Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Marcel Grunauer
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:56:28PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote: nowhere we might be tempted to sit by the thames till the wee small hours generating tremendous hangovers :) "sit"? IIRC, you tried to lean against a bench but unfortunately were standing between two benches, landing on the

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Simon Wistow
Dave Cross wrote: I understood that you had delegated the actual work to someone else. Can you ensure that your vice-chair is able to speak in your place. Umm. Ok. Somebody give me the designs and I'll get them printed. Talk over. Or am I missing something?

RE: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 9:17 AM Dave Cross wrote: I understood that you had delegated the actual work to someone else. Can you ensure that your vice-chair is able to speak in your place. Umm. Ok. Somebody give me the designs and I'll

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Struan Donald
* at 10/04 09:15 +0100 Greg McCarroll said: * Marcel Grunauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:56:28PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote: nowhere we might be tempted to sit by the thames till the wee small hours generating tremendous hangovers :) "sit"? IIRC, you

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: A lot of you write and distribute free perl code. What do you do about copyright and disclaimers in the code itself. I've had a look at a few examples and it seems you don't really bother. I think it is probably worth doing, and we will need one for

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Leon Brocard
Aaron Trevena sent the following bits through the ether: I habitually use the GPL, I have only recently realised how much of a pig it can be to keep a derived work compliant. Yup, that's why I like it so much. *This week* I'm a fan of the GPL, and how it keeps the community going. [insert

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:59:20AM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: I habitually use the GPL, I have only recently realised how much of a pig it can be to keep a derived work compliant. It will now take as long to audit the changes made to mny derived work of mwforum as it did to do some of the

RE: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:19 AM might be nice to have status reports from: * The t-shirt committee What is the design that you have agreed on? I will probably want one. There are five. So you'll probably want somewhere between one and five

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Piers Cawley
jo walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Last Thursday I bullied^Wasked some people to consider doing talks for us, but I can't remember who they were. This is your opportunity to step forward. i recall promising to do 20 minutes on '101 fun things to do with Tangram', or something like

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Shiels
From: "David Cantrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 April 2001 10:40 Subject: Re: Disclaimer On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:58:41AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: Anything I release always has the following copyright and I think that a number of module and script

Re: Torvalds not impressed with OS X

2001-04-10 Thread Piers Cawley
Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Chris Devers wrote: At 08:22 AM 9.4.2001 +, Robin Szemeti wrote: personally the ultimate task of any minimise/restore function should be to get a window on or off the dispaly as fast as possible ... slowly attempting

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Simon Wistow
Neil Ford wrote: Do we need to dig up the original meeting notes regarding .pm/colour combinations or is Simon to 'wing it'? Got em, cheers.

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Leon Brocard
dcross - David Cross sent the following bits through the ether: Last Thursday I bullied^Wasked some people to consider doing talks for us, Righto, I'd like to do talks on the following subjects: o Creating an optimising compiler and interpreter for a toy language o More Graphing Perl

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:04:07AM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: Do we need to dig up the original meeting notes regarding .pm/colour combinations or is Simon to 'wing it'? I forwarded it to him, along with the designs that Paul did. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: I shall proceed from here whence forth unto smack Mr Cantrell until he doth giveth over the designs. Hither-unto. And heretowards. Can we all join in?

Dia diagrams from your perl!

2001-04-10 Thread Aaron Trevena
I have uploaded AutoDIAL to my site where it can now be downloaed. It creates UML class diagrams showing relationshiops, methods, attributes, etc for a bunch of scripts/modules and lays them out ready for autodial to use, although I think the relationship line plotting is a little broken. It

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Robin Houston
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:09:14PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: As usual I'll aim at having four or five lightning talks and two or three longer talks. I'd like to give a (preferably "longer") talk about parsing and semantic transformation of Perl code. I promise to think of a less scary

Re: Dia diagrams from your perl!

2001-04-10 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote: and it can be found at http://droogs.org/autodial/ The download link is b0rked though /J\

Re: Dia diagrams from your perl!

2001-04-10 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote: and it can be found at http://droogs.org/autodial/ The download link is b0rked though fixed A. -- A HREF = "http://termisoc.org/~betty" Betty @ termisoc.org /A "As a youngster Fred fought sea

Perl on HPUX

2001-04-10 Thread Dean
Hi All Question for the list, i'm currently writing some scripts for a HP box running HPUX 11 and i keep hitting the same error when ever i try and use something (even 'use strict;'.) The error is "syntax error in file p2.pl at line 2, next 2 tokens "use strict" ". The file is a noddy

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-10 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:11:07PM +0100, Dean wrote: Hi All Question for the list, i'm currently writing some scripts for a HP box running HPUX 11 and i keep hitting the same error when ever i try and use something (even 'use strict;'.) The error is "syntax error in file p2.pl at line

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Dean wrote: Question for the list, i'm currently writing some scripts for a HP box running HPUX 11 and i keep hitting the same error when ever i try and use something (even 'use strict;'.) The error is "syntax error in file p2.pl at line 2, next 2 tokens "use

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-10 Thread Dean
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:13:59PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: /usr/contrib/bin/perl -V To find out what version it is and post back. DOH! Its running 4.0.1.8 Should have spotted that... Next time you get told the dev box is a copy of the producing box don't believe them :) Thanks

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Shiels
From: "Dean" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All Question for the list, i'm currently writing some scripts for a HP box running HPUX 11 and i keep hitting the same error when ever i try and use Last time I used the default perl on HP-UX, it turned out to be perl 4. You may need a more recent

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-10 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:17:55PM +0100, Dean wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:13:59PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: /usr/contrib/bin/perl -V To find out what version it is and post back. DOH! Its running 4.0.1.8 Should have spotted that... Next time you get told the dev box

RE: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 11:28 AM From: "David Cantrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:58:41AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: Anything I release always has the following copyright and I think that a

RE: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: [broken quoting snipped] You want the GPL for that. Which means that you can't use my copyright message as it includes the Artisitc License - which doesn't disallow your point 2. The GPL doesn't stop you selling the derived work. What it *does*

RE: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: [broken quoting snipped] You want the GPL for that. Which means that you can't use my copyright message as it includes the Artisitc License - which doesn't disallow your point 2. The GPL

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Richard Clamp
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:31:11PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: At 22:10 09/04/2001, Neil Ford wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:09:14PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: If anyone doesn't know (or has forgotten), there will be a technical meeting on Thursday 19th April. It will be at

RE: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: [broken quoting snipped] You want the GPL for that. Which means that you can't use my copyright message as it includes the Artisitc License -

Re: Wavelan

2001-04-10 Thread Neil Ford
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:29:56PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: my current plan of attack is probably 2 lucent/orinoco wavelan 128/RC4 cards .. one in the laptop .. one in the border router machine on an ISA adaptor .. one guy I spoke to reckoned it would work .. another reckoned I was an

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:11:07PM +0100, Dean wrote: Question for the list, i'm currently writing some scripts for a HP box running HPUX 11 and i keep hitting the same error when ever i try and use something (even 'use strict;'.) The error is "syntax error in file p2.pl at line 2, next 2

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Shiels
From: "dcross - David Cross" [EMAIL PROTECTED] You want the GPL for that. Which means that you can't use my copyright message as it includes the Artisitc License - which doesn't disallow your point 2. I think therefore GPL will be good. People can sell my code, but as I will be giving it

RE: Wavelan

2001-04-10 Thread Andrew Bowman
From: Neil Ford [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] The perl script to do stuff with wireless scanning and GPS had me salivating :-) Time to buy an eTrek I think. Where was GPS mentioned? I had a good hunt round (by myself and with the assistance of the Altavista host: search parameter) but couldn't

Re: Wavelan

2001-04-10 Thread Neil Ford
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:36:31PM +0100, Andrew Bowman wrote: From: Neil Ford [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] The perl script to do stuff with wireless scanning and GPS had me salivating :-) Time to buy an eTrek I think. Where was GPS mentioned? I had a good hunt round (by myself and

Tie::Scalar::Decay ...

2001-04-10 Thread David Cantrell
... is on its way to CPAN. If you're desperate for it, you can also snarf it from http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/tech/Tie-Scalar-Decay-1.0.tar.gz. It was inspired by Marcel's Tie::Scalar::Timeout. By default, it simulates radioactive decay with a fairly arbitrary half-life of five seconds.

Re: Tie::Scalar::Decay ...

2001-04-10 Thread Greg McCarroll
* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ... is on its way to CPAN. If you're desperate for it, you can also snarf it from http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/tech/Tie-Scalar-Decay-1.0.tar.gz. It was inspired by Marcel's Tie::Scalar::Timeout. By default, it simulates radioactive decay

Installing Perl/Tk on Win32

2001-04-10 Thread Andrew Bowman
I'm trying to install the Tk module on a Win32 system (I realise this is where my mistake lies, however, leaving that aside...). The docs say to: perl Makefile.PL nmake nmake test nmake install_perl Which seems to presume the presence of nmake as part of either an MS C or Borland C compiler

Re: Installing Perl/Tk on Win32

2001-04-10 Thread jduncan
The ugh activestate ppm files are best for this sort of thing. On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:45:40PM +0100, Andrew Bowman wrote: I'm trying to install the Tk module on a Win32 system (I realise this is where my mistake lies, however, leaving that aside...). The docs say to: perl Makefile.PL

Re: Installing Perl/Tk on Win32

2001-04-10 Thread Dean
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:45:40PM +0100, Andrew Bowman wrote: I'm trying to install the Tk module on a Win32 system (I realise this is where my mistake lies, however, leaving that aside...). The docs say to: If you don't really need to compile it yourself how's about: ppm install Tk?

RE: Installing Perl/Tk on Win32

2001-04-10 Thread Andrew Bowman
From: Dean [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] If you don't really need to compile it yourself how's about: ppm install Tk? Good idea - I can see PPM being useful if I have to persist with Win32 stuff! Thanks for the pointer James Dean. Andrew.

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Marty Pauley
On Mon Apr 9 13:09:31 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: A lot of you write and distribute free perl code. What do you do about copyright and disclaimers in the code itself. I've had a look at a few examples and it seems you don't really bother. I think it is probably worth doing, and we will need

Re: Installing Perl/Tk on Win32

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Shiels
From: "Andrew Bowman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dean [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] If you don't really need to compile it yourself how's about: ppm install Tk? Good idea - I can see PPM being useful if I have to persist with Win32 stuff! Also, if you have any firewall problems, or a fast link

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Marty Pauley
On Tue Apr 10 11:27:48 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: 1. I want anything I write to be free for others to use and generally bugger about with. 2. I don't want anyone to be allowed to sell my code, or to sell anything closely derived from it. Then you cannot use GPL, Artistic, BSD, or any free

RE: Installing Perl/Tk on Win32

2001-04-10 Thread Andrew Bowman
From: Robert Shiels [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Also, if you have any firewall problems, or a fast link at work and a slow dialup at home Thanks again - I got it installed okay (no firewall probs). The laughable thing is that I have a fast link at home[1] and a slow ISDN at work (soon to be

Re: Wavelan

2001-04-10 Thread Roger Horne
On Tue 10 Apr, Robin Szemeti wrote: and .. should I ever find any of the Lucent/Orinoco/Agere Wavelan cards I'll buy them in a Flash(tm) .. neither freebsd services or your mates in Norwich have any .. infact no one does :( ... http://www.expansys.com/category.asp?cat=WIREL claim delivery 3

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Marty Pauley
On Tue Apr 10 13:59:15 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: No. You cannot sell the source and binaries seperately. Yes you can. If you do, you must sell the source at cost price. -- Marty PGP signature

Re: Tie::Scalar::Decay ...

2001-04-10 Thread Marty Pauley
On Tue Apr 10 15:51:21 2001, Rob Partington wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ... is on its way to CPAN. If you're desperate for it, you can also snarf it from

Re: Tie::Scalar::Decay ...

2001-04-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 03:51:21PM +0100, Rob Partington wrote: Didn't Tony from Blackstar do this already? Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:33:40 + From: Tony Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RFC: Tie::Scalar::Timeout Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tie::Scalar::Decay ...

2001-04-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:41:51PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Whilst I thought that a radioactive-style decay was a suitable default, for the app I wrote it for, a simple decrement every time period was more appropriate. Cool Uses For Technology #497: Hmm, triggered on first access would be

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote: The simplist would be # Name - brief description. (c) Copyright 2001 A Nother # # This is free software available under the same license as perl itself # This sofwate comes with NO WARRANTY. For more information see URL or FILE. The NO WARRANTY