Re: Cocktails

2001-09-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
, that would be a foo-foo drink here. Although I drink berry-flavored ales, so I guess I can't disburse the blame much. :) At least they don't have small umbrellas in them. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn

Re: HTTP::Request cookies

2001-09-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
for site:stonehenge.com anonymous proxy) in verbose debugging mode. It shows all the headers and all the responses in a far-too-voluminous way. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting

Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer (onsite), UK, London]

2001-10-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
. If it isn't, DON'T QUOTE IT. So there's never a reason to top-quote. Except to demonstrate what a lazy bast*rd the poster is. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting

Re: Classic Computer Books (Non-Perl)

2001-10-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
or three to fill in some of the potholes in the roadway of your education. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See

Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer (onsite), UK, London]

2001-10-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
interested in communicating with me. If you want to make that impression, go right ahead. But don't expect me to trust your answers, or respect your observations, because apparently your purpose is for something *other* than clean easy communication. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: Another Good Meeting

2001-11-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Newton, == Newton, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Newton, Randal(? Newton, think he unsubbed again, ... more?) No... I'm still here. But I was on a couple of cruises in the past month, so my optional email reading became *very* optional. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: Fun with Java Programmers

2001-12-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Simon == Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon For the last few people out there who don't read The Onion I don't read the onion because nearly everything that is truly funny there has the URL forwarded to me on lists like this. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: Array Ref Weirdness

2001-12-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
to wait until perl 6, where it'll be blessed instead of ... cursed. {grin} -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See

Re: google historical archives

2001-12-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
, longest in the world, because of a contract that said that Westgate had to carry SW until revenues fell below a threshold. It never did. :) Thus, I saw SW (not SW IV) in the theatre more times than I could count. I think I lost track around 60-ish times. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: T-shirt idea

2001-12-17 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: Next meetings

2001-12-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
pdcawley == pdcawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd love to be there, but I have to go to the Perl Whirl instead :-) pdcawley You bastard! You'll have a great time. I did. You can always go again. I'm doing that. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777

Re: perl acronym

2001-12-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
. :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
. That's five years right there! -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment

Re: Compiling strings into code refs

2002-01-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
* the BEGIN blocks (and use operations) at compilation time, as they must. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See

Re: black hat hackers

2002-01-09 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
day. Paul I'm sure Randal could expound on this point. All too well. And I presume you've heard the final chapter in my personal story on this: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fors-announce/message/20 And although it's over for me, I will continue to fight the good fight. -- Randal L

Re: Co-lo, was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-12-31

2002-01-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Newton, == Newton, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Newton, David Cantrell wrote: One thing to bear in mind is that while rsync -a does preserve permission bits, it does *not* preserve owner and group information. Huh? as root, it seems to preserve everything. -- Randal L. Schwartz

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
, never for production. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl

Re: Erm, Hello?

2002-01-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
. Bad match. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: Who invented Emacs?

2002-01-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
to have introduced emacs to Unix, I'd believe that from personal experience. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See

Re: Who invented Emacs?

2002-01-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
all who enter here. It was the minimize screen update when things change section, ala Curses. Scary that the guy who wrote that code is now in charge of Java. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn

Re: Who invented Emacs?

2002-01-26 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
email. Your point? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl

Re: Email from a cultural icon

2002-01-26 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Paul == Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Notoriety in English has a negative connotation. Fame has a positive Paul connotation and also lies at the extreme, rather than the neutrality of Paul well-known-ness. Some of us are both notorious *and* famous. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz

Re: Open Certification

2002-01-26 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Alex == Alex Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex How can the education and certification model of the Open University Alex be applied to Perl? It can't. See http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=141518. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095

Re: Open Certification

2002-01-28 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
20 minutes with a good layout program and certify yourself, or buy one of the joke ones at the next TPC or YAPC. Really. If they don't care about a chain of authority, you're it! -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: Open Certification

2002-01-28 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
, and the respect of the other senior Perl developers and cheerleaders. Why is that so hard for you to understand? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc

Re: Open Certification

2002-01-28 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
to speak :) Greg This is what i heard as well. Randal are we both horribly mistaken? It Greg could happen as I think Dave and I heard this factoid at the same Greg time. That's a separate issue, although with a collided word. That's not to what I am referring. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: Open Certification

2002-01-28 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
, or it isn't. It won't blessed, so it might as well come off your own printer. What am I missing? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc

Re: OSX

2002-02-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
name just yesterday in class on my OSX box. $ mkdir fred barney; cd fred barney; pwd Works just fine. I didn't look to see what the Finder would do with that, however. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com

Re: OSX

2002-02-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
if they happened to have a space in the volume name (which nearly everyone I know does). Whitespace happens. Be prepared for it, or you will get bitten badly, not a matter of if, but WHEN. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: Diversity (was Re: Dan Sugalski calling all mongers groups)

2002-02-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
with Newton, Perl mongers both IRL and on a mailing list, etc. etc. Unless you consider it your job, or (gasp) your life. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical

Re: OSX

2002-02-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
use iCab as my primary browser. It's still sluggish on some things, and I'm not sure why. And there are times when it freaks out, so I have IE handy as well. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl

Re: JOB: wanted (all serioues offers considered)

2002-02-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Dave == Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Thanks, just checked it out. Dave File must be in Microsoft Word format Send them a plain text file and say Microsoft Word has no problems reading this. :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Perl is open source, it's not excluded by that last phrase. So, you could do all the work in Perl, perhaps with C++ wrappers to link to their code. You just need to give build instructions for Perl, etc. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL

Re: the latest booking list

2002-02-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Newton, == Newton, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Newton, Greg McCarroll wrote: i count 19 trouble makers out of 22, and no i didn't count myself ;-) Newton, /me smiles innocently Good thing I didn't put myself on that list publicly. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: rsync and mutt woes

2002-02-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
, if you did ssh -z. Makes X on a dialup barely useable instead of completely unusable. the No need to set environment variables (or xhost allow, the iirc) as ssh takes care of most of that stuff. Yes. ssh rocks. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095

Re: Lightweight template module?

2002-02-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Jonathan == Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonathan I would also be interested in a single file pure perl XML parser. XML::Parser::Lite fails for ... what reason? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: Is $foo a filehandle?

2002-03-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
, -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: Is $foo a filehandle?

2002-03-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Rob == Rob Partington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rob In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: Otherwise, { not ref($foo) or UNIVERSAL::isa($foo,IO::File) } will tell if it is openable. Rob That fails for things like IO::Scalar, doesn't it? Rob

Re: Is $foo a filehandle?

2002-03-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
, and handle it exceptionally. This is the One True Object Way. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com

Re: Is $foo a filehandle?

2002-03-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
is_strictly_filehandle { ref $_[0] # not string and UNIVERSAL::isa($_[0], IO::Handle); } I think that's a lot easier to understand than your mess. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security

Re: Voting scripts...

2002-03-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
are. Of course, like everything on the web, people do what they find works on this particular implementation, and ignore the standards. Which means it all breaks in the next release. {Sigh} -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: object madness?

2002-03-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
::object1 new); use autouse qw(Report::object2 new); -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite

Re: object madness?

2002-03-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
(via AUTOLOAD). My autouse method does that. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open

Re: object madness?

2002-03-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Randal == Randal L Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Randal my %objects; Randal for my $class (qw(Report::object1 Report::object2)) { Randal require autouse; Randal autouse-import($class, new); gah... that's $class, $class\::new; Randal $objects{$class} = $class

Re: The Perl Conference

2002-04-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
. This would have Tony : interested me. This sort of stuff doesn't... Right. What does that *mean* to *you*? What session titles would you have said damn, I really gotta convince my boss to let me go this year? Themes are for wimps. Let's get practical here. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: Mason Vs Template Toolkit

2002-04-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
of experience with Template at etoys.com et seq) counter by saying the caching at the HTML level is wrong... you should cache the input data and the full page views. I'm beginning to see their point. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dropping () with qw()

2002-05-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
split to @_ deprecated). -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl

Re: Perl is Way Sexy

2002-05-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
on the word big in that sentence... :-) What do you think of the new www.stonehenge.com look? Many thanks to Andy and TT2 for making me look like I'm an actual web hacker. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com

Re: review of Star Wars Episode 2

2002-05-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
David == David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David The Christopher Lee impersonator they got was fantastic too. I thought that was merely a CG effect, like Yoda. On the digital projection, I kept seeing flicker around his face. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services

Re: Things that suprised me about perl syntax

2002-05-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
of that name.) So: Markmy $foo = { delete = $cgi-param(delete) }; And yes, this is broken. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See

Re: Things that suprised me about perl syntax

2002-05-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Mark == Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark On 29 May 2002, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Mark Fowler wrote: array context What the heck is array context? Mark It's like list context but with all the wrong letters in the first word Mark due to sudden brain failure of the author. On re

Re: Things that suprised me about perl syntax

2002-05-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Leon == Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Leon From now on, I shall be using the two terms interchangably Leon just to prove my point. Hey hey. No need to get hostile. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: Recognising email addresses

2002-05-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
{ my($email, $orig_email) = @_; my($address) = $email-format; return qq|a href=mailto:$address;$orig_email/a|; }, ); $finder-find(\$text); -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503

Re: TPC cheap hotels

2002-06-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
at the front door and cabs don't seem to mind taking you there either. You won't find much cheaper nearby. I think I put up my friends at a sleezy motel near the airport and it was still $90/night. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: One use for the camel book..

2002-06-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Paul == Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul http://www.raverporn.net/tour/images/sample48.jpg I'm *sooo* glad that's the third edition. :-) Look what you get with a current Llama book instead: http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/Pictures/HWP/?show=73 :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz

Re: the muppets

2002-06-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
- heckling Randal - Ernie o/~ rubber duckie, you're the one... o/~ -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See

Re: Anyone up for a TPC6 skate jam?

2002-07-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
wheels is all you ever needed. This inline fad will pass. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com

Re: Anyone up for a TPC6 skate jam?

2002-07-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
running one night a week of roller, from what I saw last time I was there. Just another Roller Performance Skater, -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing

Re: Anyone up for a TPC6 skate jam?

2002-07-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
and skiing snowboarding doesn't try to twist my knees, which is one motion I no longer can muscle against and yet will basically put me in some serious injury. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl

Re: Please clean up our CPAN directory

2002-10-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
. Watch the keys that are being added to %SEEN. Something is inconsistent between File::Spec's calculation and File::Find's calculation. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security

Re: applying patterns

2002-10-09 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
{ return __PACKAGE__ } sub ... A class itself is always a singleton. If you want subclasses to share the same object, this works fine. To get subclasses to get their own individual object, change that to: sub new { return shift } Simple. Painless. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: better way to split text into a hash ?

2002-10-09 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
but couldn't turn it off, you moved to a free email address and joined from there. Maybe that should be the policy here too. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting

Re: applying patterns

2002-10-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
/ Thanks... I really appreciate it. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open

Re: webmail

2002-10-28 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: compiling perl

2002-10-28 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
? GDBM_File cannot be installed after the fact. You'll need to install gdbm, then install Perl. Not the other way around. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical

Re: compiling perl

2002-10-28 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
-Dprefix=/opt/perl/snap -Dlocincpth=/sw/include -Dloclibpth=/sw/lib [EMAIL PROTECTED] It finds things in /sw just fine when you do that. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security

Re: webmail

2002-10-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
of troff, and shell, and TCL, and languages which confuse the level with the meta-level too easily. It was this madness which Larry avoided with Perl having only one level (or two levels, in interpolated regexen) of interpretation at most. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc

Re: webmail

2002-10-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
the corresponding left paren, and be done with it. XML is great for machine-to-machine. For me, XML sucks for human-to-machine, and is only marginally better at machine-to-human. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: webmail

2002-10-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
to Mason. Use that. Stop trying harder. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite

Re: webmail

2002-10-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
or ticketmaster.com before? Oh wait, you're a brit. :) Paul I suspect more revenue is generated from PHP sites than Perl Paul sites. I don't. I suspect PHP runs more hobby sites. I suspect Perl does more of the e-commerce heavy lifting and pretty-lifting. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: webmail

2002-11-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
hardware, you need mod_perl. But that's not what was said here. S Just my $0.02, this isn't intended as a flame. Pay closer attention to context next time, please. That's not a flame either. That's just a whack upside the head. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

Re: Usernames?

2002-11-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Why not allow (embedded) whitespace, punctuation, and so on? BasicAuth with htpasswd files would break. Otherwise, they're really a lot more flexible. But just try doing tech support with 31337D#d3 as a username. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777

Re: HTML to PDF

2002-11-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Distiller?. Distiller can be approximated by Ghostscript. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-12-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
a DVD of your presentation? I gave someone on #perl that task... it would put RMS in a double bind. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc

Re: Perl CGI and PHP - with some TT thrown in

2002-12-09 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
to that PHP application are PHP, not yours? Stacking templating engines will lead to nightmares, anyway. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy

Re: Quick silly question

2003-02-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
code or open curlies or close curlies. eval $string is almost Always the Wrong Way to do things. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc

Re: Quick silly question

2003-02-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Jasper == Jasper McCrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jasper $h = { $_ = $h || {} } for reverse @r; Autovivification makes the || {} mostly unnecessary. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl

Re: perl website on CD

2003-02-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
a grownup language like Perl, use a grownup opensource database - PostgreSQL. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See

Re: perl website on CD

2003-02-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
in the desired direction! -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: sshd on port 443

2003-02-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
://www.lightlink.com/fors/ -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: sshd on port 443

2003-02-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Lusercop == Lusercop `the.lusercop'@lusercop.net writes: Lusercop In a parallel to UINE, EINI. I don't get either of those. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting

Re: sshd on port 443

2003-02-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
will be warming up to this idea. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment

Re: regrouping lines of STDIN - hashtable algorithm?

2003-03-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
{$code} = [ $_ ]; TSchutzerWeissmann yup, [ ] was what I was looking for. But not needed. See my other post. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing

Re: regrouping lines of STDIN

2003-03-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
{$code} } , $_; Luis }else{ Luis # First time for this array ref... Luis $seen{$code} = [ $_ ]; Luis } Luis } No, wrong, absolutely *not* needed, thanks to autovivification. See google site:stonehenge.com autovivification for further info. -- Randal L

Re: [OT] Magazines

2003-03-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Greg == Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg (sorry folks that should have been a private email) Yeah, doesn't it suck when a list sets a reply-to? ... http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Please fix this. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

Re: Starting Again

2003-03-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Paul == Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul ... is where you keep warez, pr0n and rootkits. No, I use . for that. Or maybe .\n :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix

Re: message board software

2003-03-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
-to-nntp gateway for a column. I won't offend y'all by including the precise URL or instructions on how to search for it. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting

Re: use warnings and 5.005

2003-03-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Struan == Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Struan So, is just missing out the line the way forward or is there an Struan approved idiom that escapes my google foo? Put -w on the command line. Works all the way back to Perl 2.000 :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: use warnings and 5.005

2003-03-31 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: CPAN site

2003-04-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
site:stonehenge.com MINICPAN -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: The joys of CPAN

2003-04-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
, and you don't have it? I think that was introduced in 5.6, so you are probably running 5.5. Upgrade your Perl to something introduced within the last two years. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl

Re: weird eval

2003-05-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
) }; # presuming SYS_exit is 1 -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: mod_perl PerlTransHandler weirdness

2003-06-17 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
you don't want $r-pathinfo (which won't be set during trans). you want $r-uri, which will be something like /THISBITHERE. Then again, it's early here, so this could all be wrong. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: OSCON

2003-07-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Andy == Andy Wardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andy So who is going to be at OSCON? oscon.kwiki.org/index.cgi?Attendees -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting

Re: OSCON - Featuring Wesley Crusher ?

2003-07-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
. And then OSCON invited him to be a full attendee. And yes, he's learning Perl. He's up to chapter 4 of the llama. He also mentioned me on his audioblog - http://www.audblog.com/media/5496/17930.mp3 -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: Perl in Mac OSX

2003-08-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Alex == Alex Brewer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex I have had a look at your archives and can't see much reference to Alex this, and wonder if there are any users of the perl in Mac OSX out Alex there? They probably number in the thousands, these days. What's your real question? -- Randal L

Re: [OT] SQL woes

2003-08-17 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
); If your db doesn't offer subselects, you've got to create a temp table. (And people who use MySQL wonder what the value of subselects are! :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security

Re: OSX - Thanks everyone

2003-08-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
system only as good as it resembles Unix in my opinion). In the Old Days of Unix, dot was in path, and people figured out how to exploit that, so no person who is seriously concerned about security includes it any more. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095

Re: [OT] SQL woes

2003-08-22 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
have been written that presume MySQL's quirky SQL subset. That'd be the *only* reason in my mind to go with MySQL over Pg at this point. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security

Re: [OT] SQL woes

2003-08-22 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Randal == Randal L Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Randal MySQL is a fine junior SQL engine. But it really doesn't provide a Randal way to enforce business rules in the engine - that was not its initial Randal goal. And when data integrity is important, you want to ensure good Randal

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