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Hi, and welcome to yet another indolence-delayed Sunday edition of the summary. Leaping straight in with the continuation of a couple of last week's threads; Ashley Pomeroy's continuation of the cryptosx thread into bizarre pop territories, and Harl pointed out where to sign up for PET scans and Simon Wistow described some injuries. Mike Moran declined the offer of OS X. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010326/035621.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010326/035628.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010326/035624.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010326/035655.html Alex Robinson kept the t-shirt plans going with a list of words from (void) over the last 9 months, and Chris Devers offered archives and pondered phrases. Simon Batistoni discovered some odd word patterns, while Mike Moran took Matt Jones' reference to a backprint and ran with the idea of a tattooed Arp. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010326/035651.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010326/035666.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035790.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035797.html Patrick Nordebo and David Cantrell started a discussion on file sharing protocols, querying why Macs and Windows hadn't got a free interchange format, and Todd Larason offered an explanation, and Steve Mynott pointed out NT shares and NFS is implemented for both platforms, and Al Snell defended NFS against its detractors, and Rob Jones mentioned Coda (ne้ AFS). Nice topic drift, too. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-200104-5/035697.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-200104-5/035701.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-200104-5/035715.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-200104-5/035719.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-200104-5/035747.html Victoria McDonnell posted about a Mystery User, and Magnus Bodin added to Al Snell's advice on how to reclaim a probably owned machine, while alex@slab.org gave hints on welcoming your new user. Robin Houston discussed rootkits and the relative safety of shell builtins. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-200104-5/035716.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-200104-5/035722.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-200104-5/035725.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035766.html Simon Batistoni posted a link to a collection of 5.25" disk sleeves, a rant about marketers, and Todd Larason posted links to the backs of the sleeves too. John Melesky was gladdened by the thread. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035800.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035809.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035811.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035810.html Colin Forbes complained about burnout, and got a variety of suggestions from Simon Batistoni, including going out more, which Matt Jones picked up on. As part of the post, he also mentioned paragraph breaks in code; the feeling seemed to be that it's a good idea (see Phil Gregory's post), and David Cantrell explained his horizontal compression and wanted eye focus for his multiple xterms. The thread also turned into a discussion of mice and pointing devices: lots of people like trackballs, and optical mice are complex, but not wireless, because powering them is tricky (see Lee Maguire and Chris Heathcote's posts). http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035815.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035815.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035823.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035857.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035876.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/036012.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/036023.html An offhand comment by Clive Murray on the word 'August' led to a discussion on months, including Ashley Pomeroy's amusing take on naming and an infobomb from Chris Devers. Meanwhile, horiontal spacing in English was being tackled by Robert Jones, Arp, and Phil Gregory, wielding TeX as a case example, again prompted by Clive. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035834.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035848.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035855.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035863.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035889.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035918.html Also this week, photographs of the impromptu (void) meet for 2001, which prompted a discussion on ethnicity and nationality; there was a bubbling discussion on the life and works of Stephen Seagal; Arp mentioned recruiters and Al generated 1500 words; Celia admitteded memelessness and recovery, and Steve Mynott talked about HiNRG, and Aaron Trevena was visited by ghosts. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035937.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035933.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035767.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035789.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035814.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035970.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010402/035943.html Links special: Harl asked for beautiful sites. I can't link all the mails or list all the names, but here's the sites: http://www.adbusters.org/ http://www.subgenius.com http://www.lugnet.com http://marathon.bungie.org http://www.perldoc.org http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/light/english/ http://www.artmuseum.net/ http://www.sothere.com/ http://www.explodingdog.com/ http://www.spesh.com/danny/wireduk/ http://www.monkeybagel.com/ http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/p_0612.htm http://mirror.tvd.be/cjackson/r/p-raeburn3.htm http://www.uq.net.au/iacobus/uccello/st_george1.html http://www.time.org/ http://www.imdb.com/ http://www.supershapes.com/ http://www.apple.com/ http://www.sun.com/ http://www.gnu.org/ And the regular links of the week, from Arp, Simon Wistow, and Robert Jones. http://www.ashleypomeroy.com/bigbubble.html http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/nemeburger/animutation/anim/pika.htm http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=001KAJ |