Re: Kung Foo and PIMB

2001-01-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: P.S. PINE may be silly, but the multiple reply option rocks. err *clickity click*, guess what i just discovered mutt could do ;-) * Aaron Trevena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This reminds me of the conversation Case, norm I had after crouching

Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)

2001-01-15 Thread Michael Stevens
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 11:26:28PM -0500, Mark Rogaski wrote: It's also sheer idiocy to pipe arbitrary code from an untrusted, unverified source directly to the shell. How is it less secure than downloading a tar file and typing ./configure? Admittedly you *could* check several meg of source

Re: PIMB T-shirts

2001-01-15 Thread David Hodgkinson
Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Hodgkinson wrote: Are there any of these left? Yeah, I've got about 10 or so left I think. Can I reserve 2 to go to the States? I guess I should enquire about sizes... -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: Super Perl Sites

2001-01-15 Thread Simon Wistow
http://perl.apache.org/stories/ Specifically http://perl.apache.org/stories/winamillion.html Makes me laugh anyway.

Re: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-15 Thread Robin Houston
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 02:29:38PM +, Simon Wistow wrote: How would the user get round this? I mean sure they could if they had access to the source code but ... I'm writing something at the moment that's got lots of sub do_summat { my ($self, $userid, $arg1, $arg2) = @_;

Re: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-15 Thread Simon Wistow
Mark Fowler wrote: May I suggest that we die at this point? And throw a Error::AccessDenyed object or something? Dieing's probably a bad idea. The idea was for it to set an error stack so that even if you were using this module you would do stuff like my $do = new DO;

Re: OT : DVD

2001-01-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
* mallum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've seen this in electronics botique on Oxford Street. as in the DVD version to be run on a DVD player? as for it being bad gameplay i don't really care i just want it for historic sake - if i wanted gameplay i'd play NetHack, phear me and my B,Fp,+3 BDSM

Re: OT : DVD

2001-01-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
* James Powell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You can't beat marble madness for old arcade games though... and it runs nicely in MAME. apparently its one of the most in demand video game cabinet/controller combo's as the whell broke so much -- Greg McCarroll

Re: Super Perl Sites

2001-01-15 Thread Philip Newton
Philip Newton wrote: James Royan wrote: Just so that I get my facts straight, could the list suggest maybe 4 or 5 really well known sites that I could point to which are definitely known to use Perl in a big way? Besides Blackstar? :-) This question was posted to clpmisc (I think.

Re: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-15 Thread Andy Wardley
On Jan 15, 1:50pm, Simon Wistow wrote: Something like that, probably called it Symbol::ACL or summat. I'll stick it in my todo list right after Flash stuff, Mail::Hotmail, Net::IP2LL, Fuky widget set thingy, WMLScript compiler in Perl and learning Japanese. I started learning Japanese when

Re: OT : DVD

2001-01-15 Thread mallum
Yes its the DVD version. At the front of the shop, think they were about 15 quid each. On the subject of games, anyone see the 'bits' special on C4 the weekend about violent games - its was pretty good for 'bits' ? mallum On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 04:22:39PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: *

Re: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Andy Wardley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Jan 15, 1:50pm, Simon Wistow wrote: Something like that, probably called it Symbol::ACL or summat. I'll stick it in my todo list right after Flash stuff, Mail::Hotmail, Net::IP2LL, Fuky widget set thingy, WMLScript compiler in Perl and

RE: Super Perl Sites

2001-01-15 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Slashdot? If the guy in question has never _heared_ of Perl, I'm not sure Slashdot will mean much to him..

RE: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-15 Thread Matthew Jones
In my case, Japanese was very much the latter. I have deep respect for anyone who can master it. The only Japanese I know: "Anata no zubon wa taihen kirena desu!" Not many applications. -- matt "What? I don't speak your crazy moon-language."

Re: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Matthew Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In my case, Japanese was very much the latter. I have deep respect for anyone who can master it. The only Japanese I know: "Anata no zubon wa taihen kirena desu!" the only japanese i know is - hi, i don't think i've spoke to you before,

Re: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-15 Thread Leon Brocard
Marcel Grunauer sent the following bits through the ether: Do it like Memoize.pm (i.e., generalize the wrapper mechanism or just nick ... http://search.cpan.org/doc/JDPORTER/Hook-WrapSub-0.03/lib/Hook/WrapSub.pm Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/

Re: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-15 Thread Robin Houston
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 05:17:08PM +, Marcel Grunauer wrote: Sounds like the business. There have been quite a number of Perl modules lately that are more about the syntax and the way the language is being used than for any specific tasks, such as: Lingua::Romana::Perligata :-) I

Re: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-15 Thread Tony Bowden
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 04:53:57PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: I started learning Japanese when the NI administration decided to teach it to joint classes of catholic children and protestant children. Hence it was a good way to meet a brand new batch of girls. I stopped soon after. Hey ... I

Re: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Tony Bowden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 04:53:57PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: I started learning Japanese when the NI administration decided to teach it to joint classes of catholic children and protestant children. Hence it was a good way to meet a brand new

Re: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-15 Thread Mark Fowler
Dieing's probably a bad idea. The idea was for it to set an error stack so that even if you were using this module you would do stuff like my $do = new DO; $do-something(); warn ACL::last_error()."\n" if ACL::error(); which would print out something like "Access to

Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)

2001-01-15 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:42:34AM +, Steve Mynott wrote: "David H. Adler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh, you're much too kind. My redhat box is disintigrating before my very eyes. root partition filled up for no reason and, thus I looked at the partition table: / /boot

Re: PIMB T-shirts

2001-01-15 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:37:57AM +, Simon Wistow wrote: David Hodgkinson wrote: Can I reserve 2 to go to the States? I guess I should enquire about sizes... Sure, no problem. Shall I enquire at NY.pm tomorrow about demand? -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: PIMB T-shirts

2001-01-15 Thread Simon Wistow
"David H. Adler" wrote: Shall I enquire at NY.pm tomorrow about demand? Yup. Might eb up for doing anohter run if necessary. Plus I have some other ideas.

Re: PIMB T-shirts

2001-01-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: "David H. Adler" wrote: Shall I enquire at NY.pm tomorrow about demand? Yup. Might eb up for doing anohter run if necessary. Plus I have some other ideas. Apparently Amsterdam.pm are looking for a design for YAPC::Europe 2001 ;-) however,

Re: PIMB T-shirts

2001-01-15 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:04:42PM +, Simon Wistow wrote: "David H. Adler" wrote: Shall I enquire at NY.pm tomorrow about demand? Yup. Might eb up for doing anohter run if necessary. Plus I have some other ideas. Doctor incarnation=secondI think this is one of those instances were

Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)

2001-01-15 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 04:51:38PM +, Aaron Trevena wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Andy Wardley wrote: On Jan 15, 4:24pm, Robin Houston wrote: Lingua::Romana::Perligata :-) Conway-san, your programming challenge for this week is: Lingua::Nihon::Perldes (but with an

Re: Perl commandments - index .vs. //

2001-01-15 Thread Chris Benson
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:50:08PM +, Piers Cawley wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also index. These two snippets are equivalent: if($foo=~/foo/) { ... } if(index($foo, 'foo')!=-1) { ... } I always want to do just plain if(index(...)) though. ISTR that (for