Re:

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:21:33AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > I found a workaround which I can live with; Do tell -- HTML email pisses me off as much as the the next person and there are a few Lookout/!Exchange users I'd like to clue in. P

Re: sub BEGIN {}

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:19:54PM +0100, Dean wrote: > Well i mean Martin what kind of freak would build a wearable for personal > use... Even going so far as to hack the hardware in a webcam and a touch > pad? ;) This guy -- http://eyetap.org/mann/ I set up one of his exhibits http://www.wearc

Re: Silly postings

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:10:34PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:45:40PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: > > Thanks for reinforcing the view that people outside of New York don't > > know dirt about pizza... :-) > > I thought it was "people outside of Italy". My how times c

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

Greg McCarroll IS Tommy Cooper! Stand-up comedy slots at TPC would get my vote. P On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:29:09PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > I was a cheeky brat as a child, > > I remember having an argument once with a teacher, whose comeback > was - well if you don't study harder w

Re: Appalling vampire joke

Doh. I have the archive too, and knew I should've ~b'ed it but the pain of dial-up prevented me. Sorry 'bout that. P On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:03:06PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:51:45PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > What the hell, it&#x

Re: Test

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:40:03PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Anyway, tip-o-the-day for mutt users. How to get HTML viewed easily and > automatically. I'm not 100% sure of the security aspects, but it's > still better than Lookout. ;-) > > [ ~/.mailcap ]--

Re:

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:34:03AM +0100, Natalie Ford wrote: > ...and maybe people who prefer a GUI? :) http://www.thebat.net/ is good I hear. You can poke around on the server before doing a download which is a neat feature. Paul

Re: Silly postings

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:25:21AM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote: > But what is it about NY toilets that only about three of them flushed > properly during my entire visit? First time I went into a NY public toilet, er, bathroom, I thought "my god -- it's exactly like Duke Nukem" and looked arond fo

Re: Silly postings

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:44:59PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: > You *used* a public toilet in nyc??? eek. I've slept in Central Park too. (I was so ill from sleeping with the 10th floor window open there wasn't much else I could do.) Paul

Torvalds not impressed with OS X

http://www.msnbc.com/news/555930.asp Sadly, lacking on details. Paul, who still likes it.

Re: Torvalds not impressed with OS X

On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 08:30:07AM +0100, Rob Partington wrote: > I mostly like MacOS X, but it is way too resource hungry. I shouldn't > need >64M to run a GUI and Unix comfortably, that's just crap. It's not just *any* GUI though, it's a GUI that does genie-in-a-bottle minimise/restore! Oh y

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

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

Re: TPJ Reborn

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: The Most Boring Thread Ever on London.pm : Cool Letter Heads

On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 08:48:10PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: All roads lead to London.pm, 'twould seem. Welcome aboard crewmates! Paul

Re: Komodo

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 07:12:32PM +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 You mean, "...if you choose to install an OS over the one we're actually supporting for those ope

Re: Komodo

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:52:58AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > actually supporting for those operations"? > > No, I mean "unless you're using our latest and greatest operating system > which, despite us only supporting a limited number of systems to make it This is specious. The ad is runni

Broadcast datagrams

Anyone hackers here sent broadcast packets? I think this is how you do it: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Socket; my $dst = inet_aton("172.30.255.255"); socket(SOCKET, PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, getprotobyname("udp")) or die "socket: $!"; setsockopt(SOCKET, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST, pack(

Re: Komodo

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:12:30AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > if it doesn't work on a standard Perl install its dead in the water IMHO FWIW, I agree. Not only that, if it conflicts with existing distribution's package management that'd be a nightmare. Paul

Re: Komodo

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:44:38AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > The iMac is one of the platforms supported by OS X. One has to assume anyone installing an OS over a different is intelligent enough to read the caveats. > In fact, CD burning doesn't work under OS X on *any* machine and isn't > s

Re: Broadcast datagrams

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:49:20AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > If you have a complete /usr/src installed, look in there for examples > of how it's done in C (it looks like you have a BSD machine - so it's > quite likely /usr/src is populated). The weird thing is this is even happening with A

Re: Broadcast datagrams

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:11:45PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > You're probably going to have to grep through the kernel source to see > why it's being returned in that case. And I have a sneaky suspicion > that the networking stuff is quite changed from the "normal" BSDs... I've been using

Re: Broadcast datagrams

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:41:49PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > According to the book in front of me (UNP2v1, P472): > > "Another question is: what does a multi-homed host do when the > application sends a UDP datagram to 255.255.255.255? Some systems > send a single broadcast on

Re: The Natives are Revolting

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:20:45AM +0200, Marcel Grunauer wrote: > get it to work, and not just because of fonts. Or sendmail - I haven't > really used it much, just to route my personal mail; I ported exim to OS X last week, it was very easy and runs fine (qmail was a dog). Give me another day

Re: JOB: Anyone still looking?

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:17:22AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: > Rate ca. ?22k or equivalent for contract Is that really the going rate for Perl proggers in London? Doesn't seem like much (for reasonable definitions of "progger" :-). Paul

Re: Komodo

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:43:24PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: > You also get ProjectBuilder IDE. It's "Project Builder", read the release notes (they're quite funny). I wish PB had integrated help that worked. I've never had Find by Definitions work on anything except Frameworks (maybe it's not me

Re: The Natives are Revolting

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:33:53AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: > > > > Shame your solution ignored the locking problem... Ha ha, we both just posted simultaneously -- I think between our posts we should have *that* problem sorted. Am

Re: JOB: Anyone still looking?

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:01:10PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: > I'm glad to say I am now employed *cheer*. > > Was a rather nice birthday present to get today. "Congratulations" x 2! > Leo Funny name for an Aries :-) Oh well, fire sign all the same. Paul, 10th Apr.

Re: Komodo

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:46:03PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: > Works with Objective C too. Which is still (for my money) the best way > of messing with the NeXTSTEP object model. s/best/only/ Paul

Re: BtVS : Best Male

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:02:18AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > Robin Szemeti wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, you wrote: > > Hey, Robin -- remember the "reply to list" feature is on; "you wrote" is not > particularly clear :). (In this case, it's Jonathan Stowe, which is > significant.) Yes, p

MySQL -> Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

Here's a perl question (OK, not really).. Is anyone aware of a compatibility/wrapper library which a developer could use to take an app using the MySQL API and with some (ideally) minimal munging turn it into Oracle OCI or Pro*C code? I'm faced with converting a couple of apps that have MySQL sup

Re: MySQL -> Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

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

Perl Monger spotted in the wild

Are you DJ Adams? http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010404S0014 Good, and depressing, article. Paul

perlismybitch.com

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

Re: perlismybitch.com

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

Re: perlismybitch.com

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

Re: perlismybitch.com

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

Re: Good Accountants

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

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-23

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

Re: Good Accountants

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

Re: Good Accountants

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

Re: Good Accountants

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

Re: Good Accountants

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

Another Komodo

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

Re: Another Komodo

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

Re: MySQL -> Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

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

DBD::*->bind_param() ?

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

Re: MySQL -> Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

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

Re: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this

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

Re: DBD::*->bind_param() ?

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

Re: Good Accountants

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

Re: DBD::*->bind_param() ?

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

Re: MySQL -> Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

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

Re: DBD::*->bind_param() ?

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 ;-). >

Re: DBD::*->bind_param() ?

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 >

OS X & MySQL

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.

London.pm@london.pm.org

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

Re: US$ bank account

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

Re: US$ bank account

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

OS X talk

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

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

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

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

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

Re: US$ bank account

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

Microsoft.FUKT

``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

Re: cocktails

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

Re: Buffy musings ...

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

Re: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this

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

Re: Monitors

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

Re: Monitors

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

Re: 101 uses for an inflatable Tux

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

BOFHs requiring license

``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

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:10:00PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: > Plain and simply I don't think java is the right technology for > e-commerce, plain and simple. Why not? Can Perl do distributed database transactions? Can you write stored procedures in Perl? For Oracle? (<-- the database most oft

Re: chocolate was Re: Monitors

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

Re: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)

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

Re: Enough!

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

Re: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)

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

Re: Enough!

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

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

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

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

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

Re: TPC Quiz Team

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

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

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

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

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

Re: pc components

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

Re: Microsoft.FUKT

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

Perlish interface to PayPal?

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

Re: Perlish interface to PayPal?

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

Re: Activestate and Debian

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

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

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

Re: Long shot

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

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

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

Re: Long shot

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

Re: Election Manifestos

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

Re: Election Manifestos

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 :

Re: Election Manifestos

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

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

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

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

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.

Re: wantarray and Tied Hashed

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

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21

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

God bless Micro$oft

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19239.html Joy. Paul

Grammar -> Class creation

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

Odd idiom

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

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