* Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:40:46PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
I'm still up for organizing it - its just herding you cats up in one place
is the problem.
If you book it, they will come.
i suggest booking it for the saturday on the next bank
Another gem from Perlmonks. I'm thinking I should post this one to the
Cookwood board :)
http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=84638
From the POD:
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Inline::PERL gives you the power of the PERL programming language from
within your Perl programs. This gives you instant
-Original Message-
From: Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Umm, *strokes beard* by archive you mean tar file, right? If so then
Archive::Tar looks likely, and it even automagically deals with .gz
This does exactly what I wanted, a pint is yours at the next meeting!
files via
On Wed, 30 May 2001 17:14:15 +0100, Matthew Robinson wrote:
RFC822 will allow all of the following (taken from CGI Programming with
Perl) and was designed to accept all the addresses in use in 1982:
Alfred Neuman Neuman@BBN-TENEXA
:sysmail@ Some-Group. Some-Org
Muhammed.(I am the greatest)
At 09:40 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
Another gem from Perlmonks. I'm thinking I should post this one to the
Cookwood board :)
It was in the unforgettable episode on 23rd May when bk said:
Yay! You have now totally redeemed yourself in my mind. I'm sorry... I
seem to have missed the class on
You'll have noticed, I hope, that next Thursday is both our June meeting and
a General Election. I hope you'll all go and vote before the meeting so you
don't have to dash off before the polling stations close :)
Someone (Paul?) mentioned a couple of weeks ago that it might be nice if we
could
At 10:32 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
I suggest we leave the pub at about 9:30pm and get the tube
back to mine, stopping at Threshers en route.
Can't we just go to another pub that's got Peter Snow on the telly?
There will, of course, be an entrance test. Anyone who doesn't know the
first verse
* Cross David - dcross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
You'll have noticed, I hope, that next Thursday is both our June meeting and
a General Election. I hope you'll all go and vote before the meeting so you
don't have to dash off before the polling stations close :)
Someone (Paul?) mentioned
Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 10:32 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
I suggest we leave the pub at about 9:30pm and get the tube
back to mine, stopping at Threshers en route.
Can't we just go to another pub that's got Peter Snow on the telly?
There will, of course, be an
From: Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:04 AM
Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 10:32 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
I suggest we leave the pub at about 9:30pm and get the tube
back to mine, stopping at Threshers en route.
Can't we just go to
* Robert Shiels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
What! You mean go south of the river after dark. I'm afraid I'm not properly
insured for that kind of excursion :)
what sort of insurance do you need? insurance against culture? insurance
against clearner air? insurance against nice restaurants and
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:32:55AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
You'll have noticed, I hope, that next Thursday is both our June meeting and
a General Election. I hope you'll all go and vote before the meeting so you
don't have to dash off before the polling stations close :)
Vote
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:10 AM
i'll be with you standing on his doorstep Jonathan, especially as
it was written by a member of the irish republic brotherhood ;-),
and we all know what results are important on thursday night -
thats right the
If we are at Dave's we could have a little competition, quite simply,
write a CGI script that takes 2 or 3 numbers (cons seats, lab seat and
others) and display some sort of visualisation of the numbers in
classic Peter Snow style. The winner is the one judged coolest by
the people at Dave's
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote:
Someone (Paul?) mentioned a couple of weeks ago that it might be nice if we
could all go somewhere after the pub to watch the results come in and...
Sounds like an evil flan. Especially as I'm holding up my end of the
bargain (right, MBM?) and
* Cross David - dcross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:10 AM
i'll be with you standing on his doorstep Jonathan, especially as
it was written by a member of the irish republic brotherhood ;-),
and we all know what results
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:09:56PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
Technical Meeting: Thursday 21st June
Need a venue for this please people. And speakers. If any speakers want to
practise TPC or YAPC::E talks, then this might be a good time to do it.
Since I've already practiced my
If we are at Dave's we could have a little competition, quite simply,
write a CGI script that takes 2 or 3 numbers (cons seats, lab seat and
others) and display some sort of visualisation of the numbers in
classic Peter Snow style. The winner is the one judged coolest by
the people at
Robin Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But I could do something about Perl regular expressions and
algorithmic complexity. That would be fun :-)
Robin, can we have a whip round and pay you NOT to do it? My head
always hurts after one of your talks...
--
Dave Hodgkinson,
* Robert Shiels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
If we are at Dave's we could have a little competition, quite simply,
write a CGI script that takes 2 or 3 numbers (cons seats, lab seat and
others) and display some sort of visualisation of the numbers in
classic Peter Snow style. The winner
* Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I like this idea - is there anywhere that is providing this data in an
easily slurpable format so that the script can actually work without user
intervention?
we could agree that a particular URL would return the data, stick
a CGI in
Who is going to be at YAPC::NA in Montreal? I'm going to be there
from June 9-18 and seeing that the conference is from June 13-15,
there are a few days to do sightseeing / hacking / whatever.
Is anyone else there before the conference so we might meet up early?
Also, any tips on what do to in
At 13:12 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
are the botanical gardens, and biodome (all touristy). As far as I'm
concerned though, the best thing to do in Montreal are the bars, cafes and
shops.
There's a nice catholic cathedral, the docks are nice, and there's a lovely
local museum near the docks
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:28:20AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Robin Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But I could do something about Perl regular expressions and
algorithmic complexity. That would be fun :-)
Robin, can we have a whip round and pay you NOT to do it? My head
always
Welcome to the London Community News.
Details are for the month of June 2001.
The User Groups:
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:40:46PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
I'm still up for organizing it - its just herding you cats up in one place
is the problem.
If you book it, they will come.
i
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:40:46PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
I'm still up for organizing it - its just herding you cats up in one place
is the
On 01/06/2001 at 13:03 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
so when is the next bang holiday weekend?
2001-08-27. Hence the crazy golf must be on 2001-08-25. (Palm Desktop)++
The next one after that is in December. (Anyone standing on the
platform of reforming bank holidays? I'd buy that for a
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:40:46PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
I'm still up for organizing it - its just
* Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:40:46PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
I'm still up for organizing it - its just
On Friday, June 1, 2001, at 02:07 PM, Paul Mison wrote:
On 01/06/2001 at 13:03 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
so when is the next bang holiday weekend?
2001-08-27. Hence the crazy golf must be on 2001-08-25. (Palm Desktop)++
Cool; I might actually be in London that weekend.
Marcel
--
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From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:10 PM
blech has just informed me, its 27/8/2001, which would make
the first annual grand London.pm crazy golf open on the 25/8/2001
now what do people want to do? go to hastings and return the
same day? stay over?
From: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:07 PM
(Anyone standing on the platform of reforming bank holidays?
I'd buy that for a dollar.)
Whatever happened to the plan to do away with that nasty socialist holiday
on Mayday and replace with something much more Jingoistic
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:16:51PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
From: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:07 PM
(Anyone standing on the platform of reforming bank holidays?
I'd buy that for a dollar.)
Whatever happened to the plan to do away with that
On 01/06/2001 at 13:16 +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
From: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:07 PM
(Anyone standing on the platform of reforming bank holidays?
I'd buy that for a dollar.)
Whatever happened to the plan to do away with that nasty socialist holiday
On or about Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:27:44PM +0100, Paul Mison typed:
(Isn't
there an extra bank holiday next year for Golden Jubilee shenanigans?)
http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/bankhol.htm
Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
how about US
Independence Day?
We call that Thanksgiving...
--
Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com
Interim CTO, web server farms,
There will, of course, be an entrance test. Anyone who doesn't know the
first verse and chorus of The Red Flag will not be admitted :)
Is this the modern doctored version or the traditional version?
Barbie.
At 13:27 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
weather's awful. We [0] want June and July holidays how about US
Quite the opposite!!! We need more winter holidays to cheer us up during
those dark rainy months. We should have holidays for all the major Saint's
days, and get rid of silly artificial
From: Barbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:46 PM
There will, of course, be an entrance test. Anyone who doesn't know the
first verse and chorus of The Red Flag will not be admitted :)
Is this the modern doctored version or the traditional version?
The New Labour version
From: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Isn't
there an extra bank holiday next year for Golden Jubilee shenanigans?)
Apparently so.
Allegedly there is a move to bring the UK more into line with the rest of
Europe with regards to bank holidays. Several European nations put us to
shame when you
From: Roger Burton West [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On or about Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:27:44PM +0100, Paul Mison typed:
(Isn't
there an extra bank holiday next year for Golden Jubilee shenanigans?)
http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/bankhol.htm
Well, as today is my first day working as a contractor, I want
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:10:22PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
blech has just informed me, its 27/8/2001, which would make
the first annual grand London.pm crazy golf open on the 25/8/2001
ECLASHESWITHLBW
--
David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/
Rip,
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Dean wrote:
Lonix
Date: Wednesday 6th June at 6.00pm.
hasn't this been postponed?
alex
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:55:20PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
The New Labour version starts like this:
The people's flag is lightest pink,
It's not as red as you might think.
How things have changed.
'Mr Heseltine, whose mane of golden hair has given him the nickname
of Tarzan,
Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 13:27 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
weather's awful. We [0] want June and July holidays how about US
Quite the opposite!!! We need more winter holidays to cheer us up
during those dark rainy months. We should have holidays for all the
Barbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There will, of course, be an entrance test. Anyone who doesn't know the
first verse and chorus of The Red Flag will not be admitted :)
Is this the modern doctored version or the traditional version?
How about:
The working class can kiss my arse
I've got
Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: Barbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:46 PM
There will, of course, be an entrance test. Anyone who doesn't know the
first verse and chorus of The Red Flag will not be admitted :)
Is this the modern doctored
From: Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:27 PM
Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[The Red Flag]
I prefer it sung to the original tune (The White Cockade) as opposed
to
the christmas carol dirge that is most used these days.
Hmm... how the hell do
At 14:23 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:55:20PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
The New Labour version starts like this:
The people's flag is lightest pink,
It's not as red as you might think.
How things have changed.
Yikes!
Changed for the better, apparently.
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:20:56PM +0100, alex wrote:
Lonix
Date: Wednesday 6th June at 6.00pm.
hasn't this been postponed?
Oh yes. I got a note last night confirming the date and then today i get one
telling me its moved.[0]
The venue and everything will be the same but the date is
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:24:57PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
How about:
The working class can kiss my arse
I've got the foreman's job at last.
Or
The people's flag is deepest puce
with fleurs de lys in pale chartreuse
Pah!
Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples
From: Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:31 PM
London PM have two meetings this month, the usual social meeting and a
technical meeting. The social meeting is on 7th June 2001 from about 6:30.
The location has not been confirmed yet so keep an eye on the web site.
The
On or about Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:39:03PM +0100, David Cantrell typed:
Pah!
Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!
Humbug!
The people's flag is black as night
From
* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:24:57PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
How about:
The working class can kiss my arse
I've got the foreman's job at last.
Or
The people's flag is deepest puce
with fleurs de lys in pale chartreuse
Pah!
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:47:18PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
sing all you want, it will be you lot who have egg on your
faces when a unionist/conservative coalition government is
in power in a few weeks, ohhh yes
Hmmmph. paul daniels if that happens, I'll leave the country /short
At 14:23 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Personally I'd rather get rid of the overtly christian holidays and
stick with good old pagan stuff like May day. And not because of the
labour movement, it's a *way* older holiday than that.
True enough - but look!
From: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:28 PM
On 01/06/2001 at 13:16 +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
Whatever happened to the plan to do away with that nasty socialist
holiday
on Mayday and replace with something much more Jingoistic - Trafalgar Day
wasn't it?
* Cross David - dcross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[1] But you've got to admit, she does look good for her age. Yeah, well so
would I if I HADN'T DONE A FUCKING DECENT DAY'S WORK IN MY LIFE.
Well you don't look that good, and you are a contractor ;-)
--
Greg McCarroll
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:40:38PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
Or make the Queen's Birthday celebrations be on a Monday and make that
a bank holiday, if you have to wrap things up in pageantry.
Only a very short term solution. What do you do when we become a republic?
Then we have
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:28:43PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
So *that's* the secret to your boyish good looks Dave! I knew there had
to be *something* good about contracting :-)
That and getting to drain the life out of the permanent staff ;)
Dean
--
Profanity is the one language
From: Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Um. Bad example. Unfortunately May Day is at a *really* silly point,
coming just after Easter and just before the 'Early Summer' (aka
Whitsun) Bank Holiday.
Besides, people have been celebrating Mayday for
From: Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:30 PM
Subject: RE: General Election
From: Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:27 PM
Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[The Red Flag]
I prefer it sung
From: Barbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 3:56 PM
[The Red Flag]
There's a fine version of it to this tune by Billy Bragg and Dick Gaughn
on BB's mini-album The Internationale.
If you haven't tracked down an mp3 by next week, remind me and I'll play
it to you.
Have
From: Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have it on virgin vinyl with free limited edition 7 thanks :)
Ooh. Shiny! What's on the 7?
straight from billybragg.co.uk (cause I couldn't remember seeing as I
haven't played it in several years):
QUOTE
Raglan Road (Live)
May 1990, Utility (7),
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:53:53PM +0100, Barbie wrote:
the only surviving English/British religion, Paganism
Nice try.
--
diff: usage diff [whatever] etc.
- plan9 has a bad day
At 15:53 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
I find it strange that the only surviving English/British religion,
Paganism, is the target for being abolished.
Is paganism a religion? Isn't it a none of the above grouping of
religions? Or does it refer to What Northern and central Europe did before
the
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote:
Cross David - dcross writes:
This one, however, had an advert on the from about the Open Source
Convention. Not the San Diego Open Source Convention, but one in London on
October 22 - 25. That's currently all I know, but I'll see what else I
From: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I find it strange that the only surviving English/British religion,
Paganism, is the target for being abolished.
Is paganism a religion?
Yes. Just because it isn't an organised religion with official buildings and
the like or a registered charity it
From: Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:53:53PM +0100, Barbie wrote:
the only surviving English/British religion, Paganism
Nice try.
Are you saying it isn't a religion or there is another one?
Barbie
On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote:
There's a fine version of it to this tune by Billy Bragg and Dick Gaughn on
BB's mini-album The Internationale.
undef error - Can't locate auto/Billy/Bragg/tune.al in @INC ...
--
Robin Szemeti
I find it strange that the only surviving English/British religion,
Nah, you want an interesting old religion, look at the Celts. Drinking
blood has gone out of style though...
On Friday, June 1, 2001, at 10:41 PM, Redvers Davies wrote:
I find it strange that the only surviving English/British religion,
Nah, you want an interesting old religion, look at the Celts. Drinking
blood has gone out of style though...
Has it? Angel drinks blood; Spike does as well.
Redvers Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I find it strange that the only surviving English/British religion,
Nah, you want an interesting old religion, look at the Celts. Drinking
blood has gone out of style though...
Assuming you're not a Masai tribesperson. And assuming that the
Romans
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote:
There's a fine version of it to this tune by Billy Bragg and Dick Gaughn on
BB's mini-album The Internationale.
undef error - Can't locate auto/Billy/Bragg/tune.al in @INC ...
Then I suggest you
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