Re: YAPC::Europe
Quoting Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I was hoping for a lovely cheap flight from London City to Amsterdam but VLM (who I can get cheap flight from) only fly to Rotterdam :( So? There are flights to Amsterdam from there but they're about 120 quid :( Will try and see if I can get cheapo flight through my contacts. Rotterdam is my favourite airport to fly to in Holland, together with Maastricht. It will take you about 4 minutes to get from your plane seat to your taxi seat. No kidding. 1 minute to walk to the building, 1 minute queuing with the other 20 passengers for the two customs officials, 1 minute waiting for your bag, 1 minute walking to your taxi. It will cost you 15 guilders (less then 5 pounds) to get to the central station with a taxi in 5 minutes, then about 30 guilders (less then 10 pounds) to get to Amsterdam in 1 hour. (45 minutes and you will be passing Schiphol airport). I will bet you that the moment you pass Schiphol, the people that landed at the same time are still walking to their luggage, for which they will have to wait another half hour. If it arrived there, and didn't send to Timbuktu. Plus you don't have to sit between the stag|hen-party-goes-Amsterdam easyjet, or heaven forbid even worse London.pm, rabble. :-) I really like checing in as well, with 20 people on a flight it is the most relaxing thing ever, especially compared with the Easyjet approach of let's open the free-seating for all check-in 20 minutes before we close for these 400 people now. Or when we finish our nailpolish. Cheers, -- Merijn Broeren | Fact: GPRS does not work if the Mobile Station (your phone, Software Geek | that is) moves faster than 500 km/h. Tip: NEVER drive faster than 450 km/h if you are wapping while driving!
Re: Government Websites
Quoting Roger Burton West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Users will say: Ooh! Shiny!. Poing-poing-poing! -- Merijn Broeren | Fact: GPRS does not work if the Mobile Station (your phone, Software Geek | that is) moves faster than 500 km/h. Tip: NEVER drive faster than 450 km/h if you are wapping while driving!
Re: Training anyone ?
Quoting Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): At least they only claim to be the maintenance team. Almost like boasting about being the team sent in to fetch the team sent in to rescue the hostages. Hang on, that still sounds like the original team needed to be rescued. I'd change that statement to 'boasting about being the team shining the boots and greasing the pickaxes of the team sent in to rescue the hostages'. Who are now apparently enjoying their beer. ;-) Cheers, -- Merijn Broeren | Software Geek | Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again. |
Shoot out
Hi, Have you seen http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ ? My pike loving friend was amused to see Perl and Python trounced. But the testing rig was written in Perl at least. Cheers -- Merijn Broeren | Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavour of life, Software Geek | take big bites. Moderation is for monks. |
Re: Shoot out
Quoting Tony Bowden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): His perl isn't necessarily the fastest in all cases. I sped some of his scripts up quite significantly - enough to move it back up above Python anyway ;) I was looking at the attributions page and saw only your name. I was kind of expecting the rabid hordes of london.pm speedfreaks would like to have a go, but you were already there, I should have known you were a lnpm'er ;-) It's all quite interesting. Indeed. I thought the functional languages would do much better when weighing the mathematical stuff higher, but there was almost no change. Cheers, -- Merijn Broeren | Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavour of life, Software Geek | take big bites. Moderation is for monks. |
Re: TPC Quiz Team
Quoting Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ps amsterdam.pm team last time, so which .pm next time? ;-) With your record of being everywhere where there is a conference, I would say you can hook up with any .pm :-) cheers, -- Merijn Broeren | Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavour of life, Software Geek | take big bites. Moderation is for monks. |
Re: require Module; and filehandles
Quoting Ian Brayshaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am writing a customer handler for loading modules at runtime, taking advantage of the support for coderefs in the @INC array. By deleting entries in the %INC hash for loaded modules I can force Perl to recompile the module after it has been first loaded. This is particularly important with mod_perl, since the modules themselves may change during the life of the program. http://www.perldoc.com/cpan/Apache/StatINC.html I haven't read the rest of your post. :-) -- Merijn Broeren| yell I am blond, I am blond, Software Geek | I am Bee El Oo En T !/yell |
Re: Company Name
Quoting Robert Shiels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Nice summary. I was going to go for Shiels, but there is some plastics
company in Lancs that have it already. I thought of Shiels IT Services,
but one potential acronym of this is not very pleasing :-)
Oh yeah, I trust you know about :
Hypertext Webster Gateway: shiel
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shiel \Shiel\, n. A sheeling. [Scot.] --Burns.
Which leads to :
Sheeling \Sheeling\, n. [Icel. skj?l a shelter, a cover; akin to Dan.
Sw. skjul.] A hut or small cottage in an expessed or a retired place (as
on a mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds,
fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed. [Written
also {sheel}, {shealing}, {sheiling}, etc.] [Scot.]
So you can pass of your company as a shelter n 1: a structure that
provides privacy and protection from danger.
All this from playing with
http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster
Cheers,
--
Merijn Broeren| Fridge Theory: You should go round every corner assuming
Software Geek | that just out of sight round the corner is a double width
| chest freezer which has fallen off of a truck.
Re: (possible) zip and file download problem
Quoting Jon Galliers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
($file - name from database query)
my $zip = Archive::Zip-new() or die couldn't create zip $!;
$zip-addFile(/web/www.website.com/docs/$file) or die couldn't add file $!;
$zip-writeToFileNamed('/web/www.website.com/docs/download.zip');# possible
lock error;
open (DOCZIP, /web/www.website.com/docs/download.zip) or die couldn't
open file $!;
flock (DOCZIP, 2);
print Content-type:application/x-zip-compressed\n\n;
my $fileData;
while (read(DOCZIP, $fileData, 1024)) {
print $fileData;
}
unlink (/web/www.website.com/docs/download.zip) or die couldn't delete
file $!;
close(DOCZIP);
Another trick that we used was to overload the pathinfo. Just create a
URL that looks like www.website.com/cgi-bin/NameOfCGI/fileno.zip.
Netscape and Explorer will take the last bit to prompt you with in the
Save As dialog, while the webserver will just invoke NameOfCGI, which in
turn will be able to find fileno.zip in it's path info.
Cheers,
--
Merijn Broeren | Sometime in the middle ages, God got fed up with us
Software Geek | and put earth at sol.milky-way.univ in his kill-file.
| Pray all you want, it just gets junked.
Re: CiP value =1.5?
Quoting Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It's probably worrying if I can look at the above and think "That looks like MJD's code". Nah, the p;p;p;p;p is a dead give away. And the fnord ofcourse :-) -- Merijn Broeren| Nothing is more poignant in old age than the Software Geek | memory of temptation resisted. |
Re: Test
Quoting Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This is great, thanks! Is it possible to get it to do this *only* when the email is content-type: text/html; rather than displaying it instead of the text/plain in a multipart/alternative? Yeah, you set it up in .muttrc : auto_view text/html application/msword alternative_order text/enriched text/plain text set mailcap_path="~/.mutt-mailcap:~/.mailcap:/etc/mailcap" My .mutt-mailcap looks like this : # Try w3m first text/html; cathtml.sh %s; copiousoutput # Send html to a running netscape by remote text/html; netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)'; test=RunningNetscape # Else use lynx to view it as text text/html; lynx -dump %s; copiousoutput text/*; cat %s ; copiousoutput application/msword; catdoc; copiousoutput application/postscript; ps2ascii %s; copiousoutput And loads more for images and stuff. Especially catdoc is a godsend. Oh, my cathml.sh looks like this : #!/bin/sh eval `resize`; w3m -T text/html -cols $COLUMNS -dump $1; On the risk of offending the person who gets really tired of the w3m-is-better meme, I prefer w3m because I get send so many tables in html, they show up real nice. Cheerrs, -- Merijn Broeren| Nothing is more poignant in old age than the Software Geek | memory of temptation resisted. |
[HELP] Quick question about Red Hat and gb keyboards
Hi, My experience with Red Hat is none existant, and I haven't installed a n desktop Linux system in ages, so turn to you lot to ask a quick question about something that isn't immediatley obvious to me. If I change in /etc/X11/XF86config the keyboard setting to 'gb' from 'us', the backspace and delete key give me a forward delete. I don't care that much since I can't type on a gb keybaord anyway, but one of my collegues here is much annoyed by the ctrl-H :-) I tried stty erase and looked with jwz's [1] xkeycaps. Xmodmap seems to make no difference. Anybody got an easy answer? Cheers, [1] Correct single quote usage? -- Merijn Broeren| Nothing is more poignant in old age than the Software Geek | memory of temptation resisted. |
Re: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)
Quoting Steve Mynott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I remember arguing with a teacher who told us gravity was caused by the Earth spinning round who refused to accept that the child she was teaching actually knew more about it than her. Hey! I resemble that remark. I got send from school for a day after being 'impolite to the teacher' when I refused (loudly) to accept his version of the first moonlanding where Aldrin got out first. Cheers, -- Merijn Broeren| My hat to keep the Martian brain rays out works just fine. Software Geek | It's really *good* tin foil. | And stop staring at me like that.
Re: Test from uuencode boy
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): test. can you read this one, or is it attached? This is in Microsoft Outlook Rich Text. The previous mails have been sent in Plain Text. Your message looks like this : I 1 no description [multipa/alternativ, 7bit, 3.4K] I 2 |-no description[text/plain, quoted, ISO-8859-1, 1.1K] I 3 +-no description [multipa/mixed, 7bit, 1.9K] A 4 |-BDY.RTF [applica/rtf, base64, 0.5K] I 5 +-Legal Disclaimer [text/plain, 7bit, us-ascii, 0.9K] Amazing powers of obfuscation in Outlook. -- Merijn Broeren| My hat to keep the Martian brain rays out works just fine. Software Geek | It's really *good* tin foil. | And stop staring at me like that.
Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.
Quoting Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Please use: ISO planet code, ISO country code, POSTCODE, Building Number[, apartment number][, business name] Please move to one of the former USSR countries, they write their addresses there like that. http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/postal.html Makes for interesting reading about posting to anywhere. Cheers, -- Merijn Broeren| Some days it just don't pay to chew through Software Geek | the restraints in the morning... |
Re: DMP Availability
Quoting Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): That's semi-intentional. My company is called Magnum Solutions so we have as much right to use the initials as Microsoft. It amuses me that my Perl doodlings might be mistaken for Microsoft software. On that note, in the javaworld it is the idea that you name your classes starting with your domainname reversed. So com.shell.Business.RipofPrice.Petrol etc. Microsoft has taken to naming their java stuff com.ms.* Guess who owns ms.com? That's right, and we are *not* inclined to sell it to them. They tried though. :-) Cheers, -- Merijn Broeren | Sometime in the middle ages, God got fed up with us Software Geek | and put earth at sol.milky-way.univ in his kill-file. | Pray all you want, it just gets junked.
Re: DMP Availability
Quoting Merijn Broeren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Guess who owns ms.com? On checking who was first, I did a whois microsoft.com What can I say but : MICROSOFT.COM.WHOIS.RESULTS.MAKE.A.GREAT.HUMOUR-LIST.COM DNS grafitti, who would have thought... -- Merijn Broeren | Sometime in the middle ages, God got fed up with us Software Geek | and put earth at sol.milky-way.univ in his kill-file. | Pray all you want, it just gets junked.
Re: Sunday's emergency social meeting?
Quoting dcross - David Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm hoping that the talk on Monday will finish early enough that we can retreat to a local hostelry for more general socialising. This finally gives an answer to a question I had, about why the talk is scheduled so early? Getting myself and Damian from Canary Wharf after his class ends at our place leaves about 20 minutes for dinner. It can't be that easy for other people as well... But now I understand! You just want to get into a pub before 11! I can see I have to adjust to english life still. I'll start right away with another publunch today. ;-) Cheers, -- Merijn Broeren | Sometime in the middle ages, God got fed up with us Software Geek | and put earth at sol.milky-way.univ in his kill-file. | Pray all you want, it just gets junked.
Re: OT: Buffy (or not OT, depending on your point of view)
Quoting Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The one thing that gets me is that does anyone remember the trailer for this film? I seem to remember this bit where Donald Sutherland throws a knife at Kirsy Swanson and she catches it between two palms in front of her head. Now I didn't see this in the movie. Does anyone else remember this? This is normal for trailers of movies. I've worked in a cinema when I was a student and was forcefed trailers, so couldn't help but noticing it. Most US comedies have about 10 jokes, all of them in the trailer, and about 8 in the actual movie. ;-) There is a semi-valid reason for it, trailers are edited by different people (apparently highly valued), and usually before the actual movie is edited. Personally I try to avoid trailers and movie reviews, too many spoilers. Cheers, -- Merijn Broeren | 'I want to understand everything. I want to know every- Software Geek | thing and put it all together to see what it means.' | 'Excellent project, it will look very good on your resume.'
Re: Technical Meeting Sponsorship
Quoting Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It would be spectacularly appropriate :) I agree :-) I can't remember exactly what the email I got from them said, but they were _far_ cheaper than the Commonwealth Institute (which I also investigated). There was a larger room for ~500 and a smaller one for ~70. I think the smaller one costs 155 for the evening. So that is looking pretty good to me right now. If I don't get any other volunteers I may consider making it a Magnum Solutions sponsored event (if it only costs 150!) You can jot me down for a personal sponsorship of 50. No way I can get a corporate sponsorship in time. Cheers, -- Merijn Broeren | Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavour of life, Software Geek | take big bites. Moderation is for monks. |
