RE: Irish music (was RE: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))
Dave Cross: You sound like the kind of person who would really enjoy the Cambridge Folk Festival Or, indeed, the Holmfirth Folk Festival: on this weekend for all your real ale, finger-in-ear, set-in-summer-wine-country needs http://www.riceholm.demon.co.uk/ -- matt | CHOPS
Re: Bah!
David Cantrell wrote: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv I was going to post I can't open that in Microsoft Word; please re-send it as a joke, but when I tried to open the PDF version using the Acrobat plug-in in Netscape, I got an internal error occurred and some of the letters were missing. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
TBA?
is a venue decided on for tonights meeting, or is it still TBA? -- James A. Duncan W: www.fotango.com P: +44 207 251 7021 F: +44 207 608 3592 PGP signature
Re: Bah!
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:54:04AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: David Cantrell wrote: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv I was going to post I can't open that in Microsoft Word; please re-send it as a joke, but when I tried to open the PDF version using the Acrobat plug-in in Netscape, I got an internal error occurred and some of the letters were missing. There were some letters missing for me too under Linux. Probably just bad fonts under X11, gee what a surprise. -Dom
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-07
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:30:59PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: Paul Mison wrote a quick thanks / report of the London.pm - New York trip, with links to photos: And seconds too late I put my photos online: http://www.unixbeard.net/~richardc/Photos/ It's all the photos that have ever passed through my camera, so don't go saying rude things about my nan. -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bah!
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:22:07AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:54:04AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: David Cantrell wrote: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv I was going to post I can't open that in Microsoft Word; please re-send it as a joke, but when I tried to open the PDF version using the Acrobat plug-in in Netscape, I got an internal error occurred and some of the letters were missing. There were some letters missing for me too under Linux. Probably just bad fonts under X11, gee what a surprise. -Dom Looked fine to me. My aren't we all nosy ;) jp
Re: TBA?
* at 10/05 10:22 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: is a venue decided on for tonights meeting, or is it still TBA? shuffles through mailbox for weekly summary Don't forget the London.pm website for meetings etc. The next meeting is a social meeting and has been postponed for a week to the Thursday 10th May. It will be at the Penderel's Oak: http://london.pm.org/ struan
Re: TBA?
On Thu, 10 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is a venue decided on for tonights meeting, or is it still TBA? Penderels Oak. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) The Universe shipped by weight, not by volume. Some expansion of the contents may have occurred during shipment.
RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-07
http://www.unixbeard.net/~richardc/Photos/2001-04-30/2001-04-30.14:42:51.jpe g heh: http://www.snurfer.org/sands/gfx/vertigo.jpg Did your palms sweat too, richard? -- matt | CHOPS
Re: TBA?
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:43:25AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: is a venue decided on for tonights meeting, or is it still TBA? Penderels Oak, and afterwards I have a table at the Gaucho Grill for steak. yum -- James A. Duncan W: www.fotango.com P: +44 207 251 7021 F: +44 207 608 3592 PGP signature
Re: TBA?
Greg McCarroll wrote: Penderels Oak, and afterwards I have a table at the Gaucho Grill for steak. Can't we just eat beef instead? It will be a lot less wooden for a start. Badoom, boom. Thankyourveramuch ladies and germs I'll be here all week.
(Ab)Using substr
Mentioned this in passing to Piers and Leon last night and they seemed
interested enough to justify posting it here. It's not mine :)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w # how to (ab)use substr
use strict;
my $pi='3.14159210535152623346475240375062163750446240333543375062';
substr ($^X,0)=
substr ($pi,-6);map{
substr ($^X,$.++,1)=chr(
substr($pi,21,2)+
substr($pi,$_,2))}(12,28,-18,-6,-10,14);map{$^O=$x(
substr ($pi,-5,2));
substr ($^O,sin(++$a/8)*32+
substr ($pi,-2)/2+1,1)=$_;
substr ($^O,sin($a/4)*(
substr ($pi,2,2))+
substr ($pi,-7,-5)-1,1)=$_;print$^O$/;eval($^X.('$b,'x3).
substr ($pi,-3,1).'.'.
substr ($pi,9,2));}(map{chr($_+
substr ($pi,21,2))}(
substr ($pi,8)x3)=~/../g);
For more discussion (including and explaination) see
http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=77619.
Dave...
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RE: TBA?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 10:22 AM is a venue decided on for tonights meeting, or is it still TBA? Yeah. Sorry. General crapness on the part of the webmaster :( We'll be meeting in the Penderels Oak tonight from about 6:30pm. I'll have a copy of Perl Debugged which I bought in NY. It's mine so I won't be giving it away, but you can look at it. And maybe even touch it. Dave... p.s. Look at this - http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/06/book/. I rock! -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
Re: Bah!
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:54:04AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: David Cantrell wrote: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv I was going to post I can't open that in Microsoft Word; please re-send it as a joke, but when I tried to open the PDF version using the Acrobat plug-in in Netscape, I got an internal error occurred and some of the letters were missing. Serves you right for not getting the raw Postscript :-) I've put plain-text and HTML versions up as well now. Bow down before the awesome power of TeX! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our most advanced operating system in the world which we decided to release incomplete just for a laugh
Re: Bah!
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:18:22AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:54:04AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: David Cantrell wrote: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv I was going to post I can't open that in Microsoft Word; please re-send it as a joke, but when I tried to open the PDF version using the Acrobat plug-in in Netscape, I got an internal error occurred and some of the letters were missing. Serves you right for not getting the raw Postscript :-) I've put plain-text and HTML versions up as well now. Bow down before the awesome power of TeX! I find that pdftotext (part of xpdf) does a remarkably good job of letting you know what a pdf file has to say, without bothering with all that tedious formatting... ;-) -Dom
Re: (Ab)Using substr
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:16:25AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: #!/usr/bin/perl -w # how to (ab)use substr use strict; my $pi='3.14159210535152623346475240375062163750446240333543375062'; Well, it's more just taking advantage of the fact that most people don't know more than six decimal places of Pi :-) Actually it is a thing of great beauty. .robin. -- Flee to me, remote elf!
RE: Bah!
From: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:18 AM [evildave's cv] I've put plain-text and HTML versions up as well now. Bow down before the awesome power of TeX! Do you write it in raw Tex/LaTeX, or do you generate that from some other format (like, perhaps, XML)? I'd be interested in seeing the intermediate stages. Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
RE: (Ab)Using substr
From: Robin Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:25 AM On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:16:25AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: #!/usr/bin/perl -w # how to (ab)use substr use strict; my $pi='3.14159210535152623346475240375062163750446240333543375062'; Well, it's more just taking advantage of the fact that most people don't know more than six decimal places of Pi :-) Yeah. That was pointed out on perlmonks. Actually it is a thing of great beauty. It is, isn't it. It was written by Stephen Jenkins, the same chap that wrote the camel code on the ThinkGeek tshirt http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/things/321a.html. He posts on Perlmonks under the name Erudil and _all_ of his posts are worth checking out. Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
Re: Bah!
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:22:45AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: Do you write it in raw Tex/LaTeX, or do you generate that from some other format (like, perhaps, XML)? I'd be interested in seeing the intermediate stages. Ahh, now that would be telling :-) Oh alright then, I used lyx to generate the outline - getting all the headers and tables sorted, then exported as LaTeX and edited from there. thinks has anyone done TeX goodness with Template Toolkit? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our most advanced operating system in the world which we decided to release incomplete just for a laugh
Re: Bah!
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:22:47AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: I find that pdftotext (part of xpdf) does a remarkably good job of letting you know what a pdf file has to say, without bothering with all that tedious formatting... ;-) I particularly like the way it turns 'film-making' into '[greek-pi]-making'. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our most advanced operating system in the world which we decided to release incomplete just for a laugh
RE: Bah!
From: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:57 AM On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:22:45AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: Do you write it in raw Tex/LaTeX, or do you generate that from some other format (like, perhaps, XML)? I'd be interested in seeing the intermediate stages. Ahh, now that would be telling :-) Oh alright then, I used lyx to generate the outline - getting all the headers and tables sorted, then exported as LaTeX and edited from there. thinks has anyone done TeX goodness with Template Toolkit? That's pretty much the direction my question was going... I haven't (yet) but I plan to be talking about such things at YAPC::Europe. Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
Re: Bah!
On Thu, 10 May 2001, David Cantrell wrote: thinks has anyone done TeX goodness with Template Toolkit? See the latest post to the TT mailing list: http://www.template-toolkit.org/pipermail/templates/2001-May/000931.html Later. Mark.
Re: Bah!
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:22:45AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: Do you write it in raw Tex/LaTeX, or do you generate that from some other format (like, perhaps, XML)? I'd be interested in seeing the intermediate stages. For my writing these days, I do SGML - tex ( - pdf | - dvi - ps ) - html - text I suppose I should use XML instead, but I'm a dinosaur. No, I haven't tried writing SGML with Perl yet, but I will. Simon -- It's difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame.
Re: Bah!
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:04:23PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: I've been made redundant. Anyone want an Evil Programmer? http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv funky server set up: [steve@webcache steve]$ telnet www.cantrell.org.uk 80 Trying 195.149.50.61... Connected to plough.barnyard.co.uk. Escape character is '^]'. GET /david/cv/cv.pdf HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 404 Complete fuckup
Re: Bah!
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:05:19PM +0100, Steve Keay wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:04:23PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: I've been made redundant. Anyone want an Evil Programmer? http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv funky server set up: [steve@webcache steve]$ telnet www.cantrell.org.uk 80 Trying 195.149.50.61... Connected to plough.barnyard.co.uk. Escape character is '^]'. GET /david/cv/cv.pdf HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 404 Complete fuckup Yes, you did fuck up :-) It's cv20010510.pdf. I s'pose I should update my funky-skillo redirection thing. Thanks for the reminder. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our most advanced operating system in the world which we decided to release incomplete just for a laugh
Re: Bah!
At 01:22 PM 5/10/01 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:05:19PM +0100, Steve Keay wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:04:23PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: I've been made redundant. Anyone want an Evil Programmer? http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv funky server set up: [steve@webcache steve]$ telnet www.cantrell.org.uk 80 Trying 195.149.50.61... Connected to plough.barnyard.co.uk. Escape character is '^]'. GET /david/cv/cv.pdf HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 404 Complete fuckup Yes, you did fuck up :-) It's cv20010510.pdf. I s'pose I should update my funky-skillo redirection thing. I must remember to start calling symlinks that. It sounds far more impressive. Rob
Re: Bah!
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:38:10PM +0100, Robert Price wrote in response to little ol' me: It's cv20010510.pdf. I s'pose I should update my funky-skillo redirection thing. I must remember to start calling symlinks that. It sounds far more impressive. Naah, it's not just a symlink. I have a custom 404 handler which looks for pages similar to what you asked for based on a small database of things which may have changed. I haven't updated it recently, but will do. I'll make it so that requests for .../cv.foo get translated to .../cv[latest-version].foo. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our most advanced operating system in the world which we decided to release incomplete just for a laugh
Re: Bah!
At 13:37 10/05/01 +0100, you wrote: Naah, it's not just a symlink. I have a custom 404 handler which looks for pages similar to what you asked for based on a small database of things which may have changed. I haven't updated it recently, but will do. I'll make it so that requests for .../cv.foo get translated to .../cv[latest-version].foo. HTTP::Approx anyone? -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Introduction to XP
Interesting stuff... http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/05/04/xp_intro.html Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
Re: Bah!
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote: At 13:37 10/05/01 +0100, you wrote: Naah, it's not just a symlink. I have a custom 404 handler which looks for pages similar to what you asked for based on a small database of things which may have changed. I haven't updated it recently, but will do. I'll make it so that requests for .../cv.foo get translated to .../cv[latest-version].foo. HTTP::Approx anyone? mod_speling MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) The Universe shipped by weight, not by volume. Some expansion of the contents may have occurred during shipment.
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-07
Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.snurfer.org/sands/gfx/vertigo.jpg Did your palms sweat too, richard? That slightly golden building is the Millennium hotel. I had a room on the 54th floor. Lovely view :-) -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
Re: Bah!
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:43:39PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: At 13:37 10/05/01 +0100, you wrote: Naah, it's not just a symlink. I have a custom 404 handler which looks for pages similar to what you asked for based on a small database of things which may have changed. I haven't updated it recently, but will do. I'll make it so that requests for .../cv.foo get translated to .../cv[latest-version].foo. HTTP::Approx anyone? OK, maybe I *won't* do that then :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our most advanced operating system in the world which we decided to release incomplete just for a laugh
Re: Irish music (was RE: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))
Dave Cross writes: Some names there that I don't know, but will be checking out. I bet the Green Linnet compilation is good. Oh yes. That's what I used to decide which artists to buy. Another CD arrived yesterday, a Rounder compilation of 1920s recordings of trad. Irish musicians. I was surprised how similar the music is to today--I'm not used to folk music that isn't polluted by jazz and rock :-) Nat
Re: Introduction to XP
* Cross David - dcross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From: Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 1:47 PM Interesting stuff... http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/05/04/xp_intro.html Should point out, that's Extreme Programming, _not_ Windows XP :) which i believe has been renamed to 2002 ( according to some dodgy marketting pals who can't be trusted ) -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
mod perl
Um ... so say I have a mod perl thing (template wotsit and lots of class::methodmaker stuff) and I notice everytime I serve a page the size of the apache client increases slighlty ... dead parrot I know a memory leak when I see one and I', looking at one right now /dead parrot so what is the preffered debugging method for discovering what this little leak might be .. strip the app down and build bit by bit .. or is there a clever way of looking at heap contents? -- Robin Szemeti The box said requires windows 95 or better So I installed Linux!
Re: mod perl
Robin Szemeti sent the following bits through the ether: so what is the preffered debugging method for discovering what this little leak might be .. strip the app down and build bit by bit .. or is there a clever way of looking at heap contents? The mod_perl guide is your friend: http://perl.apache.org/guide/debug.html Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software..http://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Borg? Where? I don't se*(#$#..NO CARRIER
Re: Introduction to XP
Greg McCarroll wrote: * Cross David - dcross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From: Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 1:47 PM Interesting stuff... http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/05/04/xp_intro.html Should point out, that's Extreme Programming, _not_ Windows XP :) which i believe has been renamed to 2002 ( according to some dodgy marketting pals who can't be trusted ) Yikes! I don't know anything about these `dodgy marketting pals' ... is there a FAQ somewhere? -- Steve Purkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: +44 (0) 207 614 8600 Unix Developer red | hot | chilli f: +44 (0) 207 614 8601
Re: Introduction to XP
* Steve Purkis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg McCarroll wrote: * Cross David - dcross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From: Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 1:47 PM Interesting stuff... http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/05/04/xp_intro.html Should point out, that's Extreme Programming, _not_ Windows XP :) which i believe has been renamed to 2002 ( according to some dodgy marketting pals who can't be trusted ) Yikes! I don't know anything about these `dodgy marketting pals' ... is there a FAQ somewhere? Do marketting people drink a lot? Yes Do they tend to be able to last in a drink for drink night? No Do they know the best bars in Holland to go to? Yes -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: mod perl
From: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] so what is the preffered debugging method for discovering what this little leak might be .. strip the app down and build bit by bit .. or is there a clever way of looking at heap contents? Would MJD's Memoize (http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Memoize) work here? Barbie.
No Subject
would people mind if i turned up totally pissed from minute 0 to tonights meeting? i've had lunch with a friend and its done bad things to me -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: your mail
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:13:34PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: would people mind if i turned up totally pissed from minute 0 to tonights meeting? s/mind/notice/ -- dave thorn | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] would people mind if i turned up totally pissed from minute 0 to tonights meeting? How will we be able to tell /Robert
putting escape characters in files
kind of off topic but how do you get things like ^M and such like into a file for, say, writing vi macros? i've had a look through some docs but i'm beggining to suspect it's one of those bit of unix aracana know to a chosen few. or is there some site/resource that contains this info? ta struan
Re: putting escape characters in files
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:35:29PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote: kind of off topic but how do you get things like ^M and such like into a file for, say, writing vi macros? i've had a look through some docs but i'm beggining to suspect it's one of those bit of unix aracana know to a chosen few. or is there some site/resource that contains this info? Generally you can enter a control character into vi and most Unix shells by pressing ^V and then the character you want. In Emacs, it's ^Q, then the character you want. -Dom
Re: putting escape characters in files
On or about Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:35:29PM +0100, Struan Donald typed: kind of off topic but how do you get things like ^M and such like into a file for, say, writing vi macros? ctrl-x 0 d but using it in a search/replace pattern is harder. Roger
Re: putting escape characters in files
* at 10/05 16:37 +0100 Dominic Mitchell said: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:35:29PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote: kind of off topic but how do you get things like ^M and such like into a file for, say, writing vi macros? i've had a look through some docs but i'm beggining to suspect it's one of those bit of unix aracana know to a chosen few. or is there some site/resource that contains this info? Generally you can enter a control character into vi and most Unix shells by pressing ^V and then the character you want. ah, thanks In Emacs, it's ^Q, then the character you want. only ^Q? that's not like emacs :) struan
Re: putting escape characters in files
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:35:29PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote: kind of off topic but how do you get things like ^M and such like into a file for, say, writing vi macros? perl -e 'print \cM' my-file ;-) .robin. ps. Dominic's already given a proper answer... -- Flee to me, remote elf!
Re: your mail
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:13:34PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: would people mind if i turned up totally pissed from minute 0 to tonights meeting? i've had lunch with a friend and its done bad things to me Clearly it's done odd things to your ability to write a subject... dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Okay, that's it. 30 days no computer use penalty for being stupid - Greg at http://www.userfriendly.org
Re: putting escape characters in files
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:44:41PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote: In Emacs, it's ^Q, then the character you want. only ^Q? that's not like emacs :) Well, it's assuming that nobody's fiddled with the keymaps. You could alternatively do: M-x quoted-insert RET RET -Dom
Dr Who - A second rate sci-fi show that is only popular in american due to their average stands?
* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:13:34PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: would people mind if i turned up totally pissed from minute 0 to tonights meeting? i've had lunch with a friend and its done bad things to me Clearly it's done odd things to your ability to write a subject... Is that better? ;-) -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: mod perl
On Thu, 10 May 2001, you wrote: From: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] so what is the preffered debugging method for discovering what this little leak might be .. strip the app down and build bit by bit .. or is there a clever way of looking at heap contents? Would MJD's Memoize (http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Memoize) work here? don't think so ... that builds its own little pile of stuff an knows how to walk about in it .. rather than a real heap walker that just wades in even though its never seen the stuff and tries to deuce what it is that you have lying around. In the windoze world there are kwel things such as Numega BoundsChecker for C++ that do this sort of thing. -- Robin Szemeti The box said requires windows 95 or better So I installed Linux!
Re: mod perl
On Thu, 10 May 2001, you wrote: Robin Szemeti sent the following bits through the ether: so what is the preffered debugging method for discovering what this little leak might be .. strip the app down and build bit by bit .. or is there a clever way of looking at heap contents? The mod_perl guide is your friend: http://perl.apache.org/guide/debug.html ah yes RTFM :) .. and you're right .. theres the bit I needed .. infact chances are it isnt a leak at all, just cached info filling up the planet .. more investigation needed. thanks -- Robin Szemeti The box said requires windows 95 or better So I installed Linux!
Re: (Ab)Using substr
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:16:25AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: Mentioned this in passing to Piers and Leon last night and they seemed interested enough to justify posting it here. It's not mine :) My god, that's gorgeous. I think I'm going to cry... dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Perl can certainly be used as a first computer language, but it was really designed to be a *last* computer language. - Larry Wall
Re: Dr Who - A second rate sci-fi show that is only popular in american due to their average stands?
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:03:53PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:13:34PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: would people mind if i turned up totally pissed from minute 0 to tonights meeting? i've had lunch with a friend and its done bad things to me Clearly it's done odd things to your ability to write a subject... Is that better? ;-) Yes. It's just as clearly inaccurate and ill-informed as ever, instead of blank. :-) dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Chemistry is easy. It's just like witchcraft, but with less newt. - Willow
Re: putting escape characters in files
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:44:41PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote: * at 10/05 16:37 +0100 Dominic Mitchell said: Generally you can enter a control character into vi and most Unix shells by pressing ^V and then the character you want. ah, thanks In Emacs, it's ^Q, then the character you want. only ^Q? that's not like emacs :) If your terminal has flow control enabled it will eat ^Q and ^S for you. stty -ixon removes this problem. (Someone has a quote about the only safe thing to send down a serial line being a break, because emacs interprets every character) Nicholas Clark
