On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:37:34PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> You probably want:
> TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols,
Gah, I've got a copy of that on my shelf. Really should get round
to reading it at some point...
Alex
--
"I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and y
http://www.msnbc.com/news/555930.asp
Sadly, lacking on details.
Paul, who still likes it.
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:44:59PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
> You *used* a public toilet in nyc??? eek.
I've slept in Central Park too.
(I was so ill from sleeping with the 10th floor window open there wasn't
much else I could do.)
Paul
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:29:03PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:25:21AM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
> > But what is it about NY toilets that only about three of them flushed
> > properly during my entire visit?
>
> First time I went into a NY public toilet, er, bathro
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:25:21AM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
> But what is it about NY toilets that only about three of them flushed
> properly during my entire visit?
First time I went into a NY public toilet, er, bathroom, I thought
"my god -- it's exactly like Duke Nukem" and looked arond fo
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:34:03AM +0100, Natalie Ford wrote:
> ...and maybe people who prefer a GUI? :)
http://www.thebat.net/ is good I hear. You can poke around on the server
before doing a download which is a neat feature.
Paul
From: "Dave Hodgkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "Barbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Quite. I'm 35 and was given a good basic education at Primary school of
the
> > english language, together most of it's idyosyncrasies. I was lucky
enough
> > to go to a Grammar (when there were still such th
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 12:16:18 +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
> > I was at school from up to 1995 and grammer, hand writing and
> > similar were only lightly touched upon. IT was another subject that we
> > never actually did (other than read about spreadsheets leading to my
> > adult hatred of Excel)
On Fri, 06 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> * David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > Robin is mistaken. We had a very serious discussion which covered a
> > number of difficult topics. Greg was volunteered to take minutes, and
> > will be posting a summary shortly.
> >
>
> Err, yes exactly a
On Fri Apr 6 07:12:33 2001, Andy Williams wrote:
>
> Just looking for a good book on Email I can across the review for
> Programming Internet Email (Oreilly) by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
He's probably lucky that he's wrong. His ISP, NTL, employ many
professional Perl programmers to write Perl systems
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:25:21AM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
> Hm. Looking over this you might not want to read it if you're eating or
> anything.
>
> > I reserve judgement until I've had a NY pizza and a NY
> > coffee. However, I expect neither to be up to the standards
> > I expect :-) You
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:18:13PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:36:40AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Unfortunatly this is largely a valid point. Perl is not used by
> > many *professional* people. Perl is used by a lot of people, and some of
> > them are profess
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:57:45AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
>
> > Which is of course wrong. Russia makes the best firearms, Australia makes
> > the best wine, and .us produces the best bloodthirsty maniacs. I believe
> > they recently elected one as
> I certainly don't consider myself "professional", even though I
> try to ply my trade in what I believe to be a "professional" manner.
"I'm not a professional, I'm a gifted amateur."
The source of that escapes for the moment.
--
matt
"'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:18:13PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:36:40AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Unfortunatly this is largely a valid point. Perl is not used by
> > many *professional* people. Perl is used by a lot of people, and some of
> > them are profess
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:36:40AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Unfortunatly this is largely a valid point. Perl is not used by
> many *professional* people. Perl is used by a lot of people, and some of
> them are professional, but I wouldn't consider it the
> majority.
A professional is s
> Elect is a harsh term here. The man was appointed, crowned if
> you will. Not unlike youre queen, from what I can tell, though I've to
> date never seen her described as a bumbling idiot. Maybe the BBC keeps
> that quiet?
Heh, have you never *seen* "our" royal family in action?
It's not jus
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
> Which is of course wrong. Russia makes the best firearms, Australia makes
> the best wine, and .us produces the best bloodthirsty maniacs. I believe
> they recently elected one as their Fuhrer.
Elect is a harsh term here. The man was appointed, crow
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:12:33AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote:
>
> Just looking for a good book on Email I can across the review for
> Programming Internet Email (Oreilly) by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565924797/o/qid=986555353/sr=8-1/026-4687583-3140411
>
Andy Williams wrote:
>Just looking for a good book on Email I can across the review for
>Programming Internet Email (Oreilly) by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565924797/o/qid=986555353/sr=8-1/026-4687583-3140411
>
>Comments?
Time to add chlorine to the gene pool.
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:34:03AM +0100, Natalie Ford wrote:
> At 22:42 04/04/01, David Cantrell wrote:
> >They should run, not walk, to sourceforge, and get mutt for Win32.
>
> I have tried www.sourceforge.net and i get a server / dns error.
Without the www it works fine for me - sourceforge h
From: Andy Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 06 April 2001 12:13
> Just looking for a good book on Email I can across the review for
> Programming Internet Email (Oreilly) by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565924797/o/qid=986555353/sr=8-1/0
26-4687583-3140411
>
From: Natalie Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 06 April 2001 11:55
> At 11:34 06/04/01, Natalie Ford wrote:
> >At 22:42 04/04/01, David Cantrell wrote:
> > >They should run, not walk, to sourceforge, and get mutt for Win32.
> >
> >I have tried www.sourceforge.net and i get a server / dns error.
> >
Just looking for a good book on Email I can across the review for
Programming Internet Email (Oreilly) by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565924797/o/qid=986555353/sr=8-1/026-4687583-3140411
Comments?
Andy
===
* at 06/04 11:34 +0100 Natalie Ford said:
> At 22:42 04/04/01, David Cantrell wrote:
> > PC-Pine is suitable only for small children recovering from major surgery.
>
> ...and maybe people who prefer a GUI? :)
isn't that what he said? :)
struan
At 11:34 06/04/01, Natalie Ford wrote:
>At 22:42 04/04/01, David Cantrell wrote:
> >They should run, not walk, to sourceforge, and get mutt for Win32.
>
>I have tried www.sourceforge.net and i get a server / dns error.
>
>I have also tried mutt.sourceforge.net which resolves OK but does not
>menti
At 22:42 04/04/01, David Cantrell wrote:
>They should run, not walk, to sourceforge, and get mutt for Win32.
I have tried www.sourceforge.net and i get a server / dns error.
I have also tried mutt.sourceforge.net which resolves OK but does not
mention a win32 version.
Any more pointers? I wan
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Merijn Broeren wrote:
> # Else use lynx to view it as text
> text/html; lynx -dump %s; copiousoutput
Quick question for us non mutt users that may one day consider using
it. Does this run throgh the shell? And what's %s in this? I'm kinda
hoping it's not able to be '; rm -
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote:
> > The stolen wine by the thames at 1am was a particularly nice feature.
>
> Oh $deity. Are we going to be barred from Vinopolis now?
To clarify: We did actually pay for the wine IIRC, but strictly speaking
we shouldn't have removed it from the r
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:37:54AM +0200, Merijn Broeren wrote:
> On the risk of offending the person who gets really tired of the
> w3m-is-better meme, I prefer w3m because I get send so many tables in
> html, they show up real nice.
I found a problem with w3m (which I admittedly didn't look at
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:00:17AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>
> I nominate last night as the 2nd best social meeting of all time, just
> behind the TVR train and toilet seat nicking of a previous meeting.
>
> The stolen wine by the thames at 1am was a particularly nice feature.
>
Not wishin
Merijn Broeren sent the following bits through the ether:
> Anybody got an easy answer?
One of the more annoying RH bugs. Just do:
xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"
in a relevant startup script (.bashrc will do).
HTH, Leon
--
Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/
Hi,
My experience with Red Hat is none existant, and I haven't installed a n
desktop Linux system in ages, so turn to you lot to ask a quick question
about something that isn't immediatley obvious to me.
If I change in /etc/X11/XF86config the keyboard setting to 'gb' from
'us', the backspace an
* at 06/04 10:16 +0100 dcross - David Cross said:
> From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: 06 April 2001 10:00
>
> > I nominate last night as the 2nd best social meeting of all time, just
> > behind the TVR train and toilet seat nicking of a previous meeting.
>
> It _was_ a lot of fun.
Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether:
> I seem to remember Leon looking over the plan and thinking it was
> jolly good
Yes. The plan of actually was remarkable in its shortness and
sweetness and I agree with it whoheartedly.
Leon
--
Leon Brocard.
Quoting Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> This is great, thanks! Is it possible to get it to do this *only* when
> the email is content-type: text/html; rather than displaying it instead
> of the text/plain in a multipart/alternative?
>
Yeah, you set it up in .muttrc :
auto_view text/html ap
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:08:09 +0100 (BST), Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > Paul, whose uni got nicked in fscking cambridge. "Ooh, it's got a wheel!
> > Not the usual two, but fuck it, let's steal it anyway!"
>
> Ah, but people so often have quick release
Quoting Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> It's probably worrying if I can look at the above and think "That looks like
> MJD's code".
>
Nah, the p;p;p;p;p is a dead give away. And the fnord ofcourse :-)
--
Merijn Broeren| Nothing is more poignant in old age than the
Software Geek | me
From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 06 April 2001 10:00
> I nominate last night as the 2nd best social meeting of all time, just
> behind the TVR train and toilet seat nicking of a previous meeting.
It _was_ a lot of fun. Thanks everyone for coming.
> The stolen wine by the thames at
* at 05/04 21:37 + Robin Szemeti said:
> On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> > * Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > * Dean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > > Will the Perl Cert discussion/brainstorming be taking part at todays meet
> > > > or the technical one?
>
> > > todays
>
>
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:57:08PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:40:03PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > Anyway, tip-o-the-day for mutt users. How to get HTML viewed easily and
> > automatically. I'm not 100% sure of the security aspects, but it's
> > still better
I nominate last night as the 2nd best social meeting of all time, just
behind the TVR train and toilet seat nicking of a previous meeting.
The stolen wine by the thames at 1am was a particularly nice feature.
--
Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Hm. Looking over this you might not want to read it if you're eating or
anything.
> I reserve judgement until I've had a NY pizza and a NY
> coffee. However, I expect neither to be up to the standards
> I expect :-) You have to beat Roma* to be acceptable.
I've had a NY pizza and it was certa
* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Robin is mistaken. We had a very serious discussion which covered a
> number of difficult topics. Greg was volunteered to take minutes, and
> will be posting a summary shortly.
>
Err, yes exactly as Dave says it. The minutes will take the form
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