Re: similarity detection

2002-10-08 Thread Paul Makepeace
this evening you won't get working code 'til I wake up again :-) Paul (who's had this similarity of jokes detection on his mental to-do list for about ten years, i.e. since moments after I got an email address, heh) -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com

Re: {OT} elegant MAC address formatting code?

2002-10-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
reformatting might look like, s|\b(\w)\b|0$1|g; tr|:||d Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the time in Boston? Don't know. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Complete History of the Untied States, Abridged: Tuesday October 1

2002-09-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 12:05:27AM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 04:00:49PM -0400, R. Geoffrey Avery wrote: While in Munich for YAPC::Europe several London Mongers said that they would like join me when I go to see the Reduced Shakespeare Company say a few words

Re: exim problems

2002-09-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
in exim.conf Make sure you have: eamesconsulting.com on its own line in that file. Restart exim, if it's not in inetd. That oughta do it. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If men are seduced by lovely things, then people will ignore it. -- http

Re: Complete History of the Untied States, Abridged: Tuesday October 1

2002-09-26 Thread Paul Makepeace
) is between 18.50/41. I think it's three so far so say if you're interested seat preferences I'll try some ticket booking shenanigans late Friday. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the name of my underwear? Don't you think

Re: networks and scalability

2002-09-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
:-) For various reasons if you're interested it'll have to be offline. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is a lesson from the Three Little Pigs? Only the Shadow knows. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: BodyWorlds

2002-09-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
half. That way it's also not discriminating against those wishing to use more environmentally friendly transport (or cars, heh)... http://www.itchylondon.co.uk/venues/82.html Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If you really want it, then you

Re: networks and scalability

2002-09-23 Thread Paul Makepeace
it be consensual? What meaning to assign to an unreciprocated link? http://paulm.com/friends/ecademy/ was a frenzied hack mapping a (mostly) London business network a while back. Lots of resources at the end. Definitely would be open to chatting offline if people get bored here... Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Re: Money and mouse clicks

2002-09-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
that? Make the perceived value of clicking on that button more than the perceived value of the cash that will be spent doing so. A corollary, make parting with that cash so easy the whole issue of relative value doesn't come into it (as much). Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Re: mysql autoincs

2002-07-16 Thread Paul Makepeace
. This seems to be a special case -- deleting individual records does *not* exhibit the next maximum i.e. under normal circumstances the will keep monotonically increasing. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the name of the two dots that go

Re: Constant load

2002-07-12 Thread Paul Makepeace
-- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If the needle moves from right to left, then yes, I think I will. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: August social meet - in a pub or at the GBBF?

2002-07-12 Thread Paul Makepeace
with the next social meeting (on Thursday 8th August, [...]) [snip] -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I follow your example, then you can place a hammer in a cake. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: searchable archives

2002-07-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
ht://Dig: http://www.htDig.org/ Exim http://www.exim.org/ for example uses htDig. Paul, who'd be interested in hearing mhonarc/hypermail/mhonarc v. hypermail opinions. -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If you were to ask me, then water will turn

Constant load

2002-07-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
in the kernel (it's open-sourced by Highpoint). -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If the world were flat, then there would be no more sorrow. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

searchable archives

2002-07-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
not be crawled. Even public lists can't in general be searched by date, for example. -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is a lover? A certificate of appreciation, no doubt. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: more mailman

2002-07-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
-to, they reply to author instead? This then mandates a pile more rules for people who start getting spurious unfiltered replies in their inbox? Sounds annoying... Perhaps I'm missing some link here. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I could save

Re: Anyone up for a TPC6 skate jam?

2002-07-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 12:51:08PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: shameless plugThose after some lessons should talk to Asha of http://www.skatefresh.com/ and say I sent you./ Or indeed me since as of today I'm a qualified inline skate instructor with the IISA (http://www.iisa.org/ ). Paul

Re: Best practice: modules and stuff

2002-07-05 Thread Paul Makepeace
situations or restricted environments. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the cause of no girlfriend? Several buckets of cement. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Unpack or Substr! Prace your bets now! Bet now!

2002-07-01 Thread Paul Makepeace
. Those more (er, at all) familiar with perl sources could comment more knowledgably I suspect... Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If we were a fashionable pink, then I would hug ya. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Anyone up for a TPC6 skate jam?

2002-07-01 Thread Paul Makepeace
by some serious disco moves at the Bagley's rollerdisco (RIP, or not who can tell) and they're great fun. But yeah, not going to TPC6 this year else I would definitely be up for skipping class for concrete. P (week away from IISA.org instructor qualification *crosses fingers*) -- Paul Makepeace

Re: Unpack or Substr! Prace your bets now! Bet now!

2002-07-01 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 12:37:05PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: I would've immediately thought substr -- it is presumably just a wrapper over the C library substr(2) which really doesn't do very much Duh; I meant index(3). But the point is the basic idea of it fundamentally just being

Re: OpenSSH

2002-06-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
if you just want that. http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the sun's temperature? Spanish speaking dolphins. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

One use for the camel book..

2002-06-15 Thread Paul Makepeace
http://www.raverporn.net/tour/images/sample48.jpg (worksafe) P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the house going to cost? Potato bugs in my soup! -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: PREVIOUS URL MAY NOT BE WORK SAFE, Re: One use for the camel book..

2002-06-15 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 05:19:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: http://www.raverporn.net/tour/images/sample48.jpg (worksafe) For some definitions of worksafe which are perhaps a little more unsafe than most. Anywhere where that is not work

Re: Book reviews

2002-06-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
(and I'm sure you lots of other people here and elsewhere) often reply to emails to people I have never met, nor particularly care about asking me/us questions. The perceived benefit is Feeling Good, and Karma.) Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com

Ruby social meet tonight in Islington/Upper St

2002-06-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
-- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If he fancied me, then you will never know. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Penderel ssh

2002-06-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
but certainly no-one would object to questions or suggestions there. Sending to the list about penderel issues is not a terribly effective route. A) 297 other people don't want to know about it B) a chat list isn't read as high priority as people's inbox. Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Mozilla 1.0 Party Details

2002-06-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
for the stuffed Moz. Map: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?db=pcclient=europepc=SW1P1RHquicksearch=SW1P+1RH or http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=529544Y=179178A=YZ=1 Contact: Rob Allen: 07814 762718 from 7.30pm on the night, if you turn up and we aren't there. Gerv -- Paul

Re: [job] same as before

2002-06-06 Thread Paul Makepeace
Toolkit. You will also have strong content management experience. Desired skills: Perl, mod_perl, XML,Template Toolkit, Linux, MySQL and Apache. Contact information: Send CV to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com

P*thon book wanted

2002-06-06 Thread Paul Makepeace
If anyone has a Python book that wouldn't mind lending me for a week or so I'd be very grateful. We could do a plain-wrapped surreptitious exchange at the meet tonight, while no-one's looking. I promise to keep your identity secret. TIA, Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Re: Fwd: [Strange Attractor] Esperanto!

2002-06-05 Thread Paul Makepeace
reminder This is tonight. Horse Hospital is: turn right out of Russell Sq tube, then next right down a small road/alley. It's basically behind the tube. Anyone wanting to meet beforehand, mail me offline! Paul On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:49:47AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: Wed June 5th

Re: Fwd: [Strange Attractor] Esperanto!

2002-06-05 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:40:06AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: reminder This is tonight. Horse Hospital is: turn right out of Russell Sq tube, then next right Er, turn left, and then next left. Paul I can safely drive in this country, no really! -- Paul Makepeace

mailing list working again(?)

2002-06-05 Thread Paul Makepeace
, and how to fix? [1] .muttrc: send-hook ~C london.pm.org \ my_hdr From: Paul Makepeace blah@blah (http://paulm.com/) -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is artichoke without reason? A bowl full of rice and nothing to go with it. -- http

Re: Things that suprised me about perl syntax

2002-05-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
[] -- that wouldn't get squished away. P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the answer to the question? An abominable pimple on the face of God. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Book reviews

2002-05-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
wooden spike and sacrificially burnt to be set as an example to other would-be book publishing spammers who harvest addresses from www.pm.org. Manning-- # just lost a customer; but gained an entry in a server's blacklist Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http

Re: Things that suprised me about perl syntax

2002-05-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:42:04AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote: Why not just explicitly return undef? It call to a function is expecting a value, it's only polite to present it with a value. Or, always return a reference which could of course

Re: Book reviews

2002-05-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
cc: Marjan Bace [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:59:40AM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: On 30/05/2002 at 10:06 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: No, instead Manning collectively should be lowered onto a rough-hewn wooden spike and sacrificially burnt to be set as an example to other would

Re: Book reviews

2002-05-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
their ilk too. Anyway, I'll keep quiet now :-) Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If there is a will, then I shall drink till I sleep. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Recognising email addresses

2002-05-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
:-) You might end up with something like, @addresses = grep { valid $_ } /(\S+\@\S+\w)/g for ; The \w is to filter out trailing punctuation. There are better email regexes out there but then you're sort of back to square 1... Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http

Re: (over)announce

2002-05-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
27, 2002 at 01:11:36PM +, Jeremy Manser wrote: Please can someone unsubscribe me from this list while i still have a mail box. -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is your dog called? It is silence, silence, silence. -- http://paulm.com/toys

Re: Emergency loan of SCSI cdrom

2002-05-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
in Plymouth! Hey do you think you smart folks (and others in future) with reply-to-author type email clients could take this offlist? London.pm is now over 300 subscribers... /list-nanny Cheers, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I went to bed

Re: [REVIEW] Creation - Life and how to make it by Steve Grand

2002-05-26 Thread Paul Makepeace
and still there is essentially no search capability (last I checked, which was a while ago). Is there some light here? Paul (hasn't really looked at this stuff for a year or so now) -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is moist and chewy and chocolaty

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
once the expectation of variety is set people will know to check and read ANNOUNCE. It's the occasional changes that are confusing since no-one expects... P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If pixies dance by midnight in sherbet clouds, then stones would

dropping () with qw()

2002-05-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
because of its enormous length) -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is a thousand times nothing much? A painful accident involving two watermelons and a banana. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer - Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom, London]

2002-05-23 Thread Paul Makepeace
. That's what I was thinking. They're paying bad salary rates but for a contract-length period. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the point? 22 Trombones. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

[jobish] success with online applications?

2002-05-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
the gojobsite.co.uk service but I've never got as far as being even offered an interview. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is jack? Israel Fighting. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2002-05-13

2002-05-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
work, but damn it's funny! Justness ANSI perl Hagen, Track basic perl Riga, Paul, just another debian/solaris[0] admin [0] /usr/dict/words -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is that on your back? Ask again. -- http://paulm.com/toys

Oracle client software

2002-05-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
tries that kind of smart-ass bullshit again, point out that Oracle don't support Red Hat any more. (Did someone say fscked gcc library snapshots in production releases?) OK, they don't support Debian either :-) Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What

'open_digi' season DOG STAR, London starts May 22nd

2002-05-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
://zden.satori.sk, -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If a thousand rose petals were to fall upon your perfect nudity, then come back next year. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: penderel

2002-05-17 Thread Paul Makepeace
something you want to be messing with. AGP cards starting at 30q leaves no excuse for this recycling. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is abecaderian? Exactly! -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Perl IDE for Win32

2002-05-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
have a Windows box so I can't say anything more but I'd be interested in peoples opinions after trying it out. There is also http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/ which impressed me when I had a look a few months back. Paul (still on vi though) -- Paul Makepeace

Fwd: [Strange Attractor] Esperanto!

2002-05-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
circlemakers.org - england's crop circle makers strangeattractor.co.uk - we are the voices in your head jonronson.com - the official ronson site signsmovie.co.uk - the unofficial signs movie site q: there is no art without risk / jean cocteau - End forwarded message - -- Paul Makepeace

Sharp Zaurus

2002-05-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
on Thursdays?/ot) If anyone seriously wants one of these devices incl. wireless before they ship in the UK let me know offlist. By serious I mean already made the decision rather than ooh, can I play let you know?. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
be at the Anchor, Bankside, but not in the new bits. Yay! I don't know about this pub but I'm no fan of CoY: the acoustics are grim headache-inducing, and I know I'm far from the only person who thinks this. Besides, I like exploration :) Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Querying Apache's configuration

2002-05-06 Thread Paul Makepeace
is a library that goes through the motions or can somehow attach to Apache, perhaps through SHM? Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is performance art? Sure, sure. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Querying Apache's configuration

2002-05-06 Thread Paul Makepeace
into this somehow. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If you exploded into a thousand tiny haddock, then rivulets of pure pleasure will swim down my spine! -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Formatting currencies

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 07:14:32AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: perl -lpe '$_ = sprintf %.2f,$_; 1 while s/(?=[\d])((?:\d{3})+)(?=[.,])/,$1/' Is there an easier way to do this? London.pm meeting taken its toll? Are you just looking for nice

Re: mod_rewrite, individuality and purty urls

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
. But the bit here does work...) Cheers, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I were a rich man, ya ta dia dia dia dia dia dia dum, then tuesday would be fine. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: mod_rewrite, individuality and purty urls

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:49:33AM +0100, Nick Cleaton wrote: 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

Formatting currencies

2002-05-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
perl -lpe '$_ = sprintf %.2f,$_; 1 while s/(?=[\d])((?:\d{3})+)(?=[.,])/,$1/' 123.1 123.10 5679.123 5,679.12 1289053234.20852 1,289,053,234.21 Is there an easier way to do this? London.pm meeting taken its toll? P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com

Re: [OT] Exim logo petition

2002-05-01 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 07:01:34PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: I personally agree with what this petition says, I don't, but I do agree the logo sucks and have forwarded the petition to a couple of designers I know. Paul (diplomacy thru obscurity) -- Paul Makepeace

Re: temp. variables in closures

2002-05-01 Thread Paul Makepeace
this works?? I would've thought that would've just defined a sub and the return value would be the statement before. It seems as though $popup needs to be blessed (my first thought when I tried it). I'm also seeing the dreaded variable will not stay shared warning. Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Re: exim help

2002-04-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
(who finally just converted away from the fgrep/awk hack that was there before) -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is sky? Schrodinger's cat. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

temp. variables in closures

2002-04-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
Can someone remind me why the tmp var is needed in something like, my $q = new CGI; sub popup_menu_factory { sub { my tmp=@_; $q-popup_menu(tmp) } } (I'm trying to hack some form persistence with HTML::Template) Cheers, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http

Re: temp. variables in closures

2002-04-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 03:06:52PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote: Can someone remind me why the tmp var is needed in something like, my $q = new CGI; sub popup_menu_factory { sub { my tmp=@_; $q-popup_menu(tmp) } } (I'm trying to hack

Re: OT: Mailing list software

2002-04-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
://www.ezmlm.org/ or http://www.uk.ezmlm.org/ (which was worse than the US East Coast site; go figger.) You need qmail for ezmlm, apparently: ``Ezmlm and ezmlm-idx cannot run without qmail properly installed on the server where ezmlm is to be installed.'' Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Re: OT: Mailing list software

2002-04-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:35:17PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:29:16AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: (I don't subscribe to the belief that software should be sufficiently obscure/bureaucratic/enforce some protocol of interaction so as to act as a barrier to entry

Re: tractor feed printer paper in london

2002-04-23 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 06:39:34PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote: The printed catalogue is crazy! [snip] Oh yeah, they personalise the catalogue for you, really really nuts. :-) P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I were better at programming

Re: Mason Vs Template Toolkit

2002-04-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
(at)template-toolkit dot org list you could ask. It'd be biased but it sounds like that's what you want :-) Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If drawing is like riding a bike, then what can you do. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Perl Monger T-shirt up for grabs

2002-04-17 Thread Paul Makepeace
I have one unworn XXL black Perl Mongers T spare. This is quite an old-skool collector's item. First one to email me offlist gets it in exchange for a London.pm meet kitty contribution or paying postage. Priority to someone able to pick it up at the London meet, though. Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Re: Anti-spam options on london.pm

2002-04-15 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:54:08AM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: Paul Makepeace wrote: ``Must posts have list named in destination (to, cc) field (or be among the acceptable alias names, specified below)? YES'' AFAIK, the only practical upshot to legit posters is that you can't bcc

Re: Anti-spam options on london.pm

2002-04-15 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 09:10:19AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: Owing to an increase in spam that your trusty(?) custodians london.pm-admin have to deal with[1] I have switched on mailman's ``Must posts have list named in destination (to, cc) field (or be among the acceptable alias names

Anti-spam options on london.pm

2002-04-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
posters is that you can't bcc london.pm(a)london.pm.org. If anyone can see a downside to this, speak now... Paul [1] This rarely actually amounts to more than two a day but still, closer to zero a day is better :) -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What

Re: video to sun ray terminal crack madness

2002-04-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
a web stylee application. It smells kind of screen saverish combined with a Real or QT player. It of course, it's *ack* Solaris. Any thoughts? Use an open source video player and transmit the data on a multicast group. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http

bandwidth tracking

2002-04-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
of bandwidth by application, for example, DNS, LDAP, freenet, HTTP, etc. I don't see a way to do this with /proc - is there? HTTP is do-able by post-munging analog output but that's not general. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I could save time

Re: IRC?

2002-04-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
has no less than six geographically distributed nameservers :-) Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is a fine wine? A megalomaniac. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Spare Box - Any Ideas For Cool Projects?

2002-04-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
have a proper IP address as well and will sit on ADSL 500Mbps. Don't suppose it feels giddy about the prospect of sitting in state51 and being called london.pm.org? :-) Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is a liquor if it ain't 80 proof? Can

Re: The Perl Conference

2002-04-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
their company to afford it probably can't this year :-( I too am curious though, since the thought of writing something did occur but it seemed like for the most part it'd all been said. (Barring new modules, of which I've not written any.) $not_going{Paul}++ -- Paul Makepeace

Re: Hi Chaps

2002-04-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
your answer I think. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If it can be squeezed in before noon, then come back next year. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: penderel uptime

2002-03-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
/ -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is jimi hendrix? Well if you don't know by now, then I'll not tell you. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Web based perl support call logger/ change control app...

2002-03-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
keypress. Anyway, just seemed like there hadn't been a decent flamewar here in a while so thought I'd start one/ironic-preempt Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If god is blue, then we can no longer deny it. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

penderel uptime

2002-03-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
Reports of penderel's death just recently are greatly exaggerated: - Forwarded message from root root - From: root root Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:46:26 + 10:46am up 4 days, 15:46, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 - End forwarded message - FYI, Paul

Re: Just pondering

2002-03-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 04:31:37AM -0800, Dave Cross wrote: Is this a) crack-fuelled, b) so obvious that everyone's already done it, c) a complete waste of time as some other even better implementation of constants is just around the corner. d) 'n' orders of magnitude slower than a scalar

# fsck penderel

2002-03-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
I'm at state51 and am trying to diagnose/fix penderel so if london.pm.org is unavailable, you now know why. Paul

Re: # fsck penderel

2002-03-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 04:09:47AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: I'm at state51 and am trying to diagnose/fix penderel so if london.pm.org is unavailable, you now know why. Phew, what a day. I think I've fixed it, and at the least it has a modern kernel, rather than the stock RH 2.4.2 running

Re: search.cpan.org

2002-03-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:24:06PM +, Paul Mison wrote: So, does anyone else find search.cpan.org slow at the moment? There was a biggish discussion on IRC I'm too lazy to summarise. Maybe one of the other interested parties can provide more details... In Dec. (I think) I was trying to

user registration/session code

2002-03-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
with OpenFrame? (I'm still trying to get my head around OF.) Paul, looking for code in all the wrong places... -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If god is blue, then why is your smile so sepia. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Apache mod_perl on Windows 2000

2002-03-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:33:37PM +, Alex McLintock wrote: I've been contacted about a site which is an Apache/mod_perl website. The problem is that the live production server is Windows 2000 and not negotiable :-( Put linux inside a virtual machine (e.g. vmware) with port 80 exposed. I

Re: heresy!

2002-03-16 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 01:23:32PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: http://penderel.state51.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/london.class Hmm, london.java would've seemed to me the more natural choice to me, being the source code rather than the compiled output. Besides, Britain's a classless society as

Mozilla news

2002-03-15 Thread Paul Makepeace
security problems of our own without adding Microsoft's, says an AOL bean-counter who has access to the company's server cost numbers.'' Mozilla will ship with v8 of AOL's client software (no date given, but they already ship Gecko beta). Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Re: ADSL

2002-03-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:39:21AM +, Leon Brocard wrote: The RT311? Do you use it? Does it Just Work? Yes, have done; yes. Fantastic for what you pay, and laughably easy to set up. Netgear make some great stuff (but stay away from their FAxxx NICs). Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Re: ADSL

2002-03-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:20:03AM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote: to set up. Netgear make some great stuff (but stay away from their FAxxx NICs). It's really the FA311 that you want to avoid. It uses a National Semiconductor chipset that isn't

Re: Rindolf again

2002-03-12 Thread Paul Makepeace
actual access to the Internet then were they for quite some time? AOL until recently was a closed system like Compuserve. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is my deal? If asking, you not understanding. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: -e /dumb/question

2002-03-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
of a failure. If you get to that stage, try opening it and see what the $! is. use Cwd; Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If mussolini were still alive, then you can place a hammer in a cake. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Ugly company sigs (was Re: Load testing)

2002-03-08 Thread Paul Makepeace
/RFC2646/Output/chapter3.html Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If monkies had hats, then the giraffe painters can return to the green elephants. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Voting scripts...

2002-03-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
can side effect mean in the context of URLs?? If there's data in the query string, a program can act on that. A program can have side effects just executing. system.cgi?cmd=rm%20-rf%20%2F Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is a blueberry

Re: Load testing

2002-03-06 Thread Paul Makepeace
://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/httperf.html I haven't used any of these myself, just heard about them. Do report back if anything there's useful... Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If you could dance a painting, then their heads would not get

Re: Floorspace for Thursday evening

2002-03-05 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:04:45PM +, Anthony Fisher wrote: Does anyone have some floor in a spare/front room I can use on Thursday night after the social? I come Me too! I'll be coming in from Bristol that night complete with sleeping bag and sleeping mat, and can be fairly quiet

Re: Is $foo a filehandle?

2002-03-01 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:26:20PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: banziBet now! Bet now!/banzi How do I determine if something passed to me is a filehandle or something containing the name of the file to open This *should* be fairly simple, but I can't work out a simple way to do it

Re: irc dead?

2002-02-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:10:16PM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote: Simon Wistow wrote: For future reference, one can always connect to bullfrog or ircrhizomaticnet should the need arise Isn't ircrhizomaticnet a DNS round robin that includes londonrhizomaticnet? I've seen times when

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