Re: YAPC::Europe: flights, hotels and minigolf.
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 04:51:24PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: shit i just had a thought, do easy jet serve drinks? do they? please say they do? *panic starts to set in* ;-) Yes ... but they charge for them ... Tony -- -- Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.tmtm.com/ numb and confused battered and bruised counter of cost and star-crossed -- PGP signature
Re: Some pretty pictures ...
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:23:26PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: Just thinking about why they are your favourites and what you did to make the image will improve your general photography. Certainly my contacts sheets have got generally better as I've taken more photographs and gone through the editing process with them. Not very perlish I'm afraid. Learning what you do well by studying it, and getting better over time isn't perlish? Weird. I though that was part of the essence of perl. Tony -- -- Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.tmtm.com/ life is a sleazy stranger - and this is his favourite bar -- PGP signature
Re: Some Northern Irish Fun and Games ...
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:27:10AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: This is the sort of thing that happens in the country i grew up in http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_1336000/1336347.stm cue bad joke: - Why do Free Presbyterians not have sex standing up? - It might lead to dancing. Tony -- -- Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.tmtm.com/ sheep-boy, duck-call, swan-song, idiot son of Donkey Kong -- PGP signature
Re: Shoot out
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:19:27PM +0200, Merijn Broeren wrote: Have you seen http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ ? My pike loving friend was amused to see Perl and Python trounced. But the testing rig was written in Perl at least. His perl isn't necessarily the fastest in all cases. I sped some of his scripts up quite significantly - enough to move it back up above Python anyway ;) It's all quite interesting. Tony -- -- Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.tmtm.com/ make me laugh make me cry enrage me don't try to disengage me -- PGP signature
Re: Boozers in Dublin
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:41:36AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: with a webcam and they used to all go in and wave at as at exactly 12:30 so we could see them when we were in birmingham .. it was sorta nice. err .. no .. I lied .. it was Belfast ... you could commute? cue local info from Tony I can give local info re: Belfast - i.e. the pub mentioned above was probably The Crown, which is actually owned by the National Trust, but I don't really know Dublin too well Tony -- -- Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.tmtm.com/ si me asesinan, resucitare en el alma del pueblo -- PGP signature
Re: The Natives are Revolting
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:37:31PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Well, one of them has finally snapped and is currently having a real go at me. If you want to take a look, read the thread that starts at: http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl?read=4453 "And I can program better than you any day of the week. Bring it on if you want a challange. I will totally blow you and any supporter away in a programming match." Tony -- ------ Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.tmtm.com/ I'd rather walk than crawl but my heels are aching -- PGP signature
Re: Tie::Scalar::Decay ...
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:41:51PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Didn't Tony from Blackstar do this already? Yes, but a) he never released it on CPAN At the time I was under a contract which didn't let me do this... I should really upload some stuff now ... Tony -- -- Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.tmtm.com/ epiphany just went to ground, 3 wise men just can't be found -- PGP signature
use Aegis;
How can any of you fail to want to use Aegis now? - Forwarded message from Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Subject: Aegis 3.25 - project change supervisor From: Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am pleased to announce that Aegis 3.25 has been released. http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/aegis/ * There is a new aebuffy(1) command, which may be used to see what changes a user has outstanding. It needs X11 (Tk/Tcl) to work. Named after the xbuffy(1) command. ... - End forwarded message - Tony -- -- Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.tmtm.com/ may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple --
Re: Job: I'm looking for one..
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:47:03PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: I'd advise getting some non-trainers involved as well, perhaps Blackstar and other Perl businesses? (their hook will be that they become partners and get logo placement in whatever pseudo forum/organisation does this) Somehow I doubt that the company still known as BlackStar will be that interested. I may be interested in being involved from a different perspective though Tony -- -- Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.tmtm.com/ we barely have time to react in this world let alone rehearse --
Re: April Meetings
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: The April meetings are approaching and we have no firm plans for them yet. The social meeting will be on April 5th. Last plan I remember was that mstevens was going to investigate booking the cellar bar at the Cittie of Yorke. Did that happen? Hmmm or, you could have your social meeting in Belfast, while Schwern is still here ... Tony -- -- Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.tmtm.com/ girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need --
Re: Module of the Year contender...
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 12:14:44PM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: From ny.pm. The meme is spreading :) At Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:01:19 +, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the shoulders of such giants as Date::Christmas, Date::Discordian and Date::Tolkien::Shire stands Date::MMDDYY! http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Date-MMDDYY Reason #120398 why I need to get CPANTS off the ground. This is what happens when I forward London.pm mail internally ... Tony -- -- Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.tmtm.com/ make me laugh make me cry enrage me don't try to disengage me --
Re: FW: Kevin Smith Film Fest - Non-HTML version!
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:12:11PM +, Jon Eyre wrote: Mi vida loca (1993) Teenage Drug Customer nothing else which I've seen... He has a fairly significant part in Mumford, as a skateboarding tech millionaire ... Tony -- -- Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.tmtm.com/ sheep-boy, duck-call, swan-song, idiot son of Donkey Kong --
Re: OT: Buffy (or not OT, depending on your point of view)
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:20:58AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: sounds like someone needs to buy the DVD and see if it comes with a cinema trailer But, where would one buy DVDs? Tony -- - Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk If I'm feigning coherence and calmness Laugh with me -
Re: Amazon Sales Rank
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:56:24PM +, Paul Mison wrote: Didn't the case of 'A Fist In the Bush' prove that Amazon's "Sales" rankings are actually down to how many people look at things? Wasn't that more to do with the "people who like like also like *this*" rankings that the actual sales ranks, which they claim are actually based on sales, and not even on who's paid them most? Tony -- --------- Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk don't you know how hard it is to hit the ground and mean it -
Migrating from 5.005 to 5.6
So, we've a pretty large system running on 5.005_03. We want to move to 5.6. We've been running several development machines on 5.6 without any noticeable problems, but it's impoosible to test by hand every possible script etc that could be run. Are there any known gotchas that we should be aware of before switching on our production machines? I can't find a list anywhere. All the deltas and what's news etc all just talk about new features, not any backwards problems... Thanks, Tony -- - Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right -
Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:40:56PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: If you present the chart in a different format to how they did then there's nothing they can do... Take a look at http://www.bath.ac.uk/~bssnrw/getchart.html for a differing viewpoint. OK ... when I said "there's nothing they can do", I of course meant there's nothing they can do if you're prepared to actually fight them in court, not "they can't send you threatening legal letters that actually carry no legal weight". There's nothing at that page to suggest that CIN were doing anything other than throwing their weight around just to scare someone off. Which is what companies do all the time. I paid thousands of pounds for legal advice on this very issue (albeit about 5 years ago), and the opinion I got was "factual information cannot be copyrighted - only the arrangement of it". The classic case is someone who retypes a phone book. You can't reissue it in the same order (i.e. alphabetic by surname) as the original, but you could quite happily order it numberic by phone number and no-one could do anything... Tony -- ----- Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk make me laugh make me cry enrage me don't try to disengage me -
Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:03:52AM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: The fact you are recording is "What Billboard said was number one". *That* is a fact. Why they decided it was number one isn't the issue. How about if I put up a website wherein I disclose the fact: "This is what the object code to commercial app looks like?" If people can't see a difference here, then let's just leave it to the lawyers. We'll just go round and round for ages... Tony -- --------- Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk i don't want the world i just want your half -
Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:53:12PM -, Matthew Jones wrote: Is this relevant at all? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16147.html "The injunction was granted thanks to new European database laws that essentially assume data to be copyrightable" Almost certainly. As I say, my legal dealings here were 5 years ago when it wasn't... Does that mean things like the Billboard charts? They could certainly try and demonstrate an adverse effect on their revenues from licensing their listings... Well, you're into transatlantic stuff if the site was in the UK, but this new law would massively complicate things. Tony -- ----- Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk beneath it's shining like gold but better rumours of glory -
Re: Consultancy company was [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:42:55PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: have to pay them back with interest and stuff. equity surely? ;-) Yes. But if you're successful the "interest" rate is huge ;) But if you're not, well, they lose the money and not you. FWIW It's much easier to negotiate with VCs if you're already well established and actually have revenue and commitments and stuff Tony -- ----- Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk my Uncle Sol had a skunk farm but the skunks caught cold -
Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:54:50PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: We're planning a London Open Source Convention. The dates we're looking hard at now are August 20-23. Are there any obvious clashes Depends on how quickly people can get back from Vancouver: http://www.geekcruises.com/home/ss_home.html Tony -- - Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk let's do tricks with chicks and clocks, sir -
Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:26:24PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: Who's chart would you use? I.E., who do you want to be sued by? I don't know about the UK, but Billboard (THE chart in the US) is very picky about such things. They can't easily sue. The information is factual. Factual information cannot be copyrighted. Only the arrangement of it. If you present the chart in a different format to how they did then there's nothing they can do... (ObDisclaimer: IANAL, although I have taken legal advice on this matter...) Tony -- - Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk if more people were screaming then I could relax -
Re: Access Control Lists and Functions
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 04:53:57PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: I started learning Japanese when the NI administration decided to teach it to joint classes of catholic children and protestant children. Hence it was a good way to meet a brand new batch of girls. I stopped soon after. Hey ... I never got opportunities like that! Was this only out in strange places? Or just after/before my time? Tony -- - Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk paradox contrast variety change history repeats but it's never the same -
Re: one liner
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:38:04PM +, Dave Cross wrote: Oh, and Amazon.com have the Learning Tk book at 90% off at the minute if anyone's interested .. That'll explain the increase in sales that Nat noted the other day then :) Well, I expected one of their "Oops, we made a pricing error, so we can't sell you the large quantity of the book you requested, but hey, we're nice people, so we'll let you have one of them cheap instead" emails. But they claim to have shipped them all. At 90% off. Which I like. Tony -- ----- Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk the woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep -
Re: one liner
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:14:59AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: We also have another Perl/Tk book coming out. It's more advanced than "Learning ..." and, we hope, learns from the criticism levelled at that book. In particular, look for examples. Oh, and Amazon.com have the Learning Tk book at 90% off at the minute if anyone's interested .. Tony -- ----- Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need -
Re: copious free time
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:00:39PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: i think the real question (not specifically about h2g2) is what happened to cost/benefit analysis (and i'm talking about benefit to the profit sheet not some imaginary paper money IPO value)? Also know as the first rule of finance: "Don't run out of money". Tony -- ----- Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need -
Re: I'm looking for a job!
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:28:37AM -, Leo Lapworth wrote: If you know of any decent jobs please could you give me a yell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), and if anyone is interested my CV, with phone number, can be found at: Guessing you're among the people who aren't interested in relocating? We've a fairly senior Perl position opening at the minute if anyone *is* interested in relocating. I'm sure Greg can enthuse better than us about how great N. Ireland actually is to live :) Tony -- - Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blackstar.co.uk/ Black Star |The UK's Biggest Video DVD store * Free Postage Worldwide -
Re: Getting keys of mappe @list = qw/foo bar foo baz/;d hash?
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:16:06AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
How can I do this:
my @list = qw/foo bar foo baz/;
my %hash = map { $_ = 1 } @men;
my @sort = sort keys %hash;
print "We have @sort\n"; # foo bar baz
without the %hash?
my $last;
do {print $_ unless $_ eq $last; $last = $_} for sort @list
Dunno if it's quicker than the cunning tricks with map, but hey, it
works.
Ah, but my question was badly phrased. I needed to end up with @sort, not
a printed list ...
The result of this was heading towards another couple of maps ;)
I had found the solution long before this turned up though (stupidly
forgot to update my .muttrc for the new list address, so I had to go
through moderation again ...) - just a matter of doubling those curly
brackets (no need for all those +s etc...)
Thanks,
Tony
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Re: [OT] Perl Agents
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:14:15PM -, Dean S Wilson wrote: PS Is Blackstar looking for Junior coders? Never been to Ireland ;) 'fraid not ... We're looking for someone (or possibly sometwo, but probably only someone), for a very senior position - in the 35k+ range. (That's an NI salary - not sure what the equivalent London salary would be). i.e. someone more senior than our current seniors, who would be responsible for working on deep core stuff, as well as training/reviewing the current senior and junior programmers... Tony -- - Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk far above the spray-struck stone we climb toward the melting point of time -
Getting keys of mapped hash?
OK, my brain has fried.
How can I do this:
my @list = qw/foo bar foo baz/;
my %hash = map { $_ = 1 } @men;
my @sort = sort keys %hash;
print "We have @sort\n"; # foo bar baz
without the %hash?
i.e. something akin to: my @sort = sort keys map { $_ = 1 } @list;
I've tried so many variations that my brain is refusing to tell me the
correct answer.
Tony
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Re: I'm looking for a job!
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:28:37AM -, Leo Lapworth wrote: If you know of any decent jobs please could you give me a yell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), and if anyone is interested my CV, with phone number, can be found at: Guessing you're among the people who aren't interested in relocating? We've a fairly senior Perl position opening at the minute if anyone *is* interested in relocating. I'm sure Greg can enthuse better than us about how great N. Ireland actually is to live :) Tony -- - Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blackstar.co.uk/ Black Star |The UK's Biggest Video DVD store * Free Postage Worldwide -
Re: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 05:13:25PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: U.H.F.? Simon has a copy off of TV which we could dub to a spare VHS tape. There's alway's blackstar's video hunt http://www.blackstar.co.uk/video/item/700015733 Of course, were you to order now there'd be 16 people in front of you in the queue, and as we've only found 2 copies of it in 18 months you may be waiting a while :) Although, that's not to say we'll suddenly find about 200 in a warehouse somewhere like we did with Song of the South ... Tony -- - Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk Sue sews crow's clothes. Slow Joe Crow sews whose clothes? Sue's clothes -
Re: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:33:59AM -0500, David H. Adler wrote: Does "American Beauty" count for 2000, I can't remember seeing a better recent film, though I don't get to the cinema as much as I'd like to. Nope, that was 1999. Got lots of acadamy awards, too. Actually, it only went on general UK release in February 2000 ... Tony -- ----- Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk bloody nose and burning eyes, raised in laughter to the skies -
Re: OT for London.pm : Forwarded : The Perfect Storm - The Condensed Script
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:23:42PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: given your love for movies i thought you'd enjoy this, it is far too accurate. I would of walked out of watching the perfect storm apart from the fact that i was at 20,000 feet - but it was still a close call. I haven't actually managed to see The Perfect Storm. However, this is mostly through choice. On the other hand, O Brother Where Art Thou is an excellent film, and Clooney is actually really good in it. I haven't made my Top 10 of 2000 yet. My main problem with this kind of list is deciding what's allowed to go in. For example I saw American Beauty, Fight Club, The Straight Story, Boys Don't Cry and Being John Malkovich in 1999, even though they didn't open in the UK until 2000. I'd still like to put them in my 2000 list though, as this hasn't been as good a year for movies IMO. (Plus I also haven't seen most of this year's big releases: Gladiator, Perfect Storm, Toy Story 2, Chicken Run, X-Men, What Lies Beneath, Scary Movie, The Grinch, etc). I also missed most of this year's big arthouse movies (Ghost Dog, Requiem For a Dream, Dancer in the Dark etc), so my list is going to be skewed by that as well... Off the cuff, my list would probably be (allowing for the fact that I've almost certainly forgotten some major films that should be here...) 1. Being John Malkovich 2. Fight Club 3. High Fidelity 4. American Beauty 5. O Brother Where Art Thou 6. Boiler Room 7. The Straight Story 8. Boys Don't Cry 9. Billy Elliot 10. Erin Brokovich Worst Film of the Year (original story) award goes to Topsy-Turvy. Worst Film of the Year (remake) award goes to Michael Almereyda's Hamlet. Longest Time To Recognise Major Actor in Major Part award goes to Gary Oldman in The Contender. Tony -- - Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk I wish I was like you, easily amused -
