On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 09:55 +, david wrote:
Thread drifting for a moment, do folks have any recommendations for where to
buy reasonably priced, legal Win 7 licenses ? I really should upgrade my
compatability platform...
Thanks
From your local, private computer shop, not PC WOrld,
But throw away Ubuntu's Unity and install xfce4 or gnome-core instead. I
find that full gnome installs too much stuff that I do not want.
I don't know which window manager lubuntu uses, but you can install them
all side-by side and use the one that you are most comfortable with.
On Thu,
On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 15:10 +, Peter Corlett wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:18:52PM +, Smylers wrote:
[...]
If they're happy for me to make encrypted searches over their network and
equipment in my own home, why should they have a problem with my doing that
at a bus stop?
I
On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 17:34 +, Smylers wrote:
David Cantrell writes:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 03:21:02PM +, Smylers wrote:
Note my concerns weren't about the OS's user interface, but scanner
support and a couple of decades' worth of WordPerfect documents.
Assuming that
On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 21:08 +, David wrote:
Also the Royal Observatory Greenwich
(http://www.rmg.co.uk/royal-observatory/), home of the Harrison
Chronometers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison), the birth of
the technology that ultiamtely made GPS possible... The trip down or
can get a close match.
Enjoy! :)
Andrew
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Raphael Mankin r...@mankin.org.uk wrote:
Second thoughts: I was slightly wrong in my previous reply.
This is not a 0/1 problem so the Hungarian does not apply. However it is
a general integer
This is a classic variation of the transportation problem.
If you can assign (different) costs to being in the wrong class and zero
cost to being in the right class then the Hungarian Algorithm will do
the job.
The standard version of the algorithm has quartic time complexity, but
there is a
Second thoughts: I was slightly wrong in my previous reply.
This is not a 0/1 problem so the Hungarian does not apply. However it is
a general integer transportation problem with limited link capacities.
The Hungarian would apply if you were assigning students to private
tutors; that is a 0/1
Heard today at Aldgate (since Buffy is no longer a legitimate topic):
For your safety and insecurity CCTV is in use ...
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 01:42 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
http://www.stviateurbagel.com/products/?rand=1002335542
So what's the problem? Bagels are no more native to the US than they are
to Canada. They are a European invention.
On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 09:38 +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
I have been asked to make myself available on-call 24/7 (for defined
periods of time) on third line support on a product that rarely goes
wrong. Nearly all problems are infrastructure or user cockup. However,
said users are a) paranoid
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 02:23 -0500, Avleen Vig wrote:
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Aaron Trevena aaron.trev...@gmail.comwrote:
[snip]
At least here in the US, bypassing recruiters is the much preferred method.
I don't know why they're still so heavily relied on in the UK.
The agency does
On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 16:31 +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
I've got a load of books to get rid of, including a bunch of perly
books.
There's a list here:
http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/library/unwanted.tt2
Let me know what you want and I'll bring them to the pub.
I am interested in
They may well be completely different co-ordinate systems. The hnear
arguments may be in UTM (or UK national grid for Britain). The
transformations are wildly non-linear.
See
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/mapproj/mapproj_f.html
or
Snyder JP, Map Projections: a working manual
I have a collection of about 40 Buffy video tapes to dispose of. If any
one would like them please contact me offlist. Collect from NW4
(Hendon).
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 17:47 +0100, Christopher Jones wrote:
On 22 Jun 2011, at 17:02, Raphael Mankin wrote:
I have a collection of about 40 Buffy video tapes to dispose of. If any
one would like them please contact me offlist. Collect from NW4
(Hendon).
What's a 'video tape'?
Now you
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 21:10 +0100, marcos rebelo wrote:
I need an extra information.
Every head-hunter from London proposed me long term contracts, in the
rest of Europe they propose a most 1 year contracts.
What is different in London, that takes the head-hunter to propose
long term
I'm in the market. Contract only.
CV http://mankin.org.uk/cv/
As to PHP, that ought to read 'sort of works'.
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 14:02 +, Pedro Figueiredo wrote:
Hi,
If by any chance any of you wants to work in social games and move to
the Dark Side, these might be interesting:
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 13:31 +, Bob MacCallum wrote:
Under the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act it's unlawful for an employer to
discriminate against you because you are married. This means that they
cannot ask you about this during interviews, etc.
That may well be so but the fact remains that
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 15:48 +, Philip Potter wrote:
On 4 February 2010 14:48, Raphael Mankin r...@mankin.org.uk wrote:
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 13:31 +, Bob MacCallum wrote:
Under the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act it's unlawful for an employer to
discriminate against you because you
Well, I've been bumming about contracting for over 30 years, and the
market seems to be picking up a bit. There are more jobs about and rates
are also up.
Perl is in a funny state. On the one hand, people are saying that Perl
is dead, everything has gone to Python or Java or ... OTOH managers
On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 12:13 +0100, Duncan Garland wrote:
I wonder if the problem can be approached from the other end. I wonder if
there is a design standard (ISO or such like) which states that a
manufacturer should aim for an MTBF of whatever.
I'll let you know if I find anything.
Although various companies, including Google, have done such analyses,
they are all very wary of publishing too much detail (manufacturer names
and models) in case they get sued for libel. Don't be surprised at the
dearth of hard information.
So far as disks are concerned, all disks have flaws.
I have a collection of 1U rackmounts for disposal. They are HP/Compaq
DL360. £50 each, collect from London NW4, or I can deliver at reasonable
locations that do not involve going through the London charge zone.
Typical config
P3 1.4MHz
1280MB RAM
2 * 18.2 GB in RAID1
2 * Ethernet
Most of them
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 12:50 +0100, Andy Wardley wrote:
Raphael Mankin wrote:
The problem here is not with the ORM but rather that you are breaking
the MVC separation and putting controller logic in the view. A good ORM
would have its data cached so that your test might not require two SQL
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:55 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Minty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then what's the benefit of an ORM? (general question, not just to you :)
[snip]
Let's say you
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:54 +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 7 Oct 2008, at 10:10, Minty wrote:
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Then what's the benefit of an ORM? (general question, not just to
you :)
Dunno about ORMs in general, but
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:57 +0100, Peter Haworth wrote:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:36:20 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Actually, it's a whole 24x7h at a stretch on call. This rotates
through the team members, so we're on call one week in 9 at the
moment. We've all had to sign an exemption to
On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 14:20 +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
I confess that I sort of forgot about the whole 'network over power
cables' thing until I needed network access in series of buildings with
metre thick granite walls. And concrete ceilings.
Does anyone know if powerline adaptors
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 20:13 +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:43:32PM +0300, Yuval Kogman said:
but conversly you have:
my $x = 3;
my $y = $x;
$x++;
$y; # 4
IIRC python works like that.
There was an interesting paper a while back [goes off
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