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| 06:44.09 | morsing | Leeds! |
| 06:44.14 | morsing | boudiccas! |
| 06:44.17 | morsing | sabinef72! |
| 07:11.28 | sabinef72 | hi morsing |
| 07:11.31 | sabinef72 | how are you ? |
| 07:20.23 | morsing | I'm good! Waiting to hear how my interview went. How are you? |
| 07:21.49 | sabinef72 | nice hope everything will be ok for you |
| 07:22.07 | sabinef72 | I'm ok, waiting to prepar Julie for school |
| 07:22.50 | morsing | :) |
| 07:23.26 | morsing | Haha - I forgot about you French and your even more ridiculous school starting age than the Brits! :) |
| 10:18.26 | morsing | Is the LaTeX book from 1994 really still the best seller and one to go for for a beginner? |
| 10:19.03 | cbz | are you writing an academic paper? |
| 10:19.26 | morsing | No |
| 10:20.25 | wethrin | Which LaTeX book? |
| 10:20.37 | morsing | My father-in-law writes articles for mathematical journals. He's been writing in Works so far, with them bitching at him and translating into LaTeX, so want to get him a book to get started for Christmas. |
| 10:20.44 | morsing | wethrin: *The* LaTeX book |
| 10:20.49 | wethrin | The Lamport one? |
| 10:20.50 | wethrin | It's crap |
| 10:20.51 | morsing | Yes |
| 10:21.15 | morsing | It's certainly not crap, just surprised after 17 years it's the top hit on Amazon |
| 10:21.25 | wethrin | The LaTeX Companion (2nd ed.) is good; but it's more a reference book than a tutorial |
| 10:22.19 | wethrin | I found the Lamport book to be overpriced for what it gives you, and I've found it never really told me anything I wanted to know |
| 10:23.22 | morsing | Many people have learnt LaTeX from that book, including me and my dad. It's a good book to get started on, which is what I'm after. Have you got a suggestion for a *similar* book? |
| 10:24.41 | wethrin | I don't remember what I used to get started with LaTeX |
| 10:25.02 | morsing | wethrin: Is the LaTeX companion the dog book? |
| 10:25.15 | wethrin | No |
| 10:25.24 | wethrin | It's by Mittelbach and Goossens |
| 10:25.40 | wethrin | I think you're thinking of the LaTeX Graphics Companion |
| 10:28.36 | morsing | The LaTeX Companion is known as the dog book |
| 10:28.56 | morsing | http://www.kronto.org/thesis/tips/goossens-book.jpg |
| 10:29.06 | wethrin | ah, don't get that. It's the 1st ed. |
| 10:29.10 | wethrin | You want the 2nd edition |
| 10:29.18 | wethrin | (or later, if such a thing exists) |
| 10:31.00 | morsing | wethrin: I was demonstrating the photo on the front page |
| 10:49.50 | ChoHag | $complaint |
| 11:04.48 | z00dax | LaTeX is one of those things thats always on the To-Learn-Properly-One-Day list, but never makes it to the top |
| 11:05.05 | z00dax | ( for me ) |
| 11:07.05 | wethrin | Define Properly? |
| 11:07.17 | wethrin | there's too much to learn fully. You just learn what you need to get the job done |
| 11:07.49 | morsing | LaTeX is quite easy to get started slowly on |
| 11:10.06 | antiphase | If you're pissing around marking things up by hand, you've got too much spare time |
| 11:24.40 | z00dax | wethrin: yeah, my use for it has been fairly basic |
| 11:30.52 | z00dax | btw, anyone want an old car ? its a '97 1.8 glx 5dr mondeo, runs well fairly clean |
| 11:31.25 | morsing | z00dax: How's that "old"? |
| 11:31.25 | z00dax | its done 120k, 104 of that with me, and its been well looked after, regular serivces, mot's etc. |
| 11:31.43 | z00dax | morsing: ok its not into the 'vintage' age |
| 11:31.53 | z00dax | erm 104 = 104k :) |
| 11:33.17 | z00dax | also, battery thats less than 6 months old and tyres that have done less than 8k miles, cambelt changed at 100k |
| 11:40.29 | cbz | latex is a little like forth in that respect |
| 11:44.24 | ChoHag | Hooray! Unencrypted passwords littered around a multitude of $HOMEs on a multitude of servers. |
| 11:57.47 | wethrin | we had that. We disabled accounts :) |
| 11:58.37 | ChoHag | The account is 'postgres'. |
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| 12:10.07 | dick_turpin | Afternoon all |
| 12:15.36 | wethrin | af'noon |
| 12:16.09 | dick_turpin | Doctor! |
| 12:26.43 | wethrin | turpin! |
| 12:27.23 | dick_turpin | Meh don't sound as good does it? |
| 12:28.12 | dick_turpin | Plus go and become a Professor so I can say "Hey prof ........" |
| 12:31.36 | wethrin | Professorship, I don't know... |
| 12:32.49 | dick_turpin | Go on make a lowly peasant happy |
| 12:49.27 | wethrin | nah. It's time for a real job |
| 12:52.49 | dick_turpin | Real jobs are very over rated |
| 12:54.21 | wethrin | true |
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| 13:11.15 | morsing | stu_! |
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| 14:28.54 | ChoHag | Why does one of many RewriteRules work on one machine but not on another? |
| 14:36.18 | morsing | Leeds! |
| 14:40.46 | ChoHag | Apache's global logs disappear into the void! |
| 14:54.04 | *** part/#gllug dick_turpin (~dick_turp@host217-34-163-30.in-addr.btopenworld.com) |
| 15:01.08 | ChoHag | Answer: The apache configurations which include the rewrite config file are different. |
| 15:01.27 | ChoHag | In fact differences abound. |
| 15:01.39 | ChoHag | And not (just) the ones that should. |
| 17:03.16 | Leeds | is temporarily mustachioed |
| 17:03.31 | wethrin | Movember, or just forgot to shave? |
| 17:05.30 | Leeds | formerly the latter, latterly the former |
| 17:05.38 | wethrin | cunning |
| 17:05.40 | wethrin | right, I'm off home |
| 17:05.41 | wethrin | bye! |
| 17:05.50 | Leeds | happy weekend! |
| 17:56.41 | ChoHag | http://flowersdirectltd.live.venda.com is the FLOWERS DIRECT SITE |
| 17:56.46 | ChoHag | http://flowersdirect.live.venda.com is the FLOWER GRAM SITE |
| 17:56.53 | ChoHag | But of course. |
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