Graves, Monbazilac etc. and had a very nice Trochenbeerenauslese a You would enjoy the

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

At 03:28 PM 27.3.2001 -0800, you wrote: >With 10 digit dialling, it's 10 digit dialling, no extra '1' required. >E.g. if I was in Houston (which has three area codes and is 10-digit) I >would dial 713 555 1212 regardless of whether I was already in 713. Ahh. This explains why a cell phone works w

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:44:49PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > Still not enough. It'll work for the Americans (yet again...)[1] but if you > have a phone number whose country codes identifies it as being in country X, > and you are in country X on a business trip and want to call that person, >

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:58:17AM -0500, Chris Devers wrote: > In any event, the leading 1 is never part of the phone number, but you always have >to dial it whenever making a "long distance" call. This used to mean anything beyond >a certain distance from your local calling area &/or anything

Re: Fwd: Sheffield LUG: Linux 2.4 kernel meeting

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:18:51PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > Just in case any of our northerly lurkers are interested ... This northerly lurker thanks you. Of course Sheffield<->Newcastle direct is via Virgin, the alternative is GNER to Doncaster. Neither of these seem particularly appea

Re: white wine

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:09:21PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote: > DavidC: > > According to the critics, it is 'acceptable if not great' but fuck it, > > *I* liked it. > > Remember a lot of wine suffers from the holiday effect, and doesn't seem > quite as nice on a wet blustery Thursday night. A

Re: white wine

DavidC: > According to the critics, it is 'acceptable if not great' but fuck it, > *I* liked it. Remember a lot of wine suffers from the holiday effect, and doesn't seem quite as nice on a wet blustery Thursday night. > Lachryma Christi del Vesuvio, in case anyone is interested. Ah, I have hear

Fwd: Sheffield LUG: Linux 2.4 kernel meeting

Just in case any of our northerly lurkers are interested ... -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important **

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > agreed, this is just f*cking crazy, sorry for the swearing, but this > is the craziest thing i've seen this year > I wouldnt get too carried away after all its only march :) /J\

Re: four-argument select()s

An entity claiming to be Robin Houston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : IO::Select will take the pain away. : use IO::Select; : However, when you start to throw signals, timers, and other nastiness into the mix, I have found Event.pm to be terribly useful. Mark -- [] | "Girls

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:07:44PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > agreed, this is just f*cking crazy, sorry for the swearing, but this > is the craziest thing i've seen this year What, no CiP rating??? dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Just Install Perl

Re: white wine

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:09:21PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: > > /me only drinks belgian beers/lagers.. or ales/bitter esp not any of that > american crap. Ahem. There are some fine american beers. You probably just don't see them over there (lord knows they're hard enough to find here...)

Re: four-argument select()s

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:11:46PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote: > > IO::Select will take the pain away. > > use IO::Select; > > my @sockets = IO::Select->new(values %sockets)->can_read(10); > Bah! > Althogh that does give you a list of sockets instead of

Re: Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Simon Wilcox wrote: > At 16:53 27/03/2001 +0100, Robin Houston wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:40:19PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > > > Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the > > > array each time. To be fair, you should include the ar

Re: mmm ... toys ..

At 12:46 AM 28.3.2001 +0100, you wrote: >One more thing, is my 4Gb drive enough [for OSX]... How much free space? I think it should be fine. I crammed it onto the same sized drive with a hair over 500 mb free, and now that it's up & running I still have another 350 mb available. Contrary to a

Re: Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Simon Wilcox wrote: > At 13:29 27/03/2001 +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > So - Did I get this heinously wrong or is MBM's sub really a lot slower ? You didn't get it wrong. It's a lot slower partly *because* it's a sub rather than an array. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick

Re: mmm ... toys ..

From: "Chris Devers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 10:15 AM 27.3.2001 +0100, Robert Sheils wrote: > >I have an original bondi-blue iMac, running MACOS9 at the moment, with > >32Mb RAM. I was in an Apple shop at the weekend and found that a 128Mb > >upgrade and OSX will only set me back about 200gbp.

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

At 01:44 PM 27.3.2001 +0200, you wrote: >I think America requires you to add "1" at the beginning; though it's not >part of the area/STD code as the 0 is in England and Germany, I think >most places require it to show you're dialling a long-distance call. Correct. Standard format is an implicit

Re: mmm ... toys ..

At 10:15 AM 27.3.2001 +0100, Robert Sheils wrote: >I have an original bondi-blue iMac, running MACOS9 at the moment, with >32Mb RAM. I was in an Apple shop at the weekend and found that a 128Mb >upgrade and OSX will only set me back about 200gbp. I was assured that >all my OS9 applications will s

Re: four-argument select()s

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:11:46PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote: > IO::Select will take the pain away. > use IO::Select; > > my @sockets = IO::Select->new(values %sockets)->can_read(10); Bah! Althogh that does give you a list of sockets instead of a list of names of sockets - which I guess could

Re: four-argument select()s

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:02:40PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > Some of you will have seen me posting in #london.pm asking about the > four-arg form of select(). IO::Select will take the pain away. use IO::Select; .robin. my @sockets = IO::Select->new(values %sockets)->can_read(10); # Ah

four-argument select()s

Some of you will have seen me posting in #london.pm asking about the four-arg form of select(). Some other people confessed ignorance too. I eventually figgered it out by gratuitously copying and pasting from POE::Kernel and then poking it to see how it broke :-) For anyone who's interested, her

Re: Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts

At 16:53 27/03/2001 +0100, Robin Houston wrote: >On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:40:19PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > > Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the > > array each time. To be fair, you should include the array initialisation > > inside the loop and see wh

Re: Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts

At 16:48 27/03/2001 +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: >Benchmark: timing 10 iterations of Array, Sub, myArray... > Array: 3 wallclock secs ( 3.37 usr + 0.05 sys = 3.42 CPU) >Sub: 6 wallclock secs ( 5.30 usr + 0.08 sys = 5.38 CPU) >myArray: 8 wallclock secs ( 8.39 usr + 0.11

Re: Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:40:19PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the > array each time. To be fair, you should include the array initialisation > inside the loop and see who wins then. Hey, that's not _fair_! The whole point o

Re: Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts

At 17:40 27/03/2001 +0200, Philip Newton wrote: >Simon Wilcox wrote: > > So - Did I get this heinously wrong or is MBM's sub really a > > lot slower ? > >Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the >array each time. To be fair, you should include the array initialisa

Re: Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:19:08PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: > I thought I would play around with Benchmark.pm, because I don't use it > nearly often enough, so I made this script: > > @th=(qw(th st nd rd),("th")x16)x2; $th[31]="st"; > sub th{(($_[0]-10-$_[0]%10)/10%10)?(qw(th st nd rd),('th')

Re: Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts

Simon Wilcox wrote: > So - Did I get this heinously wrong or is MBM's sub really a > lot slower ? Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the array each time. To be fair, you should include the array initialisation inside the loop and see who wins then. Cheers, Ph

Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts

At 13:29 27/03/2001 +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > my @th=(qw(th st nd rd),("th")x16)x2; $th[31]="st"; > >That's an evil and gross hack. [snip] >sub th{(($_[0]-10-$_[0]%10)/10%10)?(qw(th st nd rd),('th')x6)[$_[0]%10]:"th"} The first one I understood. Not sure about the second but I'll w

JOB: Anyone interested

Warning - MSB used to have the reputation of being the biggest bunch of cowboys in the recruitment industry. I wouldn't normally pass this on but thought it might be of interest to some of the ex-Torrington people. Oh, and I'll split the referral fee! > Hello Dave, > > The job I am currently r

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:29:57PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > my @th=(qw(th st nd rd),("th")x16)x2; $th[31]="st"; > > That's an evil and gross hack. > > sub th{(($_[0]-10-$_[0]%10)/10%10)?(qw(th st nd rd),('th')x6)[$_[0]%10]:"th"} TIMTOWTDI, thank ghod ;-) .robin. -- "It reall

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:14:22PM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: > > %e seems to be Linux specific. %d works on both Linux and Windows. Not Linux-specific, it's part of the Single Unix Specification. Point taken about Win32. .robin. -- select replace(a, CHR(88), replace(a,,'')) from (

Re: Perl Training Courses

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Philip Newton wrote: > (Don't know whether CPAN.pm knows this for you. It may.) Yes, it does. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) Knebel's Law: It

Re: Perl Training Courses

Mark Fowler wrote: > b) This is how to get objects from CPAN, these are a few > critical classes that you need to know about. E.g. this > is Data::Dumper, it's fscking useful. LWP::Simple is > your friend. Etc, etc. Something of a quick tour. LWP::Simple is a good example, since

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

From: "Robin Houston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 27 March 2001 14:59 > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:08:11PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: > > 2) How do I get strftime to produce th/st/nd for the date? I can't see it > > on man strftime, but I might just be going blind. > > use POSIX 'strftime'; > my @

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Robin Houston wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:08:11PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: > > 2) How do I get strftime to produce th/st/nd for the date? I can't see it > > on man strftime, but I might just be going blind. > use POSIX 'strftime'; > my @th=(qw(th st nd rd),("th")x16)

Re: Helping Less... er... Able... Programmers

At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:02:29 +0100, Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Cross wrote: > > > Heh! Go easy on them. Most of them are just harmless idiots. There > > are a couple who reckon themselves a bit tho' - and it's quite fun > > taking them down a peg or two. > > I've posted a

Re: Helping Less... er... Able... Programmers

Dave Cross wrote: > Heh! Go easy on them. Most of them are just harmless idiots. There are > a couple who reckon themselves a bit tho' - and it's quite fun taking > them down a peg or two. I've posted a couple of things there now. A coupld of the posters seem to have taken umbrage to Dave being

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:08:11PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: > 2) How do I get strftime to produce th/st/nd for the date? I can't see it > on man strftime, but I might just be going blind. use POSIX 'strftime'; my @th=(qw(th st nd rd),("th")x16)x2; $th[31]="st"; my @time=localtime; print strfti

Re: Helping Less... er... Able... Programmers

At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:50:26 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > Anyway, I didn't want to keep this delight to myself. If anyone > > wants to join in my fun, the board is at: > > > >

Re: Helping Less... er... Able... Programmers

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > Anyway, I didn't want to keep this delight to myself. If anyone wants > to join in my fun, the board is at: > > > > Share & Enjoy, > Must .. Control .. The .. Keyboard .. Of .. Fire /J\

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: > > 1) Is POSIX.pm a standard module (and how do I work this out for > myself) and supported on all O.S.es so I don't have to rewrite strftime. > Its definitely in the 5.00404 on one of the machines here so I would that it could be said to be standard. Anyh

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

Mark Fowler wrote: > 1) Is POSIX.pm a standard module I believe it is, but the functionality might not be the same everywhere -- I think it just gives you as much as the platform itself provides. However, strftime so basic I'd guess any vaguely ANSI-/POSIX-compliant C library should have it. > (

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

Dave Cross wrote: > At Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:21:52 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Stowe > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyhow what are we going to do about the 'C++' ones :) > > Ignore them. Pretend they aren't there :) You misspelled "Rewrite them in Perl". HTH. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAI

Re: Helping Less... er... Able... Programmers

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > I've developed this weird habit of hanging around places where less > able Perl programmers congregate and trying to distribute clues. You've also developed the bad habit of referring to them as "programmers". > The latest place I've found is the BBS for

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:08:11 +0100 (BST), Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as my scripts go, they're going quite well, but two questions: > > 1) Is POSIX.pm a standard module (and how do I work this out for > myself) and supported on all O.S.es so I don't have to rewrite > strfti

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

Dave Cross wrote: > So it looks like we've got most of then sewn up. Anyone else want to report > on progress or grab one of the outstanding ones to do? Progress is going quite well. I've been fiddling with HTML for the stuff which is quite easy to do. The hard thing is trying to work out the

Re: white wine

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > Because we didn't acquire a taste for lager but rather had it shoved down > our throats by marketroids who saw an opportunity to mass-produce fizzy > crap instead of brewing properly. > > Anyway, Shurely you're forgetting about the Netherlands, Belgium

Helping Less... er... Able... Programmers

I've developed this weird habit of hanging around places where less able Perl programmers congregate and trying to distribute clues. The latest place I've found is the BBS for readers of Liz Castro's book. It certainly gives you some perspective[1] on her target audience. Here's an example resp

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:39:34 +0200, Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > The other possibility, I guess, given that it's london.pm is > > to make it relate to buffy in some way :) > > That reminds me of an idea I had this morning on the way to work --

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

Paul Makepeace wrote: > The world would be a much better place if everyone habitually quoted > their phone number +access_code area_code local_number. You don't > realise how important this is 'til you have to repeatedly find people > in various desolate stations dotted all over the world with sca

Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > The other possibility, I guess, given that it's london.pm is > to make it relate to buffy in some way :) That reminds me of an idea I had this morning on the way to work -- encode text using "Buffy" with uppercase and lowercase letters: uppercase letters stand f

Re: white wine

From: "Dave Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I don't want to sound like a twat, but it may be too late already so here > >goes, one of the things i hate about going out to a italian restaurant > >is the wine. > > Nonsense. You just order the most expensive Barolo on the wine list. mmm Barolo

Re: originality

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:41:05 +0100, Chris Heathcote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Sunday morning Perl advocacy at Speaker's Corner > > > > This _really_ should happen. > > > > well then, lets store

Re: Mac OS X (was Re: mmm ... toys ..)

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:41:17AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mysql has been ported to OSX. You can find it at > > http://www-u.life.uiuc.edu/~mwvaugh/MacOSX/Packages/ > > I was playing with it for a while and it seems fairly stable. > The only real problem I had was installing DBD::mys

Re: originality

* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:41:05 +0100, Chris Heathcote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sunday morning Perl advocacy at Speaker's Corner > > This _really_ should happen. > well then, lets store it up - next time we get a visitor whos up for it, we will do

Re: white wine

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:22:27AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > Which reminds me - when the Brits acquired a taste for lager rather than > ale, Did we? :) > why did we start drinking lager from every country in Europe except > Germany, who are the only ones to actually make drinkable stuff?

Re: originality

Greg said: > Chris said: > > > Sunday morning Perl advocacy at Speaker's Corner > > i like this > Sunday mornings! We're all in bed then[1]! Think who you are talking to! Later. Mark. [1] Apart from those of us that get up each week to watch hollioaks[2] [2] Or walking across London. Yea

Re: Mac OS X (was Re: mmm ... toys ..)

Mysql has been ported to OSX. You can find it at http://www-u.life.uiuc.edu/~mwvaugh/MacOSX/Packages/ I was playing with it for a while and it seems fairly stable. The only real problem I had was installing DBD::mysql which couldn't find libraries etc. Finally I found a guide at http://invi

Re: white wine

At 00:07 27/03/2001, you wrote: >* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Ooh good. I got one of them for Christmas and still haven't gotten > around to > > drinking it. Not sure I'll like it though, because Italian reds tend to be > > very thin, and I like chewy wines. We'll see. > > >

RE: originality

> This _really_ should happen. Can we get some O'Reily collateral to hand out to the congregation?

Re: originality

At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:41:05 +0100, Chris Heathcote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sunday morning Perl advocacy at Speaker's Corner This _really_ should happen. Dave...

RE: originality

> taking over a London Eye pod Did this on Friday. Not worth the money. Especially in the fog. > hiring a room in the V&A, Science Museum or Nat Hist Museum If you could get a private view (so to speak) of the difference engine or the BABY stuff they are doing in the Sci museum, that would be

Re: originality

* Chris Heathcote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on 26/3/01 10:04 pm, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > The problem of course with London (London.pm?) is that > > every activity we can think of is drink related. > > Well we do have a river here ya know ;) > > Other ideas: > > taking over a London Eye

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

* Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > ironically, a lot of .com problems could of been avoided and yet they > > still would of made the deadlines imposed by `internet time', if they > > had slowed down and used traditional business techn

Re: originality

on 26/3/01 10:04 pm, Greg McCarroll wrote: > The problem of course with London (London.pm?) is that > every activity we can think of is drink related. Well we do have a river here ya know ;) Other ideas: taking over a London Eye pod hiring a room in the V&A, Science Museum or Nat Hist Museum S

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > ironically, a lot of .com problems could of been avoided and yet they > still would of made the deadlines imposed by `internet time', if they > had slowed down and used traditional business techniques such as > cost/benefit analysis to prioritise functi

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

* Simon Wilcox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 10:31 27/03/2001 +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > > >Rumour has it that many people are bringing tech in house, which is hitting > >conslutancies and agencies harder. I'm still not convinced that there's a > >major downturn in the total number of te

Re: white wine

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:22:27AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > > Unfortunately, the lovely Italian wine I found in caffs > > throughout Naples > > > back in November does not seem to be available over here at all. > > > >

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > i also think there is still room for sensible consultancies > > and contracting. > > i think the 1000 quid a day for web development companies will have a > > major problem however. > > I hope so, they deserve it. > > > at cebit, BT devices c

Re: mmm ... toys ..

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:43:44AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Fips should be able to. All it does is shrink your FAT partition (NTFS > need not apply). When looking at the partition table, also, don't > change the 4th partition towards the end of the disk, if there is one. > It's the susp

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:08:04 +0100, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > > at cebit, BT devices crashed and burned - why? they had been rushed > > out. BT is essentially a good technology if done right, the same is > > true for web sites, the i

RE: Job: I'm looking for one..

At 10:31 27/03/2001 +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: >Rumour has it that many people are bringing tech in house, which is hitting >conslutancies and agencies harder. I'm still not convinced that there's a >major downturn in the total number of tech jobs. That's exactly what we're doing. I have a

RE: Job: I'm looking for one..

> i also think there is still room for sensible consultancies > and contracting. > i think the 1000 quid a day for web development companies will have a > major problem however. I hope so, they deserve it. > at cebit, BT devices crashed and burned - why? they had been rushed > out. BT is essent

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:08:04 +0100, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > at cebit, BT devices crashed and burned - why? they had been rushed > out. BT is essentially a good technology if done right, the same is > true for web sites, the industry just needs to slow its self down 'BT' eq 'B

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Rumour has it that many people are bringing tech in house, which is hitting > conslutancies and agencies harder. I'm still not convinced that there's a > major downturn in the total number of tech jobs. > i also think there is still room for se

Mac OS X (was Re: mmm ... toys ..)

[Warning - rant likely!] On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:15:00AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: > > > I have an original bondi-blue iMac, running MACOS9 at the moment, with 32Mb > RAM. I was in an Apple shop at the weekend and found that a 128Mb upgrade > and OSX will only set me back about 200gbp. I was

Re: upgrade fund

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:41:50PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > Usually when people talk about servers with 600 gigabytes of data its > fair to assume that their will be a considerable load on them, clearly > thats not the case here .. so I'm sure IDE will be just fine. 500Gb - RAID-5 means I h

RE: Job: I'm looking for one..

> > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:19:12PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: > > > >Just to let you all know I'm on the market again. > > > > > > Me too. > > > > er.. and me. > Ah. The DotCom Apocalypse :) Rumour has it that many people are bringing tech in house, which is hitting conslutancies and agenc

RE: white wine

> Graves, Monbazilac etc. and had a very nice Trochenbeerenauslese a > month or so ago that I reckon was just s good (and it > should have been It is a sad sad thing that it's darn near impossible to get decent German or Austrian wine in this country since the Austrian anti-freeze scandal (a

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roger Burton West wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:19:12PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: > > >Just to let you all know I'm on the market again. > > > > Me too. > > er.. and me. Ah. The DotCom Apocalypse :) /J\

RE: white wine

> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > Unfortunately, the lovely Italian wine I found in caffs > throughout Naples > > back in November does not seem to be available over here at all. > > Why ship the good stuff to the ignorant Brits when they can > keep it for > the

Re: mmm ... toys ..

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:15:00AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: > > > I have an original bondi-blue iMac, running MACOS9 at the moment, with 32Mb > RAM. I was in an Apple shop at the weekend and found that a 128Mb upgrade > and OSX will only set me back about 200gbp. I was assured that all my OS9 >

Re: mmm ... toys ..

- Original Message - From: "James Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 27 March 2001 09:41 Subject: Re: mmm ... toys .. > Alternatively if anyone has one of the titanium macs going spare? > I have an original bondi-blue iMac, running MACOS9 at the moment, with 32Mb R

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James Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:59:18AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > mmm .. > > > > by some dint of fate I appear to be the proud owner of a rather nice new > > Dell laptop. > > > > Bit slow ( 850mhz P3 ) and 128 mb of ram is hardly enough to run Vi in

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On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:59:18AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > mmm .. > > by some dint of fate I appear to be the proud owner of a rather nice new > Dell laptop. > > Bit slow ( 850mhz P3 ) and 128 mb of ram is hardly enough to run Vi in is > it .. a poxy 32Gb hard disc means I'll probably ru

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On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:59:18AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > mmm .. > > by some dint of fate I appear to be the proud owner of a rather nice new > Dell laptop. > > Bit slow ( 850mhz P3 ) and 128 mb of ram is hardly enough to run Vi in is > it .. a poxy 32Gb hard disc means I'll probably ru