Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As I said, though, we're REALLY worried about Europeans being on
vacation and unable to attend. We don't know much about the
mysterious habits of this strange and noble race, and would appreciate
your guesses as to their actions: will our
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:54:04PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
Since the majority of
UK programmers work in London they are less than likely to want to attend
a conference there in peak holiday season IMHO
Actually I'd rather it not be in
* Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
snip discussion about legal aspects re using a camel smoking a joint
on a t-shirt.
If these are private individuals selling t-shirts, may I suggest just
omitting the word 'perl' from anywhere on the t-shirt. Then O'Reilly's
trademark issues
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:17:29 + (GMT), Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quite frankly I'd rather not piss of O'Reilly. IMHO they're a nice
company that do nice things and the legality of the issue really has
nothing to do with it.
I think this is a _very_ good point.
On a
On a tangentially related point - I've just overheard someone in the
office mention the rumour that "Puff, the magic dragon" was "written
by someone who was smoking a joint". I guess I'm just surprised that
there are people to whom this fact isn't obvious.
It's not obvious! I listened to
David Cantrell writes:
Linuxbierwanderung 2001. To be held in Belgium but with a large UK
contingent. Date to be confirmed within the next couple of weeks, but
will almost certainly be a week somewhere between 19 Aug and 8 Sept. It
would be *really* great - especially for
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:54:50PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
We're planning a London Open Source Convention. The dates we're
looking hard at now are August 20-23. Are there any obvious clashes
Depends on how quickly people can get back from Vancouver:
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:58:25 +, Tony Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:54:50PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
We're planning a London Open Source Convention. The dates we're
looking hard at now are August 20-23. Are there any obvious clashes
Depends on how
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On a tangentially related point - I've just overheard someone in the
office mention the rumour that "Puff, the magic dragon" was "written
by someone who was smoking a joint". I guess I'm just surprised that
there are people to whom this fact
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:17:29 + (GMT), Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quite frankly I'd rather not piss of O'Reilly. IMHO they're a nice
company that do nice things and the legality of the issue really has
nothing to do with it.
I think
In my opinion London would be fine for an August conference.
I don't know what the fuss is about, really. London is not like Paris in
the summer. We have a lot more parks.
Perhaps September would be better, but hey.
Alex
--
Snack pastries are dramatic when shapes are combined
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:58:25 +, Tony Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:54:50PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
We're planning a London Open Source Convention. The dates we're
looking hard at now are August 20-23. Are
At 17 Jan 2001 10:09:29 +, Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Puff the Magic Dragon]
Snopes has this to say:
http://www.snopes2.com/music/songs/puff.htm
Which I'd be happy to read in detail if it wasn't for the fscking midi
of the tune blasting out and letting everyone in the
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:14:27AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
Which I'd be happy to read in detail if it wasn't for the fscking midi
of the tune blasting out and letting everyone in the office know
exactly what I'm doing.
Dave...
[who wishes that Netscape had a "no multimedia at all. under
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:58:25 +, Tony Bowden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:54:50PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
We're planning a London Open Source Convention. The dates we're
looking hard at now are August 20-23.
Simon Wistow wrote:
... it's your birthday [0]
Well it's probably not. But it is mine.
I'll be drowning my sorrows in Southside bar (south east corner of
Princes Gardens, SW7 [1]) from about 6:30pm onwards (or possibly
earlier) if anybody wants to buy me a drink.
Do you accept PayPal?
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:08:41AM +, alex wrote:
In my opinion London would be fine for an August conference.
I don't know what the fuss is about, really. London is not like Paris in
the summer. We have a lot more parks.
Perhaps September would be better, but hey.
Yeah
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:47:37AM +, Marcel Grunauer wrote:
David Cantrell writes:
Actually I'd rather it not be in the UK at all. After all, if my employers
are going to pay to send me to a conference, then they may as well pay to
send me somewhere nice. Rome. Or Vienna perhaps,
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:00:57 +, James Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Vienna]
This means nothing to me, ohhh...
True pop fact: Vienna never made it to number one in the UK. It was help at number two
for weeks, by Another Record.
Pop quiz: A pint on Thursday night to the first
Title: RE: Feelers for London Open Source Convention
This means nothing to me, ohhh...
True pop fact: Vienna never made it to number one in the UK.
It was help at number two for weeks, by Another Record.
Pop quiz: A pint on Thursday night to the first person to
tell me what
Title: RE: Feelers for London Open Source Convention
Joe Dolce Shaddap ya face
-Original Message-
From: Dave Cross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 17 January 2001 12:03
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:00:57
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:09:46 -, Mark Kitching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This means nothing to me, ohhh...
True pop fact: Vienna never made it to number one in the UK.
It was help at number two for weeks, by Another Record.
Pop quiz: A pint on Thursday night to the first
Title: RE: Feelers for London Open Source Convention
Was it Shaddap a yer Face? Tragic!
It was indeed. I owe you a pint. Of course you'll have to come to the
meeting on Thursday to collect :)
(I'll have to remember that pop quizzes are a good way to force the
lurkers out of hiding :)
Nathan Torkington sent the following bits through the ether:
We're planning a London Open Source Convention. The dates we're
looking hard at now are August 20-23. Are there any obvious clashes
that you can think of?
Other than yapc::europe, which is currently looking like early august,
but
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:18:12 -, Mark Kitching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Joe Dolce]
Do any others watch those Top Ten blah programs on Ch4? I think I
knew this due to watching the Top Ten Comedy records! Wow, I really
must get out more.
And there's me thinking that you must be an old
Leon Brocard wrote:
Nathan Torkington sent the following bits through the ether:
We're planning a London Open Source Convention. The dates we're
looking hard at now are August 20-23. Are there any obvious clashes
that you can think of?
Other than yapc::europe, which is currently
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:08:41AM +, alex wrote:
In my opinion London would be fine for an August conference.
I don't know what the fuss is about, really. London is not like
Paris in
the summer. We have a lot more parks.
Perhaps September would be better, but hey.
I could go with
On a tangentially related point - I've just overheard someone in the
office mention the rumour that "Puff, the magic dragon" was "written
by someone who was smoking a joint". I guess I'm just surprised that
there are people to whom this fact isn't obvious.
I thought it was about 'chasing
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Agadoo.
Forget it.
--
Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com
Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire
havent had a chance ot look at these yet, but they sound like the
sort of thing some of you sick^H^H^H^Himaginative people would enjoy
- Forwarded message from Jeff Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
X-Authentication-Warning: mccarroll.demon.co.uk: Host [127.0.0.1] claimed to be
localhost
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:58:25 +, Tony Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:54:50PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
We're planning a London Open Source Convention. The dates we're
looking hard at now are August 20-23. Are
Philip Newton sent the following bits through the ether:
Is there any info at all at this stage (e.g. venue, rough dates)?
Once a venue has been found, things will start to happen. Give it a
couple of weeks.
Leon
--
Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Simon Wistow wrote:
... it's your birthday [0]
Well it's probably not. But it is mine.
I'll be drowning my sorrows in Southside bar (south east corner of
Princes Gardens, SW7 [1]) from about 6:30pm onwards (or
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:18:12 -, Mark Kitching
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Joe Dolce]
Do any others watch those Top Ten blah programs on Ch4? I think I
knew this due to watching the Top Ten Comedy records! Wow, I really
must get out more.
And there's me thinking that you must be an old
all we'd need to do is hire some terrorists to take over the cruise
ship and sale it across to london - of course someone should make
sure we shoot the cook before the operation starts, oh and fire
a couple of rounds into the birthday cake while your at it.
Also, as it is a modern cruise
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:18:12 -, Mark Kitching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Joe Dolce]
Do any others watch those Top Ten blah programs on Ch4? I think I
knew this due to watching the Top Ten Comedy records! Wow, I really
must get out more.
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:15:01 + (GMT), Kieran Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I thought Joe Dolce was only number 1 for a week or so, to be knocked
off the top by Jealous Guy from Roxy Music. And poor old Vienna hung
about at number 2 for yonks.
Hmm... you may be right. Anyone know a site
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Also, as it is a modern cruise ship, we will use Grep's l33t hacking skills
to gain control of all the automated systems from his Psion 5, whereupon we
don't get me started on PDA's being used to ``hack'' systems, e.g. that
james bond film where
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Also, as it is a modern cruise ship, we will use Grep's l33t hacking skills
to gain control of all the automated systems from his Psion 5, whereupon we
don't get me started on PDA's being used to
* Mike Wyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Also, as it is a modern cruise ship, we will use Grep's l33t hacking skills
to gain control of all the automated systems from his Psion 5, whereupon we
don't
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Also, as it is a modern cruise ship, we will use Grep's l33t hacking skills
to gain control of all the automated systems from his Psion 5, whereupon we
don't get me started on PDA's being used to ``hack'' systems, e.g. that
james bond film where
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:28:40PM +, Neil Ford wrote:
Then there's the Psion 3 being used to detonate a bomb is a movie
who's name I can't remember but it features the same Mr Segal being
killed in the first 10 minutes or so.
Executive Decision.
Michael
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:15:01 + (GMT), Kieran Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I thought Joe Dolce was only number 1 for a week or so, to be knocked
off the top by Jealous Guy from Roxy Music. And poor old Vienna hung
about at number 2 for yonks.
Given an array full of data which need to be output as a CSV...
return join(',',map{defined$_?s/"/''/g+1?/,/?"\"$_\"":$_:0:''}@{$ar})."\n";
Roger
At 17 Jan 2001 15:54:31 +, Steve Mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone know a site that lists UK top tens for the 1980s?
I don't but there is a excellent book called something like the
"Guiness Book of Hit Singles".
Yeah. Great book. I should buy
I thought it was about 'chasing the dragon' - ie heating a resinous
substance on tinfoil with a lighter and inhaling the fumes, this is
probably less bad for you than smoking stuff in a cigarette form. Although
hookah pipes with resin are probably healthier still.
Myself and a couple of
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:28:40PM +, Neil Ford wrote:
Then there's the Psion 3 being used to detonate a bomb is a movie
who's name I can't remember but it features the same Mr Segal being
killed in the first 10 minutes or so.
Executive Decision.
That's the sucker!
Neil.
--
Neil C.
Walk up Exhibition Rd passed Nat Hist, VA and Sci. Museum. 5 minutes
tops.
Make a backup plan - the road was closed this morning due to a gas explosion[0].
[0] JCB + Gas Main + Electrical Cables = 12 ft high flames.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Robin Houston wrote:
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 04:25:26PM +, Aaron Trevena wrote:
ingestion has several downsides - lack of control of dosage (assuming you
eat it at a significant lump at a time), longer effects, stronger
effects (making it hard to get dosage
Dave Cross wrote:
Well, according to http://80s.koreamusic.net/billboard/1983.html
it made number one for one week on 3rd Sept 1983.
Number ones on this day ..
5 years ago .. Michael Jackson - 'Earth Song'
10 .. Iron Maiden - 'Take your daughter to the slaughter'
15 ..
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:15:01 + (GMT), Kieran Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I thought Joe Dolce was only number 1 for a week or so, to be knocked
off the top by Jealous Guy from Roxy Music. And poor old Vienna hung
about at number 2 for yonks.
[snip lengthy Puff tMD discussion]
Well, for what it's worth, I just called a friend of mine who knew
Peter Yarrow while growing up, and although she has never asked him, I
have requested that she do so if she speaks to him.
dave, getting this settled.
--
David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[snip lengthy Puff tMD discussion]
Well, for what it's worth, I just called a friend of mine who knew
Peter Yarrow while growing up, and although she has never asked him, I
have requested that she do so if she speaks to him.
dave, getting this
Gareth Harper wrote:
there are sites with all the no1's, but I don't know of any with all the
top tens,
theres probably one around, if not, start one ;)
Who's chart would you use? I.E., who do you want to be sued by? I don't
know about the UK, but Billboard (THE chart in the US) is very picky
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:26:24PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
Who's chart would you use? I.E., who do you want to be sued by? I don't
know about the UK, but Billboard (THE chart in the US) is very picky about
such things.
They can't easily sue.
The information is factual. Factual
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:34:21PM +, Tony Bowden wrote:
If you present the chart in a different format to how they did then
there's nothing they can do...
Take a look at http://www.bath.ac.uk/~bssnrw/getchart.html for a
differing viewpoint.
Roger
Just to reinforce the point that this OS is a steaming pile of crap, and that
if you're in the unfortunate situation of actually running it, watch out
(130,000 nodes scanned in 15mins):
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-202-4508359-0.html
Internet worm squirms into Linux servers
By Robert Lemos
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:59:56PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Just to reinforce the point that this OS is a steaming pile of crap
Aww c'mon! RedHat was obviously targeted because it's the most
widely used! None of the vulnerable software was written by RH
(and all of it was also included in
Tony Bowden wrote:
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:26:24PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
Who's chart would you use? I.E., who do you want to be sued
by? I don't
know about the UK, but Billboard (THE chart in the US) is very
picky about
such things.
They can't easily sue.
The information is
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, you wrote:
Who's chart would you use? I.E., who do you want to be sued by? I don't
know about the UK, but Billboard (THE chart in the US) is very picky about
such things.
jsut do them as they do to you ...
(or indeed as some guy is doing to the football league right
Robin Szemeti wrote:
jsut do them as they do to you ...
snip the arsenal fan story
... then when next weeks top 10 comes out and Billboard publish a top
10 that matches one of your pages sue them blind... remove the all but 1
selected page from the site ..
The problem would be, you still
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, you wrote:
From: "Robin Houston" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aww c'mon! RedHat was obviously targeted because it's the most
widely used! None of the vulnerable software was written by RH
(and all of it was also included in other distros).
That's true -- but how easy is RH to
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, you wrote:
There is absolutly nothing stopping you from publishing your own top 10
though. You could draw the names out of a hat and have as much claim to
accuracy as anybody else.
If week after week you came up with the same results as Billboard, you
better have
from this quarters BT bill I managed to accumulate 786 hours of internet
time .. anyone top that?
in my defence it would have been higher, but I was on holiday for 3 weeks
at christmas
best of all though was the price . i paid for Surfttime-anytime ... so
hte ackchewerl calls came to = 0:00p
Robin Szemeti wrote:
and if I publish all the variants .. and each week Billboard 'copy' one
of my 'works of art' can I sue them ? :)
Did you label the variants as Billboard charts? If not, they aren't
publishing the same thing. A list of songs is not a chart.
--
mike
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