Re: bad greg
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:27:19AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > i'm sorry about asking this, but i've purged too many old archives > of london.pm to find this one - someone one once mentioned a domain > name registry with a neat web based management system for handling > the dns wizardry afterwards - could they please remind me of the > url? 123-reg.co.uk is my favourite at the moment.. ~C. -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/
Re: Election Manifestos
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:04:19AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > It's a pity Acmemail never really took off (apart from being ripped off > and turned into a succesful company by At-mail) I used to use At-mail a lot at work. Pseudo-interesting question of the day; do you really feel it was ripped off (in the stigmatism-attached sense of the word), or given that it was GPLed or Artistic'd anyway, that it's fair play to them and that's something that happens when you Give Code To The World sometimes? I just got out of an Algorithms exam, and my head hurts. Apologies if this is too random. :) -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ perl -e '$0 = s/-//; print "Just another P$0rl hacker"'
Re: pc components
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:32:03PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: >> apt-get install the-bomb doesn't qualify. > dpkg --configure ? *laughs out loud in the middle of easyEverything* Nice one. :-) ~C. -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I must not edit articles with vi. I must not editarticles with thvi. I must not editarticles with vi. I must not editarticles with thvi. jI must not editarticles with vi:wq:wq1
Re: pc components
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:57:23AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> Does anyone have a recommendation for an online provider of PC components,
> i'm looking for a couple of big hard drives (50Gb+).
Dabs.com is fine. Scan.co.uk has great deals, but if you get some kind of
after-sales it seems you're one of the lucky few. I've got multiple orders
from both with no probs, but heard many Stories Of Badness about both, too.
~C.
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Re: BOFHs requiring license
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:11:30PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > Hey - I know this is a bit wild, but maybe there's some kind of > connection between 'charisma' and 'leadership'... That's genius! I know, I'll call it.. Charismatic Leadership Theory. Wait. Someone already did, rather a long time ago now.. :) ~~C. -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The world is complex; sendmail.cf reflects this."
Re: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:06:42PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: >> Appears I'm out of a job too from the end of the month, so count me in. >> The mighty army of unemployed Perlers takes over the world... > Is this the point where I can try and recruit some of you compscis to the > bioinformatics revolution? Hack around and cure cancer at the same time ;-) I'd *love* some sort of job working on distributed computing applications that'd eventually be running massively parallel and testing interactions between proteins and molecules or somesuch. That's one of the jobs I can definitely imagine as harbouring the mythical `job satisfaction'. :o) But then, I'd love most jobs right now, given that I've only got two more days at work before most of us leave to go our redundant ways, and I'm still searching. Sigh. ~C. -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] trj: I'm fat, bloated and lazy. // I am a living mozilla.
Re: Perl training
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:21:59PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: > STPPPIDD! OoOoOoh, Red Snapper! Very tasty! ~C. -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Supplies!"
Re: see attachment
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: > I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. Totally. I mean, if they can make Antitrust.. :) :still laughs at: "I've fixed our bottleneck!" "What, you realised that you've been writing Java?".. ~C. -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "My dream woman's dimensions? 1600x1200x24, for sure."
Re: Monitors
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > How many things do you have on top of your monitor? > > -Dom Oh, God. Here's one I can win, although it's spread over two monitors. I've got a 21" SGI monitor with one Penguin Computing penguin and two mini-IBM penguins on, and a 19" Samsung with a Dust Puppy and a Ximian Monkey on. :) ~~C. -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I dream in perl a lot. Last night I dreamt in make, though. That just sucked."
Re: Bah!
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:04:23PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> I've been made redundant. Anyone want an Evil Programmer?
Sorry to hear that, David. Same story over here.. I'm on notice at the moment.
I'm looking for another job working with Perl during the Summer (mid-June to
mid-September, during Uni break) in Manchester, London, Brighton or anywhere
thereabouts.
For anyone interested, my CV's at http://printf.net/cv/cv.pdf .
(or cv.{html,txt} if you'd rather)
Thanks,
~~C.
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Re: cocktails
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:41:18PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: > Ok, let's stop there: that's Roger, evildave, and Simon I owe drinks > to. What I want to know is why university didn't turn up to be exactly > like Real Genius... Yeah, it totally su.. :) -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You said Java, that's as bad as "Belgium". --trj" --
Re: Good Accountants
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:03:46AM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > OK, so I was just being nosy - as opposed to being in the position of > offering a job - and noticed Alex is: a) younger than me (makes a > change!), and b) went to UMIST. Hmmm, would it be bad form to reminisce > about all things Manc on a London.pm list?! Absolutely. It'd be terribly inconsiderate. :hides his .signature. ~~C. -- Chris Ball. Department of Computation, UMIST, England. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: Good Accountants
[ I sent this earlier on, but it doesn't seem to have gone through - I'm trying again using the address I subscribed with, but I'm sure I've used a non-subscription address before. Are postings subscriber only ..? ] On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:03:46AM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > OK, so I was just being nosy - as opposed to being in the position of > offering a job - and noticed Alex is: a) younger than me (makes a > change!), and b) went to UMIST. Hmmm, would it be bad form to reminisce > about all things Manc on a London.pm list?! Absolutely. It'd be terribly inconsiderate. :hides his .signature. ~C. -- Chris Ball. Department of Computation, UMIST, England. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: perlismybitch.com
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:22:44PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > FYI, this domain is about to expire. So if anyone wants it, snag it. > I was going to transfer it to bulkregister (my preferred registrar) > but simply couldn't be arsed. It's a cute domain. I haven't seen a domain expire and go to back to available in a reasonable period for quite a while, though; they're kept on as expired records for $bignum amount of time. :-) Thanks, Chris. -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
