Neat blade fuse idea

Heh, just what I was thinking.

 

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WhoTF would want to? I'm quite happy living in the Eighteenth.

(BTW, how many Metric threads are used on a modern Heffalump-Dumpaloon?)

 

Your ignorance is showing.

Britain held the Middle East by UN mandate - and said mandate expired
in 1948.

Why did we hold the mandate? Because we beat the Germans in North
Africa (by ourselves!) and so were asked to administer the area until
local control could be established.

A bit like Iraq really - except there was international support for the
British Mandate - oh and the leaders concerned didn't have to lie to
their own electorate in order to establish the mandate.

Phil

 

"Unfinished Business"
Anyway, we kept the nice part of it.

 

There's actually a damn good reason for it, other than the sacred memory
of Ned Ludd. If you check Google you should be able to find all the
arguments, hashed out in tedious detail.

Here: I'll save you the trouble:-
http://tinyurl.com/1x0f

 

Verdigris wrote

Hallowed be his name.

 

We did have a little bit of help from the Merkins, you know. In the
final stages at least we gave them some useful opportunities to practice
'friendly fire' incidents.
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<sniffs>
<swims away>

 

Thy 2-Stroke run

On earth as it is in Essex.

P.

 

Lead us not into temptation

And deliver us from Diesel

 

The message <>

[/QUOTE]

As we forgive those who drive like mimsies,

And lead us not into gatzos,

 

Actually Britain got most of the Empire through those self-same
qualities. We lost it when we realised you can't do that sort of
thing anymore. You lot seem to be going through the former phase at
the moment.

 

A large portion of our conquered territory is still populated by
Indians, which is more than can be claimed by a septic.

 

Ooh, claws out, eh. ;-)

 

Would that be the World Wide Web that was invented by an Englishman, by
any chance?

 

You should talk to a Welshman of my acquaintance about that. Somewhat
scathing, he was. But I suspect mainly about the way in which said
Englishman had been singled out as "the" inventor of the WWW.

I remember it happening. someone said 'ere, there's this new worldwide web
thing in Switzerland so I went and had a look. dead boring it was.

 

"It's only a welshman."

Yeah, ditto. I also remember getting a very snotty e-mail from Spry
(remember Mosaic?) because we had one of those tacky "This site is best
viewed with Netscape Navigator" logos on our company website. I think
they e-mailed every website maintainer in the world to have a whinge.

 

Yup, pretty much - well, this would have been early 1994 I reckon. So
there would have been fewer than 10,000 websites. Slackware Linux on a
486... I remember when all this were fields... Jumpers for goalposts...
etc. etc.

 

And add in the fact that HTML is based on SGML (from IBM amongst
others) and that the server side of things was an adaption of
Gopher/WAIS.

It wasn't so much invented by TBL - more that he was the first to take
all the disparate elements and bodge them together in a working
fashion.

Of course it could be argued that the people who *really* 'built the
Web' were Apache - they were the first to produce a really stable,
usable webserver at a price (free!) that everybody could afford.

<Boring old fart who remembers these new-fangled http addresses
starting to appear and being irritated becuase none of the existing
network tools wanted to touch them. And then finding a very-alpha
version of NCSA Mosaic..>

Phil.

 

On a 486? I was running it on a 386sx with 24M of RAM - and a 300M ESDI
drive. That was kernel version 0.99pl14

And it took hours to install - especially when floppy 19 of the base
set got corrupted and I had to ask my friend to redownload it..

Phil