more difficult than if they are separated out.
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default behaviour
is deny ip from any to any. So something that does the firewalling can
definitely be a good idea. :-)
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precisely because the toy language in TT2 is just as bad as embedding code.
See my point about SQL, as it's related to this.
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On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:09:53PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Steve Mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Any other offers?
http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/
Why do all these things have to look like Slashdot? It that now the
ONLY metaphor for these
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
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:31:37AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
[hosting providers]
so thats another big vote for Nildram then ..
[snip]
hmm .. we're trying to justify a move to 5gb a month .. at which point
Nildram sounds like a cheaper option. ... is Aylesbury nice?
An alternative:
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:10:47PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:31:37AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
[hosting providers]
so thats another big vote for Nildram then ..
[snip]
hmm .. we're trying to justify
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:55:39PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:27:19AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
i'm sorry about asking this, but i've purged too many old archives
of london.pm to find this one - someone one once mentioned a domain
name registry with a neat web
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:07:15PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:09:28PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:55:39PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote:
Mr Couzens
Die, alien slime!
My apologies was typed in a hurry on a tube train and I didn't double
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:19:21AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Paul, who will probably end up using FreeBSD since its hardware RAID
(HPT370) and video (Matrox G450 dual) is apparently better...
vinum in mirror mode is not supposed to be that good (apparently it does
no integrity checking of
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:38:17AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
i'm sorry about asking this, but i've purged too many old archives
of london.pm to find this one - someone one once mentioned a domain
name registry with a neat web based management
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:02:11AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote:
Has any one used this module at all?
I just tried it and got some wierd results!!!
It though the following where VALID:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
tricad@dial,pipex.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED],co.uk
enquiries@peter-il;land.co.uk
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:49:06AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Andy Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
So I guess [EMAIL PROTECTED] is invalid even though it works wierd!
its not the email address thats broken, its your SMTP server ;-)
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:56:56AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
snip
You are correct in that these shouls all be invalid.
Great.
and that this was INVALID:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is.
Damn
another snip
Thanks for the RFC... I think
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:14:15PM +0100, Matthew Robinson wrote:
[IsValidAddress sub, which was built from the RFC822 grammar...]
Unfortunately, a fair few mailers don't allow IP literals as valid
domain-parts anymore, due to abuse.
MBM
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:27:40AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Anyway, PDF is easier re: packing/endianness since it's a text format!
The only time you get binary data is for unencoded streams (which they advise
against, although it's permitted, for example PDFlib generates it)
like a
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:00:40PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:28:49PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
So I get a call on my mobile in the middle of the beer fest from a
potential collaborator telling me he can't send me the promised
documentation due to the fact
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:20:08PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
I still remember an article about C++ templating being a turing complete
language in it's own right or something weird. This isn't it, but is
entertaining anyway:
http://www.annexia.org/freeware/cpptemplates/
And if you
be interested to hear how you get on... I was under the impression
that the D channel was an always on 16k-thing. It'd be interesting to
see what gets sent down there normally...
CLI / Destination number that kind of thing. Signalling information
basically.
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place. Once it gets to that stage it's effectively a
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Umm.. why the implication that this *hasn't* happened yet?
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All language
victory - that it could do what it wanted, so it changed all the
policies to the tory ones...
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes
companies' cartel?
use the tube and electric trains? Most power stations aren't oil fired
AFAIK.
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes
echo $line
lineno=$((lineno+1))
if [ $(($lineno % 24)) = 0 ] ; then
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read ans /dev/tty
test $ans = q exit 0
fi
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it wrong still surprises me. And the spamware that carries on blindly even
though it gets errors
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Under any conditions, anywhere
, when
it works.)
Has anyone got a proper lundun map with tube lines indicated... that would
be just chops.
There are machines in the tube that sell them.
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is a venue decided on for tonights meeting, or is it still TBA?
Penderels Oak.
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, but will
do. I'll make it so that requests for .../cv.foo get translated to
.../cv[latest-version].foo.
HTTP::Approx anyone?
mod_speling
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handle with Net::SMTP. This is why there
was discussion, however, on widnoze, (not sure about vanilla mac (rather
than os x)) there is no sensible way to do a queued message.
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again:
http://www.thetube.com/content/pressreleases/
Where will the (delayed) meeting be? Have we booked a room? ;-)
PO?
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I generally avoid
productions -perm -0400 ?
so it's true is it? :) You're late by about 28 days, sorry.
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I'm not even going to *bother* comparing C to BASIC
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:20:35PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
But, how is it non compliant? And when was 75MB of diskspace an issue?
That's about 20p.
Where do you get sensible disk (including
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote:
5/2/2001Pizza Express London, England
Which Pizza Express ?
*The* Pizza Express (in Soho) where they play the jazz.
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Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food
groups -- alcohol, caffeine, sug
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Simon Wistow wrote:
I shall proceed from here whence forth unto smack Mr Cantrell until he
doth giveth over the designs. Hither-unto. And heretowards.
Can we all join
r editor putting in? If not \n this may
be part of the problem.
Also you're missing a "-w" on the end of the shebang line... :)
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sta
* do,
however is to say that the derived work must be under a GPL-compatible
license, which makes it, in general, uneconomical to sell the work.
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote:
[broken quoting snipped]
You want the GPL for that. Which means that you can't use my copyright
message as it includes the Artisitc License
of course - buit that is how it seems.
I don't know. IANAL.
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standards n.: The principles upon which we reject other people's code.
...
Doesn't that make a bicyclist?
Paul, whose uni got nicked in fscking cambridge. "Ooh, it's got a wheel!
Not the usual two, but fuck it, let's steal it anyway!"
Ah, but people so often have quick release front wheels... erm.
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ably not near sussex and you really don't
want a 5 ft radius circle of charcoal left in it
Ah but would it have charcoal. That would - after all - mean we're not
burning things properly... :) Greg, you've lost your touch if you're only
producing charcoal. You need to be vapourising things... erm.
M
(explosives with electrical detonators) to
blow up bits of the garden.
They made very effective mines to destroy Action Men too.
Admittedly I was only 10 at the time but I think that counts as the "right"
attitude ;-)
.. And you seemed so normal when I met you
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On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:22:38AM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
...geeks, goths, jugglers, Natscis. And that's just me.
ex-natscis too. :)
Are you? I'm actually doing productive things
linux because they didn't have to pay for it.
Tushar was an exception.
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What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, james_h wrote:
Ok so that is possibly the most unfunny thing i have ever seen. No offense.
If that's what you think was it necessary to quote the entire message?
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transparency. -- George Nathan
how to you tell the difference between plain text
begin 777 RE:
and an attachment?
You don't.
Remember that uuencoding was devised in a time before MIME.
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, but not as good as not having
crap in the first place.
If it's just an ordinary Unix mailbox, may I suggest Mail::Audit?
Feature request - IMAP client.
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arguing *against*.
Oh well.
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What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's
transparency
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:17:15PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
No. I couldn't be bothered. If what he has to say isn't important
enough to send properly, then it's not important enough for me
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Science is built up of facts, as a house with stones. But a collection of
facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house
suggests that you get no added benefit by *not* doing so.
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I marvel
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:41:14PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
host(1)'s error messages are often misleading - it can give the message
"try again" to nxdomain responses, for example...
Given how fast .NSI namespace is bein
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote:
agreed it is a dumb thing, especially if your nameserver doesnt have a
name to lookup
Erm!!?!? How exactly were you planning to point anything at it? an NS
RR requires an authoritative name as it's RHS.
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o nxdomain responses, for example...
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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening
with an insuranc
it to
make it harder for non BIND gurus to be able to tell wahts going on ...
It's not easy to use, but it has better error reporting than the default
host(1) command. I think it really is time to switch to using adnshost
more...
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
(Spring Cascade today at the Orange Brewery brewpub
in Pimlico. Not a bad beer.)
I thought you were in Wales...
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choice of someone who is going on buzzwords, and hasn't really
thought about the technical issues involved.
True.
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I generally avoid temptation
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
Would this be an appropriate time to point out that my TPC talk
proposes the creation of a Parse::Perl::Approx module :)
You are an evil man.
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parties in the previous
email.
If I see a sensible plan for certification, this sounds sensible, but
consider what most people think of eg. MCSEs.
Please enlighten us.
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
TIMTOWTDI kind of screws things up. Different people will code in
different styles. How can you evaluate this?
it doesn't matter how they achieve most things, as long as they can
do them
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:05:43PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
If I see a sensible plan for certification, this sounds sensible, but
consider what most people think of eg. MCSEs.
That's mainly due to the M rather than the C.
OK, well some
chatroom functionality! why?
why does a site selling this sort of thing need chatroom
functionality? what is the benefit compared to its cost
well, quite. So you can chat about how crap they are. And of course,
because everyone else is doing it, so we have to too. :(
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Philip Newton wrote:
(Don't know whether CPAN.pm knows this for you. It may.)
Yes, it does.
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Knebel's Law
ed to most was the $th[31]="st" bit. I
shouldn't have put it like that, but as Robin says, TIMTOWTDI,so yeah.
It seems to me that it doesn't but as you say, YMMV and I got to practice
my benchmarking :-)
:) I did expect it to be slower, it also copes with any number.
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I vaguely recall it standing for something like "Heuristic Algorithmic
Logic," but that doesn't really set it apart from anything.
how does that explain SAL9000?
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Good programmers aren't necessarily good teachers.
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perl -e
On 21 Mar 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
d) Debugging
Amen
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Science is built up of facts, as a house with stones. But a collection of
facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. -- Poincare
have to be a pretty severe
standards pedant to say there was no such thing ;-)
Lynx doesn't.
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Amoebit: Amoeba/rabbit cross; it can multiply
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Philip Newton wrote:
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Robin Houston wrote:
And so does every other user agent in the universe,
pretty much; so you'd have to be a pretty severe
standards pedant to say there was no such thing ;-)
Lynx doesn't
have some chance of rolling back.
DAV over HTTPS is not that bad, though...
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned
. Of course, if their computer hasn't got a queueing mail
system, then I don't want that either :)
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much
open relays.
If it's the local network the ability to relay SMTP through a machine
would be entirely sensible, surely?
Ah. Now what you want is to get a machine off ORBS to try and relay mail
through them with some source-routed path :) That's the way to abuse
them. :)
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:19:46PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:09:42PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
I've just seen
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:38:52PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
I neither know nor care. I was taking issue with your claim that relying
on /usr/lib/sendmail is a good idea.
This arose because
by the
now infamous Matt Wright ever again...)
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Apologies to those who have already read this via [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
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I'm looking for another job. As soon as possible being preferable. My
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