Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Dave Cross
At 17:37 22/05/2001, Roger Burton West wrote: On or about Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:23:32PM +0100, Cross David - dcross typed: I've not actually seen the manifesto, but from what I'm told it really means If you can't be bothered to take a few minutes to look, why the hell are you posting about

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

2001-05-23 Thread Greg McCarroll
* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:17:11PM +0100, Barbie wrote: Bugger! Brain thinking faster than my hands! Your hands *think*??? dha, sees a sci-fi movie in here somewhere... that ones been done to death -- Greg McCarroll

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

2001-05-23 Thread Greg McCarroll
* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:17:11PM +0100, Barbie wrote: Bugger! Brain thinking faster than my hands! Your hands *think*??? in fact, it was a recent Angel episode -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net

new york

2001-05-23 Thread Greg McCarroll
Well back from sunny NY to good old London and what do i have waiting for me, thats right 200+ messages in London.pm! Hurrah! So instead of replying to them seperatly, I thought I'd just write a rambling email. First off, FHM 100 sexiest women, well it all comes down to your definition of

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Leon Brocard
Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether: This, of course, presupposes that acmemail passes everyone's definition of a decent mail client. And if it doesn't, we can just slap the authors until it does :) You'll be happy to know that I gave up ownership of acmemail a

RE: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Cross David - dcross
From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:43 AM Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether: This, of course, presupposes that acmemail passes everyone's definition of a decent mail client. And if it doesn't, we can just slap the authors

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:43:23AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: It didn't hit critical mass. Discuss. Yet Another Webmail Client; it wasn't exactly filling a gaping niche. (And I say that as someone who may soon be maintaining one of the others...) -- 4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Simon Wistow
Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:43:23AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: It didn't hit critical mass. Discuss. Yet Another Webmail Client; it wasn't exactly filling a gaping niche. (And I say that as someone who may soon be maintaining one of the others...) It did at the time -

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:04:19AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: that Mail::Cclient is powerful but complicated and can be a bitch to install, And use. Ripping that fucker out would be my first act. :) There's also http://www.horde.org/imp/ which is reasonably popular. -- Jesus ate my mouse or

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Simon Wistow
Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:04:19AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: that Mail::Cclient is powerful but complicated and can be a bitch to install, And use. Ripping that fucker out would be my first act. :) There's also http://www.horde.org/imp/ which is reasonably popular.

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:17:14AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: But Mail::Cclient is also unbeleivably powerful. Lying round on my HD there's a Mail::Cclient::Simple which amkes everything much easier but it's one of many projects I've never got round to finishing. Why reinvent the wheel by

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:17:14AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: But Mail::Cclient is also unbeleivably powerful. Lying round on my HD there's a Mail::Cclient::Simple which amkes everything much easier but it's one of many projects I've never got

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread AEF
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: Imp was crap when we started and it's also PHP based. I like PHP (/me gets coat) but I wouldn't do a large scale application in it (especially since I had just just done one then and hit some very large limitations) Could you elaborate on that a

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Martin Ling
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:06:13PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: But they fixed references in 6.0! No, wait, they just introduced a load of Thread-* headers :-( Fucking morons. They just innovated threading! Tell me you're joking. If I was joking I wouldn't have ignore Thread-

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Jonathan Peterson
At 07:49 23/05/01 +0100, you wrote: At 17:37 22/05/2001, Roger Burton West wrote: And get a shell account, why don't you? Thanks. I already have several. [snip] Much as I'd love it if everyone was to be able to post to the list from their favourite Unix mail client all the time,

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Philip Newton
Simon Wistow wrote: the DBI abstraction was, well, nonexistent. As in, if your script has lots of calls to mysql_this and mysql_that, it doesn't look very database independent. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of

Expect problem

2001-05-23 Thread john . hearns
Hi all - time for me to delurk. (dashes in from the shadows). I've bent my brain with Expect yesterday and today, and need someone to (metaphorically) hit me round the head and tell me what to do right. The scenario: I wish to run a program, imapxfer, which transfers imap email between two

Re: Email Style (was: Re: Election Manifestos)

2001-05-23 Thread Niklas Nordebo
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:52:39PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: However, the cool futuristic stuff like CORRECT BLOODY WORK WRAPPING is I generally avoid this issue by not working so much that it needs wrapping. -- Niklas Nordebo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +447966251290 The day is seven hours

Re: Expect problem

2001-05-23 Thread Mark Rogaski
An entity claiming to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : How can I get things to wait till the spawned program finishes, or at : least let it finish properly. : I've just had success by putting in an infinite wait : unless ($command-expect(undef, nonsense)) { :}; : But that

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

2001-05-23 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:18:07AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:17:11PM +0100, Barbie wrote: Bugger! Brain thinking faster than my hands! Your hands *think*??? in fact, it was a recent Angel episode Only

Re: Email Style (was: Re: Election Manifestos)

2001-05-23 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:52:39PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:32:09PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Much as I'd love it if everyone was to be able to post to the list from their favourite Unix mail client all the time,

Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

2001-05-23 Thread Neil Ford
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:53:54PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: (http://www.twoshortplanks.com/simon/filmfest/) Time for yet another movie marathon since people have been carping on about it grin and this time it's the long awaited hacksploitation night - exploring the interesting and, umm,

Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

2001-05-23 Thread Leon Brocard
Simon Wistow sent the following bits through the ether: If anybody has any of these ... I could bring along Real Genius? (slightly more old-skool hackers though) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative

Buffy gear

2001-05-23 Thread Barry Pretsell
QVC are selling lots of Buffy gear, tune into QVC now, or check out the wbesite http://www.qvcuk.com/ukgasp/frameset.asp?nest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.qvcuk.com%2Fukgscripts%2FSearch.dllsearch=1frames=yCriteria=Buffy

Re: Buffy gear

2001-05-23 Thread Dean
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:18:23PM +0100, Barry Pretsell wrote: QVC are selling lots of Buffy gear, tune into QVC now, or check out the wbesite Charisma Carpenter 'Cordelia' Signed Photo £64... Now i'm scared... Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand ---

RE: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote: From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:43 AM Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether: This, of course, presupposes that acmemail passes everyone's definition of a decent mail

Re: Buffy gear

2001-05-23 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:18:23PM +0100, Barry Pretsell wrote: QVC are selling lots of Buffy gear, tune into QVC now, or check out the wbesite Charisma Carpenter 'Cordelia' Signed Photo £64... Now i'm scared... you mean the suggestion of going to QVC

Re: Buffy gear

2001-05-23 Thread Dave Cross
At 19:16 23/05/2001, Dean wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:18:23PM +0100, Barry Pretsell wrote: QVC are selling lots of Buffy gear, tune into QVC now, or check out the wbesite Charisma Carpenter 'Cordelia' Signed Photo £64... Now i'm scared... Far cheaper on Yahoo Auctions:

POSIX::localeconv()/Germany

2001-05-23 Thread Mike Jarvis
Anybody have experience with POSIX localization functions/clients in Germany? I've got a client in .de that wants prices to look like this: DEM 1.234,00 i.e., the thousands sep is a . and the decimal is a ,. The posix routines return a space for the thousands sep and a dot for the decimal, so

Re: Buffy gear

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Barry Pretsell wrote: QVC are selling lots of Buffy gear, tune into QVC now, or check out the wbesite eughh! when you say 'Buffy gear' do you mean as in 'we guarantee these were worn by Buffy ... ' or something entirely more celeubrious ? fed up of finding pr0n

Re: POSIX::localeconv()/Germany

2001-05-23 Thread Dave Cross
At 20:18 23/05/2001, you wrote: Anybody have experience with POSIX localization functions/clients in Germany? I've got a client in .de that wants prices to look like this: DEM 1.234,00 i.e., the thousands sep is a . and the decimal is a ,. The posix routines return a space for the thousands sep

Re: Buffy gear

2001-05-23 Thread Barry Pretsell
eughh! when you say 'Buffy gear' do you mean as in 'we guarantee these were worn by Buffy ... ' or something entirely more celeubrious ? no looks like the usual crap: 1 in a billion signed prints and magazines, no soiled clothes... - Original Message - From: Robin Szemeti

Re: POSIX::localeconv()/Germany

2001-05-23 Thread Mike Jarvis
Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 2:45:24 PM, Dave Cross wrote: DC Haven't tried the routine you're talking about, but if you ever decide to DC give up on them, the Number::Format module (from CPAN) will solve all of DC your problems. After RTFM'ing about that fine module, I thought I found my

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Leon Brocard
Chris Ball sent the following bits through the ether: I used to use At-mail a lot at work. Pseudo-interesting question of the day; do you really feel it was ripped off (in the stigmatism-attached sense of the word), or given that it was GPLed or Artistic'd anyway, that it's fair play to them

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:50:47PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: @Mail (http://webbasedemail.com/) copied my code, my docs, and my images without telling me, added a configuration file, and sold it. I only found out about it by accident, which wasn't good. (it's changed a lot since). This is

Re: Email Style (was: Re: Election Manifestos)

2001-05-23 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:23:49PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: You should use Damian's Text::AutoFormat. I just used it to reformat the bit above beginning with Indeed. Lovely thing. Have you integrated into a mail server (module, procmail, whatever) so that it gets cleaned on the way in,

Re: Email Style (was: Re: Election Manifestos)

2001-05-23 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:41:33PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:23:49PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: You should use Damian's Text::AutoFormat. I just used it to reformat the bit above beginning with Indeed. Lovely thing. Have you integrated into a mail server