Re: Kevin Smith Film Fest

2001-03-07 Thread Jon Eyre
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Richard Clamp wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 07:17:06PM +, Jon Eyre wrote: On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: Mallrats, His best film No! Smith pimpz his talents out to the Mouse, and the end result: A John Hughes movie with

Re: Kevin Smith Film Fest

2001-03-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:18:36PM +, Richard Clamp wrote: But she has such an annoying voice. http://www.ifilm.com/images/audio/960803.mp3 ...from... http://www.ifilm.com/db/static_text/0,1699,13280,00.html *That's* an annoying voice, shared by many Californian women ;-( Paul

Re: Kevin Smith Film Fest

2001-03-07 Thread Richard Clamp
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:27:38AM +, Jon Eyre wrote: Miramax made Jason Mewes audition to play *himself*... Which he did so well. Miramax did a very good thing though, they dumped the original start sequence. Chasing Amy But she has such an annoying voice. Rings a bell...

Re: Kevin Smith Film Fest

2001-03-07 Thread Hamlet D'Arcy
When Mallrats was released I was at University in the US. A week before the release the local paper ran a contest to win tickets to an advance screening. You had to use the work snootchie-bootckies in a sentence, best sentence winning. Long story short... I won advance tickets, a mallrats CD,

RE: Kevin Smith Film Fest

2001-03-07 Thread Mark . Kitching
Title: RE: Kevin Smith Film Fest While we're off-topic...Jason Lee (Mallrats and Chasing Amy) a severely under-rated actor or does my love for the Kevin Smith films cloud my judgment, the closest I've seen him to real fame is a 5 minute appearance in Enemy of the State which really doesn't

FW: Kevin Smith Film Fest - Non-HTML version!

2001-03-07 Thread Mark . Kitching
Sorry for the HTML posting! Here's the proper one *blush* While we're off-topic...Jason Lee (Mallrats and Chasing Amy) a severely under-rated actor or does my love for the Kevin Smith films cloud my judgment, the closest I've seen him to real fame is a 5 minute appearance in "Enemy of the State"

Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl

2001-03-07 Thread Simon Batistoni
Wow! A perl post on london.pm... I know most people here probably read Slashdot, but this was too sweet to pass up. #!/usr/bin/perl -w # 526-byte qrpff, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] # MPEG 2 PS VOB file on stdin - descrambled output on stdout # arguments: title key bytes

Re: Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl

2001-03-07 Thread Greg McCarroll
its at times like this, the fact we are archived suddenly seems a good thing (TM) * Simon Batistoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Wow! A perl post on london.pm... I know most people here probably read Slashdot, but this was too sweet to pass up. #!/usr/bin/perl -w # 526-byte qrpff, Keith

Re: Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl

2001-03-07 Thread Leon Brocard
Simon Batistoni sent the following bits through the ether: I know most people here probably read Slashdot, but this was too sweet to pass up. It's cute. Doing the 'x' - 'pack+' substition by hand and then running through perltidy (http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/, does a pretty good job)

Re: FW: Kevin Smith Film Fest - Non-HTML version!

2001-03-07 Thread Jon Eyre
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we're off-topic...Jason Lee (Mallrats and Chasing Amy) a severely under-rated actor or does my love for the Kevin Smith films cloud my judgment, the closest I've seen him to real fame is a 5 minute appearance in "Enemy of the State" which

Re: Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl

2001-03-07 Thread Robin Houston
Nice. I'm sure it can easily be shortened some more. Without even understanding what it does, it seems pretty clear that we can shave 2 bytes by changing: $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){ into $_='$/=\2048;while(STDIN){ Any more obvious shavings? .robin. -- Satan, oscillate my

Re: Kevin Smith Film Fest - Jason Lee

2001-03-07 Thread Richard Clamp
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:12:22PM -, Hamlet D'Arcy wrote: professional skateboarding and videography. It was directed by Spike Jones (the same who directed Being John Malkovitch). nitpick ref="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Jonze,+Spike"/ more (in)correctly spelt Spike Jonze, though imdb does

Re: Kevin Smith Film Fest - Jason Lee

2001-03-07 Thread Hamlet D'Arcy
what else did Jason Lee appear in... Since we're talking about Jason Lee... He was in another Spike Jonez feature which was untitled. Airwalk (J. Lee's shoe sponsor) produced a video to promote Airwalk which was again filmed by Spike. This one came out in '95. It was only distributed to

Re: Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl

2001-03-07 Thread Philip Newton
Robin Houston wrote: Any more obvious shavings? Try posting to Fun With Perl; they like playing golf there. 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.

Re: Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl

2001-03-07 Thread Robin Houston
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:44:54PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: Try posting to Fun With Perl; they like playing golf there. What do you think I did, immediately after posting here? :-) FWP is so bloody slow though, that it hasn't got there yet AFAICT... .robin. -- God! a red nugget: a fat

RE: Kevin Smith Film Fest

2001-03-07 Thread Mark . Kitching
Drifting further off topic - In case anyone hasn't seen it yet: http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=8343 Mark K.

Re: FW: Kevin Smith Film Fest - Non-HTML version!

2001-03-07 Thread Tony Bowden
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:12:11PM +, Jon Eyre wrote: Mi vida loca (1993) Teenage Drug Customer nothing else which I've seen... He has a fairly significant part in Mumford, as a skateboarding tech millionaire ... Tony --

RE: Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl

2001-03-07 Thread Simon Batistoni
its at times like this, the fact we are archived suddenly seems a good thing (TM) That occurred to me as I was posting it, although it could actually make it a violation of the DMCA to read our archive anywhere inside the borders of the US... :) Anyway, the guy who originally posted the perl

Re: Scraping news feeds?

2001-03-07 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:36:56PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: What's the best way to scrape a variety of news headlines from various sites? Sort of a moreover for the intranet... Probably using RSS (XML file format) and XML::RSS (which includes a nice scraper tool). -Dom

Re: Scraping news feeds?

2001-03-07 Thread Simon Wilcox
At 12:54 07/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote: [snip] Chapter 10 isn't it Dave ? Section 10.4 to be precise. "Specialized parsers - XML::RSS" :) You've got a bit further since last Thursday then! Yep, but not quite that far ! Also been reading Rebel Code which has a nice bit about Perl in

Re: FW: Kevin Smith Film Fest - Non-HTML version!

2001-03-07 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:05:07PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the HTML posting! Here's the proper one *blush* You BASTARD! While we're off-topic...Jason Lee (Mallrats and Chasing Amy) a severely under-rated actor or does my love for the Kevin Smith films cloud my judgment,