Re: CGI .. its out to get me ...
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 09:05:33PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: > hmm .. more investigation needed :) .. just remebered data::dumper is my > freind .. You might try perl -d'ing it, setting a breakpoint (with 'b 150' or 'b sub_name') and then using 'x $q' to examine the data structure. YMMV, HTH, Paul
Re: Wavelan
On Sun, 01 Apr 2001, you wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 09:14:22PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > Anybody care to suggest a decent purveyor of the Lucent Wavelan cards?? > My two recommended suppliers are; > http;//www.compconnect.co.uk > web http://www.freebsd-services.co.uk ta muchly .. off to surf :) > I'm assuming you already have a basestation. If not, you'll probably be wanting > one of those too. I can personally recommend the Apple Airport basestation yes .. I'd heard Airport was good .. can you still configuer it if you don't have an apple to talk to it with? indeed is there any configuration to do .. or is it jusrt a plain ethernet bridge? > and I've heard good things of the Orinoco Residential Gateway. umm .. the Orinoco residential thing .. that seems to have a load of stuff I don't need like ISDN access and modems ... I was planning on just bunging a PCI adapter in the border router with an external aerial and configuring IPCHAINS to send the appropriate stuff down the approprite intefaces .. the residential gateway seems fine for most uses, but I dint fancy letting un firewalled packets straight out of my ISDN into the ether and thence laptops etc, the PCI adaptor/card solution should work out about 100 quid cheaper. so I think I'm settled on the ORINOCO PC Card - Gold really as my solution. I was having trouble finding a Lucent supplier, various people stock various things but it seems hard to find the bit I actually want ... I rather fancied the proper Lucent/Orinoco ethernet/wavelan access point thing that you screw on the wall .. except the'yre 600 quid a throw ..hell, thats more than I pay for a whole boxen! thanks for the info I'll give the two places an e-mail. -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!
Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.
On Sun, 01 Apr 2001, you wrote: > On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > agreed it is a dumb thing, especially if your nameserver doesnt have a > > name to lookup > > Erm!!?!? How exactly were you planning to point anything at it? an NS > RR requires an authoritative name as it's RHS. if its a box-over-in-the corner that one day will be your DNS server somewhere but right now its just a ip address on a network you're trying to test before deploying .. it did get a name eventually. and .. surely not all the nameservers are necessarily named, only the ones published to the world, you could have internal servers that don;t answer external queries (such as a primary master server with two slaves used as authoratative servers to the world, whilst your primary master is left untroubled) in which case the primary master would not need a name just an address, and you might want to query it directly yourself to make sure it was not telling porkies. ?? -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!
Re: Wavelan
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 09:14:22PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: > Anybody care to suggest a decent purveyor of the Lucent Wavelan cards?? > > My new laptop has declared itself unwilling to be shackled by network > cables and demands a nice Wavelan card > > If the decent purveyor of cards was also a cheap purveyor as well that > would be a bonus. My search of the usual suspects [qw/insight dabs > bluepoint/] failed to reveal a source. > Robin My two recommended suppliers are; Computer Connection 22 Falcon Street Ipswich Suffolk IP1 1SL England tel +44 (0)1473 232282 fax +44 (0)1473 210565 http;//www.compconnect.co.uk FreeBSD Services Ltd 11 Lapwing Close Bicester OX26 6XR phone +44 (0)1869 363956 fax +44 (0)1869 363957 web http://www.freebsd-services.co.uk I'm assuming you already have a basestation. If not, you'll probably be wanting one of those too. I can personally recommend the Apple Airport basestation and I've heard good things of the Orinoco Residential Gateway. Neil.
pix of legend?
do we still have the pictures from the night of award winning drunkeness? I'sd d certainly be interested at having another look. Also the website has a few gaps picture wise.. did nobody bring a camera on that many times? btw the trophy cabinet will get done once I have a job again. A. -- http://termisoc.org/~betty"> Betty @ termisoc.org "As a youngster Fred fought sea battles on the village pond using a complex system of signals he devised that was later adopted by the Royal Navy. " (this email has nothing to do with any organisation except me)
Wavelan
Anybody care to suggest a decent purveyor of the Lucent Wavelan cards?? My new laptop has declared itself unwilling to be shackled by network cables and demands a nice Wavelan card If the decent purveyor of cards was also a cheap purveyor as well that would be a bonus. My search of the usual suspects [qw/insight dabs bluepoint/] failed to reveal a source. -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!
Re: CGI .. its out to get me ...
On Sun, 01 Apr 2001, you wrote: > First question - is the second if statement in a separate block? > Second question - is your server using mod_perl? nope ... not yet, but thats the intention. > If the answer to both those questions is yes, then mod_perl is doing something nasty >with closures and your blocks/subs. > > Try passing $q around as a parameter - that usually solves the problem. > > Alternatively, if you don't mind using the standard interface, then use that. indeed $q is passed about as a parameter .. its the same 'q' thats handed about. its weird how just not doing the 'if defined' test on it directly makes that happen .. if you have more than one value assigned to a parameter does it return the next on on the list when you call it next time? hmm .. more investigation needed :) .. just remebered data::dumper is my freind .. -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!
Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote: > agreed it is a dumb thing, especially if your nameserver doesnt have a > name to lookup Erm!!?!? How exactly were you planning to point anything at it? an NS RR requires an authoritative name as it's RHS. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.-- Karl Lehenbauer
Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote: > 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 :-) H But what about typos? dot.con? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.-- Karl Lehenbauer
Re: Buffy
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: > Buffy - An encryption scheme for Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans Attached is the Buffy-ized decss Perl script from http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/qrpff.pl With any luck, this will get our favourite vampire slayer mentioned in a court of law! ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate? qrpff.pl
Re: [schwern@pobox.com: DNA.pm]
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 06:50:48PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: > Those crazy Americans! ;-) Hey, he never did this before he went over to Britain... :-) -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ for (('to you', 'dear '.shift)[0,0,1,0]) { print "Happy birthday $_" } - perl code for wishing someone a happy birthday Courtesy of purl
Re: [schwern@pobox.com: DNA.pm]
* Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Those crazy Americans! ;-) > Now all we need is Mutator that can de-DNA code, parse the perl, change it in subtle ways and then re-DNA it. Actually, i'm quite pleased Leon implemented Buffy.pm and took up the namespace before we started inventing modules for all of Sunnydale, along the lines of $a = Angel->new(); $b = Buffy->new(); $w = Willow->new(); $a->curse(); $a->{has_soul}; # returns 1 $a->makelovewith($w); $a->{has_soul}; # returns 1 $a->makelovewith($b); # due to nature of argument # $a->receivemomentofperfecthappiness() # is called $a->{has_soul}; # returns 0 $a->curse(); in fact with some `debug' code to stdout, you could have a BtVS script generator -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Buffy
* Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Robin Szemeti sent the following bits through the ether: > > > was there not a recent thread regarding a module on CPAN and someone said > > somehting along the lines of ' we need review of modules before they get > > onto CPAN...' :) > > OKOK, and you'd have a "joke" category, into which silly things such there already is such a category, the clue is in the s work in the above line, strangely in my local copy of CPAN (not rsynced for sometime) there are only two entries, a module to make up rightish sounding words that are made up and a module to do maths with strings based on the number of UPPER and lower case characters -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: CGI .. its out to get me ...
Robin Szemeti wrote: >OK girls .. >... >[submit form with parameter init_login='Login' > >my($q)=CGI->new; >... >if ( defined($q->param('init_login')) ){ > #do someting and it happens >} >... some code goes by >if ( defined($q->param('init_login')) ){ > #do someting and it DOESNT happen >} > >now .. you are all about to say .. ahh .. something is reseting the >parameter elsewhere ... either Delete('init_login') or some such BUT if I >swap the first test to be First question - is the second if statement in a separate block? Second question - is your server using mod_perl? If the answer to both those questions is yes, then mod_perl is doing something nasty with closures and your blocks/subs. Try passing $q around as a parameter - that usually solves the problem. Alternatively, if you don't mind using the standard interface, then use that. Rob Thompson
[schwern@pobox.com: DNA.pm]
Those crazy Americans! ;-) - Forwarded message from Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: DNA.pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 18:17:23 +0100 Not to be outdone by the Brits (see Leon's Buffy.pm http://www.astray.com/Buffy/), American innovation brings us DNA.pm! http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/ if it hasn't made it to CPAN yet. NAME DNA - Encodes your Perl program into an Amino Acid sequence SYNOPSIS use DNA; CCAA CCAA AAGT CAGT TCCT CGCT ATGT AACA CACA TCTT GGCT TTGT AACA GTGT TCCT AGCT CAGA TAGA ACGA TAGA TAGA CAGA TAGA CAGA CAGA CAGA TAGA CAGA CAGA CAGA TAGA ATGA TAGA TAGA GTGA CAGA TAGA CTGA CAGA TAGA CAGA CAGA CAGA TAGA TTGA CAGA TAGA CTGA TAGA CAGA CTGA TAGA TCGA CTGA ATGA TAGA TAGA TAGA CAGA TAGA ACGA TAGA ACGA TAGA TAGA TAGA TAGA TAGA TAGA TAGA CTGA CAGA CAGA TTGA TAGA CAGA ATGA CAGA TAGA TAGA GAGA TAGA GTGA CAGA CAGA GTGA TAGA TAGA TTGA TAGA CAGA TAGA CAGA TCGA TTGA CAGA AGCT AACA TACT AGCT AGCT AACA TTGT GAGT TTCT AACA GTTT TCCT CGCT ATCT GGCT GTGT CAGA CAGA TAGA TAGA GAGA TAGA TAGA GAGA TAGA CAGA TAGA GTGA GTGA TAGA GTGA GAGA ATGA TAGA TAGA CAGA TAGA TAGA CAGA TAGA TAGA CAGA TAGA CAGA TAGA CAGA TAGA TAGA TAGA CAGA CTGA GAGA CAGA TCGA GTGA TAGA ATGA TAGA TAGA CAGA ATGA TAGA TTGA TAGA CAGA TAGA TAGA TAGA CAGA CAGA TAGA TAGA ATGA CTGA TAGA ATGA TAGA ATGA ATGA TAGA TAGA TAGA TAGA TAGA CAGA TAGA CAGA TAGA TAGA CAGA TAGA ACGA ACGA TAGA CAGA TAGA GAGT TACA AGTT CGCT CACA GCGA CCAA CCAA ... - End forwarded message - Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... I totally paused!
Re: Buffy
Robin Szemeti sent the following bits through the ether: > was there not a recent thread regarding a module on CPAN and someone said > somehting along the lines of ' we need review of modules before they get > onto CPAN...' :) OKOK, and you'd have a "joke" category, into which silly things such as Q::S, Bleach, Buffy, and Symbol::Aprox::Sub would go... Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... A pessimist is never disappointed
Re: Buffy
On Sun, 01 Apr 2001, you wrote: > > http://www.astray.com/Buffy/ > > Leon > > ps if only PAUSE weren't down, this'd be on CPAN already... was there not a recent thread regarding a module on CPAN and someone said somehting along the lines of ' we need review of modules before they get onto CPAN...' :) Its amazing what people can do if left alone in a darkened room for a few months isn't it .. it reminds me of that scene from 'The Shining' ... pages and pages of the word 'Buffy' Have you been remebering to take your dried frog pills this week Leon ? :-) -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!
CGI .. its out to get me ...
OK girls .. why does this .. do this? [submit form with parameter init_login='Login' my($q)=CGI->new; ... if ( defined($q->param('init_login')) ){ #do someting and it happens } ... some code goes by if ( defined($q->param('init_login')) ){ #do someting and it DOESNT happen } now .. you are all about to say .. ahh .. something is reseting the parameter elsewhere ... either Delete('init_login') or some such BUT if I swap the first test to be my($init)=$q->param('init_login'); $q->param('init_login',$init); if(defined($init)){ ... } then the both calls work perficktly so it appears that if ( defined($q->param('init_login')) ) is reseting the CGI parameter to undef .. how can that be ?? or have I missed something very basic about how the CGI module works ?? -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!
Buffy
http://www.astray.com/Buffy/ Leon ps if only PAUSE weren't down, this'd be on CPAN already... -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys NAME Buffy - An encryption scheme for Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans SYNOPSIS use Buffy; print "Hello world"; DESCRIPTION The first time you run a program under `use Buffy', the module removes most of the unsightly characters from your source file. The code continues to work exactly as it did before, but now it looks like this: use Buffy; BUffY bUFFY BUffY bUFFY bUfFy buffy BUFfy buFFY BufFy BufFY bUFfy BuFFY buffy bufFy bUffy bUffY BuFfy BuffY bUFfy BUfFY BUFFy Buffy bUffY BuFFY BUFFy BufFy BUFfy BUfFY buFfy BuffY BuFfy BUfFY bUffy buFFy BUffy bUffy DIAGNOSTICS `Can't buffy '%s'' Buffy could not access the source file to modify it. `Can't rebuffy '%s'' Buffy could not access the source file to execute it. AUTHOR Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This was based on Damian Conway's Bleach module and was inspired by an idea by Philip Newton. I blame London Perl Mongers too... http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03353. html COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2001, Leon Brocard. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License (see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html)