Pony
Although I didn't make it to the pub after Damian's talk I did hear from my
sources that someone thought it would be 'useful' to convert Bleach.pm to
print pony instead. So here it is Pony.pm, it isn't quite the same as
Bleach but it produces a similar result.
Enjoy,
Matt
package Pony;
$VERSION = '1.00'; # MSR - 28 Feb 2001
$magic = "pony " x 4;
sub pony { local $_ = unpack("b*", pop); s/0/ /g; s/1/pony/g; $magic.$_ }
sub depony { local $_ = pop; s/^$magic//; s/pony/1/g; s/ /0/g; pack("b*",
$_) }
open 0 or die;
($script = join("", 0)) =~ s/^(.*^use\s+Pony\s*;\s*?\n)//sm;
$header = $1;
do { eval depony($script); exit } if ($script =~ /^$magic/);
open(0, "$0") or die;
print {0} $header.pony($script);
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Re: UNSUBSCRIBE
At Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:10:22 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UNSUBSCRIBE Nope. That won't work. You need to send admin emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this case your mail should contain the line: unsubscribe london-pm hth, Dave...
Re: Buffy episode 'too explicit'
At Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:31:19 +, Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:18:48AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_1193000/1193146.stm "Cult show Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been rapped by TV watchdogs for being too sexually explicit for its early evening BBC slot. "Viewers objected to seeing sex and violence in an episode about the schoolgirl vampire killer, who uses martial arts to defend herself, broadcast at 6.45pm on 12 October last year." Anyone know which episode was shown on that date? Well let's take a guess at which episodes actually contained explicit sex schenes... * Buffy/Angel - Buffy / Bad Angel * Faith jumps Xander. Probably the latter. By the date, I'd guess it would be mid to late series three, so your second guess (The Zeppo) would look pretty good to me. There's a couple of episodes in series four that would cause a bit of a problem too. One they've already shown which shows Buffy Riley's first shag and one coming in a few weeks called "Where The Wild Things Are" which is all about... well... doing the wild thing :) Ohmighod, did I just admit to knowing this in a public forum? "My name is Dave and it's been three weeks since I watched more than one episode on Buffy on the same day."
Re: Buffy episode 'too explicit'
Dave Cross wrote: "My name is Dave and it's been three weeks since I watched more than one episode on Buffy on the same day." Wah, due to circumstances beyond my control I haven't seen (terrestrial) 8uffy for about a month now. I think the last episode I saw was the one with Faith waking up.
Re: Buffy episode 'too explicit'
At Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:53:53 +, Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Cross wrote: "My name is Dave and it's been three weeks since I watched more than one episode on Buffy on the same day." Wah, due to circumstances beyond my control I haven't seen (terrestrial) 8uffy for about a month now. I think the last episode I saw was the one with Faith waking up. Due to "snooker" breaks, I think you've only missed a couple of episodes. Dave...
Heretics' meeting
Just to confirm there will be Heretic's fire side chat at the Anchor on the 8th of the month again, for those who were not at the last one we basically embrace and extend one of the side rooms of the anchor and gather around an open fire for some good beer and the usual old rubbish chat. There will be no meal this time, as that was a bit crap compared to the excellent open fire and beer. Although I appreciate that fire and heretic do seem a bit too connected here ;-) - Forwarded message from David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:25:14 + From: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Heretics' meeting User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-public-key-is-at: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/public-key.txt yup, there will be a Heretic's ``fire side chat'' Good-oh! I've invited Eric van Buggenhaut, a Belgian LBWer who's in London that week. I've insisted that he needs some proper beer whilst over here, and none of that fancy foreign muck he gets at home. - End forwarded message - -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
[JOB] Passing on a permi web developer add from an old client
Dear All An old client I used to contract for needs a permie web developer - London, W2 based. This role has nothing to do with me, and I am not an agent, just spreading the word for an old client - I thought the people here may be interested. i.e if it all goes pear shaped don't come running to me ;-) Quote from the job spec they sent me: quote looking for a full-time, permanent Web Developer to maintain current systems and develop new tools for the site. Working for the Technical Development Manager, the candidate should have an excellent track record in MySQL and Perl on a Unix (Linux) platform (min 2 years) and have experience developing web applications in PHP4. Some knowledge of SendMail,Qmail, HTML and JavaScript would be an asset. /quote If anyone is interested then contact eleanor.thompson at bluecarrots.com. Greg insert massive disclaimer here
Re: Heretics' meeting
Could you post a bit more about the Heretic's meeting? Perhaps some links. I've never heard of the group. Thanks, _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: Heretics' meeting
* at 28/02 15:09 - Hamlet D'Arcy said: Could you post a bit more about the Heretic's meeting? Perhaps some links. I've never heard of the group. if only we had a faq :) struan
Re: Heretics' meeting
* at 23/02 06:57 -0500 Dave Cross said: At Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:40:19 +, Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q. When are social meetings? A. On the day after the first wednesday of the month. Please stop confusing the newcomers. London.pm social meetings are _always_ on the first Thursday of the month. Some sad individuals have a problem with that and insist on using other arcane calculations for the meeting date. This only results in problems when the _official_ meetings are on the 1st of the month. On months like this (and March will be one such month) you may well see talk of a 'heretics meeting' on the 8th. Hope this is clearer now. Dave... * at 28/02 15:09 - Hamlet D'Arcy said: Could you post a bit more about the Heretic's meeting? Perhaps some links. I've never heard of the group. to be more helpful see above[1]. struan [1]: wondering how to make mutt do things in the right order when replying to multiple posts.
Re: Heretics' meeting
At Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:12:59 +, Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * at 28/02 15:09 - Hamlet D'Arcy said: Could you post a bit more about the Heretic's meeting? Perhaps some links. I've never heard of the group. if only we had a faq :) I know, I know. I'll work on it some time this week... or over the weekend... or something! Dave...
Re: Heretics' meeting
On or about Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:16:17PM +, Struan Donald typed: to be more helpful see above[1]. [1]: wondering how to make mutt do things in the right order when replying to multiple posts. Tag the posts you want, then reverse the sort order (shift-o whatsit). Roger
Tech reviewing
I've been approached to do some paid tech-reviewing, of a manual for a Linux security product. I have *no* idea how I should charge for this, or indeed how much. Does one usually do it per thousand words or something? It's basically making sure that it reads OK when translated into English by the German authors, and requires no knowledge of the product itself, but does - obviously - require some familiarity with the subject. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature
Re: Heretics' meeting
* Hamlet D'Arcy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Could you post a bit more about the Heretic's meeting?
Perhaps some links.
I've never heard of the group.
I have no ability to handle dates (ok, we can also include names,
phone numbers and addresses (non computer) into this if we want) and
hence always have a problem when the meeting occurs on the first of
the month - i simply haven't came to terms with the fact that it
is a new month yet. hence i proposed that the we'd meet on the 8th
when this happens, so my logic was ...
if (meeting date = 1st of mth) {
meet on 8th
} else {
meet on 1st thursday of mth
}
someone simplified this to ...
meetings are held on the day after the first wednesday of
the month
i then partitioned for this change, but dave held valiantly against
myself and the other usual suspects (JS,DC,) - i was also at
some stage called `the heretic'
philip newton even gimped something up about this
however i then ``refused'' to recognise the real meetings if they
occured on the 1st, even though i may attend them
so it was decided whenever the meeting _should_ of been held on
the 8th we would have an additional meeting, named ``the heretics
meeting'', we had our first last month at the very fine anchor pub
last month we had a meal that was ok, but a bit pricey, however in
the anchor we found a nice open fire that was roaring away hapilly
and coupled with some really quite good beer we sat by the fire
talking and joking as usual
a good time was had by all by the fire, and so heretics meetings
from now on are going to be the same sort of cozy fireside chats
there will only be another 2 this year - this year has been a
very heretical year (3 meetings!)
ok, that makes everything crystal
are you sorry you asked?
Greg
--
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Re: Heretics' meeting
On or about Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:44:31PM +, Greg McCarroll typed: someone simplified this to ... meetings are held on the day after the first wednesday of the month Guilty. What can I say, it was my first meeting. Roger
Re: Heretics' meeting
At 17:44 28/02/01 +, you wrote:
* Hamlet D'Arcy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Could you post a bit more about the Heretic's meeting?
Perhaps some links.
I've never heard of the group.
I have no ability to handle dates (ok, we can also include names,
phone numbers and addresses (non computer) into this if we want) and
hence always have a problem when the meeting occurs on the first of
the month - i simply haven't came to terms with the fact that it
is a new month yet. hence i proposed that the we'd meet on the 8th
when this happens, so my logic was ...
if (meeting date = 1st of mth) {
meet on 8th
} else {
meet on 1st thursday of mth
}
someone simplified this to ...
meetings are held on the day after the first wednesday of
the month
i then partitioned for this change, but dave held valiantly against
myself and the other usual suspects (JS,DC,) - i was also at
some stage called `the heretic'
philip newton even gimped something up about this
however i then ``refused'' to recognise the real meetings if they
occured on the 1st, even though i may attend them
so it was decided whenever the meeting _should_ of been held on
the 8th we would have an additional meeting, named ``the heretics
meeting'', we had our first last month at the very fine anchor pub
last month we had a meal that was ok, but a bit pricey, however in
the anchor we found a nice open fire that was roaring away hapilly
and coupled with some really quite good beer we sat by the fire
talking and joking as usual
a good time was had by all by the fire, and so heretics meetings
from now on are going to be the same sort of cozy fireside chats
there will only be another 2 this year - this year has been a
very heretical year (3 meetings!)
ok, that makes everything crystal
Sorry, still don't get it! Can I have it as a perl script?
are you sorry you asked?
Greg
RE: Heretics' meeting
Sorry, still don't get it! Can I have it as a perl script? err... #!/usr/local/bin/perl # find heretics meetings my @ary = localtime(); print "meeting today!" if ($ary[6] ==4 $ary[3] 1 $ary[3] 9); Possibly
RE: Heretics' meeting
At 17:23 28/02/01 -, you wrote: Sorry, still don't get it! Can I have it as a perl script? err... #!/usr/local/bin/perl # find heretics meetings my @ary = localtime(); print "meeting today!" if ($ary[6] ==4 $ary[3] 1 $ary[3] 9); Possibly OK, its 'meetings are held on the day after the first wednesday of the month'. That makes perfect sense now, Matt
Re: Heretics' meeting
* at 28/02 17:37 + Michael Stevens said: On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:33:34PM +, Matthew Robinson wrote: OK, its 'meetings are held on the day after the first wednesday of the month'. That makes perfect sense now, I work on the "meetings are held whenever more than half the people on irc mention a pub" theory. now i don't hang about on irc but if it's like the list then that's a lot of meetings struan
Re: Tech reviewing
David Cantrell [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I've been approached to do some paid tech-reviewing, of a manual for a *Linux security product. I have *no* idea how I should charge for this, *or indeed how much. Does one usually do it per thousand words or *something? AW usually offers an honoraria of several hundred dollars for principal reviewers of their books which, depending on the book, could be nothing in exchange for your time if you do a lot of fact checking, etc. So, depending on the publisher, it is mostly a labour of love and not something you charge by the word. *It's basically making sure that it reads OK when translated into English *by the German authors, and requires no knowledge of the product itself, *but does - obviously - require some familiarity with the subject. Think of it as adding to the pool of quality publications and see what they are willing to offer. It really depends on the publisher. Jarkko was very impressed with the quality of the German translator who not only translated MAWP but made corrections as well and I imagine he was well paid for it but that is a different role than just skim editing. e.
Re: Tech reviewing
Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *I know in the publishing world people do things for ludicrously samll *amounts, but thats because you can usually find a starving author that *will do it for pennies, but if you assume that they need to know at least *a little about the Linux security model then that kinda narrows it down a *bit dunnit. Well, for some of the more established academic publishers, there are a lot more than 'starving authors' :) It's academic courtesy. I misread the previoius as a book tech review for a publisher rather than a software house but I don't know that you could charge all that much more since 98% of the work is already done. e.
