Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Seems like we've made a reasonable start on this project. We already
have a few scripts written - anyone want to report progress on any
of
the others?
I have Guestbook, FFA and simple search all ready to for testing
elsewhere - I'll package and upload
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From: "Jonathan Stowe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
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* Bundling. Need to build gzipped tarballs of our new versions (I
guess
this should be built on top of the CVS stuff). Matt makes pkzipped
versions avaiable as well - so should
On the subject of having zip archives as well as tarballs on the server,
Gareth Harper said:
Winzip (what most windows users these days use to unzip) handlers tar.gz by
default so that may not be neccesary.
Not neccesary from a techical point of view. Neccesary from a social
point of view
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From: "Robert Shiels" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: Matt's Scripts Projects
- Original Message -
From: "Jonathan Stowe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
*
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:20:19PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Resetting the root password is not too difficult, I think (I'm more
used to FreeBSD, this will /probably/ work. Once booted into single
user mode, do:
# mount -u /
# ed /etc/master.passwd
1s/:[^:]*/:/
p
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:20:19PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
I'm not totally certain things are the same on NetBSD, but you should be
able to get going, by looking at this and the man pages on
www.netbsd.org.
You may also want to use the source code:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:08:22PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
A quick question for all the BSD people.
How do I boot NetBSD into single-user mode? In case it matters, this is
on Sparc.
A pint for whoever helps me reset the root password :-)
ok boot -s
You may need variations on
On Tue Mar 20 11:46:25 2001, Gareth Harper wrote:
On a completely off topic note I'm appealing to the contractors among you
here. Those of you who have yor own company. Did you set yourselves up as
a Limited Company, or as a Sole Trader. If you set yourself up as a limited
company did/do
For those that might be interested.
To: lmug-talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Michael Corgan
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:38:58 +
Subject: [lmug-talk] Apple comes to town !
You might like to get in on the OS X act with LMUG. Apple UK are sending
their man to our April Forum meeting, at the Crown
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, you wrote:
On Tue Mar 20 11:46:25 2001, Gareth Harper wrote:
On a completely off topic note I'm appealing to the contractors among you
here. Those of you who have yor own company. Did you set yourselves up as
a Limited Company, or as a Sole Trader. If you set
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From: "Robin Szemeti" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: Matt's Scripts Projects
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, you wrote:
apart from that the benfits of running as a Limited Company are large
(ish) assuming you can
At 15:40 20/03/2001 +, Gareth Harper wrote:
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From: "Robin Szemeti" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: Matt's Scripts Projects
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, you wrote:
apart from that the benfits of running as a
Marty Pauley writes:
On Tue Mar 20 11:46:25 2001, Gareth Harper wrote:
On a completely off topic note I'm appealing to the contractors among you
here. Those of you who have yor own company. Did you set yourselves up as
a Limited Company, or as a Sole Trader. If you set yourself up
Take a look at this http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Date-MMDDYY.
Now give me:
a) a two reasons why this module should never have been written, and
b) as many flaws as possible in the implementation.
Dave...
[with his nasty, bitchy head on]
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:18:47AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
Take a look at this http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Date-MMDDYY.
Now give me:
a) a two reasons why this module should never have been written, and
b) as many flaws as possible in the implementation.
Submit a patch for
Not neccesary from a techical point of view. Neccesary from a social
point of view (What's this extension! I don't understand!
What's going on!
Excewpt that windows machines tend not to even show the extension by
default, and so the file will just have a little WinZip icon[0], which
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, you wrote:
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From: "Robin Szemeti" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: Matt's Scripts Projects
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, you wrote:
apart from that the benfits of running as a Limited
a) a two reasons why this module should never have been written, and
1. It's redundant, other modules do this already.
2. MM DD YY is an evil date format, and should be abolished in favour of DD
MM YY which is more sensible.
b) as many flaws as possible in the implementation.
No use strict
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
Take a look at this http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Date-MMDDYY.
Now give me:
a) a two reasons why this module should never have been written, and
1) I'm English. MMDDYY makes not sense. Maybe that's just a gripe about
the name.
2)
Oh it's dreadful. We need quality control on CPAN before more of this gets
through.
Hmm. Karma would workOr sponsorship. 'Larry Wall uses $modulename,
you should too'
Later.
Mark.
--
print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
Name = 'Mark Fowler',
All this is pre-ir35:
as a employee of a limited company you would be paid national minimum
wage (4 quid an hour) .. you pay NIC and tax on that ... (minimal) .. you
claim expenses off the (ie your own) company for all the driving around
you do and having to buy things and accomodation whilst
At 16:29 20/03/2001 +, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
a) a two reasons why this module should never have been written, and
1. It's redundant, other modules do this already.
2. MM DD YY is an evil date format, and should be abolished in favour of DD
MM YY which is more sensible.
Or even better
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:40:29PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote:
2. MM DD YY is an evil date format, and should be abolished in favour of DD
MM YY which is more sensible.
Or even better YY-MM-DD which avoids cross-pond confusion.
Or even better still, -MM-DD :-)
Alex
At 04:07 PM 20.3.2001 +, you wrote:
Not neccesary from a techical point of view. Neccesary from a
social point of view (What's this extension! I don't understand!
What's going on!
Except that windows machines tend not to even show the extension by
default, and so the file will just
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:40:29PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote:
At 16:29 20/03/2001 +, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
a) a two reasons why this module should never have been written, and
2. MM DD YY is an evil date format, and should be abolished
On or about Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:40:18AM -0500, Dave Cross typed:
I really think I should drop the author a polite note offering him a
patch or three.
s/entire_file/strftime/ ?
Roger
At Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:40:35 -0500, Alex Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:40:29PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote:
2. MM DD YY is an evil date format, and should be abolished in favour of DD
MM YY which is more sensible.
Or even better YY-MM-DD which avoids cross-pond
a) a two reasons why this module should never have been written, and
1. It's redundant, other modules do this already.
2. MM DD YY is an evil date format, and should be abolished in
favour of DD
MM YY which is more sensible.
Not to mention the fact that YY in itself is also bad from a
On 20/03/2001 at 16:40 +, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:40:29PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote:
At 16:29 20/03/2001 +, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
a) a two reasons why this module should never have been written, and
2. MM DD YY is an evil date format, and should be
Summary:
pwd_mkdb didn't work, so I tried re-installing (it was a fresh install I'd
broken anyway). I then proceded to get very annoyed with the NetBSD
installer, because it doesn't let you go back and correct your stupid
mistakes. And then installed Debian.
--
David Cantrell | [EMAIL
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, you wrote:
All this is pre-ir35:
as a employee of a limited company you would be paid national minimum
wage (4 quid an hour) .. you pay NIC and tax on that ... (minimal) .. you
claim expenses off the (ie your own) company for all the driving around
you do and having
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:53:32PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
Summary:
pwd_mkdb didn't work, so I tried re-installing (it was a fresh install I'd
broken anyway). I then proceded to get very annoyed with the NetBSD
installer, because it doesn't let you go back and correct your stupid
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:40:18AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
I really think I should drop the author a polite note offering him a
patch or three.
A patch? It needs taking outside and shooting!
package Date::MMDDYY;
use strict;
use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT_OK);
require Exporter;
@ISA =
At 16:49 20/03/01 +, you wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:44:55PM -, Simon Batistoni wrote:
MMDDYY is about as backwards and illogical as you can possibly get[0].
Our cousins across the ocean appear to like it for some reason. I suspect
this was the motivation for the module.
The
From: Michael Stevens [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
MMDDYY is about as backwards and illogical as you can possibly get[0].
Our cousins across the ocean appear to like it for some reason. I suspect
this was the motivation for the module.
Along with a few other quirks, such as:
- copper plate
At Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:01:30 +, Robin Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:40:18AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
I really think I should drop the author a polite note offering him a
patch or three.
A patch? It needs taking outside and shooting!
package
From ny.pm.
The meme is spreading :)
Dave
At Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:01:19 +, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the shoulders of such giants as Date::Christmas, Date::Discordian
and Date::Tolkien::Shire stands Date::MMDDYY!
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Date-MMDDYY
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:07:28PM +, Leon Brocard wrote:
This isn't such a crazy idea. People keep on complaining about the
quality of modules on CPAN. So pick a random one and make it better
;-P
Well, with a module like Date::MMDDYY the implementation
_is_ broken - it uses gmtime()
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 12:14:44PM -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
From ny.pm.
The meme is spreading :)
At Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:01:19 +, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the shoulders of such giants as Date::Christmas, Date::Discordian
and Date::Tolkien::Shire stands
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:44:04PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:40:29PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote:
At 16:29 20/03/2001 +, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
a) a two reasons why this module should never have been
Hows this for a patch:
package Date::MMDDYY;
use strict;
use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT);
use Carp;
use Exporter;
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT = qw(datecon);
sub datecon {
croak "Date::MMDDYY has been deprecated in favour of POSIX::strftime";
}
1;
Matt
At 17:16 20/03/01 +, you
On or about Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 12:24:38PM -0500, Chris Devers typed:
Would a CPAN replacement have to be "drop-in"? I can see the argument behind making
replacements for MSA code be functionally identical in most visible ways, but when
you're dealing with CPAN code, presumably, you're
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:43:08AM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
...except that the Windows extension hiding feature only applies to files seen
through the normal filesystem tools (Windows Explorer, various dialog boxes, etc),
and not Internetty stuff. People might still be scared off by seeing
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:48:25PM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:38:09PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
Then they deserve to be hurt. Really. We can't possibly support
dribbling idiots, and frankly, I have no wish to do so. If someone is
scared by a .tar.gz
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:48:25PM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:38:09PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
Then they deserve to be hurt. Really. We can't possibly support
dribbling idiots, and frankly, I have no wish to
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:48:25PM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:38:09PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
Then they deserve to be hurt. Really. We can't possibly support
dribbling idiots, and frankly, I have no
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From: "Robert Shiels" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: Matt's Scripts Projects
.tar.gz - wtf is that, why isn't there a zip file.
People keep misunderstanding this point: just because someone is using
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, you wrote:
BTW - I've just had some fun trying to uncompress a .zip file on Linux! tar
gzip and gunzip don't seem to want to know. Guess that makes me a luser!
you need the unzip(1)
NAMEunzip - list, test and extract compressed files in a ZI
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:44:04PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
Am I allowed to mention -MM-DD, which actually sorts best of all... Do
we really not learn from Y2K?
You have a Y10K problem.
--
For me, UNIX is a way of being. -Armando P. Stettner
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:34:06PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
You are Michael Schwern, and I claim your m4d h41rkut skillz.
Oh, get real. Schwern has *no* relation to haircuts *at all*...
dha
--
David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/
We went on holiday by
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:48:25PM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:38:09PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
Then they deserve to be hurt. Really. We can't possibly support
dribbling idiots, and frankly, I have no wish to
At Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:01:19 +, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot
e:
On the shoulders of such giants as Date::Christmas, Date::Discordian
and Date::Tolkien::Shire stands Date::MMDDYY!
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Date-MMDDYY
Reason #120398 why I need to get CPANTS off
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