Re: Buffy S6E21-22

2002-05-22 Thread Mike Jarvis
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:11:46AM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:06:11PM -0400, Mike Jarvis wrote: When do you guys get it? I won't spoil, I'll just say I have real hope for next season. It could be really good. Or not. Lots of potential, but it really depends

Re: Buffy S6E21-22

2002-05-22 Thread the hatter
On Wed, 22 May 2002, David H. Adler wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:02:24AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:06:11PM -0400, Mike Jarvis wrote: When do you guys get it? I won't spoil, I'll just say I have real hope

Re: OT (yea right) - taking Credit card payment.

2002-05-22 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Leo Lapworth wrote: Anyway, now I've got this far I need a company to take the money from the customer and do all that security stuff. Does any one have recomendations of who I should use ? Check out worldpay. They do any number of products, including ones that will just pay into a

Re: Buffy S6E21-22

2002-05-22 Thread Stray Toaster
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:42:11AM +, the hatter wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2002, David H. Adler wrote: Or mulder and scully (or just scully) come to town to investigate the mysterious goings on. Or Agent Cooper m. -- I don't want the world, I just want your half -- Family ties :

Re: Buffy S6E21-22

2002-05-22 Thread Simon Batistoni
On 22/05/02 07:02 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:06:11PM -0400, Mike Jarvis wrote: When do you guys get it? I won't spoil, I'll just say I have real hope for next season. It could be really good. Or not. Lots of

Re: Buffy S6E21-22

2002-05-22 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Stray Toaster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:42:11AM +, the hatter wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2002, David H. Adler wrote: Or mulder and scully (or just scully) come to town to investigate the mysterious goings on. Or Agent Cooper bah, we are all missing

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread the hatter
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: Beer: Jon noted that there were no hand-pulled beers. Boo. And no girlie drinks, inconvenient both for the girlies, and for those of us who don't qualify but like them anyway. ASCII plan time. [snip] You are in a twisty maze of booths and little

Emergency loan of SCSI cdrom

2002-05-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
There's an off chance I might need to blag a SCS cdrom drive for a day next week to plug into a sun server. internal or external should be fine. if anyone (beer) has one (beer) please let me know. I'll be passing through the west end on my way to the client. Ta, Dave

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:43:33PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: Beer: Jon noted that there were no hand-pulled beers. Boo. That makes it a non-pub, and I for one will not be going. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david We must get users past their

Re: Emergency loan of SCSI cdrom

2002-05-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:40:24PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: There's an off chance I might need to blag a SCS cdrom drive for a day next week to plug into a sun server. internal or external should be fine. if anyone (beer) has one (beer) please let me know. I'll be passing through the

Re: Buffy S6E21-22

2002-05-22 Thread Merijn Broeren
Quoting Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Or mulder and scully (or just scully) come to town to investigate the mysterious goings on. Or Agent Cooper bah, we are all missing the obvious guess appearance - Alf! You're showing your age. To keep up with the current TV

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread Andrew Bowman
From: Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Credit Cards are taken downstairs, which isn't a problem as far as the They did this whole carrying cards upstrairs thinig for some of us (though not blech and Kake, they obviously look like criminals.) Not sure if they'd do it for the mass of people

[JOB] student placement

2002-05-22 Thread David Cantrell
BBC Internet Services are looking for a student for a year's placement, running from around September this year to June next year, based in London. We are particularly interested in people who already have some knowledge of large-scale networking, multicast, and programming in perl and C. If

Re: [JOB] student placement

2002-05-22 Thread Newton, Philip
David Cantrell wrote: If you're interested, please email me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ensuring that you send to the right address and with a suitably formatted email may be considered to be the first barrier to entry :-) Ooh... suitably formatted. I wonder whether the BBC prefer embedded Flash

Re: [JOB] student placement

2002-05-22 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Newton, Philip ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ooh... suitably formatted. I wonder whether the BBC prefer embedded Flash animations or Java applets in their HTML emailed résumés? also make sure you somehow embed a MIDI tune, so whoever reviews your CV enjoys a jaunty rendition of Wannabe or

Re: Emergency loan of SCSI cdrom

2002-05-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:40:24PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: There's an off chance I might need to blag a SCS cdrom drive for a day next week to plug into a sun server. internal or external should be fine. if anyone (beer) has one (beer)

Re: [JOB] student placement

2002-05-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:00:25PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: also make sure you somehow embed a MIDI tune, so whoever reviews your CV enjoys a jaunty rendition of Wannabe or perhaps Greensleeves, beeping along merrily on their speakers. And a 1x1 transparent GIF web bug, so that you know

[jobish] success with online applications?

2002-05-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
Out of interest, has anyone ever got a position through an Internet job site? Putting aside the two lone jobs through registering with an agency years ago, I'm still at the 100% mark for jobs acquired through personal contacts or clients recommending me. FWIW, I generally really like the

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2002-05-13

2002-05-22 Thread Chris Ball
Mark == Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark On Mon, 20 May 2002, Simon Batistoni wrote: Ta hugely, Chris, and long may your reign continue[0]. Mark Though, do shout if you get bored. Thanks to both for the kind words, and to Leon for keeping up the summaries before me.

Re: [jobish] success with online applications?

2002-05-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Out of interest, has anyone ever got a position through an Internet job site? No, and in the current climate, it's unlikely. -- David Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hirehttp://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star

Re: [jobish] success with online applications?

2002-05-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:09:17PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Out of interest, has anyone ever got a position through an Internet job site? No, and in the current climate, it's unlikely. I had an offer, but turned them down. -- David Cantrell

Re: [jobish] success with online applications?

2002-05-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:10:36AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: Out of interest, has anyone ever got a position through an Internet job site? Putting aside the two lone jobs through registering with an agency years ago, I'm still at the 100% mark for jobs acquired through personal contacts

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2002-05-13

2002-05-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:13:33PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: chris@lexis:~$ perl -le'a=($^O eq 'darwin')?qw(100453 81289 9159):qw (23152 19246 2040);while(){chomp;push b,$_ if grep {$.==$_}@a}push b,$^X;print ucfirst join( ,b[2,0,3,1]).,'/usr/share/dict/words I knew this couldn't possibly

Re: [jobish] success with online applications?

2002-05-22 Thread Chris Ball
Nicholas == Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nicholas Minus points include Nicholas That machine is Redhat. I'm using a Redhat workstation at work at the moment, too. I told our sysadmin that I wanted to stick Debian on there, and he pointed me to an eleven CD Oracle 8i

Re: [jobish] success with online applications?

2002-05-22 Thread Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN)
Out of interest, has anyone ever got a position through an Internet job site? I got my current job through jobs.perl.org. Not quite an agency. Also been offered jobs though on-line agencies in the past. Got my first job in this way. I usually look at jobserve.com and then stray off onto the

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2002-05-13

2002-05-22 Thread Chris Ball
Paul == Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:13:33PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: chris@lexis:~$ perl -le'@a=($^O eq 'darwin')?qw(100453 81289 9159):qw (23152 19246 2040);while(){chomp;push @b,$_ if grep {$.==$_}@a}push @b,$^X;print ucfirst join(

Oracle client software

2002-05-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:27:38PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: eleven CD Oracle 8i installation set, and told me to have fun with the client libraries. Installing 8i client software on debian is a doddle. Just fire up the main install on the main CD and select install client software. The Java

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2002-05-13

2002-05-22 Thread Roger Burton West
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:34:29PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: *grin* I know, I know. It works on OS X and every Redhat and Mandrake version I can find 5 (via the tertiary on $^O), which is about as far as I think I can get in 70x3. Debian's is completely inconsistent, changing across releases

Re: [jobish] success with online applications?

2002-05-22 Thread Roger Burton West
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:38:17PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: At my previous permanent employer (the one with the nice view[*], and other things I liked such as decent cappuccino within walking distance) we had Oracle 8 something running on Debian x86. I may be able to put you in touch with

'open_digi' season DOG STAR, London starts May 22nd

2002-05-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
Starts tonight. Looks very cool indeed. If you prefer reading garish websites, this email is more or less at http://club.net-art.ws/ To save you the grief of streetmap's appalling interface address parser, the Dog Star bar is basically here,

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2002-05-13

2002-05-22 Thread Merijn Broeren
Quoting Chris Ball ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I think it'll be a good thing for me to do, anyway - especially since I'm moving to London next month (to intern with Morgan Stanley for the Summer) Yes, your imminent arrival was announced to me :-) -- Merijn Broeren | 'I want to understand

Tactical Global Thermonuclear War (and other ways to spend yourspare time).

2002-05-22 Thread Redvers Davies
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 09:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the map in the NORAD when WOPR tries to convince the USians that they're under nuclear attack (in War Games). Has anyone else toyed with the idea of writing a networked version of Tactical Global Thermonuclear War - a'la War Games. Sounds

Re: [jobish] success with online applications?

2002-05-22 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:10:36AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: I've employed people using online job sites. It feels nice to cut out the evil recruitment people. Personal contacts are still the preferred mechanism tho'. I've not yet found an online advert that was not

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2002-05-13

2002-05-22 Thread Rob Partington
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I knew this couldn't possibly work, but damn it's funny! Justness ANSI perl Hagen, Track basic perl Riga, Justice another perl hackers [Linux penderel 2.4.18 #4 ] Blackening Actinosphaerium perl batikulin,

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread Natalie S. Ford
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:26:15PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:43:33PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: Beer: Jon noted that there were no hand-pulled beers. Boo. That makes it a non-pub, and I for one will not be going. ...and I bet he won't be the only one... --

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread Simon Wistow
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:45:06PM +0100, Natalie S. Ford said: Just a pity the food is so awful - i can always eat in transit to the pub though... And the beer. Disregarding handpulled or not was it a deliberate move to use another Sam Smith's pub or just a coinckydinks? I don't know about

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2002-05-13

2002-05-22 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Paul Makepeace wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:13:33PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: chris@lexis:~$ perl -le'@a=($^O eq 'darwin')?qw(100453 81289 9159):qw (23152 19246 2040);while(){chomp;push @b,$_ if grep {$.==$_}@a}push @b,$^X;print ucfirst join( ,@b[2,0,3,1]).,'/usr/share/dict/words I

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread Dave Thorn
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:55:20PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: I don't know about any body else but Sam Smith's make the worst tasting beer I've ever tasted. I'm with you on that, not that I come to many of the meets. Planning on getting to the next one though. -- dave thorn | [EMAIL

Re: Buffy S6E21-22

2002-05-22 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:06:01PM +0200, Merijn Broeren wrote: Quoting Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): bah, we are all missing the obvious guess appearance - Alf! You're showing your age. I mentioned David Hemmings and *Greg*'s showing his age?? :-) -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL

Re: Linux distribution of choice

2002-05-22 Thread Ian Brayshaw
Newton, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, what distro do people prefer and why? What's better in Debian than in Distro X? What's bad about distro X? Currently, I'm running DeadRat (have been for about 5 years now). Why? Because I was young and foolish and that's what was on the CDs I found.

Re: Oracle client software

2002-05-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:37:17AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: If your lazy admin ever tries that kind of smart-ass bullshit again, point out that Oracle don't support Red Hat any more. (Did someone say fscked gcc library snapshots in production releases?) OK, they don't support Debian

Re: Oracle client software

2002-05-22 Thread Roger Burton West
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:08:16PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:37:17AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: If your lazy admin ever tries that kind of smart-ass bullshit again, point out that Oracle don't support Red Hat any more. (Did someone say fscked gcc library

Re: Oracle client software

2002-05-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:17:34PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: Support? From Oracle? For something other than Windows? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Yes, you could pay Oracle for support for RedHat, and you couldn't for Debian. This made no difference to the quality of the support

Re: Oracle client software

2002-05-22 Thread Roger Burton West
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:30:14PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:17:34PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: Yes, you could pay Oracle for support for RedHat, and you couldn't for Debian. This made no difference to the quality of the support IME. What about support on

Re: Oracle client software

2002-05-22 Thread Nic Gibson
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:37:36PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:30:14PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:17:34PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: Yes, you could pay Oracle for support for RedHat, and you couldn't for Debian. This made no

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: Beer: Jon noted that there were no hand-pulled beers. Boo. Well that'll be a no from me then. /J\

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: Beer: Jon noted that there were no hand-pulled beers. Boo. On Wed 22 May 2002, Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well that'll be a no from me then. Cool, so you'll come to a meet if we find somewhere with good beer? :) Kake

[JOB] Developer for Digital Advertising (fwd)

2002-05-22 Thread Lucy McWilliam
This of any use to anyone? -- Forwarded message -- Date: 21 May 2002 15:46:13 - From: Perl Jobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Perl Jobs] Developer for Digital Advertising - perl/cgi/flash coding/java - London (onsite), United Kingdom, London Online

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: Beer: Jon noted that there were no hand-pulled beers. Boo. Double boo. Did I mention there's a beer festival happening in Cambridge *right now*? Alas, the food was not universally considered good. Food is for wimps ;-)

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:05:11PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: Beer: Jon noted that there were no hand-pulled beers. Boo. Double boo. Did I mention there's a beer festival happening in Cambridge *right now*? Did I mention that I'll probably be

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:08:06PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: On Wed 22 May 2002, Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well that'll be a no from me then. Cool, so you'll come to a meet if we find somewhere with good beer? :) I bet he'll only admit to liking the beer from Harvey's pubs

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:45:14PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:08:06PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: On Wed 22 May 2002, Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well that'll be a no from me then. Cool, so you'll come to a meet if we find somewhere with good beer?

[OT] Credit cards

2002-05-22 Thread lpm
Ok, I'm looking for a credit card with a 0% rate on balance transfers for n months for some n = 6. Being able to manage it over the web would be very good too. I already have an Egg card, so aside from that, any recommendations? (Hopefully a sensible From: name on this one...) aef