Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread David H. Adler
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:45:30PM +, Dave Cross wrote: > > We simply can't compete with Matt on backwards compatibility as his scripts > all run on 4.036! If you call that "running"... :-/ dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "I was under medication wh

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Philip Newton
Redvers Davies wrote: > Is IO::Socket cross platform? I believe so. At least, if the platform supports sockets. 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: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Redvers Davies
> *need* to configure #!. #!/bin/sh *ducks*

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Redvers Davies
> I've just seen a downside to the "no non-standard modules" rule, which is > that we'll have to send all mail by piping to sendmail. And that really > hits your cross-platform compatibility. Is IO::Socket cross platform?

re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Philip Newton
Dave Cross wrote: > At 16:39 13/03/2001, you wrote: > >And, of course, there should be a comment at the top above > >#!/usr/local/bin/perl to the effect that "you should edit > this to point to > >where Perl [version 5.00x or above] is installed on your machine". > > Can you put something like t

Re: Damian's Diary

2001-03-13 Thread Piers Cawley
Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave Cross wrote: > > Damian's hectic world tour has now finished and he's had time > > to update his online diary. He says a lot of nice things about > > us here > > . > > Not least o

RE: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Chris Devers
At 05:03 PM 13.3.2001 +, you wrote: >>No, most people using these scripts don't have command line access to >the servers >that they need to install the scripts on. We'd have to do >something like: >> >>go to http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/randtext2.pl?mode=configure >> >>and then have config

Re: Damian's Diary

2001-03-13 Thread David H. Adler
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:12:18PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Not some faceless American corporation, but London.pmers (with values of > > "London" including Belfast and wherever Piers lives). > > > > London.pm is not just a regional user g

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 16:55 13/03/2001, you wrote: >At 16:53 13/03/01 +, you wrote: > >At 16:39 13/03/2001, you wrote: > >>Dave Cross wrote: > >> > Oops. I just did the Random Text one. > > > >>And, of course, there should be a comment at the top above > >>#!/usr/local/bin/perl to the effect that "you should edi

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:38:52PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > > > I neither know nor care. I was taking issue with your claim that relying > > > on /usr/lib/sendmail is a good idea. > > This aros

RE: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Robinson
At 16:55 13/03/01 -, you wrote: >> Could we write some sort of internal installer process so the >> instruction >> to the user would be type 'perl rand_text2.pl configure' and >> the script >> then rewrites itself. Updating #! lines etc, possibly even asking > >No, most people using these scr

RE: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Jonathan Peterson
> Could we write some sort of internal installer process so the > instruction > to the user would be type 'perl rand_text2.pl configure' and > the script > then rewrites itself. Updating #! lines etc, possibly even asking No, most people using these scripts don't have command line access to the

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
Weee! Cascade! On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:38:52PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:19:46PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:09:42PM

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Robinson
At 16:53 13/03/01 +, you wrote: >At 16:39 13/03/2001, you wrote: >>Dave Cross wrote: >> > Oops. I just did the Random Text one. > >>And, of course, there should be a comment at the top above >>#!/usr/local/bin/perl to the effect that "you should edit this to point to >>where Perl [version 5.00

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Philip Newton wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > Why is this a problem? /usr/lib/sendmail is the published > > interface. > (As others have already written, no /usr/lib/sendmail [or /usr/lib, for that > matter] on Win2K or NT web servers.) See my replies to this... >

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 16:39 13/03/2001, you wrote: >Dave Cross wrote: > > Oops. I just did the Random Text one. > >Two comments: > >- what's with the "\%\%" in the separator? '%' isn't special in >double-quoted strings, last time I checked. This looks like Mattcode which >backwhacks just about anything ("$hh\:$mm\:$

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Philip Newton
David Cantrell wrote: > Alternatively, just look up the recipient's mail server and > talk SMTP to it. If you can't connect, try the backup servers. > If there aren't any, then the recipient is too lame to talk to > us. I'd suggest trying to look for an A record if there's no MX record for a do

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Philip Newton
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > Why is this a problem? /usr/lib/sendmail is the published > interface. (As others have already written, no /usr/lib/sendmail [or /usr/lib, for that matter] on Win2K or NT web servers.) > /usr/lib/sendmail -t -oem > > is your friend (and remember to check $?)

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Robert Shiels
From: "Dave Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 13 March 2001 15:47 Subject: Re: Matt's Scripts > At 14:23 13/03/2001, you wrote: > >Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Oops. I just did the Random Text one. Should have put my name down really I > suppose. Here it

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Robin Houston wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:09:42PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > /usr/lib/sendmail -t -oem > Use -oi as well. > You don't want "\n.\n" to terminate the message prematurely. Yes, indeed. Self-LART applied. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home:

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:20:48PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Michael Stevens wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:47:48PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > > > > Write some stuff which will scan the local network for op

Re: MSA rewrite project

2001-03-13 Thread Philip Newton
Roger Burton West wrote: [feasibility of putting .pm files next to a script] > I believe IIS does horribly evil things to the current execution > directory. I wouldn't be surprised. I believe it also does funky things with %ENV, such that you can't do 'keys %ENV' and get all the keys, as somehow,

RE: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Jonathan Peterson
> Yes, but *is a security hole, and not a small one*, usually. Yes, if you put the wrong things in there, like locations of files. I guess maybe Matt does this. On the other hand, other things can go in harmlessly, and should, such as the response email address for formmail. As for the security

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Philip Newton
Dave Cross wrote: > Oops. I just did the Random Text one. Two comments: - what's with the "\%\%" in the separator? '%' isn't special in double-quoted strings, last time I checked. This looks like Mattcode which backwhacks just about anything ("$hh\:$mm\:$ss" comes to mind, for example). - s/chmo

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:19:46PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:09:42PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > > I'v

Re: MSA rewrite project

2001-03-13 Thread Roger Burton West
On or about Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:34:03PM +0100, Philip Newton typed: >Generally, @INC contains '.', so it should work (though remember that >Net::SMTP has to go into ./Net/SMTP.pm and not ./SMTP.pm or ./Net::SMTP.pm). >Otherwise, use lib '.' should be your friend. I believe IIS does horribly

Re: MSA rewrite project

2001-03-13 Thread Philip Newton
Jonathan Peterson wrote: > 2. including the required modules as simple .pm files to be > uploaded to the same directory as the script file. (i.e. no > proper 'perl Makefile.PL;make;make test;make install). > > Assuming that 2 actually works, which is should in many but > not all cases. General

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Robin Houston
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:09:42PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > /usr/lib/sendmail -t -oem Use -oi as well. You don't want "\n.\n" to terminate the message prematurely. .robin. -- "Sometimes I sit in front of my washing machine and contemplate the worthlessness of life. My washing m

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:20:48PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Michael Stevens wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:47:48PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > > > Write some stuff which will scan the local network for open relays and > > > then just talk SMTP to them. S

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:19:46PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:09:42PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > I've just seen a downside to the "no non-standard module

RE: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Jonathan Peterson
> IIRC the problem with some of them is that they use config > data supplied > in form variables... do we really want to maintain this? Yes, we do. It's a useful way of supplying configuration information, because editing form fields in HTML has a lower fear threshold than editing perl source fil

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > At 14:23 13/03/2001, you wrote: > >Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > OK, here's a list of Matt's scripts. If you'd like to have a go at > > > rewriting one or two under the rul

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Michael Stevens wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:47:48PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > > Write some stuff which will scan the local network for open relays and > > then just talk SMTP to them. Someone stupid enough to not be able to > > install modules is stupid enough to

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:09:42PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > I've just seen a downside to the "no non-standard modules" rule, which is > > > that we'll have to send all mail by piping to sendmai

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:09:42PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > I've just seen a downside to the "no non-standard modules" rule, which is > > that we'll have to send all mail by piping to sendmail. And that really > > hits your cross-platform co

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > I've just seen a downside to the "no non-standard modules" rule, which is > that we'll have to send all mail by piping to sendmail. And that really > hits your cross-platform compatibility. Why is this a problem? /usr/lib/sendmail is the published interf

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:00:41PM +, Dave Cross wrote: > I've just seen a downside to the "no non-standard modules" rule, which is > that we'll have to send all mail by piping to sendmail. And that really > hits your cross-platform compatibility. Write some stuff which will scan the local

MSA rewrite project

2001-03-13 Thread Jonathan Peterson
> > Dave Cross wrote: > > I've just seen a downside to the "no non-standard modules" > > rule, which is that we'll have to send all mail by piping > > to sendmail. And that really hits your cross-platform > > compatibility. > > Well, it depends on how much pain you want to inflict on yourself. >

RE: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 15:47 13/03/2001, you wrote: > > OK, here's a list of Matt's scripts. If you'd like to have a go at > > rewriting one or two under the rules we've discussed (no > > external modules, > > -T, use strict, -w, etc), put you name next to it on this list. > >To which we should add that in default c

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 15:44 13/03/2001, you wrote: >Dave wrote: > > > Oops. I just did the Random Text one. Should have put my name down > really I > > suppose. Here it is if you're interested. > >And what's wrong with the following line? ;-) > >#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w D'Oh. It's a fair cop :-) In my defense, th

RE: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Jonathan Peterson
> OK, here's a list of Matt's scripts. If you'd like to have a go at > rewriting one or two under the rules we've discussed (no > external modules, > -T, use strict, -w, etc), put you name next to it on this list. To which we should add that in default configuration the new script has the same i

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Mark Fowler
Dave wrote: > Oops. I just did the Random Text one. Should have put my name down really I > suppose. Here it is if you're interested. And what's wrong with the following line? ;-) #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_>6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name =

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 15:18 13/03/2001, you wrote: >OK, here's a list of Matt's scripts. If you'd like to have a go at >rewriting one or two under the rules we've discussed (no external modules, >-T, use strict, -w, etc), put you name next to it on this list. > >Guestbook davorg >WWWboard davorg --

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 14:23 13/03/2001, you wrote: >Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > OK, here's a list of Matt's scripts. If you'd like to have a go at > > rewriting one or two under the rules we've discussed (no external modules, > > -T, use strict, -w, etc), put you name next to it on this list. > > >

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Mark Fowler
> Textclock Mark > Countdown Mark 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

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Leo Lapworth
Ok, this is obviously a good idea, some comment / ideas: 1) Create nms server (Not Matt Scripts). - setup mailing list(s). - I'm happy to host in a couple of weeks 2) Review and work out a 'core' module which can be part of the distrobution and impliment CGI.pm equiv stuff

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Aaron Trevena
### warning - creature feep ### On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote: > > > > this question defines the archive of scripts a little. is the > > collection of scripts specifically aimed at the lowest commond > > denominator and tackling the MW problem directly, or is that > > just its core m

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Struan Donald
* at 13/03 15:23 + Aaron Trevena said: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > My opinion is that the only way this project could work is if the scripts > > > worked on _any_ web server on _any_ platform with _no_ extra modules. Matt

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Philip Newton
Dave Cross wrote: > I've just seen a downside to the "no non-standard modules" > rule, which is that we'll have to send all mail by piping > to sendmail. And that really hits your cross-platform > compatibility. Well, it depends on how much pain you want to inflict on yourself. socket and conne

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > My opinion is that the only way this project could work is if the scripts > > worked on _any_ web server on _any_ platform with _no_ extra modules. Matt > > Wright can achieve that and we're all much clever

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread alex
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > Formmail - alex@state51 will take more later if there are some left over -- a member of the state51 conspiracy tonight i'm gonna party like it's (time_t) 1E9 dadadodo> IE5 PIPE CRACK always SMOKING

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, here's a list of Matt's scripts. If you'd like to have a go at > rewriting one or two under the rules we've discussed (no external modules, > -T, use strict, -w, etc), put you name next to it on this list. > > Random Image Displayer daveh > Random L

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > How about a hackfest one afternoon? A dozen people in a room with > > machines/laptops, pair programming... > > > > have you ever tried herding cats? food and lots of stroking -- Dave Hodgkinso

Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
OK, here's a list of Matt's scripts. If you'd like to have a go at rewriting one or two under the rules we've discussed (no external modules, -T, use strict, -w, etc), put you name next to it on this list. Guestbook WWWboard Counter Formmail Random Image Displayer Random Link Generator Textcloc

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > How about a hackfest one afternoon? A dozen people in a room with > machines/laptops, pair programming... > have you ever tried herding cats? -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
How about a hackfest one afternoon? A dozen people in a room with machines/laptops, pair programming... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, tec

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Robert Shiels
From: "Dave Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You need to define a standard and stick to it. I suggest we write to Perl > 5.004_04 as it was a) pretty stable and b) the first to include CGI.pm. > Agreed. I just installed one of his scripts on my laptop, Win98, Apache 1.3.9, ActiveState's Perl5.6. T

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 13:50 13/03/2001, you wrote: > >Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I'd argue that you're _massively_ overestimating our audience there. Most > > > the Matt's users are people who have accounts with web hosting companies > > > who only all

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 15:51 13/03/2001, you wrote: >* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > My opinion is that the only way this project could work is if the scripts > > worked on _any_ web server on _any_ platform with _no_ extra modules. Matt > > Wright can achieve that and we're all much cleverer than he is,

RE: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Jones
> do you exclude this script from the archive on the basis that it > uses TT? > > this question defines the archive of scripts a little. is the > collection of scripts specifically aimed at the lowest commond > denominator and tackling the MW problem directly, or is that > just its core mission,

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 13:50 13/03/2001, you wrote: >Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'd argue that you're _massively_ overestimating our audience there. Most > > the Matt's users are people who have accounts with web hosting companies > > who only allow FTP access. mod_perl usually _isn't_ installed and

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My opinion is that the only way this project could work is if the scripts > worked on _any_ web server on _any_ platform with _no_ extra modules. Matt > Wright can achieve that and we're all much cleverer than he is, so we > should be able to do it too.

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd argue that you're _massively_ overestimating our audience there. Most > the Matt's users are people who have accounts with web hosting companies > who only allow FTP access. mod_perl usually _isn't_ installed and > installing CPAN modules is frowned

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 14:33 13/03/2001, you wrote: >On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:34:50PM +, Dave Cross wrote: > > >I haven't looked at Matts scripts, but I get the feeling that they are > aimed > > >at beginners who have a fairly standard perl/apache installation[1]. I'm > > >sure your solution will be much bette

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 15:10 13/03/2001, you wrote: >* Robert Shiels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Dave Hodgkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: 13 March 2001 12:49 > > Subject: Re: Strange Request > > > > > > > Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 15:07 13/03/2001, you wrote: >* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >*why* it works, they just want it to work. > > > > > > With the excellent documentation > > > > > >whether it's your stepping-stone to writing your own scripts or > whether you > > > > > >never want to get more in-dept

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 13:05 13/03/2001, you wrote: >"Robert Shiels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Dave Hodgkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: 13 March 2001 12:49 > > Subject: Re: Strange Request > > > > > > > Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 14:02 13/03/2001, you wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Dave Hodgkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: 13 March 2001 12:49 >Subject: Re: Strange Request > > > Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I think this is a good idea and would be happy to get

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Mark Fowler
> and here we get back to the ROPE project as discussed before, where we > could do a standard distribution of Apache/Mod Perl/Perl/Perl modules, > with TT, XML::*, etc.,etc. already there Might not be a bad idea doing each of these in each of the technologies anyhow. It might prove a good way o

Re: Damian's Diary

2001-03-13 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Not some faceless American corporation, but London.pmers (with values of > "London" including Belfast and wherever Piers lives). > London.pm is not just a regional user group, a state of mind (liver?). Even dha is a London.pm'er although he may not

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Robert Shiels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Dave Hodgkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 13 March 2001 12:49 > Subject: Re: Strange Request > > > > Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I think this is a good idea and wo

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >*why* it works, they just want it to work. > > > > With the excellent documentation > > > >whether it's your stepping-stone to writing your own scripts or whether you > > > >never want to get more in-depth than just typing in the path to your Perl > >exe

Re: Damian's Diary

2001-03-13 Thread Philip Newton
Dave Cross wrote: > Damian's hectic world tour has now finished and he's had time > to update his online diary. He says a lot of nice things about > us here > . Not least of which, perhaps, is The presence of Piers Cawley, D

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
"Robert Shiels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Original Message - > From: "Dave Hodgkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 13 March 2001 12:49 > Subject: Re: Strange Request > > > > Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I think this is a good idea and

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Robert Shiels
- Original Message - From: "Dave Hodgkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 13 March 2001 12:49 Subject: Re: Strange Request > Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think this is a good idea and would be happy to get involved. What I'd > > like to see is a ser

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think this is a good idea and would be happy to get involved. What I'd > like to see is a series of "drop in" replacements for Matt's scripts. There > are 15 scripts on Matt's site. How long would it take us to > rewrite them all? I've done his "ran

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 13:02 13/03/2001, you wrote: >On Tue 13 Mar, Dave Cross wrote: > > > Not clear which particular book you mean. > >The Cgi/Perl Cookbook by Craig Pratchett and Matthew Wright. John Wiley & >Son. One of the current "reviews" on Amazon.com says: > >This is obviously a book that a lot of time and c

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Redvers Davies
> are 15 scripts on Matt's site. How long would it take us to > rewrite them all? A week, I would guess given the resource available. This would also make an interesting project for someone to try and coordinate this effort and arrange people into teams. Hmm, Design, Modularity, Specify inter

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Redvers Davies
> No, but it's run by Matt. That's a list of CGI scripts written by loads of > people - there are even some old embarrassments of mine in there :-/ You know we are all scrambling to find it now ;)

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Roger Horne
On Tue 13 Mar, Dave Cross wrote: > Not clear which particular book you mean. The Cgi/Perl Cookbook by Craig Pratchett and Matthew Wright. John Wiley & Son. One of the current "reviews" on Amazon.com says: This is obviously a book that a lot of time and care went into, on the part of bo

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 12:15 13/03/2001, you wrote: >On Tue 13 Mar, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > Postman just bought a review copy of Lincoln Stein's "Network Programming > > with Perl". This is good news as it seems that Addison Wesley have now > seen > > that giving freebie copies to Perl Monger groups is a Good Thin

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Leo Lapworth
> And if you're interested in Matt as a person (and who wouldn't be?) try: > > http://www.mattwright.com/msa.html "I always have lots of stuff in the works, but most of it only gets about halfway finished before I get bored and give up. That's the way I work. :) "

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Roger Horne
On Tue 13 Mar, Dave Cross wrote: > > Postman just bought a review copy of Lincoln Stein's "Network Programming > with Perl". This is good news as it seems that Addison Wesley have now seen > that giving freebie copies to Perl Monger groups is a Good Thing. Since you only get one copy of each o

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 12:03 13/03/2001, you wrote: >At 10:40 13/03/01, you wrote: >>I guess the problem is that you could create an archive of CGI programs >>written by the best Perl programmers in the world but people would _still_ >>find Matt's scripts first. > >is this Matt's script archive? > >http://www.cgi.res

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Natalie Ford
At 10:40 13/03/01, you wrote: >I guess the problem is that you could create an archive of CGI programs >written by the best Perl programmers in the world but people would _still_ >find Matt's scripts first. is this Matt's script archive? http://www.cgi.resourceindex.com/ That is what I found wh

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Philip Newton
Jonathan Peterson wrote: > Maybe we need to sponsor Matt Wright? The inverse of the > Damian sponsorship, we would cover whatever revenue he gets > from his scripts in return for him shutting all the sites > down for a year, and redirecting everyone somewhere else. > What do you reckon? Sponsor M

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 11:28 13/03/2001, you wrote: >On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:27:08AM +, Dave Cross wrote: > > At 12:15 13/03/2001, you wrote: > > > > >By the way, Dave, did Addison Wesley contact you about this or vice > > >versa? I'm wondering if O'Reilly and others are sending books to Perl > > >monger group

RE: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Clarke, Darren
Title: RE: Strange Request > > > That's Selena Sol. He's almost as bad as Matt. > >I thought Selena was female. Oh well. > Nope. He's a bloke called Eric. So's my dad - useful huh? Darren Clarke

RE: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 11:29 13/03/2001, you wrote: > > That's Selena Sol. He's almost as bad as Matt. > >I thought Selena was female. Oh well. Nope. He's a bloke called Eric. -- SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data Munging with Perl

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:27:08AM +, Dave Cross wrote: > At 12:15 13/03/2001, you wrote: > > >By the way, Dave, did Addison Wesley contact you about this or vice > >versa? I'm wondering if O'Reilly and others are sending books to Perl > >monger groups anyway and they just vanish unmentioned

RE: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Jonathan Peterson
> That's Selena Sol. He's almost as bad as Matt. I thought Selena was female. Oh well.

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 11:13 13/03/2001, you wrote: >At 10:58 13/03/2001 +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > >[snip] > > >>all the good classic web problems, with simple ready to run examples. >>forums, guestbooks, counters, voting, etc. > >Isn't this what Extropia tried to do ? (www.extropia.com) > >Why did this not get

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 12:15 13/03/2001, you wrote: >Dave Cross, Lord and Master of London.pm, thus wrote: > > >Postman just bought a review copy of Lincoln Stein's "Network Programming > >with Perl". This is good news as it seems that Addison Wesley have now seen > >that giving freebie copies to Perl Monger groups

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Simon Wilcox
At 10:58 13/03/2001 +, Greg McCarroll wrote: [snip] >all the good classic web problems, with simple ready to run examples. >forums, guestbooks, counters, voting, etc. Isn't this what Extropia tried to do ? (www.extropia.com) Why did this not get picked up, is it just to complicated ? Sim

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 10:56 13/03/2001, you wrote: >On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:58:36AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > how to solve this, will there is an easy way that would deal with > > the problem at source - perl certification > > > > *duck* > > > > having said in another email how there were no resources to d

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Struan Donald
* at 13/03 10:56 + Michael Stevens said: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:58:36AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > how to solve this, will there is an easy way that would deal with > > the problem at source - perl certification > > > > *duck* > > > > having said in another email how there were

Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:10:39AM +, Michael Stevens wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:18:53PM +, Dave Cross wrote: > > You _do_ realise that I've now put the trademark notice on all of the > > london.pm web pages :) > > Anyone know if we could ACTUALLY trademark this? I believe we

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Struan Donald
* at 13/03 10:43 - Jonathan Peterson said: > > > There's a marketing battle that needs to be fought first. We > > need, somehow, > > to ensure that newbie CGI programmers read criticisms of > > Matt's scripts > > _before_ they find Matt's Script Archive. And I don't know > > how you're going

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:08:52AM -, Miss Barbell wrote: > Walking round PC World yesterday (nice to look at things then buy them £50 > cheaper online :) ) and spotted a Perl Book written by Matt Wright, with a > CD including many scripts from his site. What made even more amused was that >

Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network

2001-03-13 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:37:12AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > * Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:18:53PM +, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > You _do_ realise that I've now put the trademark notice on all o

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