Re: mmm ... toys ..
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:59:18AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: mmm .. by some dint of fate I appear to be the proud owner of a rather nice new Dell laptop. Bit slow ( 850mhz P3 ) and 128 mb of ram is hardly enough to run Vi in is it .. a poxy 32Gb hard disc means I'll probably run out of space soon too. (thinks .. this is considerably more powerful than my workstation .. h..) Sounds acceptable to me, I'll have it if you don't want it. Alternatively if anyone has one of the titanium macs going spare? all I need to do now is partition magic it and install Linux ... does anyone know if fips.exe can resize partitons without hoovering the lot ?? or shuold I get partition magic anyway ? I've found gnu parted to be good - should be able to get it on a linux boot disk somewhere. jp
Re: mmm ... toys ..
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:59:18AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: mmm .. by some dint of fate I appear to be the proud owner of a rather nice new Dell laptop. Bit slow ( 850mhz P3 ) and 128 mb of ram is hardly enough to run Vi in is it .. a poxy 32Gb hard disc means I'll probably run out of space soon too. (thinks .. this is considerably more powerful than my workstation .. h..) *grin* the best bit is the video card .. 32mb ATI Mobility .. runs two monitors in 1400 * 1050 high colour .. and you can move between one and the other (just like you;ve been able to do on Macs since the years dot.) .. the 15in 1400*1050 screen is good too and seems to allow a decent viewing angle instead of the usual 5 degrees or so. I have an ATI Mobility M1 in my laptop, too (Vaio z600tek). You'll be glad to know that it's supported under XFree86. The bad news is that 3d acceleration isn't supported (and I don't know whether it's likely to be), so leave a winders partition lying around if you want to play games. all I need to do now is partition magic it and install Linux ... does anyone know if fips.exe can resize partitons without hoovering the lot ?? or shuold I get partition magic anyway ? Fips should be able to. All it does is shrink your FAT partition (NTFS need not apply). When looking at the partition table, also, don't change the 4th partition towards the end of the disk, if there is one. It's the suspend to disk partition (can't remember what id it is, sorry :-( ) -Dom
Re: mmm ... toys ..
James Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:59:18AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: mmm .. by some dint of fate I appear to be the proud owner of a rather nice new Dell laptop. Bit slow ( 850mhz P3 ) and 128 mb of ram is hardly enough to run Vi in is it .. a poxy 32Gb hard disc means I'll probably run out of space soon too. (thinks .. this is considerably more powerful than my workstation .. h..) Sounds acceptable to me, I'll have it if you don't want it. Alternatively if anyone has one of the titanium macs going spare? Mmm neeed... -- Piers
Re: mmm ... toys ..
- Original Message - From: "James Powell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2001 09:41 Subject: Re: mmm ... toys .. Alternatively if anyone has one of the titanium macs going spare? I have an original bondi-blue iMac, running MACOS9 at the moment, with 32Mb RAM. I was in an Apple shop at the weekend and found that a 128Mb upgrade and OSX will only set me back about 200gbp. I was assured that all my OS9 applications will still work (my wife uses Clarisworks for WP, and the kids play their games), does anyone know if this is the case. And also, will I be able to install perl,apache,mysql and other *nix goodness on it too - I've never gotten to grips with macperl really. /Robert
RE: white wine
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Unfortunately, the lovely Italian wine I found in caffs throughout Naples back in November does not seem to be available over here at all. Why ship the good stuff to the ignorant Brits when they can keep it for themselves? Sounds like pretty good thinking to me. Which reminds me - when the Brits acquired a taste for lager rather than ale, why did we start drinking lager from every country in Europe except Germany, who are the only ones to actually make drinkable stuff?
Re: Job: I'm looking for one..
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roger Burton West wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:19:12PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: Just to let you all know I'm on the market again. Me too. er.. and me. Ah. The DotCom Apocalypse :) /J\
RE: Job: I'm looking for one..
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:19:12PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: Just to let you all know I'm on the market again. Me too. er.. and me. Ah. The DotCom Apocalypse :) Rumour has it that many people are bringing tech in house, which is hitting conslutancies and agencies harder. I'm still not convinced that there's a major downturn in the total number of tech jobs.
Re: upgrade fund
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:41:50PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: Usually when people talk about servers with 600 gigabytes of data its fair to assume that their will be a considerable load on them, clearly thats not the case here .. so I'm sure IDE will be just fine. 500Gb - RAID-5 means I have to 'waste' a drive. I know, half a terabyte seems a little silly for personal use, but I've probably got tenth of that already in divxs, aiffs (I'm a location sound recordist as well, and I archive *everything*), mp3s ... and that's excluding the archive of ISO9660 images that I've downloaded or created myself. Pity, I know of some very nice rack mount RAID solutions with fibrechannel architecture and up to a terrabyte in 3U ... sure you can;t be tempted ? ;) I can be *tempted* but I doubt the bank account would stand it. sigh if only it was someone elses money ... -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature
Re: Job: I'm looking for one..
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Rumour has it that many people are bringing tech in house, which is hitting conslutancies and agencies harder. I'm still not convinced that there's a major downturn in the total number of tech jobs. i also think there is still room for sensible consultancies and contracting. i think the 1000 quid a day for web development companies will have a major problem however. and tech sector jobs / spending isnt on the decrease yet, its the rate of increase that has slowed down - this allows people more time to breath and do recruitment / development sensibly at cebit, BT devices crashed and burned - why? they had been rushed out. BT is essentially a good technology if done right, the same is true for web sites, the industry just needs to slow its self down profits need to be had before you double the size of your development force and once the rate of change in the industry comes under control, the market will be even more sucessful (however individuals may not) -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Job: I'm looking for one..
At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:08:04 +0100, Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: at cebit, BT devices crashed and burned - why? they had been rushed out. BT is essentially a good technology if done right, the same is true for web sites, the industry just needs to slow its self down 'BT' eq 'Bluetooth' 'BT' ne 'BT' For those who misparsed that the way I did when I first read it :) Dave...
RE: Job: I'm looking for one..
At 10:31 27/03/2001 +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Rumour has it that many people are bringing tech in house, which is hitting conslutancies and agencies harder. I'm still not convinced that there's a major downturn in the total number of tech jobs. That's exactly what we're doing. I have a full development program for the foreseeable future and we've decided to bring it in house. We will still use external resources for really tricky bits that we don't have the knowledge for. My experience is that I get better performance out of people with a vested interest in the company and what we're doing than from any outside agency who, for all their protestations and claims of "partnerships", are still there to make a profit. That's not to say it doesn't work (my company, Williams Lea, *is* an outsourcer) but when it's core to your business and changing fast, keeping it in house makes it easier to control cost and quality. plug type="vacancies" We are looking for two perl developers to work on intranet based systems integration and information/knowledge management projects. In addition to all the usual requirements, experience with Micro$oft tech (IIS/VB/MTS) will be an advantage as would exposure to systems integration. A "corporate tolerant" attitude is also required, to avoid upsetting all the poor people not doing cool web stuff around here (like the beancounters :) If you are interested, please let me know off-list. /plug Simon.
Re: Job: I'm looking for one..
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:08:04 +0100, Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: at cebit, BT devices crashed and burned - why? they had been rushed out. BT is essentially a good technology if done right, the same is true for web sites, the industry just needs to slow its self down 'BT' eq 'Bluetooth' 'BT' ne 'BT' For those who misparsed that the way I did when I first read it :) sorry force of habit -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: mmm ... toys ..
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:43:44AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: Fips should be able to. All it does is shrink your FAT partition (NTFS need not apply). When looking at the partition table, also, don't change the 4th partition towards the end of the disk, if there is one. It's the suspend to disk partition (can't remember what id it is, sorry :-( ) a0 IIRC, although some machines put it at the beginning of the disk, some at the end. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature
Re: white wine
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:22:27AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Unfortunately, the lovely Italian wine I found in caffs throughout Naples back in November does not seem to be available over here at all. Why ship the good stuff to the ignorant Brits when they can keep it for themselves? Sounds like pretty good thinking to me. Which reminds me - when the Brits acquired a taste for lager rather than ale, why did we start drinking lager from every country in Europe except Germany, who are the only ones to actually make drinkable stuff? Because we didn't acquire a taste for lager but rather had it shoved down our throats by marketroids who saw an opportunity to mass-produce fizzy crap instead of brewing properly. Anyway, Shurely you're forgetting about the Netherlands, Belgium and the Czech Republic, all of whom manufacture some fine lagers. -- David Cantrell | Doesn't Do Lager | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. PGP signature
Re: Job: I'm looking for one..
* Simon Wilcox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 10:31 27/03/2001 +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Rumour has it that many people are bringing tech in house, which is hitting conslutancies and agencies harder. I'm still not convinced that there's a major downturn in the total number of tech jobs. have the knowledge for. My experience is that I get better performance out of people with a vested interest in the company and what we're doing than from any outside agency who, for all their protestations and claims of "partnerships", are still there to make a profit. this is probably one of the worst things about being a contractor/ consultant - that you end up having this off and on love affair with a company, you care for it - but your almost pushed away by the realities of your relationship i currently love Symbian, i want to make them the best that they can be, but i've been here before with some other companies (eBookers, BBC, Interwoven) and know that its hard just to get fully comfortable greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Job: I'm looking for one..
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: ironically, a lot of .com problems could of been avoided and yet they still would of made the deadlines imposed by `internet time', if they had slowed down and used traditional business techniques such as cost/benefit analysis to prioritise functionality spam has a high cost/benefit ratio... :( taking a random site - lastminute.com spammers. i just went there, no their business model is essentially - sell stuff at the last minute, generally targetting people with disposable income and spamming. so i look at their site, they have chatroom functionality! why? why does a site selling this sort of thing need chatroom functionality? what is the benefit compared to its cost well, quite. So you can chat about how crap they are. And of course, because everyone else is doing it, so we have to too. :( MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) Knebel's Law: It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Re: originality
on 26/3/01 10:04 pm, Greg McCarroll wrote: The problem of course with London (London.pm?) is that every activity we can think of is drink related. Well we do have a river here ya know ;) Other ideas: taking over a London Eye pod hiring a room in the VA, Science Museum or Nat Hist Museum Sunday morning Perl advocacy at Speaker's Corner Walking round London with a PERL SALE board i'll get me coat c. -- every day, computers are making people easier to use http://www.unorthodoxstyles.com
Re: Job: I'm looking for one..
* Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: ironically, a lot of .com problems could of been avoided and yet they still would of made the deadlines imposed by `internet time', if they had slowed down and used traditional business techniques such as cost/benefit analysis to prioritise functionality spam has a high cost/benefit ratio... :( i dont really have a problem with spam, i think its just a symtom of the general problem of immature (from a functionality not technical implementation perspective) messaging/information systems -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
RE: originality
taking over a London Eye pod Did this on Friday. Not worth the money. Especially in the fog. hiring a room in the VA, Science Museum or Nat Hist Museum If you could get a private view (so to speak) of the difference engine or the BABY stuff they are doing in the Sci museum, that would be cool. Sunday morning Perl advocacy at Speaker's Corner LoL that would rock, but only if we do it in fire-brand preacher style with badly painted boards saying "Many are tempted by Java but all can be saved if they take Perl into their businesses" and "Sun says 'Only Java can deliver enterprise class solutions' but those who hear the word of Wall know 'There is more than one way to do it'". Walking round London with a PERL SALE board Or a P is my B board? [duck]
Re: originality
At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:41:05 +0100, Chris Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sunday morning Perl advocacy at Speaker's Corner This _really_ should happen. Dave...
RE: originality
This _really_ should happen. Can we get some O'Reily collateral to hand out to the congregation?
Re: white wine
At 00:07 27/03/2001, you wrote: * Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ooh good. I got one of them for Christmas and still haven't gotten around to drinking it. Not sure I'll like it though, because Italian reds tend to be very thin, and I like chewy wines. We'll see. I don't want to sound like a twat, but it may be too late already so here goes, one of the things i hate about going out to a italian restaurant is the wine. Nonsense. You just order the most expensive Barolo on the wine list. Dave... [Who doesn't understand this fascination with white wine - nasty stuff] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mag-sol.com Data Munging with Perl http://www.manning.com/cross/
Re: originality
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:41:05 +0100, Chris Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sunday morning Perl advocacy at Speaker's Corner This _really_ should happen. well then, lets store it up - next time we get a visitor whos up for it, we will do it, then retire to somewhere for sunday lunch. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Mac OS X (was Re: mmm ... toys ..)
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:41:17AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mysql has been ported to OSX. You can find it at http://www-u.life.uiuc.edu/~mwvaugh/MacOSX/Packages/ I was playing with it for a while and it seems fairly stable. The only real problem I had was installing DBD::mysql which couldn't find libraries etc. Finally I found a guide at http://invictus.usask.ca/macosx/ and everything went hunkdory. Well that's my first post out the way, I'm going to go and hide again now. Steve You should be ashamed sir, a first post that was vaguely on topic and helpful into the bargain. What are things coming too :-) Thanks for the info btw - most useful. Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: originality
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:41:05 +0100, Chris Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sunday morning Perl advocacy at Speaker's Corner
This _really_ should happen.
well then, lets store it up - next time we get a visitor whos up for
it, we will do it, then retire to somewhere for sunday lunch.
Okay, may I suggest the summer?
Later.
Mark.
--
print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology Developer' ,
Firm = 'Profero Ltd',Web = 'http://www.profero.com/' ,
Email = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Phone = '+44 (0) 20 7700 9960' )
Re: white wine
From: "Dave Cross" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't want to sound like a twat, but it may be too late already so here goes, one of the things i hate about going out to a italian restaurant is the wine. Nonsense. You just order the most expensive Barolo on the wine list. homer mmm Barolo /homer Dave... [Who doesn't understand this fascination with white wine - nasty stuff] I'm with you there... /Robert
Buffycode (was Re: That book)
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: The other possibility, I guess, given that it's london.pm is to make it relate to buffy in some way :) That reminds me of an idea I had this morning on the way to work -- encode text using "Buffy" with uppercase and lowercase letters: uppercase letters stand for "0" bits and lowercase letters for "1" bits. (Or, if you prefer, bit 5 / 2**5 / 32 of each character represents the bit to be encoded.) Then you just have to chop the message into 5-bit chunks (adding 0 bits at the end if needed to pad to a 5-bit boundary) and translate. "London.pm"[1], in this method, turns into "BuFFy bUFFy bUffy bUffY bufFY buFFy BUFfy Buffy BufFy buFFY bUffy BUffy BUFFY buFfy BuFFY". See? Bears no resemblance to "London.pm" at all; all spies' attempts at figuring out the true meaning will be thwarted! Alernatively, there's the "beer" code, which has the advantage of mapping 4 bits handily to one nybble; "London.pm" then turns into "BeER beER BeeR beer BeeR beeR BeeR BeER BeeR beer BeeR beeR BEeR beeR Beer BEER BeeR beEr". Cheers, Philip [1] "London.pm" = 4c 6f 6e 64 6f 6e 2e 70 6d hex, or 01001100 0110 01101110 01100100 0110 01101110 00101110 0111 01101101 binary, or 01001 10001 10111 10110 11100 11001 00011 0 01101 11000 10111 00111 0 11011 01+000 in 5-bit groups -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.
Paul Makepeace wrote: The world would be a much better place if everyone habitually quoted their phone number +access_code area_code local_number. You don't realise how important this is 'til you have to repeatedly find people in various desolate stations dotted all over the world with scant, unlabelled, and usually too few, digits culled from a unkempt LDAP directory... C Paul S Makepeace, +1 831 238 0902 Still not enough. It'll work for the Americans (yet again...)[1] but if you have a phone number whose country codes identifies it as being in country X, and you are in country X on a business trip and want to call that person, leaving off the country code is, in general, not enough. In Germany and England, you have to add a 0 (e.g. +49-40-76470386 turns into (040) 76470386), but in other places, that might be a 9 -- or something else. If you're not familiar with the country, you may not know what to add. Cheers, Philip [1] Though, strictly speaking, I think America requires you to add "1" at the beginning; though it's not part of the area/STD code as the 0 is in England and Germany, I think most places require it to show you're dialling a long-distance call. -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Re: Buffycode (was Re: That book)
At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:39:34 +0200, Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: The other possibility, I guess, given that it's london.pm is to make it relate to buffy in some way :) That reminds me of an idea I had this morning on the way to work -- encode text using "Buffy" with uppercase and lowercase letters: uppercase letters stand for "0" bits and lowercase letters for "1" bits. (Or, if you prefer, bit 5 / 2**5 / 32 of each character represents the bit to be encoded.) Then you just have to chop the message into 5-bit chunks (adding 0 bits at the end if needed to pad to a 5-bit boundary) and translate. I'm pretty sure I've seen something like this before. You encode text using the word 'moo'. I think it used upper and lower case 'o' and also a zero. I'm sure there was a web page somewhere that converted text to and from 'moo's. Or maybe I dreamt it. Dave...
Helping Less... er... Able... Programmers
I've developed this weird habit of hanging around places where less
able Perl programmers congregate and trying to distribute clues.
The latest place I've found is the BBS for readers of Liz Castro's
book. It certainly gives you some perspective[1] on her target
audience.
Here's an example response to a question (the question used
for (;;;) loops:
=
Erm, My eyes keep darting to your FOR loops. For is mainly used in javascript, and
perl doesnt handle them, mainly because of the semicolons used to split the
operations. Instead of for, use foreach, because thats close to the perl equivalent of
for. I'm not sure exactly what that would translate to into perl, but if you want to
do something in a foreach loop, it would look like
foreach $ArrayItemYouNeedToChange (@TheArray) {
#do this
}
Remember, for loops are for JS, not perl. You cant use semicolons in perl, unless
theyre before a carriage return.
=
I particularly like the last bit about where it's legal to use
semicolons in Perl.
When the original poster pointed out that there were for loops in
Castro's book, he got the response:
=
Hrm. I Dont really know. Email xxx@xxx Thats VulKen's email. He's the only one on this
board thats better than me, except Liz.
=
A couple of days ago I suggested that the CGI::param function was
better than someone's homegrown CGI parser (radical notion, I know!)
and got this response:
=
Problem with the param() is securityusers can enter malicious things that'll cause
havoc...which isnt very good at all really :)
=
I've asked for further clarification, but none has been forthcoming.
Anyway, I didn't want to keep this delight to myself. If anyone wants
to join in my fun, the board is at:
http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl
Share Enjoy,
Dave...
[1] "Yeah, too _much_ fuckin' perspective" - name that film.
Re: Helping Less... er... Able... Programmers
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: I've developed this weird habit of hanging around places where less able Perl programmers congregate and trying to distribute clues. You've also developed the bad habit of referring to them as "programmers". The latest place I've found is the BBS for readers of Liz Castro's book. It certainly gives you some perspective[1] on her target audience. Yeah /me read it and now wants to run away fast, though it is quite amusing... Anyway, I didn't want to keep this delight to myself. If anyone wants to join in my fun, the board is at: http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl Haven't got the time to do my standard flamey stuff, and my asbestos suit is looking a little worn at the moment... :) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) Knebel's Law: It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Re: Not Matt's Scripts
Dave Cross wrote: At Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:21:52 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyhow what are we going to do about the 'C++' ones :) Ignore them. Pretend they aren't there :) You misspelled "Rewrite them in Perl". HTH. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Re: Not Matt's Scripts
Mark Fowler wrote: 1) Is POSIX.pm a standard module I believe it is, but the functionality might not be the same everywhere -- I think it just gives you as much as the platform itself provides. However, strftime so basic I'd guess any vaguely ANSI-/POSIX-compliant C library should have it. (and how do I work this out for myself) Er, download the Perl source and see if it's in there? and supported on all O.S.es so I don't have to rewrite strftime. If you have a POSIX compliant compiler/C library, it should be there. I'd say most are, nowadays. (Certainly now that Perl *requires* an ANSI C compiler to build.) 2) How do I get strftime to produce th/st/nd for the date? I can't see it on man strftime, but I might just be going blind. I don't think you can. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Re: Not Matt's Scripts
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: 1) Is POSIX.pm a standard module (and how do I work this out for myself) and supported on all O.S.es so I don't have to rewrite strftime. Its definitely in the 5.00404 on one of the machines here so I would that it could be said to be standard. Anyhow I'm using it somewhere so it should be :) /J\
Re: Helping Less... er... Able... Programmers
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: Anyway, I didn't want to keep this delight to myself. If anyone wants to join in my fun, the board is at: http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl Share Enjoy, Must .. Control .. The .. Keyboard .. Of .. Fire /J\
Re: Not Matt's Scripts
From: "Robin Houston" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 March 2001 14:59
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:08:11PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
2) How do I get strftime to produce th/st/nd for the date? I can't see
it
on man strftime, but I might just be going blind.
use POSIX 'strftime';
my @th=(qw(th st nd rd),("th")x16)x2; $th[31]="st";
my @time=localtime;
print strftime("%e$th[$time[3]] %b %Y\n", @time);
%e seems to be Linux specific. %d works on both Linux and Windows.
/Robert, possibly making his first perl contribution to the list!
Re: Perl Training Courses
Mark Fowler wrote: b) This is how to get objects from CPAN, these are a few critical classes that you need to know about. E.g. this is Data::Dumper, it's fscking useful. LWP::Simple is your friend. Etc, etc. Something of a quick tour. LWP::Simple is a good example, since if you're downloading .tar.gz's, you'll want not LWP-Simple-1.23.tar.gz but rather libwww-perl-4.5678.tar.gz (or something like that), which may not be immediately obvious. Similarly with Net-SMTP-1.23.tar.gz, which is actually in libnet-4.56.tar.gz. (Don't know whether CPAN.pm knows this for you. It may.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Re: Perl Training Courses
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Philip Newton wrote: (Don't know whether CPAN.pm knows this for you. It may.) Yes, it does. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) Knebel's Law: It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Re: Not Matt's Scripts
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:14:22PM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: %e seems to be Linux specific. %d works on both Linux and Windows. Not Linux-specific, it's part of the Single Unix Specification. Point taken about Win32. .robin. -- select replace(a, CHR(88), replace(a,,'')) from ( select 'select replace(a, CHR(88), replace(a,,)) from ( select ''X'' a from dual)' a from dual)
Re: Not Matt's Scripts
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:29:57PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
my @th=(qw(th st nd rd),("th")x16)x2; $th[31]="st";
That's an evil and gross hack.
sub th{(($_[0]-10-$_[0]%10)/10%10)?(qw(th st nd rd),('th')x6)[$_[0]%10]:"th"}
TIMTOWTDI, thank ghod ;-)
.robin.
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"It really depends on the architraves." --Harl
Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts
At 13:29 27/03/2001 +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
my @th=(qw(th st nd rd),("th")x16)x2; $th[31]="st";
That's an evil and gross hack.
[snip]
sub th{(($_[0]-10-$_[0]%10)/10%10)?(qw(th st nd rd),('th')x6)[$_[0]%10]:"th"}
The first one I understood. Not sure about the second but I'll work it out ;-)
I thought I would play around with Benchmark.pm, because I don't use it
nearly often enough, so I made this script:
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Benchmark;
use POSIX 'strftime';
use vars qw(@th);
@th=(qw(th st nd rd),("th")x16)x2; $th[31]="st";
sub th{(($_[0]-10-$_[0]%10)/10%10)?(qw(th st nd rd),('th')x6)[$_[0]%10]:"th"}
my $count=10;
timethese($count, {
'Array' = '{
my @time=localtime;
my $dummy = strftime("%e$th[$time[3]] %b %Y\n",
@time);
}',
'Sub' = '{
my @time=localtime;
my $th=th($time[3]);
my $dummy = strftime("%e$th %b %Y\n", @time);
}'
});
Now - I don't know if I've used this right at all - comments and criticisms
gladly accepted.
The output is:
Benchmark: timing 10 iterations of Array, Sub...
Array: 3 wallclock secs ( 3.33 usr + 0.09 sys = 3.42 CPU)
Sub: 6 wallclock secs ( 5.27 usr + 0.06 sys = 5.33 CPU)
So - Did I get this heinously wrong or is MBM's sub really a lot slower ?
Simon.
Re: Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts
Simon Wilcox wrote: So - Did I get this heinously wrong or is MBM's sub really a lot slower ? Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the array each time. To be fair, you should include the array initialisation inside the loop and see who wins then. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Re: Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:19:08PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote:
I thought I would play around with Benchmark.pm, because I don't use it
nearly often enough, so I made this script:
@th=(qw(th st nd rd),("th")x16)x2; $th[31]="st";
sub th{(($_[0]-10-$_[0]%10)/10%10)?(qw(th st nd rd),('th')x6)[$_[0]%10]:"th"}
Benchmark: timing 10 iterations of Array, Sub...
Array: 3 wallclock secs ( 3.33 usr + 0.09 sys = 3.42 CPU)
Sub: 6 wallclock secs ( 5.27 usr + 0.06 sys = 5.33 CPU)
So - Did I get this heinously wrong or is MBM's sub really a lot slower ?
No, you got it right. You would expect the sub version to be slower, as it
has to make a subroutine call and do some calculations every time, whereas
the array version pre-calculates everything and then just does a tonne of
comparitively inexpensive array lookups.
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Re: Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:40:19PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the array each time. To be fair, you should include the array initialisation inside the loop and see who wins then. Hey, that's not _fair_! The whole point of using an array is that you can pre-populate it. (also it's more concise, and I find it more comprehensible. YMMV) .robin. -- Beware. The paranoids are watching you.
Re: Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts
At 16:53 27/03/2001 +0100, Robin Houston wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:40:19PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the array each time. To be fair, you should include the array initialisation inside the loop and see who wins then. Hey, that's not _fair_! The whole point of using an array is that you can pre-populate it. (also it's more concise, and I find it more comprehensible. YMMV) I agree, it's how I would have done it. I was just trying to see it really deserved the label "evil and gross hack". It seems to me that it doesn't but as you say, YMMV and I got to practice my benchmarking :-) Simon.
four-argument select()s
Some of you will have seen me posting in #london.pm asking about the
four-arg form of select(). Some other people confessed ignorance too.
I eventually figgered it out by gratuitously copying and pasting from
POE::Kernel and then poking it to see how it broke :-) For anyone who's
interested, here's a very simple bit of code which listens on three
sockets and as soon as you tickle one of them it dies telling you which
one it was.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use IO::Socket;
my %ports=( # Associate some understandable names with socket numbers
test1 = 21000,
test2 = 21001,
test3 = 21002
);
my %sockets=(); # IO::Sockets will go here, with the same keys as above
foreach my $port (keys %ports) { # create the IO::Sockets
$sockets{$port}=IO::Socket::INET-new(
Listen= 5,
LocalPort = $ports{$port},
Proto = 'tcp'
);
}
while(1) { waitForConnections(); }# wait for summat to happen
sub waitForConnections {
print "Waiting for connection ...\n";
my $rin=fhbits(values %sockets); # get bit-mask
my $hits=select(
$rin,
undef, undef, # I'm only intersted in sockets becoming readable
10# Timeout
);
if($hits != -1) { # If select found something ...
# compare bitmask with file descriptors for each socket,
# and snarf any that have become readable
my @sockets=grep {
vec($rin, fileno($sockets{$_}),1)
} keys %sockets;
die(join("\n", @sockets)); # shout it to the world
}
}
sub fhbits { # calculate bitmask of all
my @fhlist=@_; # IO::Handles passed as
my $bits=0; # arguments
for (@fhlist) { vec($bits, fileno($_), 1)=1; }
$bits;
}
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Re: mmm ... toys ..
At 10:15 AM 27.3.2001 +0100, Robert Sheils wrote: I have an original bondi-blue iMac, running MACOS9 at the moment, with 32Mb RAM. I was in an Apple shop at the weekend and found that a 128Mb upgrade and OSX will only set me back about 200gbp. I was assured that all my OS9 applications will still work (my wife uses Clarisworks for WP, and the kids play their games), does anyone know if this is the case. I've got about the same setup, but with 64 mb. It's really slow for me, though not as bad as the public beta was. Running it with 128 or more would definitely be adviseable. I haven't yet noticed any problems (mainly because Classic brings everything to a creeping halt with 64 mb of ram, so I'm avoiding it as much as possible), but as I've mentioned on (void), I keep hearing complaints about some applications not playing nicely, particularly with regard to the way OSX/Mach manages memory -- i.e. apps that only worked on OS9 when you disabled virtual memory don't work now because OSX doesn't seem to let you mess around with memory settings. Aside from that though, I'm not having any trouble with it. And also, will I be able to install perl,apache,mysql and other *nix goodness on it too - I've never gotten to grips with macperl really. Comes preinstalled with, among others, Apache, Java, OpenSSL, Perl, PHP, TCL, tcsh (and sh, csh, zsh), etc. I'm booted into OS9 at the moment, so I can't browse the various */bin directories, but it comes with a pretty standard unixy toolkit (except for ssh). I thought I saw something about PostgreSQL being installed, but I may be imagining it now. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.
At 01:44 PM 27.3.2001 +0200, you wrote: I think America requires you to add "1" at the beginning; though it's not part of the area/STD code as the 0 is in England and Germany, I think most places require it to show you're dialling a long-distance call. Correct. Standard format is an implicit 1, a three digit area code, a three digit local code and a four digit extension. The local code extension are always mandatory, so effectively phone numbers are 7 digits long -- the local code is just useful to give a rough idea where the number may be base (but then with cell phones it's meaningless, so the original purpose, already diluted, is disappearing). We're burning through phone numbers very very quickly, to the point that new area codes are being added all the time and as a result people's phone numbers are changing all the time. To control the hemmoraging, some areas are going to full ten digit phone numbers; we'll see how much it helps. In any event, the leading 1 is never part of the phone number, but you always have to dial it whenever making a "long distance" call. This used to mean anything beyond a certain distance from your local calling area /or anything outside of your area code, but with 10 digit numbers you'll probably just have to put it in front of about every number dialled, thus giving everyone in the country an 11 digit phone number. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mmm ... toys ..
From: "Chris Devers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 10:15 AM 27.3.2001 +0100, Robert Sheils wrote: I have an original bondi-blue iMac, running MACOS9 at the moment, with 32Mb RAM. I was in an Apple shop at the weekend and found that a 128Mb upgrade and OSX will only set me back about 200gbp. I was assured that all my OS9 applications will still work (my wife uses Clarisworks for WP, and the kids play their games), does anyone know if this is the case. I've got about the same setup, but with 64 mb. It's really slow for me, though not as bad as the public beta was. Running it with 128 or more would definitely be adviseable. Thanks for everyone's advice on this, as an inveterate bit-fiddler, I will probably go for the whole package just so I can play with everything. My family can just boot it into OS9 for their stuff. One more thing, is my 4Gb drive enough... /Robert
Re: Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Simon Wilcox wrote: At 16:53 27/03/2001 +0100, Robin Houston wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:40:19PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the array each time. To be fair, you should include the array initialisation inside the loop and see who wins then. Hey, that's not _fair_! The whole point of using an array is that you can pre-populate it. (also it's more concise, and I find it more comprehensible. YMMV) I agree, it's how I would have done it. I was just trying to see it really deserved the label "evil and gross hack". Because it was only meant to deal with things up to 31, if you try and (for some reason) try to put 32 in, you would get 32th (because it has populated the array). I don't like that kind of thing. It's a personal choice. I think the bit I objected to most was the $th[31]="st" bit. I shouldn't have put it like that, but as Robin says, TIMTOWTDI,so yeah. It seems to me that it doesn't but as you say, YMMV and I got to practice my benchmarking :-) :) I did expect it to be slower, it also copes with any number. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) Knebel's Law: It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Re: white wine
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:09:21PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: /me only drinks belgian beers/lagers.. or ales/bitter esp not any of that american crap. Ahem. There are some fine american beers. You probably just don't see them over there (lord knows they're hard enough to find here...) dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ tastes filling! less great! - ignatz in #perl
Re: Buffycode (was Re: That book)
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:07:44PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: agreed, this is just f*cking crazy, sorry for the swearing, but this is the craziest thing i've seen this year What, no CiP rating??? dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Just Install Perl. - Chris Nandor
Re: four-argument select()s
An entity claiming to be Robin Houston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : IO::Select will take the pain away. : use IO::Select; : However, when you start to throw signals, timers, and other nastiness into the mix, I have found Event.pm to be terribly useful. Mark -- [] | "Girls in occupied countries always [] Mark Rogaski | get into trouble with soldiers," she [] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | said, when I asked her what the Virgin [] | birth was. -- Florence King, CoaFSL PGP signature
Re: Buffycode (was Re: That book)
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: agreed, this is just f*cking crazy, sorry for the swearing, but this is the craziest thing i've seen this year I wouldnt get too carried away after all its only march :) /J\
Fwd: Sheffield LUG: Linux 2.4 kernel meeting
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Re: white wine
DavidC: According to the critics, it is 'acceptable if not great' but fuck it, *I* liked it. Remember a lot of wine suffers from the holiday effect, and doesn't seem quite as nice on a wet blustery Thursday night. Lachryma Christi del Vesuvio, in case anyone is interested. Ah, I have heard of it (my Italian knowledge is very limited), so I guess it wouldn't be too hard to come by. Of course, the Internet is crap for this sort of thing. RobinS: Also (being half Hungarian) am rather fond of Tokai .. 5 Putonyos of course. Quite a different taste to most other things. I haven't seen it mentioned, but a few weeks ago Tokai was in danger because of flooding - it was only an inch or two away from flooding the entire cellars :( Anyone know a decent London win merchant who stocks a good range of German or Austrian wines. Not just the desert wines, but the lighter ones too. I've only ever seen eiswine for sale in a small number of restaurants, usually at 10UKPS / glass + There's one that advertises in Wine magazine as a German specialist. I remember when I was hunting down mythical German Reds (in the end I went to Germany and bought some myself). Wine magazine is probably a good place to find Italian specialists as well. You can always hide it in a brown paper bag ;) c. (too young to really believe he's having this conversation)
Re: white wine
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:09:21PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote: DavidC: According to the critics, it is 'acceptable if not great' but fuck it, *I* liked it. Remember a lot of wine suffers from the holiday effect, and doesn't seem quite as nice on a wet blustery Thursday night. Ah no, the few bottles I did bring back with me were just as good as I remember. Particularly on a wet blustery Thursday night in Cornwall just before christmas, IIRC. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature
Re: Fwd: Sheffield LUG: Linux 2.4 kernel meeting
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:18:51PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Just in case any of our northerly lurkers are interested ... This northerly lurker thanks you. Of course Sheffield-Newcastle direct is via Virgin, the alternative is GNER to Doncaster. Neither of these seem particularly appealing! Sheffield Linux Users Group (ShefLUG) 1 pm Saturday 14th April 2001 finish at about 4 p.m. ShefLUG Venue: Blackwell's Bookshop West Street Sheffield S1 3ST for the location of Blackwell's bookshop see http://www.multimap.co.uk -- Chris Benson
Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:44:49PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: Still not enough. It'll work for the Americans (yet again...)[1] but if you have a phone number whose country codes identifies it as being in country X, and you are in country X on a business trip and want to call that person, leaving off the country code is, in general, not enough. In Germany and England, you have to add a 0 (e.g. +49-40-76470386 turns into (040) 76470386), but in other places, that might be a 9 -- or something else. If you're not familiar with the country, you may not know what to add. I'm assuming the user is intelligent enough to read a phone book or ask at the reception desk and learn how to make a national phone call... There is, IMO, no need to document the inner machinations of the local phone system in fully qualified phone numbers of the +X Y Z format. Besides, it looks ugly on business cards having +44 / (0) 117 924 ... :-) Paul
Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.
At 03:28 PM 27.3.2001 -0800, you wrote: With 10 digit dialling, it's 10 digit dialling, no extra '1' required. E.g. if I was in Houston (which has three area codes and is 10-digit) I would dial 713 555 1212 regardless of whether I was already in 713. Ahh. This explains why a cell phone works whether or not the leading 1 is included with the rest of the number. In fact, if the whole country went 10 digit, the need to use the '1' would even disappear. I thought it had a purpose as a sort of control character for the phone companies, with any number beginning with a 0 or 1 having special meaning. I guess that special meaning evaporates under 10 digit schemes... PS That single-\n paragraph formatting is evil, IMO. Yeah I know, I don't like it either. Blame Eudora... -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: white wine
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:31:00PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: then we get on to the 'wine so sweet you could stand a spoon up in it'. I am a complete sucker for anything from Sauternes, Lupiac, Pauliac, Graves, Monbazilac etc. and had a very nice Trochenbeerenauslese a You would enjoy the _Monsieur Pamplemousse_ detective series then. Paul
Re: Mac OS X (was Re: mmm ... toys ..)
I don't suppose anyone else chose 'root' as their primary account
name during install?
I did and am wondering if this is why my OS X installation is totally
hosed useless: I can't open folders in my (own!) Home (Insufficient
Privileges), all Applications in Finder appears as folders, all
non-Finder applications in the Dock are presented as folders and
not executable ("Can't find associated application to run this"-type
message). I can't get a terminal either (Apple-K then 127.0.0.1 didn't
work). And I find myself Capitalizing words all the time :-)
Paul
Re: Mac OS X (was Re: mmm ... toys ..)
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:11:13PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: I don't suppose anyone else chose 'root' as their primary account name during install? I did and am wondering if this is why my OS X installation is totally hosed useless: I can't open folders in my (own!) Home (Insufficient That would be it. Root on Mac OS X is a special user that by default isn't enabled and doesn't have a home directory, etc. You probably need to re-install and choose a normal user name. This user will be set up as an administrator and have pretty good access rights. For easy access you can do 'sudo tcsh' or if you want to enable root via Applications|Utilities|NetInfo - it's a menu option. Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED]
