Re: Online payment providers

2003-09-18 Thread nemesis
Jason Clifford wrote: On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, nemesis wrote: Netbanx: http://www.netinvest.co.uk/ncr/netbanx/ Of the ones listed these are the only ones I would specifically avoid. On the few occassions I've had to pay via their service it's been impossible as their site only seemed to work

Re: any recommended web-hosting?

2003-09-09 Thread nemesis
Dean Wilson wrote: James Campbell wrote: I'm looking for a company to host a business website. Has anyone had any good or bad experiences that they can comment on without an ensuing lawsuite? I'm in London as I am sure (some) of you are so if you know of any London based companies I would love to

Re: Exim and HELO

2003-09-08 Thread nemesis
Tony Kennick wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:14:40 +0100 Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought traditional london.pm advocacy was whether Willow or Buffy was on top. Willow and Faith custard wrestling. On the note of advocacy, it is part of life, the problem with the mail wasn't that it

Wierd file problem (perl)

2003-02-26 Thread nemesis
Hello. I have a script that allows a user to upload images to the filesystem as part of the backend to a CGI shopping cart system has been working fine. I then added another section allowing the user to upload images for a different part of the site but this doesn't work. The code used to

Re: Wierd file problem (perl)

2003-02-26 Thread nemesis
From a chat on IRC I realise that I haven't really included enough information. my $buffer= ; my $buffer_size = 16384; #print Content-type: text/plain\n\n; I only included this line, and the exit; statement below, to debug the script. There is a header printed out later in the script. The

Re: Wierd file problem (perl)

2003-02-26 Thread nemesis
Just discorvered that replacing this line: print OUTPUT $buffer; with this: print OUTPUT .; works every time, leaving me with a file with some dots in it. Will.

Re: [Job] Looking for a Sales Guy

2003-02-25 Thread nemesis
Nik Butler wrote: ...good sales guys ? Isn't that an Oxymoron? :-) Will

Re: cheap-ass SSL certs

2003-02-11 Thread nemesis
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: What's the cheapest way of doing a reasonably pukka SSL site cert? I have had success with Thawte[0] in the past. If you need to get them on the phone it is pretty easy. Unfortunatly they are owned by Verisign I think. Will. [0] http://www.thawte.com/

Re: perl website on CD

2003-02-11 Thread nemesis
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Alex == Alex McLintock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex And best of all - if you don't need MySQL then it is free. (Apparently Alex you can't distribute MySQL as part of a commercial product.without Alex paying for a license) First, I don't think that's true any

Re: ADSL again

2002-10-18 Thread nemesis
Neil Ford wrote: On 18/10/02 4:14 pm, Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:56:56PM +0100, Nicholas Clark said: stuff my plan is exactly that. The box will be a Smoothwall box with two network cards and a wireless card in it for, red, green and orange zones

HTML::Template ramblings

2002-10-16 Thread nemesis
Hi all, I have mod_perl running and I am pre-loading the HTML::Template module (among others) when Apache starts up. I also have a self written Page.pm module with the 'print' method and uses the HTML::Template module to do substitutions in a template file: sub print { my $self =

Re: HTML::Template ramblings

2002-10-16 Thread nemesis
Tim Sweetman wrote: nemesis wrote: I guess that every time this method is called HTML::Template reads in the the template file from disk. I think this could be faster if the template was in memory. Um, RTFM on HTML::Template, which describes its cache option. There's also an XS

Re: HTML::Template ramblings

2002-10-16 Thread nemesis
Leon Brocard wrote: nemesis sent the following bits through the ether: I guess that every time this method is called HTML::Template reads in the the template file from disk. I think this could be faster if the template was in memory. The docs at http://search.cpan.org/author

Re: HTML::Template ramblings

2002-10-16 Thread nemesis
Mark Fowler wrote: On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, nemesis wrote: If I preload Page.pm and have a BEGIN {} block in it that loads the template file into a variable for use within the module, would this BEGIN block get run when the module was use'ed, some other time, or not at all? Right

Re: similarity detection

2002-10-08 Thread nemesis
alex wrote: probably completely crap but following is an approach i have been thinking about for a while and have been looking for the right soft/textual dataset to try it out on. Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I certainly have some more ideass to work on. Will

Regex question

2002-10-04 Thread nemesis
Hi all, I have a bunch of jokes that people have forwarded me over the years[1] and they all have really bad formatting [2]. I am lazy and want to do as much formatting of the jokes as I can automatically. I have tried this piece of code to get rid of any '' or whitespace charachters

Re: Regex question

2002-10-04 Thread nemesis
nemesis wrote: foreach my $line (body) { $_ = $line; s/^(?:|\s)*(.*)$/$1/g; print; } Thanks for the suggested improvements. It would have helped if body wasn't 1 element in size and that element contained the whole of the text :-) Oh, and thanks for the phone support Dean. Will

Re: webmail

2002-09-25 Thread nemesis
Lusercop wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:52:03AM +0100, nemesis wrote: I quite like big soft MUAs like mozilla mail so I run an IMAP server on the machine that gets the mail and use stunnel[0] to provide an encrypted connection. It took about 10 minutes to set up and works like a dream

Re: DBD::mysql installation problems redux

2002-09-24 Thread nemesis
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 08:06:59AM -0700, jonah wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: Did you download a binary perl, or build it yourself from source? Apparently it was a binary perl. Was it a binary or source installation of mysql? I seem to remember

Re: webmail

2002-09-24 Thread nemesis
Paul Johnson wrote: My mail is sitting on my machine at home, in mbox format. I'm sitting at work, behind a firewall. My machine at home is running Debian Woody. I want to read and send mail, securely. I tried http://jwebmail.sourceforge.net/, but it's in Java and it doesn't just work.

DBD::mysql installation problems

2002-09-21 Thread nemesis
Hi All, I have set up a new machine (to replace a crusty old server) but I am having a few problems installing DBD::mysql which I need for a few apps on the box. I installed MySQL 3.23.52 in /usr/local/mysql, not /usr/local and this seemed to cause CPAN to fail when installing DBD::mysql so

Re: Money and mouse clicks

2002-09-19 Thread nemesis
Brad Bollenbach wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:37:34AM +0100, Chris Carline wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:15:19AM +0100, Brad Bollenbach wrote: So my question is, if you can get a decent enough website going to make thousands and thousands of people click on a Send button (Hotmail) or

OT Perl

2002-05-29 Thread nemesis
Hi All, I have a script that gets some pages and it needs to remember the cookies they so generously provide. I have dones this using the cookie jar functionality of the LWP::UserAgent module: my $ua = LWP::UserAgent-new(); $ua-cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies-new(file = /path/to/lwpcookies.txt,

Re: OT Perl

2002-05-29 Thread nemesis
Paul Makepeace wrote: On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:34:07PM +0100, nemesis wrote: Hi All, I have a script that gets some pages and it needs to remember the cookies they so generously provide. I have dones this using the cookie jar functionality of the LWP::UserAgent module: my $ua = LWP

Re: review of Star Wars Episode 2

2002-05-27 Thread nemesis
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: 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. That must have been his

Re: Website mirroring

2002-04-25 Thread nemesis
Alex McLintock wrote: Hi folks, Thanks for all your suggestions regarding mail list software. I think the consensus is to try mailman for what I need though of course there are still many other situations when majordomo is more appropriate. --- I am wondering if

Re: User Input at speed

2002-02-14 Thread nemesis
Newton, Philip wrote: Dominic Mitchell wrote: german (why is Ctrl Strg?) My expansion is Steuerung, which, I suppose, is supposed to be a translation of Control. But I still say Konntrohl Tsee for Ctrl+C, not Strig Tsee or Steuerung Tsee. What I'd like to know is what Alt Gr stands

Re: User Input at speed

2002-02-13 Thread nemesis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vaugly off topic... not for this list :-) Made me wonder - what is the fastest method of user input into a computer. We all know that the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow us down. So, anyone know any good mechanisms which are designed to speed us up? I think

Re: User Input at speed

2002-02-13 Thread nemesis
Chris Devers wrote: As for truly faster, speech-speed input -- how about a microphone? Try visiting http://slashdot.org with voice recognition :-) -- *claw claw* *fang* *shred* *rip* *ad hominem* *slash* (more attacks will require consultancy fees.) -Nix.

Re: Penderel

2002-01-24 Thread nemesis
David Cantrell wrote: So penderel is back after dieing yet again. I suggest that we replace it with a machine which is actually engineered to be reliable... I would suggest this beast of a machine: http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPic.html -- *claw claw* *fang* *shred* *rip* *ad

Re: wanted - pants linux-capable webcam

2002-01-21 Thread nemesis
Charlie wrote: I just want a good quality linux capable and usable Webcam... Someone on the gllug list mentioned Dexxa webcams (you can search tge archives, gllug.linux.co.uk) a while ago. They were dirt cheap at the time and they worked. Will. -- *claw claw* *fang* *shred* *rip* *ad

Re: OT perl question

2002-01-15 Thread nemesis
Dominic Mitchell wrote: nemesis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone know of a way of telling whether a perl script was called as a CGI (via the apache webserver) or directly (as in as a cron script or command line)? if (exists $ENV{SERVER_NAME}) { print I'm a cgi (probably)\n

Re: Guns and 'puters was Re: Wingate was Re: black hat hackers

2002-01-15 Thread nemesis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whereas a .303 rifle may only cause slight bruising/annoyance. Have you ever *held* a .303 rifle? There is less chance of a 486 jamming in the banisters on the way down, so you retain the edge. Of course you need the element of surprise, a man holding a 486 will

Guns and 'puters was Re: Wingate was Re: black hat hackers

2002-01-14 Thread nemesis
Jonathan Peterson wrote: David Cantrell wrote: If they are allowing someone to use their machine to attack me, then *they* are attacking me. Not securing their own box is a sin of ommission as opposed to a sin of commission, so I'll let them off with a sound flaming instead of cutting their

Re: black hat hackers

2002-01-11 Thread nemesis
Robert Shiels wrote: From: robin szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] google wingate exploits 3,300 pages .. hmmm Hmm, maybe my version of google is different to yours: wingate + exploits : Results 1 - 10 of about 2,120 apache + exploits : Results 1 - 10 of about 19,600 What were you trying

Re: black hat hackers

2002-01-10 Thread nemesis
Greg McCarroll wrote: * robin szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: if your scans and probes look like ... [4] PBServer/..%5c..%5c..%5cwinnt/system32/cmd.exe snip etc etc etc ad nauseum nope, the sequence of events went something like this portscan on 145 20+ minutes later,

Re: perl acronym

2001-12-20 Thread nemesis
Ivor Williams wrote: Hi there, Just curious, what does perl actually stand for, or is it not an acronym? 'Practical extraction and reporting language' I believe Larry originally had the 'a' in there but wisely dropped it. Will -- *claw claw* *fang* *shred* *rip* *ad hominem* *slash*

Re: way OT, but I thought it was amusing.

2001-11-19 Thread nemesis
[Warning: contains nut] - Original Message - From: Newton, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:32 PM Subject: Re: way OT, but I thought it was amusing. [Warning: contains nitpicking] nemesis wrote: #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict

way OT, but I thought it was amusing.

2001-11-14 Thread nemesis
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; my $image_url = 'http://www.fyshbowl.org/temp/announcement.jpg'; print Content-type: text/html\n\n; print img src=\$image_url\ alt=\Lame excuse for sending the URL to an amusing imageto the mailing list\\n; I put some perl around the comedy image URL so there

Re: REMINDER: New Heretics meeting

2001-10-31 Thread nemesis
- Original Message - From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:24 PM Subject: Re: REMINDER: New Heretics meeting This is an incredible game, i've played it for about an hour now and I just can't believe how much fun it is, don't

Re: Football

2001-10-29 Thread nemesis
- Original Message - From: Richard Clyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 11:04 AM Subject: Football I'll join in, but I'm not confident of getting enough players. This is one of the things I would like to do if I actually had enough time to

Re: Football

2001-10-29 Thread nemesis
- Original Message - From: Simon Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 12:55 PM Subject: Re: Football On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: surely there must be another 5 people in london.pm want to get a little fitter with a friendly

Re: a really stupid idea

2001-10-26 Thread nemesis
- Original Message - From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: London.pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:03 PM Subject: a really stupid idea Ok, i know this is probably a really stupid idea, however ... Would 9 other people (or more) be interested in a game

Re: a really stupid idea

2001-10-26 Thread nemesis
- Original Message - From: Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:47 PM Subject: Re: a really stupid idea From nemesis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I *knew* I should have copyrighted that :) Domain Name: PERLISMYBITCH.COM Registrar