Re: Siesta party

2003-08-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Nigel Rantor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Eep. None of my business of course, but that place chongs for the lord. I am an NW3 resident and it sucketh arse like nobody's business. If you want mexican in town go to Cafe Pacifico in Covent Garden, best marguaritas (speelong?) ever. If

Re: Siesta party

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Insam
At 23:16 + 2003/08/14, Greg McCarroll wrote: i can never remember its name, because when i finally get up, find that someone has replaced my legs with jelly, stagger to the door and grab business card to remember the place. i find that i end up with a business card for la perla - an italian.

OSX to Netscreen

2003-08-15 Thread Mike Friedman
Title: Message Hello, I saw your posting about this on line and would appreciate the details. I've just started a new job where I need access a Netscreen VPN from home using my Powerbook. Cheers, MIke == Mike Friedman IT Manager Alzheimers Assn. of NorthernCalifornia 2065

Re: Siesta party

2003-08-15 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Tom Insam wrote: At 23:16 + 2003/08/14, Greg McCarroll wrote: i can never remember its name, because when i finally get up, find that someone has replaced my legs with jelly, stagger to the door and grab business card to remember the place. i find that i end up

Re: Exporting from .mdb Access files

2003-08-15 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:21:04PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: It seems like if you can get an instance of Access running with the file, you should be able to use ODBC to extract the data. Indeed, but that would require running Windows, obtaining a

Cafe Pacifico Cat Herding

2003-08-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
So lots of people seem to want to go to Cafe Pacifico, and as i haven't been stupid enough to volunteer for cat herding in sometime i'll take care of it. I will be going to Cafe Pacifico on Friday 22nd of August (next friday), I shall be aiming to sit down at the table for 7pm. If you would like

Re: Exporting from .mdb Access files

2003-08-15 Thread Alex Hudson
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:48:26AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: I'm absolutely sure I have seen a project that is aiming to produce an open source library for access databases bt for the life of me I can't find it in any of the usual places. libmdb? http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/ Cheers,

Re: [JOB] Yahoo! News (in California)

2003-08-15 Thread Jon Reades
Paul Makepeace wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:58:44PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: Any success actually having a H1B granted? I had one during the dot com boom and it was a massive PITA even then. As a student in the US and then an employee of an American corporation which sheperded my

Re: what are you doing

2003-08-15 Thread Ali Young
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Michael Stevens wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:39:16PM +0100, Ali Young wrote: I'm starting an OU maths degree next year. This is because free time is patently evil and wrong and much be got rid of. Do you actually have any free time at the moment, though? :) I'm

[OT] Decompiling perl2exe apps

2003-08-15 Thread James Campbell
Hi Everyone I need a bit of advice with a slightly embarrasing problem... No, not in the trouser department (as yet). I have managed to lose some source code (ahem) for a script that I packaged with perl2exe on a Windows 2000 PC. I have seen a few hints that perl2exe applications can be cracked

Re: [OT] Decompiling perl2exe apps

2003-08-15 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, James Campbell wrote: I have managed to lose some source code (ahem) for a script that I packaged with perl2exe on a Windows 2000 PC. I have seen a few hints that perl2exe applications can be cracked to reveal the source code. This sound great except the word trivial

IPC::Shareable: Could not create semaphore set

2003-08-15 Thread Andy Ford
Hello I have had a good look round at what may be causing the error.. Could not create semaphore set: No space left on device What I am basically doing is the following... tie %myhash, 'IPC::Shareable', hashkey, {create = 1, exclusive = 0, mode = 0666, destroy = 1, size = 262144 };

Re: OT: Can't declare subtraction

2003-08-15 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:21:34 -0400, Mike Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They swear they're upgrading RSN, when BSD (Free? Open? Whichever.) does. They only run stable from their distro, and it's hard to fault an ISP for that. That's a pretty lame excuse. It's very easy to disable the

Re: IPC::Shareable: Could not create semaphore set

2003-08-15 Thread Andy Ford
This is the output of ipcs -A... IPC status from running system as of Fri Aug 15 13:10:04 UTC 2003 T ID KEYMODEOWNERGROUP CREATOR CGROUP CBYTES QNUM QBYTES LSPID LRPID STIMERTIMECTIME Message Queues: T ID KEYMODEOWNER

Re: IPC::Shareable: Could not create semaphore set

2003-08-15 Thread Andy Ford
Actually, $dstIP prints out 10 times. and the maximum number of shares mem segments is 10. Maybe its the hash that isn't declared correctly!? Andy On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 14:12, Andy Ford wrote: This is the output of ipcs -A... IPC status from running system as of Fri Aug 15 13:10:04 UTC 2003

Re: IPC::Shareable: Could not create semaphore set

2003-08-15 Thread Andy Ford
I meant semaphores... from 'sysdef -i' I get * IPC Semaphores * 10 semaphore identifiers (SEMMNI) 60 semaphores in system (SEMMNS) 30 undo structures in system (SEMMNU) 25 max semaphores per id (SEMMSL) 10 max operations per semop call (SEMOPM) 10 max undo

Re: IPC::Shareable: Could not create semaphore set

2003-08-15 Thread Andy Ford
I am getting somewhere now!! If I call 'tie' after I have created the hash, all is fine. Surely I should be able to create the shares memory and then add/remove entries in the hash at will!? Andy On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 14:12, Andy Ford wrote: This is the output of ipcs -A... IPC status

Re: Bra

2003-08-15 Thread Andrew Savige
dha wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:26:18AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: The goods have indeed arrived. I will not take any photos of it. I may bring[1] it to the next social. It is a black Victoria's Secret bra. And will you be bringing it on tour for those of us not in the london area?

Re: [OT] Decompiling perl2exe apps

2003-08-15 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 12:46:50PM +0100, Shevek wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, James Campbell wrote: I have managed to lose some source code (ahem) for a script that I packaged with perl2exe on a Windows 2000 PC. I have seen a few hints that perl2exe applications can be cracked to reveal

Re: Bra

2003-08-15 Thread Marna Gilligan
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: The goods have indeed arrived. I will not take any photos of it. I may bring[1] it to the next social. It is a black Victoria's Secret bra. I'd be *more* than happy to take photographs of you modelling the bra, so as to let those who can't make it to

Re: Bra

2003-08-15 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 03:57:58PM +0100, Marna Gilligan wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: The goods have indeed arrived. I will not take any photos of it. I may bring[1] it to the next social. It is a black Victoria's Secret bra. I'd be *more* than happy to take

Re: Bra

2003-08-15 Thread Jason Clifford
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: This counts as art rather than debauchery? On the basis that debauchery is frowned on at social meetings? Anyway, this seems unlikely, given Leon's previous insistence that he won't be wearing it. Count the number of people who pat him on the back

Re: Bra

2003-08-15 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * *This counts as art rather than debauchery? On the basis that debauchery *is frowned on at social meetings? * *Anyway, this seems unlikely, given Leon's previous insistence that he *won't be wearing it. Gads, given the choice, I'd almost rather have

Re: Bra

2003-08-15 Thread Jason Clifford
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Ali Young wrote: and the number of people who try to ping his bra strap [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ping bra-strap.leon ping: unknown host bra-strap.leon Jason -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net http://www.ukfsn.org/ ADSL Broadband

[RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Simon Wistow
For various reasons I needed to write something that would evaluate an arbitary math's expression safely (i.e not just run it through eval ). So I decided that the best [0] way to do it was to write a grammar. Which I have. It's quite funky, deals with large floating point numbers, sin, random

Re: Bra

2003-08-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Elaine -HFB- Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Gads, given the choice, I'd almost rather have photos of you all wearing it on your head Animal House style just to get it over with :) It'd be a fitting addition to the toilet seat around the neck series Last time you made a wise crack

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: For various reasons I needed to write something that would evaluate an arbitary math's expression safely (i.e not just run it through eval ). you could always just use google, maybe write a screen scraper for, have you seen the google calculator, its

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Simon Wistow
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:15:52AM +, Greg McCarroll said: you could always just use google, maybe write a screen scraper for, have you seen the google calculator, its very good ;-) *slap!*

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread alex
you could always just use google, maybe write a screen scraper for, have you seen the google calculator, its very good ;-) *slap!* a

Re: OT: Can't declare subtraction

2003-08-15 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:11:21PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:21:34 -0400, Mike Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They swear they're upgrading RSN, when BSD (Free? Open? Whichever.) does. They only run stable from their distro, and it's hard to fault an ISP for

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Simon Wistow wrote: For various reasons I needed to write something that would evaluate an arbitary math's expression safely (i.e not just run it through eval ). So I decided that the best [0] way to do it was to write a grammar. Which I have. It's quite funky, deals

Re: OT: Can't declare subtraction

2003-08-15 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Lusercop `the.lusercop'@lusercop.net wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:11:21PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:21:34 -0400, Mike Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They swear they're upgrading RSN, when BSD (Free? Open? Whichever.) does. They only run stable from their

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread darren chamberlain
* Shevek shevek at anarres.org [2003-08-15 12:39]: The effective halfway house, which does produce a good but fast sandbox, is to parse the thing properly, generate a parse tree, then emit guaranteed clean Perl code from the parse tree, and eval that. This is how the Template Toolkit does it

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, darren chamberlain wrote: * Shevek shevek at anarres.org [2003-08-15 12:39]: The effective halfway house, which does produce a good but fast sandbox, is to parse the thing properly, generate a parse tree, then emit guaranteed clean Perl code from the parse tree, and

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Andy Wardley
Shevek wrote: Yapp is a brilliant piece of code which I love both in architecture and implementation, but it's desperately fucking slow. Slow at compiling the grammar or when running the parser that it builds? For compiling, we don't care that much because we only need to do it once, or

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Andy Wardley wrote: Shevek wrote: Yapp is a brilliant piece of code which I love both in architecture and implementation, but it's desperately fucking slow. Slow at compiling the grammar or when running the parser that it builds? Very slow at running. I don't really

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Werm
Shevek wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Andy Wardley wrote: Shevek wrote: Yapp is a brilliant piece of code which I love both in architecture and implementation, but it's desperately fucking slow. Slow at compiling the grammar or when running the parser that it builds? Very slow at running. I don't

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Werm wrote: Shevek wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Andy Wardley wrote: Shevek wrote: Yapp is a brilliant piece of code which I love both in architecture and implementation, but it's desperately fucking slow. Slow at compiling the grammar or when running the parser

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:15:34PM +0100, Shevek wrote: I use bison/flex, as previously mentioned. However, my current release on CPAN has a bug in it (produced, ironically enough, by following the perlxs documentation). But I really think that for an LL grammar, you should be Could you bug

ideal pub?

2003-08-15 Thread Nicholas Clark
My cow-worker (soon to be my boss) told me of this strange dream he had last night. Partly it's strange because he's not a perl monger (and in fact, doesn't even like perl). Anyway, he dreamt that he was in a group of London Perl mongers arguing about which pub to meet up in. After some