name of the bloke ......

2001-09-18 Thread Greg McCarroll
Whats the name of the mad bloke who lives near Dave, you know the one that things the BBC are reading his thoughts as they are secret agents of MI5 or some such. Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://217.34.97.146/~gem/

Re: Bomb the ISPs!

2001-09-18 Thread aef
Paul Makepeace wrote: ``The Daily Telegraph is calling for the bombing of uncompliant ISPs on foreign territory, in response to the atrocity in America.'' The funny thing is, when I read that Telegraph article, is that I read it as a warning about what the US might do, not a call for them

Re: The best film of all time?

2001-09-18 Thread Redvers Davies
Difficult call. I just hope I'm never in a burning building with the last remaining copy of each, and only enough time to rescue one. You have just reminded me of an excellent BT Health and Safety quiz I once had while there. In a large building in which we assume is on fire... we have

Re: The best film of all time?

2001-09-18 Thread Tony Bowden
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:45:37PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: I've never seen what people see in this. Here's my top few, in no particular order: Paths to Glory Don't know this one ... Do you mean Paths of Glory? Tony

RE: name of the bloke ......

2001-09-18 Thread Dave Cross
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 9/18/01 8:14:10 AM Whats the name of the mad bloke who lives near Dave, you know the one that things the BBC are reading his thoughts as they are secret agents of MI5 or some such. Mike Corley (aka Tadeusz Szocik). And he lives near Clapham

Re: name of the bloke ......

2001-09-18 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Mike Corley (aka Tadeusz Szocik). thanks, i was just checking to see if he had any crazy theories about the US bombings. unfortunatly its all me me me with him, still at least we have ESR, ho hum, Greg -- Greg McCarroll

Re: NMS [formmail]

2001-09-18 Thread Sam Vilain
I hear that one problem with that script is the security problem that if it is not altered, then it is possible to send mail from any address, effectively allowing you to spam with it. What I suggest for NMS scripts is that they have an internal configuration function, whereby the script will

Re: Bomb the ISPs!

2001-09-18 Thread Simon Wistow
``The Daily Telegraph is calling for the bombing of uncompliant ISPs on foreign territory, in response to the atrocity in America.'' http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/57/21694.html Umm, the article doesn't actually say what The Register implied. The whole article is a bit tongue in

Re: NMS [formmail]

2001-09-18 Thread Dave Cross
From: Sam Vilain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 9/18/01 9:49:42 AM I hear that one problem with that script is the security problem that if it is not altered, then it is possible to send mail from any address, effectively allowing you to spam with it. In the latest version of FormMail (1.9,

Re: The worst film of all time (The best film of all time?)

2001-09-18 Thread Alex Gough
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, James Powell wrote: How about the worst Course, I have tried to avoid the real howlers (mad cows, up 'n' under, etc). X-Men generation X, for showing *so* much promise but falling over every time it nearly got good. Hawk the Slayer, but I did like the bits with the

Re: The best film of all time?

2001-09-18 Thread Alex Gough
Almost forgot... In the Heat of the Night Yes, and, worst of all to forget (but not in terms of chatty volume): Kind Hearts and Coronets Alex Gough

Re: The best film of all time?

2001-09-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 08:28:09AM +0100, Tony Bowden wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:45:37PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Paths to Glory Don't know this one ... Do you mean Paths of Glory? Yes, as I said in a later post :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: NMS [formmail]

2001-09-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:49:42AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: What I suggest for NMS scripts is that they have an internal configuration function, whereby the script will refuse to run unless it is configured. In fact, if it is unconfigured, then present a configuration interface Sound

Re: champagne

2001-09-18 Thread Leon Brocard
Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: So what Champagne do you recommend? I know we have the great and the good on the list and also the french (who may be actually useful in this case) http://www.clicquot.com/wineries/wine.asp?winery=krug Krug. Grande Cuvee is nice. I

Re: The best film of all time?

2001-09-18 Thread Jasper McCrea
Paul Mison wrote: On 17/09/2001 at 18:31 +0100, Jasper McCrea wrote: Not replying to too many posts here, because it'd be controversial (esp. since someone mentioned a Peter Greenaway film (and they were being serious!!)) Of course I was. His films are good, even if that is in a slightly

Re: Bomb the ISPs!

2001-09-18 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Simon Wistow wrote: ``The Daily Telegraph is calling for the bombing of uncompliant ISPs on foreign territory, in response to the atrocity in America.'' http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/57/21694.html Umm, the article doesn't actually say what The Register implied. The whole

Re: The worst film of all time (The best film of all time?)

2001-09-18 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, will wrote: How about the worst How about the 'so bad they're good'? L. I suffer from acute nymphomania and own a brewery.

JOB WANTED: Perl Programmer

2001-09-18 Thread Leon Brocard
I'm currently looking for a permanent job at an exciting Perl / Apache / mod_perl / Linux company in London. Please mail me offlist: http://www.astray.com/cv/ Cheers, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/

Re: JOB WANTED: Perl Programmer

2001-09-18 Thread Newton, Philip
Leon Brocard wrote: I'm currently looking for a permanent job http://213.178.134.60/ Cheers, Philip (sorry, couldn't resist.) -- 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

Re: News gateway?

2001-09-18 Thread Newton, Philip
Paul Mison wrote: It doesn't scratch an itch I have, but if Philip can collar the right people who have accounts on penderel it'd be an interesting project but Not my itch, either (as I said), but I could try to help, I suppose. Would enough people be in favour of the thing to make it

Re: NMS [formmail]

2001-09-18 Thread Newton, Philip
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:06:02PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Incidently, perlfaq9 says that when using sendmail from a Perl script, you should use the flags -oi -t -odq. I found that when I used -odq, the Well, I would have said you can use the flags rather

Re: The worst film of all time (The best film of all time?)

2001-09-18 Thread Stray Toaster
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:06:58AM +0100, Alex Gough wrote: X-Men generation X, for showing *so* much promise but falling over every time it nearly got good. Gah, and Emma Frost was *so* wrong. My vote goes for 'Lost in Space'. Awful. m. -- Isn't it nice? Sugar and spice Leading Disco

RE: [JOB] Programmer for database-driven websites

2001-09-18 Thread Dave Cross
From: Simon Batistoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 9/18/01 12:19:29 PM Well, these sorts of posts are scarcer than they used to be, but I figure someone here might be interested in this, or know someone outside the hallowed london.pm circle who would be. :) [snip] Gotta love that

Re: The best film of all time?

2001-09-18 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Newton, Philip wrote: Lucy McWilliam wrote: [0] Due to $boyf[1] That sounds like my second boyfriend :) (Hm, I wonder what 'scalar @boyf' is, then?) Not to mention length $boyf[1] :-O -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Heh.

2001-09-18 Thread David H. Adler
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:01:22PM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: David H. Adler wrote: http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/kmt.png The requested URL /~simon/kmt.png was not found on this server. Dang. I'll see if I can dig it up elsewhere... dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: The best film of all time?

2001-09-18 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: For me the best films of all time would be, Just caught up with this thread whilst eating possibly the largest baked potato I have ever seen. Yum :-) Anyway, in addition to lots of good films already mentioned, I would add: Shawshank Redemption #

Re: The best film of all time?

2001-09-18 Thread Redvers Davies
Most if not all of my top films have been mentioned already... memento rhps dr strangelove leon the breakfast club The princess bride shock treatment [0] Red [0] or at least it would be if I could find ANYWHERE where I could buy it on DVD (or VCD).

Re: Mail bounce, grumble grumble...

2001-09-18 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:32:13PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: Sorry to send this to the list. I tried to write privatly to a member of the list and their MTA hates me (sob). [0] Well, according to someone on exim-users (who I've been in a flamewar with - just for a change):

Re: Mail bounce, grumble grumble...

2001-09-18 Thread Dave Cross
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:54:04PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:32:13PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: Sorry to send this to the list. I tried to write privatly to a member of the list and their MTA hates me (sob). [0] Well, according

Re: Heh.

2001-09-18 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Actually, my reliable source *is* the artist. So nerr :-P I dont believe you - how can an artist be described as reliable /J\

Re: Heh.

2001-09-18 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 04:21:42PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Actually, my reliable source *is* the artist. So nerr :-P I dont believe you - how can an artist be described as reliable