Re: The best film of all time?

> Difficult call. I just hope I'm never in a burning building > with the last remaining copy of each, and only enough time to rescue > one. You have just reminded me of an excellent BT Health and Safety quiz I once had while there. In a large building in which we assume is on fire... we have som

Re: The best film of all time?

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:45:37PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > I've never seen what people see in this. Here's my top few, in no > particular order: > Paths to Glory Don't know this one ... Do you mean Paths of Glory? Tony

Re: Bomb the ISPs!

* Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ``The Daily Telegraph is calling for the bombing of "uncompliant" ISPs > "on foreign territory", in response to the atrocity in America.'' > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/57/21694.html > Personally I blame New Labour for this piece, if they

RE: name of the bloke ......

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 9/18/01 8:14:10 AM > Whats the name of the mad bloke who lives near Dave, you > know the one that things the BBC are reading his thoughts > as they are secret agents of MI5 or some such. Mike Corley (aka Tadeusz Szocik). And he lives near Clapha

Re: name of the bloke ......

* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Mike Corley (aka Tadeusz Szocik). > thanks, i was just checking to see if he had any crazy theories about the US bombings. unfortunatly its all me me me with him, still at least we have ESR, ho hum, Greg -- Greg McCarroll

Re: name of the bloke ......

Dave Cross wrote: > > From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 9/18/01 8:14:10 AM > > > Whats the name of the mad bloke who lives near Dave, you > > know the one that things the BBC are reading his thoughts > > as they are secret agents of MI5 or some such. > > Mike Corley (aka Tadeusz

Re: News gateway?

> It doesn't scratch an itch I have, but if Philip can collar the right > people who have accounts on penderel it'd be an interesting project > but If you need someone to do the inn build I'm happy to. I've built[0] countless inn boxes in my past lives of BT Internet. [0] Not to mention som

RE: Instant Messaging and all that Jazz

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 9/17/01 4:36:35 PM > It also seems that this is a lot more linked to IM > (Instant messaging) than the web, after all it truly does > give you a dynamic online presence. > > So whats going to happen with all these things? The web > shopping, the

Re: NMS [formmail]

I hear that one problem with that script is the security problem that if it is not altered, then it is possible to send mail from any address, effectively allowing you to spam with it. What I suggest for NMS scripts is that they have an internal configuration function, whereby the script will ref

Re: Bomb the ISPs!

> ``The Daily Telegraph is calling for the bombing of "uncompliant" ISPs > "on foreign territory", in response to the atrocity in America.'' > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/57/21694.html Umm, the article doesn't actually say what The Register implied. The whole article is a bit tongue

Re: NMS [formmail]

From: Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 9/18/01 9:49:42 AM > I hear that one problem with that script is the security > problem that if it is not altered, then it is possible to > send mail from any address, effectively allowing you to > spam with it. In the latest version of FormMail (1.

Re: The worst film of all time (The best film of all time?)

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, James Powell wrote: > How about the worst > > Course, I have tried to avoid the real howlers (mad cows, up 'n' under, > etc). > X-Men generation X, for showing *so* much promise but falling over every time it nearly got good. Hawk the Slayer, but I did like the bits with t

Re: The best film of all time?

> Almost forgot... > > In the Heat of the Night Yes, and, worst of all to forget (but not in terms of chatty volume): Kind Hearts and Coronets Alex Gough

Re: The best film of all time?

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 08:28:09AM +0100, Tony Bowden wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:45:37PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > Paths to Glory > > Don't know this one ... > Do you mean Paths of Glory? Yes, as I said in a later post :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cant

Re: NMS [formmail]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:49:42AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > What I suggest for NMS scripts is that they have an internal configuration > function, whereby the script will refuse to run unless it is configured. > In fact, if it is unconfigured, then present a configuration interface > > Sound

Re: champagne

Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: > So what Champagne do you recommend? I know we have the great and the > good on the list and also the french (who may be actually useful > in this case) http://www.clicquot.com/wineries/wine.asp?winery=krug Krug. Grande Cuvee is nice. I

Re: The best film of all time?

Paul Mison wrote: > > On 17/09/2001 at 18:31 +0100, Jasper McCrea wrote: > >Not replying to too many posts here, because it'd be controversial (esp. > >since someone mentioned a Peter Greenaway film (and they were being > >serious!!)) > > Of course I was. His films are good, even if that is in a

Re: Bomb the ISPs!

Simon Wistow wrote: > > > ``The Daily Telegraph is calling for the bombing of "uncompliant" ISPs > > "on foreign territory", in response to the atrocity in America.'' > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/57/21694.html > > Umm, the article doesn't actually say what The Register implied. >

Re: The worst film of all time (The best film of all time?)

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, will wrote: > >How about the worst How about the 'so bad they're good'? L. "I suffer from acute nymphomania and own a brewery."

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Re: Heh.

David H. Adler wrote: > http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/kmt.png The requested URL /~simon/kmt.png was not found on this server. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: JOB WANTED: Perl Programmer

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Re: News gateway?

Paul Mison wrote: > It doesn't scratch an itch I have, but if Philip can collar the right > people who have accounts on penderel it'd be an interesting project > but Not my itch, either (as I said), but I could try to help, I suppose. Would enough people be in favour of the thing to make it

Re: NMS [formmail]

Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:06:02PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > Incidently, perlfaq9 says that when using sendmail from a > > Perl script, you should use the flags "-oi -t -odq". I found > > that when I used -odq, the Well, I would have said "you can use the f

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Re: The worst film of all time (The best film of all time?)

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:06:58AM +0100, Alex Gough wrote: > X-Men generation X, for showing *so* much promise but falling over every > time it nearly got good. Gah, and Emma Frost was *so* wrong. My vote goes for 'Lost in Space'. Awful. m. -- Isn't it nice? Sugar and spice Leading Disco Dol

Re: The best film of all time?

Lucy McWilliam wrote: > [0] Due to $boyf[1] That sounds like "my second boyfriend" :) (Hm, I wonder what 'scalar @boyf' is, then?) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

RE: [JOB] Programmer for database-driven websites

From: Simon Batistoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 9/18/01 12:19:29 PM > Well, these sorts of posts are scarcer than they used to > be, but I figure someone here might be interested in > this, or know someone outside the hallowed london.pm > circle who would be. :) [snip] Gotta love that synch

ISDN 2e Card

I have just made the jump from the Bronze Age (modem) to the Iron Age (ISDN) and need an ISDN 2e PCI card that supports both Linux and Windoze 98/2000... anyone have a recommendation of what sort of card I should get? Thanks Andy Williams http://www.lampsolutions.co.uk ==

Re: NMS [formmail]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:14:46PM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:06:02PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > > > Incidently, perlfaq9 says that when using sendmail from a > > > Perl script, you should use the flags "-oi -t -odq". I found > > > th

Re: The best film of all time?

"Newton, Philip" wrote: > > Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > [0] Due to $boyf[1] > > That sounds like "my second boyfriend" :) (Hm, I wonder what 'scalar @boyf' > is, then?) Not to mention length $boyf[1] :-O -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ISDN 2e Card

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 07:58:10AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote: > I have just made the jump from the Bronze Age (modem) to the Iron Age > (ISDN) and need an ISDN 2e PCI card that supports both Linux and Windoze > 98/2000... anyone have a recommendation of what sort of card I should get? I sucessfu

Re: dha

On 15 Sep 2001, Chris Ball wrote: > > > My experience is that CS grads can be very good however most are only > > > about average. If you do get a programmer who has a degree in some other > > > subject then usually they are better than the CS student as they are > > > thinking "out of the box"

RE: ISDN 2e Card

From: Andy Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 9/18/01 8:58:10 AM > I have just made the jump from the Bronze Age (modem) to > the Iron Age (ISDN) and need an ISDN 2e PCI card that > supports both Linux and Windoze 98/2000... anyone have a > recommendation of what sort of card I should get? I

Re: The best film of all time?

http://us.imdb.com/top_250_films http://us.imdb.com/bottom_100_films

Re: ISDN 2e Card

>I have just made the jump from the Bronze Age (modem) to the Iron Age >(ISDN) and need an ISDN 2e PCI card that supports both Linux and Windoze >98/2000... anyone have a recommendation of what sort of card I should get? if you possibly can i'd say get an isdn router instead. you can pick them u

Re: Heh.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:01:22PM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: > David H. Adler wrote: > > http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/kmt.png > > The requested URL /~simon/kmt.png was not found on this server. Dang. I'll see if I can dig it up elsewhere... dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - h

Re: The best film of all time?

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > For me the best films of all time would be, Just caught up with this thread whilst eating possibly the largest baked potato I have ever seen. Yum :-) Anyway, in addition to lots of good films already mentioned, I would add: Shawshank Redemption #

Re: The best film of all time?

Most if not all of my top films have been mentioned already... memento rhps dr strangelove leon the breakfast club The princess bride shock treatment [0] Red [0] or at least it would be if I could find ANYWHERE where I could buy it on DVD (or VCD).

Re: Heh.

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, David H. Adler wrote: > > > http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/kmt.png > > The requested URL /~simon/kmt.png was not found on this server. > Dang. I'll see if I can dig it up elsewhere... I have from a reliable source that there might be a T-shirt and the image has been shunte

Re: The best film of all time?

From: Redvers Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 9/18/01 2:37:31 PM > Most if not all of my top films have been mentioned > already... [snip] > the breakfast club A great film right up to the ending where the interesting (and every so slightly gothic) Ally Sheedy character is convinced that he

Re: The best film of all time?

>And me only 100 years old too [1]. > >Simon. > >[1] In base 4. (ooh, thread flashback !) 4^0 = 1, 4^1 = 4, 4^2 = 16 Er... shome mishtake shurely? Dave... [who could well be mistaken here] -- Mention The Lord of the Rings just once more and I'll more than likely ki

Re: Heh.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 02:43:17PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, David H. Adler wrote: > > > > > http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/kmt.png > > > The requested URL /~simon/kmt.png was not found on this server. > > Dang. I'll see if I can dig it up elsewhere... > > I have fr

Re: Heh.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 02:43:17PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, David H. Adler wrote: [>> someone wrote: ] [>>> dha wrote: ] > > > > http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/kmt.png > > > The requested URL /~simon/kmt.png was not found on this server. > > Dang. I'll see if I can dig

Re: Heh.

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > > > > http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/kmt.png > > > > The requested URL /~simon/kmt.png was not found on this server. > > > Dang. I'll see if I can dig it up elsewhere... > > I have from a reliable source that there might be a T-shirt and the

Re: Heh.

David H. Adler wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 02:43:17PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > > > I have from a reliable source that there might be a T-shirt > > and the image has been shunted elsewhere until decisions have > > been made. > > Yep. Just got an email to that effect. So what *was*

tv

Now that unmissabletv.com has gone away, how do I get all the terrestrial tv listings in one place on the web? Suggestions on the back of an email... -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tv

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > Now that unmissabletv.com has gone away, how do I get all the > terrestrial tv listings in one place on the web? I usually go for www.teletext.co.uk/tvplus/ but am willing to be enlightened. L. length $boyf[1] < 0;

Mail bounce, grumble grumble...

Sorry to send this to the list. I tried to write privatly to a member of the list and their MTA hates me (sob). [0] Red [0] BIG pet hate. ISP's deciding what mail a customer is allowed to recieve. Forwarded message: > From MAILER-DAEMON Tue Sep 18 20:16:27 2001 > X-Failed-Recipients: [EMAIL P

Re: Mail bounce, grumble grumble...

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:32:13PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > Sorry to send this to the list. I tried to write privatly to a > member of the list and their MTA hates me (sob). [0] Well, according to someone on exim-users (who I've been in a flamewar with - just for a change): http://www.exim

Re: Mail bounce, grumble grumble...

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:54:04PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:32:13PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > > Sorry to send this to the list. I tried to write privatly to a > > member of the list and their MTA hates me (sob). [0] > > Well, accor

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Re: Heh.

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > Actually, my reliable source *is* the artist. So nerr :-P > I dont believe you - how can an artist be described as reliable /J\

Re: Heh.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 04:21:42PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > Actually, my reliable source *is* the artist. So nerr :-P > I dont believe you - how can an artist be described as reliable Have you ever used PuTTY on windows? MBM -- Matthew

Re: Heh.

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 04:21:42PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > > Actually, my reliable source *is* the artist. So nerr :-P > > I dont believe you - how can an artist be described as reliable ..

Re: Time to read (was Re: volume)

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I wonder how people who dont have the luxury of a long commute with a > > laptop cope , how else do you find the time ? > > There should be enough clues in the headers of this reply to answer > your ques

Re: Time to read (was Re: volume)

* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > You stay up all night reading e-mail ? > no, i stay up all night reading news, then i read email early in the morning *twitch* greg -- Greg McCarroll http://217.34.97.146/~gem/