Re: [job] same as before

2002-05-28 Thread Peter Cooper
>I've spotted the same posted to Jobserve but without the pay or >contract length mentioned. > >I guess they couldn't find anyone at that rate. I'd leap at it if it were outside of town, but who wants to go into stinky dirty London for that money? Not a bad wage if it were out in Hertfordshir

[cam.pm] My public solution (fwd)

2002-05-28 Thread Lucy McWilliam
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 22:32:23 +0100 From: Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [cam.pm] My public solution This is not an entrant, but just to show that I think it's possible to do something

Re: (over)use of london.pm-announce?

2002-05-28 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I like this idea. > > How does this differ from the jabber concepts of groups? Do groups not > cache messages if the person is not online? > i have no idea, and dont particularly care as reinventing the wheel is fun ;-) > For that matter, why can

Re: (over)use of london.pm-announce?

2002-05-28 Thread Mark Fowler
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote: > create a jabber bot that sits and sends anything sent to it to anyone > who has subscribed to it as soon as they come online, assuming they > come online before the date which it parses out of the original > message I like this idea. How does this d

Beer (was Re: Report on the Ivy House )

2002-05-28 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: >It also only had one hand-pulled beer ("Tiger"), which > I seem to remember people said tasted a bit flat. > Everard's Tiger (if that is what it was) can be a great beer - but I would be dubious of a pub that only had the one, the probably

Re: Signs and Ports (as in many bottles of different)

2002-05-28 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:13:01PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote: > Maybe we need a new mailing list for just such things. Then the fun > can never stop! > > london-pm-meta anyone? As long as we Do The Right Thing with the Reply-to header. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.ca

Search engine submission/position monitoring

2002-05-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Are there any open source versions of the above? A CLI version of topdog would be fine :-)

Re: Report on the Ivy House

2002-05-28 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:25:47PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: > Well, the interweb lied to me; the Ivy House doesn't do food in the > evenings, so it's really a bit of a dead loss in terms of a possible > social venue. It also only had one hand-pulled beer ("Tiger"), which > I seem to remember peo

Re: Linux distribution of choice

2002-05-28 Thread Mark Rogaski
--Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable An entity claiming to be Peter Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : RedHat has involved trying to find suitable RPMs, then manually installing : them. I'm sure

Re: (over)use of london.pm-announce?

2002-05-28 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Paul Mison sent the following bits through the ether: > > > "Announce should only be used for socials and technical meetings, and > > only once for each of these, when the venue is announced" boo and hiss to the nasty authority figures ;-) so how can w

Re: (over)use of london.pm-announce?

2002-05-28 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:19:46PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: > [2] no, no posting to -announce to ask people if they want fewer > posts on -announce... But I see nothing wrong in piggybacking the question on the next message that was going to get sent to announce anyway. Or better still, the

Re: Signs and Ports (as in many bottles of different)

2002-05-28 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Struan Donald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [1] I'm unsure if it was an attempt to leach the wound before it > gets too bad or a goading. I'm assuming the former. > It was. One thing that annoys me more than jeopardy style posting, threads discussing the pros and cons of jeopardy style post

Re: (over)use of london.pm-announce?

2002-05-28 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > ps all this meta discussion is making my meta head go meta dizzy: >perl -e 'print "Buffy and Kylie and orange\n" x 20' > but its not just this thread, its lots of them that all lead towards the dreaded pit of metadiscussion > ... All the bes

Re: (over)use of london.pm-announce?

2002-05-28 Thread Leon Brocard
Paul Mison sent the following bits through the ether: > "Announce should only be used for socials and technical meetings, and > only once for each of these, when the venue is announced" I would most definitely go for this view. Socials and technicals[1] should be announced once on the announce l

Re: (over)use of london.pm-announce?

2002-05-28 Thread Chris Ball
> "Kake" == Kate L Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> At the least, there's a null hypothesis for you to play with. Kake> I don't think I entirely understand what a null hypothesis Kake> is. As far as I can tell from a bit of googling, the thing Kake> that makes it a null hy

Re: Signs and Ports (as in many bottles of different)

2002-05-28 Thread Struan Donald
* at 28/05 14:03 +0100 Greg McCarroll said: [1] > > Is it just me or have their been a number of indicators we are nearly > due for our biannual (or if you prefer semiannual) introspective > mailing list thread where we debate in our usual manner mailing list > pedentry, fascism, etc. ? Maybe we

Re: Signs and Ports (as in many bottles of different)

2002-05-28 Thread Jasper McCrea
Greg McCarroll wrote: > > Is it just me or have their been a number of indicators we are nearly > due for our biannual (or if you prefer semiannual) introspective > mailing list thread where we debate in our usual manner mailing list > pedentry, fascism, etc. ? > That would be pedantry. And I'm

Signs and Ports (as in many bottles of different)

2002-05-28 Thread Greg McCarroll
Is it just me or have their been a number of indicators we are nearly due for our biannual (or if you prefer semiannual) introspective mailing list thread where we debate in our usual manner mailing list pedentry, fascism, etc. ? Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarr

Re: (over)use of london.pm-announce?

2002-05-28 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Mon 27 May 2002, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only people who turn up to the emergency social meets are those > who helped organise it, from the IRC cabal. No-one has ever turned > up for a non-{social,technical} event solely through seeing it on the > announce list

Report on the Ivy House

2002-05-28 Thread Kate L Pugh
Well, the interweb lied to me; the Ivy House doesn't do food in the evenings, so it's really a bit of a dead loss in terms of a possible social venue. It also only had one hand-pulled beer ("Tiger"), which I seem to remember people said tasted a bit flat. We did have lots of fun, though, and end

Re: review of Star Wars Episode 2

2002-05-28 Thread Peter Haworth
On Mon, 27 May 2002 15:27:21 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > But you have to admit that Samuel L Jackson did a great job of playing > Samuel L Jackson, even better was Ewan playing Alex Guiness ;-) > > Of course the best acting has to go to yoda "I never expected to be impressed by puppetry, but

RE: Counting words in any document

2002-05-28 Thread Pierre Denis
Thanks to all for the infos -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Struan Donald Sent: 27 May 2002 13:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Counting words in any document * at 27/05 13:30 +0100 Pierre Denis said: > I'd like to count the number