Re: Perl magazines

2002-10-07 Thread David Cantrell
ly and pull in Python (Although pyzine is quite a good read) > Ruby and maybe even TCL? Space taken up by python or ruby or tcl would be of no interest to me. I would perceive the magazine as being of low value because of that. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.or

Re: Book review: Web Design in a Nutshell

2002-10-06 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 02:23:42PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 02:10:40PM +0100, David Cantrell said: > > I have posted Earle Martin's review of "Web Design in a Nutshell" to > > the web site. > Surely this should go in the 'web sites

Book review: Web Design in a Nutshell

2002-10-06 Thread David Cantrell
I have posted Earle Martin's review of "Web Design in a Nutshell" to the web site. http://london.pm.org/reviews/web_design_in_a_nutshell.html -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david It requires zero configuration once you're

Re: ADSL Help

2002-10-06 Thread David Cantrell
please don't tell me I should be running Linux, I > already know :-) There's nowt wrong with using a Windows desktop. However, with a DSL connection, you will be connected permanently, and the script kiddies *will* find you. At least consider using a twenty quid piece of shit running

Books! Innabun! Come and get 'em while they're 'ot!

2002-10-05 Thread David Cantrell
"REVIEW: $title". -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Considering the number of wheels Microsoft has found reason to invent, one never ceases to be baffled by the minuscule number whose shape even vaguely

Re: Regex question

2002-10-05 Thread David Cantrell
Ahhh, did someone annoy my little MBM? --- Original message --- > Other common quote characters include : | * and those five line > paragraph quotes MS products create. Removing these would require some Not to mention sodding supercite, not mentioning any names, Chris Ball. -- David Ca

Re: Books, loverly booooooks

2002-10-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 07:59:25AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'll be bringing a copy of McGraw-Hill's catalogue with me on Thursday ... > Have they got anything on Web Services? Building Web Services and .net Appl

Re: dim sum, charing cross road

2002-10-02 Thread David Cantrell
lying Hmmm, I have to be at Marylebone High St at 2, so if we dimsum at 1230 I could make it. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david He's not a dictator, he's a very naughty boy -- Greg McCarroll

Books, loverly booooooks

2002-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
e can't justify getting review copies of, we can get a 30% discount if we order ten or more books at a time. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Perl may be the best solution for processing a text file, but asking a group of Perl M

Re: A new way of measuring load - and thoughts on ssh security

2002-09-30 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:36:01PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > Cheap hardware randomness sources. I think it's time. -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life -- Samuel Johnson

A new way of measuring load - and thoughts on ssh security

2002-09-30 Thread David Cantrell
o-random/g # for the pedants *** - I'd like to re-order packets within the encrypted stream too, but that requires doing deep voodoo at level 2, which is beyond my skillz. Or rather, I can't be arsed to learn how. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org

Re: Books

2002-09-27 Thread David Cantrell
Oh, yeah, the IRC people have reminded me that no-one has actually said in public that I am now the Bookhenchman. So, errm, consider yourselves told. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Perl may be the best solution for processing a text file, but

Books

2002-09-27 Thread David Cantrell
e any requests for other books? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david When a woman has a man on a string, controlling his every thought and motion, backbone in said man is not a requirement. -- Ken, in alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tom

Re: webmail

2002-09-24 Thread David Cantrell
;s the answer, acmemail? No, ssh and $MUA_of_choice. If you're not allowed to ssh, then run it through an http tunnel. -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david With ... the fact that Linux has become so easy to install that certain species of ba

Re: networks and scalability

2002-09-24 Thread David Cantrell
chard. He has been known to wear sandals. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons

Re: BodyWorlds

2002-09-24 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:24:11PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > So the infamous anatomy/art exhibition[0] shuts on Sunday, and I still > haven't been *slap wrist*. Anyone interested in a field trip? Possibly. Announce a time and I might turn up. -- David Cantrell|

Re: [Job] The beeb are hiring

2002-09-24 Thread David Cantrell
wonders if these are positions > previously based at Kingswood Warren :-( Errm, they both say London, and because they're both BBCi "web development" jobs, then I'd guess that they're both in Bush House. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.

Re: Time to declare war on Paris.pm

2002-09-23 Thread David Cantrell
o in and tempt them with free beer. Not sure how we'll get any French folk singers to endorse our conference. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david " Norton Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values to wipe files. This provides more securi

Re: my first module

2002-09-23 Thread David Cantrell
uploading to CPAN soon. Very interesting, I'll have to look at that before I release the fixed up version of Tie::Hash::Transactional. -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david I hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be out in a year ... -- Linus Torvalds, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Pictures

2002-09-22 Thread David Cantrell
I have put pictures from the social on the 5th of September, from Pubday2, and from YAPC::Europe on my webshite at: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/london.pm -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Usenet is a co-operative venture, backed by nasty

Re: Thanks People

2002-09-18 Thread David Cantrell
that to be a reasonable compromise between safety and my time. Of course, you should read bugtraq reports carefully - often, holes depend both on the software version and on the details of the configuration. If your configuration isn't affected, there's no pressing requirement to upgrade. --

Re: mysql autoincs

2002-07-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 04:42:10PM +0100, Nic Gibson wrote: > I spent years as an mssql server programmer. It's the only half way decent > product they have. Only because they stole it from Sybase. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david May you

Re: [JOB / Recommendation] Evil documentation

2002-07-18 Thread David Cantrell
t bookmarked at home if nyone wants it. Doing that sort of thing is one of the areas I'm looking for a permie job right now. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla. -- Seneca Philosophus, Epistulae

Re: mysql autoincs

2002-07-18 Thread David Cantrell
should be to ensure > >uniqueness. > Contiguity becomes important when you're doing things like generating > invoice numbers. I've been told that before, but I've never understood why. On the rare occasions when I generate invoices, I ensure uniqueness by making the invo

Re: Charlbury beer festival tomorrow

2002-07-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 04:03:29PM +0100, Simon Batistoni wrote: > It should be noted that, in a piece of massively fortuitous timing, > August 1st is a Thursday, and therefore requires the holding of a > heretics' meeting. Which will be at the Pillars of Hercules, Greek St. --

Re: Password Management

2002-07-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 04:32:17PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a60.shtml " Use of this device instantly creates a strong security policy for your work environment " ROFL! -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.ca

Re: searchable archives

2002-07-11 Thread David Cantrell
up-to-date. Obviously you want to index > > messages instead of lines which I used only to demonstrate. > And when you're done, I believe the wheel, fire and stone tools need > reinventing. Yes, in new and exciting ways! My sources tell me that triangular wheels are next s

Re: searchable archives

2002-07-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 07:37:59AM -0700, Hans Juergen von Lengerke wrote: > So where is the pipermail search engine that we're reinventing? Try htdig or http://www.google.com -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david This is nice. Any idea what b

Re: [Off Topic] MTA for OS X on laptop

2002-07-07 Thread David Cantrell
if I'm away from the network, no mail. * - I would be delighted to be proved wrong -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla. -- Seneca Philosophus, Epistulae

Re: Best practice: modules and stuff

2002-07-05 Thread David Cantrell
most of the time if memory is tight. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Pressure was growing last night for the global "war on terror" to be broadened to take in a wide range of other 'rogue emotions' including horror, shock and a gener

Re: Camel update

2002-07-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:26:24PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > alternatively, how many people have a complete set? Meee!!! I'm wearing zz9pluralzalpha today. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david If you're doing business with a

A very odd question

2002-07-01 Thread David Cantrell
This is, no doubt, a very odd question, but I'm sure that *someone* here - we have many many lurkers as well as the regular posters - will be able to help. I want to get my HGV licence. Anyone recommend a driving school in saaf Landan? -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad |

Re: [OT] Breaking and fixing sun hardware

2002-07-01 Thread David Cantrell
't have an auto-switching power supply. Check that it's set to the right voltage. If it is, then fuck knows, but if not, then you may have completely fubared it. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david WARNING! People in front of screen are stupide

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Meetings in July

2002-06-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 03:33:58PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 10:45:39AM +0100, Natalie S. Ford wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:50:33PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > > Note to self: buy I NY t-shirt from freakfarm.com > > that made me

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Meetings in July

2002-06-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:23:20PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Coo. I lived in Chelmsford for about 5 years, 'til, um, 1997. Oo-err, that's about when I moved out too. You are me and therefore I claim all that you^Wi own. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Meetings in July

2002-06-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:33:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Not the Bakers Arms or the Orange Tree on Lower Anchor St? > I'm not entirely sure I can remember. Might have been the Orange > Tree. Real ale pub, alway

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Meetings in July

2002-06-21 Thread David Cantrell
nday afternoon. It's a tad out > of the way though. Not the Bakers Arms or the Orange Tree on Lower Anchor St? -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Vegetables are what food eats

Re: [JOB] BBC perl developers

2002-06-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:54:10PM +0100, Natalie S. Ford wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:32:02PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > Or they need more people. I don't know which is the case here, and the > > job ad doesn't help me by saying which part of the BBC it

Re: [JOB] BBC perl developers

2002-06-18 Thread David Cantrell
don't know which is the case here, and the job ad doesn't help me by saying which part of the BBC it's for. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Do not be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know and misbehave -- Fergus Henderson

JOB wanted

2002-06-14 Thread David Cantrell
I am looking for a job. That is all. -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Lefties are usually well-intentioned at least, and possess a far greater command of grammar and spelling. -- Noel, in soc.history.what-if

Re: pub

2002-06-13 Thread David Cantrell
cules, on Greek St. I'm going to try to pop in there tomorrow and have a natter. There's been no recce yet. -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david o/~ I want my SMTP o/~

Re: [PUB CANDIDATE] The Sun Tavern

2002-06-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:09:24PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:24:31AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > p.s. Sorry, I'm pissed, I blame Dave. > I take *no* responsibility for this. :-) I blame Victor's Vodka Vector. -- David Cantrell | Mem

Re: Virtual machine development

2002-06-07 Thread David Cantrell
ge, with an interpreter > > or compiler; they should write their own OS too, and at least one device > > driver for some other OS. > > Hehe. You mock, No, I'm dead serious. Got 'em all done too apart from writing a device driver for a lesser OS. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend

Re: Virtual machine development

2002-06-07 Thread David Cantrell
should write their own OS too, and at least one device driver for some other OS. -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david One person can change the world, but most of the time they shouldn't -- Marge Simpson

Re: Book reviews

2002-05-30 Thread David Cantrell
rse, free to blacklist whoever you like on your server. And I've always wanted to have an ilk. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david emacs: for a brave GNU Word -- cdevers, in #london.pm

Re: [josette@oreilly.co.uk: Newsletter issue 02-9]

2002-05-30 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:26:47AM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:26:11PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > I would find it useful to have the authors and publishers on the index > > page. Or at least the authors, if there isn't room for both. > Du

Re: Reuters Triarch module for Perl

2002-05-29 Thread David Cantrell
t some of their data available in XML, and also in horrid proprietary^W"standard across the industry, yeah right" formats. However, if you have the C API, can you not write a quick perl wrapper using the shiny Inline::C module? -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.ca

Re: [josette@oreilly.co.uk: Newsletter issue 02-9]

2002-05-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:33:49PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: > London.pm have done lots of reviews too: http://london.pm.org/reviews/ I would find it useful to have the authors and publishers on the index page. Or at least the authors, if there isn't room for both. -- David Cantrell

Re: Signs and Ports (as in many bottles of different)

2002-05-28 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:13:01PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote: > Maybe we need a new mailing list for just such things. Then the fun > can never stop! > > london-pm-meta anyone? As long as we Do The Right Thing with the Reply-to header. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dic

Re: Report on the Ivy House

2002-05-28 Thread David Cantrell
hether it would be possible to take the pub over for an evening. I'll let you know what he says. * - he's into CPCs and Vaxen :-) -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david With ... the fact that Linux has become so easy to install that certain

Re: review of Star Wars Episode 2

2002-05-27 Thread David Cantrell
at the real Christopher Lee would sink so low as to appear in Star Wars. And anyway, he's really old, Lucas can't rely on him still being alive for the next film so it *had* to be an impersonator. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david I DEMA

Re: Emergency loan of SCSI cdrom

2002-05-27 Thread David Cantrell
f next week, morningish. And only if Sun can't pony one up. He came and delivered it back to me yesterday. If you need it, you'll have to pick it up from me tonight, as I won't have any chance to post it. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Vegetables are what food eats

review of Star Wars Episode 2

2002-05-27 Thread David Cantrell
their vision. Maybe so, but maybe there is another factor too. All > their skill, art, militancy, courage, self-sacrifice, power, and command of > the Force, is not enough without an understanding of politics. > The Jedi are left fighting for no worthy cause other than the survival of > their own order. They do not look like guardians any more: they look like a > sect. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david "Dave, being Evil is no excuse for indenting like a moonshine-crazed lemur" -- Aaron Trevena

Re: P2P Applications

2002-05-26 Thread David Cantrell
I would welcome such a scheme, as it would stop idiots from emailing everyone@department to ask questions which could be trivially answered like that. It would stop me doing that too. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david There is no sigmonster

Re: [REVIEW] Creation - Life and how to make it by Steve Grand

2002-05-25 Thread David Cantrell
; average company (i'm ignoring scientific companies and major financial > organisations) can parallelise efficiently across lots of PCs. Genetic algorithms for tuning parameters in a product, perhaps? Like what is used for tuning the parameters for spamassassin. -- David Cantrel

Re: [OT] Credit cards

2002-05-23 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:13:06AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ok, I'm looking for a credit card with a 0% rate > on balance transfers for n months for some n >= 6. > Being able to manage it over the web would be very > good too. I already have an Egg card, so aside from > that, any reco

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread David Cantrell
come to a meet if we find somewhere with good beer? :) > I bet he'll only admit to liking the beer from Harvey's pubs within 15 miles > of Lewes. :-) Mmmm ... Harveys ... -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Educating this luser would be

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread David Cantrell
hat I'll probably be there along with some of the regulars from $newsgroup? -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straigh

Re: [jobish] success with online applications?

2002-05-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:09:17PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Out of interest, has anyone ever got a position through an > > Internet job site? > No, and in the current climate, it's unlikely. I had an offer, but

[JOB] student placement

2002-05-22 Thread David Cantrell
. If you're interested, please email me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ensuring that you send to the right address and with a suitably formatted email may be considered to be the first barrier to entry :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Project Mgr, BBC Internet Services

Re: Emergency loan of SCSI cdrom

2002-05-22 Thread David Cantrell
l be > passing through the west end on my way to the client. I have one. It's currently at a pub in Soho - I lent it to the manager. If I can contact him in time, I'll arrange for you to be able to pick it up from him on the way. Do you know what day and roughly what time? -- David

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:43:33PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: > Beer: Jon noted that there were no hand-pulled beers. Boo. That makes it a non-pub, and I for one will not be going. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david " We must get users pa

Re: Tseng ISA cards (was Re: penderel)

2002-05-15 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 07:47:38PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Newton, Philip wrote: > > My first computer had an ET4000 which I ran at 800x600. > My first computer had LEDs This 'ere puter has five LEDs. FIVE. Bloody luxury! -- David Cantrell

Re: approximate triangulation of multiple sources

2002-05-15 Thread David Cantrell
gt; dread to think what would happen to camlehumps in zero G) A huge inflatable disco ball. -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine.

Re: penderel

2002-05-15 Thread David Cantrell
at broken PCs require before they'll boot. A shitty old Tseng ISA card would be sufficient. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Perl may be the best solution for processing a text file, but asking a group of

Re: OT - Palms.

2002-05-10 Thread David Cantrell
her new toy later! -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david When a woman has a man on a string, controlling his every thought and motion, backbone in said man is not a requirement. -- Ken, in alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove

Re: OT - Palms.

2002-05-10 Thread David Cantrell
of those would you actually *use*? There are a few cards available which work on Palms with a memory slot to do magic like that. There are also things like GPSen, modems etc which fit onto Palms' hotsync port, they just make the device somewhat thicker. -- David Cantrell|Rep

Re: Attack of the Clowns

2002-05-10 Thread David Cantrell
I forgot to mention - Chinese food afterwards. They do veggie but not vegan. Reply off-list if interested. -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Gehyrst þu, sælida, hwæt þis folc segeð? Hi willað eow to gafole garas syllan, ættrynne

Attack of the Clowns

2002-05-07 Thread David Cantrell
Who wants a group trip to the flicks to see Attack of the Clowns? Let's avoid the rush over the first weekend, and go for Friday 24th, at the Streatham Odeon. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Considering the number of wheels Microsoft has

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:10:26PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:15:11PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > O'Neill's are those nasty fake Irish pubs aren't they? > ^---^ ^^ > That's an oxymoron, isn&#x

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread David Cantrell
the Cittie of > Yorke in June, and try and get a plan together for July? Founders Arms gets my vote. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Perl may be the best solution for processing a text file, but asking a group o

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread David Cantrell
those nasty fake Irish pubs aren't they? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david For every vengeance, there is an equal and opposite revengeance. -- Cartoon Law X

Re: OT: Mailing list software

2002-04-24 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:32:52AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 09:31:02AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: > > > I think Paul's points are valid though. Why make an aptitute test out > > > of this

Re: OT: Mailing list software

2002-04-24 Thread David Cantrell
xcellent reasons to run majordomo. The biggest reason for me is that I needed to have perl on the machine anyway and had no other reason for installing python. That, and majordomo was easier to set up. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david All praise the Sun God For He is a Fun God Ra Ra Ra!

Re: OT: Mailing list software

2002-04-24 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:36:08PM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: > David Cantrell wrote: > > What could be easier than saying "send mail to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'subscribe foolist' > > on their own in the message body"? > > What abo

Re: OT: Mailing list software

2002-04-24 Thread David Cantrell
so no confusion can possibly arise. > I to this day find it odd sending majordomo commands with arbitrary > subject lines. I often send the command in the subject and in the body. It makes it easier for me to find it when I am looking through my Sent Mail folder. -- David Cantrell

Re: OT: Mailing list software

2002-04-24 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:29:16AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:30:55AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:22:53AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > > majordomo is old & crufty & not maintained. > > None o

Re: OT: Mailing list software

2002-04-24 Thread David Cantrell
a tool which does one thing and does it well. This is as it should be. Archiving lists is trivial, and whilst I've never bothered with it, I am told that majorcool (the webby interface) is just as easy. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david I hear

Re: OT: Mailing list software

2002-04-24 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:04:13AM +, the hatter wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Alex McLintock wrote: > > My gut feeling is to use a perl based system - such as (I think) majordomo. > You won't really be wanting to do that. Majordomo works just fine for me. -- David

Good deal on a Sun SS20

2002-04-23 Thread David Cantrell
I just know some of you want to buy a real computer. Well, get ye to http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2018182261 -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Usenet is a co-operative venture, backed by nasty people. Follow

BOFH books

2002-04-23 Thread David Cantrell
please. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Considering the number of wheels Microsoft has found reason to invent, one never ceases to be baffled by the minuscule number whose shape even vaguely resembles a circle.

Re: Boozy Bank Holidays

2002-04-23 Thread David Cantrell
en about that place. [checks timetable] makes sense. Can I have the number then? **** - nmf -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david It doesn't matter to me if someone else's computer is faster because I know my system could smash thei

Boozy Bank Holidays

2002-04-21 Thread David Cantrell
r pub and doughnuts -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david All praise the Sun God For He is a Fun God Ra Ra Ra!

Re: Ask london.pm: Unmetered ISPs

2002-04-15 Thread David Cantrell
ldram - on the few occasions when I've used dial-up to get at them, it has worked as well as one can expect dial-up to work, plus, assuming that they'll need support, their support staff are clueful and aren't on a pay-through-the-nose number. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate

Re: MBM's mail setup (was Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender)

2002-04-11 Thread David Cantrell
Whereas my Korean character set bounce filter on plum is getting a couple > daily. (No, I have not yet got to using spam assassin. I want to bounce the > bloody things and make the senders life hell if possible > silently sending them to /dev/null locally) If only it was the sen

Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

2002-04-11 Thread David Cantrell
omain: > Error during DNS MX lookup for lapdog.barnyard.co.uk: > DNS alias found where canonical name wanted [Irritated] Anyway, the message I was trying to send was "yes". -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david If you save all your money

IRC?

2002-04-11 Thread David Cantrell
Is it broken? london.rhizomatic.net doesn't like me :-( -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david engineer: n. one who, regardless of how much effort he puts in to a job, will never satisfy either the suits or the scientists

Re: penderel

2002-04-10 Thread David Cantrell
ow, I'm normally pretty harsh in my criticism of x86 bitty- boxes, but Solaris for x86 is so awful that it defiles even those abominations. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david WARNING! People in front of screen are stupider than they appear -- Tanuki the Raccoon-dog, in the Monastery

Re: question about a tv advert

2002-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:42:18PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: > On 03/04/2002 at 16:24 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > >Huh? He said it was impractical to turn off the analogue transmitters > >because ITV Digital went bust, the implication being that without ITVD > >t

Re: Penderel - Thread herding, Was: penderel

2002-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
etimes they go out and get drunk instead of slaving over a hot terminal. Sometimes they just can't be arsed and decide to play GTA3 instead. Having a redundant array of inexpensive sysadmins is a Good Thing. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The test of

Re: question about a tv advert

2002-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:53:40PM +0100, Rob Partington wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 02:46:35PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: > > > Of course most of the population is still on anal

Re: question about a tv advert

2002-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
sibility for dissemination of interactive content tied to programs. Again, this is not an insurmountable problem. Some other channel owners are already trialling dissemination of their own interactive content in some regions (basically, using people in Butfuck Nowhere as guinea pigs). -- Da

Re: penderel

2002-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 01:03:12PM +, the hatter wrote: > or you can run solaris with its good breeding on sparc, which > loves the hardware. Thankyou for volunteering to admin it. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Educating this

Re: penderel

2002-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
ood documentation of the old machine, to make sure all the right packages get installed on the new one. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Us Germans take our humour very seriously -- German cultural attache talking to the Today Programme, about the Germ

Re: penderel

2002-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
be the new admin(s)? I assume the same as now. Once the machine is set up, it's no different from any other Linux box to admin. In the unlikely event that any Sparc- specific problems do arise, then I'm already one of the admins anyway. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http:/

Re: Blade 2 ...

2002-03-30 Thread David Cantrell
betting tickets will be available. If not we can drink beer instead. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david If you save all your money for three years, you'll be able to afford this new computer. If, however, you blow all your money on poker, booze and l

Re: Blade 2 ...

2002-03-29 Thread David Cantrell
or so is often welcomed. Especially if that nice Mr. Snipes is going to beat people up during that hour. Even better if he's beating up Bros. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Palms

2002-03-29 Thread David Cantrell
Does anyone else here have a Palm m500 or m505? If you do, could you bring your cradle to the social meet? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Educating this luser would be something to frustrate even the unflappable Yoda and make him jam a

Blade 2 ...

2002-03-29 Thread David Cantrell
... is out. The most excellent Mr. Richard Clamp and myself will be going to the Warner cinema in Leicester Square for the 7pm showing tomorrow (Saturday). You may join us. Bring camels and other pets. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david This is nice

Re: [OT] Colocation suggestions in London

2002-03-29 Thread David Cantrell
them for co-location. They're far too expensive. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla. -- Seneca Philosophus, Epistulae

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