anyone used this stuff?
J
Jonathan Peterson
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The BMJ Group is one of the world's most trusted providers of medical
information for doctors, researchers, health care workers and patients
www.bmjgroup.bmj.com
Online transactions always attract premium charges even though there
seems to be little or not evidence to support claims that there is a
higher risk of fraud.
Well, I once set up an online shop using a traditional EPOS machine. Some
windows box with an ISDN line to barclays did credit
It reminded me of a long run of visits I had from some JW's when I was
doing my finals in 1997 (a man needs some distraction when studying and
I
hadn't found Perl then... Oh, and the woman was a babe). They wanted to
convert me to Christianity and I wanted to convert them to Atheism.
Seemed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/09/2003 16:06:15:
On Friday, September 5, 2003, 3:50:07 PM, Andy Wardley wrote:
AW James Campbell wrote:
If God created the universe, who created God?
AW God didn't create the universe. God is the universe.
Only in Monotheistic religions, and the only
Still - it was the best TV ever made ;)
You jest surely. Have you never seen The Prisoner or Twin
Peaks?
Ah, the ignorance of youth... ;-)
I am not that young and I watched both The Prisoner and Twin Peaks.
Neither is as good in my opinion.
Twin Peaks winds me up. I remember
Let's sat I've got a class that reads and writes data with methods like
read_item() and write_item(). Let's suppose I'd like the option of data
items being stored in different places like in RDBMS systems or Berkeley DB
files, or HTTP servers or whatever.
One approach would be to have the main
the
config file in BEGIN{} blocks and such like, or indeed anywhere outside
of a request context. Or do they just not do that?
Jon, trying to figure out if mod_perl is still cool or not.
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directives. Sneaky that.
Thanks muchly,
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of perl mongers seemed improbable. Of
course I only ran it as a non-privileged user
Running obfuscated code is A VERY VERY BAD IDEA.
But so much less time consuming that writing it :-)
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solicitors hundreds of
quid to draw up for you then just say, I'm not trying to get stuff on
the cheap.
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Andrew Wilson wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:00:54AM -0700, Toby Corkindale wrote:
Gah! my head-wall;
Your head has a wall method! What does it do?
It sends a message to everyone currently logged in to his head, preceded
by Broadcast Message from ...
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Damn. And I was going to do some work today, too...
Dave Cross wrote:
A while ago I had a discussion in a pub[1] with various london.pm
people about how it would be interesting to have a record of
people's memories of the Golden Age of the Dotcom Boom in London.
A few months ago I started a
I assume that this was supposed to be:
=~ m/\s*(?:y|(ok))/i
I did.
But this is hardly easier than 'eq'.
Easier for the programmer? Of course not! Heh, when I say better I mean
better for the user, and therefore a better bit of software. Programmers are
just staff, but users are
I assume that this was supposed to be:
=~ m/\s*(?:y|(ok))/i
I did.
But this is hardly easier than 'eq'.
Easier for the programmer? Of course not! Heh, when I say better I mean
better for the user, and therefore a better bit of software. Programmers are
just staff, but users are
But it sort of proves the point, anyway, in that Mr Peterson wrote his
regexp
wrong.
Yup.
If he didn't mean
/^\s*(y|ok)/i
Yeah, that's what I wanted to write. Stupid precedence rules - Perl didn't
do what I meant! :-P
However, I suggest that the debug cycle incurred by mis-use of regexps
) is your friend
here. Instead of:
$result = compute($argument); # calls compute() function every time
use
$cache{$argument} ||= compute($argument);
$result = $cache{$argument};
And so on. I have a hard time getting my Java developers to do this.
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However, you can always rty Sam Tregar's Devel::Profiler, which is a
pure perl solution, so shouldn't (in theory) core dump.
Yup, that works fine. Yay for profilers.
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it
from work. That way you can keep things nice and separate.
That all said, is anyone at YourCompany going to care very much?
Probably not.
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messages, so maybe that's why
ppl don't need the debugger.
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. What happens if you try the
experiment running from a sh shell or a ksh shell or something?
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guess these boil
down to the old graphical IDE vs not graphical IDE debate. But you'd
have to agree that even die hard vi fans appreciate being able to see a
terminal-full of their code at a time, rather than one line of it. Hence
the ed comparison.
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in TPJ
\--XS and re-writing in C for speed
Which let's face it is better than:
-Speed problems w/ perl
|
\--RE: Speed problems w/ perl
\--RE: Speed problems w/ perl
| |
| \--RE: Speed problems w/ perl
| \--RE: Speed problems w/ perl
\--RE: Speed problems w/ perl
Just a thot.
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win2k] ;)
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HTTP is
traditionally spread over machines rather than CPUs.
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. Then, we'll make it themable.
OK, I've registered themes.search-ng.cpan.org. Anyone want to set up a
sourceforge home page and put four badly explained feature requests in
the bug tracker?
Jon
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true.
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Anyone using Linux on anything with lots of CPU's? Attempt to do
searches for 'linux smp' on google tends to get me documents last
updated in 1997.
I used to run it happily on 2 CPU's, but I wondered if anyone was doing
it seriously on more than 4.
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error for make was 'don't know how to make [foo]' thus:
$ make love
don't know how to make love
$
Which always seemed kind of sad to me.
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or a Candadian
expat shop.
any leads?
Jon
Happy New Year.
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for a case insensitive fs??
J
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, or gcc
3.2 In any case I don't feeling like up or downgrading any of those apps.
Or is Apache 2.0 just not ready yet? :-(
And on an unrelated note - any suggestions as to why cron might just
silently ignore all crontab entries for all users? Sigh..
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stops working? Obvious, really. But you can fix it
by setting 'UseLogin yes' in your sshd_config.
Gibber.
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Jon Reades wrote:
May I put in a vote for Brooklyn?
It's nice. Do:
Prospect park (nicer than central park imho)
Coney Island (not an island)
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google and it loves me.
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.
For the simple stuff I do, I've had luck with DBI::Simple (a great time
saver) and Mason for the webby template stuff.
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sysadmin just has to learn Unix commands and
configuration parameters, while programmer has to learn complex logical
techniques. After working with some truly excellent sysadmins, I now
have much more respect for them.
J
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Mark Fowler wrote:
Doesn't December come round quickly?
http://www.perladvent.org/2002/
Hey, that's cool :)
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ifdefs
Yay for progress. Upgrade and update!
:)
*I know there used to be some Cisco stuff that bundled Perl4 or
something at some point. Ick.
** Yeah that means you Cygwin. Die die die.
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Andy Wardley wrote:
That's not so bad, but I couldn't get a straight
answer out of anyone on the mod_perl list as to what I should call
the second module: Apache2::Template, Apache:DamnWeBrokeIt::Template,
or something else?
Well, the real problem is that CPAN doesn't allow more than one
.
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module with require 5.8, and I'd rather not have to suddenly upgrade
perl then if I can do a planned upgrade now.
J
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Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
ObPerl: Anyone using Apache 2.0 with mod_perl in production yet?
I'm about a week away from doing so. Errr.. why do you ask?
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unimpressed by the complete
absence of seemless backward compatability, but I suppose change is good.
*I still think building a working mod_perl is one of the hardest
software install / configuration jobs going. apxs2 helps somewhat, but
it's still insanely hard.
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I much prefer the work of Paula Jennings. The worst poetry in the
universe.
Considerably better than the worst prose in the universe, often
considered to be this:
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/sf/eyeargon.htm
Always worthy of a re-post from time to time...
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!!*
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*Expensive but works well.
, without the
tube drivers who would give us sarcastic updates about delays caused by
signal failures?
Instead of a tube driver on the train there should be a policeman. That
would almost certainly improve the safety of the system as a whole.
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.
Can you make do with judicious use of sudo??
Or maybe:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a60.shtml
If not I'll have to start work designing
Richard.
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ho!
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/perl?
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hacked?
Just curious. Not sure who penderel admins are, hence list post.
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, but maybe that's
just my ISP. www.worldpay.com.
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that was not put there by a pimp.
This annoys me. I fail to see why the online sites can't make a killing by
cutting out the pimps, and putting punters directly in touch with HR
departments. Or is the problem that this would fill HR departments inboxes
with bulkmail CVs?
Basically.
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' :)
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SOAP friendly anyway, so it may be your best bet for interoperability.
However, since Perl is a cross platform language, it should be simple to
move it from Linux to Win32, giving you all the benefits of COM
integration ;-)
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for improving
programs, and anything that encourages it would be welcome.
Oh, and if anyone knows of a free Java profiler, let me know
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hilariously funny, so you're in for a
good treat.
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a
message full of spam to the list, thus getting it delivered. But there
are ways to prevent that other than confirms...
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. Central london.
Jon Helping the economy Peterson
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language independant CGI accelerator, although it appears to have
grown into an all singing dancing thingy.
Given the way Apache is going, I'd have thought dealing with threading
would be quite a priority for mod_perl, no?
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the honest and constructive comments ;-)
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I see penderel is tits up again :-|
Which reminds me. Owing to certain dotcom shrinkage I have availed
myself of a sturdy Compaq Deskpro (PII 350) if anyone has some bandwidth
I could plug it into, perhaps we could come to an arrangement...
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against paying for a commercial app but I didn't find any
promising looking ones of those, either.
Ho Hum. More LWP
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collapsed.
Damn you and your inaccurate message subjects.
Oh well, back to work on RFC 3241 - irc redefined as a bug, patch
available.
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Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
You are closing the entire STDIO of the child process, right ? You
probably want to setpgrp the child process so that when Apache does away
with a child process after MaxRequests your process doesn't die too ..
I'm
that's just me.
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the process will just hang
rather than dying.
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. Anyone know where to find this in London?
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so?
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Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Anyone seen this before?
Yep, trying to get a TODO test together in the core to clarify the
behaviour infact. Its the destruction order - I bet that some of the
things that are getting destroyed too early are other
of references inside $self but I don't see why that would be a problem.
Anyone seen this before?
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is... Crafting my own
LWP retrieval functions operates at the expected high speed
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It's probably being polite by default in order not to swamp a server it's
making requests deliberatly slowly
Look at the REQUEST_DELAY attribute
Heh. When I read the docs I thought it said the default was a 1 second
delay not a 1 minute delay. Doh. All hunky-dory now.
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wow ... that was some code ...
some of my code is not, you know, great .. but that? ...
and theres oodles and oodles of really crufty examples on that board too ...
I'm following the example set by Dave on the last crufty CGI board we found, and
am trying to set people back on the straight
RedHat, IBM,
Microsoft contacts?
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to be
doing a new project in.
One person can change the world, but most of the time they shouldn't
-- Marge Simpson
Everyone has better sigs than me.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite.
-- Jane Austen?
ROFL. Heh.
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one, small, 26 character alphabet
with no accents.
Anyway, I don't much like the capitals either. I don't see why syntax
should reflect internal implementation.
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what? .. with *4* spaces ?? come come mr McCarroll, we all know it is 2
spaces ... :)
Spaces? SPACES?!!! It's called a tab, Tee Ay Bee. Code is indented with
TABs, not spaces. Only bad bad people use spaces to indent.
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scan your CMOS battery just to be on the safe side.
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Hi,
Has anyone ever come across Bond Technology? Yet Another Web Design
Company - apparently they did alot of for for IPC. Just wondering if
they're any good.
J
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U, I _used_ to quite like Buffy before reading that article. |-P
Jon
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. Is that bad?
I wonder if there are programs that sniff mailing lists for ip addresses
on the (reasonable?) assumption that they may be people's private ADSL
connected boxes... Maybe that's where they got your IP.
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harder about who really needs access to this stuff. I felt like
punching the guy.
I've never looked into it but I imagine there are third part addons for
some Unixes that giver better permissioning capability. Anyone know of
any?
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Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote:
Hmm.. They don't seem very reliable do they? I exceeded his quota with my
itsy CV attachment.
Oh I don't know, with the job market like it is, yours was probably the
500th cv in the last hour :)
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straightforward, but if you install Windows second, it tends to wipe out
Linux (or at least the boot loader). I'm not sure if Win2K plays nice.
But, using vmware sounds much better - why do dual boot when you can
simply run both OSes at the same time?
Better still, buy another computer!
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with such garbage as Red Sonja, Willow, and
various Conan films, but deserves better company than that.
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The first person to mention Ewoks in a thread about films, loses.
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else.
It would be a shame if John Keegan tarnished his otherwise good
reputation as a military commentator.
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Newton, Philip wrote:
Lucy McWilliam wrote:
[0] Due to $boyf[1]
That sounds like my second boyfriend :) (Hm, I wonder what 'scalar @boyf'
is, then?)
Not to mention length $boyf[1]
:-O
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the other Charlie Chaplin films
But, having partaken of the recent Herzog festival at the NFT, I'd want
to add Aguirre: Wrath of God and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, too.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/06/1146230mode=thread
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, if what I've read in this thread is
anything to go by.
Jon Vignette Project Peterson
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Hello,
Does anyone know where you can rent a normal 42 rack, or even better a
yucky non standard Sun rack?
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A Vignette guy defending Vignette's ignorance of XML sent me this IBM paper
on why XML ain't all that great.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-matters8/index.html
May be of interest to people fighting XML battles.
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it.
e.
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the Internet.
Stop reading theregister.co.uk and get back to work, you! :-)
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