Re: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623

2000-12-28 Thread Mark Fowler
-terrestrial TV about a year back IIRC. On MTV I think. 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.profer

Re: Perl::Flash

2000-12-29 Thread Mark Fowler
e goes off on holiday *again* ? Can I? Please? See Leon, I told you that unlimited bandwidth option was a good idea. Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology D

Re: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623

2001-01-02 Thread Mark Fowler
. -- 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: Perl Geek Code

2001-01-03 Thread Mark Fowler
t I wanted it to be the same as for PP, so that someone who is PP+++ is basically the same as someone who is HLPM++ or suchlike... Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology D

Re: Apache Mods in use

2001-01-03 Thread Mark Fowler
-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: Perl commandments

2001-01-10 Thread Mark Fowler
maintaining this code. Maybe that's not quite as snappy as the Brocard's. Hmm. It would be easier if I could type omegas and stuff. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology Develop

JOB: Re: Hiring (not another one :) )

2001-01-10 Thread Mark Fowler
be swayed by this as much as by anything else ;-) Later Mark. (Happily Employed) [1] Table top cabinet[2] with a PC running MAME inside. [2] The kind you can rest a pint on. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name

Re: Perl commandments

2001-01-10 Thread Mark Fowler
programming time was much more important. Pah...I'm going to read some comics and install FreeBSD now... Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology Developer'

Re: Kung Foo and PIMB

2001-01-14 Thread Mark Fowler
e reply option rocks. -- 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: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-15 Thread Mark Fowler
m you could even use 'try' and 'catch' as syntatic suger. See the Error perldoc. Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology Developer' , Firm = 'Pr

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-18 Thread Mark Fowler
Take a look at http://www.bath.ac.uk/~bssnrw/getchart.html for a differing viewpoint. Nice BLINK tags. bss? Biological Sciences Staff? Hmmm. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',

Re: Hardware Upgrade Fund

2001-01-20 Thread Mark Fowler
a lie - df very broke - it's only 18GB - but you get the idea) Later Mark (off to see the offspring) -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology Developer' , Firm = 'Prof

Re: Consultancy company

2001-01-22 Thread Mark Fowler
'. 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: Consultancy company

2001-01-22 Thread Mark Fowler
. -- 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' )

Mail-To Munging - was Re: Conslutancy

2001-01-23 Thread Mark Fowler
even have a hope of keeping up and jumping in - they're still getting the original message when another six or so have been sent. This defeats the whole point of the the list. Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a&qu

Re: odd -w effect

2001-01-24 Thread Mark Fowler
nice windows style program (e.g. ultraedit). TMTOWTDI. Later. Mark. [1] It's shareware. It's actually the last commerical software (excluding games) I bought. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',

Re: Mailing List Archive

2001-01-26 Thread Mark Fowler
p{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: Mailing List Archive

2001-01-26 Thread Mark Fowler
over? ;-) 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 PROT

Re: Fwd: [uri@sysarch.com: free copy of data munging with perl]

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Fowler
It's starting to sound like I@m the only bugger who _hasn't_ got a copy of my book yet :( Fret not, fearless nominal leader. Mine hasn't arrived yet either. Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name

Re: 33 mails

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Fowler
grep complained: how the f*** did you lot send 33 mails to this list between when i left work and now? sheesh Practice? We learn quickly, o wise teacher. Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name

Re: irc problems

2001-02-01 Thread Mark Fowler
p{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: Bad programming considered harmless

2001-02-05 Thread Mark Fowler
least one bit of the control systems memory. -- 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/' ,

Xinerama

2001-02-05 Thread Mark Fowler
) but I wondered if there was a better way that talking in some weird way to do this that isn't so icky. I forsee many problems with running multiple copies of X on the same machine. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name

OT: Buffy (or not OT, depending on your point of view)

2001-02-08 Thread Mark Fowler
Swanson and she catches it between two palms in front of her head. Now I didn't see this in the movie. Does anyone else remember this? Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',

Pony and Buffy (was Re: Mailing List Stuff)

2001-02-15 Thread Mark Fowler
Buffy! Buffy Buffy Buffy! Buffy Buffy Buffy! Okay, own up, who was this ;-) ? And more importantly, who told dipsy to forget Buffy... -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Techno

Re: DMP

2001-02-20 Thread Mark Fowler
%] 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: DMP

2001-02-20 Thread Mark Fowler
when it gets too big to handle anyway... 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.profer

Re: t-shirts

2001-02-22 Thread Mark Fowler
nally #!/usr/bin/perl $shop = undef; { local $shop = {}; $this = $shop; local @people = residents; for (@people) {$this-{$_}=\$PreciousThings;} } print HERE $shop-{You}; $shop-{You}-touch if defined($shop-{You}) =cut -- 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: t-shirts

2001-02-22 Thread Mark Fowler
quot;\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' )

Off the grid.

2001-02-23 Thread Mark Fowler
to do stuff, call me about it, okay? 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/'

Graphical Documentation

2001-03-05 Thread Mark Fowler
-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: Graphical Documentation

2001-03-06 Thread Mark Fowler
. -- 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: Am I going nutts ? - read before answering!

2001-03-08 Thread Mark Fowler
quot;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: Kevin Smith Film Fest

2001-03-09 Thread Mark Fowler
",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: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Mark Fowler
how to start, where to go, etc, etc. 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/'

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Mark Fowler
Textclock Mark Countdown Mark 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',W

RE: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Fowler
e user any problems they might have if this is wrong f) It prints out a hunk of diagnostic information (e.g. perl version, module versions, url, etc, etc) Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowle

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Fowler
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: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Fowler
://www.openssh.org/windows.html which lists alternatives -- 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

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Fowler
a whopping great ipchains (or firewall of choice) in the way. If you want to access it, ssh tunnel it first. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology Developer' , Fir

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Fowler
t;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: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-12

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Fowler
Leo Lapworth was trying to debug something with Devel::DProf and couldn't understand why BEGIN was called more than once. Robert Price and Mark Fowler pointed out that 'use Module LIST' is exactly equivalent to 'BEGIN { require Module; import Module LIST; }', so the module was being use-d

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-12

2001-03-14 Thread Mark Fowler
Content-type: matter-transport/beer-stream That's not right. MIMEs do type/format (e.g. image/gif.) So it'd more likely be: Content-type: beer/guinness Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name

Re: wasn't someone looking for some diagramming - SQL stuff recently?

2001-03-16 Thread Mark Fowler
ot;\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: Dedrat 7.0 and PGP

2001-03-19 Thread Mark Fowler
and windows.) It Works For Me(tm) but I'm sure there's a better way. 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',W

Re: Matt's Scripts Projects

2001-03-19 Thread Mark Fowler
web pages for someone other than myself or for work for a bit, unless anyone's got any objections... Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology Developer' , Fir

Re: Matt's Scripts Projects

2001-03-19 Thread Mark Fowler
. [1] Okay, so I added this one myself, but I think it's a good idea. -- 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://

Re: Matt's Scripts Projects

2001-03-20 Thread Mark Fowler
(What's this extension! I don't understand! What's going on! What are all these weird charges from AOL? etc) Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology Developer'

Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-20 Thread Mark Fowler
'. -- 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: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-20 Thread Mark Fowler
Oh it's dreadful. We need quality control on CPAN before more of this gets through. Hmm. Karma would workOr sponsorship. 'Larry Wall uses $modulename, you should too' Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a&qu

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Fowler
. -- 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: Debuggers (was Re: Perl Training Courses)

2001-03-22 Thread Mark Fowler
cause unemployment [syn: {Luddite}] You're sounding a little too much like a heretic to me Dave...all that crashing and destroying of stuff ;-) Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',

Re: That book

2001-03-23 Thread Mark Fowler
t;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: That book

2001-03-23 Thread Mark Fowler
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: World domination is ours. Muahahaha! Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive it won't be. I don't think we tried "London.pm's Script Archive", did we? :

Re: originality

2001-03-27 Thread Mark Fowler
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 = 'Techno

Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Fowler
; } -- 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: Job: I'm looking for one..

2001-03-29 Thread Mark Fowler
so much time trying to get rid of the guy that came in and said 'I don't use modules, I prefer to write my own code in the script.' et al. Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',

Re: Still screwing up References: (was Re: Job: I'm looking for one..)

2001-03-29 Thread Mark Fowler
to... 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

Re: [schwern@pobox.com: DNA.pm]

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Fowler
gone out of control. 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

Re: Buffy

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Fowler
",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: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)

2001-04-04 Thread Mark Fowler
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: Linux.com Online Chat

2001-04-04 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: Tue Apr 17th, 2001 (12:00 pm US/Pacific) In english? -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology Developer' , Fir

Re: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)

2001-04-04 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:31:41AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: Perl is easier to parse simply because all the irregularities are known and documented. They're not in English

Re: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)

2001-04-04 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:10:11PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: Ah, but with perl code there is a definite 'correct' parsing (whatever /usr/bin/perl does[1]) but with the English language that isn't true. I'm afraid that's as silly as me declaring

Backslash

2001-04-05 Thread Mark Fowler
it from hand?) Dipsy seems to be able to cope with this.. Later. Mark. http://slashdot.org/slashdot.xml http://slashdot.org/backslash.dtd -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Techno

RE: the 2nd best london.pm meeting of all time

2001-04-06 Thread Mark Fowler
the resturant. 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

Re: Test

2001-04-06 Thread Mark Fowler
-rf ~/*' or worse, if you get my drift 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/'

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-11 Thread Mark Fowler
. Mark. (Who thinks this is almost a show 'n' tell situation) -- 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.profer

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

2001-04-17 Thread Mark Fowler
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Struan Donald wrote: * at 17/04 14:00 +0200 Philip Newton said: Mark Fowler wrote: 3) Write a set of scripts that are all basically the same but have different #!/usr/bin/perl lines on the top and tell you the with a bunch of different extensions such as .pl

RE: Tech mtg?

2001-04-19 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Dave Cross wrote: At 17:08 18/04/2001, jo walsh wrote: this all gives me a creeping sense of deja type yeah, i've just looked and realised it says almost exactly the same thing on the website, except in more detail: http://london.pm.org/WhatDo.shtml Did _I_ do

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-16

2001-04-19 Thread Mark Fowler
that again. I had enough of that last time round. Later. Mark Fowler.

Template Toolkit and XPath notes

2001-04-20 Thread Mark Fowler
Have been uploaded to london.pm.org. And by jove, with a ickle bit of httpd.conf bashing they even render out okay. Shame about the spelling mistakes though. http://london.pm.org/~mark/ttxpath/ Later. Mark.

Re: Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-20 Thread Mark Fowler
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Robin Houston wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:57:01PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: Funny. You've come across the same idea I did. http://simon-cozens.org/pg.pdf Having now read your paper, I think that in some ways it's the *opposite* idea; or at least a

RE: Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-20 Thread Mark Fowler
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: Mark Fowler wrote on the 20th April: On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Robin Houston wrote: You want to take arbitrary languages, and execute them as if they were Perl. I want to take Perl and execute it as if it were an arbitrary language

Tk::Canvas Rectangles

2001-04-20 Thread Mark Fowler
Watching veeg's really cool music program in Tk last night reminded me that I've got a slight problem with something I was writing with Tk::Canvas... If I create a rectangle, how do I go about changing its width and height? Any ideas? Mark. -- ENOSIGSIGSTILLONOTHERSERVER

Re: MySQL - Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

2001-04-25 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote: Trouble is, they all have non-standard extensions, which are *really* handy and which you *will* use if you don't know any better. For example, MySQL has AUTO_INCREMENT fields which are dead useful for id fields; the closest Oracle equivalent

Re: MySQL - Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

2001-04-27 Thread Mark Fowler
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, someone who Robin's attrib to fscked up wrote: [side note: I did just see a bizarre thread in macosx-dev where one guy claimed his FFT code was executing faster in Java than C because its interpreter used runtime info to

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-01 Thread Mark Fowler
On 30 Apr 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: I've got someone needing a form to mail script. Where's ours[0]? According to my records, Dave C was doing it. Dave? Later. Mark. -- mark typed this

RE: sing if you're happy that way

2001-05-08 Thread Mark Fowler
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: L. Never argue with a biologist. Why not? Not that I ever would, you understand...just wondering what the exact precedent for this is? -- mark wrote this Disclaimer: The above statement is not intended to be legally binding

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 10 May 2001, David Cantrell wrote: thinks has anyone done TeX goodness with Template Toolkit? See the latest post to the TT mailing list: http://www.template-toolkit.org/pipermail/templates/2001-May/000931.html Later. Mark.

New Mongers' Script Archive Update

2001-05-11 Thread Mark Fowler
. Likewise for a proper bugzilla system. 3) All changes should be go through the pumpking for each of the individual sections so this shouldn't be a problem People that have agreed to be pumpkings so far: Mark Fowler (that's me) agreed to be website pumpking Simon Batistoni

Re: Monitors

2001-05-11 Thread Mark Fowler
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Hmm. I usually have a technic lego bike (thanks secret santa.) Also floating around in my geek sphere at the moment is: - A wind up clockwork chick (as in 'chicken,' not as in 'woman') -

Re: Perl training

2001-05-14 Thread Mark Fowler
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Martin Ling wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:27:20PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: OoOoOoh, Red Snapper! Very tasty! /obscure_quoting Heh. It's *so* good, and has even managed to remain obscure. This is probably because you can't get it anywhere any more, of

Politikal Disskusion

2001-05-14 Thread Mark Fowler
Hmm. Leon once complained that I always read everything and then post and unknowingly summed up the point everyone was trying to make by simply rephrasing and clarifying a few issues (in the real world they call this 'plagiarism'.) He said this was a problem, because he always ended up linking

Log::Agent

2001-05-15 Thread Mark Fowler
Has anyone used Log::Agent, or for that matter any of the other logging modules? I'm just looking for a consistent way to do logging. I've got a wheel that I reinvented, but it's a very simple one (no tyre or inner tube yet) and before I make any improvements I was just wondering if it was time

Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: I don't think Perl 6 can be a tremendous leap forward, not because of RFC's along the lines of `Perl must stay Perl', but because the next leap forward is VisualPerl which will be as much about IDE as core language. Now lets not get hung up on the

Re: TPC Quiz Team

2001-05-17 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote: I need three volunteers to join me in the london.pm team for Jon Orwant's Internet Quiz at The Perl Conference. Does it have questions on Buffy and drinking competitions? Later Mark. -- The use of the beer glass image in association with

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:17:14AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: But Mail::Cclient is also unbeleivably powerful. Lying round on my HD there's a Mail::Cclient::Simple which amkes everything much easier but it's one of many projects I've never got

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-24 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Richard Clamp wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:13:12AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: Typical quotes from Simon this week: Ah, he'd be fine if it weren't for those fucking mood swings. You see, this is why we don't need to make a london-perl-mongers movie. If we did,

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-24 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: Have no problem with them making money out of it it was just that it was ripped off and not released under the GPL and/or the changes sent back to us. They don't have to under the artistic licence. However, they do have to duplicate all of the

Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

2001-05-24 Thread Mark Fowler
On 24 May 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also have D.A.R.Y.L (Data Analyising Robot Youth Lifeform) but I thinkt hat's pushing it a bit. If that counts, then Weird Science counts too! That's more geeksploitation or nerdsplotitation... Later.

Re: Email Style (was: Re: Election Manifestos)

2001-05-24 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: Paul Makepeace sent the following bits through the ether: Have you integrated into a mail server (module, procmail, whatever) .muttrc: set editor=/home/acme/bin/autoformat %s; xemacs -nw %s Leon in PINE S SETUP - C Config display-filters:

Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

2001-05-24 Thread Mark Fowler
Piers asked: The sure thing Ooh. Not seen that one. Is it any good? And that's Anthony TopGun, Northern Exposure, ER Edwards to you. Any good, any good? It's only my all time favourite film of all time[1]. Where frat movie meets romantic comedy, on a road trip. Quite a few good one

Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

2001-05-25 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: and i can't buy it, because its still on boring old VHS - Greg 'DVD' McCarroll It *was* released on DVD (in the US, but we don't care about that, do we boys and girls) but this was a while back, and it's now out of stock (everywhere.) I think this

Re: Buffy moves to London to do Eastenders

2001-05-28 Thread Mark Fowler
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Redvers Davies wrote: Well, not quite... but nearly: http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/features/exclusive.shtml There seems to be something wrong with this URL...where's the @decimalipaddress after the domain name? Later Mark -- s'' Mark Fowler

RE: [PUB] Possible candidate

2001-05-30 Thread Mark Fowler
in a rowing race held yearly since 1715 between London Bridge and Cadogan Pier, Chelsea in London. It was initiated by Thomas Doggett to commemorate the coronation of George I. The badge is silver and shows the white horse of Hannover. The race is now held in July. Later. Mark. -- s'' Mark Fowler

Re: Windows Perl - how?

2001-05-31 Thread Mark Fowler
(or at least on the 'downloads' page From my point of view I clicked on the 'activeperl' link on their front page and was simply offered a load of files that I had no idea how to download. Grr. Mark. (back to coding under 'nix) -- s'' Mark Fowler London.pm Bath.pm

Re: Slow disks under linux

2001-05-31 Thread Mark Fowler
, but that's only once in a very blue moon. -- s'' Mark Fowler London.pm Bath.pm http://www.twoshortplanks.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ';use Term'Cap;$t=Tgetent Term'Cap{};print$t-Tputs(cl);for$w(split/ +/ ){for(0..30){$|=print$t-Tgoto(cm,$_,$y). $w;select

Re: Slow disks under linux

2001-05-31 Thread Mark Fowler
time I moved desk as I went from having one monitor to the left of the primary console monitor to having one monitor to the right.) You can't do that in Windows. Ha. -- s'' Mark Fowler London.pm Bath.pm http://www.twoshortplanks.com

Re: old pictures

2001-06-06 Thread Mark Fowler
is this? I seem to be in shot, though I have no recollection of any hair dressing salons. And I wasn't that drunk at YAPC::E (unfortunately) -- s'' Mark Fowler London.pm Bath.pm http://www.twoshortplanks.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ';use Term'Cap;$t

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