Notices by Dave Morriss (perloid@mastodon.sdf.org), page 11

@clacke I hope your talk goes well 👍

@clacke Have a good FOSDEM. I'm sad I can't be there.

@cobra2 @ericbuijs Thanks for the reference. I hope the Bash shows on #hpr are helpful.

Well that's Burns Night properly celebrated with (vegetarian) haggis, neeps and tatties. I'm not Scottish so I drew the line at addressing the haggis and all that sort of stuff.

@beni The university I worked at would apportion leave to new starts according to the number of days left in the "leave year" and the annual allowance. That algorithm must be locked into my brain!

@beni I assumed you were saying you didn't have much leave immediately after joining your new employment in August. If you are able to make it that would be very cool.

@beni Shame you can't make it. Maybe another year.
Still, it will be good if you can manage #PodCrawl
/cc @ghostdancer

@beni @ghostdancer Yes, congratulations. Does that mean you can make it to OggCamp 19 (19/20 October, Manchester)? 😉

@theru @timttmy Oh, that would be nice! Maybe get the HPR OggCamp crew together again!

@timttmy Did you see that OggCamp 19 (https://oggcamp.org/) has been announced? It's in Manchester on 19/20 October. No venue announced yet though.

@clacke I wish they were still around, they were so cool. Not fun to maintain though, and hell to run in a multi-user environment. I wrote some interface stuff for a Calcomp plotter on the university VAXcluster where I worked in the 1980's. It had to take stuff off a print queue, print a user banner on the plotter before running the plot. So many times the plot went backwards over the paper and wrote all over the last user's stuff - until we mastered the management of it.

@clacke As a Biology undergrad in the early 1970's a lot of dendrograms (mainly Botanical) were being printed on the main university graph plotter (I think generated by FORTRAN programs). The world has changed a lot since then.

These are magnificent!

@clacke I was looking at the FOSDEM schedule earlier. Sadly no Perl Devroom this year, though there's a Perl stand. I've found the people on there to be very welcoming in the past. There are two Perl talks: one about parsing languages with Perl6 and one about "Perl11" a compiler that is planned to handle Perl 5 - and Perl6 in due course. Sadly, I'm not attending this year, but I'd have gone to these two talks if I had 😉

Finally cooked Christmas dinner for the family. Son & girlfriend were visiting her parents on the day, but sadly they both got food poisoning later😞 Then I got the flu (real "kill me now, I'm coughing my lungs up" flu) and today was the first day of being semi-human again. Made a nut loaf, and other vegetarian stuff. Very good.

@chalkahlom Absolutely superb! I only seem to know cats that hate being photographed 😉

Happy New Year by the way. It's been a while since we've been in touch.

@claudiom This is a brilliant site, originated by a guy who now works for Pimoroni in Sheffield (Phil Howard, @Gadgetoid). You can work out if two (or more?) GPIO devices conflict since the site documents many of them as well as the Pi

I would watch this.

59449 views and 2227 votes on Imgur

I would watch this. https://imgur.com/gallery/pqcfM5R

@NYbill Can't turn down an offer like that 😉
I was offered some Sun rack-mount servers a few years back. I was tempted but when I thought of the power those things need and the noise they make I thought better of it.

@NYbill That is cool!

I have a DEC Vaxstation (3100?) in my computer room (aka attic) with SCSI drives, a DAT tape drive and a TLZ04 tape unit. I borrowed from work it about 15 years ago and they didn't want it back. I don't think it's been turned on for 10 years. I plan to do an HPR episode on it some time - if it still runs OpenVMS and DECwindows!

@claudiom Have you been reading the Vim Advent Calendar? I only recently came across it. It's at https://vimways.org/2018/