Re: [ANNOUNCE] London.pm Social Meeting, Friday 7th November: Barrowboy and Banker, London Bridge

2014-10-30 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 29/10/2014 19:39, Tom Hukins wrote: We'll meet in the Barrowboy and Banker, a large Fuller's pub near London Bridge: My first ever London.pm was at the Barrowboy Banker. 2001 iirc, with MJD in attendance. Feeling all nostalgic now :) S.

Re: Pre-Damian?

2014-03-10 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 10/03/2014 17:17, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Anyone up for a quick warmup tincture in a while? Name a place - I'll be heading that way shortly. S.

Re: Raising Perl awareness on Tiobe + Wikipedia, etc.

2013-03-20 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 20/03/2013 13:05, Dave Cross wrote: Secondly, I don't think anyone was suggesting we remove the Perl page from WP, rather that we make one the main page and the other point to it. In effect having both pages/solutions at once and having our cake and eating it too. That what we currently

Re: Updating lots of database fields in a single row

2013-01-24 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 24/01/2013 03:01, Sam Kington wrote: I mean, sure, this is safe: if ($status eq 'foo') { $dbh-do(UPDATE table SET status='$status' WHERE id=$id); } Only if you're certain you know what $status and $id contain. http://xkcd.com/327/

Re: PHP community

2013-01-17 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 16/01/2013 15:08, gvim wrote: PHP UK (22nd Feb.): £380 London Perl Workshop: £0 'nuff said. Wow, perl is so unpopular they have to give away places to get people to a conference. or Wow, the demand for PHP conferences is so high people are willing to pay quite a lot to go. I have

Re: PHP community

2013-01-17 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 17/01/2013 16:21, Jérôme Étévé wrote: On 17 January 2013 09:46, Simon Wilcox es...@ourshack.com wrote: On 16/01/2013 15:08, gvim wrote: PHP UK (22nd Feb.): £380 London Perl Workshop: £0 'nuff said. Wow, perl is so unpopular they have to give away places to get people to a conference

Perl API for WURFL

2012-10-17 Thread Simon Wilcox
Fresh from the Perl still not dead desk: The team behind the WURFL mobile handset capabilities database has released Perl support for their hosted capabilities service. http://www.scientiamobile.com/blog/post/view/id/26/title/Perl-and-WURFL%3A-There-is-only-one-way-to-do-it-right

Re: Professional Indemnity

2012-05-02 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 02/05/2012 00:04, Dirk Koopman wrote: The problem with PI is that you have to have it when the punter makes the claim, not (just) when you did the work. Which means that if the BBC (just talking very hypothetically) wants to sue three years after you left them, and you have no PI in

Re: Professional Indemnity

2012-05-02 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 02/05/2012 12:32, Simon Wilcox wrote: On 02/05/2012 00:04, Dirk Koopman wrote: The problem with PI is that you have to have it when the punter makes the claim, not (just) when you did the work. Which means that if the BBC (just talking very hypothetically) wants to sue three years after

Re: Telecommuting

2011-12-12 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 12/12/2011 12:37, Nicholas Clark wrote: [I can't remember if he was also the first person to alert me to the thought that it's also a cover your back mechanism for your actions. If you Cc: it to people, then later you can tell them that they*had* a copy back then, so it's hard to complain

Re: Telecommuting

2011-12-12 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 12/12/2011 13:39, James Laver wrote: On 12 Dec 2011, at 13:04, Simon Wilcoxes...@ourshack.com wrote: That and the fact that many new graduate recruits don't use email much any more. [citation needed] In that same article: They put on the table the fact that most of the young people

Re: Perl e-commerce?

2011-09-14 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 14/09/2011 19:47, Andrew Suffield wrote: PHP is a thorough and effective solution to the following problem, which is also its main design goal: How can stupid people create poor-quality web sites cheaply? Turns out this is in high demand, due to the large quantity of both those things in

Re: perlisalive.com?

2011-08-09 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 09/08/2011 11:51, Andy Armstrong wrote: On 9 Aug 2011, at 11:32, Anton Berezin wrote: Anyone has any idea who is behind the site? Perl might be alive, but ad...@perlisalive.com is surely pretty dead. :-/ whois says Simon Wilcox. Nothing says that Perl's dead quite as eloquently

Re: website maintenance gig available

2011-08-03 Thread Simon Wilcox
It's annoying people who should know better. You carry on posting as you wish. Those who don't like it are free to write a perl script to strip your signature before they have to insult their eyes by observing it. Or they could write their own mailing list manager to do this for them in a

Re: website maintenance gig available

2011-08-03 Thread Simon Wilcox
Many thanks to everyone who has replied. I've had a *lot* of responses which is gratifying as it shows there are plenty of people still doing small-scale perl/web stuff. Hurrah ! Unfortunately this means it's going to take a little longer than I had anticipated to reply to everyone. Please

website maintenance gig available

2011-08-01 Thread Simon Wilcox
I have a client that's looking for a new maintainer for a couple of perl-powered sites that we host for them. Normally we'd do minor updates in house but the amount of work coming up would require additional resources that I can't get in the time available in any event development isn't

42U HP rack, free to a good home

2011-04-22 Thread Simon Wilcox
I have a 42U HP rack, 600x1000 with PDUs in the back and an APC SmartUPS3000R in the bottom that I need to get rid of quickly. Anyone have a use for it, hackspace maybe ? If you want it it needs to be collected from EC1 on Tuesday or Wednesday this week S.

Re: Bulk domain registrar recommendations

2011-02-09 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 09/02/2011 17:03, Paul Makepeace wrote: Which registrars have a decent features/price for someone with a few dozen domains? We use Daily.co.uk and are pretty happy. The user interface is OK although it is getting a bit cluttered as they've added more and more services. You can do

[OT] Professional Prolog

2011-02-03 Thread Simon Wilcox
Nothing to do with Perl this but that never usually stops anyone :-) Does anybody know of any companies that can provide support and development for Prolog based systems ? This is *ahem* for a friend *cough* I have no more details than that, I'm assuming it's some sort of expert system but

Re: Data recovery

2010-09-08 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 03/09/2010 11:59, Mike Whiting wrote: I'm afraid it's the drive itself. We've had excellent success with Fields Data Recovery[1] including retrieving data from fire damaged systems. Not cheap but if you only need some files back and you know where they are, they will charge you only

Re: Need a CRUD thing

2010-08-25 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 25/08/2010 14:28, David Cantrell wrote: Dear interwebs, please point me at a Thingy which will allow me to point a tiny script at a database and have it do CRUDdy web stuff. Bonus points if it works with SQLite. phpSQLiteAdmin ? http://phpsqliteadmin.sourceforge.net/index.php S.

Re: a good tool for planning projects/resources/holidays at high level rather than per task?

2010-06-17 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 17/06/2010 09:19, Aaron Trevena wrote: Anybody know a good tool for planning projects/resources/holidays at high level rather than per task? we're using basecamp for tasks, and as Rallydev or any other basecamp rival is politically unviable, is there something that just/primarily focusses on

Re: Solid state drives

2010-04-20 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 20/4/10 10:07, James Laver wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:08:10AM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: Having said that, there are clearly plenty of applications where power-failure isn't an overriding worry. Or 'on any machine connected to a UPS that's correctly configured to shut the

Re: Solid state drives

2010-04-20 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 20/4/10 11:03, David Precious wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2010 10:36:54 Simon Wilcox wrote: On 20/4/10 10:07, James Laver wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:08:10AM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: Having said that, there are clearly plenty of applications where power-failure isn't an overriding

Re: Solid state drives

2010-04-20 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 20/4/10 16:52, David Cantrell wrote: Very few people live in areas with flaky power, at least in the UK. I had a 5 minute power cut in SE26 two weeks ago and a cut lasting about an hour in EC1 10 days ago. It's not what I'd call flaky in the sense of regular issues but enough that I'm

Re: On-topic: HTML/JS help please

2010-02-11 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 11/2/10 16:28, David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:07:41PM +, Jonathan Tweed wrote: On 11 Feb 2010, at 13:40, David Cantrell wrote: I'm going to be very rude to the next person to suggest something that assumes I have a hierarchy of uls instead of a table. Could it be that

Re: On-topic: HTML/JS help please

2010-02-11 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 11/2/10 17:25, David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 05:02:07PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: On 11/2/10 16:28, David Cantrell wrote: I assume that the reason is that people haven't bothered looking at the site. Because if they did, they would see obviously tabular data. You didn't

Re: Fun Friday afternoon topic: domain name disputes

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 5/2/10 15:05, mirod wrote: I'll probably tell her to offer 500 pounds for it, and if they don't sell at that price to just use a different domain. Be careful with that approach. If you believe that they have no claim on the domain, offering money for it gives them a defence and weakens

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-19 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 19/11/09 11:20, Gianni Ceccarelli wrote: - which areas should I be looking around, for a largish (60m²) apartment for under £800/month, within a half-hour commute (by train?) to the centre? Where will you be working ? This can have a great bearing on the commute. Some places that

New www.perl.org site

2009-11-13 Thread Simon Wilcox
For those who've not seen it elsewhere, congratulations to our very own Leo Lapworth and the guys at Foxtons for the shiny redesign of www.perl.org. Nice work Leo. Thank you ! S.

Re: Anyone know of a ...

2009-10-22 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 22/10/09 14:46, Ash Berlin wrote: ...decent laywer? Alex Chapman at Sheridans can doubtless put you in touch with one of his fine colleagues if he doesn't handle this type of work himself. Excellent chap and very knowledgeable. achap...@sheridans.co.uk I doubt they do no-win-no-fee but

Re: Credit Cards

2009-10-15 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 14/10/09 21:47, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 08:39:32PM +, the hatter wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Avleen Vig wrote: Here in the US, when you place a credit card order online, you almost always have to give the phone number associated with the credit card account, and

Re: Last Straw. Camel's Back. Etc.

2009-10-01 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 1/10/09 07:19, Dave Cross wrote: But I need somewhere else to go. I'm thinking probably Be, but I'm open to suggestions of other suppliers. Does anyone want to share horror stories or recommendations? I'm very happy with Zen at home. At work we're augmenting our leased line from

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-25 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 25/9/09 16:47, Peter Corlett wrote: On 25 Sep 2009, at 16:18, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: [...] Careful. In danger of giving the Dutch the culinary high ground here. Which in Holland, isn't very high. Deep-fried Mars bars still have the edge on kroketten. My wife loves those things, esp. out

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 3/7/09 13:45, Jonathan Stowe wrote: 2009/7/3 Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com: On 3 Jul 2009, at 12:32, Edmund von der Burg wrote: 3) tiny, simple, bulletproof script to take templates and generate html pages Apache::Template FTW! Then cache on the front. I hear that pastel-like

Re: Hardware Reliability

2009-06-08 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 8/6/09 10:40, duncan.garl...@ntlworld.com wrote: Raphael Mankin r...@mankin.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 12:13 +0100, Duncan Garland wrote: I wonder if the problem can be approached from the other end. I wonder if there is a design standard (ISO or such like) which states that

Re: Beautiful is better than ugly

2009-04-22 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 22/4/09 07:53, Léon Brocard wrote: Alias ranted: http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/38842 Which Perl website do you think looks the worst? Which has the worst navigation? We managed to redesign london.pm.org. Is it time to do another? They're all a bit shit for the most part. Last time we

Re: Beautiful is better than ugly

2009-04-22 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 22/4/09 11:09, Sue Spence wrote: 2009/4/22 Léon Brocard a...@astray.com: Alias ranted: http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/38842 Which Perl website do you think looks the worst? Which has the worst navigation? We managed to redesign london.pm.org. Is it time to do another? perl.org -

Re: Beautiful is better than ugly

2009-04-22 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 22/4/09 12:38, Abigail wrote: IMO. No. [snip] Sorry, that was a rhetorical question. I wasn't meaning to open it up for a discussion. My point was DO or DO NOT there is no let's all bitch and moan on a mailing list, get ourselves in a tizzy and do naff all about it. Yes the colour is

Re: Beautiful is better than ugly

2009-04-22 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 22/4/09 13:16, Dirk Koopman wrote: Simon Wilcox wrote: http://combust.develooper.com/ I don't suppose combust can be persuaded to work as an FCGI device instead of an antediluvian mod_perl thingy? Dunno. Send patches if you get it working :-) S.

Re: Recession rates

2009-03-10 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 10/3/09 17:07, Dirk Koopman wrote: £300? Don't be daft. A lot of recruiters wouldn't get out of bed for ~25%, they will be looking for at least %50 (and in the bad old days 100%). I would not be surprised if the saps are being offered £200 in these difficult times. Which is why I'm very

perl.org gone away for a bit

2009-02-21 Thread Simon Wilcox
Someone's spoiled Ask's weekend: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/2009/02/21/perlorg_suspended_by_directicom_resellerclub.html S.

Re: My New Job (Was: Social Thurs 8 Jan 2009)

2009-01-30 Thread Simon Wilcox
Abigail wrote: OTOH, goverment can ever screw up if they have too much money for signalling. There's going to be a high speed train line between Amsterdam in Brussels, taking the Netherlands out of the 19th century. It's not that bad a journey and even as it stands now it's *way* better than

Re: Have at it

2009-01-28 Thread Simon Wilcox
Ovid wrote: - Original Message From: Philippe Bruhat (BooK) philippe.bru...@free.fr Where do we learn about that? Are there some OO tutorials planned at the next YAPC? Every time I write a new CPAN module, I first have to decide on how I'm going to do OO this time. Rather than

Re: File permission vulnerabilities and Module::Pluggable

2009-01-21 Thread Simon Wilcox
Simon Wistow wrote: So I've been thinking about adding that support however I'm slightly conflicted at the moment about how it should work which is down to two things - I'd go for a major new version with the non-core bundled in and I can think of two ways to handle the transition: 1. On

Re: My New Job (Was: Social Thurs 8 Jan 2009)

2009-01-05 Thread Simon Wilcox
Robert Shiels wrote: I would love to have a go on a Strida so that I could give an opinion - I had a go on Paul's a few years ago and even though I'm only a couple of inches taller than he is (I'm 6' 4) it made a huge amount of difference, from really useful to very unstable with my knees

Re: Mobile broadband

2008-12-19 Thread Simon Wilcox
Simon Cozens wrote: Anyone got any experience of mobile broadband providers? Any good ones, good deals, horror stories, don't-use-this-if-you-have-a-Mac stories, etc.? I have a t-mobile dongle thing which is OK but they have a trans-proxy on the web interface which compresses images and

Re: Mobile broadband

2008-12-19 Thread Simon Wilcox
Jonathan Stowe wrote: I seem to recall it fucks up a whole bunch of other things that makes mobile content providers very unhappy. Like device detection and GeoIP and stuff ... Don't get me started on mobile transcoders. Bane of my f'ing life they are. Bastards the lot of 'em. S.

Re: Perl success stories

2008-12-18 Thread Simon Wilcox
Dave Cross wrote: Denny wrote: Inspired by this month's discussions about Perl community websites, we* have started Yet Another Perl Website. Sounds like a similar idea to http://proudtouseperl.org/. I guess it is. /me goes looking. I feel a bit deflated that we've done a load of work

Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted

2008-12-11 Thread Simon Wilcox
Andy Wardley wrote: Andy Wardley wrote: I can help there. How about this? http://wardley.org/london.pm.org/ Like it :-) The strap line should be Perl is Alive! rather than the shortened version though, should it not ? S.

Is Perl alive ?

2008-12-11 Thread Simon Wilcox
If you're not sure, ask the interweb: http://isperlalive.com And just to double check: http://isperldead.com Sorry. I blame Denny :-) S.

Re: Is Perl alive ?

2008-12-11 Thread Simon Wilcox
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote: Simon Wilcox es...@ourshack.com writes: If you're not sure, ask the interweb: http://isperlalive.com And just to double check: http://isperldead.com Needs RSS feeds! It has RSS feeds.

Re: Is Perl alive ?

2008-12-11 Thread Simon Wilcox
Matt Follett wrote: However, the Is Perl Dead RSS feed appears to be broken: Oops, Substitution Fail. Fixed now ! S.

Re: Perl is Alive!

2008-12-09 Thread Simon Wilcox
Kent Fredric wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Mike Whitaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marketing, marketing, marketing. Which in my dictionary is: Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit!. Then you need to get a better dictionary. There is nothing wrong with marketing per se, good marketing is

Re: Perl is Alive!

2008-12-09 Thread Simon Wilcox
Jonathan Stowe wrote: Actually perl.com has always been owned by Tom Christiansen, he just lets ORA use it or something Bastards: host96:~ simonw$ whois perl.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-04 Thread Simon Wilcox
Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote: Guilty of starting a similar discussion thread in the past I feel entitled to ask - what positive outcome would you expect from this thread? I imagine there'll be some faeces flinging about top posters. Secondly I'm hoping that the extra processing of all this mail

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-04 Thread Simon Wilcox
Paul Makepeace wrote: Renaming Perl 6 to something completely different, and renaming perl 5.12 to perl 6. Come on Paul, you're not thinking outside of the box enough on this. Given that half[1] the modules on CPAN now have cutesy names, shouldn't perl 5.12 now have a cutesy name too. I'll

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-04 Thread Simon Wilcox
David Cantrell wrote: And no, setting up yet another blog aggregator or yet another obscure site that occasionally publishes an article, those don't count. perlbuzz's existence hasn't fixed any problems. So fixing use.perl is what we need to do. That will only happen with pudge's active

Apple service providers

2008-10-07 Thread Simon Wilcox
So my macbook died[1] and I need to get it fixed under applecare. Seems I can't just send it off, I have to choose an Authorised Service Provider in London to take/send it to. Now supposedly they'll all provide the same level of service but I'm betting that some are more equal than others.

Re: Perl's lack of 'in' keyword

2008-10-07 Thread Simon Wilcox
Paul Makepeace wrote: ... is starting to frustrate me. It's the one feature I am finding I'm really missing from That Other Language. if ($bar in @foo) { # ... } Perhaps: use List::Util qw( first ); if (first{ $_ eq $bar } @foo) { # ... } S.

Re: Apple service providers

2008-10-07 Thread Simon Wilcox
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Isn't a dead disk user-maintainable? Out of warranty/applecare I'd say yes but definitely not until then. Even after the warranty expires I'm still not convinced that I'd try swapping a disk on any laptop that didn't have it in an easily removed caddy. Laptops are

Re: [job advert] looking for a perl person to write a web control panel

2008-09-01 Thread Simon Wilcox
Hi Martin, Martin A. Brooks wrote: We are looking for a Perl programmer to develop a customer-facing web control panel for our antispam and antivirus mail filtering service. Currently, all configuration is done via a combination of database (postgres) and flat text files. We would like to

Get it while it's hot

2003-09-25 Thread Simon Wilcox
It seems that 5.8.1 has been released: http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.1/ microsoft UPGRADE UPGRADE UPGRADE !!! /microsoft Simon. -- I'm a one-man idiot

Re: Surrey.pm

2003-09-17 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Andy Wardley wrote: Guildford or Surbiton would be better, being on fast (haha) rail links up t'smoke way. Dorking is a smaller, harder to get to, and generally full of antique shops. Surbiton++ # walking distance from my house I'll look into some of the pubs in the

Re: Dave and Religion

2003-09-05 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Jason Clifford wrote: She's no more a God than Madonna is. Do those who adore Madonna generally do so as a god? I dunno. Is Guy Richie subbed to the list ? S.

Re: Fave calendering software?

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Ronan Oger (roasp) wrote: Does anyone use Evolution's calendaring and have any comments? I've been playing with Evolution for 4 months, and am now trying to weam myself off it. I am dissatisfied with the amount of resources it takes up. Evolution broke horribly in

Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Robin Berjon wrote: As a Frog, I probably have a slightly different take on this. We've had compulsory ID cards forever (well, for much longer than my lifetime) and are accustomed to them. Somewhere between 93-95, a thumbprint was added to them. That's biometrics, but

Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: That doesn't answer your question directly, but I think that the opposition fragments because different people object to different levels on the above list of possibilities Indeed. My own oppostion stems from two, not entirely unrelated themes. 1. I

Re: Messing with spammers

2003-08-14 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Dave Cross wrote: I'm currently getting 2-300 bounce messages a day from spam email that I didn't send :( Mine's running at about 500 a day. Thank heaven for spamassassin ! Simon. -- Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so

Re: HTML::Parser

2003-08-04 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Rhys Hopkins wrote: Following the recent discussion on the pronunciation of regex / regexp, this is something that has intrigued me for some time, mung - ing as in mung beans, or munj - ing as in sponge ? Put another way do you mung, or munge the data ? Surely from

ICE

2003-07-09 Thread Simon Wilcox
No not the stuff you put in drinks (sadly) but the [1] Information and Content Exchange protocol :-/ Has anyone worked with this and have any tips/gotchas to share ? A client is interested in us distributing content to them using this standard but very few people seem to have actually

Re: YAPC::EU Recommended hotel

2003-07-07 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Raf wrote: I've just been asked to provide the name of a recommended hotel for the conference. Is there one? Since the site has a number of links, I wondered if anyone could give me a good suggestion if the company is forking the bill? Since I've got to pay for my gf,

Re: YAPC::EU Recommended hotel

2003-07-07 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Raf wrote: Are you sure about the number? I just dialed 441422 886440 and got a puzzled lady at the end of the phone. I repeated the number to her and In the event that anyone else is thinking of calling, the number appears to be: 01482 886 440 Bah. Sorry. It

[OT] Dynamic image viewers

2003-07-03 Thread Simon Wilcox
Does anyone have recommendations for dyanmic image viewers that I can incorporate into a website to allow visitors to zoom in/out on product images ? 3D isn't really a requirement but would be nice to have. I've looked at ipix and iseemedia but they seem to be aimed at panorama views from a

Re: [ot] Mounting Unix Drives in Windows

2003-07-01 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Dave Cross wrote: 1/ How much chance is there that a Samba installation will cause problems? How stable is Samba? Very few although make sure you have a recent version if you're using Windows 2000 or XP anywhere. There were some issues that needed to be resolved when

Re: Telewest + Linux + MAC(?) oddness

2003-06-24 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: Ha`s anyone used a Telewest modem and had problems having it play nicely with Linux? Yes and No. My Smoothwall runs just fine. I'm wondering if the modem is rejected the MAC of the linux box while the Windows's box's lease is still in effect or

Last-ish call for YAPC::EU travel/accomodation

2003-06-06 Thread Simon Wilcox
Many thanks to everyone who has replied requesting various combinations of travel and accomodation. I will be submitting the list to the travel agent on Monday morning. After this time I can't guarantee that we'll be able to get extra people into the hotel so make sure I get your details

Re: Last-ish call for YAPC::EU travel/accomodation

2003-06-06 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: You don't have an option for travel only - is it going to be possible to do that? Probably, I'll talk to you offlist about it. Much that I love london.pm, I suspect that I may be sharing with someone from another PM group. And generally I find that

Re: The answer to the map and disc problem

2003-05-29 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:41, Peter Haworth wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:32:37 -0700, Dave Cross wrote: p.s. There's a great letter in this week's Radio Times. Someone is complaining about a recent TV version of some Shakespeare play. Their complaint is that it was performed in

Re: The answer to the map and disc problem

2003-05-29 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:51, Jasper McCrea wrote: What are the various shakespeare - strange genre adaptations? I can only think of Forbidden Planet offhand. Romeo Juliet - West Side Story

Re: Installing Files

2003-04-09 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 15:54, Mark Fowler wrote: [ snip moon-request ] Suggestions? File::DirSync ? http://search.cpan.org/author/BBB/File-DirSync-1.07/lib/File/DirSync.pm Seems to work for me in a webapp. Simon.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Signup for Tech Meet Mon 14th April + Tonight Social

2003-04-04 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Jasper McCrea wrote: Simon Wilcox wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Jasper McCrea wrote: Not that I've been to many tech meets, but this doesn't seem like a very good policy for a meeting place. Although the facility is good. It's not a meeting place, it's

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Signup for Tech Meet Mon 14th April + Tonight Social

2003-04-03 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Jasper McCrea wrote: Simon Wistow wrote: It is *really* important that you sign up though. You will not under any circumstances be let in if you've not signed up according to the office manager. Not that I've been to many tech meets, but this doesn't seem like a very

Re: RegEx for UK Postal Codes

2003-04-01 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 13:07, Jon Reades wrote: Yikes, there's also BFPO... Is that actually a postcode ? AFAIK it's the acronym for British Forces Posted Overseas and is just part of an address that doesn't have a postcode, as not all addresses need them. For instance Named Freepost addresses

Re: RegEx for UK Postal Codes

2003-04-01 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 13:25, Jon Reades wrote: Yes, you're right -- it's military and not technically a postcode (neither is SAN TA1). I'd guess, however, that many people would throw it into the postcode field of a form since it rather 'looks like one' (although one wouldn't expect to

Alternatives to CGI.pm

2003-03-31 Thread Simon Wilcox
Over on the GLLUG list there's a thread about why someone doesn't use CGI.pm. His answer is that it doesn't support CSS very well, which is kinda true but then he should be using a templating system for that kind of advanced stuff. I want to recommend that he uses CGI.pm anyway, for it's form

Re: rugby

2003-03-25 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 15:59, Greg McCarroll wrote: Ok, its been talked about in the past, but does anyone have any plans for a london.pm meet up to watch Ireland kick Englands arse on sunday. How about somewhere nice and central as well, what about the pillars of hercules? or does someone

Re: Perl 6 Apocalypse 6

2003-03-11 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Simon Wistow wrote: What I hope is that Perl 6 is like that. That most people will never see the complicated bits. What I worry about is maintaining code by someone like Piers (sorry Piers :) which is so full of clever bits that I will have to deal with 'Full on Larry

Re: DNS blocklist software?

2003-03-11 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 15:59, Paul Makepeace wrote: Has anyone implemented a barebones or better DNS blocklist? I'm wondering if Net::DNS::Update might appear somewhere there, and what changes to named.conf would be needed. Basically I'm trying to keep my secondary MXs aware of any IPs that

Re: DNS blocklist software?

2003-03-11 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 17:50, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 04:51:56PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 15:59, Paul Makepeace wrote: Has anyone implemented a barebones or better DNS blocklist? I'm wondering if Net::DNS::Update might appear somewhere

Re: Test More Branding

2003-03-11 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 19:24, Greg McCarroll wrote: So I was on IRC today, and someone (feel free to name yourself) was talking about how cool it would be to have perlforge / perl breadbasked / oyster bed (as you can see we got into naming). Anyway whatever it would be called it would be a

Re: YAPC::Europe War

2003-02-13 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:45, Mark Fowler wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Simon Wilcox wrote: Not to worry, we'll all have been melted down in a nuclear conflagration by the summer anyway. This is no excuse not to at least to attempt to organise the trip to YAPC::Europe young man ;-) Dman

Re: YAPC::Europe War

2003-02-13 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:06, Tim Sweetman wrote: Lusercop wrote: I doubt it will have been melted down, more likely instantly vapourised, I suspect. And it will probably be friendly-fire that bombs london by the USAF, because they got their maps upside-down, too. PS. This is not the Cold

Re: Language optimality (was WWW::Map::UK::Streetmap)

2003-02-11 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 11 Feb 2003, Dirk Koopman wrote: Yes, maybe, but show me one of these systems that _consistantly_ produces faster code than someone who is talented. I willingly agree that the code is physically produced faster - but it don't go as well. And this is the nub of it. Basically there aren't

Re: plumbers

2003-02-11 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 12:35, Dirk Koopman wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 12:28, Ben wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:49:25AM +, Dirk Koopman wrote: And just maybe I might retrain as one seeing some of the salaries / fees plumbers are getting these days... To say nothing of all

Re: Language Gentlemen and Ladies

2003-02-11 Thread Simon Wilcox
Lawyers - never use one word when ten will suffice. On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 12:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The

Re: WWW::Map::UK::Streetmap - A tale of woe

2003-02-10 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Andy Wardley wrote: Penny Bamborough wrote: The site has grown considerably since that time, we do use Win2k servers with our own IIS extensions written in C++ to power the site I'm a little surprised by that. Although I must admit that I've never written IIS

Re: WWW::Map::UK::Streetmap - A tale of woe

2003-02-10 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 12:51, Joel Bernstein wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 12:39:07PM +, Ian Brayshaw wrote: monkey's? Afterall, the client has the right to refuse to pay the coder and refuse the final product if explicitly stated standards are not met. Fair enough, but at what point

Re: Class::DBI ponderings

2003-02-07 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 17:34, Simon Batistoni wrote: We're currently considering shifting our core mod-perl system here at work to use Class::DBI, since many of the classes we have already are pretty much reinventing its wheel, and we currently have the time and space to make a few structural

YAPC::Europe

2003-01-26 Thread Simon Wilcox
Our new leader seems to have excellent delegating skillz as I've found myself volunteering to be the cat herder for YAPC this year ! More details here: http://www.yapc.org/Europe/2003/index.html So - who's going and how long do people want to stay ? Right now I'm thinking travel on the 22nd

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