Re: (Open|Net)BSD local root exploit

2001-06-17 Thread Chris Devers
years of having no exploits? -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster work: 781.221.5372 Skillcheckcell: 617.365.0585

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-13 Thread Chris Devers
ower Alabama". Also refers to nearby "Literate Mississippi", where the joke, it is generally noticed, is missed entirely by the locals. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster work: 781.270.5372 Skillcheck aol-im: chdevers

Re: more PDP-11s to rescue

2001-05-25 Thread Chris Devers
At 11:07 AM 2001.05.25 +0100, Dave Cantrell wrote: >Matthew Dell [snip] Austin, TX Any relation to "that" Mr Dell, of Austin, TX? -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tie::Hash::Regex vs Tie::RegexpHash

2001-05-25 Thread Chris Devers
At 02:18 PM 2001.05.25 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: >[1] Hmmm... note to self - see if you can come up >with a tied hash that abbreviates to T::H::C. Semi-plausible: Tie::Hash::Complex Not-plausible: Tie::Hash::Cannabis Might see the light of day?: Tie::Hash::Conway -- Chris

Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

2001-05-24 Thread Chris Devers
the dramatic movie trailer kind of way. I don't think it >did his career any harm at all. A couple weeks ago, we hired a girl named Julie Andrews. Everyone keeps fighting the urge to ask her to sing for us. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2001-05-17 Thread Chris Devers
rest of the parts though... :) (Actually, I've seen them on sale from time to time for around a few hundred bucks, but there don't seem to be any for sale at the moment.) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A look over the shoulder of an XP programmer (auf deutsch)

2001-05-16 Thread Chris Devers
At 03:22 PM 2001.05.16 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: >That's not argument, it's just contradiction! Ahh, you must be looking for a different forum then. Try Castro's site. ;) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Chris Devers
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Chris Devers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > At 10:06 PM 2001.05.09 +0100, Grep wrote: > > >well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... > > > > Lessee... > > > > Let's make a film, >

Re: see attachment

2001-05-11 Thread Chris Devers
ed as supper, followed by dinner table cameos by Dr Who & Willow (on a pony), who will show how to prepare for the coming Y2K crisis. That covers most of 'em. Drink up! -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: putting escape characters in files

2001-05-11 Thread Chris Devers
sting when your >less,more,pg,sed,awk&perl binaries are all fscked? :-) How about piping to lp then? Load up enough paper and you can pause as long as you'd like... ;) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: TPC Travel

2001-05-02 Thread Chris Devers
At 03:50 PM 2001.05.02 +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: >Er... yeah. We got back yesterday! Doh! I thought you were all rioting for Mayday yesterday. I can only assume your return date was not a coincidence -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: TPC Travel

2001-05-02 Thread Chris Devers
Whaddya talking about? Northwest had an Alfred Hitchcock movie named after it! -- and possibly the best Hitchcock movie, at that. Pfft. ;) So are any of you still thinking of going to NYC, while we're at it? -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good Accountants

2001-04-26 Thread Chris Devers
urking in your markup ยท Expose the overall page structure" 'course you need a newer browser for it to work as advertised, but it seems to me like a clever solution to the problem... -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this

2001-04-26 Thread Chris Devers
at-works.html (http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.c-cup.com/linux/software-that-works.html) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Torvalds not impressed with OS X

2001-04-09 Thread Chris Devers
very far with these, but it seems like you can control most of the behavior of the GUI from these config files if you know what you're doing. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Silly postings

2001-04-06 Thread Chris Devers
appointed, crowned if you will. Not unlike youre queen, from what I can tell, though I've to date never seen her described as a bumbling idiot. Maybe the BBC keeps that quiet? -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)

2001-04-04 Thread Chris Devers
talent be damned, but it was a *fun* show to see... :) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Books

2001-04-04 Thread Chris Devers
that SoftPro books (mostly a tech stuff store) in Burlington.ma.us has sold 17 copies of your book over February and March, as compared to roughly 3x as many copies of the Camel book. Not bad, considering how many Perl books are out there by now. Just so's you know. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

2001-03-29 Thread Chris Devers
At 04:42 AM 29.3.2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote: >> O'Reilly wil like it cos they get to sell 'Perl For PCSE(stage 1)' >> etc .. > >Ooh. I think you've just given me an idea for my next book :) "Gary Numan's guide to the PCSE"... ;) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Perl Certification Drive

2001-03-29 Thread Chris Devers
reasons.) Oops, forgot to paste a couple URLs: http://www.skillcheck.com/products/it/ (crappy page -- no content) http://www.skillcheck.com/products/general/featben.html http://www.skillcheck.com/products/general/testmaking.html Sorry if this is inappropriate. -- Chris Devers

RE: Perl Certification Drive

2001-03-29 Thread Chris Devers
While I'm not really the decision maker here, I would like to push the company in this kind of direction. If there is any interest, I can talk to my bosses and see if they would want to pursue something with you. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster work: 781.270.5372 Skillcheck aol-im: chdevers

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

2001-03-28 Thread Chris Devers
At 10:49 PM 28.3.2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: >On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:45:09PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote: >> Heh -- they're one of my company's main competitors. >> I don't know the first thing about them > >*cough*. Hey, that's not good, you know. :

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

2001-03-28 Thread Chris Devers
ugh. With any luck, the certification industry will implode. 'course that could mean I need a new job, but we'll see :) [1] You mean I have to look forward to another 40 years of these damn meetings? I think Martin Blank had the right idea: "will there be meetings?" &quo

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-28 Thread Chris Devers
x27;s number? "Eastern Bank". Easy. Work in some kind of good pervasive naming scheme and the underlying numbers can get arbitrarily complex without bothering anyone. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-27 Thread Chris Devers
ny number beginning with a 0 or 1 having special meaning. I guess that special meaning evaporates under 10 digit schemes... >PS That single-\n paragraph formatting is evil, IMO. Yeah I know, I don't like it either. Blame Eudora... -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mmm ... toys ..

2001-03-27 Thread Chris Devers
Contrary to advice posted here earlier, I didn't bother wiping out the drive before installing it (mainly because I don't have discs for all the installed software) and everything has gone flawlessly so far. I dig it. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-27 Thread Chris Devers
ng beyond a certain distance from your local calling area &/or anything outside of your area code, but with 10 digit numbers you'll probably just have to put it in front of about every number dialled, thus giving everyone in the country an 11 digit phone number. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mmm ... toys ..

2001-03-27 Thread Chris Devers
o I can't browse the various */bin directories, but it comes with a pretty standard unixy toolkit (except for ssh). I thought I saw something about PostgreSQL being installed, but I may be imagining it now. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-20 Thread Chris Devers
le may, as in this case, have been flawed in the first place. I don't think the requirements for one-to-one matching of functionality need to be as strict here, and in fact should be a bit more flexible. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-20 Thread Chris Devers
ate format, and should be abolished >> in favour of DD MM YY which is more sensible. > >Or even better YY-MM-DD which avoids cross-pond confusion. And, as a bonus, is really easy to sort properly. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Matt's Scripts Projects

2001-03-20 Thread Chris Devers
arse: it ends up adding a seemingly superfluous step to the process that could be off-putting to Win-natives. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Matt's Scripts Projects

2001-03-19 Thread Chris Devers
ot;Not the Matt Wright Archive" is out then ;-) Probably, as is "The Matt's Wrong Archive", which is probably far too negative & obvious anyway... ;) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Matt's Scripts (SCP)

2001-03-14 Thread Chris Devers
y done a cursory check; it may be in there somewhere. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-13 Thread Chris Devers
but it gets at least part of the way around some of the problems here. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster Skillcheck

Re: DMP

2001-02-20 Thread Chris Devers
couple of weeks now, and they seem to be selling. Well done, Dave. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster work: 781.270.5372 Skillcheckcell: 617.365.0585

Re: NY invasion, was Re: Conway Hall

2001-02-13 Thread Chris Devers
t; >Depends - sometimes they don't charge you at all! >(if you're selling alot of crack, say) > >It's the whorehouses that are always expensive. Depends - sometimes they don't charge you at all! (if you're selling, uh, nevermind...) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster work: 781.270.5372 Skillcheckcell: 617.365.0585

Re: VA?

2001-02-13 Thread Chris Devers
At 01:24 PM 13.2.2001 +, you wrote: >Anyone have an opinion on VA? Virginia's nice but I like Massachusetts better. Too close to both AOL ground zero & American political hell ground zero ;) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTE