[Possible Job] Perl, Linux

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
I'm doing some work for a .com type company in the travel sector. They have a network support blokey and a Windozey programmer type, but since their live system is apache and linux they have a slight hole in their skillset. Are there any of you lot still looking for jobs? Nice offices in W2

Re: M$ SQueaLServer

2001-06-07 Thread Simon Wistow
Ian Brayshaw wrote: What I'm trying to find is industry evidence of SQueaL's performance (or lack of). The more gory the details the better. It's not unbiased and you have to sift through the cruft but checking old Ask-Slashdots is often worth doing as the occasional person comes up with

Re: [Possible Job] Perl, Linux

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I presume that this is a permie thing? Yes. And I'd estimate that _most_ of you I know would be, um, a bit too heavyweight for them... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star

Re: M$ SQueaLServer

2001-06-07 Thread Roger Burton West
On or about Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:58:11PM -0700, Paul Makepeace typed: At the end of the day, the simple fact is that Windows 2000 crashes more frequently than *n[ui]x does -- this surely is unquestioned fact. Bear in mind also this item from Monday's RISKS (21.44): Date: Tue, 29 May 2001

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: Social meet

2001-06-07 Thread Robert Shiels
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] i'm 07957 386 815 i'm also going to be free this afternoon after about 2 ish (ill switch the phone on then) so if anyone wants to meet up before the meeting give me a bell Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA.

Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:45:09AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the moment. If anyone knows a good shop, or is good at haggling and wants to help, I'm on 07801 814138. Has anybody got

Re: Social meet

2001-06-07 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Robert Shiels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] i'm 07957 386 815 i'm also going to be free this afternoon after about 2 ish (ill switch the phone on then) so if anyone wants to meet up before the meeting give me a bell Between 5 and 6pm I'll

Re: Social meet

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] i'm 07957 386 815 i'm also going to be free this afternoon after about 2 ish (ill switch the phone on then) so if anyone wants to meet up before the meeting give me a bell Between 5 and 6pm I'll be

Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Paul Mison
On 07/06/2001 at 10:45 +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the moment. If anyone knows a good shop, or is good at haggling and wants to help, I'm on 07801 814138. When this came up on IRC I

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Tony Kennick
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:59:32 +0100 Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/06/2001 at 10:45 +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the moment. If anyone knows a good shop, or is good at

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Robert Shiels
From: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 June 2001 10:44 Subject: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet) On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:45:09AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:10:48AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: From: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:45:09AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the

Re: M$ SQueaLServer

2001-06-07 Thread Ian Brayshaw
Hi guys, Thanks for the input. I'll investigate further, but it has confirmed my suspicions that SQueaL hasn't made an impact at the terabyte level. As for the job, it's good, but not the be-all and end-all. I'm too passionate about what I do to work on systems that I don't believe in.

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Robert Shiels
From: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 07/06/2001 at 10:45 +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the moment. If anyone knows a good shop, or is good at haggling and wants to help, I'm on

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Tony Kennick wrote: On a roughly related note, can anyone recommend somewhere to look for the following. 1) Laptop screen repairs. We have had the backlight go on a gateway at work that is out of warrantee. SKA system engineering ..purveyors of all manner of laptop

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:12:23AM +0100, Tony Kennick wrote: On a roughly related note, can anyone recommend somewhere to look for the following. 2) Cheep low end laptops. Basically don't need anything with a lot of zoom, just want to put linux on it to relieve train boredom. So my only

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Tony Kennick wrote: 2) Cheep low end laptops. Basically don't need anything with a lot of zoom, just want to put linux on it to relieve train boredom. So my only real want is reasonably standard kit inside and battery life. and .. crap web page .. but...

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: I tried looking up developer docs for the clie on the web, but there's a a dearth of information about it, and what there is is protected by sony's restrictive licensing. It's a real shame, I wanted to add jog dial support to a doc reader, but

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Roger Burton West
On or about Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:40:20AM +0100, Robin Szemeti typed: I just dont get why they wont release specs .. surel;y the plan is to sell as many memory sticks as possible? ..or hav I missed someting? Yup. The plan is (a) not to get kicked out of bed by MS and (b) not to have cheap

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:40:20AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: I tried looking up developer docs for the clie on the web, but there's a a dearth of information about it, and what there is is protected by sony's restrictive licensing. It's a

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: Well, the memory stick works just fine (at least under FreeBSD). It just appears as a SCSI-over-USB device (and I'll wager that's how it's implemented in the clie as well). I suppose that the PCMCIA memory stick reader does something totally

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: their Memory Stick is a closed book. Fine with me. Then maybe we'll get decent short range wireless data exchange with good authentication and encryption. and the problem with Lucent Orinoco ( + RC128 ) is? actually I was keen on using the

London.pm posting stats

2001-06-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
This is dated from beginning of last year, and mutt is saying that's about 13,700 messages (gasp!). Note that some people (cough/dcrosscough/) appear more than once. Not that a) they necessarily need it b) have any hope, ever, of catching Greg... Greg McCarroll: 1546

Re: London.pm posting stats

2001-06-07 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:26:44AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: Dominic Mitchell: 152 Oh dear. And I haven't even been subscribed since the beginning of the year... -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Robert Shiels
From: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sony: Lovely kit, crap support. Has anyone seen http://www.sonystyle.com/micros/clie/ /me drools. /Robert

Sony Clie (was Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Neil Ford
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:45:09AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] i'm 07957 386 815 i'm also going to be free this afternoon after about 2 ish (ill switch the phone on then) so if anyone wants to meet up before the meeting give me a bell

Re: Big Shiny Toys (was: Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Dominic Mitchell [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *AFAIK, the starfire (Sun Ultra Enterprise 1) only goes up to 64 *processors (I used to work on an under equipped one ;-) The SGI *challenge does 128 procs, though. The starfile does, indeed, max out at 16 boards with 4 processors each making

rewind elector

2001-06-07 Thread jo walsh
eek, i've just grokked that george osborne, who was 2 years above me at college, has been elected tory mp for tatton. i wish i hadn't been passed out on dave's sofa at that point. gah, i feel old and sleepy so nothing changes, but it was nice to realise that in the company of perlmongers.