Re: JOB: Eng. Proj Management

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan Peterson
At 00:23 09/06/01 +0100, you wrote: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A reasonably reliable headhunter I've dealt with in the past is looking for technical project managers for new web company. Let me know if interested... Hmm... I wonder if I could morph... Come over to the

Re: Conway's academic paper generator

2001-06-11 Thread jns
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Anyone got a link to this? There's a working version of it here: http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/ And the thing that drives it (The Dada Engine) here: http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/ Alex Gough -- The Texan turned out to be good-natured,

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan Peterson
At 18:51 09/06/01 +0100, you wrote: Monday morning Precisely. And using Java et al is a discrimination against the mobility impaired. Not to mention the way it discriminates totally against people who can't afford, don't have, morally object to, are too old to learn to use, computers. Sure,

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:56:19AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: At 18:51 09/06/01 +0100, you wrote: Monday morning Precisely. And using Java et al is a discrimination against the mobility impaired. Not to mention the way it discriminates totally against people who can't afford,

Re: Default library paths

2001-06-11 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:40:38PM +0100, Matthew Robinson wrote: Apologies in advance if I have missed something blindingly obvious :) I need to change the default library paths in a compiled copy of perl. Basically, I want to move /usr/lib/perl5 into /usr/local/lib/perl5. I am unable to

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Robert Shiels
From: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not to mention the way it discriminates totally against people who can't afford, don't have, morally object to, are too old to learn to use, computers. How come. It's an alternative to, not a replacement for, the usual paper based forms; isn't it?

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Mison
On 08/06/2001 at 12:30 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: ... and some not so pretty pictures. http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/london.pm/2001-06-07/ Bah. Too many of me. And not enough of you here: http://husk.org/perl/pics/ Warning: dislike of flash may lead to fuzzyness and light trails. -- ::

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Piers Cawley
Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 08/06/2001 at 12:30 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: ... and some not so pretty pictures. http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/london.pm/2001-06-07/ Bah. Too many of me. And not enough of you here: http://husk.org/perl/pics/ Warning: dislike of flash

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:19:21AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:56:19AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: I haven't looked at the certificate issue, but most of the things I've read so far state that it's only a problem because they've made it a problem by using

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Lucy McWilliam
http://husk.org/perl/pics/ Warning: dislike of flash may lead to fuzzyness and light trails. Very artistic. I think your camera was drunk (thank $deity - I don't get on with them sober). Nice to meet you all. I'll be ba-ack. L. I love the smell of fruit flies in the morning.

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Mison
On 11/06/2001 at 11:10 +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://husk.org/perl/pics/ http://www.well.com/user/pdcawley/misc_images/ But I may be biased. Nah, they are nice. But you've been selective, I'm assuming (unless you've just taken seven photos in your

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Piers Cawley
Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/06/2001 at 11:10 +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://husk.org/perl/pics/ http://www.well.com/user/pdcawley/misc_images/ But I may be biased. Nah, they are nice. But you've been selective, Of course,

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Ian Brayshaw
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not very perlish I'm afraid. a) I'm sure that will change in time (any camel shots?). b) That makes it an appropriate topic for this list. Ian _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Mison
On 11/06/2001 at 12:46 +0100, Ian Brayshaw wrote: Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not very perlish I'm afraid. a) I'm sure that will change in time (any camel shots?). http://husk.org/lndn/circ/compat/DSCF0102.jpg See, the advantages of posting everything. -- :: paul :: 'aggressive is

Re: Religion

2001-06-11 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:44:40PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: Which reminds me of something I read in the PuTTY FAQ: Question: Would you like me to register you a snappier domain name? The PuTTY web page is hard to find. Answer: No,

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Tony Bowden
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:23:26PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: Just thinking about why they are your favourites and what you did to make the image will improve your general photography. Certainly my contacts sheets have got generally better as I've taken more photographs and gone through the

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Leon Brocard
Piers Cawley sent the following bits through the ether: Unlikely. http://www.iterative-software.com/~pdcawley/acme.png is vaguely perlish though. Taking pictures of me when I've a) not slept much b) was tired anyway c) at morning when I haven't had a shower probably isn't going to produce the

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan Peterson
At 13:01 11/06/01 +0100, you wrote: Unlikely. http://www.iterative-software.com/~pdcawley/acme.png is vaguely perlish though. Hey, that's a good photo. It's Leontastic. -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl CGI For The World Wide Web

2001-06-11 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Dave Cross wrote: Remember the discussion some months ago about what a horrible book this was? Well, I've been exchanging emails with the author since slagging her off big-time on Amazon. Somehow I've managed to make her thing that my input is useful and I've just

Re: Perl CGI For The World Wide Web

2001-06-11 Thread Dan Packer
I consider this a massive improvement. The mere fact that Perl and CGI are actually differentiated in the title is a marvel in and of itself. Thank God for small miracles. Daniel Packer

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On 11 Jun 2001, Piers Cawley wrote: http://www.iterative-software.com/~pdcawley/acme.png is vaguely perlish though. Scary (no offense) L. I would say it's a 'fruit knife' but it's not big and it's not cleaver.

Re: [Possible Job] Perl, Linux

2001-06-11 Thread Philip Newton
Piers Cawley wrote: I don't know about you, but I'm *definitely* fat. 4XL, innit? (Remembering you at yapc::Europe:19100 at the T-shirt stand, wondering whether even to bother looking at them.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Piers Cawley
Tony Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:23:26PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: Just thinking about why they are your favourites and what you did to make the image will improve your general photography. Certainly my contacts sheets have got generally better as I've

Re: [Possible Job] Perl, Linux

2001-06-11 Thread Piers Cawley
Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Piers Cawley wrote: I don't know about you, but I'm *definitely* fat. 4XL, innit? (Remembering you at yapc::Europe:19100 at the T-shirt stand, wondering whether even to bother looking at them.) 4XL Tall acksherly. -- Piers Cawley

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote: At 13:01 11/06/01 +0100, you wrote: Unlikely. http://www.iterative-software.com/~pdcawley/acme.png is vaguely perlish though. Hey, that's a good photo. It's Leontastic. No Red eyes, not sitting in front of a picture of well known nazi leader

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-11 Thread Philip Newton
Greg McCarroll wrote: * Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: AFAIK Samba implements the SMB protocol, which is the native resource (file, printer, ...) sharing protocol of Windows. So if you have Windows, you've already got an SMB client and server running. for the same reasons

buffy and evil vampire

2001-06-11 Thread Dave Thorn
ok, I can't imagine this hasn't been posted here, but it doesn't show in my archives, so: http://buffy.slayers.co.uk/ShowStrip.asp?CS=1 -- dave thorn | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Philip Newton
Piers Cawley wrote: http://www.iterative-software.com/~pdcawley/acme.png For some reason, that reminded me of tchrist, especially the region around the mouth and chin. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-11 Thread Philip Newton
Leon Brocard wrote: Registration might happen pretty soon too. Ooh, goody. People at work (who fortunately will be paying for me to go to yapc::Europe again this year) have said they'll want to start to get down details. Probably better to book hotel, travel, etc. *after* I register for the

RE: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Matthew Jones
For some reason, that reminded me of tchrist, especially the ---^^^ Is that Northern for Jesus? -- matt | only a wardrobe away

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Philip Newton
[Hey, where did your attributions go? Mailer-daemon ate them?] Matthew Jones wrote: For some reason, that reminded me of tchrist, especially the ---^^^ Is that Northern for Jesus? What's Northern? Northern English? Anyway, it's Unix-login-ese for

Where's my bloody gun?

2001-06-11 Thread john . hearns
I guess it's old news to you all, but there's a notice on http://search.cpan.org to the effect that it has been hacked. I use this a lot. What IS the mentality of idiots who attack community sites like this? Where's my bloody gun

[fwd] Fwd: [Gllug] Geeknic - 17th June

2001-06-11 Thread Neil Ford
- Forwarded message from Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:24:11 +0100 From: Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Squack Shaque [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: [Gllug] Geeknic - 17th June Fowarded with permission. Please rdist widely Gordo From: [EMAIL

Books

2001-06-11 Thread David Cantrell
I'm having a clear-out of my bookshelves, and wonder if any of you lot want any of the following: Programming Perl (2nd ed) Learning Perl (1st ed) Photoshop in a nutshell and the less relevant ones: Amiga Workbench, and A500+ manual Autocad 12 for beginners Starting MS-DOS Assembler DataEase

RE: Where's my bloody gun?

2001-06-11 Thread Rob Bresner
t'was probly a Python maniac. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 3:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Where's my bloody gun? I guess it's old news to you all, but there's a notice on http://search.cpan.org

Re: Where's my bloody gun?

2001-06-11 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh I forgot to mention: Where's my bloody gun you haven't got one any more, the government decided they were just too dangerous for you to play with. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint

Re: Where's my bloody gun?

2001-06-11 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it's old news to you all, but there's a notice on http://search.cpan.org to the effect that it has been hacked. I use this a lot. What IS the mentality of idiots who attack community sites like this? maybe it was just a script kiddie

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Chris Benson
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:26:39AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: (If I understand the current requirements, you have to buy MacOS (from Apple) or Windows (from Microsoft) to run your free (no cost) browser) IIUIC IE on MacOS lets you look at the site, but you can't do anything useful due to

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Chris Benson
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:26:39AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: (If I understand the current requirements, you have to buy MacOS (from Apple) or Windows (from Microsoft) to run your free (no cost) browser) Looking at open.gov.uk, there is mention of the move to ukonline.gov.uk but no mention

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Chris Benson wrote: Didn't ukonline.co.uk complain about trademark infringement a while back? Is gateway.gov.uk the result? and is there any possible trademark confusion with this address? ring ring 'hello .. is that the government? .. oh good. I'd like to complain

Re: Default library paths

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:25:32AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: You're very probably stuck. Whilst you can use a hex editor to change strings in the binary, you can't expand the length of those strings, only contract them or retain the same length. However, a solution would be to change

downloady filenames

2001-06-11 Thread Robin Szemeti
ISTR somebody explaing the magic incantations you could put after Content-type: text/some-funny-application in order for the browser to try and save it as 'something.xyz' instead of 'scriptname.pl' .. enlighten me please as I have flushed my archive and lost it. -- Robin Szemeti