Alex,
I'm a member of a closed list that is populated by the developers,
programmers, artists etc from many games companies in the UK & US.
They all *love* to talk about 'the good ol days' ;)
I've BCC'd one of the administrators of tft2 on this message; he may choose
to forward the text below on
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:53:23PM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote:
> If you remember Sinclair Spectrum's or have any interesting stories about
> the UK or European computer game history this author would like to hear
> them.
>
> Either post to the list if it is of interest to all, or I can give you
If you remember Sinclair Spectrum's or have any interesting stories about
the UK or European computer game history this author would like to hear them.
Either post to the list if it is of interest to all, or I can give you the
author's email address.
Alex
I am hoping this gets to Alex McLinto
On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:42:30 +0200, you ("Philip Newton"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>On 6 Jun 2003 at 9:38, Philip Newton wrote:
>
>> This bit:
>>
>> He wants to force computer companies to install spellchecking
>> software which offers English instead of American definitions.
>>
>> rem
I'd take the occasional Americanism over txt-msg spk any day.
I quite like the current situation; if you come across somebody who uses
English spelling instead of American spelling then you know they've actually
stuck their nose in a dictionary once or twice.
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:55:41PM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> > cheaper than free?
> >
> > I think you've missed an important point of the case he's describing
> > With existing hardware and "free" minutes that would otherwise go to waste
> > at t
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> cheaper than free?
>
> I think you've missed an important point of the case he's describing
> With existing hardware and "free" minutes that would otherwise go to waste
> at the end of the month, there's no cost in using the 9.6 modem.
> The other optio
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:38:43PM +0100, Shevek wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, David Cantrell wrote:
> > In the general case though, for those that say "bandwidth is cheap" I give
> > you the counter-example of myself. When not connected via ethernet and DSL
> > or better, I usually use a 9.6kbp
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> More on the Save The Endangered Language thread,
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/2967046.stm
>
> Colchester MP Bob Russell wants to prevent youngsters from being shown
> words such as "utilize", "color" and "traveling".
(without jumpi
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Thursday, June 5, 2003 13:14 +0100 Shevek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Upload the lot. It's only 10Kb. We are no longer running at 14.4;
> > management overhead costs more than bandwidth.
>
> Yes bandwidth is cheap, so we shouldn't care about ef
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Lusercop wrote:
> [snip]
> > Required skills include: Perl5, UNIX (FreeBSD/or Linux), Web, CGI, DBI &
> > DBD, MySQL and LDAP (LDAP experience is not essential.)
>
> I find it interesting that there is no mention of (E)SMTP or any MTAs
> listed as "Required skills", given the
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:39:51PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
> We are a tech start-up developing an email service that will provide custom
> email solutions to a large international professionals market; 30 million
> consumers worldwide.
[snip]
> Required skills include: Perl5, UNIX (FreeBSD/or Lin
Several of you might remember Todd from the social meet on Thursday. He's
looking for a Perl bod to work on a project he's working on in exchange
for part-ownership of the business. Since Todd was frank about what he's
trying to get together, I said I'd forward his offer onto the list.
Anyway, i
> Or if anyone has a use for a dual-channel sparc-happy scsi card (the
> single-channel version is currently sitting in my u5) and has an irix box
> they'd swap it for, let me know.
Oi thats my SCSI card so i want an equal share of time on any nice toys we
can get.
Cath
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, the hatter wrote:
> If people are looking to consolidate, I'll quite happily exchange their
> indys for assorted decent (18-36GB) scsi drives of the appropriate types
> (I assume they're either SCA or 68 pin micro D) So if anyone wants to buy
> one of the machines, and buy a d
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Robert Shiels wrote:
> From: "Greg McCarroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 12:07 PM
>
> > sorry to do this on the channel but i felt the SGI kit would be popular,
> > if anyone would like to share interesting SGI anecdotes that mig
Leo Lapworth wrote:
1..3
ok 1 - use Text::vCard;
Unrecognized character \xA0 at test.pl line 14.
# Looks like you planned 3 tests but only ran 1.
The usual Unicode error from bad input is "Malformed UTF-8". This is
something else. According to perldiag:
Unrecognized character %s
(F) The Perl
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