Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-11 Thread Philip Newton
Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > AFAIK Samba implements the SMB protocol, which is the > > native resource (file, printer, ...) sharing protocol of > > Windows. So if you have Windows, you've already got an SMB > > client and server running. > > for the same

Re: Religion

2001-06-11 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:44:40PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > > > Which reminds me of something I read in the PuTTY FAQ: > > > Question: Would you like me to register you a snappier domain > > > name? The PuTTY web page is hard to find. > > >

Re: Religion

2001-06-09 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:44:40PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > [google] > Yes. google++, definitely. > Its success is probably partly because it looks at how many links point to > the page. If lots of people link to site X, then site X is probably (a) Not only that, but I think it does the t

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greg McCarroll wrote on Freitag, 8. Juni 2001 11:11 > > And some pieces of software just wont be able to be plugged > > in - why can't i run Samba on Windows? > > Why would you want to? * in a heterogeneous network i may want to standardise on a s

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Chris Benson
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:11:13AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > * GUI > > I really don't want to have a server running a GUI, it adds at least some > overhead, encourages people to `work on the server' and as its an additional > process may add additional security concerns. A

Re: Religion

2001-06-08 Thread Philip Newton
Robin Szemeti wrote: [google] > seems able to find the *right* thing .. many many times the thing > I want is in the no1 spot Yes. google++, definitely. Its success is probably partly because it looks at how many links point to the page. If lots of people link to site X, then site X is probably

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Philip Newton
Greg McCarroll wrote on Freitag, 8. Juni 2001 11:11 > And some pieces of software just wont be able to be plugged > in - why can't i run Samba on Windows? Why would you want to? AFAIK Samba implements the SMB protocol, which is the native resource (file, printer, ...) sharing protocol of Wind

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Struan Donald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * at 08/06 11:35 +0100 Robin Szemeti said: > > On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > > > calling wordpad an editor is as laughable as calling vi an editor ;-) > > > > arrghh .. burn the heretic! ... speak brother, for the truth will out ..

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Struan Donald
* at 08/06 11:54 +0100 Robin Szemeti said: > > pah! .. tis written in the scripture ... 'let he who hath one eye be > blessed' .. clearly the 'one eye' is a reference to the one 'i' in vi .. > its *obvious* innit ... I shall found my entire religion

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Robin Szemeti
ten in the scripture ... 'let he who hath one eye be blessed' .. clearly the 'one eye' is a reference to the one 'i' in vi .. its *obvious* innit ... I shall found my entire religion on this shadowy fact wriiten by our lord himself ( or one of his followers, or perhaps someone j

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Struan Donald
* at 08/06 11:35 +0100 Robin Szemeti said: > On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > calling wordpad an editor is as laughable as calling vi an editor ;-) > > arrghh .. burn the heretic! ... speak brother, for the truth will out .. > have you been using [x{0,1]]emacs again ... ? and th

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > calling wordpad an editor is as laughable as calling vi an editor ;-) arrghh .. burn the heretic! ... speak brother, for the truth will out .. have you been using [x{0,1]]emacs again ... ? -- Robin Szemeti

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > There is entirely to much DLL upgrading for my liking at every possible > > chance with Windows software/service pack. I don't believe that this can > > really lead to a stable system. > > Win2k address a lot of these issues with its dll and system

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Dean
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:11:13AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > Well here are some reasons why i prefer UNIX to Windows * for servers, I'm going to play devils advocate. I've been using Win2k for the last four months and have a basic grasp of it. Its difficult because i agree with a lot of you

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Struan Donald
* at 08/06 10:11 +0100 Greg McCarroll said: > > Well here are some reasons why i prefer UNIX to Windows * for servers, > they are pretty much personal reasons and i'm sure not everyone agrees with > them. I'd also add that is something hardwary does go wrong and the box stops running, windows

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > >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. > > I just questioned it. Win2k appears to be a very nice OS, although I've > never used it at th

Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Jonathan Peterson
> >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. I just questioned it. Win2k appears to be a very nice OS, although I've never used it at the server end. It may have all sorts of scalability issues an

Re: Religion

2001-06-06 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote: > Anyhow, they > have two different search engines -- the portal one and a 'text only' > one which uses a different system: > > http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/text?raging=1 > > which *does* provide Bax hits... You're right .. it does .. however

Re: Religion

2001-06-06 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:27:39AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > because, unlike something actually useful, AV only indexes words in its > dictionary. since bax (although semantically significant) is not in its > dictioanary it don;t find it. pile of shit. Google is oodlsss > better. if yo

Re: Religion

2001-06-06 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Paul Mison wrote: > >why do you find it strange .. Morrismen are odd to start with, the fact > >that they get up early in the morning too should comea s no surprise ... > > I meant the crowd watching them. Didn't they have better things to do? blimey now that is odd .. >

Re: Religion

2001-06-06 Thread Paul Mison
On 06/06/2001 at 11:27 +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: >On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Paul Mison wrote: >> On the day of the last general election I saw the May Day morris men >> outside Norwich Cathedral. Odd juxtaposition if you ask me. Turns out >> it was this lot. (There was a surprisingly big group of pe

Re: Religion

2001-06-06 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Paul Mison wrote: > On 06/06/2001 at 10:47 +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: > >On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 19:54:04 +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > >> however Sir Arnold Bax [1] got slightly closer to the truth: > >> > >> "One should try everything once, except incest and folk dancing" > > >

Re: Religion

2001-06-06 Thread Paul Mison
On 06/06/2001 at 10:47 +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: >On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 19:54:04 +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: >> however Sir Arnold Bax [1] got slightly closer to the truth: >> >> "One should try everything once, except incest and folk dancing" >Bah, I had it in my sig file (now amended) as Sir Tho

Re: Religion

2001-06-06 Thread Peter Haworth
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 19:54:04 +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > however Sir Arnold Bax [1] got slightly closer to the truth: > > "One should try everything once, except incest and folk dancing" > > nuff said. > > [1] oft, incorrectly, attributed to George Bernard Shaw (who said it also, > but later)

Re: Religion

2001-06-03 Thread Piers Cawley
Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > > > > The actions and spirit of paganism (say, wearing leaves and > > dancing round a tree in May) are good healthy things to do. > > What with this and Piers' earlier revelations and the ever present > U

Re: Religion

2001-06-02 Thread David H. Adler
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 07:54:04PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jun 2001, Alex Page wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:36:12PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > > > > What with this and Piers' earlier revelations and the ever present > > > Unixbeard I have this feeling that maybe w

Re: Religion

2001-06-02 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Sat, 02 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > Heh, I haven't done Morrising for ages. Count me in! > > > > < mental image of Greg and Piers, having had a few pints, lurching > > towards each other in a corner dance singing 'hey ho fiddle eye ho' and > > hey! you won't catch me performing som

Re: Religion

2001-06-02 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jun 2001, Alex Page wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:36:12PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > > > > What with this and Piers' earlier revelations and the ever present > > > Unixbeard I have this feeling that maybe we ought to get a Mor

Re: Religion

2001-06-02 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Sat, 02 Jun 2001, Alex Page wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:36:12PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > > What with this and Piers' earlier revelations and the ever present > > Unixbeard I have this feeling that maybe we ought to get a Morris Side > > together for next years Jack in the Gree

Re: Religion

2001-06-02 Thread Alex Page
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:36:12PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > What with this and Piers' earlier revelations and the ever present > Unixbeard I have this feeling that maybe we ought to get a Morris Side > together for next years Jack in the Green festival in Hastings, Heh, I haven't done Mor

Re: Religion

2001-06-02 Thread Alex Gough
> At 15:53 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote: > > Jon, thinking Paganism and Christianity should co-exist happily as do Art > and Science. > Yes, if only... http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,62-112765,00.html Alex Gough -- Today class, we'll be cloning extinct species to see how they taste.

Re: Religion

2001-06-02 Thread Barbie [easynet]
From: "Jonathan Stowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > > > > The actions and spirit of paganism (say, wearing leaves and dancing round a > > tree in May) are good healthy things to do. > > What with this and Piers' earlier revelations and the ever present > U

Re: Religion

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > > The actions and spirit of paganism (say, wearing leaves and dancing round a > tree in May) are good healthy things to do. What with this and Piers' earlier revelations and the ever present Unixbeard I have this feeling that maybe we ought to get a

Re: Religion

2001-06-01 Thread Barbie [easynet]
From: "Jonathan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I find it strange that the only surviving English/British religion, > >Paganism, is the target for being abolished. > > Is paganism a religion? Yes. Just because it isn't an organised religion with offic

Religion

2001-06-01 Thread Jonathan Peterson
At 15:53 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote: >I find it strange that the only surviving English/British religion, >Paganism, is the target for being abolished. Is paganism a religion? Isn't it a "none of the above" grouping of religions? Or does it refer to "What Northern and