validating chunks of HTML

2003-02-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
of indication where the parser barfed. I'm not too familiar with the parsers out there to know which would do this best. The HTML:: don't actually seem to catch errors or match tags etc. XML::something? Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If you were

[admin] Using the correct From: when posting

2003-02-01 Thread Paul Makepeace
\ my_hdr From: Paul Makepeace london.pm.org(a)paulm.com ~C means a match in either To: or Cc: If you're interested in other mutt-ish things, I have written a jump start guide at, http://realprogrammers.com/jump_start/mutt/ with a(n?) hyperlinked .muttrc at, http://realprogrammers.com

Re: SMP Linux

2003-01-31 Thread Paul Makepeace
is undergoing some work to help with more CPUs anyway though. I'd concur with Steve on NUMA development. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the thing I'm thinking about now? There is no spoon. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: SQL switcheroo

2003-01-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:48:04PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:16:58AM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: I'd like to switch the values of a field in two rows. 1-2 while 2-1, say. I have a table containing: = select * from pageplans order by rank; id

$host-ip_address

2003-01-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
)' 195.82.114.220 $ Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If pickup sticks were how countries fought, then what colour is my house. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: SQL switcheroo

2003-01-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:10:38PM +, the hatter wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: So there are a bunch of things order by rank. I'd like to implement a move up/down in SQL. So say the target was id=20 moving up, I'd like its rank to become 1, and id=10's rank

Re: SQL switcheroo

2003-01-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:13:04AM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:10:38PM +, the hatter wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: So there are a bunch of things order by rank. I'd like to implement a move up/down in SQL. So say the target was id=20

Re: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1

2003-01-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
, play with me, and win frequent, 'moral' victories over them, while learning the true value of money. Ah, but most of us (being programmers) can do the maths and know that in the long term you will always money. Money as a verb - what's the secret of your success Dave? P -- Paul

Re: How to split 6 digits into 3 lots of 2

2003-01-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:22:48PM +, Phil Pereira wrote: Is there an easy way to split 123456 into 12-34-56? $ perl -lne 'print $1-$2-$3 if /(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)/' 123456 12-34-56 $ This should start a good TIMTOWTDI thread :) Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Re: How to split 6 digits into 3 lots of 2

2003-01-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
, citizen! echo 123456 | perl -ple's/..(?=.)/$-/g' Hmm, time to whip out the mind-twisting metacharacters, echo 123456 | perl -ple's/..\B/$-/g' Patriotically yours, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the swirly thing in my coffee trying

SQL switcheroo

2003-01-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
}, $id_ranks-[1]{id}); commit; } Paul PS All hail PostgreSQL for allowing even this! -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is free will? Not today. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: YAPC::Europe

2003-01-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
of there at the first opportunity. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is my elephant's name on thursday? Blah. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Weird Money (was Re: YAPC::Europe)

2003-01-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
... Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If life was worth living, then all would be revealed. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: YAPC::NA 2003

2003-01-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
is high season. The earlier you book the (dramatically) better. Just a thought, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is a juju bee's dream? Decapitated heads in a field of sunflowers. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: [JOB] Really?

2003-01-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 06:25:34PM +, Shevek wrote: I'd have to check my P60s to find out the exact dates. Wow, I thought my PII-233 was old! :-) P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If you only fart when no one is looking, then it'd grow

web-based .ht(access|passwd) editor

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Makepeace
nothing AFAICS.) Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is my name, mofo? The mind of the biggest head. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: web-based .ht(access|passwd) editor

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:58:55PM +, the hatter wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: Before I write one... Has anyone heard of a simple contained script or tool to create edit .htaccess and .htpasswd files? I got bored of doing it by hand after my first two. Web-based

Re: web-based .ht(access|passwd) editor

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Makepeace
and fiddle about, it can be a while before trying 'ls -a'... True. Been there myself :) I turn off .htaccess by default and thus having the AllowOverride directive in the virtualhost .conf helps remind. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I

Re: Drawing a tree

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Makepeace
); $min_size = (values %fs)[0]-{$SIZE} * $1/100 if $min_size =~ /([\d.]+)%/; lstree \%fs; HTH, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I am in love, then a huge swirling vortex of fluff will engulf us. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Drawing a tree

2003-01-17 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 02:11:50AM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: pretty lines? There was a thread on FWP recently about this if you care to look back. I should've just done this, huh. Start: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02991.html Here are tree sources if you're interested: http://junk.paulm.com

Limited Edition Perl Mongers XXL T-shirt

2003-01-16 Thread Paul Makepeace
olives, ochres, etc, darlink) -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If submission comes in the form of a button, then blue would seem more like a bus-stop in Florida. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: rackmount question

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:58:09PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: To be honest if you don't need the CPU power (why would you?) To enable mutt to switch folders more quickly. Heh. P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If spain was so easy to take over, why

Re: Potential new module

2003-01-14 Thread Paul Makepeace
list. And why don't they allow download of more than a month's data? Paul (GnuCash'ed out) -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If this was a very different situation, then cows will give up their milk. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Recreating a debian install

2003-01-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:13:36AM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:40:54AM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: I'd like to do something which I think is conceptually straightforward but I've never quite put all the bits together, or found anyone that has. I'd like

Recreating a debian install

2003-01-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
about debian-users I just find them a bit scary sometimes, probably for no good reason. Besides the thread variety here is cool. -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If a toothbrush didn't have bristles, then the crabs will scuttle way clinking

Re: Recreating a debian install

2003-01-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
. Or maybe I had a long bout of cluelessness when I tried it. There's lots more to the question than just identifying the packages of course, it's priming the installer, the CD, etc. I'll definitely have a look at FAI. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tech Meet Thurs 23rd Jan @ Yahoo! (+ tonight, social meeting)

2003-01-09 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:37:40PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: With great pleasure I announce the Jan 2002 London.pm Technical Meeting on 2003! First post! :) Takes me usually 'til Feb to not write '02 on my cheques. P -- Paul Makepeace ... http

Re: [OT] Playstation2 as DVD Player

2003-01-08 Thread Paul Makepeace
actually want to buy the DVD of Minority Report :-) Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If a thousand rose petals were to fall upon your perfect nudity, then surrealists would rule the world ! -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Sorry - this is just a test

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
perceived savings. Having said that, discussions like this usually result in an overall group position/consensus on the behaviour which contributes to group policy and sense of social context and history. Specifically, it might dissuade others from such emails in future :-) Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Ook#

2002-12-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
New language for Orang-utans, http://bluesorcerer.net/esoteric/ook.html (turing machine, basically) Amusement aside, it's interesting it's targetting .NET. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I thought it would help, then my car starts

Mounting a CDROM case-insensitively

2002-12-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
,norock) roquefort:/cdrom/othello# I suppose I could do some URI::Find stuff to change it but I'd rather this easy hack would work :) Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If mosquitos didn't hurt, then come back next year. -- http://paulm.com/toys

Re: Mounting a CDROM case-insensitively

2002-12-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
-o check=relaxed /dev/cdrom /cdrom The next issue was that the HTML refers to filenames like nav_block.gif but they appear, with Rockridge turned off, on the FS as navblock.gif (i.e. no underscore). So don't be too hasty turning that off. Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Re: Mounting a CDROM case-insensitively

2002-12-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 12:21:57PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: # mount -t iso9660 -o check=relaxed /dev/cdrom /cdrom The next issue was that the HTML refers to filenames like nav_block.gif but they appear, with Rockridge turned off, on the FS as navblock.gif (i.e. no underscore). So don't

Re: Social photos

2002-12-17 Thread Paul Makepeace
expect a LEspion to breed... P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is a bloom? Jumbled metal shoelaces. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Social photos

2002-12-17 Thread Paul Makepeace
digicam :-) Oh gawd, please let's not start another camera dick swinging competition again... P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is that on your back? Pink. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Look ma, no barewords!

2002-12-15 Thread Paul Makepeace
inconsequential arguments, e.g., coding style wars Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is a blackhead? North by north west. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: [OT ish] Piping to a file.

2002-12-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 01:53:05PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: What unix command can I use that will take it's input and write it out to a file. tee(1) ? P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If you only live once, then don't stay out past curfew

handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
insane? Or do-able? How much iron probably involved? (Putting aside the unholy b/width requirements for now..) Just curious if anyone could handwave back... Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If you believe you are one of the gods, then people

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
scary for me at the time. And quite frankly still are :-) Suffice to say it getting to that point would be very satisfying indeed :) Thanks again - Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I am blue, then we must look victory in the face and smile (wanly

mod_perl v. FastCGI

2002-12-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
know mod_perl is quite great, I'm more after a comparison here.) http://www.fastcgi.com/ fwiw Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is a gaggle of geese? Don't know. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Collapsing paths

2002-12-12 Thread Paul Makepeace
viable. -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is consciousness? The Yangzee in May. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: async method calls

2002-12-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
... [/me double checks that] Whoa. Searching for occam and perl brought up my CV. Hmm, that was a bit bizarre. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I was on fire, then we wouldnt be as happy with it. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: New York, New York

2002-12-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
to come from at least one native horse's mouth :-) P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is an ideal telephone box? Practice, practice, practice. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Crazy maths proof

2002-12-09 Thread Paul Makepeace
looked at Kake's code so I might've missed something. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If a tree falls in the forest, then be careful about the slippery slope. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Look ma, no barewords!

2002-12-08 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:31:01AM +, Lusercop wrote: I think that the definition of a word is /\b(\w+)\b/ and '-' will cause a Why do you have the \b in there? Paul (asking this for the second time in $short_period) -- Paul Makepeace ... http

Re: Look ma, no barewords!

2002-12-08 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:16:54PM +, Lusercop wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 08:48:45PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:31:01AM +, Lusercop wrote: I think that the definition of a word is /\b(\w+)\b/ and '-' will cause a Why do you have the \b

Re: Perl and Time zones.

2002-12-08 Thread Paul Makepeace
; /* Timezone abbreviation */ defined when _BSD_SOURCE was set before including time.h. This is a BSD extension, present in 4.3BSD-Reno. FWIW, intuition tells me, if I were doing this, to look at tzset(3). Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com

Re: Perl and Time zones.

2002-12-08 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:54:11PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: FWIW, intuition tells me, if I were doing this, to look at tzset(3). #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Inline C = 'EOC'; #include time.h #include stdlib.h #include stdio.h int tz_offset(char *tz) { extern long timezone

Re: Email full html with images

2002-12-05 Thread Paul Makepeace
to that medium for eternity. Choices are good. Paul, stirring again :) -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If the bed bugs bite, then why does one fall down, but throw-up. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: NetMD::libomd created

2002-12-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
. sorted hash) rather than an *application* usage, tie for a specific end (e.g. reading FooDB v1.2). The DBM stuff is inherently designed for tie'ing but is not in the Tie:: namespace, for example. /2c, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is word

Re: Email full html with images

2002-12-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:38:49AM +, David Cantrell wrote: * - word defined as \b\w+\b or something similar. You might like to ban Are those \b's not redundant? P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the diameter of Marilyn Monroe's

User Groups Can Win a Pass to an O'Reilly Conference

2002-12-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
O'Reilly Associates, 1005 GravensteinHighway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472, Attn: Marsee Henon, Post-marked prior to the close of the raffle (December 12, 2002). -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the taste of green? Exactly! -- http

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-12-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
be at the venue for today's one at 4pm, if anyone else is going and Could you kindly post a summary to the list? I know I'm not the only one who was interested but didn't snag a seat in time. I'll be at the other one too (possibly) with mstevens. Paul (+44 7814 728381, fwiw) -- Paul Makepeace

Re: Crazy maths proof

2002-12-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
spurious. Fear the rigor of proofs that say derive instead of differentiate and not in a discrete space, somewhere else :-) Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I could have what I want, then feeble screebles. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Crazy maths proof

2002-12-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:31:46PM +, Earle Martin wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:18:45PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: This is totally spurious. /me sends this back to where he got the thing from in the first place. :) I should point out I was shooting for first post to get

Re: Voting -- a reminder

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:28:42PM +, Paul Mison wrote: Mark your choices with 1 (first choice), Interesting subliminal move :-) Paul, probably reading too much hypnotherapy stuff recently -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If my my mum likes

Re: re-animating regexes

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
hopefully it will do so on others. If interested parties could give it a shot, it'd be much appreciated. Passes tests on Debian/unstable 5.8.0. Thanks for all the input - I've filed a bug on Storable making reference to this bit of code and the surrounding talk. Great! Cheers, Paul -- Paul

Re: advanced targetting using HTML/HTTP

2002-11-26 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:55:15PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: This is driving me nuts - I'm beginning to wonder whether it's even possible. Given a target=view.../a (or form target=view or whatever) if the view window doesn't already exist, a browser will typically pop it up

re-animating regexes

2002-11-26 Thread Paul Makepeace
; print Hi!\n if $ARGV[0] =~ /$r/; } $ perl storable_re.pl Hello ($r is (?i-xsm:hello)) Hi! ($r is Regexp=SCALAR(0x8100028)) $ WTF is a Regexp=SCALAR(0x) anyway, and how could I play with it? Paul, who found nothing enlightening in Storable(3pm), perlref, or RT -- Paul Makepeace

advanced targetting using HTML/HTTP

2002-11-25 Thread Paul Makepeace
list window is named list. Right now, it doesn't and pops a third window (whereupon the bouncing back and forth does now work, but ignoring the original window). ?? - View - List PPS Yes, I'm trying to avoid JavaScript for now. -- Paul Makepeace

Re: advanced targetting using HTML/HTTP

2002-11-25 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:09:38PM +, the hatter wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote: PS Here's the actual scenario. User logs in and see a list of things. This is what I'd like to be the list window, with a collection of links to things to view, wrapped in a target

Re: Candidates' attitudes

2002-11-25 Thread Paul Makepeace
were generally nice to each other?) -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I pray, I will find, then the combine harvester would work its magic. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: The Peon's Guide To Secure System Development

2002-11-21 Thread Paul Makepeace
; } SEGVs on 5.6.1 and 5.8.0. Is this already known? Paul, not one of the porterscenti -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If the heart sinks, then you will never know. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: The Peon's Guide To Secure System Development

2002-11-21 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:56:49PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:39:39PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:06:02PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: Hands up all those on this list who've found a bug in perl at some point? ;-) I just

Re: The Peon's Guide To Secure System Development

2002-11-21 Thread Paul Makepeace
to trawl through perl's bug list. Besides it might've interested people, the sorts of other people that don't grub through bug lists. Nor do I particularly want to end up filtering a thread from a Cc: storm on a reply-to-author list like p5p. Paul, has filed several RT thingies -- Paul Makepeace

Re: contracts

2002-11-21 Thread Paul Makepeace
heartening. I have tried this and also to keep hold of IPR but it's a tough line each time, IME. Doable, but sometimes you wonder if it's worth the effort... Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is an msdn subscription? A BOO to the King

Re: contracts

2002-11-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:28:28AM +, Alex McLintock wrote: At 02:14 20/11/02, Paul Makepeace wrote: the pay-offs (executive pension, NI dodging) I don't believe that anyone recommends an executive pension for ltd company directors any more. Isn't that because no new ones were

Re: The Peon's Guide To Secure System Development

2002-11-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
to write dodgy dynamic memory code that's leaking or letting people in than it is in a high-level language that manages memory for you. P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If weblogs are the flavor du jour, then it'd grow exponentially, unbounded by time

Re: MySQL - PostgreSQL migration

2002-11-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
, the conspiracy theorists would claim this is to keep DBA consultants in business... Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is pauls last name? A yearning deep inside your soul. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: contracts

2002-11-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
company? I found the .ltd.uk a pain to be honest, and the pay-offs (executive pension, NI dodging) didn't make it worthwhile for me. Still, open to suggestion... Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is an ideal telephone box? A bull without legs

Re: Penderel (Was IQfC)

2002-11-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
-- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If you exploded into a thousand tiny pieces, then don't bend over in the Monastery. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Penderel (Was IQfC)

2002-11-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:51:44PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:20:17AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: I think Penderel is one of london.pm's most underused assets. Its got a reasonable processor (AMD-K6/350), 1/2gig

MySQL - PostgreSQL migration

2002-11-17 Thread Paul Makepeace
to Oracle in terms of its SQL capabilities? I've come from a Oracle background so if there's more stuff I won't have maybe I should think twice about PG and just embrace (the other) Larry. Or Sybase? Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What

Re: Perl and CC processing

2002-11-15 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:32:45PM +, Aaron Trevena wrote: I've heard of a couple of big names like WorldPay, and TrustCommerce has a nice offer but is US-oriented. This is 2002. Try Worldpay again. P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What

Re: mine data fast (was Re: [JOB] I Need One)

2002-11-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
for it, sharks the client info and hands it off to original candidate. I'm only suggesting this in theory, just as a thought experiment, to assist recruiters in plugging their security so they can provide a more reliable service. I wouldn't actually advocate this kind of activity. Paul -- Paul

Re: (no subject)

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Makepeace
of the data. I just made that up and tried it on two (and it worked) so maybe someone can shoot it down properly. It feels OK though, and it should be fairly quick... Someone adept at such things might compare the Array::Compare, Algorithm::Diff, and a straight element comparison. Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Re: HTML to PDF

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
at this; will just pontificate) -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is a tree? An abominable pimple on the face of God. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: HTML to PDF

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
://paulmakepeace.com/resume_os_x.pdf -- OS X's effort circa April Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If the planet swirls, then we wouldn't bomb them. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Usernames?

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:13:43AM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:24:42PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: The traditional restrictions on web usernames are things like only alphanumerics, and usually lowercase to reduce user confusion/burden remembering. That seems

HTML to PDF

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Makepeace
the conversion the other way, http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html Cheers, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If dreams come before Spain, I will support you, then we should sit very quietly until it passes. -- http

Re: HTML to PDF

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:39:14PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:26:22PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: What are the options for HTML to PDF conversion, preferably batchable? http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc It's in Debian package htmldoc, too, and therefore

Re: [JOB] I Need One

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Makepeace
some substantial number of golf course subscriptions. I mean, lawyer fees. And why would you want to work here? I thought jobs were an equally endangered species both sides of the Atlantic. Nah, many more jobs in the UK, far as I can tell. P -- Paul Makepeace

Re: webmail

2002-11-05 Thread Paul Makepeace
-P4 Debian-GNU/Linux $ For fun, $ time perl -e '$a = `perl -MCGI -le print CGI-header, CGI-h1(q[hello])` for (1..200)' real0m10.329s user0m8.400s sys 0m0.990s $ Heh. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is between a duck? A female

Usernames?

2002-11-05 Thread Paul Makepeace
username must contain some letters and/or numbers.; $signuperror{username} = 1; } Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I dream the me will come out and I will be free, then I shall takeover Spain. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Living in glass houses was: [Re: webmail]

2002-11-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:36:55PM +, Andrew Wilson wrote: [Wilson-on-Wilson flame action snipped] OK, how many of you Wilsons are related? It's rapidly turning into a Dave situation. I for one am losing track... P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com

Re: webmail

2002-11-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
then they need to keep their nose very clean, IMO. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is an airplane? It can only be street-cleaning. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: webmail

2002-11-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
, become part of the open source community, and they'll get better and write better software. Who knows, they may even graduate to perl... :-) Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the likelihood of promotion? Desperate thrashing

Re: webmail

2002-11-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:16:13PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:30, Paul Makepeace wrote: Scalable how? It's certainly capable of serving millions of hits a day. The article on amihotornot's creation is worth a read, and that's a LAMPHP site, http

Re: webmail

2002-11-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:49:03PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Paul == Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul I am also amused and puzzled at the people writing huge tracts on why Paul PHP is crap while not at the same time acknowledging there are vastly Paul more websites

Re: Perl book for review

2002-11-01 Thread Paul Makepeace
interest? (go-mono.com) Maybe you meant use standards like XML-RPC. Oh, wait, that isn't a standard*. Paul * this last para is a troll, btw. -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is bigger than a bread box? It can only be street-cleaning. -- http

Re: webmail

2002-10-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
). Paul (who thinks that without Template Toolkit/Mason and mod_perl perl would be bordering on a waste of time for web applications, compared with technologies like PHP) -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If my my mum likes cabbage, then mother wouldn't

Re: Webmail

2002-10-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:49:12AM -, Dean Wilson wrote: but the recommended solutions seem to be PHP based if for no other reason than they exist. I think this is the best summary so far. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If we were

Re: webmail

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:32:31AM +, Roger Burton West wrote: I used to run it, but the security cost of having PHP What security cost? Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is inside myself? Too true. -- http://paulm.com/toys

Re: webmail

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:52:57PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:29:22PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:32:31AM +, Roger Burton West wrote: I used to run it, but the security cost of having PHP What security cost? Erm, you do read

Re: *****SPAM***** RFC: Acme::Whatif

2002-10-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
an upgrade! X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-9.6 required=5.0 tests=KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,LIMITED_TIME_ONLY,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE, SPAM_PHRASE_05_08,TO_LOCALPART_EQ_REAL,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.41 And 2.41's not even the most up-to-date... Paul -- Paul

Re: ADSL again

2002-10-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
used both appliances and constructed various homebrew *nix routers, I personally can no longer see the appeal these days of faffing with a piece of crappy old hardware, and having it whining and sucking up power day in day out versus a black-box that Just Works(TM). YMMV.. Paul -- Paul

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
) to fill in or have as an overall guide, and to help them integrate it into the site. If someone then objects to the content, have them review it. Simple. No need for scripts and endless chatter. Just fscking do it. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com

Re: Reuse; was: applying patterns

2002-10-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
filesystems (hfs,ufs,ext2, etc) so that when a couple of machines were installed with ext3 it failed, but in an unbelievably oblique way. It's time like those you come away frothing just use a frickin' module... Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com

Re: similarity detection

2002-10-09 Thread Paul Makepeace
complex mutually recursive ML. I swear, I could *feel* them. That, and other, ahem, experiences convince me there is a lot more going on in our heads than what is readily, openly acknowledged culturally, scientifically. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com

Re: similarity detection

2002-10-09 Thread Paul Makepeace
spam inbox up into message bodies, one per file and indeed is was picking them out quite nicely. Have fun! Cheers, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If you were to ask me, then everyone will want to pass the buck. -- http://paulm.com/toys

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