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Elana Kehoe
Re: We haven't got one of these yet...
1f91xyd.moyzlzaqs9a3N%elana.spaghetti@zen.org
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:30:09 GMT
PeterD wrote: > Elana Kehoe wrote: > > > 48! Wait, is that good? Shoot, subtract. Okay...42? Whoo hoo! I am > > the answer to life, the universe and everything! Hey, Schmoo, whaddya > > think of that? :-) > > erm, isn't 100 minus 48... FIFTY-two? Perhaps you're the answer to lice, > the uniform and Emily Ching? Damn, was hoping no one would notice that. I am complete crap at math. From now on it's Apple Menu -> Calculator. :-) And I would prefer to be the answer to rice, the uninformed and my thing.
zoara
Drag and dock.
1f91uhl.z82zb5dr8z9N%not@all.valid
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:55:26 +0000
Richard P. Grant wrote: > In article <1f8z5i8.7q47au3krnueN%swroot@farm-direct.co.uk>, > swroo wrote: [snip] > It's called spring-loaded fodlers, You made a typo. It's actually "sprnig-lodded fodlers"
D.M. Procida
Re: Faster under Mac OS X?
1f98o2o.1eor64iinxmq8N%{$usenet$}@apple-juice.co.uk
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:37:05 GMT
Woody wrote: > > An operating system which doesn't respond instantly to the user is like > > a car which doesn't respond instantly to the driver - it is extremely > > dangerous and could cause carnage on the roads. > > that is just so much bollocks! You are right, of course. An operating system which doesn't respond instantly to the user could not, in truth, kill people on the roads. I was guilty of gross exaggeration when I wrote that and you were quite right to point it out, not to mention extremely perceptive to note it in the first place. I sincerely hope that I have not mislead anyone into believing that an unresponsive Mac OS could be responsible for road disasters, but thanks to your timely intervention I believe that such an eventuality has been averted.
zoara
Re: SpamSpamSpamandevenmoreSpam
1fa16ra.aaovn3h5xd3vN%not@all.valid
Wed, 03 Apr 2002 21:05:26 BST
Richard P. Grant wrote: > In article <1f9to46.dl9oas1wei2osN%atudd@bathSPam.demon.co.uk>, > Adrian Tuddenham wrote: > > > How many responses does a spammer need to stay in business? > > How many spammers does it take to change a lightbulb? I CHANGED OVER 20,000 LIGHTBULBS IN ONE WEEK - SO CAN YOU!!!! I got an email just like this, and like you probly are, I thought "Yeah, right, no-one can change 20,000 lightbulbs in a week". But something made me read on.... And I thought, well, what's to lose? I followed the instructions below and changed 3,000 LIGHTBULBS IN MY FIRST WEEK!!! After that, things just got BETTER and BETTER - within JUST ONE MONTH I was changing 10,000 LIGHTBULBS A WEEK, and I now regularly change 20-25,000 LIGHTBULBS EACH AND EVERY WEEK!
Gordon McCallum
Re: X: Stability? My arse.......
usenet-52DA0F.18563411042002@news-text.blueyonder.co.uk
11 Apr 2002 21:07:47 GMT
<< I suspect that's bollocks, but I can't prove it and I'm being rude. (sorry!). Thing is, I just don't buy the stories about OS X stability. >> Don't be sorry. I am a lawyer. I am used to it.
Richard P. Grant
rpg14-F819D7.09365817052002@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk
Fri, 17 May 2002 09:36:58 +0100
In article <Xns9210B7E19CDC9rexxdeansaund@130.133.1.4>, Rexx Magnus wrote: > This time it rebooted into X after doing a restart, withouth holding the > key. I hadn't set it to boot back into 9 though. > I'm going to try holding the 9 key later on, just out of curiosity. 'He was never seen again'
Peter Ceresole
BAD8309196681759DB6@192.168.0.2
Fri, 02 May 2003 14:26:25 +0100
In article <rpg14-B63741.13503202052003@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, "Richard P. Grant" < wrote: >> Where is the definitive hard copy stored? Last I heard it was at the Deal >> archive with the permanent rules of Mornington Crescent. > >Now *there's* an interesting place to visit. Say 'hi' to the head >Porter - George - from me if you go there. Nice chap - worth getting to >know him, he knows all the tricks that the librarians don't. My main contact was some years ago with the archivist, Mr Arbuthnot. I was researching the historic rule changes that took place in Mornington Crescent in the '30s and '40s, following the decision to incorporate methods of accomodating foreign systems after the adoption of Mornington Crescent as part of the world Chess championships. Speelman's doubling of Korchnoi on the Sebastopol spur caused huge excitement and made it clear that the Long Spur rule, which had been introduced in the '30s to accomodate the Central Line, would have to be modified in the light of the surface crossing of the Neva by the Sebastopol line. Similarly the emergency changes of the '40s and '50s, to take account of Berlin war damage (modelled on the similar changes forced by damage in the Blitz) and then the splitting of the S-Bahn after the building of the Berlin Wall. Even more importantly, few people remember that the international league of Mornington Crescent was maintained throughout the conflict in Sweden and to a lesser extent in Denmark. It's little known that one of the first actions of Nils Bohr on arriving in England in '42 was to resume an interrupted game with George Chadwick at the NPL. Bohr was said to have started a new game at Los Alamos on his arrival there; the details have always been shrouded in mystery, but it was believed to have been the very first game to have used the New York subway. However, Bohr was notoriously uncommunicative on the subject and the New York rules filed at Deal are a *later* set. In fact part of my long discussions in Deal were attempting to locate the orignal Bohr rules (a great prize for whoever rediscovers them) and to nail the truth or otherwise that Rudolph Hess's mysterious flight to England had in fact been motivated by the fact that he had discovered that Hitler and Churchill had once played a postal game of Mornington Crescent, which was at the origin of Hitler's famous anglophilia. Hess believed that he could revive the amity of the two men- he was of course deluded. The programme I was researching was to have been called "The Epping Double: how Hitler lost the war and the Allies won on the Central Line". But although I found tantalising hints, the archives were ultimately silent on this crucial moment in our Great Game... -- Peter
Bruce Horrocks
Re: Macs in white hats (again)
gk5nOjHvMN++EwnM@nodomain.nodomain.us
Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:14:35 BST
In message <p.r.ashby-2A7030.13533524062003@dux.dundee.ac.uk>, Peter Ashby writes >Who is seriously irritated by this storm in a teacup story. I can sense a Private Eye editorial coming on: "For years, this newspaper along with all others, has consistently harangued the Royal Family for being outdated, stupid and irrelevant parasites that have no place in a modern democracy under President Blair, as indicated by headlines such as "Royal Estate found on Moon" and "Prince Charles spends 15 minutes talking to rose named after him." "We wish to apologise unreservedly for any misunderstanding these stories might have caused. We now realise that a lone intruder at Windsor Castle, had he been an Al Qaeda suicide bomber, could have wiped-out the entire Royal Family in one fell swoop, throwing the country into a disarray not seen since the Dark Ages and causing the crown to pass to Mrs. Doris Glamis-Grimaldi, the Queen's 27th cousin, 16th removed, currently resident in a Palm Beach home for the retired." "Our advertisers wish to thank-you Ma'am and long may you continue to fill our pages with stories. [Surely "reign over us?" Ed.]" ;-)
Peter Ashby
p.r.ashby-DAD2A1.12204325062003@dux.dundee.ac.uk
Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:20:43 +0100
In article <rpg14-C36D4A.11464925062003@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, "Richard P. Grant" wrote: > > Ditto: curiosity: Bingo! You got one right. Tell me if a scientist is > > not to be motivated by curiosity what should we be motivated by instead? > > He says it as if it's a bad thing. > > My main motivations? I like to find out how things work and the 'wow, > look at *that*' factor. People go off and walk to the north pole while wearing a diving suit because noone has done that variation before when they could do science and see things noone has ever seen before, discover things noone knew existed, understand things noone understood before. True epiphanies in science are rare but when they happen, wow! as you say. I had one a couple of years ago in Geneva, I had come up with a hypothesis during my PhD and ten years later I was looking at something which confirmed my hypothesis. I wasn't the first to look, but i was the first to look in the right place, for the right reasons. Then I found something which meant I had an experiment fall into my lap that I thought I couldn't easily do. The results of all that have just been submitted for publication but I can still remember the feeling of sitting on that stool looking down that scope. Doing it for money? money couldn't buy that high. Peter
Adrian Tuddenham
1gcz0tx.ctq1pz13djvfyN%poppy.uk@ukOFFline.co.uk
Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:30:20 +0100
PeterD wrote: > Perhaps it's to stop Al Qaeiouda hijacking dogs on string and releasing > them in Westminster. Terrierism?
X Kyle M Thompson
c786mo$r2k1$1@ID-142568.news.uni-berlin.d
Tue, 04 May 2004 14:43:52 +0100
Bella Jones wrote: > There are hailstones the size of peas coming down outside. Put my hand > out the window and 'Ow.' Try opening it first. kt.
Chris Ridd
BCCD34D7.10441D%chrisridd@mac.com
Sun, 16 May 2004 15:10:15 +0100
On 16/5/04 2:33 pm, in article 1084714207snz@deltrak.demon.co.uk, "Andrew Stephenson" wrote: > In article <1gdvsm3.6p9mnd1qp3zkqN%pd.news@dsl.pipex.invalid> > "PeterD" writes: > >> Chris Ridd wrote: >> >>> On 16/5/04 1:03 pm, in article >>> 1gdvqwm.j5lc1f1dmyqkrN%tim@nospam.demon.co.uk, "Tim Gowen" >>> wrote: >>> >>>> She has named her new daughter Apple... >>>> >>>> http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4778686.html >>>> >>>> Eh? >>> >>> Well, why not. Maybe she'll get free Macs for life or something. >> >> No, she's being sued by Apple Corps. > > Only if the baby makes noises -- or was it just music? That apparently never stopped Yoko Ono :-( Cheers, Chris
PeterD
Re: OT: (very) Free to collector, a cooker!
1ge6wd2.19k9uxk1y9q542N%pd.news@dsl.pipex.invalid
22 May 2004 12:35:21 GMT
Flavio Matani wrote: > > If they're not cokoing on gas then 'electric' is prolly the word you're > > lokoing for. > > why can't they be cokoing on an eclectic prolly? I don't think you can. You can have a cokoier on gas, but eclectic prollies are too small for a chief koier and cokoier on the same hob.
Martin
Re: Critical OS X security flaw
c8l60u$981$2$830fa795@news.demon.co.uk
Fri, 21 May 2004 16:08:15 +0100
In article <BCD3D8CA.6ED6D%bingbong@spamcop.net>, Bonge Boo! wrote: > Can you ping flood yourself? $ sudo ping -f localhost Can't see much point in "DOSsing myself off" though - S&M hacking maybe?
Martin
cl5ut8$k2f$5$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:06:16 +0000 (UTC)
In article <slrncncubd.218j.jim@odin.magrathea.local>, Jim wrote: > In article <cl5ti8$k2f$3$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk>, Martin wrote: > > In article <41767080$0$20957$afc38c87@news.easynet.co.uk>, > > "David Glover" wrote: > > > >> "Martin" wrote in message > >> news:cl5p3q$gav$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk... > >> > I'd always fancied one of these myself: > >> > >> A technological solution to a social problem. If people are incapable of > >> using a mobile phone discreetly, I find actually complaining to them works > >> well. > >> > >> No need to punish everyone in the area. > > > > I used to share office space with a bloke who loved making us suffer > > Crapital Radio all day. It was when Whitney Houston had that really > > fucking annoying and whiney number one hit. > > No, you're going to have to narrow it down a wee bit more than that. > nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnddddddddddaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeee eeooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy yyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwooooooooooollllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalll llllllllllllwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyeeeeeaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyysss lllllllllluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu You know the one?
Thom White
2tn5bjF21u9rnU2@uni-berlin.de
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:52:03 +0100
Giles Paterson wrote: > Remember kids; home taping is killing music. How about if we just taped the rubbish stuff - could we get rid of specific artists?