Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

2001-05-25 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: and i can't buy it, because its still on boring old VHS - Greg 'DVD' McCarroll It *was* released on DVD (in the US, but we don't care about that, do we boys and girls) but this was a while back, and it's now out of stock (everywhere.) I think this

Re: Beer fest beckons

2001-05-25 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:00:40PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:28:49PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: So I get a call on my mobile in the middle of the beer fest from a potential collaborator telling me he can't send me the promised documentation due to the fact

Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

2001-05-25 Thread Struan Donald
* at 24/05 23:18 +0100 Greg McCarroll said: p.s. at the risk of raising the heckles of BlackStar, does anyone know the URL of the company based in the channel islands (or isle of mann) that sell american dvds to the UK at the time they are released in the US? 247 or something?

Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

2001-05-25 Thread Jon Eyre
Greg McCarroll wrote: think on you young-uns, before that the sexiest thing on TV was that monster who ate the sandwich in the last round of the adventure game It was a green cheese roll, on account of the vortex only liking to eat stuff with doubled letters in it... Gronda gronda Ragnor j

Laziest way of selling stuph on line?

2001-05-25 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Is there any easier way of flogging stuff on line than using Amazon Z-shops? They settle quickly, commission isn't horrendous and they do some inventory management. Thoughts?

more PDP-11s to rescue

2001-05-25 Thread David Cantrell
-- 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 Got some equipment that needs saving. contact this guy directly and

Re: Laziest way of selling stuph on line?

2001-05-25 Thread Chris Heathcote
on 25/5/01 10:17 am, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Is there any easier way of flogging stuff on line than using Amazon Z-shops? They settle quickly, commission isn't horrendous and they do some inventory management. I think Yahoo do a similar deal. Not necessarily much better tho'. c. --

Re: wantarray and Tied Hashed

2001-05-25 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:35:52PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: my @array = $h{two}; I bumped into this in 1997 and became convinced list contexts aren't propagated to the effective sub call. If you look at the above line, there's something very odd seeming about it anyway, and it's not

Re: wantarray and Tied Hashed

2001-05-25 Thread Simon Cozens
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:28:27AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: my @array = $h{two}; ^ In perl 5 at least, *this* is your scalar context. -- Little else matters than to write good code. -- Karl Lehenbauer

RE: wantarray and Tied Hashed

2001-05-25 Thread Cross David - dcross
From: Simon Cozens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 12:02 PM On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:28:27AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: my @array = $h{two}; ^ In perl 5 at least, *this* is your scalar context. Good point. But even if I change it to: my @array

Re: wantarray and Tied Hashed

2001-05-25 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:15:44PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: Anyway, as I said before, you can work around it with my @array = tied(%h)-FETCH('two'); If anyone is interested, Tie::Hash::Regex is currently winging its way to your favourite CPAN mirror. I wonder, could you do

Re: Laziest way of selling stuph on line?

2001-05-25 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Chris Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on 25/5/01 10:17 am, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Is there any easier way of flogging stuff on line than using Amazon Z-shops? They settle quickly, commission isn't horrendous and they do some inventory management. I think Yahoo do a similar deal.

Re: wantarray and Tied Hashed

2001-05-25 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:36:59PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: From: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder, could you do some magic with the calling stack so that your FETCH can Do The Right Thing? Or, I could just accept that I'm a BAD MAN who is trying to PERVERT PERL in

Re: wantarray and Tied Hashed

2001-05-25 Thread Piers Cawley
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:36:59PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: From: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder, could you do some magic with the calling stack so that your FETCH can Do The Right Thing? Or, I could just accept

Tie::Hash::Regex vs Tie::RegexpHash

2001-05-25 Thread Cross David - dcross
I was just looking thru CPAN (and, yes, I realise I should have done that _before_ writing T::H::R[1]) and I found a module called Tie::RegexpHash. Having looked at it in some detail, I see it's doing the opposite of T::H::R and I think that's quite interesting. In T::H::R, the keys are always

Decisions decisions

2001-05-25 Thread David Cantrell
It seems that a PDP 11/73 is small enough to run at home. So do I get one or not? -- Dave the Indecisive

Re: Decisions decisions

2001-05-25 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:30:23PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: It seems that a PDP 11/73 is small enough to run at home. So do I get one or not? Yes! You'll have enough blinkenlights then. You can always get 7th Edition running on it. http://minnie.tuhs.org/PUPS/index.html -Dom

Re: Tie::Hash::Regex vs Tie::RegexpHash

2001-05-25 Thread Steve Keay
In T::R, the keys that you use in the hash are all treated as regexes. In effect you're saying if you look up a value using a key that matches this regex, then return this value. An added complication is that the key/value pairs are _ordered_ (the underlying object is an array, not a hash) so

Hello and one or two dull questions

2001-05-25 Thread Tony Kennick
Hi, after a while off list, (in my first real perl job) I have wandered back. Just trying to remember, is there an archive so I can see what has come up recently? Was YAPC::Europe fun? Has anyone managed to ask the Camel what it's name is yet? Tony -- Tony Kennick TechnoPhobia Limited. Phone:

FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-25 Thread Nathan Torkington
Redvers Davies writes: About that flyer... FMD presents no risks to humans but is a serious threat to animal health. That is not strictly true... FMD is not a threat to animal health, the MAFF slaughters are. I'm not taking sides about whether the slaughters are justified. Here, though,

Re: Hello and one or two dull questions

2001-05-25 Thread Michael Pye
On Fri, 25 May 2001 14:41:56 +0100, you wrote: Just trying to remember, is there an archive so I can see what has come up recently? There is a mail archive of this list at: http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/ -- mikey

Re: Decisions decisions

2001-05-25 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:51:44PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Dominic Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:30:23PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: It seems that a PDP 11/73 is small enough to run at home. So do I get one or not? Yes! You'll have enough

Re: Decisions decisions

2001-05-25 Thread Dean
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:51:44PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: No! Remind me of some of the reasons you wanted to get rid of the defender machine? I'm sure one of them was lack of space in Cantrell mansions. Ignore the heretic and his shouts of compare! swap! Embrace the siren call of the

Re: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-25 Thread will
In countries where the virus is endemic, veterinarians must vaccinate at regular intervals. The vaccines only offer protection for a short period of time, are expensive, and in some cases contain live viruses that may infect the animals. Added to this, it is almost (completely?) impossible

Re: Decisions decisions

2001-05-25 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:51:44PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: No! Remind me of some of the reasons you wanted to get rid of the defender machine? I'm sure one of them was lack of space in Cantrell mansions. Ignore the heretic and his shouts of

Re: Hello and one or two dull questions

2001-05-25 Thread Leon Brocard
Tony Kennick sent the following bits through the ether: is there an archive so I can see what has come up recently? I've been doing weekly summaries of the mailing list, which may help: http://www.astray.com/mailman/listinfo/london-list-summary Leon -- Leon

Re: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-25 Thread Paul Mison
On 25/05/2001 at 15:08 +0100, will wrote: In countries where the virus is endemic, veterinarians must vaccinate at regular intervals. The vaccines only offer protection for a short period of time, are expensive, and in some cases contain live viruses that may infect the animals. Added to

Friday Afternoon Fun

2001-05-25 Thread Cross David - dcross
It's a slow day :) http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=83309 And you might enjoy this challenge: http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=83316 Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be

Re: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-25 Thread Paul Mison
On 25/05/2001 at 15:40 +0100, will wrote: The massive British export meat market was worth... 300 million UKP last year. Tourism makes billions. The British rural economy could survive with no exported meat. So a program of vaccination and slaughter to erradicate the disease will firstly

Towel Day - today, drinks 7pm.

2001-05-25 Thread Martin Ling
In tribute to Douglas Adams, today is Towel Day. http://towelday.org/ Still time to pick up yours and come to drink at the Captain's Cabin tonight: http://greatzarquon.tripod.com/ Martin

RE: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-25 Thread Robert Thompson
From: will Of course we could just build a super-gun (a-la iraq) and shoot bloated carcasses at Redmond. This is my favouite idea. Pigs In Space Rob --- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender,

Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

2001-05-25 Thread Niklas Nordebo
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:54:35PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: o Sneakers Had I been able to locate my copy you would have been more than welcome to borrow it it would appear mine's in storage. If I get a chance before Saturday I'll try and track it down. I happened to find this on DVD

Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

2001-05-25 Thread Simon Wistow
Niklas Nordebo wrote: I happened to find this on DVD at Tower yesterday, 2 for £25[0], so I bought it, and will bring it on Sunday. Groovesome. May have to pick that up myself as well.

Re: Decisions decisions

2001-05-25 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:08:41PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Dean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ignore the heretic and his shouts of compare! swap! Embrace the siren call of the hardware. I would never ignore the heretic - if I did, he wouldn't introduce me to eccellent restaurants, and

Re: Tie::Hash::Regex vs Tie::RegexpHash

2001-05-25 Thread Chris Devers
At 02:18 PM 2001.05.25 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: [1] Hmmm... note to self - see if you can come up with a tied hash that abbreviates to T::H::C. Semi-plausible: Tie::Hash::Complex Not-plausible: Tie::Hash::Cannabis Might see the light of day?: Tie::Hash::Conway -- Chris Devers

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21

2001-05-25 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:25:43PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: That is not strictly true... FMD is not a threat to animal health, the MAFF slaughters are. There was me thinking the threat to animal health was the six inch bolt that gets driven thru' their skulls and ultimately them being

Re: Hello and one or two dull questions

2001-05-25 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:01:15PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Tony Kennick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Has anyone managed to ask the Camel what it's name is yet? our camel or the Perl Programming/logo camel? i have been told that the PP/P logo camel is called ...

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21

2001-05-25 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:25:43PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: That is not strictly true... FMD is not a threat to animal health, the MAFF slaughters are. There was me thinking the threat to animal health was the six inch bolt that gets driven

Re: Tie::Hash::Regex vs Tie::RegexpHash

2001-05-25 Thread Piers Cawley
Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 02:18 PM 2001.05.25 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: [1] Hmmm... note to self - see if you can come up with a tied hash that abbreviates to T::H::C. Semi-plausible: Tie::Hash::Complex Not-plausible: Tie::Hash::Cannabis Might see the light of day?: