Re: Online Bookshops
Richard Clyne wrote: > If I'm trying to avoid Amazon for some technical books, what sites are > currently suggested? > Richard I always like the PC Bookshop http://www.pcbooks.co.uk It's also a real live bookshop, with a great selection of titles. (And I ALWAYS am suckered into buying more OReilly titles every time I go in. This time I bought a new edition of High Performance Computing, already having edition 1)
Where's my bloody gun?
I guess it's old news to you all, but there's a notice on http://search.cpan.org to the effect that it has been hacked. I use this a lot. What IS the mentality of idiots who attack community sites like this? Where's my bloody gun
Re: [PUB] Possible candidate
Robert Thompson wrote: > > There's The George and Dragon just south of London Bridge. Easily walkable > from LB station or even the City (I used to go there a lot). > > Unfortunately I haven't been there for a while, but hopefully it's still as > good as I remember. > Sorry to speak up against the George. It does have a lot of history, and is well worth a visit of a Saturday afternoon. Last coaching inn left from a street once full of them, Dickens drank there etc. It is also the only pub run by the National Trust. Downside is that it is not all that large, and gets horribly crowded on a summers evening. Lots of students and workers from nearby Guys. The tiny bar serving areas get chock-a-block. Also, IMHO, to beer is not kept that well, and I've never had a good pint there. On the accessibility front, it is not that good. The ladies loo is on the same level, but there are steps and uneven floors everywhere. The gents loo is in a modern block out in the courtyard.
Expect problem
Hi all - time for me to delurk. (dashes in from the shadows).
I've bent my brain with Expect yesterday and today, and need someone to
(metaphorically)
hit me round the head and tell me what to do right.
The scenario:
I wish to run a program, imapxfer, which transfers imap email between
two imap servers.
Each server will prompt for a password.
Getting out the trusty Perl Cookbook, I'm trying to use Expect, which is
amost working.
Here is the code:
# use Expect to run the imapxfer progam and supply its inputs
$command = Expect->spawn("/usr/local/bin/imapxfer $imapargs")
or die "Couldn't start imapxfer";
# wait 20 seconds for the password: prompt
unless ($command->expect(20, "password:")) {
print "Timeout problem with London imapxfer \n";
}
print $command "passwordr";
# wait 20 seconds for the password: prompt
unless ($command->expect(20, "password:")) {
print "Timeout problem with newmail imapxfer \n";
}
print $command "password\r";
Things are fine up until this point - the program starts off, and both
passwords are accepted.
But when the script exits the spawned program is killed :-(, which
happens pretty quickly.
I've tried the soft_close and hard_close methods, which aren't any use.
How can I get things to wait till the spawned program finishes, or at
least let it finish properly.
I've just had success by putting in an infinite wait
unless ($command->expect(undef, "nonsense")) {
};
But that seems real stupid - and of course the script will never exit
now.
Is the only thing to do to to somehow get an expect method to somehow
wait for the end of the spawned program?
Re: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)
Philip Newton wrote: > > I read in a book about a place where this premise was taken to its logical > conclusion and all residents of a particular state were given college > degrees so that people would be equal. > > (It might have been Heinlein's _Friday_.) > It wasn't just college degrees. A quick web search turns up 'HArrison Bergeron' by Kurt Vonnegut. The Handicapper General came round, and made beautiful people look ugly, and ballet dancers had to dance with weights tied round their ankles, IIRC. http://www.nd.edu/~cgrundy1/theatre/handicapper.htm
Re: Hardware Upgrade Fund
Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:12:58 +, Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dave Cross wrote: > > > > > I'm therefore looking for a volunteer to organise this. The > > > organiser would, of course, be given a free login on the server. What's the current specs of the machine? (Just out of interest) John -- :wq
Re: [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered
David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 06:09:32AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > At 18 Jan 2001 10:09:04 +, Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > And on the same lines...what with all these perlmongers on the market > > > right now, just bloody band together and start a consultancy. > > > > Sounds good to me. Anyone else up for it? > > Yes, but [caveat] [caveat] [caveat] Hmmm, does sound good though. John -- :wq
Re: JOB: Re: Hiring (not another one :) )
David Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > While hiring seems to be the order of the day, just to let you know that > > > AL Digital are hiring at the moment .. (permies only at the moment) ... > > > > I can't believe that you didn't mention the really cool arcade machine in > > reception[1] in the sales pitch. I think that most Perl Mongers would be > > swayed by this as much as by anything else ;-) > > > > Later > > > > Mark. > > > > (Happily Employed) > > > > [1] Table top cabinet[2] with a PC running MAME inside. > > [2] The kind you can rest a pint on. > > Reading Room has a PS2 in Dean Street and a pool table and space > invaders machine in Wardour St. Dircon took away their pool table recently to replace it with office space. G. I think all companies should have at least something... it helps with team building, ummm, team moral and I guess wasting time? The MAME machine sounds very cool, does it have authentic joysticks? (BTW, if any one knows where I could pickup some old AsciiWare Nintendo joysticks please drop me a email) John -- :wq
Re: Date/Time (was: Re: me-commerce)
Hi, very funny, having looked at my calender I see what you mean! cheers, John -Original Message- From: Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Freitag, 15. Dezember 2000 15:12 Subject: Date/Time (was: Re: me-commerce) > >From: "John Gold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 1/23/01 1:10:57 PM > >John, > >Any chance you could put you server's clock right or stop posting >from the TARDIS or something. > >You're playing havoc with the sorting in my in-box. > >Cheers, > >Dave... > >-- ><http://www.dave.org.uk> > >"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one", >he said. But still they come. > > > > >
Re: [phillip@goats.com: Re: Meeting reminder]
Hi, sarcasm I presume? -Original Message- From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Freitag, 15. Dezember 2000 12:48 Subject: Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Meeting reminder] >* John Gold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> my girlfriend (she is a perl programmer) and I might like to come, would >> this be possible? >> >> many thanks, >> >> John Gold > >of course, ill note your names down on my big list > >-- >Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net > >
Re: [phillip@goats.com: Re: Meeting reminder]
Hi Greg, my girlfriend (she is a perl programmer) and I might like to come, would this be possible? many thanks, John Gold -Original Message- From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; David H. Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; London.pm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2000 23:55 Subject: Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Meeting reminder] > >ok, i have got the mantle of trip organiser to ny > >the trip will be aimed at easterish 2001, i will need a rough show of numbers >initially, please email by 14th jan to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:10:42PM +, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > * David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 09:48:36PM +, Dave Cross wrote: >> > > > >> > > > When I was in Monterey this summer I'd completely forgotten about the >> > > > States' ridiculous drinking laws - until Leon got carded. >> > > > >> > > > Oh, we laughed. >> > > >> > > Laughing at Leon - it's what's for breakfast! :-) >> > > >> > > dha, looking at his watch and saying "Gah!" >> > > >> > >> > we really need an en masse trip from london.pm to ny.pm in the new year >> >> I second that proposal and hereby nominate Gregg as chief organiser. >> >> Dave... >> [having second thought about that nomination already...] >> >> -- >> http://www.dave.org.uk | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Data Munging with Perl >> <http://www.manning.com/cross/> >-- >Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net > >
Re: me-commerce
Hi Jo, we are in the process of implementing minivend on the server side and our own windows app on the client side to upload stock/inventory and download orders. I have looked at this problem for quite a while and minivend seems the best solution in conjuction with our 'Digital Shop Manager software. Maybe we could come to some sort of arrangement depending upon your requirements? many thanks, John Gold - kr8.com -Original Message- From: jo walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2000 12:08 Subject: me-commerce > >desperately seeking open-source, perl ecommerce application. > >so far we are looking at: > >AllCommerce - http://www.zelerate.org (formerly OpenSales), which at a >brief glance looks fairly complex and inflexible... > >InterChange (formerly MiniVend) http://developer.akopia.com, which is >CPANned (Bundle::Interchange) and seems a little nicer... > >also found Symphero http://www.symphero.net and Apache::iNcom >http://indev.insu.com/iNcom/incom.html on freshmeat. > >if anyone's used any of these packages, and can recommend / >ring alarm bells, i would be overjoyed to hear about it. > >our requirements: >- clean, extensible API >- support for multiple vendors >- support for multiple transaction handlers (iPin, DataCash) >- all yer standard shopping basket type stuff >- as little wheel-inventing as possible >is all this just some pleasant fairyland dream? > >hmm... are the blackstar boys gettign anywhere with CPANning their system, >i wonder...? > >any advice apprec, > >jo > > > > > > >
Re: freebsd admin skills - free space
Rob Partington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > America lost. > > s/America/We all/ I thought that was the only outcome. -- :wq
