Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-15 Thread Philip Newton
acme wrote: This london-list weekly summary has been brought to you with IRC nicknames instead of, err, real names. This is just an experiment - we reckon it's a bit silly and more confusing. What do you reckon? I didn't know who "dumrats" was but it didn't take long to figure out. Whether

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-15 Thread Robin Szemeti
This london-list weekly summary has been brought to you with IRC nicknames instead of, err, real names. This is just an experiment - we reckon it's a bit silly and more confusing. What do you reckon? hmmm .. dunno .. you start off ok with 'blech' but then go on to use the same name spelt the

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-15 Thread Robin Houston
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: [...] summaries of #london.pm traffic :) Now _there's_ an idea :-) Is anyone feeling really, really bored? .robin.

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-15 Thread Philip Newton
Robin Houston wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: [...] summaries of #london.pm traffic :) Now _there's_ an idea :-) Is anyone feeling really, really bored? Isn't 30% of the traffic of the type "dadadodo for cream nauseous disgrace extensibility"? :-)

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-15 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Robin Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: [...] summaries of #london.pm traffic :) Now _there's_ an idea :-) Is anyone feeling really, really bored? No, but I'm getting hungry... -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Robert Shiels
Is this a suitable place to talk about our server? I guess we should have a separate mailing list for it eventually g I was just wondering if we could make a list of things that have been installed and services that are available. I would be willing to start a FAQ and wish list if someone else

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: I'd like to know which perl modules are already installed. I think Meestah Cross has written something that does this, as have I and I think that Tom Phoenix has released Inside now which is a properly implemented way of doing same (I beta tested it

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Roger Burton West
On or about Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:26:27PM -, Robert Shiels typed: I'd like to know which perl modules are already installed. http://www.perlfaq.com/faqs/id/205 Roger

RE: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Jonathan Peterson
To start: I'd like to be able to have a http://london.pm.org/~shiels web address, and a cgi-bin directory. I would like to have (at least) one mysql database to play with. I'd like to know which perl modules are already installed. Why don't we just install all of CPAN to begin with?

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Robert Shiels
From: "Jonathan Stowe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 February 2001 15:40 Subject: Re: Penderel Configuration On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: I'd like to know which perl modules are already installed. I think Meestah Cross has written something that does

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Robin Houston
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:26:27PM -, Robert Shiels wrote: I'd like to know which perl modules are already installed. Add this handy alias to your ~/.bashrc and you'll be able to find out whenever you like :-) alias lsmodules='perldoc -m perllocal | perl -nle '\''print $1 if /L(.*?)/'\''

RE: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread jo walsh
I'd like to be able to have a http://london.pm.org/~shiels web address, and a cgi-bin directory. k i can do the ~/public_html thing and sort this out is that the best way? or there is a group of web users who can write to the docroot if you prefer (both?) I would like to have (at

RE: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Gareth . Harper
I notice you don't have Symbol::Approx::Sub installed ;) On a side note, now I've figured out how to send proper plain text mail, anyone know how I can tell outlook to prefix replies with or likewise ?? Thanks Gareth -Original Message- From: Robin Houston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Steve Mynott
Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: I'd like to know which perl modules are already installed. I think Meestah Cross has written something that does this, as have I and I think that Tom Phoenix has released Inside now which is a properly

RE: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Andrew Bowman
From: Michael Stevens [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Tools - Options - Preferences - E-mail Options ... (This is Microsoft Outlook 2000 SR-1 Corporate or Workgroup) Outlook 98 and Outlook Express also have this feature. Outlook 97 (my current employer's choice) doesn't (so the above quoting is

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:33:00PM -, Robert Shiels wrote: The ~/public_html is what I had in mind, this should be fairly easy to turn on in httpd.conf, although when I looked it seemed like it was already configured, but I couldn't get mine to work. The web user needs read access to

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Philip Newton
jo walsh wrote: mysql is installed and should be running, Seems not to be. quote [pne@penderel pne]$ mysql ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111) [pne@penderel pne]$ date Thu Feb 15 16:41:25 GMT 2001 /quote Cheers, Philip

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:21:34PM -, Andrew Bowman wrote: It may be heresy to admit it around here (come on then MuttCarroll!), but I actually quite like Outlook Express (as distinct from Outlook) as a mail client. Once it's configured to disable scripting etc. it's biggest flaw, aside

RE: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice you don't have Symbol::Approx::Sub installed ;) On a side note, now I've figured out how to send proper plain text mail, anyone know how I can tell outlook to prefix replies with or likewise ?? In Outlook menu - Tools/Options select

RE: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Jonathan Peterson
this is a good idea. We have enough disk space (just !), so I agree totally. Have fun with all the binary dependencies :-) Or are you talking about having a CPAN mirror, which is an entirely different water-boiling-device of pisceans. Oh no, CPAN mirror is bring, I'm

Matt Sergeant Technical Talk

2001-02-15 Thread Dave Cross
The next technical meeting will be next Thursday (22nd Feb). Our guest speaker for the night will be Matt Sergeant who will be talking about AxKit http://www.axkit.org. Meeting starts at 7:30pm and will be at Torrington Interactive. Address and further details are on the web site. (Still

RE: The Conway Lecture

2001-02-15 Thread Andy Mendelsohn
THE CONWAY LECTURE "Quantum::Superpositions" by Damian Conway In the Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL On Monday 26th Feb, 2001 At 7pm Having seen him give this lecture last week at the Silicon Valley Perl Mongers meeting, I can't stress how good a lecture it is.

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: HTML email is bad. In this weeks LWN letters page, there's a cute letter from Alan Cox explaining how you don't need JS enabled to get tricked. If you look for "HTML email privacy" at: I've always been *enabled* whaddya talking about ... /J\

Re: The Conway Lecture

2001-02-15 Thread Leon Brocard
Andy Mendelsohn sent the following bits through the ether: Mind you, does anyone need encouraging to go and see Damian Conway talk? No. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Sucks Syntax

Re: The Conway Lecture

2001-02-15 Thread Neil Ford
(please circulate this to any interested parties) Forwarded to the UK FreeBSD User Group and the Brighton Linux User Group. Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Yet Another Computer Solutions Company [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Conway Lecture

2001-02-15 Thread Greg Cope
Neil Ford wrote: (please circulate this to any interested parties) Forwarded to the UK FreeBSD User Group and the Brighton Linux User Group. Brighton LUG - Where ? Greg Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Yet Another Computer Solutions Company [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Pony and Buffy (was Re: Mailing List Stuff)

2001-02-15 Thread Mark Fowler
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Michael Stevens wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:34:15PM +, Robin Houston wrote: what is it with ponys? I've wondered that too. Seems to be a #perl obsession... purl pony [purl] pony is replyGimme a Pony! Pony! Pony! Pony Pony Pony! Pony Pony

Re: The Conway Lecture

2001-02-15 Thread Neil Ford
Neil Ford wrote: (please circulate this to any interested parties) Forwarded to the UK FreeBSD User Group and the Brighton Linux User Group. Brighton LUG - Where ? http://www.brighton.lug.org.uk It's a fairly dorment group but it does exist. The web page has details on how to join the