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We'll be going to pick our own soon - maybe the weekend after this coming one. Wanna be a soft fruit pickin varmint?

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Damn. Looks like anyone can post stuff on the page. Fifth columnists no doubty. Glad that Jarvis Cocker got his chum Neil Young to support the Forest though. Just the celebrity endorsement we need now. Maybe we could post some libelous filth that will get our account deleted, which might be more fun...

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Yes, we could do with a newsletter of some kind. With CIA Nights waiting until they have enough good stuff for issue 100, there is a big newsletter shaped vacuum in the Forest. Maybe the tabletop thing will take on a life of its own. The Forest did have a myspace account, but we dropped it round abo...

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There is a PYO farm on the way to Dan's farm (near to Butterfly World). We could have a nice day out and get some cheap fruit for Chris' smoothies. You need to get there early in the morning. I'll phone them in the next few weeks to find out when the strawberries and whatever else is going to be rip...

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The big furnishing shop next to Noor is nice - big windows at the back, and a side room at the front. But I suppose it is a big steep for the space on offer. Shame - it is only a minute from my house.

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Twice in 2 days I've had to tell idiots that they in fact shouldn't eat their own food in the cafe. Is it really that difficult? Maybe it is for some people. So, to clear it up once and for all, I propose this poster. Feel free to modify/criticise/big up. I've uploaded the Inkscape SVG and JPEG in a...

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I haven't bothered to read it, but it looks harmless enough. The guy posted the original post in 2006 when anyone could post, I think. I gave him access to edit/post new stuff because he asked nicely.

If I had a penny for every post I thought was rubbish, I would be off to the pub.

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I'm a real n00b when it comes to the photocopier. Can someone do the honours please?

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Here is the new second side minus the 19th event.

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How about these. Can someone in the office see how these print and let me know if they need modifying. Thanks.

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I'm on it.

For future reference, there is a site which generates pictures of tapes with your text on them. I'm doing it the old fashioned way, with Gimp and OOo.

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swithun wrote:run by an eccentric crew of volunteers

That should be eclectic, apparently.

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I can cover for an hour. What are you rehearsing? Is that sound proofing fixed yet?

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Here is the List review to save y'all from splashing out on it. As bland identikit bars and bistros proliferate around the capital, it's a comfort to know that there are still a few scruffy independent and idiosyncratic hang-outs like The Forest left in town. A self-funded artists' collective with a...

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Wikipedia distinguishes between waste vegetable oil (old chip fat), straight vegetable oil (new chip fat) and biodiesel, which is vegetable oil modified especially for replacing diesel. Most cooking oil is too viscose to be used as a direct replacement. One way to reduce the viscosity is to heat it....

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I think we are having a meeting next week (Tuesday), though I won't be able to make it. Come along and discuss this, as it is an interesting topic. I'm not convinced that biodiesel/bioethanol is a good solution to declining fossil fuel supplies and CO2 levels. In one hand, biofuels are better than c...

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How about winscp.net. It's for windoze lu$ers and the screenshots look purdy. I use Putty for SSHing and it has command line tools for scp/sftp/ssh-agent.

Thanks for the password.

Do we have a whole server with multiple users to ourselves, or are we one user on a server shared by other people?

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There isn't much anyone can do without a password. If someone tells me the SSH password, I can probably move your files around, Ryan. By ftp thing, I guess you have some files on the Forest server which are outside the web directory, and you want them put somewhere visible to the web. I've never use...

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I've never known the password/s. I think Duncan might have changed it - he was saying he should. We shouldn't use FTP, and it should be deactivated. FTP, like telnet, sends passwords unencrypted, so is a major security risk. I don't know if this is how the scumbags hacked the site (they could have r...

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If I come down to Octopus Diamond, will I be able to buy a smoothie? Or will I get the finger like people do in the Forest?

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Maybe we could take the whopping profit from the long awaited Golden Shour publication and plough it back into a new colour photocopier. I'm in favour of doing things ourselves, but one thing to think about is that with a nicer looking product, even if it costs more to make, we could still get a hig...

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Well done on making the big M. Perhaps these pearls could be collected and bound into a slim volume. I think your thousandth was just the word 'ok'. If you're doing Monday, then I'm gonna do Thursday. Unless there is some knack to opening the side door which I have lost, I'll need a new key for it. ...

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The new sound proofing works about as well as the old sound proofing, to my ears. If lots of people want to get down to the Cave, one person could pop through the cafe, open the back door and let everyone and their equipment in through there. It is probably easier than fighting through the customers...

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I was planning to go and see El Topo (The Mole) at the Filmhouse on Friday night. Unless you splash out on the DVD, this will be a once in a lifetime opportunity to see this film. But now it seems I have other plans for Friday night. But I think Alien Dave is going and a Forest posse would be nice. ...

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Schultheiss is Berlin's top bier. Available from every good Imbiss, any hour of the day or night. Very good with falafel or borek, or to be enjoyed on its own.

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Looks like Alex can't take his sliced carrot and has to have it grated, so he can suck it up with a straw. Perhaps some people cut their carrots too thickly, but I can't believe that grated carrot is better than thinly (max 1 pound coin thickness) sliced carrot. Grated carrot leaks all the moisture ...

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Could you bring me back a can of Schultheiss from Berlin, please, Ryan. I would ask for some Ali Baba falafel, but it wouldn't survive the journey so well.

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The karaoke person will be down sometime late afternoon/early evening. They might need a hand unloading the stuff from their car. Then they might park somewhere and come back to explain how it all works. I think it will be just like a DVD player, but you never know. Do we have something nice to give...

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Infer a penny, infer a pound.

He he.

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I won't be able to come to the films on the 23rd and 30th of April, as I'll be at the French film festival. Drat.

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Present: Magda, Nick, Swithun Films We have films planned until the end of May, but there has to be some rearranging: Enfants du Paradis 23/4/7 Henry Fool 30/4/7 House of Yes 7/5/7 Gospel according to St Matthew 14/5/7 Barry Lyndon / Dr Strangelove / Lolita 21/5/7 Curious Yellow 28/5/7 changed to Lo...

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Yes, I spoke to the person the other day. They reminded me about a karaoke film - Duets. It would be a nice one to show at some point. It is about the desperate lives of karaoke hustlers in the mid-west. There is one memorable line: I am a little short of money right now, but I would consider it an ...

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We were going to do that anyway.

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Pomme and I will be down tonight. There is still Saturday.

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Brothers and sisters, I wanna see a sea of hands out there. Let me see a sea of hands. I want everybody to kick up some noise. I wanna hear some revolution out there, brothers. I wanna hear a little revolution. Brothers and sisters, the time has come for each and every one of you to decide whether ...

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I get through at least a jah a week of Lidl hot chocolate. I could bring some down and save you buying small quantities of things just for the containers.

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It looks good. What is the font? OOo says it is Samanata, but it doesn't look like that in the PDF. There is a space before "Put money from till in safe", and do we unplug the till or just turn it off with the key? Maybe mention that some of the lights are emergency ones and can't be turned off, so ...

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Thanks for the reminder. I've written the earlier time on the black board, so hopefully people will know. We still need a 7-12 person for the kitchen - more prep and cleaning than serving food.

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Thanks. I'll let this person know we can stretch to a deposit if they want more than our good word. 50 quid? I'll look into these CDG bad boys and how playable they are. I suppose the only way to see if our DVD player can handle them is to get hold of one. As a challenge, anyone can make their own k...

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S if you have no joy with this posting i have a normal dvd player that S plays CDG'S and a collection of about 15 kareoke discs (my daughters) S i would be willing to lend to you for the night as long as i was S promised they would be returned safely and if damaged paod for.. i S would deliver set ...

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Ryan was asking if we needed the player too. It looks like karaoke discs are not your usual DVD, but rather CDG (CD + graphics). So we would need the player too if we were to get these discs. Or we could buy some karaoke DVDs from ebay, as we have all the rest of the kit. Do we want to own some kara...

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This looks pretty sweet. guitar-a-oke.

Da da daa, da daa da da, da da daa, daa da da. The axeman cometh.

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There is a place in Edinburgh ( Pegasus ), that offers a karaoke hire package for 50 quid. You get a karaoke disc player, disks, 2 mics and the appropriate cables. I imagine that we could hook these up to the projector and sound desk. The disc player and discs can be hired separately, but that comes...

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i couldn't remember how to spell your surname, so you started off as Nick B to distinguish you from all the other Nicks there are, and then when I was taking notes, it became NB.

I suppose you should be a SOB, ne's pas?

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Present : Alex, Graeme, Nick B, Bill, Ryan, Swithun, Shannon Volunteer agreement Bill will write up volunteer agreement using old one as guide. NB asked if this will be like instruction manual. Yes. Shannon said that it has to have a legal aspect to cover our ass, especially for new volunteers. Rya...

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Are we getting more cling film or has it been phased out? A less plasticy solution would be good, but I doubt if using tin foil instead is better/cheaper.

Just wondering.

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We could use 4 perhaps. That is how many people usually work in the kitchen at one time.

How about fixing the day for a couple of weeks from now, assuming that we will have the coffee by then. It will give us time to get publicity together and use up as much of the old coffee as possible.

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Shannon wrote:I can get in touch with them - though I'm not sure how keen they'll be on the piss take stuff! Any idea when the coffee will be in?

Yeah, you're right. Maybe we shouldn't invite them!

I'm sure that Garibaldi biscuits go well with Zapatista coffee.

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As the inventor of the burrito analogy, I take my hat off to you. Excellent explanation.

Maybe we will be able to compile a whole book of burrito analogies for every complicated bit of computing that Ryan doesn't understand. Next week, pre-emtable kernels and threading versus forking.

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We've got the room for lots of unopened bags and certainly for 1 open bag. It could even go in the kitchen freezer if the walls weren't so thick.

I can't wait for the taste of freedom.

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