Re: Dual boot

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, robin szemeti wrote: > On Thursday 20 December 2001 14:58, Chris Devers wrote: > > > > Why? Read-only access to other filesystems seems like a Good Thing to me, > > unless you really like rebooting just to open a file on that partition... > > OK .. so see if you can make any

Re: Dual boot

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:47:37AM +, robin szemeti wrote: > Windows > Virus > "No effective file permisions system" Windows NT has a more sophisticated file ownership/permissions system than *nix by a lng way. (Win 9x/ME suck of course.) > read only access on windows just plain does not

Re: a request

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 06:47:02AM +, Dave Cross wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:59:22PM +, Nicholas Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [a fact, which would be a spoiler to mention] > > IIRC we'll have to wait until next year's film to know that though, won't we? > > Nope - two years

Re: perl acronym

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:09:56PM -, Ivor Williams wrote: > Hi there, > > Just curious, what does perl actually stand for, or is it not an acronym? > > I have come across an anecdotal reference to "Pathologically Eclectic > Rubbish Lister", but this sounds like a miss quote from Red Dwarf,

Re: Roleplaying

* Natalie Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 02:31:39PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > If you are interested and are happy to block this evening off in your > > diary, please reply _on list_. That way everyone gets to see the slots > > filling up. > > Count me in. In dia

Re: perl acronym

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:41:35PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Ivor Williams wrote: > > > I have come across an anecdotal reference to "Pathologically Eclectic > > Rubbish Lister", but this sounds like a miss quote from Red Dwarf, as > > To quote the 3rd edition of the camel

REVIEW: _Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics_ by James Tisdall

_Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics_, by James Tisdall Published by O'Reilly & Associaetes, copyright 2001. ISBN 0-596-00080-4 As the banner above the title of James Tisdall's _Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics_ indicates, this book is "an introduction to Perl for biologists". What the banner doe

Re: Dual boot

Ok, I haven't tried this but it might be your elegent answer to dual booting. VMWare is rather expensive, but try out win4lin. Going to see if I can get my hands on it as well. Night. 'fiq On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Chris Devers wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Robin wrote: > > > Someone pointed me

Re: [OT] Antialiased fonts...

mallum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 06:10:56PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > > > Do I have to go KDE? > > No, recent xterms ( mine is 4.1 ) will accept a '-fa ' > switch and you'll get AA fonts. For example I use; Works well in AbiWord, netscape and mozilla don'

Re: [OT] Antialiased fonts...

mallum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 06:10:56PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > > > Do I have to go KDE? > > No, recent xterms ( mine is 4.1 ) will accept a '-fa ' > switch and you'll get AA fonts. For example I use; > > xterm -fa 'lucida console' -fs 7 Going ba

Re: perl acronym

> "Barbie" == Barbie [home] writes: Barbie> When I first came across Perl in 1998 I was told a story that Barbie> Larry thought C++ should have been called P, following on from Barbie> BCPL, which then became B, which transformed into C. Having Barbie> missed a letter, Larry decided to use t

Re: perl acronym

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Ivor Williams wrote: > I have come across an anecdotal reference to "Pathologically Eclectic > Rubbish Lister", but this sounds like a miss quote from Red Dwarf, as To quote the 3rd edition of the camel book (also in the 2nd): "to those who merely like it, Perl is the Pract

Re: Dual boot

Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone pointed me in the direction of some piece of cack that allows windows > to access ext2 partitions the other day .. thats one thing that most 100% > certainly will NOT be happening :) ... the horror! If nothing else it > persuaded me to migrate the ext2

Re: perl acronym

Lucy McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > L. > "I am just stoned?" The Messiah! -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 72 | | Address: 33 Bond St.,

Re: perl acronym

When I first came across Perl in 1998 I was told a story that Larry thought C++ should have been called P, following on from BCPL, which then became B, which transformed into C. Having missed a letter, Larry decided to use the remaining two letters for his language. How true all that is I have no

RE: Dual boot

ext3 can be read as ext2, just without the journalling. So windows can read ext3 partitions. > -Original Message- > From: Robin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 20 December 2001 13:31 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Dual boot > > Someone pointed me in the direction of some

Re: Dual boot

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Robin wrote: > Someone pointed me in the direction of some piece of cack that allows > windows to access ext2 partitions the other day .. thats one thing that > most 100% certainly will NOT be happening :) ... the horror! Why? Read-only access to other filesystems seems lik

Re: perl acronym

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:31:00PM +, nemesis wrote: > 'Practical extraction and reporting language' I believe > > Larry originally had the 'a' in there but wisely dropped it. I believe that this was because there was already another language called "Pearl", IIRC. Chris -- Chris Carline <

Re: Dual boot

Struan Donald wrote: > ideally you want two hard disks[1] so as to minimise the chances of cross > contamination :) I have my slaptop dual boot ( mainly because it came with WinME pre-installed ) and since I do Important Stuff[tm] on the linux partition one of the great joys is that Windoze cant

Re: Dual boot

* at 20/12 14:01 + Dominic Mitchell said: > Lucy McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There already are three Win NT machines squashed into this office, but the > > techs and postdocs tend to hog them. Thanks to everyone for advice. > > I find that using vnc and moving the mouse arou

Re: perl acronym

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Ivor Williams wrote: > Just curious, what does perl actually stand for, or is it not an acronym? ...and scroll down just a bit, with the entries for 2000: The Oxford English Dictionary investigates the origin of the wor

Re: perl acronym

Ivor Williams wrote: > Hi there, > > Just curious, what does perl actually stand for, or is it not an acronym? 'Practical extraction and reporting language' I believe Larry originally had the 'a' in there but wisely dropped it. Will -- *claw claw* *fang* *shred* *rip* *ad hominem* *slas

Re: perl acronym

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Ivor Williams wrote: > Just curious, what does perl actually stand for, or is it not an acronym? Practical Extraction and Reoprting Language. Allegedly. L. "I am just stoned?"

Re: perl acronym

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Ivor Williams wrote: > Just curious, what does perl actually stand for, or is it not an acronym? `man perl` says PERL(1)User Contributed Perl DocumentationPERL(1) NAME perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language Sam -- Defeat: For Every

perl acronym

Hi there, Just curious, what does perl actually stand for, or is it not an acronym? I have come across an anecdotal reference to "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister", but this sounds like a miss quote from Red Dwarf, as in: Rimmer:- Don't give me that pathologically eclectic rubbish, Lister

Camels vs llamas

www.camels-camels.com informs me the scientific name for the Dromedary (one humped) camel is Camelus dromedarius. www.llamapaedia.com tells me the scientific name for a llama is Lama glama. The NCBI's taxonomy database tells me the camel and llama are cousins. If you're confused, you missed th

Re: Intelligence

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 04:08:40PM +, Andy Wardley wrote: > But given video feeds from 2 cameras spaced 3 inches apart, how complex > is the algorithm to detect the ball, estimate its position, velocity, etc, Use the same as is used for radar. Using the visual spectrum makes things harder co

Re: Dual boot

Lucy McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There already are three Win NT machines squashed into this office, but the > techs and postdocs tend to hog them. Thanks to everyone for advice. I find that using vnc and moving the mouse around whilst other people are trying to use the computer norm

Re: Dual boot

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:18:59PM +, Struan Donald wrote: > > vmware is nice only if you have shit loads of ram[1] though and a fast > processor. plus you have cost of vmware + cost of windows license so > more expensive. vmware also seems happiest if you give it it's own > disk... (this is

Re: Dual boot

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, the hatter wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > > But, using vmware sounds much better - why do dual boot when you can > > simply run both OSes at the same time? I'd forgotten about them. I'll have a look. Not going to do anyhting about it till after X

Re: Reverse DNS

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Simon Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: > > > It occurs to me that setting up reverse DNS would probably be a good > > idea for our server. > > It is if you want to send mail from it. I think you need to be more specific... It is if you want to send

Re: Dual boot

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > > > How painful is it to make a machine Win/Linux dual boot (apart from > > finding another license)? It would make my research s much easier. > > Anyone got any convincing arguments for my superiors? > > But, using

Re: Dual boot

* at 20/12 12:01 + Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) said: > > It's quite straightforward, however if you can wrangle it such that you > get to use something like vmware you'll probably have sorted yourself out > with a far more elegent solution to using both os's. vmware is nice only if you have shit lo

Re: Reverse DNS

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: > It occurs to me that setting up reverse DNS would probably be a good > idea for our server. It is if you want to send mail from it. [snip stuff] > 160 IN PTR astray.com. > 160 IN PTR london.rhizomatic.net. Un

Re: Dual boot

Lucy McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >How painful is it to make a machine Win/Linux dual boot (apart from >finding another license)? It would make my research s much easier. >Anyone got any convincing arguments for my superiors? Not too much of a problem, especially if the Win side of

Re: Dual boot

Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > How painful is it to make a machine Win/Linux dual boot (apart from > finding another license)? It would make my research s much easier. > Anyone got any convincing arguments for my superiors? What win? Generally if you install Linux second it's reasonably straigh

Re: Dual boot

* at 20/12 11:49 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:37:14AM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > How painful is it to make a machine Win/Linux dual boot (apart from > > finding another license)? It would make my research s much easier. > > Anyone got any convincing argume

RE: Re: Dual boot

Use two disks, piss of piece. D > -Original Message- > From: mstevens > Sent: 20 December 2001 11:49 > To: london.pm > Cc: mstevens > Subject: Re: Dual boot > > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:37:14AM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > How painful is it to make a machine Win/Linux dual boo

Re: Dual boot

Very easy. In my experience it's easy when you install windows first - I used fips for the reparitioning and lilo as my bootloader. look at your /etc/lilo.conf You just stick another entry in there for your dos parition. Got BSD, w2k and 2 redhat kernels on the one box at home. Wasteful, I know.

Re: Dual boot

Lucy McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How painful is it to make a machine Win/Linux dual boot (apart from > finding another license)? It would make my research s much easier. > Anyone got any convincing arguments for my superiors? The difficult bit I always found was convincing wind

Dual boot

How painful is it to make a machine Win/Linux dual boot (apart from finding another license)? It would make my research s much easier. Anyone got any convincing arguments for my superiors? mumble mumble mumble L.

Re: Roleplaying

There is now a basic web page at http://217.34.97.146/~gem/potn/ , importantly it has the details of the game's mailing list. If players could subscribe to it, we can start trying to figure out what sort of character everyone wants to be and try and avoid ending up with a party of entirely wizard

Re: Roleplaying

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I want to do this, but I'm going to need to beg somewhere to crash in > London, cos that's well past my last train. > As I already mentioned to Piers, unfortunatly I can't let people crash at my place. I used to run a campaign a while ago, but

Reverse DNS

It occurs to me that setting up reverse DNS would probably be a good idea for our server. However, from a quick, rough guess count, we have 56 domains running off it from 24 db files. Setting up an /etc/named.rev file for every single one of thsoe would be a pain in the ass. Yes, it would be ok

Re: Text::Column ?

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 05:28:06PM +, Simon Wilcox said: > I should be able to pass in some text of arbitrary length, along with some > metadata like width of columns and gutter sizes and have it output > suitable lines. Isn't this what the Perl formatting syntax does?

LOTR (was Re: a request)

Ok, ok, no spoilers but I would just say GO SEE IT! I loved it.. Hmm, this is very short with no spoilers. Umm.. Ahh.. HAPPY CHRISTMAS! Leo