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... ..

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, an

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 no

RE: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 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 r

RE: downloady filenames

2001-06-11 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

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

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 s

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 L

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 sende

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 t

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

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 ha

RE: pc components

2001-05-17 Thread Robert Thompson
> From: Ian Brayshaw > (who'd like to meet either Buffy or Willow in a dark alley...) The man has a death wish... --- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states

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 . > > I suppose at this point, grep will wonder why the Bufster > uses her fake

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: 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: 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 Co

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 we

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: 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: 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 is

RE: Microsoft.FUKT

2001-05-04 Thread Robert Thompson
> > > This is great news for people who aren't huge fans of > Redmond Empire -- > > not only is the spinfo in the article largely wrong (but > superficially > > plausible, typical FUD) but there's nothing they can do about it! > > They're in trouble and they know it. > > > > http://www.nytimes.c