Re: Bah!
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:04:23PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
I've been made redundant. Anyone want an Evil Programmer?
Sorry to hear that, David. Same story over here.. I'm on notice at the moment.
I'm looking for another job working with Perl during the Summer (mid-June to
mid-September, during Uni break) in Manchester, London, Brighton or anywhere
thereabouts.
For anyone interested, my CV's at http://printf.net/cv/cv.pdf .
(or cv.{html,txt} if you'd rather)
Thanks,
~~C.
--
Chris Ball.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/
You said Java, that's as bad as Belgium. --trj
Re: Monitors
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? -Dom Oh, God. Here's one I can win, although it's spread over two monitors. I've got a 21 SGI monitor with one Penguin Computing penguin and two mini-IBM penguins on, and a 19 Samsung with a Dust Puppy and a Ximian Monkey on. :) ~~C. -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I dream in perl a lot. Last night I dreamt in make, though. That just sucked.
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* Chris Devers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 10:06 PM 2001.05.09 +0100, Grep wrote: well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... Lessee... Let's make a film, London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be vampyres? They could represent the lifesucking programmers who religiously follow Booch methodology and use Java. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: 101 uses for an inflatable Tux
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 06:42:40PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: Suggestions also welcome for all of these: http://pkl.net/~martin/lonix-2001-05-10/ Does that come with a Back Orifice? Paul
BOFHs requiring license
``BOFHs will legally need licence to work'' http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/18866.html Absurd, laughable and bizarre. What *is* wrong with the UK? Paul
Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1326000/1326657.stm
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! As I was saying to someone only yesterday, movies made by a bunch of crazy geeks would be an absolute riot. Go for it. Martin
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* Martin Ling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! As I was saying to someone only yesterday, movies made by a bunch of crazy geeks would be an absolute riot. Go for it. Somehow I see b-movie horror mixed with independence day style computer geek saves the world. Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young people from the world and has lots of flashy stuff on it (ok it would be flash, but this is a movie, so its just going to be BIG FONTS AND SWIRLING STUFF) that is actual fact brainwashing the teenagers to worship the website - the dark force is demonic and probably vampire like, however unlike the rest of his vampire minion followers he can't be killed by sunlight, stakes etc. No he has to be killed in a certain way, of course there are two plot threads first of all hacking into his website to change the brainwashing and a crew of people going in to kill the arch-badie. Wonderful! Of course we could make a cyberpunk movie instead, now let me thing about it -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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-Original Message- From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course we could make a cyberpunk movie instead, now let me thing about it Someone please employ Mr Mccarroll. My mail box can't cope with him having this much spare time. ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon
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Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: Somehow I see b-movie horror mixed with independence day style computer geek saves the world. Buffy meets Real Genius meets Hackers meets Spaced meets Seven Samurai meets Pi meets Office Space meets Blade Runner meets Austin Powers? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software..http://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Back Up My Hard Drive? I Can't Find The Reverse Switch!
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young people from the world and has lots of flashy stuff on it (ok it would be flash, but this is a movie, so its just going to be BIG FONTS AND SWIRLING STUFF) that is actual fact brainwashing the teenagers to worship the website Snow Crash, essentially. -- diff: usage diff [whatever] etc. - plan9 has a bad day
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be vampyres? They could represent the lifesucking programmers who religiously follow Booch methodology and use Java. How about a movie set in a post-holocaustic London where the surviving Perl Mongers are desperately trying to survive against the hordes of radiation-addled Java Zombies, and locate the few remaining stashes of beer and bandwidth? Or some kind of bizzaro martial arts fest pitching the Heretics against the True London.pm'ers (tm)... Alex -- I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want. - Jareth, Labyrinth
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* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Snow Crash, essentially. yeah but with Vampires, and the sword fighting would be carried out in the real world by a young blonde female - see its totally original! -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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* Alex Page ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be vampyres? They could represent the lifesucking programmers who religiously follow Booch methodology and use Java. How about a movie set in a post-holocaustic London where the surviving Perl Mongers are desperately trying to survive against the hordes of radiation-addled Java Zombies, and locate the few remaining stashes of beer and bandwidth? this would reduce the travelling expenses, my movie was going to be set in hawaii and i would also of needed a red ferrari for my part in the movie - i was going to supply the shirts my self - actually now that i think about it i'm still on for the hawaii idea ;-) Or some kind of bizzaro martial arts fest pitching the Heretics against the True London.pm'ers (tm)... well lets look at the facts, [1] its a martial arts film [2] the heretics are out number by the repressive regime and unfairly branded as heretics therefore we win! horrah! -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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On Sat, 12 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Chris Devers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 10:06 PM 2001.05.09 +0100, Grep wrote: well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... Lessee... Let's make a film, London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be vampyres? Hookay guys, I was just trying to get you to drink. I didn't think that were *actually going to want to make a movie*... Drinking rule addendum: if anyone posts a screenplay, everyone has to down a case of beer. Each. hic! :) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:56:48AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1326000/1326657.stm Unfortunately I got the phone call at 7:10 this morning :-( Definitely a strange day. Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.yacsc.com
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Somehow I see b-movie horror mixed with independence day style computer geek saves the world. ObRant (sigh, becoming a habit again): 'Oh, hey! Like, I saw that Antitrust movie! I remember you're one of those Linux guys, so you must totally love this film because it's all about the geeks and er, stuff. So I think maybe I get this whole open source thing a bit better now because I heard the word in a movie! But like, you guys need to get over it. It's not like in the movie, they're not killing programmers or anything. Jeez, you guys are crazy, you really thought that? You need to get out more. Anyway, can you help me fix my computer sometime? I've got install this new version of Office so I can read my mail, but I think I have to subscribe now or something and the machine keeps crashing I think it got hacked or summat or I got a virus... anyway, see ya' Martin
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:49:05AM -0400, Alex Page wrote: How about a movie set in a post-holocaustic London where the surviving Perl Mongers are desperately trying to survive against the hordes of radiation-addled Java Zombies, and locate the few remaining stashes of beer and bandwidth? Evil Dead - the Language of Darkness. Or some kind of bizzaro martial arts fest pitching the Heretics against the True London.pm'ers (tm)... And has someone stolen our Illustrious Leader's Secret Manual? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our most advanced operating system in the world which we decided to release incomplete just for a laugh
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:38:08PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young people from the world and has lots of flashy stuff on it (ok it would be flash, but this is a movie, so its just going to be BIG FONTS AND SWIRLING STUFF) that is actual fact brainwashing the teenagers to worship the website Snow Crash, essentially. I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. The first three pages, up to the line about pizza, cut slightly and narrated in a deadpan style against some suitably badass footage would make an absolutely superb start to a movie. Martin
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:01:26PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Evil Dead - the Language of Darkness. Or some kind of bizzaro martial arts fest pitching the Heretics against the True London.pm'ers (tm)... And has someone stolen our Illustrious Leader's Secret Manual? Y'know, if we just want to do cr0bar-style bastardisations [0], that's quite another (easier) matter entirely... Martin [0] http://www.detonate.net/ - Matrix was the original and best, but the others have some good bits.
Re: Monitors
At 16:22 11/05/01, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? 8: 1. beanie baby camel (Niles) 2. beanie buddy (bigger) camel (Humphrey) 3. SUSE plush gecko (Geeko) 4. plush dust puppy (another is hanging from my shelf) 5. beanie baby lizard (Scaly) 6. medium plush tux 7. small plush corel linux tux 8. plush Norbert the dragon from Harry Potter and, underneath: 9. ceramic dragon (yes, i collect dragons, but the rest are in the living room) 10. lego polar bear (from arctic sets) 11. legoland plush dragon rattle - Natalie Ford Iterative Software Ltd. http://www.iterative-software.com Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Ltd. http://www.yacsc.com
Re: O Brother (was Re: Buffy musings ...)
Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Piers Cawley writes: I'm trying to work out if I was bowled over by 'Go to sleep pretty baby' because of the song or the visuals... Ob Porn: You can see a nipple and curve of a breast through a wet shirt if you look in the right place. Actually, I bought the soundtrack and listened to that track without the visuals. It's still stunning. And vaguely threatening Go to sleep pretty baby. Go to sleep pretty baby. Come and lay your bones on the alabaster stones and be nobody else's baby. -- Piers Cawley www.iterative-software.com
Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...)
Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg McCarroll writes: And while we are on the old films chestnut, my current recommendation is 'O Brother, where art thou?', excellent film. I loved it. I've seen it twice. Of course, I'm a bluegrass music nut. Bluegrass is okay, but I prefer the gentler, old timey stuff. I'd rather hear a banjo played clawhammer style than plucked any day of the week. Sara Gray is about the best player in this style I've heard over here... -- Piers Cawley www.iterative-software.com
Re: Traditional music (was Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))
Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg McCarroll writes: I think `man of sorrow' will be a good ambassador for bluegrass Yup, it is. I'd just like to add that I saw it performed by the real band (i.e., not George Clooney lipsynching) one week ago. It was bloody brilliant. I think I even have a photo on the digital camera of them around the microphone doing the harmonies. No fake beards, though:-) There are rumours of a Soggy Bottom Boys tour in 2002. There was a big concert of the music from the movie last year, and it was recorded by some famous documentarian. I'm looking forward to the release of that. DA Pennebaker. On the subject of music (despite the Subject: of movies) ... anyone here into trad. Irish instrumental music? I prefer trad English. And I really prefer trad. English vocal, preferably without instruments... -- Piers Cawley www.iterative-software.com
Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...)
David H. Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:55:16AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: On the subject of music (despite the Subject: of movies) ... anyone here into trad. Irish instrumental music? [raises hand] Actually, Celtic in general, more than *just* irish... So you don't like English traditional music then. Shame. -- Piers Cawley www.iterative-software.com
Re: Dim Sum?
Leo Lapworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:30:13PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Hodgkinson sent the following bits through the ether: Anyone up for Dim Sim at 1 O'clock? Yes. New World, Gerrard Street. I may be very on time. ARGH! Sorry, I got PHB-ed. Well, lucky I turned up then wasn't it.. or it'd have been poor Leon on his own in a strange town. You also missed the best Dim Sim ever, they liked us so much we got free saki and a 50% of the meal. This is the New World. We know what it's like. And the women they provided (hmm, think I'm going too far ?) Yup. -- Piers Cawley www.iterative-software.com
Re: Irish music (was RE: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))
Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:55 PM On the subject of music (despite the Subject: of movies) ... anyone here into trad. Irish instrumental music? Well, I prefer stuff with lyrics, but enjoy almost any kind of Irish (and English) folk music. What are you doing between TPC and Y::E? You sound like the kind of person who would really enjoy the Cambridge Folk Festival http://www.cam-folkfest.co.uk/. Do any possible folk festival you can, but avoid cambridge. Too rock and roll nowadays. -- Piers Cawley www.iterative-software.com
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Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Cross: You sound like the kind of person who would really enjoy the Cambridge Folk Festival Or, indeed, the Holmfirth Folk Festival: on this weekend for all your real ale, finger-in-ear, set-in-summer-wine-country needs http://www.riceholm.demon.co.uk/ We decided not to go. Worked on the website instead. What fun. Not. -- Piers Cawley www.iterative-software.com
Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...)
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 05:37:24PM -0400, Piers Cawley wrote: David H. Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:55:16AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: On the subject of music (despite the Subject: of movies) ... anyone here into trad. Irish instrumental music? [raises hand] Actually, Celtic in general, more than *just* irish... So you don't like English traditional music then. Shame. Says who? I just expanded from irish... It's not like Celtic music is all I listen to... There's instrumental surf too! :-) dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Dealing with problems is only for people too weak to run away from them. - Phillip, www.goats.com/comix/0002/goats000211.gif
Re: mod perl
Robin Szemeti: chances are it isnt a leak at all, just cached info filling up the planet .. more investigation needed. If it turns out that the caching is good but unpredictable in terms of how much caching will occur have a look at Apache::SizeLimit Hans.
Re: Traditional music (was Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))
On 12 May 2001, Piers Cawley wrote: I prefer trad English. And I really prefer trad. English vocal, preferably without instruments... I thought I saw someone who looked like you with the Morris Dancers last monday :) /J\
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Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: Somehow I see b-movie horror mixed with independence day style computer geek saves the world. Buffy meets Real Genius meets Hackers meets Spaced meets Seven Samurai meets Pi meets Office Space meets Blade Runner meets Austin Powers? meets Buckaroo Banzai. -- Piers Cawley www.iterative-software.com
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Martin Ling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:38:08PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young people from the world and has lots of flashy stuff on it (ok it would be flash, but this is a movie, so its just going to be BIG FONTS AND SWIRLING STUFF) that is actual fact brainwashing the teenagers to worship the website Snow Crash, essentially. I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. The first three pages, up to the line about pizza, cut slightly and narrated in a deadpan style against some suitably badass footage would make an absolutely superb start to a movie. They make a pretty spiffing start to a book too. -- Piers Cawley www.iterative-software.com
Re: Traditional music (was Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))
At 22:36 12/05/2001, you wrote: I prefer trad English. And I really prefer trad. English vocal, preferably without instruments... Known amongst many of my friends as The Ballad Of God Knows Who[1] Dave... [1] Part of an affectionate classification of folk music into just two styles: The Ballad Of God Knows Who and The Diddly-Diddly Song. -- http://www.dave.org.uk SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] plugData Munging with Perl http://www.manning.com/cross//plug
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: Snow Crash, essentially. I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. You're obviously not the only one: http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/snowcrash.html -- Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel marketing strategy. The phrase was Divide and conquer not Divide and cock up (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Cox)
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. Totally. I mean, if they can make Antitrust.. :) :still laughs at: I've fixed our bottleneck! What, you realised that you've been writing Java?.. ~C. -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My dream woman's dimensions? 1600x1200x24, for sure.
Re: putting escape characters in files
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:55:46AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: I see a topic far in the distance and rapidly dwindling... Topic? What's a topic? :-) -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Six course banquet of nothing, with a scoop of sod-all for a palate cleanser - Rupert Giles
