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

[Chris Benson]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:36:42AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
> 
> I used to work with an Icelandic chap who told me that the Rekjavik
> phonebook is ordered by first name because they still use proper
> patronyms. 

The standard example is that you're more likely to remember a casual 
aquaintance's first name than their surname.   

Unfortunately there are a lot of Helga's in the Reykjavik phonebook :-(
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Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

[Jon Eyre]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Tony Bowden wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 03:24:48PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > More trivia: NT stands (the above not withstanding) for New Technology
> > which makes reading 2k's splash "Built on NT Technology" sound a bit
> > like recording on DAT tapes.
> 
> Or entering your PIN number?

into an ATM machine?

j

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

[Tony Bowden]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 03:24:48PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> More trivia: NT stands (the above not withstanding) for New Technology
> which makes reading 2k's splash "Built on NT Technology" sound a bit
> like recording on DAT tapes.

Or entering your PIN number?

Tony
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Re: That book

[Paul Makepeace]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 05:18:03PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> > at . I've been
> 
> it does strike me as a bit odd that there are 4 damming reviews and one
> totally glowing one .. how can that be .. ?? these are not slight
> diffreneces of opinion but total polarity .. and 28 out of 31 found the
> great review helpful .. bet he got his mate to write it :)

That review is so obviously and laughably rigged.

Amazon should implement (but not patent) a "Come on guys, is this
for real?" button which suggests to the site operators some sort of
review of the review and closer look at who rated the review (e.g. 28
identical IP address, registered user IDs that differ only by
a numerical suffix, etc...)

Paul

Re: Debian question ...

[Marty Pauley]

On Thu Mar 22 14:48:48 2001, Marcel Grunauer wrote:
> 
> David Cantrell writes
> 
> >is there an easy way of getting a list of all the packages which are  
> >currently installed?  I dislike dselect intensely, and the docs for   
> >dpkg et al don't say anything useful.
> 
> dpkg -l | grep '^ii'

  dpkg -l | grep '^.i'

is better.  The second char is the current state; the first is the
intended state.  Usually the intended state for installed packages is to
stay installed, but they could be held (status 'hi') to lock them at a
particular version.

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Re: Fruit flies like a banana

[Marty Pauley]

On Fri Mar 23 18:17:13 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
> Yeah, like where they knock out the alcohol dehydrogenase gene and get all
> the flies absolutely bladdered :-))

Can I assume that these genes were removed to donate to London.pm members?

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Marty

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