On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:20:55PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
Nope. Whilst it may make a minor difference to merkans, there's
absolutely no difference between the two idiots as far as the rest
of the world is concerned.
It's possile that living with shit food and crap weather has
dulled
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:12:37PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
the only thing that gives potential for the marketing of a language is the
projects that are achieved using it and java has a hell of a lot more cool
projects than perl
I've been playing with Akopia ne' MiniVend/Tallyman which
From: "Andy Wardley" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In all fairness, I have to say that mailman is an *excellent* mailing
list manager.
Yes it is. Majordomo is the wrong choice for the 21st century.
Once again I'll offer to run the list on euro.pm.org but if y'all'd rather
debate stuff go ahead :-)
Paul
From: "David Cantrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Exactly. I just can't handle bernsteinisms when there are good
alternatives
available - exim (easy), postfix (secure), mailman. I can only put up with
his oddities when the alternative is worse. djbdns vs bind.
Totally agreed. FWIW, exim + mailman
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:42:54AM +, Simon Wistow wrote:
http://douglas.min.net/~drw/jsr/jsr-daemon.jpg
http://amyl.org/img/user/takeittux.jpg
Paul
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:01:55AM +, Shevek wrote:
I had always committed to the nature of Unix being that one does end up
with a pile of stuff on disk which one doesn't use.
for i in etc usr; do
find /$i -mount -type f -atime +60 | perl -lne unlink;
done
:-)
The point is that
Just to reinforce the point that this OS is a steaming pile of crap, and that
if you're in the unfortunate situation of actually running it, watch out
(130,000 nodes scanned in 15mins):
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-202-4508359-0.html
Internet worm squirms into Linux servers
By Robert Lemos
From: "Andy Wardley" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More effective, yes, because none of the THC is lost to the atmosphere.
However, it takes an hour or so to notice the effects coming on and
when they do, there's no way to stop them. So you might end up ingesting
twice as much as
From: "Leo Lapworth" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got a contact who says he can get hold of a million or
so VC if this was an actually business plan, but then you
have to pay them back with interest and stuff.
That's not VC then, that's a "loan". VC is where you heave up a huge chunk of
cash in
Welcome to London.pm ;-)
From: "Niklas Nordebo" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyway, I have a problem I hoped someone might be able to help me with,
when trying to compile mod_perl statically into Apache on my Debian box I get
apt-get install libapache-mod-perl gets you the dynamic version -- is there a
From: "David Cantrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is a million considered a lot in the UK still?
Not by people who can add up.
OK, same here then. Having said that, it's amazing how much people can
stretch a few $currency_unit if they *don't* have investment :-)
But then so's a 24hr stretch of
From: "Steve Mynott" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
THC isn't water soluble at all which is why you have to dissolve the
stuff in hot fat before cooking it.
It is soluble, especially in smoke form. Perhaps not *miscible* but certainly
it'll end up in suspension. Not much admittedly, but it is and crucially
From: "alex" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[1] My first name is actually Christopher, but handily my parents changed
their minds after registering my birth and decided to call me by my middle
name.
[Oddly enough, same here. I'm Chris Paul ... It's an absolute pain in the
arse. Note to parents: don't do
From: "Michael Stevens" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And, of course, there's the obvious downside of following the unstable
branch of anything...
Except with Debian in my four years of using unstable I haven't had a single
(serious) problem. The times when they've occasionally messed up dependencies
I've
From: "Robin Houston" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.arsdigita.com/asj/managing-software-engineers/
I particularly liked:
"Your business success will depend on the extent to which programmers
essentially live at your office. For this to be a common choice, your office
had better be nicer than
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:37:02PM +, Kieran Barry wrote:
Yup. There isn't enough talent around, so people get promoted beyond
their competence. If you train your people they'll only leave.
The only way out of that cycle is to train in-house,
and treat people so well that they stay.
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:32:19PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, you wrote:
[Could you configure your editor/mailer to attribute correctly?]
Keeping employees 101: Show respect, recognise them, care for
them and provide opportunity for growth. It's all about the
love;
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:38:31PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
la la la la *has hands over ears* i cant here you, la la la la
The issue of millions-of-CCs needs to be addressed by anyone
putting together a pro-reply-to: sender argument. Using procmail
is *not* the right answer, neither is
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:17:45PM +, Robin Houston wrote:
I suppose you were hoping for a simpler procedure, but this is
the simplest I've found. Possibly IE doesn't have that problem.
It has others, it'll s/\./_/g for all except the last.
Exercise: Implement the "except the last" in a
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:24:44PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
[1] you++ to anyone who gets the joke apart from stevem
This is clearly a red ha^Herring. Ignore.
Besides, policy type="groucho marx" /
Paul
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:42:16AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Multi processor Solaris runs rings around any of the free Unixes.
They've had kernel threads for nearly 10 years, and it's very optimized.
Hmm, last time I checked Solaris threads were a nightmare...
I suspect that SGIs IRIX
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 02:33:54PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Under FreeBSD, you've got sendmail-wrapper instead, which you can
configure to point to any installed file.
Debian has generalised this in /etc/alternatives,
$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/ | head -6
total 1
-rw-r--r--1 root
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:31:52PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
Reminds me of fits I had when doing Vignette/Tcl with lists of lists that I
passed to another template with HTTP POST. When the list of lists contained
only one element, it didn't wrap that list in extra {} so the foreach say a
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:28:07PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:27:41PM -, Matthew Jones wrote:
So how do That.pm feel about some northern tyke scuttling down to join you
for the odd beer and tech meeting on a sort of semi-regular basis?
You will, of
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 06:56:02PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
Look at what Sun says Java is not suitable for to get a short list. IIRC
they included stuff such as life support machinery in hospitals, air traffic
control, and nuclear reactors. Space Shuttle or manned-space-flight rocket
I
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:15:07AM +, Redvers Davies wrote:
They are not rude - its a lie. The correct term I think is apathetic.
Funnily enough the times I've complained about the food they've done
something about it fairly promptly. Sure they tutted and rolled their
eyes but they did
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:08:29AM -, Robert Shiels wrote:
I've been there loads of times and a lot of the enjoyment comes from
watching the faces of the uninitiated as they realise they have definitely
come to the wrong place.
Gentlemen, start your noodles :-)
Paul, why are you up at 4
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:42:08PM +, Shevek wrote:
I later prove that it is possible to do a hard real time reference
counting garbage collector,
I've heard of implementations of hard real time GCs but they're
ultra-slow. Can you prove one comparably as fast as a non-real
time one is
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:23:36PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
That's why I recommend Nildram.
I've been banging their drum since '98. Good folk, in it for the joy
rather than merciless customer accruement.
P
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:36:56PM -0500, David H. Adler wrote:
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:32:08PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
When looking at cost, remember what hotel rates in NYC are like (almost as
bad as London). You can easily pay US$250/night for a room that you would
swear is in
From: "David H. Adler" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Module isn't the problem, it's the Lecture... :-)
I've seen it, heck I even missed the first few minutes -- what's the biggie?
He uses his oratory skills to make you *think* it's awfully impressive hard
(it certainly is cute).
Paul
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:04:34PM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
Now if someone would just invent print-on lcd panels...
http://www.visson.net/
Paul
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:18:36PM +, Richard Clamp wrote:
But she has such an annoying voice.
http://www.ifilm.com/images/audio/960803.mp3 ...from...
http://www.ifilm.com/db/static_text/0,1699,13280,00.html
*That's* an annoying voice, shared by many Californian women ;-(
Paul
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:58:11PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This includes the new way to get the source via the DNS, which still works, and
doesn't use zone transfers:
for DVDs in Linux screw the MPAA and ; do dig $DVDs.z.zoy.org ; done | \
perl -ne 's/\.//g; print
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
meaning to ring the vinyard to see if they can send me a case, or at least
point me at a merchant over here who can.
Alternatively, if TPC5 is held in Monterey again you can partake of
the local plethora of vineyards in the area.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:09:19AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
Let me explain the set-up. I have a PC running Win95.
OK, so the contract market's gone to the dogs.
Paul
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:44:49PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Still not enough. It'll work for the Americans (yet again...)[1] but if you
have a phone number whose country codes identifies it as being in country X,
and you are in country X on a business trip and want to call that person,
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:31:00PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
then we get on to the 'wine so sweet you could stand a spoon up in it'. I
am a complete sucker for anything from Sauternes, Lupiac, Pauliac,
Graves, Monbazilac etc. and had a very nice Trochenbeerenauslese a
You would enjoy the
I don't suppose anyone else chose 'root' as their primary account
name during install?
I did and am wondering if this is why my OS X installation is totally
hosed useless: I can't open folders in my (own!) Home (Insufficient
Privileges), all Applications in Finder appears as folders, all
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:09:50PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
the fuckwits at Oftel lumbered us with 01[78]1 in the first place is
something of a mystery to me...
Was it Oftel that made that choice or BT? I was assumed it was the
lumbering ineptitude of The World's Most Evil Phone Company (to
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:08:59PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
I reckon interperability is big, and that XML-RPC (or possibly even
SOAP) will change the way we work. There's no point writing everything
in one language or environment any more. Microsoft may have understood
this with .NET.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:05:18AM +0100, Neil Ford wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:11:13PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
I don't suppose anyone else chose 'root' as their primary account
name during install?
I did and am wondering if this is why my OS X installation is totally
hosed
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:28:31PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
it'll-only-happen-once change where the entire country moved to
() -
Twelve and eight digit phone numbers? So phalanxes of psychologists
noting that the human brain has the magic number seven genetically
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:51:10PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
I think that's what Paul was talking about. He can correct me
if I'm wrong :-)
Exactly what I meant :-) And Java's a whole lot better for this than
COBOL, C, and other things that make you go "blech".
J2EE is horribly bloated but
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:19:55PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
London. Don't expect that to change soon either - as they've just started
charging for tests.
Perhaps the Perl community should have an online certification program
that funnels cash into the Conway Coffers? :-)
No, wait, that might
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:19:05PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
gellyfish@orpheus gellyfish]$ python -v
snip
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Aug 25 2000, 09:33:37) [GCC 2.96 2731
(experimental)] on linux-i386
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
aol excuse="mailman"
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:29:46PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
advantage over other databases - speed. But I wasn't allowed to upgrade
to (eg) postgresql for silly reasons which I forget now.
Your PHBastard called in a $200k/month Oracle DBA and you walked after
the weekend to find your root
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:32:15PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
well I just looked ... and their script failed to find 'Perl' even though
they have a test for Perl ...
I hope this isn't the programming language equivalent of dot-bomb
stock becoming unlisted as 'junk' on the NASDAQ...
"Perl
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:56:37PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Try doing Java in Lynx. Or Mosaic. Is there even a plugin for Netscape
3.0?
Lynx Mosaic practically don't exist, demographically speaking.
I'd say that's marketing and not something built-in. You want client-side
Perl, you
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:41:14PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
host(1)'s error messages are often misleading - it can give the message
"try again" to nxdomain responses, for example...
Given how fast .NSI namespace is being eaten up, that doesn't seem like
such an unrealistic message
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:50:57AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
But things like Avantgo - which are getting more and more users all the
time - have pretty much the same capabilities as a text-only browser.
From a display point of view, yes, but they certainly have the
capability to run a JVM
Have you tried http://support.zeus.com/doc/zws/
Failing that, their support is great, at least it was four years[1] ago
when they gave me a free one to play with at university.
I disagree about the security aspects of having +x turned out for
scripts but hey, YMMV.
Paul
[1] that long?! I need
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:56:52PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
are, and the
web server has very few rights.
Very few writes too, we'd hope :-)
If I want people to download the source to
one of my files instead of executing it, I turn off execute permissions.
There are times when I want
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:38:42PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
That's probably *not* such a good idea, cos it's in the libraries that
things like database passwords are likely to be squirrelled away. Like
And my, er, flamboyant comments. And evidence of that I write
self-modifying code web
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:31:12PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
Indeed, that was just my observation on a few posts' worth. Who *knows*
what I might conclude about a whole day's traffic..
..that you need to put your London.pm folder on its own spanning
compressed partition.
Paul
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:22:38AM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
Yeah, yeah drunks, skateboarders, musicians .
...geeks, goths, jugglers, Natscis. And that's just me.
I raise you (at least) two accomplished unicyclists...
Paul, whose uni got nicked in fscking cambridge. "Ooh, it's got
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:08:09AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
I raise you (at least) two accomplished unicyclists...
Doesn't that make a bicyclist?
No, trust me.
Paul, whose uni got nicked in fscking cambridge. "Ooh, it's got a wheel!
Not the usual two, but fuck it, let's steal
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:04:45AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Funnily, enough, no. I was born in 1974, I've never been taught english
grammar and I know of nobody who has. It's actually quite annoying as
Me too, ('74 vintage) but I got learnt grammar. I think mostly by my
mother if truth
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:57:40AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:19:32PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Paul, whose uni got nicked in fscking cambridge.
"*think* *think* Don't they have enough universities of their own?"
I've been in the US too long,
s/(pc-)?pine/mutt/gi; # puh-lease :)
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:16:36PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:27:23PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Clarke, Darren wrote:
It appears I have been remiss with the HTML/text
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:46:44PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Bollocks.
SAUCE is concerned with header information, DNS correctness etc. In the
above, I am ranting about content.
It might not occur to some people that those 'evil/ignorant bastards'
posting in uuencoded or base64 (or
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 12:51:31AM -0400, Alex Page wrote:
AOL. A strongly grammatical language like Latin really makes you think about your
grammar in English. I did Latin to A-level, and remembering which form of qui to use
in a given situation really helps you work out that whole who / whom
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
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
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:34:03AM +0100, Natalie Ford wrote:
...and maybe people who prefer a GUI? :)
http://www.thebat.net/ is good I hear. You can poke around on the server
before doing a download which is a neat feature.
Paul
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:44:59PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
You *used* a public toilet in nyc??? eek.
I've slept in Central Park too.
(I was so ill from sleeping with the 10th floor window open there wasn't
much else I could do.)
Paul
http://www.msnbc.com/news/555930.asp
Sadly, lacking on details.
Paul, who still likes it.
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:41:51PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Whilst I thought that a radioactive-style decay was a suitable default,
for the app I wrote it for, a simple decrement every time period was
more appropriate.
Cool Uses For Technology #497: Hmm, triggered on first access would
be
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 08:48:10PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
All roads lead to London.pm, 'twould seem.
Welcome aboard crewmates!
Paul
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 07:12:32PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our latest and greatest
operating system which we couldn't be arsed to complete
You mean, "...if you choose to install an OS over the one we're
actually supporting for those
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:52:58AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
actually supporting for those operations"?
No, I mean "unless you're using our latest and greatest operating system
which, despite us only supporting a limited number of systems to make it
This is specious. The ad is running
Anyone hackers here sent broadcast packets? I think this is how you
do it:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Socket;
my $dst = inet_aton("172.30.255.255");
socket(SOCKET, PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, getprotobyname("udp"))
or die "socket: $!";
setsockopt(SOCKET, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST,
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:12:30AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
if it doesn't work on a standard Perl install its dead in the water IMHO
FWIW, I agree. Not only that, if it conflicts with existing
distribution's package management that'd be a nightmare.
Paul
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:44:38AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
The iMac is one of the platforms supported by OS X.
One has to assume anyone installing an OS over a different is
intelligent enough to read the caveats.
In fact, CD burning doesn't work under OS X on *any* machine and isn't
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:49:20AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
If you have a complete /usr/src installed, look in there for examples
of how it's done in C (it looks like you have a BSD machine - so it's
quite likely /usr/src is populated).
The weird thing is this is even happening with
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:11:45PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
You're probably going to have to grep through the kernel source to see
why it's being returned in that case. And I have a sneaky suspicion
that the networking stuff is quite changed from the "normal" BSDs...
I've been using
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:41:49PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
According to the book in front of me (UNP2v1, P472):
"Another question is: what does a multi-homed host do when the
application sends a UDP datagram to 255.255.255.255? Some systems
send a single broadcast on the
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:20:45AM +0200, Marcel Grunauer wrote:
get it to work, and not just because of fonts. Or sendmail - I haven't
really used it much, just to route my personal mail;
I ported exim to OS X last week, it was very easy and runs fine
(qmail was a dog). Give me another day
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:17:22AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
Rate ca. ?22k or equivalent for contract
Is that really the going rate for Perl proggers in London? Doesn't seem
like much (for reasonable definitions of "progger" :-).
Paul
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:33:53AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl?read=4453
Shame your solution ignored the locking problem...
Ha ha, we both just posted simultaneously -- I think between our
posts we should have *that* problem sorted.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:01:10PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote:
I'm glad to say I am now employed *cheer*.
Was a rather nice birthday present to get today.
"Congratulations" x 2!
Leo
Funny name for an Aries :-) Oh well, fire sign all the same.
Paul, 10th Apr.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:46:03PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Works with Objective C too. Which is still (for my money) the best way
of messing with the NeXTSTEP object model.
s/best/only/
Paul
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:02:18AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, you wrote:
Hey, Robin -- remember the "reply to list" feature is on; "you wrote" is not
particularly clear :). (In this case, it's Jonathan Stowe, which is
significant.)
aol/ Yes,
Here's a perl question (OK, not really).. Is anyone aware of a
compatibility/wrapper library which a developer could use to take an
app using the MySQL API and with some (ideally) minimal munging turn
it into Oracle OCI or Pro*C code?
I'm faced with converting a couple of apps that have MySQL
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:28:42PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Don't forget that even if you could automatically change the API over,
you'd still have to change all the SQL in the API as well. Which is
probably just as difficult a task, given how much SQL can vary from
product to
Are you DJ Adams?
http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010404S0014
Good, and depressing, article.
Paul
FYI, this domain is about to expire. So if anyone wants it, snag it.
I was going to transfer it to bulkregister (my preferred registrar)
but simply couldn't be arsed.
Paul
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:34:19AM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
It's a cute domain. I haven't seen a domain expire and go to back to
available in a reasonable period for quite a while, though; they're kept
on as expired records for $bignum amount of time. :-)
Yeah, I don't know why that is. There
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:51:59PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote:
on 25/4/01 5:25 pm, Paul Makepeace wrote:
If you read
the small print they threaten to disconnect service if whois info isn't
accurate. Pity you have to supply perfect info for spammers.
I think that's fair, like
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:39:45AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
Flemings Premier Banking
01708 713317
God help you if you put your company into dormancy however. Then they
get really arsey since you're not depositing huge amounts of cash into
it any more.
They unilaterally decided to close my
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:17:01PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Doh! We entirely missed this:
http://www.mysql.com/news/article-57.html
That's an amusing read! 'spos it legitimises us, but, but!
Which links to (not sure if it's working right now):
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:02:48PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Yeah, but only testing it on one browser, ignoring the - what, 30%? - that
don't use IE - that's kinda silly. And unprofessional. Sure, the bank
Anything that displays in IE will display fine in Opera. Mozilla
is OK. Netscape
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:04:36PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
depends dunnit ...
Not really, Netscape 4.x sucks. No two ways about it.
and height tags) ..it doesnt care about missing /table tags, it
handles tables and CSS somewhat better than 4.7 OTOH its so far from being
You mean it
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:33:36PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
well .. it *does* handle them .. but ,,, errr .. sort of non cascading
IYSWIM ...
No it doesn't. It has almost no clue about stylesheets at all. Have you
ever developed a CSS site for Netscape? And got it to work in anything
like a
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5729530.html
Makes bizarre reading after AS's press releases.
(I assume AOL's Komodo is some Mozilla repackaging? Anyone know
anything about this?)
Paul
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:50:34AM +0100, Dean wrote:
theregister.co.uk has been running stories about it being used as a
possible alternative if AOL decides to stop bundling IE. No technical
details though...
http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=988225959
has a weensy bit at the last
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