Re: gifts for geeklings

2010-10-06 Thread Steff
On 6 October 2010 10:35, Michael Lush wrote: > > Christmas is coming (not to mention birthday) and I've got to come up with > main presents to get my boy (will be 12  we've already done the usual > suspects Wii,  DS, phone, camera, LEGO Mindstorm and he has enough LEGO! ) > > Rather idealistically

Re: Data recovery

2010-09-03 Thread Steff
On 3 September 2010 10:56, Mike Whiting wrote: > > Hey guys, > > Can anyone recommend any good data recovery services?  My friend dropped his > external hard drive and now it seems to have become my responsibility to 'fix > it' because some of my bands songs are on there.  I'm not sure what exac

Re: Stand up comedy

2010-06-11 Thread Steff
On 11 June 2010 15:25, Nicholas Clark wrote: > During the beer track at the German Perl Workshop, I was asked > "what's a good place to go to in London for an evening of stand up comedy?" > and I had no clue. The Soho Theatre quite often has stand-ups performing - usually at the more intelligent

Re: baby friendly places in/around Farringdon / Holborn

2010-06-07 Thread Steff
On 7 June 2010 12:07, Aaron Trevena wrote: > Hi L.pmers, > > My wife, youngest child and myself will be in your fine city tomorrow > from about 1000-1700 ish for an appointment at a certain well known > childrens hospital (blood disorders and surgery aren't a good > combination), and was wondering

Re: Solid state drives

2010-04-20 Thread Steff
On 20 April 2010 10:07, James Laver wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:08:10AM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: >> Having said that, there are clearly plenty of applications where >> power-failure isn't an overriding worry. > > Or 'on any machine connected to a UPS that's correctly configured to > sh

Re: Monads are like burritos

2009-12-15 Thread Steff Davies
Paul Makepeace wrote: Both sadly lacking from London.pm discourse and consumption*. Hereby corrected, http://blog.plover.com/prog/burritos.html Paul * Seriously, where in London sells decent burritos?! I always liked the ones at MexiCali on Berwick Street. S

Re: Anyone know of a ...

2009-10-22 Thread Steff Davies
Ash Berlin wrote: ...decent laywer? A lawyerist (and excellent cartoonist) of my acquaintance tells me that no-win-no-fee is unlikely to be attractive to most lawyers in this sort of case and that such cases can take a long (years) time to sort out. She does recommend someone though: Richar

Re: Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II

2009-10-20 Thread Steff Davies
James Laver wrote: I'm a huge fan of Model M series, to the point I had a unicomp expensively shipped in from the US, and what a fantastic keyboard. It encourages you to type properly because it's actually a real keyboard (particular hate focused at apple here, the latest apple keyboards (one of

Re: Last Straw. Camel's Back. Etc.

2009-10-01 Thread Steff Davies
Dave Cross wrote: Having spent 45 minutes failing to get through to Demon's tech support people last night I've finally come to the realisation that they aren't still the company that I signed up with fifteen years ago and that I should probably be looking elsewhere for my internet connection

Re: Anyone drinking at the moment?

2009-09-29 Thread Steff Davies
Ovid wrote: Gotta disagree on this one. IPA in the states is *awful*. I actually like it over here. Plus, US beers (even the quality ones) are often very fizzy. A bit too much for my taste. I know the microbreweries in Portland are fantastic, but they generally don't ship over here. I absolute

Re: Skype

2009-09-17 Thread Steff Davies
Bob MacCallum wrote: I thought Skype tried to set up a direct end to end UDP connection if possible? Fallback is through some central servers. That's what it says when you display the "technical info". I am not a network expert though (don't know what UDP is for example!) Having used Skype ex