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You can find out more about my 'efforts' here, and some photos of the efforts here.

Now, is that a separated-at-birth thing or what?

But at least he's grown the beard back. Most certainly required for Alan Cox-style shenanigans.

A Reply to my own post, but I've just found the evidence here

(Sorry Dave, but the world needed to know!)

I'm the red-shirted guy from Mailbox Internet who was buying the beer on the Friday, and spent most of the Expo talking to people who didn't believe I was who I said I was because I was wearing a tie and not the usual ThinkGeek fare ;)

On the subject of suits and geeks, I'm actually glad I had the shirt on - most of the geeks got hold of me because I was talking tech, and a lot of the suits gave me more time because I had a shirt and tie on - sad but true.

Anyway, my personal score for the show:

• Dust Puppy from Dark-Side Dave.
• £120-worth of books.
• A 4ft-high penguin (yes, we were the ones who took it to the pub).
• Squishy penguins from SGI and Alphanet.
• The Walnut Creek set of Slackware CDs.
• Tux cufflinks for those "I've just been told to be smart" moments.
• A new news peer for Mailbox, and several traffic peers with people in Telehouse.
• Two consecutive hangovers, and a large bar bill.
• Sore feet.

Hugs to y'all,

Joel
MD of Mailbox Internet

I'm the red-shirted guy from Mailbox Internet who was buying the beer on the Friday, and spent most of the Expo talking to people who didn't believe I was who I said I was because I was wearing a tie and not the usual ThinkGeek fare ;)

On the subject of suits and geeks, I'm actually glad I had the shirt on - most of the geeks got hold of me because I was talking tech, and a lot of the suits gave me more time because I had a shirt and tie on - sad but true.

Anyway, my personal score for the show:

• Dust Puppy from Dark-Side Dave.
• £120-worth of books.
• A 4ft-high penguin (yes, we were the ones who took it to the pub).
• Squishy penguins from SGI and Alphanet.
• The Walnut Creek set of Slackware CDs.
• Tux cufflinks for those "I've just been told to be smart" moments.
• A new news peer for Mailbox, and several traffic peers with people in Telehouse.
• Two consecutive hangovers, and a large bar bill.
• Sore feet.

Hugs to y'all,

Joel
MD of Mailbox Internet

I'm the red-shirted guy from Mailbox Internet who was buying the beer on the Friday, and spent most of the Expo talking to people who didn't believe I was who I said I was because I was wearing a tie and not the usual ThinkGeek fare ;)

On the subject of suits and geeks, I'm actually glad I had the shirt on - most of the geeks got hold of me because I was talking tech, and a lot of the suits gave me more time because I had a shirt and tie on - sad but true.

Anyway, my personal score for the show:

• Dust Puppy from Dark-Side Dave.
• £120-worth of books.
• A 4ft-high penguin (yes, we were the ones who took it to the pub).
• Squishy penguins from SGI and Alphanet.
• The Walnut Creek set of Slackware CDs.
• Tux cufflinks for those "I've just been told to be smart" moments.
• A new news peer for Mailbox, and several traffic peers with people in Telehouse.
• Two consecutive hangovers, and a large bar bill.
• Sore feet.

Hugs to y'all,

Joel
MD of Mailbox Internet

I'm the red-shirted guy from Mailbox Internet who was buying the beer on the Friday, and spent most of the Expo talking to people who didn't believe I was who I said I was because I was wearing a tie and not the usual ThinkGeek fare ;)

On the subject of suits and geeks, I'm actually glad I had the shirt on - most of the geeks got hold of me because I was talking tech, and a lot of the suits gave me more time because I had a shirt and tie on - sad but true.

Anyway, my personal score for the show:

• Dust Puppy from Dark-Side Dave.
• £120-worth of books.
• A 4ft-high penguin (yes, we were the ones who took it to the pub).
• Squishy penguins from SGI and Alphanet.
• The Walnut Creek set of Slackware CDs.
• Tux cufflinks for those "I've just been told to be smart" moments.
• A new news peer for Mailbox, and several traffic peers with people in Telehouse.
• Two consecutive hangovers, and a large bar bill.
• Sore feet.

Hugs to y'all,

Joel
MD of Mailbox Internet

I'm the red-shirted guy from Mailbox Internet who was buying the beer on the Friday, and spent most of the Expo talking to people who didn't believe I was who I said I was because I was wearing a tie and not the usual ThinkGeek fare ;)

On the subject of suits and geeks, I'm actually glad I had the shirt on - most of the geeks got hold of me because I was talking tech, and a lot of the suits gave me more time because I had a shirt and tie on - sad but true.

Anyway, my personal score for the show:

• Dust Puppy from Dark-Side Dave.
• £120-worth of books.
• A 4ft-high penguin (yes, we were the ones who took it to the pub).
• Squishy penguins from SGI and Alphanet.
• The Walnut Creek set of Slackware CDs.
• Tux cufflinks for those "I've just been told to be smart" moments.
• A new news peer for Mailbox, and several traffic peers with people in Telehouse.
• Two consecutive hangovers, and a large bar bill.
• Sore feet.

Hugs to y'all,

Joel
MD of Mailbox Internet

I'm the red-shirted guy from Mailbox Internet who was buying the beer on the Friday, and spent most of the Expo talking to people who didn't believe I was who I said I was because I was wearing a tie and not the usual ThinkGeek fare ;)

On the subject of suits and geeks, I'm actually glad I had the shirt on - most of the geeks got hold of me because I was talking tech, and a lot of the suits gave me more time because I had a shirt and tie on - sad but true.

Anyway, my personal score for the show:

• Dust Puppy from Dark-Side Dave.
• £120-worth of books.
• A 4ft-high penguin (yes, we were the ones who took it to the pub).
• Squishy penguins from SGI and Alphanet.
• The Walnut Creek set of Slackware CDs.
• Tux cufflinks for those "I've just been told to be smart" moments.
• A new news peer for Mailbox, and several traffic peers with people in Telehouse.
• Two consecutive hangovers, and a large bar bill.
• Sore feet.

Hugs to y'all,

Joel
MD of Mailbox Internet

I'm the MD at Mailbox, and yes the parking situation at Fulham is small. But the Fulham location is designed to be an inexpensive colocation facility and not a huge colo facility - again, you gets what you pays for and we've got a load of space at the Telehouses (both City and Docklands) for that sort of stuff.

Most of the people who choose low-cost colo travel on the Tube or by taxi, or only have one box. We have quite a few Powersledges down there which get shipped to us via Citylink or somesuch, and we don't charge for plugging 'em in and turning 'em on.

We're working on opening up another (larger) building in Putney, which is about half a mile down the road, and has a huge pile of carparking space not to mention things like generators and goods lifts.

Take a look at the webpage for cheap colocation for more info, or talk to Michael, Jerry or Charlotte, who are our marketroids. They can all answer questions about it for people who want to know.

Finally, there's about 300 photos of the show at photos.jml.net, including the Mailbox Party on the Friday.

Hope this helps,

Joel.
MD, Mailbox.

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More photos at; http://photos.jml.net (recent additions) And my own pictures of Mailbox's after show drinks at http://www.highpoint.co.uk/photosite (recent addition)

BTW, it seems to play fine on QT3.

Now, as James Lawson puts it on the CCl4 web site, the ANSI board is all but dead. Most boards have been surpassed by the Internet and indeed FTP sites and websites as you rightly state; Fido feeds have been surpassed by Usenet; message areas by maillists. It's back to information provision and suchlike.

There has been, for some years now, a Viewdata Revival going on, which puts forward many of the arguments. Unfortunately the website is a bit stale but it does give you a sort-of hail back to the days of CARBBS, XFS+ and EBBS board hosts running on 32k BBC Micros with (if you were lucky) 20Mb Winchester hard disks - none of this 24Gb filespace and 18 CDs online rubbish.

There are several Viewdata bulletin boards now online on the Internet, run from Acorn Archimedes machines using Gareth Babb's excellent VHost software. Mine is called Haven and you can get to it without even a Viewdata emulator, by using the online Java-based client. Alternatively there are bits of software you can use to access them.

Of course, there are still ANSI boards available via telnet - the UserFriendly one immediately springs to mind. But you still won't get back the sort of thing which you had with Viewdata.

Hope this enlightens at least some ;)

Joel.

Now, as James Lawson puts it on the CCl4 web site, the ANSI board is all but dead. Most boards have been surpassed by the Internet and indeed FTP sites and websites as you rightly state; Fido feeds have been surpassed by Usenet; message areas by maillists. It's back to information provision and suchlike.

There has been, for some years now, a Viewdata Revival going on, which puts forward many of the arguments. Unfortunately the website is a bit stale but it does give you a sort-of hail back to the days of CARBBS, XFS+ and EBBS board hosts running on 32k BBC Micros with (if you were lucky) 20Mb Winchester hard disks - none of this 24Gb filespace and 18 CDs online rubbish.

There are several Viewdata bulletin boards now online on the Internet, run from Acorn Archimedes machines using Gareth Babb's excellent VHost software. Mine is called Haven and you can get to it without even a Viewdata emulator, by using the online Java-based client. Alternatively there are bits of software you can use to access them.

Of course, there are still ANSI boards available via telnet - the UserFriendly one immediately springs to mind. But you still won't get back the sort of thing which you had with Viewdata.

Hope this enlightens at least some ;)

Joel.

Now, as James Lawson puts it on the CCl4 web site, the ANSI board is all but dead. Most boards have been surpassed by the Internet and indeed FTP sites and websites as you rightly state; Fido feeds have been surpassed by Usenet; message areas by maillists. It's back to information provision and suchlike.

There has been, for some years now, a Viewdata Revival going on, which puts forward many of the arguments. Unfortunately the website is a bit stale but it does give you a sort-of hail back to the days of CARBBS, XFS+ and EBBS board hosts running on 32k BBC Micros with (if you were lucky) 20Mb Winchester hard disks - none of this 24Gb filespace and 18 CDs online rubbish.

There are several Viewdata bulletin boards now online on the Internet, run from Acorn Archimedes machines using Gareth Babb's excellent VHost software. Mine is called Haven and you can get to it without even a Viewdata emulator, by using the online Java-based client. Alternatively there are bits of software you can use to access them.

Of course, there are still ANSI boards available via telnet - the UserFriendly one immediately springs to mind. But you still won't get back the sort of thing which you had with Viewdata.

Hope this enlightens at least some ;)

Joel.

Now, as James Lawson puts it on the CCl4 web site, the ANSI board is all but dead. Most boards have been surpassed by the Internet and indeed FTP sites and websites as you rightly state; Fido feeds have been surpassed by Usenet; message areas by maillists. It's back to information provision and suchlike.

There has been, for some years now, a Viewdata Revival going on, which puts forward many of the arguments. Unfortunately the website is a bit stale but it does give you a sort-of hail back to the days of CARBBS, XFS+ and EBBS board hosts running on 32k BBC Micros with (if you were lucky) 20Mb Winchester hard disks - none of this 24Gb filespace and 18 CDs online rubbish.

There are several Viewdata bulletin boards now online on the Internet, run from Acorn Archimedes machines using Gareth Babb's excellent VHost software. Mine is called Haven and you can get to it without even a Viewdata emulator, by using the online Java-based client. Alternatively there are bits of software you can use to access them.

Of course, there are still ANSI boards available via telnet - the UserFriendly one immediately springs to mind. But you still won't get back the sort of thing which you had with Viewdata.

Hope this enlightens at least some ;)

Joel.