Re: Kung Foo and PIMB
* 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 cool name Case - sorry this was just a bad attempt to justify my experimental use of replying to multiple emails -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)
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 for trojans, but I don't believe you *do*. Michael
Re: PIMB T-shirts
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, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -
Re: Super Perl Sites
http://perl.apache.org/stories/ Specifically http://perl.apache.org/stories/winamillion.html Makes me laugh anyway.
Re: Access Control Lists and Functions
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, $arg2) = @_;
return access_denied('do_summat') unless (grep {/^$userid$/}
$self-acl-{do_summat});
}
so this was just a way of automating that.
I think I misunderstood you before. I thought you were trying
to restrict what could be done by code which uses your module.
Obviously that's not what you're doing; because in the code
above, anyone could pass in any userid (not necessarily their own).
OTOH, if your program is running locally then it can't do
anything that the user couldn't do directly anyway (unless
it's SUID, which is too frightening to contemplate). So
presumably it's some sort of network-available service.
I think I see where you're coming from now. Sorry for the
confusion.
.robin.
--
"Have you been certain you came to me the real reason explain anything
else that I came to you the real reason explain anything else that I
came to you the real reason explain anything else?" --eliza
Re: Access Control Lists and Functions
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; $do-something(); warn ACL::last_error()."\n" if ACL::error(); which would print out something like "Access to DO::something denied for user x";
Re: OT : DVD
* mallum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've seen this in electronics botique on Oxford Street. as in the DVD version to be run on a DVD player? as for it being bad gameplay i don't really care i just want it for historic sake - if i wanted gameplay i'd play NetHack, phear me and my B,Fp,+3 BDSM ;-) -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: OT : DVD
* James Powell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You can't beat marble madness for old arcade games though... and it runs nicely in MAME. apparently its one of the most in demand video game cabinet/controller combo's as the whell broke so much -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Super Perl Sites
Philip Newton wrote: James Royan wrote: Just so that I get my facts straight, could the list suggest maybe 4 or 5 really well known sites that I could point to which are definitely known to use Perl in a big way? Besides Blackstar? :-) This question was posted to clpmisc (I think. Or maybe de.clpmisc) just a couple of days ago. I'll try to find it. If I do, I'll post the followups. Amazon.com was one of them, I believe. I think mp3.com was also mentioned. Yes. The question is 93ku8m$h25$[EMAIL PROTECTED] (aka http://x52.deja.com/threadmsg_ct.xp?AN=714612447.1 which also shows you the thread). Author "webqueen, queen of the web [EMAIL PROTECTED]", Subject "are there sites with Perl Advocacy examples?", Date "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:32:54 GMT". Someone using the pseudonym "David H. Adler" pointed webqueen to http://perl.oreilly.com/news/success_stories.html , which Dave Cross also pointed to. "Maggert" listed mp3.com, NASA, and Sandia Labs. Cheers, Philip
Re: Access Control Lists and Functions
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 I joined Canon as they were offering free lessons to all research staff. I stopped soon after. philosophical Success is (partly) about being able to differentiate between the things you're good at and the things that you'll never be good at. Spend time on the former and don't waste time getting nowhere with the latter. /philosophical In my case, Japanese was very much the latter. I have deep respect for anyone who can master it. A -- Andy Wardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/
Re: OT : DVD
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: * 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 ;-) -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Access Control Lists and Functions
* 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 learning Japanese. I started learning Japanese when I joined Canon as they were offering free lessons to all research staff. I stopped soon after. 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. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
RE: Super Perl Sites
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
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
* 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, i'm greg X why thats a lovely name X oh really, what do you think of this japanese class X yes i have exactly the same opinion as you X etc -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Access Control Lists and Functions
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/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... All new improved Brocard, now with Template Toolkit!
Re: Access Control Lists and Functions
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 don't know when the module was actually released onto CPAN, but I saw it for the first time at the weekend. It is ... staggering ... Anyone written any programs using it? .robin. -- "do not assume that you are in control of your own actions, but take responsibility for them anyway."
Re: Access Control Lists and Functions
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 never got opportunities like that! Was this only out in strange places? Or just after/before my time? Tony -- - Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk paradox contrast variety change history repeats but it's never the same -
Re: Access Control Lists and Functions
* 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 batch of girls. I stopped soon after. Hey ... I never got opportunities like that! well you had to a particular ``sensitive'' and ``caring'' individual, able to deal with the harsh realities of the ``enforced prejudices'' Was this only out in strange places? Ballymena is not a strange place! But i think it was across N.I. even the more backward places such as Cullybacy, Carnlough and of course Belfast Or just after/before my time? way after your time Tony, way way way after --- just the hip young things like me got this sort of thing (this is my attempt to hang on the every slipping idea that i am still young) anyway back to watching Detroit Rock City Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Access Control Lists and Functions
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 DO::something denied for
user x";
Why can't you do this with the standard die semantics?
eval
{
my $do = new DO;
$do-something();
}
if ($@)
{
warn $@;
}
(will work if both $@ is a string or a object that is overriden)
Of course if you were using Error.pm you could even use 'try' and 'catch'
as syntatic suger. See the Error perldoc.
Later.
Mark.
--
print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology Developer' ,
Firm = 'Profero Ltd',Web = 'http://www.profero.com/' ,
Email = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Phone = '+44 (0) 20 7700 9960' )
Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)
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 /home With home being the largest. What *were* they thinking when they configured this? I don't think you can really blame the distribution (which allows you to partition the disk how you want) for someone partitioning the disk wrongly. Except that the box came to me like this. I intend to rectify this in a bit by scaping red hat off with a large trowel and installing something useful, but I'm still trying to figure out why *anyone* would partition it this way... :-/ dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ There are 6 billion people in the world, and only 30 billion of those are Canadians - Headline in the Toronto Globe and Mail
Re: PIMB T-shirts
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] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "I... would... like... the... Screamin'... Jay... Hawkins... box set... and DVD... please" - #9 Sign Someone Has Cast a Spell On You
Re: PIMB T-shirts
"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
* 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, having said that, still like the # , ! , perl one ;-) -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: PIMB T-shirts
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 discretion is the better part of valour. Simon has an idea./Doctor dha :-) -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "Life is so hard, you know that sometimes it seems the good guys only win, when the bad guys leave." - The Jim Basnight Thing
Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)
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 English - Japanese translation interface for those of us who didn't last out the Japanese classes) does lingua::nadsat exist yet? or anything along those lines? Never mind all that. Does anyone speak enough (I think) Klingon to understand what the status of the Lingua::tlhIngan::yIghun module is (see http://yetanother.org/damian/projects.html)??? dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ I drink to my coming cirrhosis... - Charles Aznavour
Re: Perl commandments - index .vs. //
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 weird reasons), the regex version of that is faster.
If it is, it appears to be hidden by the other code ...
beta:~ $ perl match-cmp
Name "main::words" used only once: possible typo at match-cmp line 5.
Benchmark: running index, index_, regex, regex_, each for at least 10 CPU seconds...
index: 19 wallclock secs (18.71 usr + 0.00 sys = 18.71 CPU) @ 1.50/s (n=28)
index_: 19 wallclock secs (19.41 usr + 0.00 sys = 19.41 CPU) @ 1.49/s (n=29)
regex: 19 wallclock secs (19.11 usr + 0.01 sys = 19.12 CPU) @ 1.36/s (n=26)
regex_: 19 wallclock secs (18.62 usr + 0.00 sys = 18.62 CPU) @ 1.50/s (n=28)
beta:~ $ cat match-cmp
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Benchmark;
push @ARGV, '/usr/dict/words';
@words = ;
timethese( -10, {
regex = 'foreach $word (@words) { $word =~ /foo/ }',
regex_ = 'foreach (@words) { /foo/ }',
index = 'foreach $word (@words) { index $word, "foo" }',
index_ = 'foreach (@words) { index $_, "foo" }',
}
);
--
Chris Benson
