RE: sing if you're happy that way

2001-05-08 Thread Robert Thompson
Chris Has Own Perl Syntax --- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of IBNet Plc. This message contains confidential information and

RE: Monitors

2001-05-11 Thread Robert Thompson
How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Currently none. But at Torrington I had 8 items ( I think ) including marzipan models of Bagpuss (complete with Organ Mouse) and Tux. They have yet to migrate to my job. Rob

RE: BOFHs requiring license

2001-05-14 Thread Robert Thompson
Swapping 'selected by Tony Blair after consultation with his own sycophantic smile' for hereditary strikes me as pretty stupid, corrupt and evil. Cough. It's called confirming and strengthening your own powerbase while undermining that of your opponent. If we're not careful

RE: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)

2001-05-14 Thread Robert Thompson
This is why we should abolish democracy. We need a benevolent dictator. Obviously we can't vote for our dictator (not only is democracy too flawed, but then it wouldn't be a dictator either) so I hereby appoint myself. Why not? The Romans did. The title of Imperator and Dictator were

RE: streaming output

2001-05-16 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Philip Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] At a guess: Content-Encoding: gzip instead. Thanks, I'll give that a try. I've had a look at the relevant rfc's. Which ones? RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1) mentions gzip not x-gzip under 3.5 Content Codings and 3.6 Transfer Codings. I was

RE: streaming output

2001-05-16 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Philip Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] At a guess: Content-Encoding: gzip instead. Yep that worked, thanks Rob - I must memorise rfc's I must memorise rfc's I must memorise rfc's

RE: A look over the shoulder of an XP programmer (auf deutsch)

2001-05-16 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Robin Houston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Do you think it's possible to take XP too far? *Too* extreme? Sure it is. Having two people look at/develop a piece of code is better than one. Therefore having three people must be even better. But why stop there - why not four, five,

RE: Buffy ...

2001-05-17 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Philip Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Cross David - dcross wrote: Oh, and there's a picture of the whole cast, just signed by SMG tho' at http://page.auctions.yahoo.com/uk/auction/51612812. I suppose at this point, grep will wonder why the Bufster uses her fake name when

RE: MIME stuff - Am I missing something?

2001-05-22 Thread Robert Thompson
I don't know if you are parsing mail or something else, Isolated file. If you are trying to figure it out magically based on just the file format or filename or something (e.g. just pointing it at a raw jpeg) I didn't think MIME:: would help. Unfortunately I have to rely on

RE: MIME stuff - Am I missing something?

2001-05-22 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Roger Burton West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] man 1 file man 5 magic less /usr/share/misc/magic # on many systems except anything written my MS of course... Rob --- Any views expressed in this message are those of the

RE: MIME stuff - Am I missing something?

2001-05-22 Thread Robert Thompson
This site contains info about the raw file formats of numerous graphic types, including sig/header block formats. All useful for anyone wanting to play with graphics. http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~mxr/gfx/ Rob --- Any views expressed in

RE: FMD (was Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-21)

2001-05-25 Thread Robert Thompson
From: will Of course we could just build a super-gun (a-la iraq) and shoot bloated carcasses at Redmond. This is my favouite idea. Pigs In Space Rob --- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender,

RE: SQL statements to DB Schema (dia ?)

2001-05-30 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Greg Cope [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I have no DB schema, and as such could dump the SQL schema (via 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

RE: [PUB] Possible candidate

2001-05-31 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Greg McCarroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Good Beer? Nice surroundings (beer garden in summer/open fire in winter)? Food that can be ate in bar? Lots of seating? Quiet (i.e. you can hear each other talk)? Central to ``business'' London? with this scale, Penderels scores

RE: OT,Joke : Forwarded from alt.humour.best.of.usenet

2001-05-31 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Andy Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Thu, 31 May 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote: That's the one. And that _is_ very close to me. Dave... I'd move Andy Nah... Have some fun... Walk down the road wearing a trench coat (preferably black), hat (again black

RE: downloady filenames

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Robin Szemeti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 June 2001 03:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: downloady filenames ISTR somebody explaing the magic incantations you could put after Content-type: text/some-funny-application in order for the browser to try and save it as

RE: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Chris Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Why, when the sun is shining (almost) and there is a popular (?) govt. do I feel like I did in early/mid 70's: like the end of the world was nigh? Hmm, not sure... but is the feeling helped buy having someone in the White House who has no real

RE: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Paul Makepeace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] PS -- that is one truly obnoxiously big sig. I apologise profusely for my employers lawyers need to avoid any form of litigation due to something that I may or may not say to the right or wrong person while sending an email which may or may not

RE: *Buffy's Not Included

2001-06-14 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Leo Lapworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] XML - do it because you need it, not because of the Buzz. Never was one for following the hype - just trying to work out if it's the right tool or not. Part of the problem is probably that I've heard snippets of what XML can do/is good for, and

RE: *Buffy's Not Included

2001-06-14 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Philip Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Roger Burton West wrote: DBD::CSV is your friend. I second that. DBD::CSV is yum. Also handles escaping of double quotes or commas when inserting strings, etc. DBD:CSV seems to be popular and on reading the docs I can see why... ... did I