Re: YAPC::Europe

2001-06-15 Thread Dean
trip i was hoping someone would be feeling ambitious and volenter... (Although i worked at Oven and hence can't organize a pissup in a brewery :)) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

LCN supplementary

2001-06-15 Thread Dean
in Greenwich Park) (Thanks to SuSE for a six foot inflatable penguin!) --- HTH and can someone bring a football to the geeknic... Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: [OT] BUFFY No spoilers

2001-06-04 Thread Dean
in the planning for a while now, the main bad guy has been rumoured to be the Ultimate Evil from the Buffy Xmas episode where Angels tries to kill himself (in series three.) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Decompression

2001-06-01 Thread Dean S Wilson
the whole module to my script ;) And now back to your scheduled Buffy discussion. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon

LCN June

2001-06-01 Thread Dean
a member of one of the groups i spoke to after the last edition of this many moons ago please drop me a note to get added. Remember use Buffy; (http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=modulequery=Buffy) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon All views in the above

Re: LCN June

2001-06-01 Thread Dean
is changing. I'll do another LCN later this month when things are a bit firmer for: PM Tech meeting. PM Social. GLLUG. Lonix. Only one that's done and dusted seems to be SAGE-WISE (Fingers crossed) Dean [0] This is one of the reasons i stopped doing this. No one knows when stuffs

Re: crazy golf

2001-06-01 Thread Dean
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:28:43PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: So *that's* the secret to your boyish good looks Dave! I knew there had to be *something* good about contracting :-) That and getting to drain the life out of the permanent staff ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language

Re: [PUB] Possible candidate

2001-05-31 Thread Dean
next to Cantrell i suppose ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Windows Perl - how?

2001-05-31 Thread Dean
they switched back. If you go here: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/ And click the AS Package link. This will give you Perl and options to get the MSI installer for your version of Windows. HTH Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Decompression

2001-05-31 Thread Dean
) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Y::E accomodation

2001-05-30 Thread Dean
are? Or is it a free for all? Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Decisions decisions

2001-05-25 Thread Dean
of the hardware. Or get an emulator and save on aircon... :) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Buffy gear

2001-05-23 Thread Dean
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:18:23PM +0100, Barry Pretsell wrote: QVC are selling lots of Buffy gear, tune into QVC now, or check out the wbesite Charisma Carpenter 'Cordelia' Signed Photo £64... Now i'm scared... Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

2001-05-19 Thread Dean S Wilson
as they have a very limited selection at the moment. I suppose the issue with books as PDF is that it leaves you wide open to rampant copying... Although you could slow crawl safari and zip 'em up. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers

Re: pc components

2001-05-17 Thread Dean S Wilson
then forget mail order and go to TCR on a Saturday, you get to take home what you pay for and with the drop in spending lately its getting easier to haggle the price down. And afterwards you can come to one of the almost weekly geek meets in a nearby pub. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all

Re: pc components

2001-05-17 Thread Dean S Wilson
-Original Message- From: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 14:48 17/05/01 +0100, Dean wrote: If your in London then forget mail order and go to TCR on a Saturday, you get to take home what you pay for and with the drop in spending lately its getting easier to haggle the price

The scary man...

2001-05-16 Thread Dean
Some interesting stuff: http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/05/08/exegesis2.html I like the fact that hash's and arrays are going to use their own symbols for stuff like slices, should make explaining things a lot easier in the future! Dean -- But then the serpent of OO entered the garden

Re: Latest Perl Journal

2001-05-16 Thread Dean
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:19:36PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote: Thanks very much. It's one of my favourite jokes. It was trialed at a london.pm technical meeting some months ago :) What's the footnote on page 78, Dave? And is this a subscribers copy or one found in the wild? Dean

Re: Buffy ...

2001-05-16 Thread Dean
see off the vampire ^Hventure capitalists. One of the companies to survive todays spending spree was MagSol, the founder Dave was heard to say Willows better. Sorry couldn't resist. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Dean S Wilson
-Original Message- From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course we could make a cyberpunk movie instead, now let me thing about it Someone please employ Mr Mccarroll. My mail box can't cope with him having this much spare time. ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all

Re: (OT) constrained walk

2001-05-11 Thread Dean
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:17:10PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: Paul Mison wrote: there may be a second constrained walk What's a constrained walk? About 5 yards. ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Monitors

2001-05-11 Thread Dean
/ Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Dean
group travel[0]. Dean [0] Maybe even to the camel? -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

RE: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Dean
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:20:36AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: 2) Get Willow. Dammit. I'll see what they cost. It might be prohibitively expensive to get anyone who's cute. Get Willow then ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread Dean
or is it all just ad-hoc? Dean (Also looking forward to the LBW and OSDEM and maybe LinuxTag) -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread Dean
finished shooting in 2000 and nothings been seen of it since the early details. Does any one know if ORA will be selling a compilation of the papers again after this conference? Dean PS Do we have any news on the YAPC::Europe talks that were recorded? -- Profanity is the one language all

Re: More revolting natives

2001-05-04 Thread Dean
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:17:25PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: Oh, and you've just gotta love the mentality that sees 'gay' as an insult. Gives a real feel for the kind of person we're dealing with :) Just to clarify is this the 13 year old? Dean -- Profanity is the one

Re: More revolting natives

2001-05-04 Thread Dean
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:32:35PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: Well, the 13 year old now claims to be 20. But no, this is his friend bk who kills people for a living in Hereford! Um. I no longer want children. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand

Re: More revolting natives

2001-05-04 Thread Dean
that one day he'll be picking out their retirement homes... Does the author of the book take an interest in the web group? I'd hope she'd be on there correcting him. Dean I can see use.perl now, Thirteen year old boy terrorized by London PMer's because Dave told them to :) -- Profanity

Re: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this

2001-05-03 Thread Dean
. :) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this

2001-05-03 Thread Dean
. Looks like the videos will be out before the show comes on. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Another Komodo

2001-04-26 Thread Dean
details though... Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Komodo

2001-04-18 Thread Dean
world anyway, for some reason IDE's always seem unwelcome (He adds writing this in vi and going back to xemacs to code ;)) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Komodo

2001-04-18 Thread Dean
tools. Yet. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Komodo

2001-04-18 Thread Dean
of unreleased modifications to Perl itself Ahh yes, through the ActiveState way you can control clippit ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Komodo

2001-04-18 Thread Dean
know enough Mac-oriented C programming. Whats MPW? OS X just uses CPAN like any other *nix, more or less. Does OS X come with GNU tools like GCC and make then? Dean (Clueless when it comes to macs.) -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Mourning clothes for London.pm

2001-04-18 Thread Dean
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:29:43AM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: CNN reports that BtVS's SMG will wed Freddie Prinz. Of course he'll probably be attacked by vampires before that can actually happen. Or Greg ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand

Re: Komodo

2001-04-18 Thread Dean
comfortable with doing everything in xemacs. Emacs *is* an IDE. It just doesn't look like all the other ones. I was going to argue about the foot print but i use Visual Studio on occasion ;) -Dom (oops, was that inflammatory?) Nah. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers

Re: Beginners Guide

2001-04-17 Thread Dean
://www.psyche.kn-bremen.de/ And its more upto date than BBC2! Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Komodo

2001-04-17 Thread Dean
it right quiet often. I know that you can do the three things i mentioned above with other techniques but this puts them closer with less hoop jumping to use them on a day to day basis. Has anyone got an views on it or the Linux version? Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers

Re: Komodo

2001-04-17 Thread Dean
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:23:28PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:57:17PM +0100, Dean wrote: Has anyone got an views on it or the Linux version? The Linux version is broken; it won't install, claiming you need a new license. Gah! I just downloaded this and tried

Re: Komodo

2001-04-17 Thread Dean
e this sig. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Technical Meeting Agenda

2001-04-12 Thread Dean
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:15:13AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: Committee Reports: Canel Visitation Committee ^ God we're going down market... ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-11 Thread Dean
list... You can't make me! I'm only moving some Linux scripts across to HPUX so i doubt I'd be much use on the list. The error threw me since i'm too new to this to know Perl 4. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-09

2001-04-11 Thread Dean
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:00:16PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: crazy. However, we really need to start organising the meetings (hey, even Lonix is more organised!), as it was too loud and crowded: You have a weird idea of organized ;) We tried to get 60 people into 30 places... Dean

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-11 Thread Dean
discussions ? Or Grep ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Perl on HPUX

2001-04-10 Thread Dean
The file is a noddy script with #!/usr/contrib/bin/perl use strict; print "Working...\n"; Does anyone on list have any experience with perl on this platform and know if i need to change the shebang or anything similar. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-10 Thread Dean
Dominic Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Installing Perl/Tk on Win32

2001-04-10 Thread Dean
? Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-05 Thread Dean
back. It was the time with the wearable computers demo. Ah the one at the uni near Angel tube. Those weren't w4r3z d00dz they were far far worse... Students ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Certing

2001-04-05 Thread Dean
Will the Perl Cert discussion/brainstorming be taking part at todays meet or the technical one? Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-05 Thread Dean
wanker, it's just that I'd like all these morons to fuck off :-P I'd settle for having them learn to quote in email... Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-04 Thread Dean
might get to meet some of this lot anyway :) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)

2001-04-04 Thread Dean
me outside of work, not to mention that my emails to friends are written as I'd say them. Is it just me or do we seem to thread drift a lot recently... I remember last year I helped a designer chum of mine subscribe to (void), Did he have lots of wasted disk space you felt the need to use? ;)

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-04 Thread Dean
ication is required. See http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/dprob es/ for a taster of things to come. ---Stop-- Now if only someone would do a community news letter to cover this stuff... I've seen Johns talk at SAGE-WISE and its a good one.

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-04 Thread Dean
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:14:48AM +0100, Dean wrote: I'm not sure I'll be able to make it though - I've got things to prepare for this talk at GLLUG on Saturday. While i'm doing this i might as well plug the Lonix tonight (www.lonix.org.uk) Lonix is normally pub, pub, food, pub maybe

Re: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)

2001-04-04 Thread Dean
makes me who i am so i see no reason to worry about them. With people who don't know me however i do keep a conscious check on my accent and wording so as to not offend or be incomprehensible. (I often fail at both ;)) Although i try to stay accentless in work :) Dean -- Profanity

Re: archiving

2001-04-03 Thread Dean
jaded view of this is that the situation was very similar to the Microsoft Kerberus one and Slashdot held their ground over that one. Also it was amusing to see the comments praising the decision to back down and remove the article. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Crazy Idea

2001-04-03 Thread Dean
, and then spend the night around a camp fire, drinking and talking. Cool idea. I'll come if we can have marshmallows ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Crazy Idea

2001-04-03 Thread Dean
on PM and the Labour govenernment... which will act first? Irresistible force meets immovable object ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Perl Certification Drive

2001-03-29 Thread Dean Wilson
e training course you lose alot of appeal. Dean --

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

2001-03-28 Thread Dean S Wilson
than that! :) Where are all the things like Perl advocacy, PR, Business Awareness and non-technical expansion plans for the language discussed? Dean -- Perl coder in a sea of PHP.

Re: Debuggers (was Re: Perl Training Courses)

2001-03-22 Thread Dean
and clickyness. Now with added Ludditeness. Wait till Activestate get their IDE's out for Linux and the plugin for Visual Studio... I can't wait. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-20 Thread Dean
for conversion to DDMMYY and see if it gets incorporated :) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dean
board and tidy up his code for him ;) Thanks to everyone who sent me code off list. I shall protect the names of the not quite innocent. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Autoconf Magic

2001-03-12 Thread Dean
/autobook_toc.html HTH Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Strange Request

2001-03-09 Thread Dean
. If all else fails I'll be raiding Matts script archive ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: RPC stuff

2001-03-08 Thread Dean S Wilson
://www.xmlrpc.org/ XML-RPC perl tutorial. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-xpc1/?dwzone=ws SOAP::Lite tutorial. http://home.cnet.com/webbuilding/0-7704-8-4874769-1.html Although neither are really my field. Dean (Must stay on topic...) -- Perl Coder SecTech E-mail troll Profanity

Re: de-dupe a filesystem

2001-02-08 Thread Dean S Wilson
could run diff on the checksum files that tripwire makes. You do tripwire your servers don't you? ;) This came up on a list recently, I've never used it but it seems to fit your problem. It looks like a trial version is available http://www.veracity.com/apps_compremote.shtml HTH Dean

Re: Perl Books

2001-02-01 Thread Dean S Wilson
Dean (Packing for Belgium so not at tonight's meeting) -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon

Re: Perl Books

2001-02-01 Thread Dean S Wilson
... ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon

London Community News 30/01/00

2001-01-30 Thread Dean S Wilson
omments (Good or bad), suggestions of groups to add or ideas for recognition of services to London Community groups are welcome at [EMAIL PROTECTED] HTH Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon

Re: odd -w effect

2001-01-24 Thread Dean S Wilson
% of my work. Well until my motherboard started frying harddrives... Dean PS Running Linux in VMWare on NT works fine as well but its sick :) -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon

Re: odd -w effect

2001-01-24 Thread Dean S Wilson
? :) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon

Perl Books

2001-01-23 Thread Dean S Wilson
can anyone who did go and knows anything about this tell me if it contains details on the talks and similar? Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-17 Thread Dean S Wilson
to be a UKLISA in the second half of this year but I'm not too sure of dates. HTH Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon

Re: one liner

2001-01-07 Thread Dean S Wilson
-Original Message- From: Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dean S Wilson writes: Has anyone tried Linux glade recently? Is it stable with perl yet? The TPJ that's stalled at the printers has a fantuckingfastic article on getting started with Glade and Perl/Gtk. I now hate you

Re: one liner

2001-01-06 Thread Dean S Wilson
day? Whats our answer to that? Slashcode? Plying devils advocate is fun. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon

Re: one liner

2001-01-06 Thread Dean S Wilson
a lot of fresh faced advocates being spawned at the end of each term. Dean (Playing both sides in this one) -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon

Damian's webpage.

2001-01-04 Thread Dean S Wilson
Don't know how many of you have seen this: http://yetanother.org/damian/diary_January_2001.html#day_4 Made me chuckle. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon

Re: Perl CD BookShelf 2nd Edition

2000-12-28 Thread Dean S Wilson
t;ask Tim" as it goes... Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon

Re: Perl CD BookShelf 2nd Edition

2000-12-28 Thread Dean S Wilson
t's a good argument for product registration for books, so we know who's bought them, and can make these kind of offers.) Quote Be interesting to see how they deal with it, and maybe we can start getting bulk discounts :) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon