On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Shevek wrote:
> I remember people saying this about W3.11 when W95 came out.
> I remember people saying this about W95 when W98 came out.
> I remember people saying this about W98 when WNT came out.
Not to be too picky or anything, but...
WNT was first released before W3.11.
David Cantrell said:
> The following are avaialbe now or over the next month or so if anyone
> who's not on the naughty list fancies taking a stab at reviewing them.
> All from O'Reilly, and I've cut out a few I didn't think were
> particularly relevant:
>
>> sendmail 3e
>> http://www.oreilly.com/c
robin szemeti said:
> as a first step, getting plenty of Perl people signed up and making
> Perl'y sort of noises on their 'internet specialist group' would
> probably be no bad thing ...
>
> http://www.isg.org.uk/member.htm
>
> its free btw,
>
> --
> Robin Szemeti
>From the rules:
b. All probl
Toby|Wintrmute said:
> (
> PS. Anyone want to buy "The Settlers 3"? (Win32 ver)
> (
> I bought a 2nd hand copy of the sequel on ebay, then realised it
> probably wouldn't run on my non-3D accelerated laptop - so i bought S3
> for a few quid in the meantime. Then S4 rocks up, and turns out to
>
Paul Makepeace said:
> Argh - I'm looking at some HTML that was obviously written on a case
> {insensitive,preserving} DOS FS so references to files sometimes break.
> I read on google turning rockridge extensions off is supposed to help,
> http://archives2.real-time.com/tclug-list/1999/Aug/msg0072
Dave Cross said:
> That being the case, please feel free to recommend cheap DVD players to me.
well, if i was to buy low-end at the moment, i'd probably go for the mico
clasica 20, available in sainsbury's. as an alternative, i might consider
the cyber home AD-L528. wouldn't get the AD-M212, howev
Nicholas Clark said:
> You might want to build your own 6.8.0 for /usr/local without threads
hehe, i see we've jumped just a _little_ bit into the future here ;)
Jody
Simon Wistow said:
> Quick question - recently, whilst trying to watch a DVD on a laptop (a
> lateish model Vaio) on the TV via composite out (little yellow headphone
> jack sized female socket?) we'd get a sharp picture of the desktop but a
> black rectangle where the DVD was playing. This was in
hi all,
ok, i'm trying to decide what exactly to put into my 1U rackmount case and
thought i'd ask for some advice as i just can't make a decision. firstly,
for reference purposes, this box is going to be to running several vmware
virtual machines, so whatever i end up with needs to be able to cop
Mark Fowler said:
> An aside issue: Where's this being hosted? Is it going in an Airconed
> room, and will you be able to get half a U gap between this server and
> the next one or are you likely to be sandwidtched inbetween two other
> potentially hot servers?
it's actually just going to end up
Dirk Koopman said:
> Personally, unless you can find a really good heatsink *designed* for 1U
> high operation on AMD (this may involve searching
> http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ rather carefully) and a power supply
> which is meaty enough - I think you are looking at Intel Hardware.
>
well both o
Shevek said:
> Oddly enough, that's almost exactly the reason I bought 16 of them.
> Beware the 'not bad prices'.
>
well, whether i put an athlonXP 1800+ or a celeron 1.3GHz into it,
together with 1gig of ram, i'm talking about £220/£230 for everything but
the hard drives, which is not bad.
Jody
hi all,
i'm looking for somewhere to stay overnight after the techmeet this month
(thats next thursday, the 23rd). any offers please reply offlist.
thanks in advance,
Jody
Earle Martin said:
> I signed up for a hotmail account recently so I could use MSN Messenger
> to talk to some people.
You don't actually need a hotmail account to use msn messenger though. A
passport is enough to do the job, so when i finally closed down my hotmail
account last year i just create
Paul Johnson said:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:35:29PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:22:48PM +, Phil Pereira wrote:
>> > Is there an easy way to split "123456" into "12-34-56"?
>>
>> $ perl -lne 'print "$1-$2-$3" if /(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)/'
>> 123456
>> 12-34-56
>> $
Newton, Philip said:
> Using [the ssh connection Pete kindly provided] for five minutes: all is
> fine. (Damn English lack of precedence operators.)
>
> Leave it sitting around for five minutes: the window is gone.
>
have you tried turning keep-alives on?
Jody
Newton, Philip said:
> Jody Belka wrote:
>> have you tried turning keep-alives on?
>
> How do I do that?
i think you said you're using putty, yes? if so, it has an option to send
null packets to keep the session active. that's what i was thinking of.
Jody
gistry is being migrated to a new registrar."
So it could be that things haven't settled down completely yet?
Jody Belka
well, i finally got round to converting my script into an actual module
(after doing a little fix to deal with the fact that natwest just /had/ to
go and make a change to the urls they use). and because there was no-one
around at about 9 this morning i even went and added some more features to
it :
Mark Fowler said:
> full directions are below. As before you should aim to get to Yahoo!
> for 7pm, for a 7.15pm sharp start. The meeting should last just over a
> couple of hours, and we will be retiring to a nearby drinking
> establishment
> afterwards for discussion of talks.
is anyone going
i'm trying to find a motherboard that i can fit into my case and thought
i'd ask here for any suggestions.
what i need is a micro atx form factor motherboard (or smaller) that is no
more than 22.9cm on the port edge. i would prefer a sktA board, but skt370
would do if necessary. also preferable wo
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:31:33PM +0100, Jon Reades wrote:
>> you'll probably want to steer clear of BT
>
> You will indeed. BT do have a wires-only service, however it is
> *truly* wires only - you get an IP connection, and that's it. No
> email, no 'free web space' etc.
>
> This wouldn't be a
> I'm referring to 'BT Retail' - BT Openworld does give you all the
> 'frills', I gather.
>
> When I worked for an ADSL ISP, we had lots of customers switch to BT
> Retail ADSL (cheaper? who knows), then call *us* because they didn't
> have an SMTP server to use...
>
yuk. you only save about 2-3uk
IMAP HILLWAY\ said:
>
> Now... this works fine for almost every URL I can think of apart from 2:
> http://www.acxiom.co.uk & http://www.acxiom.com
> These 2 both return "500 Internal Server Error" but work fine if you go
> to them with a browser!
bit of checking and it seems that they're using the
i could really do with getting out of birmingham for a bit (yeah, i know i
only just got back, but who cares).
with the tim o'reilly thing on monday and the emergency meet on wednesday
i was thinking if i could find crash space for [at least] monday to
wednesday of next week that would be good for
ok, i asked for crash space for monday to wednesday this week a few days
back, but i've stupidly gone and deleted the response i got back. i messed
up coming down for the oreilly thing, but i'm still going to come down for
the emergency social tomorrow.
so, if the person who originally replied cou
hi everyone,
well, after a long time of telling kake and hex that i /would/ set up a
birmingham equivalent of grubstreet i finally have. it's running on the
current shiny release of openguides which as many of you will know is
moslty down to those same people (along with ivor).
right now there is
James E Keenan said:
> Has anyone besides me experienced problems connecting to IRC via
> rhizomatic? I tried irc.rhizomatic.net and london.rhizomatic.net and got
> an "unable to resolve" message? (I finally managed to connect thru
> grou.ch.) Problem experienced about 8:45 pm US EDT.
see
http:/
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> No. Altavista is best, based on searching for pie.
>
> Weeble and Bob 4th (and the old URL, dammit)
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=pie
>
> Weeble and Bob 3rd (also old URL)
> http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/ukie?p=pie&ei=UTF-8
hi,
i'm definitely going to make it into london for thursday (yay). thing is,
i'm going to get into waterloo at 14:43, so does anyone want to meet up
somewhere early?
Jody
Hi,
I know this is late notice (as always; will I ever learn?), but does
anyone have any crashspace available for thursday and/or friday?
Thanks in advance,
Jody
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> The only challenge was /running/ the damn thing. I have no idea how to
> launch it from Firebird. It's possible to launch FB from it by clicking
> on the M logo but the selected profile is ignored (at least bookmarks
> didn't show up). Anyone?
Yep, insta
Ok now, i know partitioning can sometimes be a contentious issue, and
there's not generally a "one right way". Being as that is the case though,
i'm going to be rebuilding a machine shortly and thought i'd ask for
opinions on the partition structure i'm considering:
2x80 gig hard drives
drive1:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > /var500meg reiserfs
>
> (This seems small for your desired multiple VM role.)
> > or should i put them somewhere in /var (with an appropriate
> > extension in size of course)?
*g*
> Think about the major apps on your mac
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Shevek wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Jody Belka wrote:
> > /usr2gigs reiserfs
>
> This is too small by far.
I'm curious as to why? I don't really think i'm going to need any more.
> > /usr/local 1gig
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Chris Benson wrote:
> 1st step: tell us what you're gonna use it for.
ok, the base system is not going to be running much. It'll have LDAP on
it, NFS, Samba, and CUPS. Maybe DNS as well, i haven't decided if that'll
go into a UML box yet. Everything else on the system will be
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Shevek wrote:
> This might also be a bit small, and it isn't resizable. I'd slice a couple
> of gig off the start of each drive. I'm running gentoo, and I've used
> nearly a gig in /, and I don't have much in it except /etc. Just to give
> you an idea of what a running gentoo s
Firstly, as the subject asks, does anyone have any crash space available
after the tech meet on thursday?
Secondly, it's my birthday on the 22nd (that's next monday). It's also
ivor's as well. I think a celebration in london is in order sometime
during the weekend. Ideas, suggestions, etc welcome.
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Gerard wrote:
> You are welcome to crash at my place, if you are ever in Melbourne, Australia!
Well, i was in Brisbane about 3 months ago, and Sydney a couple of years
ago, but never been as far down south as Melbourne ;)
> Happy Birthday!
Thanks,
Jody
It's a joint birthday on monday. Both me and Ivor are officially one year
further along in this thing called life. As such, there are things
happening this saturday (yes, i know that's tomorrow. i know this is
rather late notice. apologies. lack of tuits and all)
Anyway, plans are that from about
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Jody Belka wrote:
> Anyway, plans are that from about 4pm onwards we're going to be
> congregating in Regents Park (weather permitting) for a picnic.
Ok, it's been pointed out to me that it would be a good idea to specify
which bit of Regents Park. For this i
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