Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

, or in a car, so online copies are relatively useless. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/ (just 2p worth)

Re: Good Accountants

not... -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/ Bsc(Hons) Computer Science University of Manchester Graduated 1995

Re: perlismybitch.com

wrote a script a few years back that downloaded the root zones from (iirc) doc.ic.ac.uk via FTP and compared them with the previous days to find expired or new domains. Checking NS records may be more reliable than the whois information... -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http

Re: The Natives are Revolting

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Ian Brayshaw" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (... Mind you, it all looks lovely(?) and dandy(?) under IE ... you've got to love the "near enough is good enough" approach of M$ ...) "Be liberal in what you accept, conversative in what you

Re: The Natives are Revolting

.) It compiles with a small tweak to the Makefile and removal of the stupid sys_errlist[] declaration in one of the .c files. Seems to work fine, so far. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: (Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

if you're using Samba to share the Unix files. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://browser.org/

Re: Torvalds not impressed with OS X

resource hungry. I shouldn't need 64M to run a GUI and Unix comfortably, that's just crap. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: Crazy Idea

In message D3AF8264E04FD311A18200508B12B1D5037C84AA@SRVLON20, dcross - David Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave... [thing are getting strange, i'm starting to worry...] Should I call Mulder and Scully? -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: Ruby

bit about it. It's fun. It looks cool. It is. :) -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: lvalue subroutines

, or the square root of a pony. I think sqrt(not) only works because it cancels itself out much the same as sqrt(-1) does. Other things don't have the toggle-nature, so wouldn't make sense. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: Quantum Weirdness

have put on weight! -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: template toolkit .. one more kwestion

as just plain [% item %] it works fine if there is one item in the list .. and returns lots of ARRAY0x1241234 if there is more than one ... Sounds like your dereferencing function may be returning a SCALAR instead of an ARRAY when there's only one result? -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

don't talk funny, and I'm not called Hamish. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: Sun's Perl was Re: Application servers and e-commerce platforms

mean that, say, pkg_* don't have the same functionality as RPM? -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: Sun's Perl was Re: Application servers and e-commerce platforms

install the postfix package, you get a script which switches your system mailer between postfix and sendmail. Much nicer than "rpm -e", because if you then don't get on with postfix, just run postfix-disable and you get sendmail back. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: Consultancy company

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] And table football's no fun if you're playing with yourself. Maybe if you kept your hands on the table football...? gdr -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/