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

2001-03-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:56:37PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: Try doing Java in Lynx. Or Mosaic. Is there even a plugin for Netscape 3.0? Lynx Mosaic practically don't exist, demographically speaking. I'd say that's marketing and not something built-in. You want client-side Perl, you

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

2001-03-30 Thread Simon Wistow
Robin Szemeti wrote: IMHO to be of any use certification needs to be HUGE .. eg we need O'Reilly AND Manning behind it or it simply won't fly. We could write a very comprehensive set of tests and assesment levels, do all that. The theory driving test in this country was doen by getting

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-30 Thread Philip Newton
Robin Szemeti wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, you wrote: Hey, check your attributions -- "you" is not very useful when you're sending stuff to a mailing list :) or nslookup will have to be smart enough[1] to translate "randomkanji" to "bq--buffy" before asking the resolver library. err

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-30 Thread Redvers Davies
nslookup deprecated? Rats. Good riddence. Yes, it's useful. I like nslookup. (Plus I feel that dig is pretty verbose, but maybe there's a flag to control that that I've been too lazy to look for.) I guess it depends on application. If you need to know the nuts and bolts of a query, use

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

2001-03-30 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:03:14AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:56:37PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: Try doing Java in Lynx. Or Mosaic. Is there even a plugin for Netscape 3.0? Lynx Mosaic practically don't exist, demographically speaking. But things like

Re: Social Meeting (fwd)

2001-03-30 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:28:03AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: Incidentally, I'm setting up a real ale review page. Send real ale reviews to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Spring Cascade today at the Orange Brewery brewpub in Pimlico. Not a bad beer.) Have you tried the Jerusalem Tavern on Britton St,

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-30 Thread Steve Keay
Yes, it's useful. I like nslookup. (Plus I feel that dig is pretty verbose, but maybe there's a flag to control that that I've been too lazy to look for.) I guess it depends on application. If you need to know the nuts and bolts of a query, use dig. If you only need a quick resolution

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-30 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Steve Keay wrote: nslookup does a rather dumb thing: it tries to lookup the reverse DNS for the nameserver it's about to use. Apart from being a waste of time, failure to find the name means it will refuse to query that nameserver. Why doesn't your nameserver *have*

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-30 Thread Marty Pauley
On Thu Mar 29 15:37:29 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * - BTW, does that mean that all calls within NI are now charged at local rate? Can belfast.pm enlighten me on this? Do you really think we'd get that lucky? No we get hit with the charge for a national call even though it's all in

Re: CPAN Logo

2001-03-30 Thread Nathan Torkington
Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: Also, since the font comment made someone other than myself bristle a bit I would like to point out that ORA is not CPAN in any way, shape or form save the exception of the /doc directory tchrist has on perl.com. And I'd like to say that I hope O'Reilly has done

Re: from ntk

2001-03-30 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, James Powell wrote: RANDAL SCHWARTZ slams London.pm's "Perl is my bitch" T-Shirt - odd, considering: http://www.stonehenge.com/perl/amihooternot/ ... thats a bit slow for ntk or is squackers lagging behind (void) where all the action happened yonks ago. A. -- A HREF

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

2001-03-30 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:33:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Robert Shiels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Have you thought about charging structures, SAP charge about 300gbp to take a certification exam, and they offer courses that are

Re: from ntk

2001-03-30 Thread Leon Brocard
Aaron Trevena sent the following bits through the ether: thats a bit slow for ntk Indeed. Thankfully I've removed all pimb talk from my mail archives. Ten months is pretty slow for meme transfer. I declare NTK too slow and hence dead. What's next? ;-) Leon -- Leon

Re: CPAN Logo

2001-03-30 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Nathan Torkington [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *And I'd like to say that I hope O'Reilly has done nothing to promote *the confusion. We make no claims that CPAN is anything to do with us. *If you find something we've said or done that might cause that confusion, *please tell us and we'll fix it.

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

2001-03-30 Thread Chris Benson
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:03:14AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:56:37PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: Try doing Java in Lynx. Or Mosaic. Is there even a plugin for Netscape 3.0? Lynx Mosaic practically don't exist, demographically speaking. Bzzzt! Lynx doesn't

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

2001-03-30 Thread Simon Cozens
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 09:13:16PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: yip and you build in, a little 10 or 20 quid donation to YAS for everyone done, however this would probably be voluntary or some such - i dont really know. but if you are doing a training course that cost 500+ to attend, 10 or 20

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:41:14PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: host(1)'s error messages are often misleading - it can give the message "try again" to nxdomain responses, for example... Given how fast .NSI namespace is being eaten up, that doesn't seem like such an unrealistic message

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

2001-03-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:50:57AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: But things like Avantgo - which are getting more and more users all the time - have pretty much the same capabilities as a text-only browser. From a display point of view, yes, but they certainly have the capability to run a JVM