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6th November2004

When: 12:00 – 20:00, Saturday 6th November 2004

Where: The Millstone Pub in Old Basing

Who was there

What happened

Nice food, served up to 2pm. Started again at 6pm. Good beer for the cloudy water fans. Good atmosphere. Quiet enough for conversation and a nice warm fire. Would recommend for winter’s evening in or a summer’s evening out. Well done Paul!

billp took lots of photos for some unknown reason

Perl

Perl

Practical Extract and Report Language

Perl is a modern high level scripting language written by Larry Wall. Most modern Unix and Linux systems come with it as standard, and many key distro applications are often written using it. Perl is a scripting language with a shell/c heritage, that is designed to get things done. Over the years it has evolved into a very powerful object-oriented language, and while complex applications can be written in it, it is not really designed to be used for time or memory critical applications, as Perl trades CPU and RAM for ease [continued…]

6th September2003

When: 12:30 – 19:00 or so, Saturday 6th September 2003

Where: Jolly Farmer pub, Winchester

Who was there:

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8th May2004

When: 13:00 – ??:??, Saturday 8th May 2004

Where: Litten Tree in Basingstoke, in T17 on this map

“What is a Litten? A baby Lat?” — GlenSearle

Who was there:

What happened:

  • I first saw the pub while driving down a pedestrianised road into a market, I managed to get the car back onto the road then after driving around Basingstoke for 40 [continued…]

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like kernel, released under the GNU Public License.

It’s what all this malarkey is about!

Linux is copyright Linus Torvalds