Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)

2001-01-16 Thread Dave Cross
At Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:50:57 +0100, Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Trevena wrote: > > does lingua::nadsat exist yet? or anything along those lines? > > Er, what's nadsat? The language spoken by the droogs in 'A Clockwork Orange'. Dave... [who got the video for xmas and hasn't

RE: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)

2001-01-16 Thread Matthew Freake
Dave wrote: > > does lingua::nadsat exist yet? or anything along those lines? > > Er, what's nadsat? > The language spoken by the droogs in 'A Clockwork Orange'. > Dave... > [who got the video for xmas and hasn't got round to watching it yet] The film's pretty good, but what a soundtrack! Walt

RE: PIMB T-shirts

2001-01-16 Thread Matthew Jones
[ hash bang perl ] >(i'll have an XXL simon) I'll have a medium, Simon. Cripes, just remembered, I owe paulm UKP10 for the PIMB one! Next time I see you, paul. How about some Tees with some of that thar Perl poetry that some of you Real Programmers write? Hm? -- matt I blame the drugs

Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)

2001-01-16 Thread Simon Wistow
Dave Cross wrote: > The language spoken by the droogs in 'A Clockwork Orange'. Isn't it a pidgin mix of Russian and English?

Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)

2001-01-16 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: > Dave Cross wrote: > > > The language spoken by the droogs in 'A Clockwork Orange'. > > Isn't it a pidgin mix of Russian and English? It is a mix of schoolboy slang (from soem school that Burgess went to, cos I sure didn't speak like that at school, p

Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)

2001-01-16 Thread Redvers Davies
> Isn't it a pidgin mix of Russian and English? And possibly some welsh... The welsh word "drwg" (pronounced the english way is "droog") and means 'Bad, naughty, evil, wicked' etc.

Re: PIMB T-shirts

2001-01-16 Thread Alex Page
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:32:47PM +, Marcel Grunauer wrote: > How about "Smoking Perl" for Amsterdam? "YAPC::Europe::Amsterdam - A Week-Long Hashref" Alex

Re: PIMB T-shirts

2001-01-16 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
"David H. Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Speaking Welsh (Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions))

2001-01-16 Thread Robin Houston
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:47:44AM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > And possibly some welsh... The welsh word "drwg" (pronounced the english > way is "droog") and means 'Bad, naughty, evil, wicked' etc. Anthony Burgess spoke fluent Welsh (his first wife was Welsh), so I'd have thought that was qui

Re: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-16 Thread Robin Houston
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:47:52AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > Yes. I converted a little script I have that puts some stuff into a database > to use LRP. > > [snip interesting discussion] Can we see the result? I'm fascinated... .robin. -- "You are bound to be in a state of mental unrest,

Partitioning schemes (was RE: Mailman....)

2001-01-16 Thread Neil Ford
>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:

Re: PIMB T-shirts

2001-01-16 Thread Alex Page
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:59:44PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > There is a temptation to insert a joint into the mouth of the "Republic of > Perl" camel. Of course this would never happen[1]. > [1] Something tells me that would have to be a trademark thing that O'Reilly > would protect. IANA

Re: PIMB T-shirts

2001-01-16 Thread Neil Ford
>* Marcel Grunauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> Greg McCarroll writes: >> >> >Apparently Amsterdam.pm are looking for a design for YAPC::Europe 2001 ;-) >> > >> >however, having said that, still like the # , ! , perl one ;-) >> >> that ought to be >> >> _

Re: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-16 Thread Philip Newton
Robin Houston wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:47:52AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > > Yes. I converted a little script I have that puts some > > stuff into a database to use LRP. > > Can we see the result? I'm fascinated... Well, you asked for it. Here it is, cleaned up just a little bit (m

Re: PIMB T-shirts

2001-01-16 Thread Shevek
It's been done. But go for it. http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/adclass/camel/images/motorcycle.jpg (http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/adclass/camel/JoeCool.html) S. On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Alex Page wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:59:44PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > > > There is a temptation

trade mark parody (Re: PIMB T-shirts)

2001-01-16 Thread Robin Houston
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:09:55AM -0500, Alex Page wrote: > IANAL, but AFAIK parody is protected under trademark law, as long as > you're not making profit (I presume beer money for the hassle of > T-shirt making is excusable). IANAL either, but I think it's quite complicated. "More interesting

Re: trade mark parody (Re: PIMB T-shirts)

2001-01-16 Thread Alex Page
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:43:00PM +, Robin Houston wrote: > Don't we have someone here who *is* a lawyer? :-) More to the point, don't we have someone who could drop a mail to one of the happy bunnies at O'Rielly and ask them nicely not to sue us? Alex

Re: Partitioning schemes (was RE: Mailman....)

2001-01-16 Thread David H. Adler
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:01:24PM +, Neil Ford wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:42:34AM +, Steve Mynott wrote: > >> > >> 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. >

Re: PIMB T-shirts

2001-01-16 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, you wrote: > >however, having said that, still like the # , ! , perl one ;-) > > that ought to be > > > |\/| > | \__/ | > |______| > \

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-16 Thread Andrew Bowman
From: "Nathan Torkington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > We're planning a London Open Source Convention. The dates we're > looking hard at now are August 20-23. Are there any obvious clashes > that you can think of? You mean apart from the traditional British summer hols[1]? August is, in some quarters

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-16 Thread Nathan Torkington
Andrew Bowman writes: > You mean apart from the traditional British summer hols[1]? August is, in > some quarters at least, considered a non-month for the purposes of all sorts > of events - possibly even for an Open Source Convention :-) Bugger, we were afraid of that. It's more than just Perl,

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-16 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:54:50PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: > We're planning a London Open Source Convention. The dates we're > looking hard at now are August 20-23. Are there any obvious clashes > that you can think of? Linuxbierwanderung 2001. To be held in Belgium but with a large U

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-16 Thread Nathan Torkington
David Cantrell writes: > Linuxbierwanderung 2001. To be held in Belgium but with a large UK > contingent. Date to be confirmed within the next couple of weeks, but > will almost certainly be a week somewhere between 19 Aug and 8 Sept. It > would be *really* great - especially for intercontinent

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-16 Thread Andrew Bowman
From: "Nathan Torkington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bugger, we were afraid of that. It's more than just Perl, it's for > a lot of Open Source (Python, Linux, MySQL, PHP, etc.) What we really > need to know is: will our attendance from Europe suffer because it's > in August? I imagine it will to som

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-16 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, you wrote: > Bugger, we were afraid of that. It's more than just Perl, it's for > a lot of Open Source (Python, Linux, MySQL, PHP, etc.) What we really > need to know is: will our attendance from Europe suffer because it's > in August? I suspect most UK based families woul

Re: PIMB T-shirts

2001-01-16 Thread Paul Makepeace
From: "Matthew Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cripes, just remembered, I owe paulm UKP10 for the PIMB one! Next time I see > you, paul. A different paulm? I haven't made any Ts yet (except for yapc::Europe) but have offered since I can get 'em cheap(ish). > How about some Tees with some of that th

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-16 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 04:43:36PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: > [when can we have a conf?] Please don't make it at the end of August -- clashes with Burning Man. (Aug 27 - Sept 4 I think they just decided.) And yes, quite a few Euros do go to this... FWLIW, My vote goes for mid-September

Re: PIMB T-shirts

2001-01-16 Thread Mark Rogaski
An entity claiming to be Alex Page ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : IANAL, but AFAIK parody is protected under trademark law, as long as you're not :making profit (I presume beer money for the hassle of T-shirt making is excusable). : Parody is protected under copyright law (fair use), not trade