Re: The Most Boring Thread Ever on London.pm : Cool Letter Heads

2001-04-15 Thread David Cantrell
the souls of the wandering dead and taking them to Hades. It seems that both Ate and Hecate would be reasonable readings. Perhaps Billy Shakers did that on purpose. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it bu

Re: The Most Boring Thread Ever on London.pm : Cool Letter Heads

2001-04-14 Thread David Cantrell
large dogs. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important **

Re: The Most Boring Thread Ever on London.pm : Cool Letter Heads

2001-04-14 Thread David Cantrell
in your own made-up religion, then you'll just get lumped in with all the other weirdoes regardless of whether you put Jedi, Discordian, Cthulhuan or whatever. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one

Re: re-release of autodial

2001-04-12 Thread David Cantrell
early, release often". But he's right, it is muttley's fault. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important **

Re: Tie::Scalar::Decay ...

2001-04-11 Thread David Cantrell
to implement functions which take more than one parameter. Overload the stringify operator to make it easy to get the result. You could even define tied arrays which do matrix things. There wouldn't be much point to this. I'm wittering, so shall stop now. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: TPJ Reborn

2001-04-11 Thread David Cantrell
please! ;-) Sorry, ol bean, I'm already piping this list through two bots (my archiver and my URL-hunter). They don't say anything in public though. Yet. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread David Cantrell
. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important **

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:04:07AM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: Do we need to dig up the original meeting notes regarding .pm/colour combinations or is Simon to 'wing it'? I forwarded it to him, along with the designs that Paul did. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-10 Thread David Cantrell
find out what version you have. If use of use is causing problems then you may have a (fear) perl4 there. If that's the case, kill someone slowly and painfully. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one

Tie::Scalar::Decay ...

2001-04-10 Thread David Cantrell
. You can, if you wish, specify other decay functions either by passing it a coderef, or a string which gets evalled. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so

Re: Tie::Scalar::Decay ...

2001-04-10 Thread David Cantrell
, for the app I wrote it for, a simple decrement every time period was more appropriate. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-09 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:09:14PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: might be nice to have status reports from: * The t-shirt committee There has been movement on this! I, however, will not be able to attend cos I have a visitor from the darker regions of the galaxy. -- David Cantrell

Re: Silly postings

2001-04-06 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:57:45AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote: Which is of course wrong. Russia makes the best firearms, Australia makes the best wine, and .us produces the best bloodthirsty maniacs. I believe they recently elected one

Re: Silly postings

2001-04-05 Thread David Cantrell
it was "people outside of Italy". My how times change. No, best pizza is in NY or the hypehnated environs. You go to Italky for the wine and the antipasti. Barbarian! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are

Re: Silly postings

2001-04-05 Thread David Cantrell
- because of all the food/drink I've had in Italy, Roman pizzas and coffees were the worst. Neapolitan pizzas were the best, and Sicilian coffees. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine.

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-05 Thread David Cantrell
criteria. Well shit, if despising scum is unreasonable and arbitrary, then sign me up! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message

Re: Silly postings

2001-04-05 Thread David Cantrell
... :-) I thought it was "people outside of Italy". My how times change. Well, to hear Frank Zappa tell it, at least, the italians *really* don't know anything about pizza... Thus speaks a man who has never had pizza. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.or

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-05 Thread David Cantrell
through emacs^Wvi. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important **

Re: Silly postings

2001-04-05 Thread David Cantrell
I believe they recently elected one as their Fuhrer. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important **

Re: Certing

2001-04-05 Thread David Cantrell
possibly have imagined . :)) Robin is mistaken. We had a very serious discussion which covered a number of difficult topics. Greg was volunteered to take minutes, and will be posting a summary shortly. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Pony!

2001-04-04 Thread David Cantrell
I've uploaded a new version of Pony.pm to CPAN. It fixes a bug in the scaling algorithm and also stores the original data RLE encoded, thus cutting the size of the module from 100K to 17.5K. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-04 Thread David Cantrell
forget drunks! drunk crazy buffy fans riding on ponies? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important **

Re:

2001-04-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:33:25PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: begin 777 RE: M65S(AE(1I9"P@=6YF;W)T=6YA=5L2!I('=AVXG="!H97)E(9OB!I M="X@($D@:5R96)Y(-E87-E(9R;VT@"G1A;MI;F@=\@6]U(QO="!U and so on. Please go away and test your mail package elsewhere befor

Re: Test

2001-04-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:40:03PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: Anyway, tip-o-the-day for mutt users. How to get HTML viewed easily and automatically. Don't bother. If it was worth saying, it was worth saying properly. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk

Re:

2001-04-04 Thread David Cantrell
ould do so elsewhere. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important **

Re:

2001-04-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:16:36PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: I will e-mail the offenders a copy of PC-Pine in the morning :) They should run, not walk, to sourceforge, and get mutt for Win32. PC-Pine is suitable only for small children recovering from major surgery. -- David Cantrell

Re:

2001-04-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:17:15PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote: No. I couldn't be bothered. If what he has to say isn't important enough to send properly, then it's not important enough for me to read. I remember having a discussion

Re: Madness! It's Madness!!

2001-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
!!! dha and I were drunk at the time too. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important **

Re: Crazy Idea

2001-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
, and then spend the night around a camp fire, drinking and talking. Why the hell not. The farm which I believe Greg has in mind (www.middlefarm.com) also sells mead. Yum! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like

Buffy riding a pony!

2001-04-02 Thread David Cantrell
y scalable vectors; scaling up -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Web Server Configuration

2001-04-02 Thread David Cantrell
of these people so i think your sites safe. DANGER WILL ROBINSON! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important **

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

2001-03-30 Thread David Cantrell
Avantgo - which are getting more and more users all the time - have pretty much the same capabilities as a text-only browser. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail

Re: Social Meeting (fwd)

2001-03-30 Thread David Cantrell
, Clerkenwell? If not, hie thee hence at the first opportunity. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important **

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

2001-03-29 Thread David Cantrell
would have to get a system working, and then show him that the certification is in fact meaningful and not Just Another String Of Letters. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-29 Thread David Cantrell
that all calls within NI are now charged at local rate? Can belfast.pm enlighten me on this? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

2001-03-29 Thread David Cantrell
e remind me why I don't do financial work any more? Oh yeah :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: mmm ... toys ..

2001-03-28 Thread David Cantrell
new one. I don't have enough NICs to do it properly, and using a PCMCIA SCSI card and a CD burner seems like overkill :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first

Re: Buffycode (was Re: That book)

2001-03-28 Thread David Cantrell
at finding dependencies between files and subroutines. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Social Meeting (fwd)

2001-03-28 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:48:05PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: ok it looks like PO .. or the anchor! Anchor! Anchor! Anchor! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I

Re: Social Meeting (fwd)

2001-03-28 Thread David Cantrell
a look at it sometime. Same goes for Ruby. More things for the to-do queue. I also installed Python on the Palm, cos I thought it was a nifty idea. I deleted it earlier today cos I thought putting Lovecraft books on there was a better use of memory. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

2001-03-28 Thread David Cantrell
, and certainly we will look with great suspicion at potential employees who try to sell themselves based solely on such qualifications. However, the Pointy Haired Ones do not realise this. They think qualification = professional whereas no qualification = amateur. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL

Re: Social Meeting (fwd)

2001-03-28 Thread David Cantrell
, nice open fires, ... -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Social Meeting (fwd)

2001-03-28 Thread David Cantrell
st manager, and you sir, are a heretic. Welcome to the club :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: upgrade fund

2001-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
or created myself. Pity, I know of some very nice rack mount RAID solutions with fibrechannel architecture and up to a terrabyte in 3U ... sure you can;t be tempted ? ;) I can be *tempted* but I doubt the bank account would stand it. sigh if only it was someone elses money ... -- David

Re: mmm ... toys ..

2001-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
to disk partition (can't remember what id it is, sorry :-( ) a0 IIRC, although some machines put it at the beginning of the disk, some at the end. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine

Re: white wine

2001-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:22:27AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Unfortunately, the lovely Italian wine I found in caffs throughout Naples back in November does not seem to be available over here at all. Why ship

Re: Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
ly a lot slower ? No, you got it right. You would expect the sub version to be slower, as it has to make a subroutine call and do some calculations every time, whereas the array version pre-calculates everything and then just does a tonne of comparitively inexpensive array lookups. -- David Cantr

four-argument select()s

2001-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
} } sub fhbits { # calculate bitmask of all my @fhlist=@_; # IO::Handles passed as my $bits=0; # arguments for (@fhlist) { vec($bits, fileno($_), 1)=1; } $bits; } -- David Cantrell | [EMA

Fwd: Sheffield LUG: Linux 2.4 kernel meeting

2001-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
Just in case any of our northerly lurkers are interested ... -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important

Re: white wine

2001-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
no, the few bottles I did bring back with me were just as good as I remember. Particularly on a wet blustery Thursday night in Cornwall just before christmas, IIRC. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one

Re: April Meetings

2001-03-26 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:25:39AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Thanks for the offer Simon, but I've already postponed this meeting once and am loathe to do it again. Shame :-( I was hoping to be able to make it to my first non-Damian tech meet, but my sister's visiting that evening. -- David

Re: upgrade fund

2001-03-26 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:02:59PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David Cantrell: Anyone know of any good sources of cheap, BIG hard disks atm? Like in the 70 to 100Gb range, IDE? Speed not an issue, reliability is as these are for my server. I need^Wwant six

Re: white wine

2001-03-26 Thread David Cantrell
Sicily's offshore islands in a boat. I bought a mixed case before we headed south from Naples, brought a few bottles back with me but have finished them all now. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one

Debian question ...

2001-03-22 Thread David Cantrell
is there an easy way of getting a list of all the packages which are currently installed? I dislike dselect intensely, and the docs for dpkg et al don't say anything useful. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said

Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-22 Thread David Cantrell
date entry field or date display has text nearby telling you the format. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons.

Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-22 Thread David Cantrell
bitchy] Naah. You're doing him a favour. You're trying to help him. cough -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons.

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-21 Thread David Cantrell
money to fund the standards work but it seems a tad steep for the casual viewer such as myself. Anyone know of a free online resource ? Not for standards in general, but that particular one is at http://www.iso.ch/markete/8601.pdf -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: [ot] NetBSD

2001-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
Summary: pwd_mkdb didn't work, so I tried re-installing (it was a fresh install I'd broken anyway). I then proceded to get very annoyed with the NetBSD installer, because it doesn't let you go back and correct your stupid mistakes. And then installed Debian. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL

Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
, which actually sorts best of all... Do we really not learn from Y2K? And it's even an ISO standard! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your

Re: Matt's Scripts Projects

2001-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
use. /rant -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Matt's Scripts Projects

2001-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:48:25PM +, Michael Stevens wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:38:09PM +, David Cantrell wrote: Then they deserve to be hurt. Really. We can't possibly support dribbling idiots, and frankly, I have no wish to do so. If someone is scared by a .tar.gz

Re: Dedrat 7.0 and PGP

2001-03-17 Thread David Cantrell
it builds fine on 6.2. I'm using 7.0, and hating it. I should never have upgraded. I found some gpg binaries on fr.rpmfind.net which work just fine for everything I've had to do so far. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature

Re: Dedrat 7.0 and PGP

2001-03-17 Thread David Cantrell
mean. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: [Need] A Perl HTML to Text converter

2001-03-16 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:07:39AM -0500, Andy Williams wrote: Does anyone know of a HTML to Text converter written in Perl? It'll need to be able to format tables!! I normally use lynx to do it but it doesn't handle tables very well :( w3m? links? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL

Re: Version control

2001-03-15 Thread David Cantrell
is that I hear that Rational are concentrating development on NT as well, which is obviously a Bad Thing. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
directories - but then, there's no ftp file upload, and the ftp root is in a different place from the web root anyway, and HTTP file upload is also not permitted. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:46:45PM +, Jon Eyre wrote: oops... Heh. Just remember, Evil Dave is the paranoid nutcase, Dave Cross is the one with the gold-plated cat. At Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:05:05 +, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evil Dave's server does *not* use

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
, it's not hard FFS. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
than ssh tunnels which tend to drop if not used. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:50:14PM +, Struan Donald wrote: * at 14/03 15:22 + Michael Stevens said: On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:10:02PM +, David Cantrell wrote: WebDAV is not OK, cos it means installing yet more stuff on the server which is simply not needed. If a user can't

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-12

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:19:54PM +, Michael Stevens wrote: Content-type: matter-transport/beer-stream Isn't that what happens in the bogs of Penderels Oak? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
on the topic at hand ... now where is 'merlin' when you need him :) If crack works in reasonable time, then you should fire the sysadmin. It is essential nowadays to use something like MD5 shadow passwords and not just plain ol' crypt. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
but never seem to find the time. It is indeed lovely. Although you don't need to do tunnelling magic: rsync -options -e ssh source-list me@myserver:/destination -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
was that there was a whacking great recommendation to buy it, blazoned across the top, from the one and only Randal Schwartz. Hm Yeees. I don't think you're meant to mention that in polite society :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
the local network for open relays and then just talk SMTP to them. Someone stupid enough to not be able to install modules is stupid enough to have open relays. (joke) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it bu

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:19:46PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:09:42PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: I've just seen a downside to the "no non-standard modules&

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
Weee! Cascade! On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:38:52PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:19:46PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:09:42PM +

Version control

2001-03-12 Thread David Cantrell
have any comments on Perforce or Clearcase? Needless to say, both companies have crap websites with no useful documentation and a tonne of marketing arse. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one

Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network

2001-03-09 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:30:39AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: Not just _any_ photo, but one of him drinking beer at a london.pm meeting. http://london.pm.org/MeetPics3.html I wonder if O'Reilly approached the copyright holder ... -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: heretics meeting

2001-03-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:15:20PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: anyone fancy going early to this - i'm pretty exhausted with work and wouldn't mind getting an early pint in I'll probably leave work in an hour or so. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Re: Kevin Smith (and another intro)

2001-03-06 Thread David Cantrell
, vague genomes, the best kind... Is that something like Schrodingers Jeans? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important

Tech reviewing

2001-02-28 Thread David Cantrell
by the German authors, and requires no knowledge of the product itself, but does - obviously - require some familiarity with the subject. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read

Re: Do what I mean!

2001-02-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:22:17PM +, Matthew Robinson wrote: use constant time; Obviously, the constant module would have to be overloaded to allow this along with a few tweaks to the core. s/core/universe/ but hey, what's mere reality between friends? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL

Re: lvalue subroutines

2001-02-27 Thread David Cantrell
IANAQM (but it would be helpful in debugging landrovers) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: SRN (was: lvalue subroutines)

2001-02-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 02:50:22PM +, Robin Houston wrote: http://www.qtc.ecs.soton.ac.uk/lecture1/lecture1d.html is interesting. My brain just started leaking out of my ears. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable

Re: Meetings

2001-02-26 Thread David Cantrell
, opposite the Ritz and between Berkeley St and Albemarle St. Nearest tubes are Green Park (200 yds) and Picadilly Circus (500yds). The 8, 9, 14, 19, 22, and 38 busses stop at Green Park station. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=528992Y=180517A=YZ=1 -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Greetings

2001-02-23 Thread David Cantrell
at http://dave.told.us.to -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Greetings

2001-02-23 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:52:52AM +, Michael Stevens wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:30:13AM +, David Cantrell wrote: All your questions will be answered at http://dave.told.us.to Someone seems to have mis-spelled "TVR" as "beer". Ye gods! The webmaste

Re: Greetings

2001-02-23 Thread David Cantrell
example, my own archiver does not*. In general, you should assume that anything you say on the net will be archived by someone somewhere. If you don't mean it, don't say it. * - don't worry, my archive is password protected -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Re: Car giveaway

2001-02-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:35:13PM +, Richard Clamp wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:33:45PM +, Dave Thorn wrote: have you *seen* the car?! :) Shush, I'm trying to get rid of it :) Does it still have a washing machine stuck in the back? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Class::DBI + job posting

2001-02-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:55:50PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: of course, i just thought today was a thursday between the 22nd and the 1st Eh? Is there something special about the first? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology

Re: No http://london.pm/ :-(

2001-02-22 Thread David Cantrell
under. * - which involved the islan's ISP, a couple of other .pm businesses and community groups, and a plan to approach ICANN and have the domain taken away from AFNIC on the grounds that they were not properly administering it. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread David Cantrell
hindrance to me trying out scripts I 'find' is usually that I can't be bothered installing the 1/2 dozen or so modules that need to be installed first. Some would consider this to be a good thing :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology

[OT] symlinks to symlinks

2001-02-14 Thread David Cantrell
expect that I'm misunderstanding some of the goodies in Fcntl.pm, and that if I did understand them, then a combination of that, stat and lstat would do the job. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic

Re: OT: Buffy (or not OT, depending on your point of view)

2001-02-08 Thread David Cantrell
.. I hear that Virgin, HMV and WH Smith all have online shops :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP

Re:

2001-02-07 Thread David Cantrell
suggests that grep post a map on his website. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Perl Books

2001-02-02 Thread David Cantrell
approach programming the same way. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Last Night

2001-02-02 Thread David Cantrell
should be able to have it to ourselves, but sufficiently large that we won't be crowded. They do good beer and I'm fairly certain they do food in the evenings. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently

Re: Bad programming considered harmless

2001-02-02 Thread David Cantrell
se the ignoramus pseudo-programmers for which they are responsible cause me a lot of trouble. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Bad programming considered harmless

2001-02-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:47:39PM +, Struan Donald wrote: you have to teach them some theory of good programming, as at the end of the day it _will_ make their lives easier. More importantly, it'll make *our* lives easier :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

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