On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 06:19:46PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:52:32PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
Last time I went to Lonix, it was full of w4r3z d00dz. :( The kind of
people who only used linux because they didn't have to pay for it.
A while
Dean:
Ah the one at the uni near Angel tube. Those weren't w4r3z d00dz they were
far far worse... Students ;)
Dean, it happens to the best of us. =)
I am worse even than that, I am a wannabe student...!
signed patient grasshopper
Paul Makepeace wrote:
Do you (whoever) in all seriousness think someone would *choose* to
post in base64? Or even imagine that without extensive spelunking in
the config files/menus their email client would do that by default?
No, of course not -- so give 'em a fscking break! Be nice, point
Alex Page wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:17:24AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Me too, ('74 vintage) but I got learnt grammar. I think mostly by my
mother if truth be told. The rest I picked up from Latin :-/
AOL. A strongly grammatical language like Latin really makes
you think
Piers Cawley wrote:
I'm really liking Damian's work on this. Favourite so far:
%new_hash = map {yield munge_key($_); munge_value($_)} %a_hash
^
Looks like someone's been doing too much Ruby to me
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All
From: Janet Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 05 April 2001 10:15
Dean:
Ah the one at the uni near Angel tube. Those weren't w4r3z d00dz
they were far far worse... Students ;)
Dean, it happens to the best of us. =)
Happened to some of us for a bloody long time.
Dave...
[seven years a
Simon Cozens wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:19:15PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
Feature request - IMAP client.
Mail::IMAPClient exists, so I guess it's a real possibility. When I get a
spare second. (Yeah, right.)
There's also Mail::Cclient (by Malcolm Beattie) which can be
Slashdot, and everything else running Slash (i.e. use.perl.org) seem to no
longer be doing XML RSS feeds, but a custom DTD called 'backslash'. I
was wondering if anyone knows anything about this.
I'm currently working on building summaries of sites, and then things
from these summaries. I was
dcross - David Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I was at secondary school (75 - 79) ITA was used to teach reading to a
remedial class. As (supposedly) one of the brighter pupils in my year, I got
to spend a couple of hours a week helping out in this class, which is where
I picked up ITA.
Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Right, well there's the difference then. I'm 29 this year and I was schooled
during the seventies. Was anyone else of a similar age *not* taught proper
punctuation and grammar at school? Back in those days, teachers actually
taught you, as opposed to
Mark Fowler sent the following bits through the ether:
Slashdot, and everything else running Slash (i.e. use.perl.org) seem to no
longer be doing XML RSS feeds, but a custom DTD called 'backslash'. I
was wondering if anyone knows anything about this.
Don't know about the Big Picture, but
Mark:
a) What and Why is backslash?
b) Is this better/worse/indifferent? Should I use it instead?
I'd love to know both of these. I can't find anything regarding backslash
following a quick trawl of the slashcode site.
I'm immediately pre-disposed against it simply because, even if only
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:41:56AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
There's also Mail::Cclient (by Malcolm Beattie) which can be tricky to
install and the interface is a bit unfriendly
That's the fault of the underlying Cclient library. :(
--
Sendmail may be safely run set-user-id to root.
Simon Cozens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:41:56AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
There's also Mail::Cclient (by Malcolm Beattie) which can be tricky to
install and the interface is a bit unfriendly
That's the fault of the underlying Cclient library. :(
Yeah, tell me about it.
hence
Yes. But some were too old to be students. Oh well..
how old is that exactly =)
Quoting Steve Mynott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I remember arguing with a teacher who told us gravity was caused by
the Earth spinning round who refused to accept that the child she was
teaching actually knew more about it than her.
Hey! I resemble that remark. I got send from school for a day
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hey! I resemble that remark. I got send from school for a day after
being 'impolite to the teacher' when I refused (loudly) to accept his
version of the first moonlanding where Aldrin got out first.
Had large arguments with English teacher about
An somewhat sceptical essay I wrote on whether psychology was a science
for my A' level psychology course came back with "You can argue that
psychology is a science, you can't argue that it isn't" written on it.
I thought that rather nicely proved my point.
Tony
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 06:19:46PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Dean wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:52:32PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
Last time I went to Lonix, it was full of w4r3z d00dz. :( The kind of
people who only used linux because they
Will the Perl Cert discussion/brainstorming be taking part at todays meet
or the technical one?
Dean
--
Profanity is the one language all programmers understand
--- Anon
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:54:25PM +0100, wrote:
All this said, there were an obscene number of people at Lonix last
night, who once again I have no idea about other than that they were
being given advice by the people I steer clear of for asking long, slow
and stupid questions.
Grr. I
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:54:25PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
A while back. It was the time with the wearable computers demo.
Neill's, I take it, rather than one of my impromptu borgings? I've no
idea who most of those people were. Some kind of gargoyle groupie effect
g... I heard some
* Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
* Dean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Will the Perl Cert discussion/brainstorming be taking part at todays meet
or the technical one?
todays
having said that i think it will be pretty damn informal
--
Greg McCarroll
Hi,
Can any one tell me what this traceroute actually means... it has me
completely confused (not that difficult actually!!)
traceroute 195.153.113.229
traceroute to 195.153.113.229 (195.153.113.229), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets
1 chromium.pair.net (209.68.1.224) 1.814 ms 1.067 ms 0.569
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:33:19AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote:
Hi,
Can any one tell me what this traceroute actually means... it has me
completely confused (not that difficult actually!!)
Yup. The machines on hops 11-24 aren't answering the traceroute
packets, but are passing them on. Possibly
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:33:19AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote:
Hi,
Can any one tell me what this traceroute actually means... it has me
completely confused (not that difficult actually!!)
traceroute 195.153.113.229
traceroute to 195.153.113.229 (195.153.113.229), 30 hops max, 40 byte
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:14:05PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
"Sex is kinda like pizza. When it's bad, it's still pretty good."
Thanks for reinforcing the view that people outside of New York don't
know dirt about pizza... :-)
dha
--
David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:03:43AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
dha, how's your "last read" mark?
Eh?
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David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/
We honestly don't want to see another technicolored cow.
- the #macintosh faq
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:54:25PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
Grr. I don't *want* to turn into an elitist wanker
I seem to solve this by being one all along...
--
VMS must die!
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:05:10PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
ObTopic:
[snip lots of stuff about perl]
Excuse me, where was the topical stuff there?
dha
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David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/
Your Aunt Linda should maybe stay away from the Manischewitz. Or
stop
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:29:09PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
its amazing how hard it is to disguise the fact you just set fire to
a roll of magnesium ribbon.
...but hardly surprising. :_)
One of the administrators of my school found me sitting out in the
hallway reading a book and
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:10:34PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:45:40PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
Thanks for reinforcing the view that people outside of New York don't
know dirt about pizza... :-)
I thought it was "people outside of Italy". My how times change.
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:27:57PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:45:40PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
Thanks for reinforcing the view that people outside of New York don't
know dirt about pizza... :-)
I thought it
Right, well there's the difference then. I'm 29 this year and I was
schooled
during the seventies. Was anyone else of a similar age *not* taught proper
punctuation and grammar at school? Back in those days, teachers actually
taught you, as opposed to writing long essays to justify
"Barbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Quite. I'm 35 and was given a good basic education at Primary school of the
english language, together most of it's idyosyncrasies. I was lucky enough
to go to a Grammar (when there were still such things) so probably faired
better than most.
Fared?
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:21:33AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
I found a workaround which I can live with;
Do tell -- HTML email pisses me off as much as the the next person and
there are a few Lookout/!Exchange users I'd like to clue in.
P
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:19:54PM +0100, Dean wrote:
Well i mean Martin what kind of freak would build a wearable for personal
use... Even going so far as to hack the hardware in a webcam and a touch
pad? ;)
This guy -- http://eyetap.org/mann/ I set up one of his exhibits
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:10:34PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:45:40PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
Thanks for reinforcing the view that people outside of New York don't
know dirt about pizza... :-)
I thought it was "people outside of Italy". My how times change.
Greg McCarroll IS Tommy Cooper!
Stand-up comedy slots at TPC would get my vote.
P
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:29:09PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
I was a cheeky brat as a child,
I remember having an argument once with a teacher, whose comeback
was - well if you don't study harder what
On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, you wrote:
* Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
* Dean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Will the Perl Cert discussion/brainstorming be taking part at todays meet
or the technical one?
todays
having said that i think it will be pretty damn informal
judging by
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:51:45PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
What the hell, it's no less than you deserve...
Paul
One day Dracula is walking down the street when suddenly 10 tons of
smoked salmon sandwiches, sausage rolls, vol-au-vents, chicken wings,
chipolatas, tomato salad, pizza
Doh. I have the archive too, and knew I should've ~b'ed it but the
pain of dial-up prevented me. Sorry 'bout that.
P
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:03:06PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:51:45PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
What the hell, it's no less than you deserve...
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. I'm not 100% sure of the security aspects, but it's
still better than Lookout. ;-)
[ ~/.mailcap
@P=split//,".URRUU\c8R";@d=split//,"\n?neht krow siht seod woh oS";sub
p{
@p{"r$p","u$p"}=(P,P);pipe"r$p","u$p";++$p;
($q*=2)+=$f=!fork;map{$P=$P[$f^ord ($p{$_})6];$p{$_}=/
^$P/ix?$P:close$_}keys%p}p;p;p;p;p;map{$p{$_}=~/^[P.]/ close$_}%p;wait
until$?;map{/^r/$_}%p;$_=$d[$q];sleep
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:27:57PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:45:40PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
Thanks for reinforcing the view that people outside of New York don't
know dirt about pizza... :-)
I thought it
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:45:40PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:14:05PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
"Sex is kinda like pizza. When it's bad, it's still pretty good."
Thanks for reinforcing the view that people outside of New York don't
know dirt about pizza...
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:10:02PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:54:25PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
Grr. I don't *want* to turn into an elitist wanker
I seem to solve this by being one all along...
'Elitist' implies to me that one is applying unreasonable, arbitrary
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:39:21PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:10:34PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:45:40PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
Thanks for reinforcing the view that people outside of New York don't
know dirt about pizza... :-)
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:19:54PM +0100, Dean wrote:
Well i mean Martin what kind of freak would build a wearable for personal
use... Even going so far as to hack the hardware in a webcam and a touch
pad? ;)
Well I would actually. It's really rather pleasant to have the world
visible
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:11:51PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:10:34PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:45:40PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
Thanks for reinforcing the view that people outside of New York don't
know dirt about pizza... :-)
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:37:47PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
judging by the way grep appeared late, informed everyone he'd had 'a hell
of a day' and then went to the bar and bought two 6 pint pitchers of 6X
I think it fair to say it might well be a little more informal than
people might
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