Re: Some Northern Irish Fun and Games ...

2001-05-21 Thread Marty Pauley
On Fri May 18 07:27:10 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > This is the sort of thing that happens in the country i grew up in > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_1336000/1336347.stm But Greg, it's not what you think. It's part of a secret trans-atlantic conspiricy to

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 http://www.cantrell.org.u

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: 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: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Marty Pauley
worth doing, and we will need one for the > NotMattsScripts project, so does anyone have a good concise copyright and > disclaimer notice for free Perl code? I've googled around and can't find > anything I like. I do this: =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2001 Marty Pau

Re: Ummm... Perl not professional??

2001-04-06 Thread Marty Pauley
On Fri Apr 6 07:12:33 2001, Andy Williams wrote: > > Just looking for a good book on Email I can across the review for > Programming Internet Email (Oreilly) by [EMAIL PROTECTED] He's probably lucky that he's wrong. His ISP, NTL, employ many professional Perl programmers to write Perl systems

Re: Social Meeting

2001-04-02 Thread Marty Pauley
On Thu Mar 29 03:13:59 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > OK. Bowing to pressure from the heretics - we'll go to the Anchor next > Thursday. Never let it be said that I don't listen to the little > people :) > > Can someone product a set of simple instructions on how to get there. Could someone pleas

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

2001-03-30 Thread Marty Pauley
On Thu Mar 29 15:37:29 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > * - BTW, does that mean that all calls within NI are now charged at local > > rate? Can belfast.pm enlighten me on this? > > Do you really think we'd get that lucky? No we get hit with the charge for a > national call even though it's all

Re: April Meetings

2001-03-26 Thread Marty Pauley
On Sun Mar 25 19:05:36 2001, Tony Bowden wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > > The April meetings are approaching and we have no firm plans for them yet. > > The social meeting will be on April 5th. Last plan I remember was that > > mstevens was going to investi

Re: Debian question ...

2001-03-24 Thread Marty Pauley
On Thu Mar 22 14:48:48 2001, Marcel Grunauer wrote: > > David Cantrell writes > > >is there an easy way of getting a list of all the packages which are > >currently installed? I dislike dselect intensely, and the docs for > >dpkg et al don't say anything useful. > > dp

Re: Fruit flies like a banana

2001-03-24 Thread Marty Pauley
On Fri Mar 23 18:17:13 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > Yeah, like where they knock out the alcohol dehydrogenase gene and get all > the flies absolutely bladdered :-)) Can I assume that these genes were removed to donate to London.pm members? -- Marty PGP signature

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

2001-03-21 Thread Marty Pauley
On Wed Mar 21 12:00:24 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > 1. Please can we stop this silly 'firstname lastname' format. The most > significant string (family name) should come first, with a standard > delimiter (comma) before the first name (which should come last). This is > what bibliographies and

Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-21 Thread Marty Pauley
essage from Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:06:26 + From: Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Marty Pauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FW: london-pm RE: Pointless, Badly-Written Module. Tell them if they keep talking shit abo

Re: Module of the Year contender...

2001-03-21 Thread Marty Pauley
On Tue Mar 20 17:21:11 2001, Tony Bowden wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 12:14:44PM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > From ny.pm. > > The meme is spreading :) > > > At Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:01:19 +, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On the shoulders of such giants as Date::Christma

Re: Matt's Scripts Projects

2001-03-20 Thread Marty Pauley
On Tue Mar 20 11:46:25 2001, Gareth Harper wrote: > On a completely off topic note I'm appealing to the contractors among you > here. Those of you who have yor own company. Did you set yourselves up as > a Limited Company, or as a Sole Trader. If you set yourself up as a limited > company did/d

Re: Version control

2001-03-16 Thread Marty Pauley
On Mon Mar 12 21:45:34 2001, Jim Gillespie wrote: > Does ClearCase work with anything but Solaris? I was talking to my current > boss and he reckons it needs a patched kernel in order to do funky stuff > with the file system. I've used it on AIX. -- Marty

Re: Version control

2001-03-12 Thread Marty Pauley
On Mon Mar 12 16:57:09 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: > David Cantrell sent the following bits through the ether: > > > But there are alternatives. Does anyone here have any comments on > > Perforce or Clearcase? Needless to say, both companies have crap websites > > with no useful documentation and

Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network

2001-03-12 Thread Marty Pauley
On Sat Mar 10 08:30:53 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:48:16AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > > > > > I wonder if O'Reilly approached the copyright holder ... > > > > > > Heh! > > > > > "The use of the beer glass image i