On 15 May 2013 11:21, Travis Basevi tra...@cricinfo.com wrote:
http://www.mythic-beasts.com/cgi-bin/job.pl
Ours is better: http://quiz.gambitresearch.com/
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 15:41 +, london...@welikegoats.com wrote:
Some code I have written appears to leak memory. I have been using
Devel::Size on the likely candidates to locate it, but so far this has
turned up nothing.
Does there exist an array that lists all of the variables currently
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 09:42 +0100, Andrew Beattie wrote:
This is a long way off topic but I'm hoping that someone here might be
able to share a clue...
I need to measure the power used on dozens and dozens of servers.
I need a breakdown by server, not a total for the room.
(more
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 12:23 +0100, Jasper wrote:
2009/4/29 Nick Cleaton n...@cleaton.net:
One possibility might be to measure the heat output of the servers,
rather than the electricity input. If you assume that the servers lose
heat mainly by pumping hot air out with fans, you'd need
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:28:02AM +0100, Paul Crowley wrote:
What's the cleanest way to make sure at most N processes are doing X
at once, and anyone else wishing to do X blocks until one of those N
are finished?
IPC::Semaphore
--
Nick
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:11:19PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
Shucks, this is getting complicated. Ideas?
Provide a base version to which you pass a list of the plugins to try
at 'use' time or at object creation time, and don't have it do any
detection of available plugins.
Implement
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 05:29:02PM +0100, Scott McWhirter wrote:
perl -e 'print `rev`'
Can anyone beat 11 characters?
yeah... remove the space...
Or even perl -e 'exec rev'
--
Nick
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:39:03AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was just wondering why this:
@m=([(_)x10])x5;
$m[1][2]=o;
for $y (0..4)
{
for $x (0..9)
{
print $m[$y][$x];
}
print $y$/;
}
produces this:
__o___ 0
__o___ 1
__o___ 2
__o___ 3
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:43:34AM +0100, Andy Ford wrote:
I am after a Perl module that will allow me to write/read packets
directly to an interface, continually while the process is alive i.e.
while the process is running, sniff packets, call a function dependant
on the type/content of the
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:34:04PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Earle's revenge centred on abuse of a website, not emails. Email
addressses are almost always forged and you'd have to be a fairly
clueless geek to go after one of those given the likelihood it isn't
owned, operated, or in some
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:18:46AM +0100, Lusercop wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:47:39AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
If the executable is +s, LD_PRELOAD et al will be ignored.
Indeed, but will it be stripped or passed to the thing that is exec-ed
(that thing is unlikely to be +s)?
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:25:16PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
/* buncha #ifndef/#defines for HOME, etc */
char * new_env[] = {
HOME, /* 0 */
PATH, /* 1 */
SHELL, /* 2 */
#ifdef MAJORDOMO_CF
MAJORDOMO_CF, /* 3 */
#endif
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:19:46PM +0100, Andy Wardley wrote:
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include unistd.h
#include errno.h
/* change these values */
#define OWNER_UID 253
#define OWNER_GID 253
#define SCRIPT /home/abw/web/bandq/bin/build
int main(int argc, char
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:35:52PM +0100, Andy Wardley wrote:
Nick Cleaton wrote:
That passes the environment unaltered to SCRIPT. In combination with
the fact that you're setting the real uid/gid as well as effective,
that could lead to arbitrary command execution via PATH or LD_PRELOAD
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:40:24PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
This has bitten me several times. A recent example:
I have a file in HTML-like markup. I've just found a piece of text to
which I might want to do something, but not if it's within a tag. The
file up to but not including the
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 05:41:49PM +0100, Ben wrote:
What circumstances are there under which eval {}; will not trap a program exit ?
eval { exit };
--
Nick
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 01:14:29PM +0100, Peter Sergeant wrote:
Warnings are things that tell you when you did something you
shouldn't.
No, that's wrong, and apparently the central point of your
misconception. Warnings are things that tell you when you *might* have
done something wrong.
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:44:08PM +0530, shn wrote:
Hey,
I was just bored and was wondering what would be a better way to titlecase
something, using this right now:
perl -e $_='boink boink';@a=split' ';foreach(@a){$_=ucfirst;}$_=join' ',@a;print
How about:
s#\b(\w)# uc $1 #ge
--
Nick
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:39:14PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
[SNIP]
Try running the program under strace to see what's /really/ happening.
It might well be that something else funny is going on.
On Solaris, strace is called truss BTW.
--
Nick
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:53:16AM +, Mark Fowler wrote:
[SNIP]
my $fh = IO::AtomicFile-new(foo,)
or die Can't open 'foo': $!;
eval
{
print {$fh} $self-bar();
print {$fh} $self-baz();
print {$fh} $self-buzz();
close $fh;
};
if ($@)
{
$fh-delete;
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 06:26:39PM +, Adam Spiers wrote:
[SNIP]
(can you fake a tty?)
If you replace:
rsh $host $command
with:
script /dev/null rsh $host $command
In your command line, then rsh will get a pseudo tty.
That's with the FreeBSD version of script(1), which allows you
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:14:42PM +, Kate L Pugh wrote:
I have a lightweight server serving static content and server-parsed
files, and proxying dynamic content through to a mod_perl server.
Unfortunately the server-parsed pages have '#exec cgi' directives in
them, and the mod_perl
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 03:59:10PM +0100, nemesis wrote:
Hi all,
I have a bunch of jokes that people have forwarded me over the years[1] and they
all have really bad formatting [2]. I am lazy and want to do as much formatting
of the jokes as I can automatically. I have tried this
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 04:30:56AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
$story_name = lc $form-{title};
for ($story_name) {
s/\s+/_/g; s/\W//g; s/__+/_/g; s/_+$//;
s/_[^_]+$// until 30 length;
}
I think that'll loop forever if $story_name is a single
very long word.
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:08:19AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
for (my $last = -1; 30 length and $last != length; $last = length) {
s/_[^_]+$//;
}
for(;;). Heh.
This still leaves the possibility of a long URL. Perhaps shortening it
to a certain length first, then removing
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:50:43AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote:
So, will its definition of the best way to send email change if it's
installed on a Windows box? (I don't have a Windows box to test it.)
I've used MIME::Lite from windoze before... so I would say not. However, I
think by
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:20:01PM +0100, Harper, Gareth wrote:
pennyworth and greengross are both too long (10 points each, if anyone
can guess where the names come from, both of them are fictional
assistants)
Greg
Alfred Pennyworth, Batman's faithful butler
The other one's
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:52:07PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
It is traditional to:
a) post your comment *after* what you're replying to;
b) only quote relevant snippets, not the whole damn message;
Quite.
c) have some grounding in reality
Absolutely. I've just written a zero-length
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:32:24AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
--
#!/bin/sh
languages=French Dutch Spanish Italian Swedish Portuguese German
findargs=
for lang in $languages
do
test -n $findargs
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:03:57PM +, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:39:40PM +, Richard Clamp said:
[simon@ns0 simon]$ cat try
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;
{
# turn off warnings for this block
# assigning directly to CGI's settings
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:27:58PM +, Simon Wistow wrote:
Ah, I thought that Perl parsed the shebang line even if it was passed
the program as a filename
Yup, you're right, I was wrong. You learn something every day :)
As Richard points out, your solution works because of the 'use CGI'
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:18:05PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
Change
find / $findargs -print | xargs rm -rf
to
find / $findargs -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
Much better, but even then there's a race if there's a malicious
local user. Some sort of extra logic to avoid descending into
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:28:13AM +, Simon Wistow wrote:
Ok, so just to recap. Despite peoples warnings I haven't done this with
ssh agent but at the top of my authorized_keys(2) I have
host=$myhost
command=rsync
no-port-forwarding,
no-X11-forwarding,
no-agent-forwarding,
no-pty
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:52:07PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
It is traditional to:
a) post your comment *after* what you're replying to;
b) only quote relevant snippets, not the whole damn message;
Quite.
c) have some grounding in reality
Absolutely. I've just written a zero-length
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:21:20AM -, Sam Yeung wrote:
Hows about http://www.yeungs.net/cgi-bin/pic2txt.pl .
/J\ will probably throw learning perl (3rd ed.) at me if he sees my code -
so s..
http://www.yeungs.net/cgi-bin/pic2txt.pl?file=foo.img+src=javascript:alert(1)
*slap* :)
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 06:13:38PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
[MY RANT]
Guilty as charged, although I'm sure it was unintentional -- a product
of banging out the original script in about five minutes...
Ah, you work for an ISP :)
How about:
next unless
/^[^#]*VirtualHost/
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:00:56AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
I've seen it used as a 'switch' type operator:
$cond1 ? action1() :
$cond2 ? action2() :
$cond3 ? action3() :
...
$condN ? actionN();
and I'm still not sure whether I utterly hate it or not...
$cond1
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:45:16PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Until the day that $cond1 is true and action1() returns '0',
when it breaks mysteriously.
Then you won't like,
No, not a lot :)
#!/usr/bin/perl -wln
next unless /^[^#]*VirtualHost/../^[^#]*\/VirtualHost/
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:39:16PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote:
[?: DEBATE]
How do we feel about the use of ?: in this code ? Strictly
speaking it's a triple nested ?: but I like the pattern it
makes.
s[
(?: !--.*?--
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:42:19PM -, Robert Shiels wrote:
Actually someone emailed me offlist and he had a quick go at hacking my
machine, and didn't get anywhere. A more persistent effort will probably be
more successful. As with most people, I'll probably only really do something
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:38:12PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:23:35PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Rather than portscanning yourself (and tripping off your own alarms
:-) it's much easier to just do netstat -an | grep -w LISTEN and
see what is listening.
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:18:59PM +, Struan Donald wrote:
vmware is nice only if you have shit loads of ram[1] though and a fast
processor. plus you have cost of vmware + cost of windows license so
more expensive. vmware also seems happiest if you give it it's own
disk... (this is
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 04:15:08PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
If anyone can think of a better (i.e. quicker) way to do it - even if it
means having to relearn C - I'd love to know. Code snippets below. Bonus
points for the subject line ;-)
If you have enough swap and RAM, you could
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 05:21:25PM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote:
Lucy McWilliam wrote:
open(OUT, $x);
Wot, no error checking?
Or close quote.
Nick
--
($O= #\ /#{O$}xb|
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 08:57:27AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
As is my right under the 1984 data protection act I demand a copy of all
information that you have pertaining to me in electronic form.
As I understand it, Greg is allowed to charge a reasonable admin
fee for this. About 4 pints
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 02:25:02PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
I know that.
You know that.
Try explaining that to people who don't care.
I don't care. Practice on me if you like.
Nick
--
SPAM while y#SPAM?\r\n# #d||s#.{24}#$PAM^=$,''#e||s'$^'sPaM!SpaM!SPaM!SP@M
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 04:03:39PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
[snip]
Ok, let me scratch my first call, could I just ask that a lot
more of the topics on London.pm are non-political, my take on
London.pm is we are a social list, so lets have more topics
about things we are doing, how
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