Re: TPJ Reborn

2001-04-11 Thread Andrew Bowman
From: "Paul Makepeace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > point of order - they are filters, not bots > > Isn't that two points? And is a line the shortest distance between them? Point of yet further pedantry: I think you mean a directed line segment that intersects two points... Andrew.

Re: TPJ Reborn

2001-04-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:50:33PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > point of order - they are filters, not bots Isn't that two points? And is a line the shortest distance between them? P

Re: stocks

2001-04-11 Thread Robert Shiels
I use stocktrade.co.uk who are OK, it must have been easy to set up, as I managed it. I've known other people to use etrade. Do you want to trade on foreign markets? If you do then you should check that this is possible with whoever you go with. Got any good tips :) -- Robert - Original M

Re: TPJ Reborn

2001-04-11 Thread Struan Donald
* at 11/04 17:50 +0100 Greg McCarroll said: > * David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:10:12PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: > > > Paul Mison sent the following bits through the ether: > > > > > > > If you're going to do IRC style karma-ing, at least make sure there

Re: TPJ Reborn

2001-04-11 Thread Greg McCarroll
* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:10:12PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: > > Paul Mison sent the following bits through the ether: > > > > > If you're going to do IRC style karma-ing, at least make sure there's a > > > bot present > > > > ... and before someone

Re: TPJ Reborn

2001-04-11 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:44:57PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > Sorry, ol bean, I'm already piping this list through two bots (my archiver > and my URL-hunter). They don't say anything in public though. Yet. You could make them auto-send a rude message on encountering text/html... -Dom

Re: TPJ Reborn

2001-04-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:10:12PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: > Paul Mison sent the following bits through the ether: > > > If you're going to do IRC style karma-ing, at least make sure there's a > > bot present > > ... and before someone magically has enough time to link dipsy to > email, no em

stocks

2001-04-11 Thread Greg McCarroll
Does anyone use any online brokers that they would recommend? I need a broker service which is quick and hassle free to set up. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net

Re: TPJ Reborn

2001-04-11 Thread jduncan
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:28:38PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Paul Mison sent the following bits through the ether: > > > > > If you're going to do IRC style karma-ing, at least make sure there's a > > > bot present > > > > ... and before someone

Re: TPJ Reborn

2001-04-11 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Paul Mison sent the following bits through the ether: > > > If you're going to do IRC style karma-ing, at least make sure there's a > > bot present > > ... and before someone magically has enough time to link dipsy to > email, no email bots please! ;-)

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-11 Thread Dean
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:58:55AM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: >What part of HP-UX didn't scream 'behind' :) The price tag ;) >Sadly, the list isn't terribly active but, depending on the platform, >vendor specific lists can be very useful in such situations. But do they have Buffy discuss

Re: TPJ Reborn

2001-04-11 Thread Leon Brocard
Paul Mison sent the following bits through the ether: > If you're going to do IRC style karma-ing, at least make sure there's a > bot present ... and before someone magically has enough time to link dipsy to email, no email bots please! ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http

RE: TPJ Reborn

2001-04-11 Thread Paul Mison
On 11/04/2001 at 16:50 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >++ > >:p If you're going to do IRC style karma-ing, at least make sure there's a bot present. (I'm not even going to mention the smiley. Damn.) And in other news, davorg himself gets a mention on use.perl.org for finding (linking? sending i

RE: TPJ Reborn

2001-04-11 Thread James . Herbert
++ :p -Original Message- From: DCROSS Sent: 11 April 2001 16:46 To: london-pm Cc: DCROSS Subject: TPJ Reborn Excellent news from Jon Orwant at Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is i

TPJ Reborn

2001-04-11 Thread dcross - David Cross
Excellent news from Jon Orwant at Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not

Re: NWS (was Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April)

2001-04-11 Thread jo walsh
> 4) Install Apache::Template, Bundle-XML, Template Toolkit 2.02 on penderel > I think this has already been mostly done, but I could be wrong. after much grappling with CPAN shell trying to upgrade us to 5.6.1, this is all done now, though a couple of newer versions of XML modules - not th

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-09

2001-04-11 Thread Neil Ford
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:17:37PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: > From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:00 PM > > > The social meeting last week was a lot of fun, if a little > > crazy. However, we really need to start organising the meetings (hey, > > e

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-09

2001-04-11 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 2:39 PM > dcross - David Cross sent the following bits through the ether: > > > Not sure I like the idea of 'organised' social meetings. Sounds a bit too > > 'SPUG' to me. However, I'm quite happy to listen to any alternative

Linux::Svgalib

2001-04-11 Thread Jonathan Stowe
A couple of people have made interested noises about this - I have uploaded an alpha version to CPAN (dont be misled by the version number) if you want to have alook its at : http://cpan.valueclick.com/modules/by-authors/id/J/JS/JSTOWE/Linux-Svgalib-1.2.t ar.gz I wouldnt suggest running on your

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-11 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Dean [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>The http://hpux.connect.org.uk/ site looks like a good resource if a little *>behind. What part of HP-UX didn't scream 'behind' :) *>Not another mailing list... You can't make me! I'm only moving some Linux *>scripts across to HPUX so i doubt I'd be much use

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-09

2001-04-11 Thread Leon Brocard
dcross - David Cross sent the following bits through the ether: > Not sure I like the idea of 'organised' social meetings. Sounds a bit too > 'SPUG' to me. However, I'm quite happy to listen to any alternative > opinions. Well, we *could* have a formal agenda for the social meeting, starting off

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-09

2001-04-11 Thread Dean
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:00:16PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: > crazy. However, we really need to start organising the meetings (hey, > even Lonix is more organised!), as it was too loud and crowded: You have a weird idea of organized ;) We tried to get 60 people into 30 places... Dean

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-09

2001-04-11 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:00 PM > The social meeting last week was a lot of fun, if a little > crazy. However, we really need to start organising the meetings (hey, > even Lonix is more organised!), as it was too loud and crowded: Not sure I like th

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

2001-04-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:00:54PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > Cool Uses For Technology #497: Hmm, triggered on first access would > be interesting too. That way you could put an object wrapper around > the sinking platforms in Manic Miner. but, to be *really* evil ... Use Tie::Array::blah t

London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-09

2001-04-11 Thread Leon Brocard
This is the twelth of hopefully many weekly summaries of the London Perl Mongers mailing list. For the week starting 2001-04-09: Don't forget the London.pm website for meetings etc. The next meeting is a technical meeting and is on Thursday April 19th at State 51: http://london.pm.org/ Neil Ford

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

2001-04-11 Thread Tony Bowden
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:41:51PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > Didn't Tony from Blackstar do this already? > Yes, but a) he never released it on CPAN At the time I was under a contract which didn't let me do this... I should really upload some stuff now ... Tony -- -

Re: OT: parsing xml

2001-04-11 Thread Leon Brocard
Mike Jarvis sent the following bits through the ether: > Has anybody dealt with the data exchange xml standard called BMEcat? > I've got to hack a parser together quickly and I was hoping to nick > somebody else's code. It appears that no-one has answered this. In general, I find XML::Simple ver

Re: NWS (was Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April)

2001-04-11 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Struan Donald wrote: > > I'll also be able to give a quick status update on the website for NMS > > (probably at the same time as I'll be using it as my example) > > what is the status of the NMS thing. i'm liable to have some spare time > over the weekend so if there's an

NWS (was Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April)

2001-04-11 Thread Struan Donald
* at 11/04 08:28 +0100 Mark Fowler said: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: > > I'll also be able to give a quick status update on the website for NMS > (probably at the same time as I'll be using it as my example) what is the status of the NMS thing. i'm liable to have some s

Re: Wavelan

2001-04-11 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, you wrote: > > http://www.expansys.com/category.asp?cat=WIREL claim delivery 3 days, > > but whether they are what you want or how their prices compare I have no idea. > > (Cheap & efficient when I bought my Psion netBook some time ago.) > I'll phone em in the morning ... '

RE: Installing Perl/Tk on Win32

2001-04-11 Thread Andrew Bowman
> From: Barbie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Installing CPAN modules requires that you have Microsoft DevStudio or > nmake.exe installed. If you are installing modules that contain xs files, > then you need DevStudio, otherwise you only need nmake.exe. > > You can download nmake from > http://do

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-11 Thread Dean
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:54:54PM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > http://cpan.valueclick.com/ports/#hpux The http://hpux.connect.org.uk/ site looks like a good resource if a little behind. > http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=perl-hpux > could also use some life :) Not another mailing

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-11 Thread Mark Fowler
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: > As usual I'll aim at having four or five lightning talks and two or three > longer talks. I could do a lightening talk on playing around with skinning stuff with Template Toolkit's brand spanking new VIEW directive. This would be very quick as w