[ANNOUNCE]Nominations

2001-11-22 Thread Dave Cross
iAs announced at the tech meeting last night, here are the nominations. * Paul Mison * Amelia the beany baby camel The candidates will post brief manifestos to the announce list over the next couple of days and voting will start on Monday. I'll post instructions for voting over the weekend. If

Re: Books

2001-11-22 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Richard Clyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Only if you give network access to it from the WAN > > > -Original Message- > > From: Steve Mynott [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 21 November 2001 18:36 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject:Re: Books > > > > would you boot

Re: london.pm archives

2001-11-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 05:17:19PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > Does one of the penderel admins realise that these are b0rked? There is no > archive for anything after 2001-11-11. > > Am I the only person who noticed this? No, it's been noticed but I don't think anyone knows enough about

Palm goodness [off-topic]

2001-11-22 Thread David Cantrell
I've raved about how great Citymaps is in the past. I'm told that it's now available in Dixons for forty quid, which includes both the mainland Europe and UK maps. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david If a job's worth doing, it's worth dieing

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, robin szemeti wrote: > > > >or is that oprional? :) ... > > > > Does that mean we have to catch mad cow disease first ? > That reminds me of the incredibly geeky (read not funny) joke I made last week, strictly for

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, robin szemeti wrote: > >or is that oprional? :) ... > Does that mean we have to catch mad cow disease first ? /J\

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, robin szemeti wrote: > On Thursday 22 November 2001 19:43, Chris Devers wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, robin szemeti wrote: > > > > > this is the london.pm OGF election, not the US presidency ... > > > > Are you saying that there should be a 1 month extension and a team of

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, robin szemeti wrote: > On Thursday 22 November 2001 13:53, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:00:48PM -, Cross David - dcross said: > > > > Just got a fifth nomination for the person who only had four, but i

london.pm archives

2001-11-22 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
Does one of the penderel admins realise that these are b0rked? There is no archive for anything after 2001-11-11. Am I the only person who noticed this? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Cross David - dcross
Natalie said: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:19:59PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > > Did you specify which timezone's noon nominations closed? The announcement of the rules is in the usual archive. If you check there you'll see that I did specify GMT. > Another really good point. I wanted to as

Re: Your Advocacy ideas

2001-11-22 Thread robert shiels
From: "Nik Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>A more difficult one to counter may be that, this being a fee-paying > school, > >>the parents are going to be well-off and a high proportion of them are > >>likely to have Windows machines at home and will wonder why their little > >>darlings don't use

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Cross David - dcross
Natalie said: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:00:48PM -, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > Just got a fifth nomination for the person who only had four, but it was > > sent 45 minutes after nominations closed so I can't accept it :( > > Should that person really be penalised for the speed that t

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:53:23PM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:00:48PM -, Cross David - dcross said: > > > > Just got a fifth nomination for the person who only had four, but it was > > > sent 45 minutes after nomin

Re: tech meet tonight

2001-11-22 Thread Natalie Ford
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:36:15PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > Given that codix don't have a projector, and I haven't seen mention on the > list of Neil Ford bringing his. I'm hoping that we are going to have one, > as I've done my slides on my laptop, and I was hoping to just plug it in

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Natalie Ford
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:24:59PM +, Simon Wistow wrote: > And should nominees really have been canvassing for nominations - isn't the > point that other people nominate you? Exactly. In my experience in university, nominations were a private names in a hat like affair and the n people with

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Natalie Ford
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:19:59PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > Did you specify which timezone's noon nominations closed? Another really good point. I wanted to ask before, but why such red tape for a group of friends? -- Natalie Ford .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yet

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Natalie Ford
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:00:48PM -, Cross David - dcross wrote: > Just got a fifth nomination for the person who only had four, but it was > sent 45 minutes after nominations closed so I can't accept it :( Should that person really be penalised for the speed that their ISP (or the nominator

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Natalie Ford
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:37:18PM +, Simon Wistow wrote: > And I know this is a little late but why 5 nominations - isn't 2 more normal? That is what I though, and is why I asked 'why 5' a while ago. The answer seemed to be 'cos i was going to use 10 and 5 seemed better'... -- Natalie For

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:00:48PM -, Cross David - dcross said: > > Just got a fifth nomination for the person who only had four, but it was > > sent 45 minutes after nominations closed so I can't accept it :( > > Ah, gwan, it's always noon som

Re: tech meet tonight

2001-11-22 Thread pdcawley
Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Given that codix don't have a projector, and I haven't seen mention > on the list of Neil Ford bringing his. I'm hoping that we are going > to have one, as I've done my slides on my laptop, and I was hoping > to just plug it in and go. My talk i

Re: tech meet tonight

2001-11-22 Thread Jonathan McKeown
--On Thursday 22 November 2001 13:36 + Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given that codix don't have a projector, and I haven't seen mention on the > list of Neil Ford bringing his. I'm hoping that we are going to have one, > as I've done my slides on my laptop, and I was hopi

tech meet tonight

2001-11-22 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
Given that codix don't have a projector, and I haven't seen mention on the list of Neil Ford bringing his. I'm hoping that we are going to have one, as I've done my slides on my laptop, and I was hoping to just plug it in and go. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Newton, Philip
David Cantrell wrote: > Did you specify which timezone's noon nominations closed? Yes, he did: : Nominations will close at noon (GMT) on Thursday 22nd November : 2001. Unless you wish to argue that the usual interpretation of 'GMT' is 'General Molokai (Hawai`i) Time' or something. Cheers, Phil

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Simon Wistow
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:00:48PM -, Cross David - dcross said: > Just got a fifth nomination for the person who only had four, but it was > sent 45 minutes after nominations closed so I can't accept it :( Ah, gwan, it's always noon somewhere and it'd make for a more spirited leadership

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:00:48PM -, Cross David - dcross wrote: > Just got a fifth nomination for the person who only had four, but it was > sent 45 minutes after nominations closed so I can't accept it :( Did you specify which timezone's noon nominations closed? -- David Cantrell | [EMA

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Cross David - dcross
> > Currently I have two valid nominees. I will email these nominees and see if > > they accept the nomination. I will announce the final list at the technical > > meeting this evening and by email tomorrow morning. > > Are any of them stuffed? As in animatedly-different? All will be revealed la

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Simon Wistow
> Currently I have two valid nominees. I will email these nominees and see if > they accept the nomination. I will announce the final list at the technical > meeting this evening and by email tomorrow morning. Are any of them stuffed? As in animatedly-different? And I know this is a little late

[ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread Cross David - dcross
Nominations are now closed. Currently I have two valid nominees. I will email these nominees and see if they accept the nomination. I will announce the final list at the technical meeting this evening and by email tomorrow morning. The candidates will then have until Sunday evening to post a sho

Re: Your Advocacy ideas

2001-11-22 Thread Nik Butler
>>A more difficult one to counter may be that, this being a fee-paying school, >>the parents are going to be well-off and a high proportion of them are >>likely to have Windows machines at home and will wonder why their little >>darlings don't use the same at school. Thats a excellent point. actu

Re: Books

2001-11-22 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On 21 Nov 2001, Steve Mynott wrote: > Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:20:15PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 bin 25802 Mar 21 12:07 unix > > > > Is that... what I think it is? > > would you boot from a kernel which was world write

Re: Another Good Meeting

2001-11-22 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Newton," == Newton, Philip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Newton,> So how did you catch my message? Do you have a special 'kibo' client running Newton,> that greps for your name, so you'll catch messages mentioning you even if Newton,> you don't read all of the 100 messages/day in a given lis

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership

2001-11-22 Thread Amelia C. Bactrianus
Simon Batistoni sent the following bits through the ether: > It may be a moot point, but I might suggest that this is expanded > slightly to take account of meeting attendance. I agree. I know quite a few people who have been to meetings and know lots of London.pm members, been to lots of Perl c

Re: logs / diaries / something

2001-11-22 Thread Roger Burton West
On or about Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 06:31:20PM +, Jonathan Stowe typed: >And then you have the ones that have the awful bodged up support for >multiple database engines with nary a tad of abstraction amongst them ... Oh, granted. It's a first-pass filter, nothing more. ("what's a module?") --

Re: logs / diaries / something

2001-11-22 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Roger Burton West wrote: > On or about Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:01:30PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > >Having spent a while on freshmeat looking for options, my god there's > >some bad code out there. > > The filter I use is to exclude anything that mentions MySQL and not >

Re: logs / diaries / something

2001-11-22 Thread Newton, Philip
Alex Gough wrote: > open(FOO, '>>'.sprintf("%4.4d%2.2d%2.2d",($y+1900,$m+1,$d))) > or die "$!"; Wouldn't that tend to leave lots of little files scattered around the filesystem, depending on where you were when you had an idea for a note? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All

RE: Books

2001-11-22 Thread Richard Clyne
Only if you give network access to it from the WAN > -Original Message- > From: Steve Mynott [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 21 November 2001 18:36 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Books > > would you boot from a kernel which was world writeable? > > :) > > -- > 1024/D9C

Re: Another Good Meeting

2001-11-22 Thread Newton, Philip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "Newton," == Newton, Philip > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Newton,> Randal(? think he unsubbed again > > No... I'm still here. But I was on a couple of cruises in the > past month, so my optional email reading became *very* optional. So how did you catch my