Re: Perl Books

2001-02-01 Thread Benjamin Holzman

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:57:20AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Meaning, nobody's really a complete idiot and we'd seem just as dumb
> if we called brain surgery tech support, new mother tech support, or
> even gardening tech support.

True, but there aren't many people who will assume that they can perform
brain surgery just because they successfully applied a band-aid to a paper
cut the week before.

Ben

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Re: odd -w effect

2001-01-24 Thread Benjamin Holzman

On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:15:26PM -0500, Benjamin Holzman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:07:38PM -0600, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > Linux UI question (on Debian/KDE laptop right now): If I copy
 ^^^
>   $ sudo apt-get install wmnetselect
>   $ wmnetselect &
  ^^

Oops, sorry.  I forgot that not everybody uses WindowMaker.  I doubt wmnetselect
will work very well under KDE, although I suppose it's worth a try.

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Re: odd -w effect

2001-01-24 Thread Benjamin Holzman

On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:07:38PM -0600, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Linux UI question (on Debian/KDE laptop right now): If I copy
> a URL in a mail message by highlighting it, what's the fastest
> way of getting that loaded in a browser? Right now I have
> to delete the URL in a browser window and then paste. Being
> able to click it and then hit ^V is *much* nicer (in Windows)
> than this manual delete time wastage.

$ sudo apt-get install wmnetselect
$ wmnetselect &

Ben

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Re: (OT-ish) whois microsoft.com

2001-01-18 Thread Benjamin Holzman

On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:06:29PM +, Robin Houston wrote:
> TERRORISTS.NET.IS.SO.FUCKING.31338.NET
> 
> I like 31338.net - as thought 31337.net had already gone,
> so they just went for the next one up.

Or perhaps "even more elite than 31337".

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Re: Much Coolness XML Wise.

2001-01-08 Thread Benjamin Holzman

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:06:28PM -, Dean S Wilson wrote:
> I've just spent three hours playing with XML::Generator and md5
> checksums, I was having problems building hash's of hash's with the
> module (Seems to only add the last one in a foreach loop to the XML.
> Gotta be me :)) and then with a quick glance at cpan I found
> XML::Dumper. I don't know if I'm the only one here who didn't know

XML::Dumper sounds like the right solution for your problem, but FWIW,
here's how I might do it with XML::Generator:

use XML::Generator;
my $gen = XML::Generator->new('conformance' => 'strict', 'escape' => 1);
sub gen { ref $_[0] eq "HASH"
? $gen->hash(map { $gen->key($_), $gen->value(gen($_[0]->{$_})) } 
keys %{$_[0]})
: $_[0] }
my $xml = gen({ hash => { of => "hashes" }});

Ben

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Re: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623

2000-12-28 Thread Benjamin Holzman

On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:24:21AM +, Mark Fowler wrote:
> > has a series, does anyone know anything about this series?
> 
> It was on non-terrestrial TV about a year back IIRC.  On MTV I think.

It's still on MTV.  Tom Green is a sick fuck, BTW.  Funny, though.

Ben
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