Re: Tourist-y suggestions?
Hi From: Randy J. Ray rj...@blackperl.com To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers london.pm@london.pm.org Sent: Friday, 1 November, 2013 3:12:39 AM Subject: Tourist-y suggestions? As before, any and all ideas/suggestions are greatly appreciated... I like the London Aquarium. -- Martin A. Brooks http://antibodyMX.net/ - antispam antivirus email filtering.
Re: Tourist-y suggestions?
The Wellcome Collection at Euston always has something interesting to see. Spiros On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Martin A. Brooks mar...@antibodymx.netwrote: Hi From: Randy J. Ray rj...@blackperl.com To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers london.pm@london.pm.org Sent: Friday, 1 November, 2013 3:12:39 AM Subject: Tourist-y suggestions? As before, any and all ideas/suggestions are greatly appreciated... I like the London Aquarium. -- Martin A. Brooks http://antibodyMX.net/ - antispam antivirus email filtering.
Re: Tourist-y suggestions?
On Friday 01 Nov 2013 09:28 Spiros Denaxas wrote: The Wellcome Collection at Euston always has something interesting to see. A bit less than usual at the moment due to redevelopment. http://www.wellcomecollection.org/be-part-of-our-curious-journey.aspx
Re: Tourist-y suggestions?
This needs an update and I now disagree with some of the comments and there are three great musems to be added: http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog/2009/08/emergency-london-tourist-stuff-updated/ I wrote it on the tube on the way to pick up my soon-to-be wife :) The extra museums are the Geffrye (next to Hoxton overground and GREAT Vietnamese foods), the bizarre Wallace Collection and the William Morris if you like your pre-Raphaelite crafts. I can give you tips for two GREAT places to lunch in Shoreditch :) On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Graeme Hewson ghew...@wormhole.me.ukwrote: On Friday 01 Nov 2013 09:28 Spiros Denaxas wrote: The Wellcome Collection at Euston always has something interesting to see. A bit less than usual at the moment due to redevelopment. http://www.wellcomecollection.org/be-part-of-our-curious-journey.aspx
Re: Tourist-y suggestions?
You may have been to London before but there are hundreds of great museums and I'm sure you've not seen them all. Sir John Soane's Museum - http://www.soane.org/ The Wallace Collection (18th century fine art, world class collection of armour) - http://www.wallacecollection.org/ The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art - http://www.estorickcollection.com/home.php L. Ron Hubbard's house (presented without comment) - http://www.fitzroyhouse.org/ Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons (curated tour needs pre-booking, wednesday PM IIRC) - http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/hunterian Bethnal Green day-spa run by the council as a social enterprise - http://www.spa-london.org/yorkhall/ Freemasons' Hall - a Masonic temple, great / unique architecture, open to the public - http://www.ugle.org.uk/freemasons-hall Need some restaurant suggestions? Ottolenghi is always great. Koya the udon noodle place in Frith St. Peckham friends rave about Silk Road and The Begging Bowl. HTH, /joel On 1 November 2013 04:12, Randy J. Ray rj...@blackperl.com wrote: Hello folks, First of all, thanks to everyone who helped me with finding a hotel in response to my previous email. I ended up using booking.com, and I have to say I was most impressed with their UI and ease-of-use. I'm flying out tomorrow, scheduled to land on Saturday. I have a little bit of tourism pre-planned, but I'm looking for a few interesting, not-the-usual-tourist-spot ideas. I've been to London several times before, so I've seen a lot of the museums and typical attractions. What I'm looking for are things that the average tourist might not know about-- walking tours, particularly interesting museum exhibits, off-beat things. Good book and/or music stores would be interesting, too. I thought I heard about a Doctor Who exhibition somewhere, for the lead-up to the 50th coming up, is that true? Things like that would be ideal! My hotel is near Paddington Station, with several tube stops within a reasonable walk... safe to say I can get most places pretty easily. Unfortunately for me, I'll miss the social this Thursday, as that's the day I head up to Telford for the convention I'm attending. As before, any and all ideas/suggestions are greatly appreciated... Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com twitter.com/rjray Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org
Re: Tourist-y suggestions?
There is a new squatted social center in Hackney (London), 195 Mare Street (E8 3QE) : http://hackneycitizen.co.uk/2013/09/03/195-mare-street-squat/ http://socialcentre.org.uk/ They have regular events and activities (you will find a calendar on their site), and are having an open meeting this week end, to set up a week of free school: This Sunday (3rd November) we are having a meeting to discuss the planning of a week-long free school at 195 Mare St. The free school will hopefully be packed with discussions, presentations and practical skill shares that are (obviously) completely free to attend. If you are happy to facilitate meetings, workshops or discussions, we would particularly like to hear from you. The meeting starts at 7.30pm and all are welcome. Enjoy =) Pierre --- I check email a couple times daily; to reach me sooner, you can send me a text message via this page: https://awayfind.com/mascip On 1 November 2013 10:37, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: This needs an update and I now disagree with some of the comments and there are three great musems to be added: http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog/2009/08/emergency-london-tourist-stuff-updated/ I wrote it on the tube on the way to pick up my soon-to-be wife :) The extra museums are the Geffrye (next to Hoxton overground and GREAT Vietnamese foods), the bizarre Wallace Collection and the William Morris if you like your pre-Raphaelite crafts. I can give you tips for two GREAT places to lunch in Shoreditch :) On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Graeme Hewson ghew...@wormhole.me.uk wrote: On Friday 01 Nov 2013 09:28 Spiros Denaxas wrote: The Wellcome Collection at Euston always has something interesting to see. A bit less than usual at the moment due to redevelopment. http://www.wellcomecollection.org/be-part-of-our-curious-journey.aspx
Re: Tourist-y suggestions?
Joel Bernstein writes: Sir John Soane's Museum - http://www.soane.org/ Raphael Mankin writes: Or for something totally idiosyncratic try the John Soane Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields. I'll third that: Sir John Soane's Museum is an incredible place. From there, the Cartoon Museum is nearby — though that may appeal more to nostalgic Brits than foreign tourists unfamiliar with many of the artists and publications: http://www.cartoonmuseum.org/ And if you happen to be a Kirsty MacColl fan, Soho square is then a short walk away, with Kirsty's bench. It is only a bench, a fairly normal bench. But if you are a fan and in the area anyway, it's worth a minor detour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_MacColl#Legacy Over in Notting Hill, I enjoyed the Museum of Brands — but again that might be more of a Brit nostalgia thing: http://www.museumofbrands.com/ And a backstage tour of the National Theatre was interesting, delivered by a very knowledgeable and enthusiastic guide. It's listed as 1 h 15 min, but ours went on for almost 2 hours: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover/backstage-tours Have fun. Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/
filesystems for external drivesx
Dear knowledgeable hive mind, 1) I can mount NTFS read/write on Linux. But is there any good way on Linux to correctly copy files from one NTFS file system to another, preserving everything? (specifically Alternate Data Streams, which I see that I have here, when I mount said file system read-only on OS X) 2) Is there any sane choice of file system to use which will mount read/write on both Linux and OS X, and support at least basic POSIX features? (ownership, permissions, hard links) (on Snow Leopard, if it matters) 3) Is there any Linux equivalent to OS X sparse bundles? (And if the answer to that is yes, I guess it mostly doesn't matter, as one just formats the disk as FAT32, and makes images on top of it) It's turning out to be impressively hard to Google* for any of these. Nicholas Clark * Am I using the wrong search engine?
Re: filesystems for external drivesx
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: Dear knowledgeable hive mind, 1) I can mount NTFS read/write on Linux. But is there any good way on Linux to correctly copy files from one NTFS file system to another, preserving everything? (specifically Alternate Data Streams, which I see that I have here, when I mount said file system read-only on OS X) 2) Is there any sane choice of file system to use which will mount read/write on both Linux and OS X, and support at least basic POSIX features? (ownership, permissions, hard links) (on Snow Leopard, if it matters) Personally, I'd just drop the $40 and get this, http://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-mac/ Or you can go the free route (YMMV), http://osxfuse.github.io Yet another option that's worked for me in the past is running a Linux VM and sharing it over Samba. Not as painful/unreliable as I was expecting. 3) Is there any Linux equivalent to OS X sparse bundles? (And if the answer to that is yes, I guess it mostly doesn't matter, as one just formats the disk as FAT32, and makes images on top of it) http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/664 - worth a shot? Paul
Re: filesystems for external drivesx
I bought a Samsung M3 1TB USB3 HDD for £54.40. (It was, and is, the top search hit on Amazon for external hard drive.) On the box it pointed me at URL where I could download a free NTFS driver for OSX. Turns out it was a restricted version of Paragon NTFS for Mac which only works for certain models of external hard drive. It worked OK for me on an OS X 10.7. (I no longer have any OS X machines.) I have since used the same drive with Windows and Linux and it all seems to work. Though I can't speak for POSIX permissions etc. (I don't tend to bother with permissions on external devices.) Regards, Bill On 01/11/2013 13:30, Nicholas Clark wrote: Dear knowledgeable hive mind, 1) I can mount NTFS read/write on Linux. But is there any good way on Linux to correctly copy files from one NTFS file system to another, preserving everything? (specifically Alternate Data Streams, which I see that I have here, when I mount said file system read-only on OS X) 2) Is there any sane choice of file system to use which will mount read/write on both Linux and OS X, and support at least basic POSIX features? (ownership, permissions, hard links) (on Snow Leopard, if it matters) 3) Is there any Linux equivalent to OS X sparse bundles? (And if the answer to that is yes, I guess it mostly doesn't matter, as one just formats the disk as FAT32, and makes images on top of it) It's turning out to be impressively hard to Google* for any of these. Nicholas Clark * Am I using the wrong search engine?
