Re: Buffy S6E21-22
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:11:46AM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:06:11PM -0400, Mike Jarvis wrote: When do you guys get it? I won't spoil, I'll just say I have real hope for next season. It could be really good. Or not. Lots of potential, but it really depends on where they go with it. It could still be fairly mediocre without too much trouble. Potential is all I need for hope. It could be worse than mediocre, it could be downright awful. I can think of two plot developments that could come that would be painful to think about. joke[1] Anyway, they have many ways they could go. And since Buffy gave birth to full grown demon children, think of the madcap hilarity that awaits us next year! /joke [1] No, nothing like what I described happened on the show. It was a joke, but somebody bitched at me last year for the giving away the ending with the same joke, so I felt obliged to repeat it. -- mike A whole lotta hoot and just a little bit of nanny
Re: Buffy S6E21-22
On Wed, 22 May 2002, David H. Adler wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:02:24AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:06:11PM -0400, Mike Jarvis wrote: When do you guys get it? I won't spoil, I'll just say I have real hope for next season. It could be really good. Or not. Lots of potential, but it really depends on where they go with it. It could still be fairly mediocre without too much trouble. I predict guest appearances, say Bradd Pitt, Tarantino and John Cleese. Oh and Jeff Goldblum stretching his acting range that bit further and playing a mad professor ;-) I suppose David Hemmings as a Hippie Gestapo Officer would be too much to hope for... :-) Or mulder and scully (or just scully) come to town to investigate the mysterious goings on. the hatter
Re: OT (yea right) - taking Credit card payment.
Leo Lapworth wrote: Anyway, now I've got this far I need a company to take the money from the customer and do all that security stuff. Does any one have recomendations of who I should use ? Check out worldpay. They do any number of products, including ones that will just pay into a regular current account, and ones that don't require you to host anything. I'm 99% sure they have Perl APIs where applicable. Downside is that for easy to setup and low-volume scenarios they charge a (relatively) big percentage of the sale price. Oh. And their website appears to be down right now, but maybe that's just my ISP. www.worldpay.com. -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, +44 (0)20 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Buffy S6E21-22
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:42:11AM +, the hatter wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2002, David H. Adler wrote: Or mulder and scully (or just scully) come to town to investigate the mysterious goings on. Or Agent Cooper m. -- I don't want the world, I just want your half -- Family ties : http://www.thefamilykerr.co.uk Playtime: http://www.stray-toaster.co.uk
Re: Buffy S6E21-22
On 22/05/02 07:02 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:06:11PM -0400, Mike Jarvis wrote: When do you guys get it? I won't spoil, I'll just say I have real hope for next season. It could be really good. Or not. Lots of potential, but it really depends on where they go with it. It could still be fairly mediocre without too much trouble. I predict guest appearances, say Bradd Pitt, Tarantino and John Cleese. Oh and Jeff Goldblum stretching his acting range that bit further and playing a mad professor ;-) Well, according to my media headlines roundup, provided by the kind folks at the Guardian, the Daily Star is today reporting that Britney Spears might be drafted in to play a vampire. Of course, this is a tabloid newspaper, so anything bearing resemblence to actual fact between its pages is probably a happy accident of nature. Nevertheless...
Re: Buffy S6E21-22
* Stray Toaster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:42:11AM +, the hatter wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2002, David H. Adler wrote: Or mulder and scully (or just scully) come to town to investigate the mysterious goings on. Or Agent Cooper bah, we are all missing the obvious guess appearance - Alf! -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: Beer: Jon noted that there were no hand-pulled beers. Boo. And no girlie drinks, inconvenient both for the girlies, and for those of us who don't qualify but like them anyway. ASCII plan time. [snip] You are in a twisty maze of booths and little rooms, all different. Though after having seen several oxford pubs on the weekend, that seems slightly less weird to me now. Centralness: a minute's walk from Piccadilly Circus tube. Regretably, as it'd be dead handy for me to get to. Wonder what we'd need to do to get a large area of TGIs instead. Beer might not be to everyones taste, but the cocktails are great. the hatter
Emergency loan of SCSI cdrom
There's an off chance I might need to blag a SCS cdrom drive for a day next week to plug into a sun server. internal or external should be fine. if anyone (beer) has one (beer) please let me know. I'll be passing through the west end on my way to the client. Ta, Dave
Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores
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 past their misunderstandings of uptime. A reboot doesn't mean that anything broke, there is no hardware or software corrective action taken, so there wasn't any real downtime. -- overheard in an MS strategy meeting
Re: Emergency loan of SCSI cdrom
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:40:24PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: There's an off chance I might need to blag a SCS cdrom drive for a day next week to plug into a sun server. internal or external should be fine. if anyone (beer) has one (beer) please let me know. I'll 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 Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary -- H. L. Mencken
Re: Buffy S6E21-22
Quoting Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Or mulder and scully (or just scully) come to town to investigate the mysterious goings on. Or Agent Cooper bah, we are all missing the obvious guess appearance - Alf! You're showing your age. To keep up with the current TV audience for Buffy and audience buying power that adverts are targetted at, I predict the next Buffy guest appearance to be Tinky Winky. But it was a close run thing with Thomas the TE and the Dread Purple one And I must say that reading the X files timeline at least put my mind at ease that there was some thought behind it all. Garbled and silly, but thought anyhow. After the first few episodes I thought they would just recast all of snopes.com on automatic pilot. Never watched it since. Cheers, -- Merijn Broeren | 'I want to understand everything. I want to know every- Software Geek | thing and put it all together to see what it means.' | 'Excellent project, it will look very good on your resume.'
Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores
From: Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Credit Cards are taken downstairs, which isn't a problem as far as the They did this whole carrying cards upstrairs thinig for some of us (though not blech and Kake, they obviously look like criminals.) Not sure if they'd do it for the mass of people we ar at a meeting. Forgive my paranoia, but I wouldn't let my card out of my sight in such a place - the opportunity for someone to surreptitiously skim it is too great - sure, most people aren't criminals - but the inconvenience of being caught out even once would be a major hassle. One of the things I've noticed in recent months, using a Cahoot card, is that in a lot of places they have to manually enter the number, and, in others, use a chipreader (built in to their terminal) rather than a swipereader - presumably to make it impossible to use any old card with skimmed details on the magnetic strip. Andrew.
[JOB] student placement
BBC Internet Services are looking for a student for a year's placement, running from around September this year to June next year, based in London. We are particularly interested in people who already have some knowledge of large-scale networking, multicast, and programming in perl and C. 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: [JOB] student placement
David Cantrell wrote: 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 :-) Ooh... suitably formatted. I wonder whether the BBC prefer embedded Flash animations or Java applets in their HTML emailed résumés? 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] student placement
* Newton, Philip ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ooh... suitably formatted. I wonder whether the BBC prefer embedded Flash animations or Java applets in their HTML emailed résumés? also make sure you somehow embed a MIDI tune, so whoever reviews your CV enjoys a jaunty rendition of Wannabe or perhaps Greensleeves, beeping along merrily on their speakers. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Emergency loan of SCSI cdrom
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:40:24PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: There's an off chance I might need to blag a SCS cdrom drive for a day next week to plug into a sun server. internal or external should be fine. if anyone (beer) has one (beer) please let me know. I'll 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? Middle of next week, morningish. And only if Sun can't pony one up. Ta, -- David Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hirehttp://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com All the Purple Family Tree news http://www.slashrock.com Interim Technical Director, Web Architecture Consultant for hire
Re: [JOB] student placement
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:00:25PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: also make sure you somehow embed a MIDI tune, so whoever reviews your CV enjoys a jaunty rendition of Wannabe or perhaps Greensleeves, beeping along merrily on their speakers. And a 1x1 transparent GIF web bug, so that you know they've seen your CV. Or alternatively you could just send your CV as a Word macro virus. Make Interviews Fast Nicholas Clark
[jobish] success with online applications?
Out of interest, has anyone ever got a position through an Internet job site? Putting aside the two lone jobs through registering with an agency years ago, I'm still at the 100% mark for jobs acquired through personal contacts or clients recommending me. FWIW, I generally really like the gojobsite.co.uk service but I've never got as far as being even offered an interview. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is jack? Israel Fighting. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2002-05-13
Mark == Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mark On Mon, 20 May 2002, Simon Batistoni wrote:
Ta hugely, Chris, and long may your reign continue[0].
Mark Though, do shout if you get bored.
Thanks to both for the kind words, and to Leon for keeping up the
summaries before me.
Mark Running though the list and summerising can be a thankless
Mark job[1] and shout for help should you need it / get bored /
Will do. At the moment, I'm in the midst of some evil ex**s at Uni, so
that'd be the only thing keeping me too busy[1].
I think it'll be a good thing for me to do, anyway - especially since
I'm moving to London next month (to intern with Morgan Stanley for the
Summer) and I think london.pm's the only group of people down there that
I'll have had contact with already. It'll be great to have some people
already know me from the summaries when I'm introducing myself drunkenly
at socials. Maybe.
/ramble,
- Chris.
[0]: NMF.
[1]: Or the only thing giving me the motivation to write lots of list
mail while I should be revising. You decide.
--
$a=printf.net; Chris Ball | chris@void.$a | www.$a | finger: chris@$a
chris@lexis:~$ perl -le'@a=($^O eq 'darwin')?qw(100453 81289 9159):qw
(23152 19246 2040);while(){chomp;push @b,$_ if grep {$.==$_}@a}push
@b,$^X;print ucfirst join( ,@b[2,0,3,1]).,'/usr/share/dict/words
Re: [jobish] success with online applications?
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. -- David Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hirehttp://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com All the Purple Family Tree news http://www.slashrock.com Interim Technical Director, Web Architecture Consultant for hire
Re: [jobish] success with online applications?
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 turned them down. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Dave, being Evil is no excuse for indenting like a moonshine-crazed lemur -- Aaron Trevena
Re: [jobish] success with online applications?
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:10:36AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: Out of interest, has anyone ever got a position through an Internet job site? Putting aside the two lone jobs through registering with an agency years ago, I'm still at the 100% mark for jobs acquired through personal contacts or clients recommending me. Yes, in that the job adverts on gojobsite (IIRC) were all placed by agents, and then another pimp in the same firms also found me an interview, and as a result I found a permanent job. (probably for the usual definition of permanent) Plus points: it does know where my bank account is it has provided me with a Unix desktop machine Minus points include That machine is Redhat. I've not yet found an online advert that was not put there by a pimp. This annoys me. I fail to see why the online sites can't make a killing by cutting out the pimps, and putting punters directly in touch with HR departments. Or is the problem that this would fill HR departments inboxes with bulkmail CVs? Nicholas Clark
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2002-05-13
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:13:33PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
chris@lexis:~$ perl -le'a=($^O eq 'darwin')?qw(100453 81289 9159):qw
(23152 19246 2040);while(){chomp;push b,$_ if grep {$.==$_}@a}push
b,$^X;print ucfirst join( ,b[2,0,3,1]).,'/usr/share/dict/words
I knew this couldn't possibly work, but damn it's funny!
Justness ANSI perl Hagen,
Track basic perl Riga,
Paul, just another debian/solaris[0] admin
[0] /usr/dict/words
--
Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/
What is that on your back? Ask again.
-- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/
Re: [jobish] success with online applications?
Nicholas == Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nicholas Minus points include
Nicholas That machine is Redhat.
I'm using a Redhat workstation at work at the moment, too. I told our
sysadmin that I wanted to stick Debian on there, and he pointed me to an
eleven CD Oracle 8i installation set, and told me to have fun with the
client libraries.
So, in search of a round tuit, I use Redhat. ;-)
(Plus point is that the machine has a lovely monitor and a TNT2, which
is why I was aiming for Debian rather than FreeBSD; the /Quake[123]/
matches would be significantly harder to get running at the same sort of
speed in BSD rather than Linux. Probably.)
- Chris.
--
$a=printf.net; Chris Ball | chris@void.$a | www.$a | finger: chris@$a
chris@lexis:~$ perl -le'@a=($^O eq 'darwin')?qw(100453 81289 9159):qw
(23152 19246 2040);while(){chomp;push @b,$_ if grep {$.==$_}@a}push
@b,$^X;print ucfirst join( ,@b[2,0,3,1]).,'/usr/share/dict/words
Re: [jobish] success with online applications?
Out of interest, has anyone ever got a position through an Internet job site? I got my current job through jobs.perl.org. Not quite an agency. Also been offered jobs though on-line agencies in the past. Got my first job in this way. I usually look at jobserve.com and then stray off onto the agencies' own web pages. fiq __ __ _ __ __ | \/ | ___ __| | ___ _ __ _ __ | \/ | __ _ _ __ | |\/| |/ _ \ / _` |/ _ \ '__| '_ \| |\/| |/ _` | '_ \ | | | | (_) | (_| | __/ | | | | | | | | (_| | | | | |_| |_|\___/ \__,_|\___|_| |_| |_|_| |_|\__,_|_| |_| a pathetic example of his organic heritage - Bad Religion
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2002-05-13
Paul == Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:13:33PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
chris@lexis:~$ perl -le'@a=($^O eq 'darwin')?qw(100453 81289 9159):qw
(23152 19246 2040);while(){chomp;push @b,$_ if grep {$.==$_}@a}push
@b,$^X;print ucfirst join( ,@b[2,0,3,1]).,'/usr/share/dict/words
Paul I knew this couldn't possibly work, but damn it's funny!
Paul Justness ANSI perl Hagen,
Paul Track basic perl Riga,
Paul Paul, just another debian/solaris[0] admin
*grin* I know, I know. It works on OS X and every Redhat and Mandrake
version I can find 5 (via the tertiary on $^O), which is about as far
as I think I can get in 70x3. Debian's is completely inconsistent,
changing across releases and upgrades and all sorts.
It was a cute idea, though. (And it took me ages to work out how I was
going to get 'perl' in there, given that it's not in dictionary files)
Next up, pulling them straight from perlfaq1.. ;-)
- Chris.
--
$a=printf.net; Chris Ball | chris@void.$a | www.$a | finger: chris@$a
chris@lexis:~$ perl -le'@a=($^O eq 'darwin')?qw(100453 81289 9159):qw
(23152 19246 2040);while(){chomp;push @b,$_ if grep {$.==$_}@a}push
@b,$^X;print ucfirst join( ,@b[2,0,3,1]).,'/usr/share/dict/words
Oracle client software
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:27:38PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: eleven CD Oracle 8i installation set, and told me to have fun with the client libraries. Installing 8i client software on debian is a doddle. Just fire up the main install on the main CD and select install client software. The Java even works(!) so you can happily run the full UI management beasties too, if you so desire. There is some stuff you may need to diddle with, but it's out there on the net and easily findable applies to red hat anyway (missing apostrophes in install scripts other wee horrors). I can help offline if you get stuck. 8.1.5 is quite a bit messier than later versions, IIRC. You will without doubt waste more time fscking with redhat than it will cost you installing it with debian. Not because redhat sucks (*cough*) but your invested time in debian won't be being used, IMO. If your lazy admin ever tries that kind of smart-ass bullshit again, point out that Oracle don't support Red Hat any more. (Did someone say fscked gcc library snapshots in production releases?) OK, they don't support Debian either :-) Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the way home? Temporary pride is just a dream. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2002-05-13
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:34:29PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: *grin* I know, I know. It works on OS X and every Redhat and Mandrake version I can find 5 (via the tertiary on $^O), which is about as far as I think I can get in 70x3. Debian's is completely inconsistent, changing across releases and upgrades and all sorts. Ooh, new OS fingerprinting technique! Fortune anaesthetically perl endorsement, = wbritish 3.1.20-21.1 Cheers, Roger
Re: [jobish] success with online applications?
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:38:17PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: At my previous permanent employer (the one with the nice view[*], and other things I liked such as decent cappuccino within walking distance) we had Oracle 8 something running on Debian x86. I may be able to put you in touch with someone who knows how to do it. I've done it. It's not all that hard. I'll be glad to help if this is something of interest. Roger
'open_digi' season DOG STAR, London starts May 22nd
Starts tonight. Looks very cool indeed. If you prefer reading garish websites, this email is more or less at http://club.net-art.ws/ To save you the grief of streetmap's appalling interface address parser, the Dog Star bar is basically here, http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=531233y=175336z=1sv=coldharbour+lanest=1tl=Coldharbour+Lane,+SW9searchp=newsearch.srfmapp=newmap.srf Paul --- a new monthly digital night out kicks off at the Dog Star, Coldhabour Lane, London SW9 on May 22nd the 'open_digi' season (May 22nd, June 19th, July 10th) will mix artists and activists working online and in digital media, talking about their work and ending with a digital jam session with visual projections and sounds mix OPEN_MOUSE 7.30pm the evening will start with an open_mouse half hour at 7.30pm for all comers to demo their work for five minutes, to ask to appear for this please visit http://club.net-art.ws MAIN GUESTS 8.30pm the first evening will feature main demos (starting 8.30pm) from STANZA from http://www.stanza.co.uk, James Stevens of http://www.consume.net and bongo from http://www.piratetv.net subvergence project the central city STANZA STANZA will present works from www.thecentralcity.co.uk Continuing the search for the soul of the city. The idea is to go deeper into analogies for the organic identity of the city. Inner City is an audio visual, interactive, internet art, experience. The micro city becomes an organic networks of grids and diagrams. www.subvergence.net The internet has become the the leading economic and artistic tool for our age. Words like emergence are used to explain the propulsion of these medias into our daily lives. Convergence is used to fuse the meeting of medias onto the the paradigm of new technology. Subvergence scrambles the cins of the internet. CONSUME.NET James Stevens James Stevens of http://dek.spc.org, Deckspace, Greenwich (and previously backspace) will talk about consume.net. Consume is a nationwide initiative to construct user owned and operated, free networks utilising wireless broadband technology that trip the local loop out of the hands of the telecom monopoly and into open space. It's an assertion of rights to self provide, propagate ideals of community, counter commerce and consume the net. PIRATETV.net bongo From J18 to Radiohead ... local heroine, bongo will give a retrospective view on pirate tv's first four years ... www.piratetv.net was born out of the excitement of early London pirate radio days, frustration with the dumbing down of legal stations and the straightjacket of commercial television ... a showcase for the creation and display of quality zentertainment, free from the financial and creative restraints of the industry ... It's about wanting things raw and fresh. Like a salad. Put simply Piratetv.net is the place to visit for live audio/visual streams. It's like passing a fiddle around the world ... IN THE MIX digital mix session from STANZA and atty (beta testing his 3D multi-user sound sensitive environment http://rnd.net-art.ws/START.html) to request appearence at or receive regular news of the 'open_digi' season please visit http://club.net-art.ws yours sincerely Andrew Forbes there will be a door charge of ?1 on May 22nd, the event will be held in the first floor bar TO SUBSCRIBE FOR NEWS of future open_digi events register at http://club.net-art.ws FUTURE DATES 19th June 'open_digi' goes latino MAIN GUESTS Arcangel Constantinni http://www.UNOSUNOSYUNOSCEROS.COM virtually in control from Mexico City andres burbano Colombia Brian Mackern http://www.internet.com.uy/vibri/artefactos/index2.htm Montevideo, Uruguay + london locals 10th July 'open_digi' net-art01 MAIN GUESTS the results of the open net-art arena 'net-art01' from http://www.net-art.ws will be announced by Mike and Emerald http://www.urban75.com Florian and Alexandra http://www.ni-res.net the presenters will also demo their own work the 'open_digi' season is presented by and association with the Dog Star, Coldharbour Lane, London SW9 http://www.dogstarbar.co.uk Brixton's top pub venue, late bar through out the week club.net-art http://club.net-art.ws the live events arm of http://www.net-art.ws soundtoys http://www.soundtoys.net Convergence New audio visual experiences, online and offline. Soundtoys features offline contributions from julian baker , pelado, stanza, boredom research, andy forbes, squidsoup, jey malaiperman, andrew allenson, rechord , iriealists, amy alexandra, karsten scmitt , ixi, golan levin, leafcutter john, michaelmedia and online contributions from ian andrews, antionne schmitt, andy wilson, soda, backeria, rain ashford, adam rogers , michael van der haagen, brian judy, jim andrews , peter luining, sub meta OFFLINE http://offline.areatres.net international association of net art practicioners dedicated to the execution of public offline events and installations using network and digital media. Members
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2002-05-13
Quoting Chris Ball ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I think it'll be a good thing for me to do, anyway - especially since I'm moving to London next month (to intern with Morgan Stanley for the Summer) Yes, your imminent arrival was announced to me :-) -- Merijn Broeren | 'I want to understand everything. I want to know every- Software Geek | thing and put it all together to see what it means.' | 'Excellent project, it will look very good on your resume.'
Tactical Global Thermonuclear War (and other ways to spend yourspare time).
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 09:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the map in the NORAD when WOPR tries to convince the USians that they're under nuclear attack (in War Games). Has anyone else toyed with the idea of writing a networked version of Tactical Global Thermonuclear War - a'la War Games. Sounds remarkablly simple by todays standards - a couple of hours development by a couple of people should be able to create something modular enough to play and expand. The more interesting bit I expect would be the research that you would need to do into the weaponry, population densities, locations etc. Anyone fancy the idea? Could be a larf
Re: [jobish] success with online applications?
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:10:36AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: I've employed people using online job sites. It feels nice to cut out the evil recruitment people. Personal contacts are still the preferred mechanism tho'. I've not yet found an online advert that was not put there by a pimp. This annoys me. I fail to see why the online sites can't make a killing by cutting out the pimps, and putting punters directly in touch with HR departments. Or is the problem that this would fill HR departments inboxes with bulkmail CVs? Basically. -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, +44 (0)20 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2002-05-13
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I knew this couldn't possibly work, but damn it's funny! Justness ANSI perl Hagen, Track basic perl Riga, Justice another perl hackers [Linux penderel 2.4.18 #4 ] Blackening Actinosphaerium perl batikulin, [FreeBSD riffraff 4.5-STABLE] -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/
Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:26:15PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: 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. ...and I bet he won't be the only one... -- Natalie S. Ford ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.natalie.ourshack.org/ http://natalief.livejournal.com/
Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:45:06PM +0100, Natalie S. Ford said: Just a pity the food is so awful - i can always eat in transit to the pub though... And the beer. Disregarding handpulled or not was it a deliberate move to use another Sam Smith's pub or just a coinckydinks? I don't know about any body else but Sam Smith's make the worst tasting beer I've ever tasted. If everyone else feels different I'll shut up. Simon p.s this is not in anyway denigrating the sterling efforts of the Pub Czar(s). -- : it's not the heat, it's the humanity
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2002-05-13
Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:13:33PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
chris@lexis:~$ perl -le'@a=($^O eq 'darwin')?qw(100453 81289 9159):qw
(23152 19246 2040);while(){chomp;push @b,$_ if grep {$.==$_}@a}push
@b,$^X;print ucfirst join( ,@b[2,0,3,1]).,'/usr/share/dict/words
I knew this couldn't possibly work, but damn it's funny!
Justness ANSI perl Hagen,
Track basic perl Riga,
Justice another perl hackers [Linux penderel 2.4.18 #4 ]
5a 5tte perl 4on, [Linux ddmi.he.net 2.2.20 #5]
Yup, looks like 'perl' is more cross platform than 'hackers' :)
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Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:55:20PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: I don't know about any body else but Sam Smith's make the worst tasting beer I've ever tasted. I'm with you on that, not that I come to many of the meets. Planning on getting to the next one though. -- dave thorn | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Buffy S6E21-22
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:06:01PM +0200, Merijn Broeren wrote: Quoting Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): bah, we are all missing the obvious guess appearance - Alf! You're showing your age. I mentioned David Hemmings and *Greg*'s showing his age?? :-) -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ ...who could save journalists a lot of trouble by adopting not related as his middle name... - A. O. Scott, on Kiyoshi Kurosawa, in the NY Times
Re: Linux distribution of choice
Newton, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, what distro do people prefer and why? What's better in Debian than in Distro X? What's bad about distro X? Currently, I'm running DeadRat (have been for about 5 years now). Why? Because I was young and foolish and that's what was on the CDs I found. I don't do a lot of tinkering, but when I do it's all pretty clear and there are 1001 pages of information about it on the web. Not to mention shed-loads of packages. Having said that, as soon as I get the nod from management (i.e. time away from urgent (to them) development), I'm frying my laptop to put Debian on it. Ideologically, Debian is a lot closer to my understanding of what open source is about. And let's not mention the fact that Debian's package management system manages packages unlike RPM which is increasingly about as reliable as Install Shield (particularly when uninstalling), and about as useful as mamary glands on a male bovine if you can't satisfy the package dependencies when you're trying to install. When updating packages in RH, after a relatively short time I find that I have a dirty install and it's almost worth doing a fresh install to clean the system out. Colleagues who use Debian say that it doesn't suffer from as much residue when performing system maintenance. One other thing that is drawing me to Debian is the speed with which the distribution moves. Unstable packaged with no bug reports for two weeks are placed straight into testing. They also do a lot of testing to ensure the modules/packages work across multiple architectures. Debian, to me, is put together by a lot of guys who work hard doing what they love. That's always going to produce great code. I don't have any esperience with SuSE, and I haven't touched Slackware since early 1996. If you're running servers, however, I can highly recommend FreeBSD. Again, it's been over 3 years since I touched it, but back then it was very stable and friendly towards typical server-type activities. Ian _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
Re: Oracle client software
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:37:17AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: If your lazy admin ever tries that kind of smart-ass bullshit again, point out that Oracle don't support Red Hat any more. (Did someone say fscked gcc library snapshots in production releases?) OK, they don't support Debian either :-) Have they used rantgcc 2.96/rant as an excuse to stop all linux support? Or are Oracle just giving Red Hat what it deserved for being so inept as to include a developer snapshot gcc in a stable release, and not just that, but one that is C++ ABI incompatible with 2.9.5, and incompatible with 3.0. So (I infer from the above) Red Hat are going to have to stick with the stupid thing until 8.0 ? Nicholas Clark -- Even better than the real thing:http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
Re: Oracle client software
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:08:16PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:37:17AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: If your lazy admin ever tries that kind of smart-ass bullshit again, point out that Oracle don't support Red Hat any more. (Did someone say fscked gcc library snapshots in production releases?) OK, they don't support Debian either :-) Have they used rantgcc 2.96/rant as an excuse to stop all linux support? Support? From Oracle? For something other than Windows? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Yes, you could pay Oracle for support for RedHat, and you couldn't for Debian. This made no difference to the quality of the support IME. Roger
Re: Oracle client software
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:17:34PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: Support? From Oracle? For something other than Windows? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Yes, you could pay Oracle for support for RedHat, and you couldn't for Debian. This made no difference to the quality of the support IME. What about support on Solaris? Nicholas Clark
Re: Oracle client software
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:30:14PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:17:34PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: Yes, you could pay Oracle for support for RedHat, and you couldn't for Debian. This made no difference to the quality of the support IME. What about support on Solaris? I haven't tried it, but have no reason to suppose it's any better than their Linux support was. Certainly, when I've spoken with them, their attitude has been Oh, not Windows? Too bad. Roger
Re: Oracle client software
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:37:36PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:30:14PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:17:34PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: Yes, you could pay Oracle for support for RedHat, and you couldn't for Debian. This made no difference to the quality of the support IME. What about support on Solaris? I haven't tried it, but have no reason to suppose it's any better than their Linux support was. Certainly, when I've spoken with them, their attitude has been Oh, not Windows? Too bad. My experience has been that the support from Oracle for Solaris is very good. If it were a less horrible product, I'd be happy about that. nic -- New No New Age Advanced Ambient Motor Music Machine
Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: Beer: Jon noted that there were no hand-pulled beers. Boo. Well that'll be a no from me then. /J\
Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: Beer: Jon noted that there were no hand-pulled beers. Boo. On Wed 22 May 2002, Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well that'll be a no from me then. Cool, so you'll come to a meet if we find somewhere with good beer? :) Kake
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Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: Beer: Jon noted that there were no hand-pulled beers. Boo. Double boo. Did I mention there's a beer festival happening in Cambridge *right now*? Alas, the food was not universally considered good. Food is for wimps ;-) http://husk.org/pics/?browse=glasshouse_stores_2002-05-21 http://husk.org/pics/index.cgi?view=glasshouse_stores_2002-05-21/ leon_is_very_rude.jpg Put it away! Also something about a lack of girly drinks. What would you consider a girly drink? L. Sic Transit Van
Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:05:11PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: Beer: Jon noted that there were no hand-pulled beers. Boo. Double boo. Did I mention there's a beer festival happening in Cambridge *right now*? Did I mention that 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 straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation. -- Johnny Hart
Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:08:06PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: On Wed 22 May 2002, Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well that'll be a no from me then. Cool, so you'll 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. :-) Nicholas Clark -- Even better than the real thing:http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:45:14PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:08:06PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: On Wed 22 May 2002, Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well that'll be a no from me then. Cool, so you'll 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 something to frustrate even the unflappable Yoda and make him jam a lightsaber up his arse while screaming praise evil, the Dark Side is your friend!. -- Derek Balling, in the Monastery
[OT] Credit cards
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 recommendations? (Hopefully a sensible From: name on this one...) aef
