Re: [OT] Antialiased fonts...

2001-12-04 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:36:05AM -0600, Chris Devers wrote: > > I still want to see a "mainstream" os that included something like BeOS's > > task bar. It could be configured several different ways, but the general > > idea was that each running appli

Re: ["Jonathan Irvine" ] FN-FORUM Job >> Genius Perl Programmers

2001-12-04 Thread Chris Ball
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:27:44PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> Found this on one of the site's I check for jobs. (Unijobs) It's just >> been reposted so I'm assuming he hasn't found anyone. > #15 an hour for perl programmers... I worked for Chris for a month or so on this, and can vouch for

Re: [OT] Antialiased fonts...

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 02:33:05PM +, mallum wrote: > on Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:52:45AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > > > I use KDE2.2 and while I'm in awe of it in general I was disappoined by > > the anti-aliasing. First off I haven't yet managed to get it to aa > > TrueType fonts yet.

Re: [OT] Antialiased fonts...

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:36:05AM -0600, Chris Devers wrote: > I still want to see a "mainstream" os that included something like BeOS's > task bar. It could be configured several different ways, but the general > idea was that each running application got a slot on the taskbar, and you > could c

Re: Is Your Son A Computer Hacker?

2001-12-04 Thread robert shiels
From: "Barbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Have just been posted this. Well it made me laugh :) http://home.dal.net/shrub/Adequacy_org%20%20Is%20Your%20Son%20a%20Computer%2 > 0Hacker.htm I'm amazed at the mails below the post, most seem to think it's a serious article, I despair... /Robert

Re: An unsatisfactory review of the XSLT book

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 02:51:36PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: > I've seen systems claiming to let you build programs out of > prefabricated components for at least twenty years, and the recent ones > don't seem to be any better than the originals... Delphi, .NET, C# Paul

LCN Dec

2001-12-04 Thread Dean Wilson
Welcome to the London Community News. Details are for the month of December 2001. Due to this being the month of December some of the groups are still looking around and planning venues so keep and eye on the home pages if a group is mentioned with no meeting date. The User Groups: -

Re: NNTP and SNTP (was Re: REVIEW Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers fo r the Internet)

2001-12-04 Thread Redvers Davies
> state, you have to deliberately loosen the security if that is not what you > desire. This is how things should be. Cantrel++

Re: NNTP and SNTP (was Re: REVIEW Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers fo r the Internet)

2001-12-04 Thread Redvers Davies
> > So its best to implement the mimimal amount of code on the basis there > > will be fewer bugs in it. > So why reimplement everything that moves? You just answered your own question. > interface, so the sysadmin has to comprehend something completely different > to what he's used to, so tha

[ANNOUNCE]Reminders

2001-12-04 Thread Dave Cross
1/ Although this Thursday is the Thursday after the first Wednesday of December, there is _no_ meeting this week. The meeting will, instead, be next Thursday (Dec 13th) at the Three Cups. 2/ Voting in the leadership election will close at 12 noon (GMT) on Tuesday 11th December. Dave... --

["Jonathan Irvine" ] FN-FORUM Job >> Genius Perl Programmers

2001-12-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
#15 an hour for perl programmers... --- Begin Message --- Hello All,   Found this on one of the site's I check for jobs. (Unijobs) It's just been reposted so I'm assuming he hasn't found anyone.   Perl programmers still needed to write programes for web site. A high degree of expertise nee

Bioinformatics IRC

2001-12-04 Thread Lucy McWilliam
If you can cope with yet another channel, irc.openprojects.net has #bioinformatics, which is a bit quiet at the mo and I thought I might drag people on sometime. Erm, still writing that article. But now I'm going for a curry. L. www.marssociety.org.uk

Re: Linux kernel upgrade questions

2001-12-04 Thread Steve Mynott
Wesley Darlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:37:55AM -0600, Richard Clyne wrote: > > There is also an option to get the .config info from the currently > > running kernel, I just can't remember what that is. It can help when > > you only have the compiled kernel and

Is Your Son A Computer Hacker?

2001-12-04 Thread Barbie
Have just been posted this. Well it made me laugh :) http://home.dal.net/shrub/Adequacy_org%20%20Is%20Your%20Son%20a%20Computer%2 0Hacker.htm Barbie

Re: Perl Advent Calendar

2001-12-04 Thread Struan Donald
* at 04/12 14:40 +0100 Newton, Philip said: > Mark Fowler wrote: > > I'm finalising the module list, so if there's any you > > particularly want to see go in mail me > > Date::MMDDYY! the advent covers the 1st of april? s

Re: [OT] Antialiased fonts...

2001-12-04 Thread Robin Houston
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:29:52PM +, Nic Gibson wrote: > And on a vaguely related perl related topic... has anyone upgraded Perl > on OS X? I want to do it but I've blown up os X too many times recently > and want to know someone else has made it work first. Yes, I have. My advice is not

Re: Linux kernel upgrade questions

2001-12-04 Thread Wesley Darlington
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:37:55AM -0600, Richard Clyne wrote: > There is also an option to get the .config info from the currently > running kernel, I just can't remember what that is. It can help when > you only have the compiled kernel and no longer have the /usr/src/linux > used when you comp

Re: [OT] Antialiased fonts...

2001-12-04 Thread Chris Devers
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Nic Gibson wrote: > And another newbie delurks. > > hello Hey there, welcome :) > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:08:35PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:12:20PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > > > It also needs an squiggle-tab mechanism for switching

Re: An unsatisfactory review of the XSLT book

2001-12-04 Thread Roger Burton West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 02:26:26PM +, Andy Wardley wrote: >Sorry, I was just ranting. I wasn't trying to convince anyone of >anything, just getting some annoyances off my chest. I think that there is something to the distinction, but I'm wary of people who jump aboard uncritically. (I'm not

Re: [OT] Antialiased fonts...

2001-12-04 Thread mallum
on Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:52:45AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > I use KDE2.2 and while I'm in awe of it in general I was disappoined by > the anti-aliasing. First off I haven't yet managed to get it to aa > TrueType fonts yet. When aa is switched on the available font selection > dwindles to

Re: An unsatisfactory review of the XSLT book

2001-12-04 Thread Andy Wardley
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 07:20:25PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: > I'd find this whole argument (see http://www.reciprocality.org/ if you > haven't met it before) a great deal more convincing if it weren't so > obvious that every reader is meant to consider himself a mapper. Sorry, I was just r

Re: Perl Advent Calendar

2001-12-04 Thread Newton, Philip
Mark Fowler wrote: > I'm finalising the module list, so if there's any you > particularly want to see go in mail me Date::MMDDYY! (Though it had disappeared from CPAN last time I looked ... :) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If y

Re: [OT] Antialiased fonts...

2001-12-04 Thread mallum
on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 06:10:56PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > Do I have to go KDE? No, recent xterms ( mine is 4.1 ) will accept a '-fa ' switch and you'll get AA fonts. For example I use; xterm -fa 'lucida console' -fs 7 So my xterms have the nice old NT lucida font in 7 point. Obvi

Perl Advent Calendar

2001-12-04 Thread Mark Fowler
I suppose I should have mentioned here (for those of you that haven't seen use.perl.org) that the Perl Advent Calendar is up again at the usual address: http://twoshortplanks.com/xmas/ I'm finalising the module list, so if there's any you particularly want to see go in mail me (off list, obv

The links are not work safe, Was: Re: Publicity Stunts/Advocacy Suggestions?

2001-12-04 Thread Greg McCarroll
For what its worth, these may be considered not work safe. * Yeoh Yiu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > More cheesy ? Picture posing for Camel Toes: > http://www.essentialclan.com/Cameltoe_files/frame.htm > > ObBuffy: > http://www.cameltoe.org/celebrity.html > > ObNerdy: > Bring a projector and

Re: Publicity Stunts/Advocacy Suggestions?

2001-12-04 Thread Anthony Fisher
Patrick Carmichael wrote: > > If you're alluding to Reading FC's descent towards the Unibond League, > then that doesn't actually apply to me ... Wimbledon fan, man and boy ... > so .. oh yeah .. right .. OK, point taken. No, actually I was referring to everyone's favourite cyborg, Kevin Warwi

Re: [OT] Antialiased fonts...

2001-12-04 Thread Nic Gibson
And another newbie delurks. hello Enough mac users round here aren't there? On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:08:35PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:12:20PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > > It also needs an squiggle-tab mechanism for switching between windows of the > > same

Re: Publicity Stunts/Advocacy Suggestions?

2001-12-04 Thread Yeoh Yiu
Patrick Carmichael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Other than the inevitable cheesy picture of me wearing a Perl T-shirt and > standing beside a camel, what possible advocacy activities a.k.a. > shameless publicity stunts might be worth a try? That don't involve my > getting arrested? > > Any sug