RE: downloady filenames
From: Robin Szemeti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 June 2001 03:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: downloady filenames ISTR somebody explaing the magic incantations you could put after Content-type: text/some-funny-application in order for the browser to try and save it as 'something.xyz' instead of 'scriptname.pl' .. enlighten me please as I have flushed my archive and lost it. http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types has a list of the various MIME types that are out there. It will also point your towards the relevant RFC's. You may also need to use the Content-Encoding: enctype header depending on what your spitting out. Rob --- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of IBNet Plc. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version.
RE: www.gateway.gov.uk
From: Chris Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Why, when the sun is shining (almost) and there is a popular (?) govt. do I feel like I did in early/mid 70's: like the end of the world was nigh? Hmm, not sure... but is the feeling helped buy having someone in the White House who has no real idea of foreign policy (and doesn't seem to care that much), and is sitting at his desk thinking (and I use the term advisedly) - 'I wonder what this big red button does...' No, I thought not. Rob --- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of IBNet Plc. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version.
RE: www.gateway.gov.uk
From: Paul Makepeace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] PS -- that is one truly obnoxiously big sig. I apologise profusely for my employers lawyers need to avoid any form of litigation due to something that I may or may not say to the right or wrong person while sending an email which may or may not be on behalf of the company and therefor needs the sig from hell to disclaim anything that I may or may not have said within said email and basically saying that anything I did say wasn't said by me on behalf of the company or anybody else including myself and in fact you really should consider the email that you might have received to be totally empty and must destroy all traces of it but not until you've emailed me back to say that you may have received it possibly or not in error. Rob Maybe I should be a lawyer. Except, of course, I didn't say that. --- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of IBNet Plc. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version.
Re: www.gateway.gov.uk
This in the Opera (browser) Newsletter I received yesterday: * Opera challenges UK govt to support standards * The British government's prestigious gateway http://www.gateway.gov.uk/ security system only lets users perform transactions when using IE. Opera challenges the UK government to support World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards and let British citizens enjoy full access to the Web from different browsers, platforms and devices. In the future, British users might even find that they can't access the gateway, because wireless devices' manufacturers increasingly are choosing other browsers than IE. The British wireless consortium Symbian is an example of a future leading platform not running IE. Opera's CTO, Håkon Lie, is currently in contact with the assistant to UK's e-envoy, Andrew Pinder. Pinder's office is responsible for the commissioning of the site, gateway.gov.uk. Read the story in The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19275.html I don't know whether that link was the one quoted previously. 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.
Obnoxious sigs (was Re: www.gateway.gov.uk)
Robert Thompson wrote: I apologise profusely Sorry, you'll have to give me a hardcopy version of that before I'll believe you: E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. Your apology might otherwise be construed to be the figment of some mailer-daemon's imagination :-) (Oh, no! I just quoted Robert Thompson! Doesn't that contravene If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. since the message was addressed to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and not to me?) Hm, perhaps I'll use the company semi-official sig for a change. (The official one specifies which fonts[1] and sizes to use, but I can't do that in plain text email, so I don't bother.) No ugly disclaimers in that, thank goodness, but no proper sig delimiter, either. [1] That explains the long lines of dashes; they're supposed to align with the longest line of text *on the print-out*, and are based on sending HTML or Rich Text email in Arial, not a fixed-width font such as I use to compose my messages. Cheers, Philip Newton -- datenrevision GmbH Co. OHG a gedas company Cuxhavener Straße 36, D-21149 Hamburg Telefon/phone +49-40-797 007-37 Telefax/telefax +49-40-797 007-10 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datenrevision.de --
RE: downloady filenames
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Robert Thompson wrote: From: Robin Szemeti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 June 2001 03:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: downloady filenames ISTR somebody explaing the magic incantations you could put after Content-type: text/some-funny-application in order for the browser to try and save it as 'something.xyz' instead of 'scriptname.pl' .. enlighten me please as I have flushed my archive and lost it. http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types has a list of the various MIME types that are out there. It will also point your towards the relevant RFC's. indeed .. looks pretty much the same as my apache mime types file ... and I already have a mime type header for what I am serving up.. but this is different to what was looking for. someone somewhere a few weeks ago posted something about an extra line you could put not dissimilar to 'Apparent-filename: something.xyz' .. its not so much a mime types thing but a browser thing .. ah well .. off to London now to buy a new toy ;))) -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
Re: downloady filenames
On or about Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:10:32AM +0100, Robin Szemeti typed: someone somewhere a few weeks ago posted something about an extra line you could put not dissimilar to 'Apparent-filename: something.xyz' .. its not so much a mime types thing but a browser thing .. Content-Disposition. R
RE: downloady filenames
This seemed to work. print Content-type:application/whatever\n.Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file\n\n Thanks Jon * Jon Galliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer Perl/C++/MySQL/DB2/Java Design Net http://www.design.net.uk Tel: +44(0)870 240 0088 Fax: +44(0)870 240 0099 *
Re: Obnoxious sigs (was Re: www.gateway.gov.uk)
Isn't there some cough/ perl module that might allow us to rig a sig-stripper to be installed at dircon? Where sig = any trailer that has more than four un-para'ed lines. Or give these people a damn shell account. Or SOMETHING. (Actually I don't really care I just got carried away with the melodrama.) Paul
Re: www.gateway.gov.uk
* at 11/06 21:38 +0100 Robin Szemeti said: On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Chris Benson wrote: Didn't ukonline.co.uk complain about trademark infringement a while back? Is gateway.gov.uk the result? and is there any possible trademark confusion with this address? ring ring 'hello .. is that the government? .. oh good. I'd like to complain about trademark infringement by one of your sites ..' pause 'yes .. yes .. oh I see .. yes .. no, no you are quite right I don;t want to spend the the next 20 years talking to VAT inspectors and men from the Inland Revenue ... ah forget I ever called, by the way, did I mention waht a fantastic set of teeth Tony has?' that really is terribly cynical of you. i really can't imagine a giverment as benevolent and trustworthy as ours even contemplating such a thing. struan
Re: Persistent Perl
Dominic Mitchell sent the following bits through the ether: I think the python scheme of creating a bytecode file on the first run is better, but I'm not sure how amenable perl's code tree is to being flattened and restored (this may be why we haven't seen a perl-java compiler). ByteCache - byte-compile modules when needed The reason we haven't seen a Perl-Java compiler is due to the low-level nature of the JVM and the high-level nature of the PVM. They just don't mix well. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software...http://www.iterative-software.com/ ... I made it foolproof. They are making better fools!
Re: Persistent Perl
Dominic Mitchell wrote: And you'd have to make the daemon threaded, or end up running multiple pre-forking daemons to do the job. At which point, you're only saving the fork time and the parse time, which depending on how much effort it is to complete the above, may not be much of a saving (passing credentials along unix sockets is still pretty slow and non-portable). But isn't it roiughly the same scheme that mod_perl uses? And that *is* demonstrably useful. -- simon wistowwireless systems coder only second toughest
Re: Persistent Perl
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:31:44AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Dominic Mitchell wrote: And you'd have to make the daemon threaded, or end up running multiple pre-forking daemons to do the job. At which point, you're only saving the fork time and the parse time, which depending on how much effort it is to complete the above, may not be much of a saving (passing credentials along unix sockets is still pretty slow and non-portable). But isn't it roiughly the same scheme that mod_perl uses? And that *is* demonstrably useful. Roughly, yes, but with a lot fewer details. You could do it on a per-user basis, which would make it simpler. -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 72 | | Address: 33 Bond St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1RD, UK. |
YAPC::Europe Registration
I see that registration for YAPC::Europe has opened. http://www.yapc.org/Europe/registration.html They've also accepted both my Perl for the People and Creating Data Output Files Using the Template Toolkit talks :) Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
yapc::europe registration now open!
European Yet Another Perl Conference YAPC::Europe-2.0.01 http://www.yapc.org/Europe/ Thursday-Saturday, August 2-4, 2001 at the Hogeschool Holland, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC) is an inexpensive (99 EURO) conference for Perl users and developers. The programme is a mix of tutorials and technical talks, some of which focus on this year's theme, 'Security.' Registration is now open at http://www.yapc.org/Europe/registration.html! We encourage you to register early as there is limited space. People registering before 11 July will receive a conference t-shirt. For up-to-date information, refer to the web site or join the mailing list by sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'subscribe yapc-europe' in the email body. A hack session will be held for CPANTS (CPAN Testing Service) several days before and after the conference. For more information subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] via http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cpants-devel. We look forward to seeing you at YAPC::Europe-2.0.01! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software...http://www.iterative-software.com/ ... (D)inner not ready: (A)bort (R)etry (P)izza
Test of sorts
Since I've changed my mail setup I've had a bit of a problem with resending the bounced mails - hopefully this will prove that I fixed it :) You shouldnt be seeing any spurious [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: headers in this ... /J\ -- Jonathan Stowe Analyst/Programmer Netscalibur UK Tel: 0870 887 8841 - Fax: 0870 887 8867 http://www.netscalibur.co.uk -- Email disclaimer: This can be viewed at http://www.netscalibur.co.uk/email.html
Re: Upcoming technical meeting
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:14:41 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:34:28PM +0100, Peter Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can someone please remind me about the technical meeting on the 21st? Now that it looks like I might be in London at the time, I find I've deleted all the relevant messages and can't remember if there's an archive. Well, er..., there will be a meeting on the 21st. I spoke to Alex last night and he said we could hold it at State 51. Sadly, I can't make it to the meeting after all, even though I'll be in London the next day. -- Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just looked at the HTTP 1.1 spec (RFC 2616). It's too fscking big. It's a Request For Comments, goddamnit, not a Request For An Epic Of Homeric Proportions! -- David Cantrell
Re: Upcoming technical meeting
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way around that. If you bring your passport, we'll even let you south of the river and my sofa is very comfortable and has a well-stocked booze cabinet next to it. It's a TRAP! -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
Re: Upcoming technical meeting
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way around that. If you bring your passport, we'll even let you south of the river and my sofa is very comfortable and has a well-stocked booze cabinet next to it. It's a TRAP! You been playing wy too much nethack recently. -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 72 | | Address: 33 Bond St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1RD, UK. |
Re: Upcoming technical meeting
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way around that. If you bring your passport, we'll even let you south of the river and my sofa is very comfortable and has a well-stocked booze cabinet next to it. It's a TRAP! Curses! That was my cunning plan to acquire more victims for the Sun god, why'd you have to go and spoil it? I need a sacrifice to get this VT320 working. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it-- Agatha Christie
Re: Upcoming technical meeting
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:40:44PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way around that. If you bring your passport, we'll even let you south of the river and my sofa is very comfortable and has a well-stocked booze cabinet next to it. It's a TRAP! Curses! That was my cunning plan to acquire more victims for the Sun god, why'd you have to go and spoil it? I need a sacrifice to get this VT320 working. I think I can see where you're going wrong. It's the DEC god you should be making your sacrifices to. The Sun god will only help for Sparc 1s, 4/110s etc Nicholas Clark
Re: Upcoming technical meeting
Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: It's a TRAP! You been playing wy too much nethack recently. That was a tough level with comfy sofa and the drinks cabinet. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
Re: Upcoming technical meeting
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:26:08 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:10:01PM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:14:41 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Well, er..., there will be a meeting on the 21st. I spoke to Alex last night and he said we could hold it at State 51. Sadly, I can't make it to the meeting after all, even though I'll be in London the next day. If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way around that. If you bring your passport, we'll even let you south of the river and my sofa is very comfortable and has a well-stocked booze cabinet next to it. Well, it was partly due to having nowhere to stay, but I've requested the train ticket now, so it's too late to change my mind. Thanks for the offer, though. -- Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just looked at the HTTP 1.1 spec (RFC 2616). It's too fscking big. It's a Request For Comments, goddamnit, not a Request For An Epic Of Homeric Proportions! -- David Cantrell /me feels weird Most of the regular posters on this list (and the others I frequent) are in my sig file somewhere. Look, here's another one: -- Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Are you *really* willing to deal with hundreds of newbies who don't understand why $a . $b isn't the same as $a .$b and isn't the same as $a. $b and isn't the same as $a.$b? And do you realise what the only good answer we can possibly give them is? Because Ed said so.' -- Simon Cozens
Re: Upcoming technical meeting
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:18:43PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: It's a TRAP! You been playing wy too much nethack recently. That was a tough level with comfy sofa and the drinks cabinet. Even tougher - there's ethernet to the sofa too. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it-- Agatha Christie
Re: YAPC::Europe Registration
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:57:51AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: I see that registration for YAPC::Europe has opened. http://www.yapc.org/Europe/registration.html They've also accepted both my Perl for the People and Creating Data Output Files Using the Template Toolkit talks :) Dave... So who's registered then? ;-) Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.yacsc.com
Re: YAPC::Europe Registration
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:41:48PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: So who's registered then? ;-) I have, now to write[0] the talks. [0] always with the writing! -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: www.gateway.gov.uk
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:15:36AM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote: From: Chris Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Why, when the sun is shining (almost) and there is a popular (?) govt. do I feel like I did in early/mid 70's: like the end of the world was nigh? Hmm, not sure... but is the feeling helped buy having someone in the White House who has no real idea of foreign policy (and doesn't seem to care that much), and is sitting at his desk thinking (and I use the term advisedly) - 'I wonder what this big red button does...' Oh yes, I vaguely thought on reading about the floods in The South that maybe this was supposed to be a message like Repent your sins or I wash you off the face of the Earth. If so it missed Washington DC by about a 1,000 miles and Texas by 500. It probably missed GWB by a couple of light years. No, I thought not. Thank you for the cheery thought anyway. -- Chris Benson
RE: downloady filenames
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Jon Galliers wrote: This seemed to work. print Content-type:application/whatever\n.Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file\n\n yadda! .. thats the cookie! .. a thousand thanks ;) right I can stop my cvs files coming up as .'something.pl' now ... ta muchly. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
Re: www.gateway.gov.uk
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:55:38PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote: Oh yes, I vaguely thought on reading about the floods in The South that maybe this was supposed to be a message like Repent your sins or I wash you off the face of the Earth. I think it's more along the lines of the Creator(s) saying Oh, that Global Warming thing, you might want to check into it again. By the way, the most populous city in your home state? *WHOOSH* Paul -- Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle
Re: YAPC::Europe Registration
Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:41:48PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: So who's registered then? ;-) I have, now to write[0] the talks. I got lucky. They didn't want the Perl Proverbs talk (which I'd have to write), but they did want 12 step (which I busk). Result. -- Piers Cawley www.iterative-software.com
Re: Persistent Perl
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: Somebody tell me why this is a stupid idea because I can't think of any obvious reason but if there wasn't then I'm sure sombody would have already done it [0] ... Similar principle to mod_perl, a perl script is run but instead of a normal interpreter being fired up a daemon starts (if it isn't started already), compiles the perl to bytecode, caches the result and then executes. Takes slightly longer than the normal interpreter but not unbearably more. Next time a different script is executed the interpreter is already running and just evals the new script. This should be quicker than a normal execution. The first script is run without having been modified (stat/Fam is your friend) you just retrieve the bytecode from the cache and execute that. This should be *much* quicker than normal. sounds like an ideal plan .. the speed of mod perl without the 'this process will be around for years .. if it leaks, you;ll know' sort of problems and also lets you chop and change on the fly .. sounds ace ... is this anything like wot FastCGI does .. or is that summat different? -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
Re: Persistent Perl
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:54:01PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: is this anything like wot FastCGI does .. or is that summat different? Since 'this' is a bit muddy I couldn't say, though I do know that FastCGI works as a constantly running coprocess, so maybe -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: YAPC::Europe Registration
I got lucky. They didn't want the Perl Proverbs talk (which I'd have to write), but they did want 12 step (which I busk). Result. Busk... What a wonderful turn of phrase ;)
Re: Default library paths
There's a couple of reasonable hex editors out there, but I usually just tend to use M-x hexl-find-file in emacs. If you're a vim user, see xxd(1). or bvi (Binary vi)
Re: Where's my bloody gun?
Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * * What IS the mentality of idiots who attack community sites * like this? * *maybe it was just a script kiddie .. maybe it was a worm. It wasn't anything quite so dignified. I had reinstalled the Catalog module last month after a failed attempt to upgrade it and at the time I didn't notice it had made the .conf files group writeable. At some point within 30 mins of whomever this was deciding to overwrite the file broke the catalog but not the rest of the box. I suggest that anyone else using the Catalog module check their installation just for good measure. So, it was a trivial stupid thing that are usually the cause of such problems though it didn't make my day to hear this news before I had my first cup of coffee which may explain the note that was up on the front page for a while. Nothing was damaged or compromised save my ego :) And, as far as the idiots go, I doubt there are any fewer today then there were yesterday. e.
Re: www.gateway.gov.uk
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Chris Benson wrote: I know a state-of-emergency (or whatever) has been called to right it has, as I understand it this means now that you are supposed to drive a 5.3L V8 rather than the 7.1L V8 unless absolutlely necessary ... oops .. read 358cubic inch and 427ci ... these new fangled litres and things don't work over there yet :)) -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
Re: Where's my bloody gun?
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: And, as far as the idiots go, I doubt there are any fewer today then there were yesterday. well .. my theory is: they say 'theres one born every minute'.. but sometimes, due to oversight, there isn't one born for a whole hour or so, so they have to send along a particularly stupid one to keep the averages up. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
FreeBSD v Linux
It has occured to me over the last year that several people have proclaimed FreeBSD to be superior to Linux and vice versa. During these debates no one has been able to give me convincing argument why one may be better than the other ... Today, someone sent me this link, which I believe makes a very powerful argument regarding the potential 'back doors' in Linux. http://homepage.tinet.ie/~cullenm/2dart/regi.jpg -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
Re: www.gateway.gov.uk
Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 2:55:38 PM, Chris Benson wrote: CB On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:15:36AM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote: From: Chris Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Why, when the sun is shining (almost) and there is a popular (?) govt. do I feel like I did in early/mid 70's: like the end of the world was nigh? Hmm, not sure... but is the feeling helped buy having someone in the White House who has no real idea of foreign policy (and doesn't seem to care that much), and is sitting at his desk thinking (and I use the term advisedly) - 'I wonder what this big red button does...' CB Oh yes, I vaguely thought on reading about the floods in The South CB that maybe this was supposed to be a message like Repent your sins or CB I wash you off the face of the Earth. If so it missed Washington DC CB by about a 1,000 miles and Texas by 500. It probably missed GWB by a CB couple of light years. Missed Texas by 500 miles? I think not. I was in Houston. Worst place on earth. I most definatly did NOT miss Texas. And I wouldn't have been any happier had it hit DC instead. I live there, as do several million people who weren't elected to anything (including dubya). If you could localize the storm to a box bounded by D 2nd SE and H and 17th NW, I'd be ok with that. Oh, and take out Georgetown too while you're at it. -- mike
Re: www.gateway.gov.uk
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:55:17PM -0500, Mike Jarvis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Larry speaks in a bit over 9 hours. Yippee! Actually - he doesn't :) http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/12/2255236 Dave... -- Drugs are just bad m'kay
Re: www.gateway.gov.uk
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:10:28PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 2:55:38 PM, Chris Benson wrote: CB I wash you off the face of the Earth. If so it missed Washington DC CB by about a 1,000 miles and Texas by 500. It probably missed GWB by a CB couple of light years. Missed Texas by 500 miles? I think not. I was in Houston. Worst place on earth. I most definatly did NOT miss Texas. I need to read the news more often, I was thinking about Louisiana! I also need to get a better grip of the geography: I thought LA. was the Florida side of Mississippi and Alabama. -- Chris Benson
