RE: Language Gentlemen and Ladies

2003-02-11 Thread David . Neal
cuts umm is there some particular reason that whoever is responsible for adding that massage couldn't see fit to add a proper content seperator (/^--\s\n/) as defined in the RFC's ?? cuts Massage seperator ? is that like when the Old Bill raid the joint then ? Here comes that disclaimer

RE: Re: advocacy

2002-06-24 Thread David . Neal
Wouldn't a fox with a tail stuck on it just be a fox with a long strippy red and white tail, twice as long as never mind, I'll get back to me lurkin. D -Original Message- From: leo Sent: 24 June 2002 15:01 To: london.pm Cc: leo Subject: Re: advocacy On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at

RE: penderel

2002-04-03 Thread David . Neal
Although I've a) never contributed anything b) prob not 'up' enough to contribute anything c) have never bin to a social/tech meeting I can a) donate an external SCSI if wanted HTIOU D -Original Message- From: greg Sent: 03 April 2002 12:10 To: london.pm Cc: greg Subject:

RE: Discussion on intellectual propery

2002-03-21 Thread David . Neal
Unfortunately, it's much the same in the UK. Tilly on perl monks is unfortunately in the position of getting wise after the fact, which is a most painful way to do it. I, personally, got 'anal' about my terms of employment when I saw that one company I was joining owned, according to their

RE: War stories on releasing code

2002-03-19 Thread David . Neal
it may be too late already. You contract will probably state that anything you write automatically becomes property of the company. One contract that I was presented with specified that anything I came up with ( software, financial method, lawnmower ) then became the companys property. You

Re: bookstore that sells Linux Journal?

2002-03-14 Thread David . Neal
WHSmiths on Liverpool Street station sell it too - after a bit of pursuasion. D -Original Message- From: lejm3 Sent: 15 March 2002 00:37 To: london.pm Cc: lejm3 Subject: Re: bookstore that sells Linux Journal? On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Tim Noll wrote: Does anyone know of a

RE: User Input at speed

2002-02-13 Thread David . Neal
Agenda Microwriter - alas no longer made but used a chording keyboard with a key resting under each finger of the right hand. I could get very close to real time 'speech' input in about three weeks but stopped using it after that. Still have, fully boxed, manuals, lovely bit of kit. /lurk

RE: Re: Dual boot

2001-12-20 Thread David . Neal
Use two disks, piss of piece. D -Original Message- From: mstevens Sent: 20 December 2001 11:49 To: london.pm Cc: mstevens Subject: Re: Dual boot On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:37:14AM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote: How painful is it to make a machine Win/Linux dual boot (apart

Net Send type Messaging

2001-12-12 Thread David . Neal
Hi all, looking for a way to send a smb message to NT users from a Sun. Will probably use Filesys:SmbClientParser but I can only send to a host, not a user ( a la net send jbloggs Dinners ready ). Anyone know of how I can get a host - username listing from a Unix ( hell or even a PC ) box ?

RE: Re: IRC

2001-12-03 Thread David . Neal
Nope, busted somewhere here then. Using www.missingU.com/irc/ as a public webchat client ( behind fireway, so no inhouse chat ), getting the following response Connecting to london.rhizomatic.net:6667 - have tried irc. too Waiting for serber to respond Connection closed Cannot connect to