This post will not save you any money

2005-04-30 Thread Nick Rout
I went to the revamped Riccarton Mall (or is it called Westfield?) There is a huge bookshop called Borders, not actually in the Mall, but just over Rotherham Street (over the road from DSE, and pretty well under the overhead walkway. Well they have a huge collection of linux and computing in gene

Re: This post will not save you any money

2005-04-30 Thread yuri
Great! I'll see if they have Torvalds' "Just for Fun". On 4/30/05, Nick Rout wrote: > I went to the revamped Riccarton Mall (or is it called Westfield?) > > There is a huge bookshop called Borders, not actually in the Mall, but > just over Rotherham Street (over the road from DSE, and pretty well

Re: This post will not save you any money

2005-05-01 Thread Zane Gilmore
Nick Rout wrote: None of it cheap, but if you are looking for technical books its a great place. Good for OT books too :-) You're absolutely right there. Although I counted about 6 different Linux magazines the cheapest was $16 the most expensive was over $30! Some interesting looking mag's thoug

Re: This post will not save you any money

2005-05-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 02 May 2005 11:19:16 +1200 Zane Gilmore wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > None of it cheap, but if you are looking for technical books its a great > > place. Good for OT books too :-) > You're absolutely right there. > Although I counted about 6 different Linux magazines the cheapest was > $

Re: This post will not save you any money

2005-05-01 Thread Daniel Grant
> On Mon, 02 May 2005 11:19:16 +1200 > Zane Gilmore wrote: > > > Nick Rout wrote: > > > None of it cheap, but if you are looking for technical > > > books its a great place. Good for OT books too :-) > > You're absolutely right there. > > Although I counted about 6 different Linux magazines the > >

Re: This post will not save you any money

2005-05-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 02 May 2005 11:44:57 +1200 Daniel Grant wrote: > > Price doesn't seem to be their selling point. Bigish > selection and "nice atmosphere" do. granted, and they do both those very well > > > Do the technical books also have the security tags placed on > them in the most inappropriate

Re: This post will not save you any money

2005-05-01 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, May 2, 2005 11:44 am, Daniel Grant said: >> On Mon, 02 May 2005 11:19:16 +1200 >> Zane Gilmore wrote: >> >> > Nick Rout wrote: >> > > None of it cheap, but if you are looking for technical >> > > books its a great place. Good for OT books too :-) >> > You're absolutely right there. >> > Al

Re: This post will not save you any money

2005-05-01 Thread Vik Olliver
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 11:19 +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > None of it cheap, but if you are looking for technical books its a great > > place. Good for OT books too :-) > You're absolutely right there. > Although I counted about 6 different Linux magazines the cheapest was > $16

Re: This post will not save you any money

2005-05-03 Thread John Carter
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Nick Rout wrote: Well they have a huge collection of linux and computing in general books. O'Reilly by the ton. Technical stuff as well as "Cathedral and the Bazaar" and other more political/commentary books. The computing magazine selection is pretty choice too. Bleah! No J2ME

Re: This post will not save you any money

2005-05-04 Thread Steve Holdoway
Nic Scott wrote: John Carter wrote: Bleah! No J2ME stuff. No MIDP, no CLDC. Zilch. Nothin. All in the "we can order it for you" category, but then so can any online book store. Funny you should say that, I was trying to use the in store book finder they have on their computer terminals in t

Re: This post will not save you any money

2005-05-04 Thread John Carter
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Steve Holdoway wrote: Sorry, the real question is whether you would *ever* support the t*ssers instrumental in the invention of the concept of software patents, and who also started the trend of selling email lists? I'd rather sell my mother to the bugbla. That's why I sa

Re: This post will not save you any money

2005-05-04 Thread Carl Cerecke
John Carter wrote: On Wed, 4 May 2005, Steve Holdoway wrote: Sorry, the real question is whether you would *ever* support the t*ssers instrumental in the invention of the concept of software patents, and who also started the trend of selling email lists? That's why I said "online bookstore", not

Re: This post will not save you any money

2005-05-04 Thread John Carter
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Carl Cerecke wrote: John Carter wrote: On Wed, 4 May 2005, Steve Holdoway wrote: Sorry, the real question is whether you would *ever* support the t*ssers instrumental in the invention of the concept of software patents, and who also started the trend of selling email lists? T