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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Sep 24, 2001
Welcome Emyr, ane you can be proud to know that youre the PC's 20th member 
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*HTML(complicated enough to be a language)* True, but it is not it's complexity that makes it a Markup language instead of a Programming Language, it is it's nature that decides the calling 
Anyway I'm adding you now, and be sure to sighn up to the entire entry, so that new threads in it will pop up in your personal space
Also you might want to check the threads that already exist
Dancer
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Pastey Posted Sep 25, 2001
What the heck eh?
Languages:- PHP, MySQL, Javascript, DHTML, XML, Plain English. In that order
Platforms:- This Planet, Windows.
Interests:- Hating Black & White with a vengence since I just can't seem to finish the last level, Too much alcohol than can possibly be good for any human being and a penchant for cookies (the edible type)
I'm happy to write custom php scripts for people and help with stuff like the installation of the stuff needed to run it on a windows server. I seem to have done this countless times in the last couple of months.
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Pastey Posted Sep 25, 2001
It's a heck of a lot easier nowadays. There's a exe file that you can download that'll automatically detect the server you're using on your machine.
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MaW Posted Sep 25, 2001
Goodness me! And I only did it about ten months ago... mind you, that's a long time in open source development.
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Sep 25, 2001
Hey Pastey, youre in
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Anonymouse Posted Sep 26, 2001
If we have a Korner Kid, will this entry make me the Corner Cronie? 
Languages:
Written: CP/M, COBOL, BASIC, HTML (plain, not fancy)
Spoken (though not necessarily fluently): Java, C
(or show me the code and I'll muddle through)
Platforms: VAX/VMS, *ix (do I have to mention M$
?)
Here to suck up any tidbits I can find and add them to my "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" exibit.
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Sep 26, 2001
Welcom Anonymuse. Why is you called this, is it because youre the muse of Anony? 
Please read post 106 in this conversation 
Also added the smiley I forgot to add in pastey's introduction (they don't transfare in the copy-paste action 
)
Peace,
Dancer (Forgiving everybody for everything this year).
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MaW Posted Sep 26, 2001
Actually, I think you'll find our newest member is called Anonymouse... note the second 'o'. Hi Anonymouse! Seems like a long time since I've seen you around
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MaW Posted Sep 26, 2001
Oh yes, Dancer, could you add POV-Ray to my list of skills - it may be a raytracing package (free and good) but it reads its scenes from text files and the Scene Description Language has a lot of programming constructs in it (including but not limited to mathematical functions, while loops, variable declarations and manipulation, I/O operations). In actual fact, in POV-Ray 3.5's help there's an example of writing a simple raytracer in POV-Ray's own SDL that doesn't use the POV-Ray engine to do that actual tracing, only for displaying the output (which is done by constructing a huge mesh with all the different colours and then rendering that with POV). Very clever, what? I don't understand a word of it, but writing raytracers isn't something I'm interested in so that's not a problem.
Oh yes, you don't have to add all that spiel to my entry - in fact, I think it's best if you didn't.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 26, 2001
Hey, MaW, I used to be well into POVRay - I used it to trace a logo for the local Cable TV company a few years back - it was the corporate logo rendered as glass slabs flying in to rest on a pale white marble surface - very tasteful(!) - only took a week to render the 60 frames at broadcast resolution on a 486DLC-40 with 2MB of RAM...
I picked up a good manual for POV (version 2.5) in my local second-hand bookshop for £2 a couple of week's ago - "The Waite Group's Raytracing Creations", a companion volume to the one they do for Fractint. It's way cool... When I finally get round to building my Beowulf cluster, I've got POVRay 3.0 compiled for multiple-CPUs ready to run on it... 
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Sep 26, 2001
It's been a lot of years since I played with Persistance Of Vision (this were the initials as I remember them, not Point Of View, the usual use for the POV Acronym. Am I right in that?)
I didn't know it still lives. I'm glad it is, It was a pretty powerful and quick little thing, and I bet it got even better in later versions.
Added it to MaW, Peet do you want it there too? I can only add it to me as a distant memory, so I won't 
BTW, Peet, do you happen to wear glasses?
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 26, 2001
Only VDU specs...
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 26, 2001
Visual Display Unit - it's a specialised glasses prescription purely to reduce eyestrain when I'm reading stuff off a monitor.
I had to pay for these myself (I was unemployed at the time), but as far as I know, if you work within the EU, and your job requires you to read a screen, your employer is obliged to pay for an eye test and any required VDU prescription, if you formally ask them to.
btw, I generally don't use to refer to the fact I'm wearing glasses, but rather that I'm posting in "geek mode" and I really don't care if a casual bypasser can't understand a word of it...
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Sep 26, 2001
Of course you meant "geek" I was just trying to imagine you and got a picture of a guy with a round yellow face wearing specticles 
But we shouldn't have this conversation here. there's the So Be It thread for that
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MaW Posted Sep 26, 2001
I'm just about to start a POV-Ray thread for those who might wish to discuss it...
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Anonymouse Posted Sep 27, 2001
Heh.. Muse of Anony.. Has kind of a nice ring, doesn't it?
Post 106.. yes, I have been browsing.
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted Sep 28, 2001
Oh, I suppose I might as well come out of the closet:
Languages:VB, PL/SQL, UNIX shell scripting, VB Script
Platforms: VAX/VMS, Windows 2000, COM, COM+, Oracle 8i, Sun Solaris
Special skills (useless to anyone outside my rather rarefied industry and forever condemning me to a cosy job in pharmeceuticals): chemical programming toolkits such as Accord & MDL, scientific systems architecture, yada yada yada...
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Dancer (put your advert here) Posted Sep 29, 2001
Hey Felonious Monk, I myself am a Jazz Lover as well :-) Not specifically Monk (the th one) but Sonny rollins and many others that I got to hear monk play with :-) ) Be sure to sighn up to the entire entry, so that new threads in it will pop up in your personal space. Also you might want to check the threads that already exist. Some of the ongoing threads: "POV-Ray" - Discussing just that (the well known raytracer) http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F73672?thread=143356 "Interesting" - Where people write the interesting things they did as programmers http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F73672?thread=138250 "JazzyMines" - A Jazzy creation by DoctorMO, ask him for the thing and suggest/help writing stuff for the next version http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F73672?thread=140258 "So Be It" - Used for IDLE talk, so that it won't clot(?clut?) up the Sign Up thread http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F73672?thread=136430 <>< Dancer
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- 101: Dancer (put your advert here) (Sep 24, 2001)
- 102: Pastey (Sep 25, 2001)
- 103: MaW (Sep 25, 2001)
- 104: Pastey (Sep 25, 2001)
- 105: MaW (Sep 25, 2001)
- 106: Dancer (put your advert here) (Sep 25, 2001)
- 107: Anonymouse (Sep 26, 2001)
- 108: Dancer (put your advert here) (Sep 26, 2001)
- 109: MaW (Sep 26, 2001)
- 110: MaW (Sep 26, 2001)
- 111: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 26, 2001)
- 112: Dancer (put your advert here) (Sep 26, 2001)
- 113: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 26, 2001)
- 114: Dancer (put your advert here) (Sep 26, 2001)
- 115: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 26, 2001)
- 116: Dancer (put your advert here) (Sep 26, 2001)
- 117: MaW (Sep 26, 2001)
- 118: Anonymouse (Sep 27, 2001)
- 119: Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman (Sep 28, 2001)
- 120: Dancer (put your advert here) (Sep 29, 2001)
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