Re: white wine

* Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > it is indeed .. My Father who has knowledge of such things tells me 5 > 'large wickerwork baskets' of over ripe grapes .. but baskets, shovels .. > the principles the same. Bigger the number, sweeter (and more honey > coloured) the wine. As far as I

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Possibly. But given that our first client has just gone titsup.com > before we actually did any work for them (thank heavens for small > mercies,) I want to be in the position of having work lined up before > I start recruiting again. Or were you talk

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:00:24PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > LASTNAME, [FIRSTNAME|FIRST INITIAL] This really doesn't address (ho ho) unfortunate people whose first name isn't used except when their passport/national ID kit is being bandied about. Nor people lumbered with four names. :-/

Re: Perl Training Courses

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:37:13PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Useful as debuggers are, there are instances where print statements > are the superior tool. If you are debugging code that has to interact > with another process that is not under debugger control, and in a > timely manner, then

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

At 22:46 26/03/2001, you wrote: >On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > At Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:21:52 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Stowe > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > > > > I've had a bit of a go at some of these today and they're up at > > > >

Re: Debuggers (was Re: Perl Training Courses)

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:09:19AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > Let me explain the set-up. I have a PC running Win95. OK, so the contract market's gone to the dogs. Paul

Re: white wine

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:59:56PM -0500, David H. Adler wrote: > On the other hand, since it's going to be in San Diego, maybe not... s/TPC5/TPC\\d/ -- you knew what I meant :) > > dha > > -- > David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ > "In my opinion, there's nothi

Re: "That book"

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:04:03PM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > MBM wrote: > > > > > > Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive it > > > > > won't be. > > > > The other possibility, I guess, given that it's london.pm is to make it > > relate to buffy in some way

Re: white wine

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:17:29PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > meaning to ring the vinyard to see if they can send me a case, or at least > > point me at a merchant over here who can. > > Alternatively, if TPC5 is held in Mont

Re: white wine

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > meaning to ring the vinyard to see if they can send me a case, or at least > point me at a merchant over here who can. Alternatively, if TPC5 is held in Monterey again you can partake of the local plethora of vineyards in the area.

mmm ... toys ..

mmm .. by some dint of fate I appear to be the proud owner of a rather nice new Dell laptop. Bit slow ( 850mhz P3 ) and 128 mb of ram is hardly enough to run Vi in is it .. a poxy 32Gb hard disc means I'll probably run out of space soon too. (thinks .. this is considerably more powerful than m

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > y* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:41:33PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: > > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roger Burton West wrote: > > > > >Just to let you all know I'm on the market again. > > > > Me too. > > > er.. and

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

y* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:41:33PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roger Burton West wrote: > > > >Just to let you all know I'm on the market again. > > > Me too. > > er.. and me. > > Who was it that was saying that the contract m

Re: white wine

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, you wrote: > * Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > know what is. > > > > ughh ,,, chardonay .. toilet water :) > > > > it all depends, the one i recommeded has body I am of cours always ready to be educated .. by practical demonstration ;) > > then we get on to

Re: white wine

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, you wrote: > Just to get us back on topic > > I heartilly recommend Terrazaz Chardonnay, its very nice for > a chardonnay - which reminds me of one of the most pretentious > things i ever heard said ( i can't remember if it was on tv, > radio or in the flesh, but i have

Re: white wine

* Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > know what is. > > ughh ,,, chardonay .. toilet water :) > it all depends, the one i recommeded has body > then we get on to the 'wine so sweet you could stand a spoon up in it'. I well here we go into the realms of hungarian desert wine, now i a

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:41:33PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roger Burton West wrote: > > >Just to let you all know I'm on the market again. > > Me too. > er.. and me. Who was it that was saying that the contract market was great just now? -- "Jesus ate my mouse" or so

Re: upgrade fund

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, you wrote: > No, the drives are frequently exactly the same mechanics with a different > board. Anyway, by reliable I mean "not sold by some dodgy bloke in a > computer fair who threw them down the stairs a few times" and. AFAICT SCSI > costs more because you're paying for

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roger Burton West wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:19:12PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: > >Just to let you all know I'm on the market again. > > Me too. Looking for senior developer/senior unix admin (ideally a blend > of the two), permanent, London, no Windows. CV on reque

Re: white wine

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > Unfortunately, the lovely Italian wine I found in caffs throughout Naples > back in November does not seem to be available over here at all. Why ship the good stuff to the ignorant Brits when they can keep it for themselves? Sound

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:19:12PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: >Just to let you all know I'm on the market again. Me too. Looking for senior developer/senior unix admin (ideally a blend of the two), permanent, London, no Windows. CV on request. Roger

Re: white wine

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:07:30AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > I don't want to sound like a twat, but it may be too late already so here > goes, one of the things i hate about going out to a italian restaurant > is the wine. me too but then I don't like the wine in many other restaurants e

Re: white wine

* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Ooh good. I got one of them for Christmas and still haven't gotten around to > drinking it. Not sure I'll like it though, because Italian reds tend to be > very thin, and I like chewy wines. We'll see. > I don't want to sound like a twat, but it may

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote: > More trivia: NT stands (the above not withstanding) for New Technology > which makes reading 2k's splash "Built on NT Technology" sound a bit > like recording on DAT tapes. And of course, is a trademark of Northern Telecom. As mentioned on the NT CDs.

Re: upgrade fund

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:02:59PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David Cantrell: > > > Anyone know of any good sources of cheap, BIG hard disks atm? Like in the > > 70 to 100Gb range, IDE? Speed not an issue, reliability is as these are > > for my server. I need^Wwant six,

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > At Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:21:52 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > > I've had a bit of a go at some of these today and they're up at > > > if an

Re: white wine

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:34:38PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > I just had to buy a bottle of Pendulum Zinfandel at the weekend - its > Italian and comes in a shiny gold bottle ... and despite appearances its > actually a fairly good red wine. Ooh good. I got one of them for Christmas and still

Re: white wine

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > Just to get us back on topic > I just had to buy a bottle of Pendulum Zinfandel at the weekend - its Italian and comes in a shiny gold bottle ... and despite appearances its actually a fairly good red wine. /J\

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-05

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: Oops sorry about that - I approved this twice :( Too long a break I would suggest ... /J\

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-05

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:47:47AM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > realised that this > makes three consecutive weeks with conferences this summer that I > want to go to: O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, yapc::Europe, and > HAL2001. I threw together a quick-reference page for conferences I'd *like

white wine

Just to get us back on topic I heartilly recommend Terrazaz Chardonnay, its very nice for a chardonnay - which reminds me of one of the most pretentious things i ever heard said ( i can't remember if it was on tv, radio or in the flesh, but i have a horrible feeling it was in the flesh ) W

Re: upgrade fund

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > scsi multithreads, IDE doesn't.. this makes quite a difference on > multi-process applications .. esp. servers > I will vouch for this having just loaded a ~1Gb database on my laptop - it takes about 2-3 times longer on IDE here than it would on an

originality

Tim Maher from SPUG just arranged a great ``damian activity'', a river cruise with DC. It occurs to me when we have the ``gliteratti'' of the perl world in town we have to come up with something even better. The problem of course with London (London.pm?) is that every activity we can think of is

Re: upgrade fund

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > [buying a hard disk] > Anyone know of any good sources of cheap, BIG hard disks atm? Like in the > 70 to 100Gb range, IDE? Speed not an issue, reliability is as these are > for my server. I need^Wwant six, and would rather not pay the 250-odd quid for reli

Job: I'm looking for one..

Just to let you all know I'm on the market again. Looking for Senior Developer, permanent position in London. CV at: http://www.cuckoo.org/people/leo/ Please feel free to forward to anyone looking. Thanks Leo

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I vaguely recall it standing for something like "Heuristic Algorithmic > Logic," but that doesn't really set it apart from anything. how does that explain SAL9000? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home)

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 19:07:16 +, Dave Cross wrote: > At 17:48 23/03/2001, you wrote: > >On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > > > > Well, I can make a guess at what the first number represents. Those > > expansion plans really are short-term. > > > > > Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: April Meetings

On Sun Mar 25 19:05:36 2001, Tony Bowden wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > > The April meetings are approaching and we have no firm plans for them yet. > > The social meeting will be on April 5th. Last plan I remember was that > > mstevens was going to investi

Re: upgrade fund

> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:25:46AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: > > > > [buying a hard disk] > > > > Yes - RAM is sooo cheap at the moment - get loads! > > Anyone know of any good sources of cheap, BIG hard disks atm? Like in the > 70 to 100Gb range, IDE? Speed not an issue, reliability is as

Re: upgrade fund

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:25:46AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: > > [buying a hard disk] > > Yes - RAM is sooo cheap at the moment - get loads! Anyone know of any good sources of cheap, BIG hard disks atm? Like in the 70 to 100Gb range, IDE? Speed not an issue, reliability is as these are for m

Re: April Meetings

At Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:20:41 +0100, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:25:39AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > > > Thanks for the offer Simon, but I've already postponed this meeting > > once and am loathe to do it again. > > Shame :-( I was hoping to be able to

Re: April Meetings

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:25:39AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > Thanks for the offer Simon, but I've already postponed this meeting once > and am loathe to do it again. Shame :-( I was hoping to be able to make it to my first non-Damian tech meet, but my sister's visiting that evening. -- Davi

Re: upgrade fund

>i'd like to do it via dabs.com, because their interface is useable and >i've not personally had any problems with them. i'll pick only in-stock >stuff because i understand that they can be slacker than they advertise >when it comes to re-stocking. jo would hopefully oversee the process so i >d

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

At Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:21:52 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > I've had a bit of a go at some of these today and they're up at > > if anyone's interested. > > > > You might want to chan