On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:12:33PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
> I see that the new edtion of Linux Format comes with a copy of e-smith on
> the CD. According to the blurb, e-smith is a "complete, easy to use and
> install server/gateway system" that "manages mail, firewalling,
> file-shari
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:38:02PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:33:11AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> > > Who holds the distance record? dha, presumably?
> >
> > Me & Andy M. probably, living on the left coa
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:33:11AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> Who holds the distance record? dha, presumably?
Me & Andy M. probably, living on the left coast.
Paul
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:10:28PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
> Missed Texas by 500 miles? I think not. I was in Houston. Worst
> place on earth. I most definatly did NOT miss Texas.
Houston rocks, although if I moved back it would be to Austin. Houston's
humidity (the airborne type, as oppose
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:55:38PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
> Oh yes, I vaguely thought on reading about the floods in "The South"
> that maybe this was supposed to be a message like "Repent your sins or
> I wash you off the face of the Earth".
I think it's more along the lines of the Creator(
Isn't there some perl module that might allow us to rig a
sig-stripper to be installed at dircon? Where sig = any trailer that has
more than four un-para'ed lines. Or give these people a damn shell
account. Or SOMETHING.
(Actually I don't really care I just got carried away with the melodrama.)
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:15:36AM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote:
> Hmm, not sure... but is the feeling helped buy having someone in the White
> House who has no real idea of foreign policy (and doesn't seem to care that
> much), and is sitting at his desk thinking (and I use the term advisedly) -
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:25:32AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> You're very probably stuck. Whilst you can use a hex editor to change
> strings in the binary, you can't expand the length of those strings,
> only contract them or retain the same length.
>
> However, a solution would be to cha
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:57:52PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:10:53PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> > And how about a signal/noise bias? ;-)
>
> The noise *is* signal.
It's signal, Jim, but not as we know it.
Paul
--
Destroy nothing; Destroy the most important t
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:56:20AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I don't know about you, but I'm *definitely* fat.
> >
> > Big boned.
>
> Nope.
BBH, Big Beautiful Hacker?
Paul
--
Abandon nor
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Leon Brocard:
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:25:17AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> I didn't get where I am today by saying 'earwig' instead of 'thank you'
Might it've helped?
P
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:24:35AM +1000, Ian Brayshaw wrote:
> Have any of you worked with SQueaLServer with a large DB (multiple terabyte
> level), serving high volume transactions (read & write, of the order of
You'd have to be more specific than that. MS's terraserver
http://terraserver.hom
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:10:43AM -0500, Richard Clyne wrote:
> If you request more items than are in the queue (e.g. lots of empty
> seats) the queue returns the items in order. If you request less items
> than are in the queue (Bus almost full) the largest items push through
> and are selected
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:27:39AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> because, unlike something actually useful, AV only indexes words in its
> dictionary. since bax (although semantically significant) is not in its
> dictioanary it don;t find it. pile of shit. Google is oodlsss
> better. if yo
Neil Ford noted:
> Quick bit of digging and I've found the following;
> [Heat Magazine, 19-25 May 2001]
> "The producers of Buffy, Fox TV, have offered ridiculous soundbites to justify
> switching TV networks in the US. The WB, home to Buffy since it's inception,
> did not match the "passion" and
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:15:39AM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote:
>
> as some of you might already know I'm orff to the west country.
Red skoi at noit, yer sheeps are aloit.
Paul, from Brizzle
--
Magnify the most difficult details
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:59:32PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> of a 2gb monthly bandwidth allowance.
Oh my lord -- I shift over a gig a day just thru' the freenet node and
that's on a crappy DSL line. Remind me to whine less when Pacific [HB]ell
messes with the connection...
> the goodness o
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:41:45PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Primary"
> > Screen "Secondary" LeftOf "Primary" InputDevice
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:55:12PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> The monitor layout should be controllable from the XF86Config file.
> Somehow. I haven't tried this though. RTFM.
I have,
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Primary"
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
> Are you using xinerama (i.e. so your monitors are spliced together into
> one display?)
No, it's KDE2 which seems to split them into separate desktops. The
mouse moves between them as though they're one but I can't drag windows
back &
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:26:14PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> You might need to run a 2nd copy of kwin, like this:
>
> % kwin -- display :0.1
(--display)
> Try that and see if it works...
Yes! Thanks. Now to get it to start like that on its own... It's very
weird re-learning X after
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:32:58PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> whistles for quick HD access turned to 'off' .. I tripled the transfer
> rate on my slaptop by turning DMA and other stuff on ... and it didn;t
> explode like the manpage said it might.
I caved and upgraded to 2.4.5, something I di
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:19:28AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> What does hdparm have to say?
Ah yes, thanks, I remember that from 1997, the last time I used it :-)
I switched DMA on both drives (hdparm -d1), and interrupts went down,
transfer rate went up and all was good. Now, why do I have
I'm trying to duplicate an FS from an oldish 5,400rpm 6GB IDE drive to a new
7,200rpm 61GB IDE drive using the usual cp -ax / /mnt. But it's
unbelievably slow -- vmstat 2 is reporting bi/bo around 300!
Having just compared that with my main server (10K & 7.2K SCSIs) that's
>10x slower. The thing
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:29:19AM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote:
> There's The George and Dragon just south of London Bridge. Easily walkable
> from LB station or even the City (I used to go there a lot).
>
> [snip]
>
> And there's and extra point if you can name the SF book it's mentioned in.
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:32:52AM +, Greg Cope wrote:
> mysqldump) - and I was wondering if there was a super thing that could
> translate the create table stuff into a diagram I could print, and then
> look at If this worked on Linux and involved perl and Dia then it
> would be fab.
Th
Well, I threatened to write one.
``PremierDNS.com -- this is really a hack: become a registrar with no
DNS servers, no billing ability, no employees and not be ICANN
registered. This isn't a real business idea but more an integration of
existing web services with a neat front-end.''
http://www.d
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:48:54AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> Not quite, it's a human-readable binary format. All the indexes rely on
> offsets in the file, and the various fun with the newline conventions
> mean that in my book, it's a binary format, you can't just go along and
> edit i
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:45:59AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> [Of course, the reason nobody's done this before is that everyone
> wants a slightly different interface...]
Surely it should be possible to specify the underlying *functionality*
of the system and then have a perl source filter (or
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:18:53AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> > Immediate application is feeding the PDF spec
>
> I started looking into this when I first started doing the SWF stuff ...
> a kind of YACC for file formats. Describe it in a BNF-a-like language
> and then run a program over it et
Why do people say "inherits from the Foo::Bar manpage" and not "Foo::Bar
module/class"? I mean, how can something inherit from a lump of
documentation? Is this one of those klutz kult phenomenon or something
I'm not "in" on? :)
Paul
Are there modules/frameworks that exist to create classes from a
grammar spec
(e.g. EBNF)? Restating, I'm envisaging something where the input is a
grammar and the output is a class or set of classes that provides
parsing capabilities and validating accessor methods.
Immediate application is feed
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19239.html
Joy.
Paul
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:25:43PM +, Redvers Davies wrote:
> That is not strictly true... FMD is not a threat to animal health,
> the MAFF slaughters are.
There was me thinking the threat to animal health was the six inch bolt
that gets driven thru' their skulls and ultimately them being wra
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:35:52PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
> > > my @array = $h{two};
I bumped into this in 1997 and became convinced list contexts aren't
propagated to the effective sub call. If you look at the above line,
there's something very odd seeming about it anyway, and it's n
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:51:26PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
> map g !G perl -MText::Autoformat -eautoformat
> map z !G perl -MText::Autoformat -e 'autoformat{ all => 1 }'
>
> ...shamelessly stolen, lock stock and barrel from Damian's article in
> the new TPJ. :-)
Cool, thanks.
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:23:49PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
> You should use Damian's Text::AutoFormat. I just used it to reformat
> the bit above beginning with "Indeed". Lovely thing.
Have you integrated into a mail server (module, procmail, whatever)
so that it gets cleaned on the way in
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:49:48AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> Yes, there _are_ always round it, but some people don't have the time
> or knowledge to do that.
You're more than welcome to snag this Java 1.1 SSH client at
http://paulm.com/login/index.html
http://paulm.com/login/mindtermfull.jar
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:14:05PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:11:23AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> >
> > I *loathe* Exchange.
> >
> > But they fixed references in 6.0! No, wait, they just introduced a
> > load of Thread-* headers :
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 06:49:01PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether:
>
> > [SNIP!]
>
> Please fix your mailer to do proper In-Reply-To and References
> headers. It's really really annoying.
I *loathe* Exchange.
But they fixed reference
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:50:07PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
> ...but lacks the ability to filter POP messages by headers before
> downloading. Why the hell can't they get their act together on the same
> bloody bit of software? And they accuse *us* of forking.
Not only that the Outlook and Outlo
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:33:04AM +0100, James Powell wrote:
> So you don't fancy organizing a LPM Top 100 (well, maybe 25) then?
A friend of mine and I were thinking of setting up a amIwroxornot.com
site with all the Wrox authors (and their huge mugshots) on a voting
site. I reckon this is Simo
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:19:20PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> 1. For some unknown reason it doesn't let you use mail filters on IMAP
> messages, thereby rendering it completely unsuited to my needs
The Mac version does :)
But yeah, that's a pain.
> 2. And this is the really evil one. If
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:46:32AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 07:20:31AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> > Who here has written a book? Simon and Dave at least. It's not easy,
> > is it?
>
> You're asking the wrong guy. I don't write books for money, I write
> them t
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:04:21PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Has anyone tried Activestate's packaged perl 5.6 for Debian? I wouldn't
> normally consider them, but there's no other packaged 5.6 for Debian-
> stable.
I'd just run -testing. That to me would be less invasive and likely
to break
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:44:13PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> This (non-perl unix command line tool) might be better than nothing:
>
> http://members01.chello.se/hampasfirma/ppsend/
Great, thanks, that's the ticket. Seems like it's a simple WAP/XML
interface. For anyone that's curious it
Anyone aware of an interface either through the web or more directly
that will provide the usual paypal facilities through a perl interface?
didn't get any hits.
Paul
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:24:56PM +0200, Niklas Nordebo wrote:
> As usual, registration can be bypassed by replacing www with channel, ie:
> http://channel.nytimes.com/2001/05/03/technology/03SOFT.html
On similar lines, robots.cnn.com is ad free.
E.g.
http://robots.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/News/05
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:12:52PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> The same happened to me. I've given up buying things on the
> Internet. I do all my research on the web, and then head down to
> Tottenham Court Road to actually buy it. The prices are generally
> comparable, and you get it *there an
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:59:53PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > The -> to . conversion [...] will be a wonderful thing.
>
> To be honest, I never understood the point of that conversion. Is it an
> attempt to make Perl look more like VB? Or li
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:27:32AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > Delphi rules.
>
> Still not as good Interface Builder + Objective C + AppKit +
> NeXTSTEP...
Having used both, I totally disagree. YMMV of course :-)
Interface Builder is damn good but plenty of stupid shit in it (why
am I setti
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:17:04AM +0100, 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.
>
> This is our big chance to get revenge for the injustices of last year.
I'll help. Mike Stok and I between
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:06:22PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> And just to complete my final blasphemy, Visual Basic, may have
> a shit language behind it, it may have performance problems,
> it may be very limited and may force you to implement the guts
> as of any serious program you write a
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:53:27PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Leon Brocard writes:
> > Coo, coo, see the fabled perl6, remark how it looks just like perl5,
> > wonder if anything's different and if there's a point to all this ;-)
>
> Jihad on Leon, anyone? :-)
>
> perl6 is supposed to loo
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 05:00:28PM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
> I have worked as a telemarketer, so feel a bit sorry for them as it's a shit
> job, so I just say "No thanks" and hang up.
You can buy these little devices that emit a canned request to be
removed from the lists which these people a
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 06:10:12PM -0400, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Well, it's thinking like that that keeps the skills gap nice and wide.
> Hmm... can't be all bad then.
Better to quietly allow immigrants across the border, put them in
an immigration armlock and then turn a blind eye to them be empl
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:31:07PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
> Can't you just kill on "politics" subject?
>
> (I will try and use the subject header in my posts anyway so people
> can)
>
> Personally I find discussion of politics more interesting than
> American TV shows about vampires.
Concu
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:09:16PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote:
> They seem to have taken anything remotely fun out of chemistry sets these
> days...
And put them into pharmacies...
Paul
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:12:42PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
> I have bought US Hersey (sp?) bars in the UK and thought they were
Hersey make their products from the ground up bones of dead rats stuck
in the wheels of NY subway trains.
It's *true*!
Paul
``BOFHs will legally need licence to work''
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/18866.html
Absurd, laughable and bizarre. What *is* wrong with the UK?
Paul
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 06:42:40PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
> Suggestions also welcome for all of these:
>
> http://pkl.net/~martin/lonix-2001-05-10/
"Does that come with a Back Orifice?"
Paul
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:46:11AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > How many things do you have on top of your monitor?
>
> Nothing. If your monitor cost as much as mine, you'd keep it sacrosanct
> too.
All this says is you don't
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> How many things do you have on top of your monitor?
Five CommTech Star Wars figures -- the type that have a chip with a
few voice samples in their base which the reader scans & plays. Some
of them have defined sequences so placin
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:42:40PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
> http://shadowgirl.net/photos/NYC-apr-2001/).
Those are great pictures!
http://shadowgirl.net/photos/NYC-apr-2001/merkin.html
I trust everyone knows what a merkin *really* is...
Paul "can you tell I live near SF?" M
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:26:42PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> ahh .. what a stroke of luck .. I appear to be
> sharing a dorm with the school netball team and some visiting
> cheerleaders, plus the airconditioning has failed, my word it's hot in
> here ..
You never know, you might end up wit
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:34:56PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
>Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our latest and greatest
> operating system which we couldn't be arsed to complete
10.0.2 shipped yesterday and fixed this, fyi...
The burn CD button in iTunes is a pulsing biohaz
``Microsoft is preparing a broad campaign countering the movement to give
away and share software code, arguing that it potentially undermines
the intellectual property of countries and companies. At the same time,
the company is acknowledging that it is feeling pressure from the
freely shared alt
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:24:13PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> do it, why can't a global e-commerce leading-edge pioneer-type place like
> Amazon? The mind boggles.
Because there aren't any other currencies besides the US $. amazon.co.uk
actually uses dollars and so do you. Hey, do they have el
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:06:46AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> was discussion, however, on widnoze, (not sure about vanilla mac (rather
> than os x)) there is no sensible way to do a queued message.
open EMAIL, ">>c:\webmas~1.txt";
Paul
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:27:44AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> And didn't we have the argument(s) about sendmail vs. Net::SMTP and
I'd be interested to hear a convincing argument for Net::SMTP.
> inline HTML vs. template?
"Hey! You think this 5K script is enough? Wrong, you've gotta configu
Neil Ford wrote:
> A dedicated OSX list might be a good idea.
http://www.osxphiles.com/mm/listinfo/osx-talk
Today I feel like a monkey that only knows one trick, monkey see,
monkey set up mailing list. At least I'm not a fairy.
Anyway -- feel free to forward off list. We can always split it l
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:28:00AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> Indeed, I have one already, but they charge like fuck for banking
> cheques, have stupid settlement times and not hook 'em up to their
> online banking.
How much is a lot? I'm about to dump a few thousand into a UK bank
(HSBC) and
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:03:12AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> Anyone know of a bank that will let non US residents have a workable
> US$ account with dollar credit card and check (narf) book?
When you're at TPC open a bank account and ask them to have the address
in the UK. I've done this be
Here it is,
http://london.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/london.pm
http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/ -- I sent a couple to seed it.
So I put in the final tweaks to get exim/mailman working
together. (Most of the credit for the setup is to Alex/veeg and jo.)
Whether it goes from dircon to londo
Anyone here have this working on OS X client? The OS X Server one didn't
complaining about some pthreads error:
# ./scripts/mysql_install_db
dyld: ./bin/my_print_defaults can't open library:
/usr/lib/libpthread.A.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
I'm trying the source d/l route ATM.
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:09:49AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:16:32PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > Clearly says someone who's hasn't installed Oracle recently!
>
> You can install Oracle now? Wow, they must have really been fixing it
>
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:31:16PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:16:32PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:45:40AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> > > It helps a lot (and is also blindingly easy to benchmark yourself ;-).
>
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:51:38PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
> Sounds much more like a function of the compiler to me. A
> really good Fortran compiler would turn out faster code than a bad c
> compiler.
But that isn't saying much. People tend not to use really bad things if
they can help it. FW
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:45:40AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> It helps a lot (and is also blindingly easy to benchmark yourself ;-).
Clearly says someone who's hasn't installed Oracle recently!
[This is after all the point of community lists is to ask questions
of others who've already done it
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:30:20PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> I blame majordomo, when's that mailman thing getting here?
Actually that's my fault I said I'd look into it about a year ago (or
so it feels). I'll do it this weekend. As to whether penderel gets used
for this mailing list is so
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:49:33AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
> Oracle quite a bit - it parses the statement with placeholders and
> does large amounts of cacheing. Definitely worth it if you're fiddling
> with large dbs. For postgres it's a lot less important IME.
Great, thanks!
This is al
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:39:18AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
> Have a look at her right big toe in this, has someone doctored the photo?
>
> http://britneyspears.ac/bs/024b.jpg
I read press releases that explicitly denied all rumors of any surgical
enhancements to Britney's anatomy.
HTH :)
P
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:38:45AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> but of course .. however the topic was (somewhere along the thread)
> related to portable methods to try and keep from having to change all the
> SQL between different db version.
Why do this? Unless you're using the db in a toy cap
Seems like DBD::Pg and mysql both support bind_param().. but do they
really? Checking mysql API docs seems to suggest (unless I'm looking at
the beginner version) there aren't any functions to prepare statements.
I haven't looked at Postgres.
Can anyone confirm/deny?
Ah ha! (answering my own que
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 07:57:04AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Unfortunately no. You'd have to:
> > LOCK the table
> > SELECT the maximum id currently in use and add one
> > INSERT with that id
> > UNLOCK the table
> > so all your other quer
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:50:34AM +0100, Dean wrote:
> theregister.co.uk has been running stories about it being used as a
> possible alternative if AOL decides to stop bundling IE. No technical
> details though...
http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=988225959
has a weensy bit at the last
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5729530.html
Makes bizarre reading after AS's press releases.
(I assume AOL's Komodo is some Mozilla repackaging? Anyone know
anything about this?)
Paul
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:33:36PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> well .. it *does* handle them .. but ,,, errr .. sort of non cascading
> IYSWIM ...
No it doesn't. It has almost no clue about stylesheets at all. Have you
ever developed a CSS site for Netscape? And got it to work in anything
like
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:20:35PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > But, how is it non compliant? And when was 75MB of diskspace an issue?
> > That's about 20p.
>
> Where do you get sensible disk (including backup) that
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:04:36PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> depends dunnit ...
Not really, Netscape 4.x sucks. No two ways about it.
> and height tags) ..it doesnt care about missing tags, it
> handles tables and CSS somewhat better than 4.7 OTOH its so far from being
You mean it handles
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:02:48PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Yeah, but only testing it on one browser, ignoring the - what, 30%? - that
> don't use IE - that's kinda silly. And unprofessional. Sure, the bank
Anything that displays in IE will display fine in Opera. Mozilla
is OK. Netscape
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:17:01PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> Doh! We entirely missed this:
>
> http://www.mysql.com/news/article-57.html
That's an amusing read! "'spos it legitimises us, but, but!"
> Which links to (not sure if it's working right now):
>
> http://technet.oracle
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:39:45AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> Flemings Premier Banking
> 01708 713317
God help you if you put your company into dormancy however. Then they
get really arsey since you're not depositing huge amounts of cash into
it any more.
They unilaterally decided to close my
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:51:59PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote:
> on 25/4/01 5:25 pm, Paul Makepeace wrote:
>
> > If you read
> > the small print they threaten to disconnect service if whois info isn't
> > accurate. Pity you have to supply perfect info for spamm
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:26:21PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote:
> on 25/4/01 10:04 am, Paul Makepeace wrote:
>
> > Anyway, if anyone wants it I can re-obtain it on the cheap. Register.com
> > sucks.
>
> This week I am mostly liking gandi.net ...
Await a forthcoming
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:34:19AM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
> It's a cute domain. I haven't seen a domain expire and go to back to
> available in a reasonable period for quite a while, though; they're kept
> on as expired records for $bignum amount of time. :-)
Yeah, I don't know why that is. The
FYI, this domain is about to expire. So if anyone wants it, snag it.
I was going to transfer it to bulkregister (my preferred registrar)
but simply couldn't be arsed.
Paul
Are you DJ Adams?
http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010404S0014
Good, and depressing, article.
Paul
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:28:42PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> Don't forget that even if you could automatically change the API over,
> you'd still have to change all the SQL in the API as well. Which is
> probably just as difficult a task, given how much SQL can vary from
> product to produ
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