Re: london.pm

2011-12-06 Thread Philip Newton
for ending up the proud owner of the domain! Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Should I get my mum a Kindle?

2011-09-21 Thread Philip Newton
your stereo deck to record the show to cassette in advance. (Are there stereos these days that can record to CDs or internal storage of some kind? For that matter, are there stereos that you can make them record something on a timer?) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Perl in shared hosting environments

2011-09-21 Thread Philip Newton
modify Apache that way to inject a module into it from your section of a shared hosting environment. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread Philip Newton
. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Croyden.pm

2011-07-20 Thread Philip Newton
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:18, Andrew Black andrew-per...@mail.black1.org.uk wrote: Not sure how to get it or whether it would render but a SCHWA would be represent the canonical pronunciation of Croyd'n So, Croydən.pm? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Croyden.pm

2011-07-19 Thread Philip Newton
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 18:11, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 16:59,  ian.doche...@nomura.com wrote: [Ian replied.] Perhaps it should be Croyd[oe]n.pm ? Then surely just Croydön.pm? I was thinking more along the lines of Croydœn.pm. Cheers, Philip -- Philip

Re: RFC: Test::Copyright

2011-06-13 Thread Philip Newton
What's the point of checking for a copyright ending date that matches the current year? Or perhaps I should ask, whom do you envisage running such tests? The developer, or end users? It's good for the developer, I suppose, but useless for end users - if they install something that was last

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-06-08 Thread Philip Newton
, and string values filled simultaneously, so I'm not sure how any of the three fields could be considered the value of those, er, values(?). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-05-30 Thread Philip Newton
%conf ; I wonder what kind of configuration you use, where values can consist only of one or more dots Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Junior-mid level Perl (Victoria Conlan)

2011-04-28 Thread Philip Newton
replace half of the flour with ground almonds.  Pop over, I'll make you it some time. Here in the US, most of the margarine has dairy ingredients, especially the more buttery tasting ones.  YMMV. Similarly here in Germany. Was a bit surprised when I first found out. Cheers, Philip -- Philip

Re: web hosting

2011-01-01 Thread Philip Newton
. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: learning / training in java perl programmer?

2010-07-31 Thread Philip Newton
, especially as a stepping-stone towards SCJD, but learning for SCJP won't necessarily be a good introduction to *developing with Java* (as opposed to learning about the Java compiler and the runtime environment, for which is probably *is* a good introdcution). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new

Re: Solid state drives

2010-04-20 Thread Philip Newton
. Really? I can see at least three. But what do I know, being a furriner? I expect it was shorthand for Your main clause no finite verb. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?

2010-04-14 Thread Philip Newton
the order. An infinitely long sequence of them, I just don't know where it starts. Ah - you have a proof that pi is normal, then! Just what mathematicians have been searching for for ages! Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 12th April 2010

2010-03-27 Thread Philip Newton
2010/3/27 Piers Cawley pdcawley-london.0dd...@bofh.org.uk: Hmm... the tricky bit is finding a tune where 'Damian Conway' will scan... Damian Conway, Lord Protector of England (and his code!) born in 1964, died in 2058 (September!) . Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Parking At BBC White City

2010-03-17 Thread Philip Newton
that the routers along the way honour it. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: [Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position]

2010-02-11 Thread Philip Newton
a spammer... I would, just wouldn't pay it back :-) I'd love to pay it back; unfortunately, the money is held in a trust account and we need you to provide the account closure fees in order for the money to be released. Bribes may also accelerate the process. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton

Re: Fun Friday afternoon topic: domain name disputes

2010-02-09 Thread Philip Newton
believe, one reason why the .us TLD never really caught on.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: MIME::Lite

2010-02-01 Thread Philip Newton
such as sendmail (which would handle things such as queuing, retrying, etc.). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: TT and UTF8?

2010-01-31 Thread Philip Newton
even seen bits of code that explicitly strip the UTF-8 flag, I think). So things such as 'ö' would be not just two bytes but also two (Perl) characters inside LiveJournal's innards. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: SHA question

2010-01-14 Thread Philip Newton
without checking. Computing diffs would be more work in this case, not less. So yes, I suppose something similar applies here -- you have to read the entire file anyway, so you might as well go with SHA-$number_of_your_choice. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: SHA question

2010-01-14 Thread Philip Newton
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 16:20, Matthew Boyle mlb-p...@decisionsoft.co.uk wrote: David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 02:02:51PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: That reminds me of how I was disappointed to find that rsync generally transfers complete files (rather than diffs) if both

Re: SHA question

2010-01-13 Thread Philip Newton
there are much higher risks (say, 1x10^-32) which you do not guard against, either? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: SHA question

2010-01-13 Thread Philip Newton
doing something wrong somewhere. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Brazilian PM looking for a job in London area

2010-01-11 Thread Philip Newton
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 14:06, Hakim Cassimally hakim.cassima...@gmail.com wrote: [Chris]: I'm going to guess your reply was intended to be helpful? That's how I read it. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: The bar receipt for Saturday night...

2009-12-09 Thread Philip Newton
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:11, Paul LeoNerd Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 07:11:44 +0100 Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/9 Andrew Black andrew-per...@mail.black1.org.uk: people are getting a bit pentiumed up Well, I amd expecting a bit of intel

Re: The bar receipt for Saturday night...

2009-12-08 Thread Philip Newton
2009/12/9 Andrew Black andrew-per...@mail.black1.org.uk: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:06:41PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: I'm guessing not. I'll wait for the sparc of realisation to dawn, but I'm not sure whether I should have an atom of hope for that; might be language differences. people

Re: The bar receipt for Saturday night...

2009-12-07 Thread Philip Newton
it was worth the risc? Guess you meant Do you think it was *wrist* the risk? I'm guessing not. I'll wait for the sparc of realisation to dawn, but I'm not sure whether I should have an atom of hope for that; might be language differences. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009

2009-12-01 Thread Philip Newton
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 09:03, Mike Whitaker m...@altrion.org wrote: (this is not an answer) But this might be: echo 169 | perl -pe '/(\d+)(?{ $_ = sqrt($^N).\n })/;' Except it didn't follow the rules. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009

2009-12-01 Thread Philip Newton
gives you an alias, too. So whatever you do to $b happens to $a{1} as well. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Weekend entertainment

2009-11-16 Thread Philip Newton
of what other UK citizens do should also put a stop to it, and likewise (mutatis mutandis) for other countries. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Regexp capture group list

2009-11-10 Thread Philip Newton
copying -- I don't know whether s/^.// is optimised to do that, but AFAIK substr( ..., 0, ... ) = will simply set the internal OFFSET flag in the SV. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Regexp capture group list

2009-11-10 Thread Philip Newton
...\n; $_[0] =~ s/^$re//; return @matches } at the cost of running the regexp twice (once for matching and capturing, then once for substituting). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Regexp capture group list

2009-11-10 Thread Philip Newton
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 15:53, Paul LeoNerd Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 03:11:04PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: Ooh, yes, it does have a certain charm. And it may even involve less string copying In fact, they seem to behave quite similarly: Ah, poo :) Well

Re: Efficient sorting of SNMP oids

2009-10-31 Thread Philip Newton
the power of open source, etc. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Every other

2009-10-30 Thread Philip Newton
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:35, Mark Fowler m...@twoshortplanks.com wrote: Compared to: perl -MO=Terse -e 'my $i; @new = grep { $i != $i } @old;' Irrelevant, since that doesn't do what you want. (Hint: swap '=' and '!'.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II

2009-10-20 Thread Philip Newton
Microsoft-the-software-company and Microsoft-the-hardware-company. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: [OT] Encode woes

2009-09-25 Thread Philip Newton
to poll? I was going to suggest Encode::is_utf8 and/or utf8::is_utf8, but I wasn't sure whether it would actually solve your problem so I thought I'd rather stay quiet and hope someone with real-world experience in utf8 woes would pipe up. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-25 Thread Philip Newton
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:22, Andy Wardley a...@wardley.org wrote: To: publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com, London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers london.pm@london.pm.org What's that when it's at home? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Does Perl has a code hider

2009-09-17 Thread Philip Newton
, and people who want to update the FAQ can fork his repository, make the change, and send him a pull request. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Philip Newton
5.008? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Tricky localization/scope question

2009-07-28 Thread Philip Newton
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:20, Randy J. Rayrj...@blackperl.com wrote: Still, room for one more. TIMTOWTDI, and all that... I hear CPAN could do with another web templating framework and a couple of date/time-related classes... Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: compression algorithm!

2009-04-08 Thread Philip Newton
to sift given { s = Server , i = 'indigo', f = has failed due to: , t = case temperature exceeded maximum permissible temperature }.) Cheers, -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Recession rates

2009-03-10 Thread Philip Newton
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 18:12, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: I saw this today[1], advertising for a pretty impressive list of skills for £175/day. [snip] [1] http://www.jobsite.co.uk/cgi-bin/vacdetails.pl?selection=931442513 Now down to £150/day. Cheers, -- Philip Newton philip.new

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

2009-01-05 Thread Philip Newton
axes, needed for stability) is much better (longer) with other folding bikes. ITYM is much better *than* with other folding bikes? (Honest question; either interpretation is plausible to me.) Cheers, -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz

2008-12-18 Thread Philip Newton
2008/12/18 Paul LeoNerd Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:54:40 +0100 Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 02:47, Torsten Knorr create-s...@freenet.de wrote: Who is Haiku? Not who; what. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku Or maybe

Re: Sample answers to Christmas Quiz

2008-12-18 Thread Philip Newton
, but I wouldn't call them lists. That's like saying that '3' is a variable just because it's a literal that you can use to initialise a variable with. Lists are values, arrays and hashes are variables. Cheers, -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz

2008-12-17 Thread Philip Newton
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 02:47, Torsten Knorr create-s...@freenet.de wrote: Who is Haiku? Not who; what. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku Cheers, -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz

2008-12-17 Thread Philip Newton
-first... if it's a statement separator. But before a sub declaration? Or after a closing brace in general? What statements is it separating there? (Blocks aren't statements - are they?) Weirdness. Cheers, -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz

2008-12-17 Thread Philip Newton
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 23:04, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote: ; is a statement terminator, not a separator. Java inherits from C, not DWIM :-) I always thought Perl inherited the statement separator, not terminator behaviour from Pascal. Cheers, -- Philip Newton philip.new

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz

2008-12-17 Thread Philip Newton
, though seldomly. And, recently, a similar thing in SQL: SELECT this , that , theother FROM tablename , othertable WHERE foo = bar OR hello = world ; Cheers, -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz

2008-12-12 Thread Philip Newton
before 'fat comma' and the single-word contents of a hash subscript. Hm, do filehandles count in things such as print LOGFILE 'bla'? Cheers, -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com

Re: LPW: Slides... DBIC and new recommendations!

2008-12-02 Thread Philip Newton
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 16:28, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're using an ORM, why would you care what the underlying table is like? You'll always access it via the ORM. Excuse me while I laugh a little. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IPC and counters

2008-10-16 Thread Philip Newton
if (EAGAIN == $sem-op(1,-1, IPC_NOWAIT)) { $sem-remove; } Does the module really export no constants for this 0, 1, -1 stuff? It all seems rather error-prone to me. Cheers, -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Calling Conventions and Pass By Reference

2008-09-02 Thread Philip Newton
to a different object, but that won't affect your copy of the reference, which will still point to the original referent.) If certain things tend to be immutable, you expect less action-at-a-distance. Cheers, -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unresponsive module authors

2003-09-25 Thread Philip Newton
://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=292164 (pointed at from a comment I was asked to metamoderate on use.Perl). Or any blind user. :( If it's the person I'm thinking of, they have a text-only version, too (though how screen-reader-friendly it is, I do not know). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL

Re: __DATA__ and scalars

2003-09-24 Thread Philip Newton
. And UNLIKELYSTRING (or whatever you choose as a terminator) is, presumably, less likely to occur than a single double quote. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kibo and Religion - Inventing Deities

2003-09-08 Thread Philip Newton
, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ob-buffy

2003-09-04 Thread Philip Newton
, or something). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gzipping your websites

2003-09-02 Thread Philip Newton
, the result of fetching this URL depends on the Encoding header the client sends, so only send back this stuff to clients with the same header as the one you're making this request on behalf of). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial

2003-09-02 Thread Philip Newton
.tar.Z / .tar.gz in the *nix world, though .tar.bz2 are starting to show up in a couple of places.) So, as far as I'm concerned, .RAR isn't standard, either, but apparently there are such for whom it is. This is probably not relevant for whoever started the thread, though. Cheers, Philip -- Philip

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

2003-09-02 Thread Philip Newton
On 2 Sep 2003 at 9:43, Roger Burton West wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:24:11AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: When I started computing in the 90's on PCs, it was LZH at the beginning, replaced by ARJ shortly after I started; now it's ZIP. (And, of course, the perennial .tar.Z / .tar.gz

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

2003-09-02 Thread Philip Newton
sorts of apps, though most appeared to be newer (as in, developed in the last six or seven years). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

2003-09-02 Thread Philip Newton
On 2 Sep 2003 at 9:19, Chris Devers wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Philip Newton wrote: No idea what ARJ is doing these days. They still seem to be around as a company (and have a better format called JAR, apparently) [...] JAR? No relation to the Java archive format, is there? Correct

Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises

2003-09-01 Thread Philip Newton
On 29 Aug 2003 at 22:29, Piers Cawley wrote: Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aah, but what programming language would be best for them to use on such a project? Befunge. Or Brainfuck. Maybe INTERCAL. Malbolge. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises

2003-09-01 Thread Philip Newton
On 1 Sep 2003 at 9:56, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: Philip Newton wrote: On 29 Aug 2003 at 22:29, Piers Cawley wrote: Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aah, but what programming language would be best for them to use on such a project? Befunge. Or Brainfuck

Re: gzipping your websites

2003-09-01 Thread Philip Newton
will not have bunzip2 on their systems. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gzipping your websites

2003-09-01 Thread Philip Newton
, have a file foo.html in the same directory, so content negotiation wasn't really involved, or not in the way that I understand you are after. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Margarine (was Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises)

2003-08-29 Thread Philip Newton
On 29 Aug 2003 at 10:56, Paul Makepeace wrote: margarine - why do people even consider eating this shit? Ignorance? Don't care about themselves? Laziness? Habit? My theory: no taste buds. Margarine icky, butter much better. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: request for supercited mails

2003-08-28 Thread Philip Newton
, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: golf and reversed emails

2003-08-28 Thread Philip Newton
it. I remember writing to the author about a couple of minor typos in the book and being pointed to the on-line errata with a remark along the lines of ... but you should really be using Java instead these days; it's better than C. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises

2003-08-28 Thread Philip Newton
their national ID card (Personalausweis / Perso). On the other hand, I'm not sure quite how compulsive it is; I've heard conflicting information on, say, whether you are required by law to have it on you at all times. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: golf and reversed emails

2003-08-27 Thread Philip Newton
line in turn, rather than on the entire file. It also doesn't assign the result of 'reverse' to anything, nor does it print it. (What is printed is the original, unchanged value of $_ for each line.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 384(!) readers on London.pm

2003-08-26 Thread Philip Newton
-- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: text'd or texted

2003-08-11 Thread Philip Newton
On 5 Aug 2003 at 9:41, Andy Ford wrote: Another word to confuse the non English speaking community -the verb to text!! Any noun can be verbed (though verbing weirds language). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: text'd or texted

2003-08-05 Thread Philip Newton
it's a language without nouns and adjectives and that it uses verbs for those functions; {lo gerku cu bunre} could then be translated as something like that-which-dogs, browns rather than The dog is brown, which is how I'd probably translate the sentence. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL

Re: [ANNOUNCE] YAPC::Europe Auction

2003-07-28 Thread Philip Newton
year? I mean, if 200 euros would have made the page French until the end of the year, surely 1372 euros can do so for an entire year? Koraj salutoj, Filipo. -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: regexps

2003-07-20 Thread Philip Newton
prefers the abbreviation. I think I usually use the expanded form regular expression when I'm talking. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to make lexical warnings 'die'?

2003-07-14 Thread Philip Newton
-- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to make lexical warnings 'die'?

2003-07-14 Thread Philip Newton
is it belongs to a project I worked on formerly, so I probably shouldn't be using it, in theory. Have to see. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

XML book recommendations?

2003-07-02 Thread Philip Newton
recommendations or warnings? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: list all installed perl modules

2003-07-02 Thread Philip Newton
-- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ot] Mounting Unix Drives in Windows

2003-07-01 Thread Philip Newton
, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ot] Mounting Unix Drives in Windows

2003-07-01 Thread Philip Newton
recent issue of _Sys Admin_ magazine. (Two CDs, though I think one's mostly training videos.) You're welcome to it as far as I'm concerned. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Contracts for contractors

2003-06-28 Thread Philip Newton
On 28 Jun 2003 at 5:15, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 11:53:13AM +0100, David Hodgkinson wrote: Bah, duodecimal is the way to go. http://base12.org/ Interesting. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Contracts for contractors

2003-06-27 Thread Philip Newton
On 26 Jun 2003 at 7:01, Dave Cross wrote: Half a crown = 2 and a half shillings = 30 pence Also known as two and six. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UK Money, again

2003-06-27 Thread Philip Newton
about different hundredweights? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UK Money, again

2003-06-27 Thread Philip Newton
On 27 Jun 2003 at 13:28, Roger Horne wrote: On Fri 27 Jun, Philip Newton wrote: which sounds as if it *is* 100 somethings. But is wrong. There are 112 pounds in a hundredweight (or were when I was at school). See http://home.clara.net/brianp/weights.html I sit corrected. If I have

Re: assimilating CPAN

2003-06-16 Thread Philip Newton
/an/Antipode.html ), I think Melbourne is probably the farthest away that London.pm has members in. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: assimilating CPAN

2003-06-12 Thread Philip Newton
) that the number of modules kept going up from the time he wrote his talk to the time he gave it. (I think there was some coding going on even during his talk...) Cheers, Philip (of London.pm, but not living anywhere near London) -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The answer to the map and disc problem

2003-06-02 Thread Philip Newton
Latin-1 versions of vim I have lying around. (p- and p~, D- and d- on a HP-Roman-8 version I have.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: YAPC::Europe registration and the wheel

2003-04-22 Thread Philip Newton
On 18 Apr 2003 at 17:56, Simon Wistow wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:39:17PM +0200, Philip Newton said: Wasn't it here that someone posted recently about the Sourceforge effect? (A project gets started, mailing lists set up, brief flurry of activity, then a resounding nothing

Re: RegEx for UK Postal Codes

2003-04-01 Thread Philip Newton
(from when Abigail asked on a newsgroup or mailing list somewhere)... if I think of it, I'll have a look at home where I saved a couple of interesting messages from that thread. On the other hand, they may not be of interest in the Real World. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RegEx for UK Postal Codes

2003-04-01 Thread Philip Newton
On 1 Apr 2003 at 13:23, Philip Newton wrote: I seem to recall that there were a couple of additional weird postal codes (from when Abigail asked on a newsgroup or mailing list somewhere). Found it. Have a look at http://archive.develooper.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/, the thread Zip/Postal codes

Re: RegEx for UK Postal Codes

2003-04-01 Thread Philip Newton
.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RegEx for UK Postal Codes

2003-04-01 Thread Philip Newton
because she is the current holder of that title, completely independent of the UK crown. I didn't know that, though. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: message board software

2003-03-27 Thread Philip Newton
On 27 Mar 2003 at 5:37, Toby|Wintrmute wrote: I need to setup a message board / forum thing smartassConsider using a Usenet server instead/smartass Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Starting Again

2003-03-21 Thread Philip Newton
It, that retort isn't as valid. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-20 Thread Philip Newton
On 19 Mar 2003 at 19:31, Chris Benson wrote: [Getting ORA books at a discount as a *.pm member] On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:06:53PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: (Presumably only works when ordering directly from ORA.) Yup, I used to have a card with Josette's contact details, ... I'll try

Re: [OT] PDA recommendation.

2003-03-20 Thread Philip Newton
a WinCE machine). Though with the same caveat the controls can get a bit annoying. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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