Re: An unsatisfactory review of the XSLT book

2001-12-05 Thread Roger Burton West
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:16:47PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: >On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:13:29AM +, Roger Burton West wrote: >> Yes. Quite. All of these still need skilled programmers (that being the >> need that all such systems claim to work towards eliminating), and they >Hmm, I don't th

Re: An unsatisfactory review of the XSLT book

2001-12-05 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:13:29AM +, Roger Burton West wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:19:06PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > >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

Re: Rent

2001-12-05 Thread Simon Batistoni
On 05/12/01 18:28 +, Redvers Davies wrote: > I first saw Rent its first time round - don't know the name of > the theatre - Its the one on the junction of Shaftsbury and > what should be Gower street. Near Drury lane. > > Anyways - that performance sucked. Was my first exposure to rent. Ah

Re: Fun with Java Programmers

2001-12-05 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Jasper McCrea ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Who the hell is Cameron Mackenzie!!?? I mean Mackenzie Crook. > ah, you mean Gareth, well its good news that the office is getting another series, it was clever/funny enough to be the sort of show that gets dropped after the first series by short s

Re: Rent

2001-12-05 Thread Redvers Davies
> Aaargh, no, it's got Adam Ricket in it. HE MUST BE ELIMINATED! I don't know who Adam Ricket is - but when I saw this group perform it was his understudy who did the performance. Best Mar[ck] I've even seen. Looked *exactly* like my Welsh tutor from City Lit though which was strange. I first

Re: Rent

2001-12-05 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Redvers Davies wrote: > > That most excellent Musical is back in London for a while. > > Any moungers interested in a group visit? I can attest to the excellence of this one, esp. as my mate is stage manager on the show. I was there during the sound check yesterday and it ro

Re: Rent

2001-12-05 Thread Simon Wistow
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:51:02PM +, Redvers Davies said: > That most excellent Musical is back in London for a while. Aaargh, no, it's got Adam Ricket in it. HE MUST BE ELIMINATED! c.f http://www.urbanreflex.com/jking.html plus numerous soap opera and soap opera 'stars' attempting to swit

Re: Rent

2001-12-05 Thread the hatter
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Redvers Davies wrote: > That most excellent Musical is back in London for a while. > Any moungers interested in a group visit? I might be tempted. the hatter

Rent

2001-12-05 Thread Redvers Davies
That most excellent Musical is back in London for a while. Any moungers interested in a group visit?

Re: Fun with Java Programmers

2001-12-05 Thread Stray Toaster
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:38:16PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Jasper McCrea ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Speaking of funny, Cameron MacKenzie (yes, yes, I have been telling > > ok, i'm going to show my ignorance here (not for the first time), but > who is Cameron MacKenzie? I've googl

Re: Fun with Java Programmers

2001-12-05 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Jasper McCrea ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Speaking of funny, Cameron MacKenzie (yes, yes, I have been telling > ok, i'm going to show my ignorance here (not for the first time), but who is Cameron MacKenzie? I've googled and failed to find any actor. > everyone) was in my lift in work the o

Re: Fun with Java Programmers

2001-12-05 Thread Jasper McCrea
Jasper McCrea wrote: > > "Randal L. Schwartz" wrote: > > > > > "Simon" == Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Simon> For the last few people out there who don't read The Onion > > > > I don't read the onion because nearly everything that is truly funny > > there has the URL forwa

Re: Fun with Java Programmers

2001-12-05 Thread Jasper McCrea
"Randal L. Schwartz" wrote: > > > "Simon" == Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Simon> For the last few people out there who don't read The Onion > > I don't read the onion because nearly everything that is truly funny > there has the URL forwarded to me on lists like this. :) >

Re: Fun with Java Programmers

2001-12-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Simon" == Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Simon> For the last few people out there who don't read The Onion I don't read the onion because nearly everything that is truly funny there has the URL forwarded to me on lists like this. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consultin

Re: Fun with Java Programmers

2001-12-05 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: > For the last few people out there who don't read The Onion > http://www.theonion.com/onion3744/java_programmers.html Some of us have too much to do. Then again, some of us need our priorities sorting out. L. I am a fish.

Re: LCN Dec

2001-12-05 Thread Newton, Philip
Dean Wilson wrote: > Due to the high turnout GLLUG meetings are less frequent than > the other user groups, you can get notification of the next > meeting either on the home page or through this mail but the > next meet will probably not be until November. Is that so? Not until next November?

Fun with Java Programmers

2001-12-05 Thread Simon Wistow
For the last few people out there who don't read The Onion http://www.theonion.com/onion3744/java_programmers.html

Re: [OT] Antialiased fonts...

2001-12-05 Thread Newton, Philip
Robin Houston wrote: > My advice is not to remove or replace the shipped perl, but to install > a newer version as well if you want. Solaris >= 9 (or was it 8?) is like that, too, isn't it? ISTR reading that it ships with several utilities which depend on the shipped version of Perl, but that y

Re: [OT] Antialiased fonts...

2001-12-05 Thread Mark Fowler
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. Gnome call this "grouping". turn on "Enable task grouping" in deskguide (it's in misc in the first tab in properties) and you get one button per a

Re: An unsatisfactory review of the XSLT book

2001-12-05 Thread Roger Burton West
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:19:06PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: >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 bett