I'm off ...

2001-06-14 Thread Robin Szemeti
rons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated: but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." C.S. Lewis -- Robin Szemeti

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Barbie [easynet] wrote: > From: "Robin Szemeti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Barbie wrote: > > > > > They probably could only get away with saying they maintain it due to > the > > > amount of comp

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Robin Szemeti
ssociate with the buggers? > > > I'm half tempted to see what they'd teach me though... :) hmmm .. whilst I don't know what their Perl skills are like I do know they are a generally clueful outfit .. ISTR one of the founders has his name on more than one U

Re: Where's my bloody gun?

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > > > And, as far as the idiots go, I doubt there are any fewer today then there > > were yesterday. > > well .. my theory is: > they say 'theres one born every

FreeBSD v Linux

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
very powerful argument regarding the potential 'back doors' in Linux. http://homepage.tinet.ie/~cullenm/2dart/regi.jpg -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Where's my bloody gun?

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
e hour or so, so they have to send along a particularly stupid one to keep the averages up. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
7ci ... these new fangled litres and things don't work over there yet :)) -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Persistent Perl

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
that. > This should be *much* quicker than normal. sounds like an ideal plan .. the speed of mod perl without the 'this process will be around for years .. if it leaks, you;ll know' sort of problems and also lets you chop and change on the fly .. sounds ace ... is this

RE: downloady filenames

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
p as .'something.pl' now ... ta muchly. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

RE: downloady filenames

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Robert Thompson wrote: > > 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

downloady filenames

2001-06-11 Thread Robin Szemeti
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 'something.xyz' instead of 'scriptname.pl' .. enlighten me please as I have flushed my archive and lost it.

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Robin Szemeti
mention waht a fantastic set of teeth Tony has?' -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Where's my bloody gun?

2001-06-11 Thread Robin Szemeti
ty. keep up to date with those security advisiories girls, and as leisure suit larry always used to say 'save early, save often' ;) -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Where's my bloody gun?

2001-06-11 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh I forgot to mention: > Where's my bloody gun you haven't got one any more, the government decided they were just too dangerous for you to play with. -- Robin Szemeti

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-10 Thread Robin Szemeti
f clothes I have ever seen'... [1] of my hard earned taxes! .. what is most irritating about the crazy way in which you see money being flung about the large IT companies by the ( minority ) govenrment we have is that it is our piggin money they

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-09 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Sat, 09 Jun 2001, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:10:38PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > I complained to the UK Online helpdesk .. they deny all responsiblity > > for the thing .. but can give you helpdesk contacts for the 3 government > > agencies

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-09 Thread Robin Szemeti
y even get onto the site to use it. I complained to the UK Online helpdesk .. they deny all responsiblity for the thing .. but can give you helpdesk contacts for the 3 government agencies contained within the 'government gateway' site .. of course they deny all responsiblity for it as well... -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: JOB: Eng. Proj Management

2001-06-08 Thread Robin Szemeti
ou don;t here very often these days ... -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, Struan Donald wrote: > * at 08/06 11:35 +0100 Robin Szemeti said: > > On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > > > calling wordpad an editor is as laughable as calling vi an editor ;-) > > > > arrghh .. burn the heretic! ... s

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > calling wordpad an editor is as laughable as calling vi an editor ;-) arrghh .. burn the heretic! ... speak brother, for the truth will out .. have you been using [x{0,1]]emacs again ... ? -- Robin Szem

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Robin Szemeti
I was keen on using the memory stick for data capture in a datlogger I;d been working on .. but it lokkslike im stuck with either SmartMedia or CompctFlash ... prolly compact flash as it mounts as a plain IDE device. -- Robin Szemeti

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Robin Szemeti
is possible. > F'rinstance, I'd love the jog dial to work on my laptop, too... and if you could make the 'stop play FF REW' buttons on my inspiron accessible to something linuxy on my Inspiron I'd be pleased too. -- Robin Szemeti

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Robin Szemeti
natively under linux is probably going to be from someone with a copy of IDA pro and Softice reversing the windoze drivers. I just dont get why they wont release specs .. surel;y the plan is to sell as many memory sticks as possible? ..or

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Robin Szemeti
. but... http://www.sterlingxs.co.uk/system/index.html -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)

2001-06-07 Thread Robin Szemeti
want to put linux on it to relieve train boredom. So my only real > want is reasonably standard kit inside and battery life. www.laptopshop.co.uk or just buy a nice new Dell ;) ... -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-06-04

2001-06-07 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote: > 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? hmm .. .. good point ... perha

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-06-04

2001-06-07 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: > From: "Robin Szemeti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >whether there were any Masai tribespeople on the list. Anyone? Anyone? > > > > reminds me of that Reggie Perrin snippet .. > > 'Is there anyone her

Re: Religion

2001-06-06 Thread Robin Szemeti
or google everytime thanks ;)) the thing I really like about google is its uncanny ability not only to index everything .. but it seems able to find the *right* thing .. many many times the thing I want is in the no1 spot .. with AV its

Re: M$ SQueaLServer

2001-06-06 Thread Robin Szemeti
to deal with this sort of mind set? Any advice > (apart from becoming a US postal worker...) hmm .. well .. depends on how much you need the job ... I quit trying to save idiots from themselves years ago ... tell em .. then tell em what

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-06-04

2001-06-06 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: >whether there were any Masai tribespeople on the list. Anyone? Anyone? reminds me of that Reggie Perrin snippet .. 'Is there anyone here from Tarporley ...' I dunno .. maybe I'm getting old.

Re: M$ SQueaLServer

2001-06-06 Thread Robin Szemeti
ng to > find out if it's as ludicrous as it sounds. Ho ho .. Ian, April fools day was ages ago ... I didn't even reallise you could get NT for serious mips .. I though it only ran on likkle PC things ... -- Robin Szemeti Redpo

Re: Religion

2001-06-06 Thread Robin Szemeti
s now died.) my word, a company run by clueballs, what a totally unique concept. ;) -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Tie::Hash::Cannabinol

2001-06-06 Thread Robin Szemeti
le it begins attaching really carefully constructed little data structures to each element of the hash, and then filling little arrays of data structures with really small patterns ... -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Religion

2001-06-06 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Paul Mison wrote: > On 06/06/2001 at 10:47 +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: > >On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 19:54:04 +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > >> however Sir Arnold Bax [1] got slightly closer to the truth: > >> > >> "One should try everyt

Re: tape changes

2001-06-05 Thread Robin Szemeti
ollection of shell scripts .. hmm .. decisions decisions. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: tape changes

2001-06-05 Thread Robin Szemeti
ff site incase of damage by fire/flood/vampires/cleavage -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: tape changes

2001-06-05 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Robin Szemeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > hmm .. we're trying to justify a move to 5gb a month .. at which point > > Nildram sounds like a cheaper option. ... is Aylesbury nice? > > There's some nice vil

Re: tape changes

2001-06-05 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:10:47PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:31:37AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > > [hosting providers] > &

Re: tape changes

2001-06-05 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:31:37AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > [hosting providers] > > so thats another big vote for Nildram then .. > [snip] > > hmm .. we're trying to justify a move to 5gb a month .. at which point

Re: tape changes

2001-06-05 Thread Robin Szemeti
just take your tape out till the 1st of july ...' > 15 quid a shot sounds expensive to me - 15 quid a week is sort of > justifiable if it is a dirt-cheap host. hmm .. we're trying to justify a move to 5gb a month .. at which point Nildram sounds like a cheaper option. ... is Aylesbur

tape changes

2001-06-04 Thread Robin Szemeti
umm .. so .. you people with boxen in various places .. quick show of hands: is 15 quid a shot cheap [ ] normal [ ] expensive [ ] for lobbing a dat tape into a box and slinging in a new one? -- Robin Szemeti

Re: BUFFY - SPOILERS , DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN SKY 1 LAST NIGHT

2001-06-03 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Sun, 03 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, 03 Jun 2001, Neil Ford wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 04:45:45PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:19:56AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:

Re: BUFFY - SPOILERS , DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN SKY 1 LAST NIGHT

2001-06-03 Thread Robin Szemeti
ng; > [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 "vision" demonstrated by rival ne

Re: Religion

2001-06-02 Thread Robin Szemeti
per tradition! ;-) I thought it was tying a piece of electrical flex around your kneck and putting an orange in your mouth .. or is that a different tradition? but I digress ... you've just reminded me of the Ali G episode when he visited Belfast ... '

Re: Religion

2001-06-02 Thread Robin Szemeti
s and handkerchiefs whilst jangling like a tambourine on heat> hmmm .. maybe I need to see this. however Sir Arnold Bax [1] got slightly closer to the truth: "One should try everything once, except incest and folk dancing" nuff said. [1] oft, incorrectly, attributed to Ge

Re: General Election

2001-06-02 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Sat, 02 Jun 2001, Barbie [easynet] wrote: > From: "Robin Szemeti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I understand folk singers sometime place a finger over their ear whilst > > singing. Perhaps Mr Bragg should try that. I doubt it would improve his > > singi

Re: General Election

2001-06-02 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Sat, 02 Jun 2001, Piers Cawley wrote: > Robin Szemeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > > > > There's a fine version of it to this tune by Billy Bragg and Dick Gaughn on > > > BB's m

RE: General Election

2001-06-01 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote: > There's a fine version of it to this tune by Billy Bragg and Dick Gaughn on > BB's mini-album "The Internationale". undef error - Can't locate auto/Billy/Bragg/tune.a

Re: Decompression

2001-05-31 Thread Robin Szemeti
and anyone with a sample script can earn a pint ;) > > Also for future reference does any one know a better way to do this than > Compress::Zlib, core or non-core. I suppose # tar -xzf [archivename] [filename/that/you.want] is too easy .. I'm missing somet

Re: Slow disks under linux

2001-05-31 Thread Robin Szemeti
rt for my ATI Mobilty r128 sorted out still cant have the 2nd monitor or tvout stuff working under Linux .. does under windoze though ... and ATI reckon to provide oodles of assistance to the Linux community so it should happen soon i hope. -- Robin Szemeti

Re: Slow disks under linux

2001-05-31 Thread Robin Szemeti
... and it didn;t explode like the manpage said it might. another tip is to mount the two IDE devices on seperate controllers .. seems to improve things sometimes. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Y::E accomodation

2001-05-30 Thread Robin Szemeti
otels that are only prepared to take bookings for 1 hour slots. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: bad greg

2001-05-30 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:38:17AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > i'm sorry about asking this, but i've purged too many old archives > > > of london.p

Re: bad greg

2001-05-30 Thread Robin Szemeti
fterwards - could they please remind me of the > url? www.register.com -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Grammar -> Class creation

2001-05-29 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:59:48AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: > > > > > Other programming languages need code generators to spit out > > > libraries. Perl doesn't

Re: Grammar -> Class creation

2001-05-29 Thread Robin Szemeti
ll shout 'CAMEL' if Leon uses the words qw/ baby groovy yeah/ in the same mail. .. this could be quite often. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

umm MakeMaker?

2001-05-29 Thread Robin Szemeti
so .. I've RTFM and still don't get it. ExtUtils::MakeMaker .. how do I get it to run a script at make time .. I have a .pl in a directory that I need run every 'make' .. I know how to add it as a POSTOP or PREOP to a 'make dist' or whatever .. but not just on

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

2001-05-25 Thread Robin Szemeti
s .. and I was intending wearing them, not eating em. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

2001-05-24 Thread Robin Szemeti
l 4 launch just as you are entering puberty. umm I'm not sure I can remember that far back ... was it in 405 line ? ... > think on you young-uns, before that the sexiest thing on TV was that > monster who ate the sandwich in the last round of the adventure game ? .. there are obviously some major gaps in my knowledge here .. perhaps I spent too long in the cellar playing with sparks when I was a kid ... -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

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

2001-05-24 Thread Robin Szemeti
ong before they get chance to breed themselves. on the plus side, a large number of farmers have used the generous MAFF payouts to convert from hill sheep farming to other more profitable schemes. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

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

2001-05-24 Thread Robin Szemeti
*without anyone even noticing* ... now .. thats what I call a serious disease. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

RE: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

2001-05-24 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Matthew Jones wrote: > > > Wow, and she's got three kids by Steven Seagal. > > > > The eighties were a crazy decade and people did a lot of things they > > regret. > > Well, would *you* say "no" to Steven Sea

Re: Buffy gear

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Barry Pretsell wrote: > > QVC are selling lots of Buffy gear, tune into QVC now, or check out the wbesite eughh! when you say 'Buffy gear' do you mean as in 'we guarantee these were worn by Buffy ... ' or something entirely more celeubrio

RE: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Robin Szemeti
;d still be able to install it far easier than anyone else in the > group :) Sqwebmail is nice .. works well with the Qmail/Vopmail/Courier-IMAP suite .. been running it on a couple of sites for a couple of years and not had much trouble (apart from thick users) ... -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-22 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Paul Mison wrote: > On 22/05/2001 at 16:19 +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > >the immediate feeling I get is to rent some cellars at the houses of > >parliament and invest in a number of big barrels of gunpowder .. oh hang > >on that ones been done bef

Re: [OT] Food exports?

2001-05-22 Thread Robin Szemeti
I can't tell you how upset he was .. mainly cos its got too many 'll's in it. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

2001-05-22 Thread Robin Szemeti
inberger headless .. dirt cheap these days and rather fun. :) Best of all its so small .. add in a Korg Pandora 2 personal effects/amp and you have the ultimate hotel room practice set up. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-22 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Chris Heathcote wrote: > on 22/5/01 4:19 pm, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > > thank goodness for > > proportioanl representation, it should make the next parliament a lot > > more representative of what people actually want, ratehr than a choice > >

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-22 Thread Robin Szemeti
is to rent some cellars at the houses of parliament and invest in a number of big barrels of gunpowder .. oh hang on that ones been done before and had a distinctly negative outcome .. OK .. perhaps someting more subtle then ;) -- Robin Szemeti

Re: Long shot

2001-05-21 Thread Robin Szemeti
base.msql thats a choice of about 20 or so all in .. should be one you like ;-)) -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

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

2001-05-21 Thread Robin Szemeti
de it bigtime with a calendar .. but I don;t think the novelty of seeing London.pm arranged in orfer of merit and semi clad will do the quite the same thing. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

2001-05-20 Thread Robin Szemeti
tical question anyway, I just cant stand CD books .. yuk yuk yuk .. there is something rather satisfying about a nicely printed book, on nice paper with good typography that the digital version will never match. .. The Addison-Wesley ones for instance, and Robert Bringhurst's 'Elements of Typograhic Style' come to mind ] -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

2001-05-20 Thread Robin Szemeti
h school kid with 500 ripped off playstation games and promptly claim thats 20,000 dollars of lost sales .. like the kid would have spent 20,000 dollars on games. So yeah .. try and get the site pulled .. (shouldn't be that hard) but don;t worry too much I doubt its hurting your pocket in re

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

2001-05-20 Thread Robin Szemeti
ather nicely from the whole thing thankyou. They are of course brainless bimbettes but thats another matter. I do find it rather objectionable is having them learing off the counter of every petrol station and newsagent you go to, when they should be on a nice high shelf somewhere. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

2001-05-20 Thread Robin Szemeti
lish something. It only harms your business if A exceeds B by a significant anount. Most people who would have actually bought a real one .. actually buy a real one. Most dodgy copies are kept by people who wouldn't have bought one anyway. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Some Northern Irish Fun and Games ...

2001-05-18 Thread Robin Szemeti
oldest Budhas in the world ? ... I'm beginning to have a real downer on all religions right now. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

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

2001-05-17 Thread Robin Szemeti
rt of an online edit system ... something around 16K rings a bell. you see quite a few go on Yahoo .. Indys seem to be about 100 quid, Indigo 2/extreme seems to be about 250 ... and they were *slightly* more than that not very long ago -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Shoot out

2001-05-17 Thread Robin Szemeti
ntiation .. thats quite heavily weighted in the results and inherited into other tests so that should move perl up a bit. weirdly .. one thing I tried 'hmm no explicit DESTROY sub,... hmm I wonder if it spends time searching for one .. I'll make a sub DESTROY { } and see if it speeds i

Re: e-mail

2001-05-17 Thread Robin Szemeti
gt; take a least 1 wheelbarrow. Its only tonight though so get down there. hope its not too late. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Python beats perl to dia plugin..

2001-05-16 Thread Robin Szemeti
do the same for Dia, but surely a betterer plan would be not to involve SIOD at all and simply write a XS module to access the Dia api directly from Perl? -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Buffy ...

2001-05-16 Thread Robin Szemeti
http://page.auctions.yahoo.com/uk/auction/51586918 -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Dell asset numbers ..

2001-05-16 Thread Robin Szemeti
does anyone happen to know if you can discover the asset number of a Dell poweredge swerver remotely? apparenlty its 'in the bios' .. how useful. [ I need to order a part .. Dell needs an asset tag number .. the swerver is in mailbox .. I'm 200 miles away .. ] -- Robin Sz

Re: Transtec Sparc Clones

2001-05-16 Thread Robin Szemeti
http://www.tadpole.com/cycle/index.htm the laptop is particularly funky. A freind has one .. I don't know eaxactly how much they are but 30K was rumoured ... -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Caller ID (was Re: Enough!)

2001-05-16 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:59:07AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > I do keep intending to do something cute with my ISDN adapter and log the > > stuff coming out of the D channel and see whats in there ... but time has > > preve

Re: Caller ID (was Re: Enough!)

2001-05-16 Thread Robin Szemeti
e telcos still have access to the routing information internally, for call tracing and such, but its not passed on to the customer. I do keep intending to do something cute with my ISDN adapter and log the stuff coming out of the D channel and see whats in there ... but time has prevented it etc. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Enough!

2001-05-15 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:09:47PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > yeah .. thats fine .. it doesn't work from creaky old strowger exchanges > > either (are there any of those left ? ) but there is a subtle difference > > bet

Re: Enough!

2001-05-15 Thread Robin Szemeti
he same reason I have a kill file and sometime enable the RBL options in sendmail .. junk crap winds me up, phone calls, mail, email. Find me a spammer and I'll find something slow and lingering to do to it. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Enough!

2001-05-15 Thread Robin Szemeti
I've seen it b4 .. excellent site. In a previous life I had occasional cause to fiddle with such things, most entertaining. Watching a group selector in action is a rare sight .. and the noise of a large exchange in action has to be experienced. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Enough!

2001-05-15 Thread Robin Szemeti
hheld' and 'number unavailable' ... rejecting on withheld is reasonable, reject on unavailable might not be such a good idea. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World

Re: Enough!

2001-05-15 Thread Robin Szemeti
isations have an alternate presentation number so you get the number of the switchboard ratehr than the office extension number. I simply don't want people phoning me up who refuse to own up to who they are before they invade my privacy. -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!

Re: Log::Agent

2001-05-15 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 15 May 2001, you wrote: > (look, a perl question) what is this 'Perl' of which you speak? .. is it a custom of your people? -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!

Re: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)

2001-05-14 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 14 May 2001, you wrote: > But it does mean you need some > really AWFUL schools to pull the average down... AIUI suitable arrangments have been put in place to enable this to happen. -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!

Re: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)

2001-05-14 Thread Robin Szemeti
ar by year and the picture becomes all to dismal. What the hell happened to the youth that did amusing things with steam engines, collected stamps and had a chemistry set? .. give a 16 year old a chemistry set today and they'd try and inject it. -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!

RE: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)

2001-05-14 Thread Robin Szemeti
ion of phoney names and get a grammar school turned into a comprehensive. Its simple jealousy 'we've wrecked our school and now we're going to wreck yours' .. its social decline. Hospitals are much the same. Theres enough cash, but it seldom ends up in the right place. Basic

Re: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)

2001-05-14 Thread Robin Szemeti
money? .. like fox hunting, proportional representation etc ... ?? does anyone happen to have one of those little plastic credit card things they were giving out before the last election with 10 things 'let us be judged on these:' .. -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!

Re: mod perl

2001-05-10 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 10 May 2001, you wrote: > Robin Szemeti sent the following bits through the ether: > > > so what is the preffered debugging method for discovering what this > > little leak might be .. strip the app down and build bit by bit .. or is > > there a clever way of

Re: mod perl

2001-05-10 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 10 May 2001, you wrote: > From: "Robin Szemeti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > so what is the preffered debugging method for discovering what this > > little leak might be .. strip the app down and build bit by bit .. or is > > there a clever way of lo

mod perl

2001-05-10 Thread Robin Szemeti
gging method for discovering what this little leak might be .. strip the app down and build bit by bit .. or is there a clever way of looking at heap contents? -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Robin Szemeti
transport. [1] although since you can't move much livestock other than horses around right now, horses might be fetching a premium wiht the pet food lot, so the price might be up a bit. -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread Robin Szemeti
bbage, or so he told me... and the airconditioning has failed -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!

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