last night and ICQ

2001-11-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
Hi, I was speaking to someone at last nights social meeting about contacting them on ICQ, now I've lost their email with the ICQ number and also my classic disease of not remembering people's names has came to the fore again. So if this person could email me offlist i'd be very grateful and

Re: contracts

2001-11-09 Thread Newton, Philip
Simon Batistoni wrote: On 08/11/01 09:25 -0500, Wesley Darlington wrote: o You will have no other loyalty but us: + no directorships of private limited companies; + not even any shareholdings in ltd coys; + no more than (say) a 5% shareholding in any given plc; + don't even

Re: Quiz #2 : Answers

2001-11-09 Thread Newton, Philip
Chris Devers wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: HAL didn't have any meaning Didn't it stand for something to the effect of Heuristic, Algorithmic, Linguistic [computer]? I had something to that effect in my mind as well. Hm, a quick google says that it's for Heuristic

Re: Quiz #2 : Answers

2001-11-09 Thread Newton, Philip
Greg McCarroll wrote: [much spoiler space preserved] R___ F___ C___ 0527 # request for comments Extra points for identifying the RFC in question? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my

Re: Quiz #2 : Answers

2001-11-09 Thread Newton, Philip
Greg McCarroll wrote: Z___ -80 Hm... does anyone know what iAPX stands for? Cheers, Philip (too lazy to google for it) -- 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 the precipitate.

Re: (no subject)

2001-11-09 Thread Leon Brocard
aef sent the following bits through the ether: I feel a hoax coming on... surely we can think of some interesting recipies... http://astray.com/recipes/?search=weird Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/

Re: contracts

2001-11-09 Thread Simon Batistoni
On 08/11/01 13:06 -0500, Wesley Darlington wrote: I'm thinking more of employers who were reasonable once upon a time, when the contract was signed perhaps, but who have since become unreasonable. Yes, that's always going to be a problem, and I think some of london.pm have experienced it

[ANNOUNCE] t-shirt madness! everything must go!

2001-11-09 Thread Simon Wistow
Yes, the rumours are true. After epic battles with every t-shirt printer in london the official Winter Season London.pm t-shirts are finally ready. And not a misogynist catchphrase anywhere to be seen. Yay! There are 5 different designs. These have the same back print and the same size

Re: debauchery and pie mongering

2001-11-09 Thread Simon Wistow
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:38:55PM +, Simon Wistow said: Mail me off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you're interested Hmm, only 4 people so far. I'd just like to reiterate that this is not a binding agreement, this is just me getting a rough idea of numbers, which i need to do fairly

Re: contracts

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Fowler
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Simon Batistoni wrote: Hmm. Maybe, except for the fact that motor cars are not, and never have been as central to the workings of our society as computers are, and are continuing to become. Hmm. Methinks you haven't really been paying attention. Don't you remember when

REVIEW: Elements Of Programming with Perl

2001-11-09 Thread Dean S Wilson
Elements of Programming With Perl Andrew L Johnson If you come from a non-programming background and you want to learn Perl go and buy this book. Now. The rest of the review will wait until you get back. If your coming to Perl from another language and you have basic to intermediate knowledge

christmas and t-shirts

2001-11-09 Thread Simon Wistow
I haven't replied to all the mails about these but thanks and, with respect to the t-shirts, I'll mail people individually and here as well when I've figured out a way of collecting cash off them :) -- : everything after here is irrelevant

Re: last night and ICQ

2001-11-09 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:15:00AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: I was speaking to someone at last nights social meeting about contacting them on ICQ, now I've lost their email with the ICQ number and also my classic disease of not remembering people's names has came to the fore again. And

Re: Another Good Meeting

2001-11-09 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:33:27AM -0800, Dave Cross wrote: I was planning to mention this last night but forgot in the excitment of getting a Sunnydale.pm t-shirt These exist now??? Did I miss an announcement? grumble grumble... dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Another Good Meeting

2001-11-09 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:58:03AM -0500, David H. Adler wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:33:27AM -0800, Dave Cross wrote: I was planning to mention this last night but forgot in the excitment of getting a Sunnydale.pm t-shirt These exist now??? Did I miss an announcement? Well, yes,

Re: last night and ICQ

2001-11-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:15:00AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: I was speaking to someone at last nights social meeting about contacting them on ICQ, now I've lost their email with the ICQ number and also my classic disease of not remembering

Re: contracts

2001-11-09 Thread Struan Donald
* at 09/11 17:41 + robin szemeti said: On Friday 09 November 2001 15:01, Mark Fowler wrote: Our supply chains are, in the majority, run by cars and trucks and other road transport and without them the cities start to starve (both metaphorically and literally.) indeed. theres

Re: contracts

2001-11-09 Thread Leon Brocard
Robin Szemeti sent the following bits through the ether: indeed. theres another thing that needs changing then. As much as I try pushing the idea, nobody appears to be taking on the design and implementation of BTP (beer transfer protocol) or PTP (pizza transfer protocol). Fools. Leon --

Re: contracts

2001-11-09 Thread Mike Jarvis
Friday, November 09, 2001, 12:41:42 PM, robin szemeti wrote: Our supply chains are, in the majority, run by cars and trucks and other road transport and without them the cities start to starve (both metaphorically and literally.) rs indeed. theres another thing that needs changing then.

Re: Welcome Back

2001-11-09 Thread Paul Mison
On 08/11/2001 at 09:36 +, Steve Mynott wrote: Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We should probably discuss whether we think it's a good idea to have both the web site and the mailing list on the same box, as it would be good to use one to keep people up to date with news of the other

Re: contracts - transport

2001-11-09 Thread Chris Benson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:06:49PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: That will be an interesting trick. Many kinds of business only work well (or work more efficiently) in high population densities. Farming **as practiced in (most of) Europe and U.S.** is not one of those things.

Re: contracts - transport

2001-11-09 Thread Mike Jarvis
Friday, November 09, 2001, 2:34:23 PM, Chris Benson wrote: Trains are great for hauling stuff from point A to point B, but they CB s/ian/am/; s/\bbut\b/and/; It's nice that we're all geeks here, but it sure would be easier to read: Trams are good at X. and doesn't take many more bytes.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] t-shirt madness! everything must go!

2001-11-09 Thread aef
Simon Wistow wrote: ankh-morporkdark blue Does it come on a stick? Tony

Re: [ANNOUNCE] t-shirt madness! everything must go!

2001-11-09 Thread anathema
aef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ankh-morporkdark blue Does it come on a stick? No, but it smells bloody awful. -- http://www.the-anathema.org ... or alternately, imagine that your recursive, dancing, naked monkeys are made out of a tumultuous foam of matter and energy. - Mark Rogaski

Re: contracts

2001-11-09 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:21:18AM +, robin szemeti wrote: the whole point of the working time directive is: they are *statutory* rights. any term in a contract that breaks them or requires you to break them is null and void. you cant sign away statutory rights. Bzzt wrong :-) You

Re: contracts - transport

2001-11-09 Thread Andrew Wilson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 07:34:23PM +, Chris Benson wrote: Other parts of the world do v.well with farming in densely populated areas: NL, parts of S.E.Asia do mix well. Other parts of the world are almost 100% responsible for flu pandemics due to their farming practices. Semi randomly