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. Answer: No,

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 reasons

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 single

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 the server

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 file

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 thus

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, Struan Donald 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 .. have you

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 on this shadowy fact wriiten by our lord himself

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 .. have you

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

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 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. And

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) Bah, I

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 Thomas

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 Bah, I had it in

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 .. (My

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 you

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

2001-06-03 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 Unixbeard I

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

2001-06-02 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 Unixbeard I

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 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

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 Green

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 Morris Side

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 some stupid

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 we ought to

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 official buildings and the like or a registered charity it