Re: YAPC::Europe

2001-06-14 Thread Redvers Davies
So how many people are bringing partners to YAPC::Europe? Mine will have emmigrated by then, so no. If anything goes wrong, then yes.

crazy golf

2001-06-14 Thread Chris Heathcote
Beware, it's in Flash (or Shockwave) http://www.electrotank.com/lab/minigolf.html Hole 17 is a bugger c. -- every day, computers are making people easier to use http://www.unorthodoxstyles.com

misc URL

2001-06-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
i'm not a great fan of people sending URLs randomly, but this has to be an exception, remember the joy of your childhood years reading the guiness book of records (and watching record breakers as well, with Roy, Norris and later on Cheryl). well you can relive that joy at

Re: YAPC::Europe

2001-06-14 Thread Lucy McWilliam
So how many people are bringing partners to YAPC::Europe? Some of us can't afford YAPC. And some of us don't have partners :-( L. Life is pain, Highness! Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.

Re: YAPC::Europe

2001-06-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So how many people are bringing partners to YAPC::Europe? Some of us can't afford YAPC. Well at least its not due to the entry fee and if its a matter of accomodation cost, ask on the list for somewhere to crash. And some of us don't have

Re: YAPC::Europe

2001-06-14 Thread Redvers Davies
Well at least its not due to the entry fee and if its a matter of accomodation cost, ask on the list for somewhere to crash. Plane tickets are currently 37 quid return via easyjet... Thats why you should come to YAPC::Europe and meet the monger of your dreams ;-) Indeed... see them in

Re: YAPC::Europe

2001-06-14 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: So how many people are bringing partners to YAPC::Europe? It had been my intention for the whole Gellyfish Clan to venture forth to Amsterdam but it looks like I will be the only representative now as the leader has decided that she has been to

Re: Y::E accomodation

2001-06-14 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Philip Newton wrote: Redvers Davies wrote: The Bilderberg Garden Hotel. lastmin.com do bookings for it. Wow. Either you have more money than you know what to do with or your company allows for higher expenses than mine. www.lastminute.com says GBP 82.90 - GBP 126.46;

Re: another test

2001-06-14 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: this is the final test No wonder you're number 1 in the posting league. L. I've got a touch of the singles. Shingles? No, singles.

Re: YAPC::Europe

2001-06-14 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Some of us can't afford YAPC. Well at least its not due to the entry fee and if its a matter of accomodation cost, ask on the list for somewhere to crash. Ah, well. Have made prior arrangemnets now

Re: YAPC::Europe

2001-06-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It had been my intention for the whole Gellyfish Clan to venture forth to Amsterdam but it looks like I will be the only representative now as the leader has decided that she has been to Amsterdam too many times previously to justify the cost and

Re: YAPC::Europe

2001-06-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:46:56PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: So how many people are bringing partners to YAPC::Europe? Some of us can't afford YAPC. And some of us don't have partners :-( maybe we could have Yet Another Beer :: London at the same time then. -- David Cantrell |

Re: YAPC::Europe

2001-06-14 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, David Cantrell wrote: Some of us can't afford YAPC. And some of us don't have partners :-( maybe we could have Yet Another Beer :: London at the same time then. Sounds eminently doable ;-) L. I have no sig

Re: YAPC::Europe

2001-06-14 Thread Dave Cross
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:45:32PM +0100, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It had been my intention for the whole Gellyfish Clan to venture forth to Amsterdam but it looks like I will be the only representative now as the leader has

Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Simon Wilcox
Just saw this linked from a hugely obvious banner ad on the Register : http://training.gbdirect.co.uk/courses/perl/for_the_register.html Great idea to tie it in to a success story I thought. Simon.

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-13 Thread Chris Devers
At 07:14 AM 2001.06.13 +0100, Chris Benson wrote: I need to read the news more often, I was thinking about Louisiana! I also need to get a better grip of the geography: I thought LA. was the Florida side of Mississippi and Alabama. No, it's the place where I was born -- Lower Alabama. Also

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Richard Clamp
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:15:17PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: Just saw this linked from a hugely obvious banner ad on the Register : http://training.gbdirect.co.uk/courses/perl/for_the_register.html Great idea to tie it in to a success story I thought. Grumble grumble. At least they only

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Thorn
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:37:19PM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote: If on the other hand you want the dev team, I'm sure Barbie and I *cough* oh hang on, do I really want to be associated with the bastards? could figure something to tell you for the right amount of beer. that settles it, yes.

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Merijn Broeren
Quoting Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): At least they only claim to be the maintenance team. Almost like boasting about being the team sent in to fetch the team sent in to rescue the hostages. Hang on, that still sounds like the original team needed to be rescued. I'd change that

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Richard Clamp
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:43:27PM +0100, Dave Thorn wrote: I'm half tempted to see what they'd teach me though... :) personal hygiene? ;) So that's why you never come home anymore... -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Thorn
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:47:40PM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:43:27PM +0100, Dave Thorn wrote: I'm half tempted to see what they'd teach me though... :) personal hygiene? ;) So that's why you never come home anymore... I'm sorry. I didn't want you to find

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Simon Wistow
Dave Thorn wrote: that settles it, yes. everything's for sale, even pride. London Pride? -- simon wistowwireless systems coder only second toughest

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Thorn
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:59:54PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Dave Thorn wrote: that settles it, yes. everything's for sale, even pride. London Pride? obviously. they don't just give it away or hoard it, y'know? -- dave thorn | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Possible Job] Perl, Linux

2001-06-13 Thread Simon Cozens
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:44:11AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Are there any of you lot still looking for jobs? Still open? I think I might have someone for you. -- If you give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. If you set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Dave Thorn wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:59:54PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Dave Thorn wrote: that settles it, yes. everything's for sale, even pride. London Pride? obviously. they don't just give it away... Shame. L. Beer good.

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Thorn
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:09:16PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Beer good. beer : no beer -- dave thorn | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-06-11

2001-06-13 Thread Leon Brocard
This is the twenty-first weekly summary of the London Perl Mongers mailing list. This is brought to you from yapc::NorthAmerica during Brian Ingerson's CPAN, PPM and the Future talk. For the quiet week starting 2001-06-04: Don't forget the London.pm website for meetings etc. The next meeting is

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Beer good. Beer Foamy. -- s'' Mark Fowler London.pm Bath.pm http://www.twoshortplanks.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ';use Term'Cap;$t=Tgetent Term'Cap{};print$t-Tputs(cl);for$w(split/ +/

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Beer good. Beer Foamy. Only when you add bubble bath... L. A young, female, non-bearded, non-jumpered members of CAMRA? *shock*

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:09:16PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Dave Thorn wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:59:54PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Dave Thorn wrote: that settles it, yes. everything's for sale, even pride. London Pride? obviously. they don't just

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Barbie
From: Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:15:17PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: Just saw this linked from a hugely obvious banner ad on the Register : http://training.gbdirect.co.uk/courses/perl/for_the_register.html Great idea to tie it in to a success story I

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Barbie
From: Lucy McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beer good. But Guinness is better ;) Barbie

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-06-11

2001-06-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:41:56PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: In other news: Microsoft SQL Server sucking (SQueaL), Sun Ultra Enterprise 1, google++, the Sony Clie being small and cute, checking out pubs for the next meet, buffy, search.cpan.org being hacked (Catalog module apparently),

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:57:08PM +0100, Dave Thorn wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:59:54PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Dave Thorn wrote: that settles it, yes. everything's for sale, even pride. London Pride? obviously. they don't just give it away or hoard it, y'know? There

BUG: Tie::Hash::Rank

2001-06-13 Thread David Cantrell
I spotted a bug in Tie::Hash::Rank, which would break the DELETE and EXISTS methods. It's fixed in v 1.0.1 which is winging its way to CPAN as we speak. Oops. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Good advice is always certain to be ignored,

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:57:08PM +0100, Dave Thorn wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:59:54PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Dave Thorn wrote: that settles it, yes. everything's for sale, even pride. London Pride? obviously. they

bk strikes again

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Cross
It's all been pretty civilised over on the Cookwook board recently which has made a nice change. I suspect it might all kick off again tho' when bk sees my response to his contribution to this thread: http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl?read=5205 Dave... -- Drugs are just

Re: bk strikes again

2001-06-13 Thread Matthew Robinson
I have managed to resist the temptation to join previous flame wars with bk but I was feeling weak this time :( Matt -- s!msfQ!s$utvKs(Q)\1!sfiupoBs^reverse Ibdlfses^# s$#!uojsqs(.)chr(ord($1)-1)ges(.*)reverse $1see - Original Message - From: Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Tie::Hash::Transactional

2001-06-13 Thread David Cantrell
Go me! Tie::Hash::Transactional is written. It implements a hash which you can checkpoint and rollback. I'll put it on my website as soon as my victim^Wlovely volunteer tester has had a chance to play with it. It was disgustingly easy to write - took about an hour, most of which was writing

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Barbie wrote: They probably could only get away with saying they maintain it due to the amount of complex stuff in there, and potential legal implications if they said they designed it. But I'll agree with The Goth here, do we really want to associate with the buggers?

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Barbie [easynet]
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 complex stuff in there, and potential legal implications if they said they designed it. But I'll agree with The Goth here, do we

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-13 Thread Mike Jarvis
Wednesday, June 13, 2001, 1:16:12 AM, Dave Cross wrote: DC On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:55:17PM -0500, Mike Jarvis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Larry speaks in a bit over 9 hours. Yippee! DC Actually - he doesn't :) DC http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/12/2255236 It all worked out ok.

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 complex stuff in there, and potential legal implications if they said they

Re: [Possible Job] Perl, Linux

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:44:11AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Are there any of you lot still looking for jobs? Still open? I think I might have someone for you. I was fishing on behalf of a client who may well need a perl linux person in the

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: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Philip Newton
This in the Opera (browser) Newsletter I received yesterday: * Opera challenges UK govt to support standards * The British government's prestigious gateway

Obnoxious sigs (was Re: www.gateway.gov.uk)

2001-06-12 Thread Philip Newton
Robert Thompson wrote: I apologise profusely Sorry, you'll have to give me a hardcopy version of that before I'll believe you: E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or

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 put after Content-type: text/some-funny-application

Re: downloady filenames

2001-06-12 Thread Roger Burton West
On or about Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:10:32AM +0100, Robin Szemeti typed: someone somewhere a few weeks ago posted something about an extra line you could put not dissimilar to 'Apparent-filename: something.xyz' .. its not so much a mime types thing but a browser thing .. Content-Disposition. R

RE: downloady filenames

2001-06-12 Thread Jon Galliers
This seemed to work. print Content-type:application/whatever\n.Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file\n\n Thanks Jon * Jon Galliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer Perl/C++/MySQL/DB2/Java Design Net http://www.design.net.uk

Re: Obnoxious sigs (was Re: www.gateway.gov.uk)

2001-06-12 Thread Paul Makepeace
Isn't there some cough/ perl module that might allow us to rig a sig-stripper to be installed at dircon? Where sig = any trailer that has more than four un-para'ed lines. Or give these people a damn shell account. Or SOMETHING. (Actually I don't really care I just got carried away with the

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Struan Donald
* at 11/06 21:38 +0100 Robin Szemeti said: On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Chris Benson wrote: Didn't ukonline.co.uk complain about trademark infringement a while back? Is gateway.gov.uk the result? and is there any possible trademark confusion with this address? ring ring 'hello .. is

Re: Persistent Perl

2001-06-12 Thread Leon Brocard
Dominic Mitchell sent the following bits through the ether: I think the python scheme of creating a bytecode file on the first run is better, but I'm not sure how amenable perl's code tree is to being flattened and restored (this may be why we haven't seen a perl-java compiler). ByteCache -

Re: Persistent Perl

2001-06-12 Thread Simon Wistow
Dominic Mitchell wrote: And you'd have to make the daemon threaded, or end up running multiple pre-forking daemons to do the job. At which point, you're only saving the fork time and the parse time, which depending on how much effort it is to complete the above, may not be much of a saving

Re: Persistent Perl

2001-06-12 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:31:44AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Dominic Mitchell wrote: And you'd have to make the daemon threaded, or end up running multiple pre-forking daemons to do the job. At which point, you're only saving the fork time and the parse time, which depending on how

YAPC::Europe Registration

2001-06-12 Thread Cross David - dcross
I see that registration for YAPC::Europe has opened. http://www.yapc.org/Europe/registration.html They've also accepted both my Perl for the People and Creating Data Output Files Using the Template Toolkit talks :) Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is

yapc::europe registration now open!

2001-06-12 Thread jns
European Yet Another Perl Conference YAPC::Europe-2.0.01 http://www.yapc.org/Europe/ Thursday-Saturday, August 2-4, 2001 at the Hogeschool Holland, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Yet

Test of sorts

2001-06-12 Thread Jonathan Stowe
Since I've changed my mail setup I've had a bit of a problem with resending the bounced mails - hopefully this will prove that I fixed it :) You shouldnt be seeing any spurious [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: headers in this ... /J\ -- Jonathan Stowe Analyst/Programmer Netscalibur UK Tel: 0870 887

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Peter Haworth
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:14:41 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:34:28PM +0100, Peter Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can someone please remind me about the technical meeting on the 21st? Now that it looks like I might be in London at the time, I find I've deleted all

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way around that. If you bring your passport, we'll even let you south of the river and my sofa is very comfortable and has a well-stocked

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way around that. If you bring your passport, we'll even let you south

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way around that. If you bring your passport, we'll even let you south

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:40:44PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: It's a TRAP! You been playing wy too much nethack recently. That was a tough level with comfy sofa and the drinks cabinet. -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Peter Haworth
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:26:08 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:10:01PM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:14:41 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Well, er..., there will be a meeting on the 21st. I spoke to Alex last night and he said we could hold it at

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:18:43PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: It's a TRAP! You been playing wy too much nethack recently. That was a tough level with comfy sofa and

Re: YAPC::Europe Registration

2001-06-12 Thread Neil Ford
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:57:51AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: I see that registration for YAPC::Europe has opened. http://www.yapc.org/Europe/registration.html They've also accepted both my Perl for the People and Creating Data Output Files Using the Template Toolkit talks :)

Re: YAPC::Europe Registration

2001-06-12 Thread Richard Clamp
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:41:48PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: So who's registered then? ;-) I have, now to write[0] the talks. [0] always with the writing! -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Chris Benson
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:15:36AM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote: 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

RE: downloady filenames

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Jon Galliers wrote: This seemed to work. print Content-type:application/whatever\n.Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file\n\n yadda! .. thats the cookie! .. a thousand thanks ;) right I can stop my cvs files coming up as .'something.pl' now ... ta muchly.

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:55:38PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote: Oh yes, I vaguely thought on reading about the floods in The South that maybe this was supposed to be a message like Repent your sins or I wash you off the face of the Earth. I think it's more along the lines of the Creator(s)

Re: YAPC::Europe Registration

2001-06-12 Thread Piers Cawley
Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:41:48PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: So who's registered then? ;-) I have, now to write[0] the talks. I got lucky. They didn't want the Perl Proverbs talk (which I'd have to write), but they did want 12 step (which I busk).

Re: Persistent Perl

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: Somebody tell me why this is a stupid idea because I can't think of any obvious reason but if there wasn't then I'm sure sombody would have already done it [0] ... Similar principle to mod_perl, a perl script is run but instead of a normal

Re: Persistent Perl

2001-06-12 Thread Richard Clamp
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:54:01PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: is this anything like wot FastCGI does .. or is that summat different? Since 'this' is a bit muddy I couldn't say, though I do know that FastCGI works as a constantly running coprocess, so maybe -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: YAPC::Europe Registration

2001-06-12 Thread Redvers Davies
I got lucky. They didn't want the Perl Proverbs talk (which I'd have to write), but they did want 12 step (which I busk). Result. Busk... What a wonderful turn of phrase ;)

Re: Default library paths

2001-06-12 Thread Redvers Davies
There's a couple of reasonable hex editors out there, but I usually just tend to use M-x hexl-find-file in emacs. If you're a vim user, see xxd(1). or bvi (Binary vi)

Re: Where's my bloody gun?

2001-06-12 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * * What IS the mentality of idiots who attack community sites * like this? * *maybe it was just a script kiddie .. maybe it was a worm. It wasn't anything quite so dignified. I had reinstalled the Catalog module last month after a failed attempt to

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Chris Benson wrote: I know a state-of-emergency (or whatever) has been called to right it has, as I understand it this means now that you are supposed to drive a 5.3L V8 rather than the 7.1L V8 unless absolutlely necessary ... oops .. read 358cubic inch and 427ci ... these

Re: Where's my bloody gun?

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
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 minute'.. but sometimes, due to oversight, there isn't one born for a whole hour or so, so they

FreeBSD v Linux

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
It has occured to me over the last year that several people have proclaimed FreeBSD to be superior to Linux and vice versa. During these debates no one has been able to give me convincing argument why one may be better than the other ... Today, someone sent me this link, which I believe makes a

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Mike Jarvis
Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 2:55:38 PM, Chris Benson wrote: CB On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:15:36AM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote: 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

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Cross
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:55:17PM -0500, Mike Jarvis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Larry speaks in a bit over 9 hours. Yippee! Actually - he doesn't :) http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/12/2255236 Dave... -- Drugs are just bad m'kay

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Chris Benson
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:10:28PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 2:55:38 PM, Chris Benson wrote: CB I wash you off the face of the Earth. If so it missed Washington DC CB by about a 1,000 miles and Texas by 500. It probably missed GWB by a CB couple of light years.

Re: JOB: Eng. Proj Management

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan Peterson
At 00:23 09/06/01 +0100, you wrote: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A reasonably reliable headhunter I've dealt with in the past is looking for technical project managers for new web company. Let me know if interested... Hmm... I wonder if I could morph... Come over to the

Re: Conway's academic paper generator

2001-06-11 Thread jns
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Anyone got a link to this? There's a working version of it here: http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/ And the thing that drives it (The Dada Engine) here: http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/ Alex Gough -- The Texan turned out to be good-natured,

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan Peterson
At 18:51 09/06/01 +0100, you wrote: Monday morning Precisely. And using Java et al is a discrimination against the mobility impaired. Not to mention the way it discriminates totally against people who can't afford, don't have, morally object to, are too old to learn to use, computers. Sure,

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:56:19AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: At 18:51 09/06/01 +0100, you wrote: Monday morning Precisely. And using Java et al is a discrimination against the mobility impaired. Not to mention the way it discriminates totally against people who can't afford,

Re: Default library paths

2001-06-11 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:40:38PM +0100, Matthew Robinson wrote: Apologies in advance if I have missed something blindingly obvious :) I need to change the default library paths in a compiled copy of perl. Basically, I want to move /usr/lib/perl5 into /usr/local/lib/perl5. I am unable to

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Robert Shiels
From: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not to mention the way it discriminates totally against people who can't afford, don't have, morally object to, are too old to learn to use, computers. How come. It's an alternative to, not a replacement for, the usual paper based forms; isn't it?

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Mison
On 08/06/2001 at 12:30 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: ... and some not so pretty pictures. http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/london.pm/2001-06-07/ Bah. Too many of me. And not enough of you here: http://husk.org/perl/pics/ Warning: dislike of flash may lead to fuzzyness and light trails. -- ::

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Piers Cawley
Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 08/06/2001 at 12:30 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: ... and some not so pretty pictures. http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/london.pm/2001-06-07/ Bah. Too many of me. And not enough of you here: http://husk.org/perl/pics/ Warning: dislike of flash

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:19:21AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:56:19AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: I haven't looked at the certificate issue, but most of the things I've read so far state that it's only a problem because they've made it a problem by using

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Lucy McWilliam
http://husk.org/perl/pics/ Warning: dislike of flash may lead to fuzzyness and light trails. Very artistic. I think your camera was drunk (thank $deity - I don't get on with them sober). Nice to meet you all. I'll be ba-ack. L. I love the smell of fruit flies in the morning.

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Mison
On 11/06/2001 at 11:10 +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://husk.org/perl/pics/ http://www.well.com/user/pdcawley/misc_images/ But I may be biased. Nah, they are nice. But you've been selective, I'm assuming (unless you've just taken seven photos in your

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Piers Cawley
Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/06/2001 at 11:10 +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://husk.org/perl/pics/ http://www.well.com/user/pdcawley/misc_images/ But I may be biased. Nah, they are nice. But you've been selective, Of course,

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Ian Brayshaw
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not very perlish I'm afraid. a) I'm sure that will change in time (any camel shots?). b) That makes it an appropriate topic for this list. Ian _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Mison
On 11/06/2001 at 12:46 +0100, Ian Brayshaw wrote: Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not very perlish I'm afraid. a) I'm sure that will change in time (any camel shots?). http://husk.org/lndn/circ/compat/DSCF0102.jpg See, the advantages of posting everything. -- :: paul :: 'aggressive is

Re: Religion

2001-06-11 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:44:40PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: Which reminds me of something I read in the PuTTY FAQ: Question: Would you like me to register you a snappier domain name? The PuTTY web page is hard to find. Answer: No,

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