On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
just looking at some old pictures of london.pm meetings and YAPC::Europe
and i came across the classic, London.pm drinking in a hair dressing salon,
Why oh why?
Infact, more to the point, where is this?
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 19:54:04 +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
however Sir Arnold Bax [1] got slightly closer to the truth:
One should try everything once, except incest and folk dancing
nuff said.
[1] oft, incorrectly, attributed to George Bernard Shaw (who said it also,
but later)
Bah, I
Once an idea gets into my head, the only way to shake it off is to go away
and write it :)
Dave...
package Tie::Hash::Cannabinol;
use strict;
use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK);
require Exporter;
require Tie::Hash;
@ISA = qw(Exporter Tie::StdHash);
@EXPORT = qw();
@EXPORT_OK =();
Cross David - dcross wrote:
return $self-{$keys[rand $#keys]};
Shouldn't this just gradually start to forget more and more things using
Tie::Hash::Decay?
And then start consuming your resources when it gets the munchies?
Or chuck a whitey and start spewing out spurious data everywhere or
On 06/06/2001 at 10:47 +0100, Peter Haworth wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 19:54:04 +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
however Sir Arnold Bax [1] got slightly closer to the truth:
One should try everything once, except incest and folk dancing
Bah, I had it in my sig file (now amended) as Sir Thomas
I always thought that a data structure that mimicked a bus queue would
be useful.
If you request more items than are in the queue (e.g. lots of empty
seats) the queue returns the items in order. If you request less items
than are in the queue (Bus almost full) the largest items push through
and
on 5/6/01 10:31 am, Robin Szemeti wrote:
hmm .. we're trying to justify a move to 5gb a month .. at which point
Nildram sounds like a cheaper option. ... is Aylesbury nice?
No :)
But hopefully you wouldn't need to go there that often (just when the root
password expires ho hum).
I think
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:09:22AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
just looking at some old pictures of london.pm meetings and YAPC::Europe
and i came
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Paul Mison wrote:
On 06/06/2001 at 10:47 +0100, Peter Haworth wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 19:54:04 +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
however Sir Arnold Bax [1] got slightly closer to the truth:
One should try everything once, except incest and folk dancing
Bah, I had it in
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Simon Wistow wrote:
Cross David - dcross wrote:
return $self-{$keys[rand $#keys]};
Shouldn't this just gradually start to forget more and more things using
Tie::Hash::Decay?
no .. if the program is left alone for a while it begins attaching really
carefully
* Richard Clyne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I always thought that a data structure that mimicked a bus queue would
be useful.
If you request more items than are in the queue (e.g. lots of empty
seats) the queue returns the items in order. If you request less items
than are in the queue
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Paul Mison wrote:
why do you find it strange .. Morrismen are odd to start with, the fact
that they get up early in the morning too should comea s no surprise ...
I meant the crowd watching them. Didn't they have better things to do?
blimey now that is odd ..
(My
did anyone on the list work at razorfish uk?
Oki, assuming I don't get stranded in rush hour traffic (I'm only
ickle), can find my way to the the PO (I used to do orienteering)
and can recognise you lot, I shall see you tomorrow. Tho' if
anyone going has a mobile I'd appreciate the number just in case.
L.
07939 476024
Hi guys,
Have any of you worked with SQueaLServer with a large DB (multiple terabyte
level), serving high volume transactions (read write, of the order of
millions of records a day). What sort of performance did you get? What was
the hardware? Was it reliable?
I'm working for a telecoms
At 16:59 06/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
Tho' if
anyone going has a mobile I'd appreciate the number just in case.
Since the rest of London.pm has my mobile I see no reason for you to be
different. - 07989 747 853
I tend to arrive early, leave early.
-
Jonathan Peterson
Technical Manager,
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Ian Brayshaw wrote:
I'm working for a telecoms company that is considering a proposal to move
its billing system from Oracle on Solaris, to SQueaLServer NT. It's a
decision that is coming from management (where else?), and I'm trying to
find out if it's as ludicrous
friend at LSE needing 5 days of mod_perl XML freelancing, said i'd pass
this along, didnt actually wait for response, but hey.
oh gosh, i should finish the london jobs database. and put the new disk in
penderel, which it was too sunny to do during the tech meet. early next
week i guess :/ soz
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:59:26PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Oki, assuming I don't get stranded in rush hour traffic (I'm only
ickle), can find my way to the the PO (I used to do orienteering)
and can recognise you lot, I shall see you tomorrow. Tho' if
anyone going
This is the twentieth weekly summary of the London Perl Mongers
mailing list. You may all buy me a drink. For the quiet week starting
2001-06-04:
Don't forget the London.pm website for meetings etc. The next meeting
is an social meeting on Thursday 7th June (don't forget to vote!)
at the
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Leon Brocard wrote:
whether there were any Masai tribespeople on the list. Anyone? Anyone?
reminds me of that Reggie Perrin snippet ..
'Is there anyone here from Tarporley ...'
I dunno .. maybe I'm getting old.
--
Robin Szemeti
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Ian Brayshaw wrote:
I'm working for a telecoms company that is considering a proposal to
move its billing system from Oracle on Solaris, to SQueaLServer NT.
It's a decision that is coming from management (where else?), and I'm
I didn't even reallise you could get NT for serious mips .. I though it
only ran on likkle PC things ...
The transactions world record sadly is held by M$ at the moment.
Red
Redvers Davies sent the following bits through the ether:
The transactions world record sadly is held by M$ at the moment.
http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/h-ttperf.idc
Leon
--
Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/
Iterative
Ian Brayshaw sent the following bits through the ether:
If it goes through, this is one coder that will be seeking alternate
employment (along with the rest of the company).
It's probably worth letting the company know about this, although
they'll probably ignore it. FUD works, you know...
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:27:39AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
because, unlike something actually useful, AV only indexes words in its
dictionary. since bax (although semantically significant) is not in its
dictioanary it don;t find it. pile of shit. Google is oodlsss
better. if you
Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Redvers Davies sent the following bits through the ether:
The transactions world record sadly is held by M$ at the moment.
http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/h-ttperf.idc
Yeah, seen that. It's interesting to note that SQueaL doesn't make an
appearance at
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:10:43AM -0500, Richard Clyne wrote:
If you request more items than are in the queue (e.g. lots of empty
seats) the queue returns the items in order. If you request less items
than are in the queue (Bus almost full) the largest items push through
and are selected.
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Ian Brayshaw wrote:
I didn't even reallise you could get NT for serious mips .. I though it
only ran on likkle PC things ...
I wouldn't have used the word ran ...
I did put something about htat but deleted it .. I leave it in next time.
I have worked on Solaris boxen
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:24:35AM +1000, Ian Brayshaw wrote:
Have any of you worked with SQueaLServer with a large DB (multiple terabyte
level), serving high volume transactions (read write, of the order of
You'd have to be more specific than that. MS's terraserver
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Anyhow, they
have two different search engines -- the portal one and a 'text only'
one which uses a different system:
http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/text?raging=1
which *does* provide Bax hits...
You're right .. it does ..
however ...
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