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SEF Started conversation Apr 18, 2003
I don't know how but you seem to have been missing this thread: F19585?thread=265255&latest=1. Jim has reactivated some of the files on the old U-numbers we were looking at months ago... 
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SEF Posted Apr 19, 2003
One side trip took me from U13 to Peta's journal on the hub to http://www.moxon.net/ where I noticed that the towel made it into the travel kit as clothing rather than toiletries. I may have a blob or two of it touring the world with Mark in tow. 
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Rho Posted Apr 19, 2003
Is that going to be a Blobfinders topic? 'Mark Moxon and his towel'?
RhoMuNuQ
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SEF Posted Apr 19, 2003
At the moment I'm doing an Easter-ish one following a request earlier in the week. Of course I'm not sure that anyone is actually looking!
Re lurking on another of your threads: do you really not have a plan for higher ed.? Do you want any help/suggestions?
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Rho Posted Apr 20, 2003
I'm sure that people do look at the page - quite a few people have found it now. 
Right now I've got two or three different plans for the future, but I'm not sure which I'm going to ultimately choose - I'm doing a lot of research to decide which would be the best for me. Thanks a lot for offering to help, but I'm on top of it for now. 
RhoMuNuQ
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SEF Posted Apr 20, 2003
I might eventually have to change the page every day then!
OK - non-interference directive duly noted.
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Rho Posted Apr 20, 2003
(Multithread simulposts! 
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I might ask you to 'interfere' later on! Right now, I'm having no problems with my research.
RhoMuNuQ
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SEF Posted Apr 20, 2003
I'd been feeling very left out of the latest dev server stuff having not actually been invited to the BBCi tester group when Peta first said I could play. So I'd rather missed all the action. Today I stopped sulking long enough to have a look again. I saw my nickname was causing trouble as intended but I also noticed a very important piece of information in one thread about which you should have told me. 
This was easily as significant as the offer Zaphod initially missed at The Restaurant and it might be too late now. 
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Rho Posted Apr 21, 2003
Which thread was this? I can't remember any particularly significant ones...
By the way, I'm back!
RhoMuNuQ
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SEF Posted Apr 21, 2003
I missed you - even though you were not very convincingly "not here". 
Deliberately broken link for dev server: F 90476?thread=179859
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Rho Posted Apr 21, 2003
You'd rather that I was more convincingly not here?
I didn't know that you'd be interested in that thread, or I'd have pointed it out! I don't think it's too late, yet...
RhoMuNuQ
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SEF Posted Apr 21, 2003
Well if you had been definitively not here, 
I wouldn't have gone looking for you. 
So it's your own fault really. 
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Rho Posted Apr 21, 2003
One sentence, some smileys, then 'It's your own fault'! How unfair...
RhoMuNuQ
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SEF Posted Apr 21, 2003
I meant your fault about the MP203385 thing (in case you thought I was still sulking about the dev server). I've just realised it might have looked like I was commenting on the second part of your post.
I suspect you already know that life isn't fair.
Right now I'm still a bit shaky and wiped out after a little trip out to try and get some food. My typing keeps going all wrong. Dead alien. 
I did manage to salvage some left over chocolate eggs though - despite officially missing easter. 
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Rho Posted Apr 21, 2003
Life isn't fair if it's my fault about MP20 [this space intentionally left blank] 5.
Are you getting better overall? Surely the chocolate helped, even if nothing else did!
RhoMuNuQ
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SEF Posted Apr 21, 2003
I thought I was a bit better - which is why I risked the trip in the first place. I was several days into the cunning backup plan but I knew I wasn't quite right yet. The after-effect merely proves this. However, I hadn't had any proper food for at least 10 days and even a 
needs a roast 
or other animal every week or so. Lack of protein was going to start being a compromising factor to recovery in itself.
One of the reasons I knew I was a bit better was I'd managed to muster the enthusiasm and concentration to indulge in a bit of algebra and programming. Getting back to the fun stuff of the subject, I've hopelessly confused one of my compilers. It gave me a warning that some code had no effect which it then superciliously claims in the help file means that I've probably got a bug and should fix it. However, it executed the code anyway and it has just the right effect. It just wasn't seeing the bigger picture. Even funnier, when I tried some different inputs, it turned out all the lines which it said did nothing actually _were_ changing output numbers. Yet it was passing as OK the ones which happened _not_ to have any final effect that time because of choosing certain special inputs. I think it is the compiler which has a bug not my code.
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Rho Posted Apr 21, 2003
Looking at that, I'd say that the compiler does have a bug, which you found in true Bugfinding spirit!
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