Re: london.pm.org NS & MX go go go!

2001-10-19 Thread Leo Lapworth
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 08:01:54AM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: > Paul Makepeace wrote: > > $ mx london.pm.org. ns1.access.net > > london.pm.org MX 42 london.pm.org > > london.pm.org MX 69 mailhost.realprogrammers.com > > Did you pick those two numbers out of a hat a

Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer (onsite), UK, London]

2001-10-19 Thread Dave Cross
From: "Dave Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10/18/01 1:27:36 PM >From: Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 10/18/01 12:36:55 PM > > [rant snipped] > > I've said this before and I'll (no doubt) have to say it > again in the future. > > The london.pm mailing list is meant to be inclu

Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Greg McCarroll
Well because of the following discussion * Leo Lapworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 08:01:54AM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: > > > london.pm.org MX 42 london.pm.org > > > london.pm.org MX 69 mailhost.realprogrammers.com > > Did you pick

RE: Writing a Perl Game

2001-10-19 Thread Scottow Adrian - adscot
Hello, Greg said: > But what I'd really like is something as flexible as Nethack in terms > of the fact that a lot of the code, doesn't just implement mechanics, > it invents richness - and this is why i want lots of people to be > involved so that their is lots of ``richness'', if you get my dri

RE: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Dave Cross
From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10/19/01 9:48:51 AM > And finally a quick riddle, where you have to work out > the age of Diophantus, > > "Here lies Diophantus," the wonder behold . . . > Through art algebraic, the stone tells how old: > "God gave him his boyhood one-sixth of

RE: RE: Writing a Perl Game

2001-10-19 Thread Dave Cross
From: Scottow Adrian - adscot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10/19/01 9:39:51 AM [Greg's game idea] > I loved Nethack/Rogue/Moria and think that this would be > a brilliant thing to do. How about mixing the dungeon > delving with some kind of trading element and maybe some > kind of building ele

PDA games

2001-10-19 Thread Matthew Jones
On 17 October 2001, Scottow Adrian wrote: > But Elite did rule. Has anyone ever played Space Trader on > the Palm for sort of Elite style fun on the run? I rather like Void. No, the Palm game: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/bugfix/1327/id50.htm Hey, it just occurred to me that I haven't

RE: Writing a Perl Game

2001-10-19 Thread Pierre DENIS
That sounds a great idea. I learned programmation, probably like many of us, by programming games. I was so bad at playing games so I decided to create my own to have a chance to win :-) I found it more fun than playing. I don't know if any help, but here are some ideas: - It's a good opportunity

Re: PDA games

2001-10-19 Thread Redvers Davies
As a part of my PDA exploits I was looking at Agenda (www.agendacomputing.com). Their PDA is 250US$ and runs Linux and X as its native OS. I was camping (since someone mentioned EQ before) their IRC channel for most of yesterday and talking to one of the OS entuiasts and developers who has endle

JOB: [ Fw: Help! Perl coder required.]

2001-10-19 Thread Leo Lapworth
Hi - this bounced from your london.pm.org address. - Original Message - From: "Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 19 October 2001 11:41 Subject: Help! Perl coder required. > Hi Leo > > I hope this isn't out of order. Got your email from http://london.pm.org/. > I

Short Notice Dim Sum

2001-10-19 Thread Simon Wilcox
Dave H is in town today and we're going for Dim Sum at 1pm, New World, 1 Gerard Place. All welcome as always. Sorry for the short notice but he only just decided he wanted to go ! Simon. -- "I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything." - Steven Wright

happy birthday #london.pm!

2001-10-19 Thread Simon Wistow
This is what I get when I connect to #london.pm on london.rhizomatic.net (aka astray.com aka huckvale.net aka twoshortplanks.com aka thegestalt.org aka annares.org) ¨Ý¨ [Highest client connection count(56) (55)] ¨Ý¨ Mode change [+iw] for user muttley ¨Ý¨ muttley [~[EMAIL PROTECTED]] has joined

Re: TPJ

2001-10-19 Thread Peter Haworth
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:00:22 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > I just heard from Shannon Weaver at CMP, she responded to my email very > quickly and deserves all the positive karma we can give her. She says > that the distributors cocked up, and that TPJs are being sent out this > week. So has anyon

Re: OS X updater woes

2001-10-19 Thread Richard Clamp
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:10:50PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > So owing to a dearth of X.1 CDs I had a friend rip a copy for me, but it > doesn't boot. Is there a way with the Mac to force it to boot off CD? Hold down C. If I were you though I just wouldn't go there. That it won't boot seems

Re: happy birthday #london.pm!

2001-10-19 Thread Richard Clamp
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:57:53AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > Channel #london.pm was created at Thu Oct 19 14:48:32 2000 > > Which by my reckoning means that #london.pm's first birthday is today in a few hours >:) Nope, it ain't, we did this before though. *rummage* -- Richard Clamp <[EMA

[nat.pryce@b13media.com: [ruby-talk:22730] ANN: XP-Day, London, 15/12/2001]

2001-10-19 Thread Leon Brocard
Join the XP cult! - Forwarded message from Nat Pryce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Nat Pryce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ruby-talk:22730] ANN: XP-Day, London, 15/12/2001 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ruby-talk ML) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 19:54:31 +0900 Organization: B13media Ltd. X-Mailer: Mic

Re: happy birthday #london.pm!

2001-10-19 Thread Simon Wistow
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:11:59PM +0100, Richard Clamp said: > Nope, it ain't, we did this before though. Ok, the current incarnation of #london.pm on london.rhizomatic.net then :) You passing up the chance for a celebration? -- : off the wagon and hitching a ride

Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:48:51AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > And finally a quick riddle, where you have to work out the age of > Diophantus, > "Here lies Diophantus," the wonder behold . . . > Through art algebraic, the stone tells how old: > "God gave him his boyhood one-

Re: happy birthday #london.pm!

2001-10-19 Thread Richard Clamp
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:27:59PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > Ok, the current incarnation of #london.pm on london.rhizomatic.net then :) > > You passing up the chance for a celebration? Nope, I'm just deeply cynical about made-up geek events like this and 1e9. It'll do until Halloween though,

Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Peter Haworth
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:48:51 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: >4840 > Clue: Robin Szmeti I think will have the best chance. For some reason, this sounds like a tape drive to me >3 , 7 , 31 , 127 > Clue: They are in sequence 2**p - 1, where p is prime --

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

2001-10-19 Thread Kate L Pugh
Here's the post of Tony Finch's to oxbridge.tat (yes, I have his permission to repost it) that persuaded me to buy this book. Below it is my reply, which is less well-written, but has excerpts. Kake --- Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: happy birthday #london.pm!

2001-10-19 Thread Wilson, Andrew (Belfast)
> > You passing up the chance for a celebration? > > Nope, I'm just deeply cynical about made-up geek events like this and > 1e9. It'll do until Halloween though, I suppose. As opposed to a made up event like Halloween or Christmas? cheers Andrew

RE: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Richard Clyne
But Diophantus studied equations that are solvable in integers only. I reckon that that is a clue to the desired solution. Richard

Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Dave Cross
From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10/19/01 12:31:29 PM >On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:48:51AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: >> And finally a quick riddle, where you have to work out >> the age of Diophantus, >> "Here lies Diophantus," the wonder behold . . . >> Through art algebrai

RE: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Wilson, Andrew (Belfast)
> Assuming the latter ... > >x/6 + x/12 + x/7 + 5 + y + 4 = x # son's life is y >y = (x/6 + x/12 + x/7 + 5 + y)/2 Actually y = (x - 4) / 2 is easier to work with. cheers Andrew

Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 05:55:22AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote: > I believe your error was in the calculation of 4 x 504 :) Oh yeah. Oops. Look! It's the Goodyear blimp! [runs away] -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david This is a signature. There are many

Re: happy birthday #london.pm!

2001-10-19 Thread Richard Clamp
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:34:36PM +0100, Wilson, Andrew (Belfast) wrote: > > Nope, I'm just deeply cynical about made-up geek events like this and > > 1e9. It'll do until Halloween though, I suppose. > > As opposed to a made up event like Halloween or Christmas? Yes, which is why I phrased it

RE: happy birthday #london.pm!

2001-10-19 Thread Wilson, Andrew (Belfast)
Hi > > As opposed to a made up event like Halloween or Christmas? > > Yes, which is why I phrased it made-up _geek_ events, and then gave > 1e9 as a further example. > > I don't hold much joy for Christmas though, but Halloween and Bonfire > Night rock my world. My point is that they're all ma

SPOILERS : Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Peter Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:48:51 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > >4840 > > Clue: Robin Szmeti I think will have the best chance. > > For some reason, this sounds like a tape drive to me > > >3 , 7 , 31 , 127 > > Clue: They a

SPOILERS: Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Greg McCarroll
Dave's 84 is the correct answer for this riddle. * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 10/19/01 12:31:29 PM > > >On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:48:51AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > >> And finally a quick riddle, where you have to work out >

Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Greg McCarroll
To summarise the answers we have so far . * Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >4840 > Clue: Robin Szmeti I think will have the best chance. >1 , 9 , 36 , 84 , 126 > Clue: Don't use C to work this out >3 , 7 , 31 , 127 > Clue: They ar

Re: happy birthday #london.pm!

2001-10-19 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:34:36PM +0100, Wilson, Andrew (Belfast) wrote: > > > Nope, I'm just deeply cynical about made-up geek events like this and > > > 1e9. It'll do until Halloween though, I suppose. > > > > As opposed to a made up event like Hal

Re: happy birthday #london.pm!

2001-10-19 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Wilson, Andrew (Belfast) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My point is that they're all made up by somebody somewhere. Halloween > was probably invented by the geeks of the day. See BtVS, who's the geek? Willow, who's the Wicca? Willow. What more evidence does Andrew need. Although I agree with Gi

Re: [nat.pryce@b13media.com: [ruby-talk:22730] ANN: XP-Day, London, 15/12/2001]

2001-10-19 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: > Join the XP cult! "The cost for the day will be approx 150squid although we have some concessions for BCS OOPS members and students." Wow, they sure know how to organise a cheap one day conference these XP cultists Leon -- Leon Bro

Re: happy birthday #london.pm!

2001-10-19 Thread Nick Cleaton
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:51:43PM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote: > > I don't hold much joy for Christmas though, but Halloween and Bonfire > Night rock my world. That reminds me, I must book my tickets for the NPL [1] fireworks. They have Real Ale and suspect sausages. And some fireworks, appare

Re: Message-ID header (was Re: Netiquette)

2001-10-19 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 08:15:09AM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > Most people can be bothered to make sure that their zones > > are RFC compliant. Most people who can't are spammers. (Note > > that I said most). > > That reminds me of a question I had. > > Can som

Re: [nat.pryce@b13media.com: [ruby-talk:22730] ANN: XP-Day, London, 15/12/2001]

2001-10-19 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 03:20:36PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: > "The cost for the day will be approx 150squid although we have some > concessions for BCS OOPS members and students." > > Wow, they sure know how to organise a cheap one day conference these > XP cultists I wonder how well recei

Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Newton, Philip
Peter Haworth wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:48:51 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > >3 , 7 , 31 , 127 > > Clue: They are in sequence > > 2**p - 1, where p is prime aka "Mersenne numbers". (A subset of those numbers is the "Mersenne primes".) Apparently, they're important in factoring

Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Newton, Philip
Greg McCarroll wrote: >1 , 9 , 36 , 84 , 126 > Clue: Don't use C to work this out Ah! Got the joke. (Well, after peeking in the EIS.) Actually, C *does* have something to do with those numbers. >212 > Clue: Mark Fowler should know this one It's a NYC area code. Cheers, Ph

Re: happy birthday #london.pm!

2001-10-19 Thread Mark Fowler
Greg said: > Although I agree with Giles in 6x04 ;-) Can I ask that, as a personal favor to me, for the few of us who don't live in America, and who don't go in for all this blatantly law breaking warez crap, that we quit it with the continual mention of buffy (and angel) episodes that haven't b

Re: Message-ID header (was Re: Netiquette)

2001-10-19 Thread Newton, Philip
Nicholas Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 08:15:09AM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: > > > Then I got a complaint about a message of mine not having a > > Message-ID header, and I found that my client apparently does > > not generate such a > > This may not directly have been what you were

Re: SPOILERS : Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Newton, Philip
Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Peter Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:48:51 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > >4840 > > > Clue: Robin Szmeti I think will have the best chance. > > > > For some reason, this sounds like a tape drive to me > > > > >3 , 7 ,

Re: happy birthday #london.pm!

2001-10-19 Thread Newton, Philip
Mark Fowler wrote: > (Can this go for Enterprise and anything else like that toothanks) Jolene Blalock gets rubbed down with "detox" gel in the first episode of E. Oops. (Never seen it[1]; the above info was gleaned from Slashdot, several days ago.) Cheers, Philip [1] though I'd like to..

Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > I remembered one of my favourite books, "The Penguin Dictionary of > Curious and Interesting Numbers". Good book :) > So hear we go (some are easy, some are pretty much impossible).. > >4840 Clue: page 158. Is it Robin Szmetia, esq

RE: happy birthday #london.pm!

2001-10-19 Thread Matthew Jones
> so who fancies hosting the london.pm halloween fancy dress party? There's an all-comers fancy-dress halloween party oop here. Those who can be arsed are welcome to attend, although I don't see how you could fail to have a better time in That London. I'm going as Monkey. -- Matthew Jones

amazon wishlists

2001-10-19 Thread Simon Wistow
So, my amazon wishlist has got huge and I wanted to total it all up ... ... so I wrote a script. In Perl! Yay! (well it uses Lynx because LWP::* doesn't seem to work, maybe if I changed the Browser identifier, hmm) It works for .co.uk and .com : [simon@dabox simon]$ amazon --help % amazon [-uk

Re: Classic Computer Books (Non-Perl)

2001-10-19 Thread Tony Bowden
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 05:49:57AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote: > And a couple that will probably be seen as classics in the future: > > Extreme Programming Explained - Kent Beck > Refactoring - Martin Fowler I'd possibly change XPe to "Planning Extreme Progamming" - Beck and Fowler. I'd also add F

Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Chris Devers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >1 , 9 , 36 , 84 , 126 > >3 , 7 , 31 , 127 > > I can't find these ones! I can't cheat! :) > I did these ones myself ;-) > Not in the book! Yes it is. Read the clue again carefully and think about it. Greg -- Greg McCarroll

Re: [nat.pryce@b13media.com: [ruby-talk:22730] ANN: XP-Day, London, 15/12/2001]

2001-10-19 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Nicholas Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I wonder how well received YAPC::Europe 19100 would have been if it had been > 11 times more expensive. Well at least people would of had muffins. ;-) (this might be an in joke, so if you want it explained ask me at the next social meet) Greg --

Re: Classic Computer Books (Non-Perl)

2001-10-19 Thread pdcawley
Tony Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 05:49:57AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote: >> And a couple that will probably be seen as classics in the future: >> >> Extreme Programming Explained - Kent Beck >> Refactoring - Martin Fowler > > I'd possibly change XPe to "Planning Ext

Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:30:51PM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: > Greg McCarroll wrote: > > >212 > > Clue: Mark Fowler should know this one > > It's a NYC area code. It was, for many years, *the* nyc area code. dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/

[Job] Possibly of interest

2001-10-19 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Job Title: PERL DEVELOPER - LONDON/CITY #30K/45K Location: LONDON - CITY Type: Permanent Salary/Benefits: 45000 Skills: INTERNET DEVELOPMENT My client a the world's leading provider of risk management products to banks, Hedge Funds, Asset managers, Insurance companies and Broker

Re: SPOILERS : Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: *wibble* Grep, get a life! -- 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 Int

Re: Message-ID header (was Re: Netiquette)

2001-10-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:53:35PM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: > Since then, I insert a > 'fake' message ID using my mailer's "add an extra header" feature when I Oh great, so all your messages have the same Message-ID: (assuming that any mailer that is too broken to add them is probably too lo-

Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer (onsite), UK, London]

2001-10-19 Thread Andrew Wilson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:33:12PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > network configuration =) I believe the phrase was "If they want to > mail it to me they'll fix it". On the contrary, it has made sure > I leave it exactly the same way as it is now =) You can hardly say on the contrary here, you

Re: Breaking News: YAPC::Europe

2001-10-19 Thread Nik Butler
Well for my part im definetly up for the Paris venue if it ever happens... Hmmm Paris, Perl and Unix... man and they say romance aint never dead ! Regards Nik Butler Director Wired4Life Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07713 241 956 www.wired4life.org -- Testing a footer here

Re: [Job] Possibly of interest

2001-10-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 08:09:53AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Job Title: PERL DEVELOPER - LONDON/CITY #30K/45K > Location: LONDON - CITY > Type: Permanent > Salary/Benefits: 45000 > Skills: INTERNET DEVELOPMENT My client a the world's leading provider > of risk management products to

Re: [Job] Possibly of interest

2001-10-19 Thread Chris Ball
On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 21:42, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > >Jeff Pinyan (japhy) works for them. > Sounds like a good not reason for not working there then ;-} Oh, bah. Japhy's great; he helped me out a lot going over code and fixing the stupid

Re: [Job] Possibly of interest

2001-10-19 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 09:47:58PM +, Chris Ball wrote: > On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 21:42, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > > >Jeff Pinyan (japhy) works for them. > > > Sounds like a good not reason for not working there then ;-} > > Oh, bah. Ja

Re: [Job] Possibly of interest

2001-10-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:34:53PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 08:09:53AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > Job Title: PERL DEVELOPER - LONDON/CITY #30K/45K > > Location: LONDON - CITY > > Type: Permanent > > Salary/Benefits: 45000 > > Skills: INTERNET DEVELOPMENT My cli

Re: [Job] Possibly of interest

2001-10-19 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 08:09:53AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > For more details and to apply for this job, please click the link below > http://www.newmonday.co.uk/servlet/JobLookupServlet?profile_id=3043577&job_id=3587035 "Job lookup functionality requires JavaScript, JavaScript is disabled

Obnoxious spam: News from NuSphere -- #10

2001-10-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
Anyone else receiving this can "thank" O'Reilly for providing them with your address. Not cool. *plonk* Paul - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 20:14:16 -0400 To: oreillynet.com(at)paulm.com Subject: News from NuSphere -- #10

Re: Obnoxious spam: News from NuSphere -- #10

2001-10-19 Thread anathema
Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >*plonk* Nooo, you don't *plonk*, you LART. Go on. They'll thank you for it in the long run. (that, or post it to n.a.n-a.e and we'll do the larting for you, i love nanae.) -- http://www.the-anathema.org "Buffy the Vampire Slapper" - I'm sorry, I Have

Re: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

2001-10-19 Thread Alex Gough
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Kate L Pugh wrote: > Here's the post of Tony Finch's to oxbridge.tat (yes, I have his > permission to repost it) that persuaded me to buy this book. Below > it is my reply, which is less well-written, but has excerpts. > I went and got this from one of our libraries today.

Re: Obnoxious spam: News from NuSphere -- #10

2001-10-19 Thread Mike Jarvis
Friday, October 19, 2001, 8:30:50 PM, anathema wrote: a> Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>*plonk* a> Nooo, you don't *plonk*, you LART. a> Go on. They'll thank you for it in the long run. a> (that, or post it to n.a.n-a.e and we'll do the larting for you, i love a> nanae.) I love

Re: Obnoxious spam: News from NuSphere -- #10

2001-10-19 Thread anathema
Mike Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I love nanae too. That's why I'd suggest posting it in sightings >instead. Maybe an article *about it* in nanae, but the spam itself, >with headers, to sightings. Well, Ye-es, but I tend to prefer having the headers right there in nanae myself, regardless

Re: Obnoxious spam: News from NuSphere -- #10

2001-10-19 Thread Mike Jarvis
Friday, October 19, 2001, 9:28:41 PM, anathema wrote: a> Mike Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I love nanae too. That's why I'd suggest posting it in sightings >>instead. Maybe an article *about it* in nanae, but the spam itself, >>with headers, to sightings. a> Well, Ye-es, but I tend to p

Re: happy birthday #london.pm!

2001-10-19 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:11:59PM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:57:53AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > > Channel #london.pm was created at Thu Oct 19 14:48:32 2000 > > > > Which by my reckoning means that #london.pm's first birthday is today in a few >hours :) > > Nop

Re: Obnoxious spam: News from NuSphere -- #10

2001-10-19 Thread anathema
Mike Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >a> Well, Ye-es, but I tend to prefer having the headers right there in nanae >a> myself, regardless of the fact that that's not what it's there for. >So a compromise. Headers and description to nanae, full text of spam >to sightings. Everybody's happy, and

Re: SPOILERS : Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > *wibble* > > Grep, get a life! > Dave, trust me that isn't that sad, what would be sad is if i had already started writing a quiz for next friday and dreamt some of the questions, and was say for exa

X breaking in Debian

2001-10-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
This is the first time in six years I've been seriously irritated with a Debian package. This bug applies to you if you're running X and recently did an woody/testing up{date,grade} which will've included xfree86-common http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200110/msg00396.html

RE: RE: Writing a Perl Game

2001-10-19 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > the first game I hacked with a hex > editor > I seem to recall that the first game that I hacked was Poseidon Adventure for the Dragon 32 - I discovered that the last room was decidedly iffy and added another bit where you go

Re: Writing a Perl Game

2001-10-19 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > OpenGL > Well you could use Linux::Svgalib now - it needs some testers ;-} /J\

Re: london.pm.org NS & MX go go go!

2001-10-19 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote: > I've just had word back from the fine folks at dns(at)pm.org (aka Ben > Hockenhull) that london.pm.org is now in control of its own domain > Paul, you're a Lady *and* a gentleman I'm sure we'll all buy you a drink when you can bring yourself to come ba

Re: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

2001-10-19 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Kate L Pugh wrote: > Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Bad software is like those humorous posters depicting "a day at the > > beach", covered with hundreds of people doing ridiculous things. > > Little bits of it may be amusing, but they combine to make a whole >

Borrocks (was Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer(onsite), UK, London])

2001-10-19 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Andrew Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:33:12PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > > network configuration =) I believe the phrase was "If they want to > > mail it to me they'll fix it". On the contrary, it has made sure > > I leave it exactly the same way as it is now

Re: [Job] Possibly of interest

2001-10-19 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, David Cantrell wrote: >Jeff Pinyan (japhy) works for them. (Hopes he's not subscribed here). Sounds like a good not reason for not working there then ;-} /J\

FIRE! (was Re: happy birthday #london.pm!)

2001-10-19 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Richard Clamp wrote: > > Bonfire > Night > It is Hastings Bonfire tomorrow night if anyone is interested - big marching round with flaming torches and banging drums and setting fire to some effigies on the beach ty

Warning: Extreme Babbling (was Re: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information)

2001-10-19 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:21:40PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > Who is the greater artist ? Scott Bradley or Bach ? Bach was presented > the grand commission and set about his work as a professional and produced > some music that people of the court at the time liked (perhaps) and that > has

Re: Writing a Perl Game

2001-10-19 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Well you could use Linux::Svgalib now - it needs some testers ;-} > Does it run under X-Windows in a window? Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://217.34.97.146/~gem/