On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:56:59AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:29:18AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> > Chris Benson wrote:
> > > Mmmm, so if there are 3 water lilies with circular leaves, what
> > > is the largest they can grow on the
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 07:29:28AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:01:05AM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
> >Mmmm, so if there are 3 water lilies with circular leaves, what is the
> >largest they can grow on the surface of a sphere without overlap?
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 08:58:35PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> * Chris Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 06:58:03PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 06:52:04PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > >
> the main
tml
>
and that page also has a link to "Easy method for a fairly good point
distribution " at http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/97/spherefaq
An excellent site.
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:10:28PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
> Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 2:55:38 PM, Chris Benson wrote:
>
> CB> I wash you off the face of the Earth". If so it missed Washington DC
> CB> by about a 1,000 miles and Texas by 500. It probably missed GWB by
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:24:01PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:55:38PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
> > Oh yes, I vaguely thought on reading about the floods in "The South"
> > that maybe this was supposed to be a message like "Repent y
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:15:36AM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote:
> > From: Chris Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > Why, when the sun is shining (almost) and there is a popular (?) govt.
> > do I feel like I did in early/mid 70's: like the end of the
> >
uk
but no mention of gateway.gov.uk.
Didn't ukonline.co.uk complain about trademark infringement a while back?
Is gateway.gov.uk the result? and is there any possible trademark confusion
with this address?
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it is the start of the long slippery slope. Which most of us
> > hope to avoid travelling down.
>
> I agree. It's the not the end of the world. Just the beginning of the end.
Amen.
Why, when the sun is shining (almost) and there is a popular (?) govt.
do I feel like I did in earl
re
Intrusion Detection s/ware
Lynx
> Editor
> Scripting language
> Cron
>
> * Final reason (for now)
>
> I don't trust them.
Amen
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co-locators I considered were 10 hops inside
BT's tangled web away).
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* unsolicited free recommendations a speciality *
ema and can show list the valid tags at each point.
We'll be buying it before the end of June for I think c. us$400
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ad your final sentence as "wonderful xocolate liquers" and wondered
(a) how come I hadn't heard of same and
(b) what on earth it would be like!
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;passengers to GB and Netherlands
will have all dairy products removed on arrival" or something like
that (the English version was rather worn away by people who have to
point at words).
I bought non-milk xocolate with my remaining pesetas.
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ort, ...
Sound familiar?
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because it would
permanently change the size of windows on it's own initiative and
of course be trashed by every single piece of s/ware that installed
a .DLL)
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"if you can't do it in Perl in half-an-hour it's not worth doing."
"This number does not accept anonymous
calls, please redial. You *have* been charged for this call. "
- diverting CLID unavailable to a (different) TAM "Please leave a message".
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> holiday a year, a nice uniform and a free Hench.
I bags Roya^WState High Executioner! I'll supply my own tools 'o the trade.
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- feeling grumpy
$(($lineno % 24)) = 0 ] ; then
> > echo -n " -- more -- "
> > read ans > test $ans = "q" && exit 0
> > fi
> > done
>
> That breaks if the line is longer than the width of your screen.
< echo "$line"
---
> echo `echo "$line" | dd bs=79 count=1 2>/dev/null`
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P.S. Why are we doing this in sh(1)??
der.
>
> A cow-orker of mine had to be told that Spain was in Europe, not South
> America.
Mmmm, what if these Yanks are masters of windup ... and think *we* don't
have a sense of humour?
:->
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integration software for AIX" or whatever, *is*
SAMBA ... and IBM were listed as supporters on the 2.x release notes
this week ... (an the "IBM HTTP server" is Apache ...).
I wouldn't know because we've just mke2fs'd the last FAT filesystem in
the company :-)
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ime, then at 19:00 to 22:00
"Pet Sounds" with Neil Dunn and 22:00 onwards "Into the Night". (or on
Sunday nights "Dad Rock" - sounds of the '70s :-)
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criminality because I don't
SO_BROADCAST, 1)
|| die "$prog: setsockopt: $!\n";
send(SOCK, $msg . "\015\012", 0, $raddr)
|| die "$prog: send: $!\n";
Which looks the same but for the pack().
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that's interested) knows about 'Ask Buffy' at
<http://www.securityportal.com/buffy/>
By Buffy Overflow ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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n a bunch of
> places relative to @INC ...
export LIBPATH=colon:separated:list:of:dirs
on planet AIX. If that is the problem.
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On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:43:56AM +0200, Merijn Broeren wrote:
> looked with jwz's [1] xkeycaps. Xmodmap seems to make no difference.
> [1] Correct single quote usage?
Yup :-)
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ool-bars, spinning logos and other crap and instantly become
"demographic-leaders".
Mmmm, I think I better chill-out a bit.
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:26:46PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> Chris Benson wrote:
> > () -
>
> Wouldn't that be rather wasteful? After all, population is distributed
What are you wasting? Numbers? What is the cost of extra numbers?
Some people in
Xanni writes "Intellectual property claims have blindsided the
Internet Engineering Task Force and could derail the group's efforts
to develop a common scheme for supporting foreign-language domain
names across the Internet. NWFusion is carrying the story."
Great! get the lawyers involved :-(
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cussion of the topics for 'basic' certification, I seem to
remember reasonable agreement on this, things fell apart with how to actually
*do* it: writing questions that could be marked sensibly in the face
of TIMTOWTDI, ...
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:04:05PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:28:31PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
> > it'll-only-happen-once change where the entire country moved to
> > () -
>
> Twelve and eight digit phone numbers? So
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:16:01PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:28:31PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
> > The people in uk.telecom were suggesting a one-off-this-will-hurt-but-
> > it'll-only-happen-once change where the entire country moved to
>
Office that monitored the
Telephone bits: they got split off into Oftel.
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untry moved to
() -
format, back in the early '90s to my knowledge (some of them were
probably suggesting it back in the '60s, they'd been there long enough
:-).
Instead we get a numbering system consisting entirely of patches :-(
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> for the location of Blackwell's bookshop see
>
> http://www.multimap.co.uk
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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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way cool!
The frystihus (freezer room) which I ended up in was usually kept at -40C.
... but I suppose you meant the other meaning of cool :-)
* Electric Hyster forklift trucks were pretty cool: you could do
wonderful 4-wheel skids and sneak up on people without them hearing you!
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ty grim.
It makes Dublin, Amsterdam and Belfast considerable more
convenient than that quaint car park inside the M25 :-)
Best wishes
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a certain small software house that employed
one of these walking dead: e.g. Two weeks to write a memo to describe
what preparation was needed before he could start doing the job he was
employed to do!
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of the London 'ports) and a *much* better QoL ... but it's a looong
way from the money.
And of course the Metro won't be on strike 3 Mondays in February either!
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- who needs to get to Liverpool St. for 0830 Monday 19th Feb :-(tm)
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 09:04:24PM +, Robin Houston wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 08:01:51PM +0000, Chris Benson wrote:
>
> > Another link is
> >
> > http://www.arsdigita.com/careers/
> >
> > They seem to be a very good model for a consultancy busin
he creation of ArsDigita. You should probably not read it if you are
irritated by criticism of one-or-more-of NT, Informix/Illustra, PCs,
academics, German women (that may be his travel writing), MS, ... actually
even his chosen environment doesn't get off free.
HtH
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}',
regex_ => 'foreach (@words) { /foo/ }',
index => 'foreach $word (@words) { index $word, "foo" }',
index_ => 'foreach (@words) { index $_, "foo" }',
}
);
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On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 05:40:50PM +, David Hodgkinson wrote:
> Chris Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:26:25PM +, David Hodgkinson wrote:
> > > The bonus was a second edition of Jon Bentley's "Programming
> >
getting it if you've
already got 1.ed?
Also, are you going to get them "More Programming Pearls, Confessions of
a Coder" as well?
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