On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:33:11AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Who holds the distance record? dha, presumably?
Me Andy M. probably, living on the left coast.
Paul
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:38:02PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:33:11AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Who holds the distance record? dha, presumably?
Me Andy M. probably, living on the left coast.
You forgot Damian (as had I).
I've
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:12:33PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
I see that the new edtion of Linux Format comes with a copy of e-smith on
the CD. According to the blurb, e-smith is a complete, easy to use and
install server/gateway system that manages mail, firewalling,
file-sharing,
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
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)
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:25:32AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
You're very probably stuck. Whilst you can use a hex editor to change
strings in the binary, you can't expand the length of those strings,
only contract them or retain the same length.
However, a solution would be to change
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:56:20AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't know about you, but I'm *definitely* fat.
Big boned.
Nope.
BBH, Big Beautiful Hacker?
Paul
--
Abandon normal instruments
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:57:52PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:10:53PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
And how about a signal/noise bias? ;-)
The noise *is* signal.
It's signal, Jim, but not as we know it.
Paul
--
Destroy nothing; Destroy the most important thing
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:25:17AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
I didn't get where I am today by saying 'earwig' instead of 'thank you'
Might it've helped?
P
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Dave Cross: 762
Jonathan Stowe: 729 ***
Robin Szemeti: 586 **
David Cantrell: 563 **
Paul Makepeace: 504
Leon Brocard: 459
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:27:39AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
because, unlike something actually useful, AV only indexes words in its
dictionary. since bax (although semantically significant) is not in its
dictioanary it don;t find it. pile of shit. Google is oodlsss
better. if you
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:10:43AM -0500, Richard Clyne wrote:
If you request more items than are in the queue (e.g. lots of empty
seats) the queue returns the items in order. If you request less items
than are in the queue (Bus almost full) the largest items push through
and are selected.
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:24:35AM +1000, Ian Brayshaw wrote:
Have any of you worked with SQueaLServer with a large DB (multiple terabyte
level), serving high volume transactions (read write, of the order of
You'd have to be more specific than that. MS's terraserver
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:59:32PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
of a 2gb monthly bandwidth allowance.
Oh my lord -- I shift over a gig a day just thru' the freenet node and
that's on a crappy DSL line. Remind me to whine less when Pacific [HB]ell
messes with the connection...
the goodness of
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:15:39AM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote:
as some of you might already know I'm orff to the west country.
Red skoi at noit, yer sheeps are aloit.
Paul, from Brizzle
--
Magnify the most difficult details
Neil Ford noted:
Quick bit of digging and I've found the following;
[Heat Magazine, 19-25 May 2001]
The producers of Buffy, Fox TV, have offered ridiculous soundbites to justify
switching TV networks in the US. The WB, home to Buffy since it's inception,
did not match the passion and vision
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:29:19AM +0100, 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).
[snip]
And there's and extra point if you can name the SF book it's mentioned in.
Well,
I'm trying to duplicate an FS from an oldish 5,400rpm 6GB IDE drive to a new
7,200rpm 61GB IDE drive using the usual cp -ax / /mnt. But it's
unbelievably slow -- vmstat 2 is reporting bi/bo around 300!
Having just compared that with my main server (10K 7.2K SCSIs) that's
10x slower. The thing I
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:19:28AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
What does hdparm have to say?
Ah yes, thanks, I remember that from 1997, the last time I used it :-)
I switched DMA on both drives (hdparm -d1), and interrupts went down,
transfer rate went up and all was good. Now, why do I have
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:32:58PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
whistles for quick HD access turned to 'off' .. I tripled the transfer
rate on my slaptop by turning DMA and other stuff on ... and it didn;t
explode like the manpage said it might.
I caved and upgraded to 2.4.5, something I
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:26:14PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
You might need to run a 2nd copy of kwin, like this:
% kwin -- display :0.1
(--display)
Try that and see if it works...
Yes! Thanks. Now to get it to start like that on its own... It's very
weird re-learning X after
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
Are you using xinerama (i.e. so your monitors are spliced together into
one display?)
No, it's KDE2 which seems to split them into separate desktops. The
mouse moves between them as though they're one but I can't drag windows
back
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:55:12PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
The monitor layout should be controllable from the XF86Config file.
Somehow. I haven't tried this though. RTFM.
I have,
Section ServerLayout
Identifier Default Layout
Screen Primary
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:41:45PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Primary
Screen Secondary LeftOf Primary InputDevice Generic Keyboard
InputDevice Configured Mouse EndSection
Look, look, bad
Well, I threatened to write one.
``PremierDNS.com -- this is really a hack: become a registrar with no
DNS servers, no billing ability, no employees and not be ICANN
registered. This isn't a real business idea but more an integration of
existing web services with a neat front-end.''
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:32:52AM +, Greg Cope wrote:
mysqldump) - and I was wondering if there was a super thing that could
translate the create table stuff into a diagram I could print, and then
look at If this worked on Linux and involved perl and Dia then it
would be fab.
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:45:59AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
[Of course, the reason nobody's done this before is that everyone
wants a slightly different interface...]
Surely it should be possible to specify the underlying *functionality*
of the system and then have a perl source filter (or
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19239.html
Joy.
Paul
Why do people say inherits from the Foo::Bar manpage and not Foo::Bar
module/class? I mean, how can something inherit from a lump of
documentation? Is this one of those klutz kult phenomenon or something
I'm not in on? :)
Paul
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:35:52PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
my @array = $h{two};
I bumped into this in 1997 and became convinced list contexts aren't
propagated to the effective sub call. If you look at the above line,
there's something very odd seeming about it anyway, and it's not
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:25:43PM +, Redvers Davies wrote:
That is not strictly true... FMD is not a threat to animal health,
the MAFF slaughters are.
There was me thinking the threat to animal health was the six inch bolt
that gets driven thru' their skulls and ultimately them being
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:51:26PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
map g !G perl -MText::Autoformat -eautoformat CR
map z !G perl -MText::Autoformat -e 'autoformat{ all = 1 }' CR
...shamelessly stolen, lock stock and barrel from Damian's article in
the new TPJ. :-)
Cool, thanks.
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:23:49PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
You should use Damian's Text::AutoFormat. I just used it to reformat
the bit above beginning with Indeed. Lovely thing.
Have you integrated into a mail server (module, procmail, whatever)
so that it gets cleaned on the way in,
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 06:49:01PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether:
[SNIP!]
Please fix your mailer to do proper In-Reply-To and References
headers. It's really really annoying.
I *loathe* Exchange.
But they fixed references in
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:14:05PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:11:23AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
I *loathe* Exchange.
But they fixed references in 6.0! No, wait, they just introduced a
load of Thread-* headers :-( Fucking morons.
They just innovated
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:19:20PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
1. For some unknown reason it doesn't let you use mail filters on IMAP
messages, thereby rendering it completely unsuited to my needs
The Mac version does :)
But yeah, that's a pain.
2. And this is the really evil one. If
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:50:07PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
...but lacks the ability to filter POP messages by headers before
downloading. Why the hell can't they get their act together on the same
bloody bit of software? And they accuse *us* of forking.
Not only that the Outlook and Outlook
Anyone aware of an interface either through the web or more directly
that will provide the usual paypal facilities through a perl interface?
CPAN command=i /paypal/ / didn't get any hits.
Paul
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:44:13PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
This (non-perl unix command line tool) might be better than nothing:
http://members01.chello.se/hampasfirma/ppsend/
Great, thanks, that's the ticket. Seems like it's a simple WAP/XML
interface. For anyone that's curious it
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:04:21PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Has anyone tried Activestate's packaged perl 5.6 for Debian? I wouldn't
normally consider them, but there's no other packaged 5.6 for Debian-
stable.
I'd just run -testing. That to me would be less invasive and likely
to break
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:17:04AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
I need three volunteers to join me in the london.pm team for Jon Orwant's
Internet Quiz at The Perl Conference.
This is our big chance to get revenge for the injustices of last year.
I'll help. Mike Stok and I between
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:27:32AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Delphi rules.
Still not as good Interface Builder + Objective C + AppKit +
NeXTSTEP...
Having used both, I totally disagree. YMMV of course :-)
Interface Builder is damn good but plenty of stupid shit in it (why
am I setting
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:59:53PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Paul Makepeace wrote:
The - to . conversion [...] will be a wonderful thing.
To be honest, I never understood the point of that conversion. Is it an
attempt to make Perl look more like VB? Or like Java? Or trying to save
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:12:52PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
The same happened to me. I've given up buying things on the
Internet. I do all my research on the web, and then head down to
Tottenham Court Road to actually buy it. The prices are generally
comparable, and you get it *there and
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:24:56PM +0200, Niklas Nordebo wrote:
As usual, registration can be bypassed by replacing www with channel, ie:
http://channel.nytimes.com/2001/05/03/technology/03SOFT.html
On similar lines, robots.cnn.com is ad free.
E.g.
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:06:22PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
And just to complete my final blasphemy, Visual Basic, may have
a shit language behind it, it may have performance problems,
it may be very limited and may force you to implement the guts
as of any serious program you write as
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 05:00:28PM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
I have worked as a telemarketer, so feel a bit sorry for them as it's a shit
job, so I just say No thanks and hang up.
You can buy these little devices that emit a canned request to be
removed from the lists which these people are
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:12:42PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
I have bought US Hersey (sp?) bars in the UK and thought they were
Hersey make their products from the ground up bones of dead rats stuck
in the wheels of NY subway trains.
It's *true*!
Paul
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:31:07PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
Can't you just kill on politics subject?
(I will try and use the subject header in my posts anyway so people
can)
Personally I find discussion of politics more interesting than
American TV shows about vampires.
Concur.
I
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 06:10:12PM -0400, Piers Cawley wrote:
Well, it's thinking like that that keeps the skills gap nice and wide.
Hmm... can't be all bad then.
Better to quietly allow immigrants across the border, put them in
an immigration armlock and then turn a blind eye to them be
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 06:42:40PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
Suggestions also welcome for all of these:
http://pkl.net/~martin/lonix-2001-05-10/
Does that come with a Back Orifice?
Paul
``BOFHs will legally need licence to work''
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/18866.html
Absurd, laughable and bizarre. What *is* wrong with the UK?
Paul
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
How many things do you have on top of your monitor?
Five CommTech Star Wars figures -- the type that have a chip with a
few voice samples in their base which the reader scans plays. Some
of them have defined sequences so placing
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:46:11AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
How many things do you have on top of your monitor?
Nothing. If your monitor cost as much as mine, you'd keep it sacrosanct
too.
All this says is you don't have
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:42:40PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
http://shadowgirl.net/photos/NYC-apr-2001/).
Those are great pictures!
http://shadowgirl.net/photos/NYC-apr-2001/merkin.html
I trust everyone knows what a merkin *really* is...
Paul can you tell I live near SF? M
``Microsoft is preparing a broad campaign countering the movement to give
away and share software code, arguing that it potentially undermines
the intellectual property of countries and companies. At the same time,
the company is acknowledging that it is feeling pressure from the
freely shared
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:34:56PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our latest and greatest
operating system which we couldn't be arsed to complete
10.0.2 shipped yesterday and fixed this, fyi...
The burn CD button in iTunes is a pulsing
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:24:13PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
do it, why can't a global e-commerce leading-edge pioneer-type place like
Amazon? The mind boggles.
Because there aren't any other currencies besides the US $. amazon.co.uk
actually uses dollars and so do you. Hey, do they have
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:03:12AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Anyone know of a bank that will let non US residents have a workable
US$ account with dollar credit card and check (narf) book?
When you're at TPC open a bank account and ask them to have the address
in the UK. I've done this
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:28:00AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Indeed, I have one already, but they charge like fuck for banking
cheques, have stupid settlement times and not hook 'em up to their
online banking.
How much is a lot? I'm about to dump a few thousand into a UK bank
(HSBC) and
Neil Ford wrote:
A dedicated OSX list might be a good idea.
tada
http://www.osxphiles.com/mm/listinfo/osx-talk
/tada
Today I feel like a monkey that only knows one trick, monkey see,
monkey set up mailing list. At least I'm not a fairy.
Anyway -- feel free to forward off list. We can always
Here it is,
http://london.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/london.pm
http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/ -- I sent a couple to seed it.
So I put in the final tweaks to get exim/mailman working
together. (Most of the credit for the setup is to Alex/veeg and jo.)
Whether it goes from dircon to
Anyone here have this working on OS X client? The OS X Server one didn't
complaining about some pthreads error:
# ./scripts/mysql_install_db
dyld: ./bin/my_print_defaults can't open library:
/usr/lib/libpthread.A.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
I'm trying the source d/l route
Seems like DBD::Pg and mysql both support bind_param().. but do they
really? Checking mysql API docs seems to suggest (unless I'm looking at
the beginner version) there aren't any functions to prepare statements.
I haven't looked at Postgres.
Can anyone confirm/deny?
Ah ha! (answering my own
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:38:45AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
but of course .. however the topic was (somewhere along the thread)
related to portable methods to try and keep from having to change all the
SQL between different db version.
Why do this? Unless you're using the db in a toy
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:39:18AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
Have a look at her right big toe in this, has someone doctored the photo?
http://britneyspears.ac/bs/024b.jpg
I read press releases that explicitly denied all rumors of any surgical
enhancements to Britney's anatomy.
HTH :)
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:49:33AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
Oracle quite a bit - it parses the statement with placeholders and
does large amounts of cacheing. Definitely worth it if you're fiddling
with large dbs. For postgres it's a lot less important IME.
Great, thanks!
This is all
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:30:20PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
I blame majordomo, when's that mailman thing getting here?
Actually that's my fault I said I'd look into it about a year ago (or
so it feels). I'll do it this weekend. As to whether penderel gets used
for this mailing list is
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:45:40AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
It helps a lot (and is also blindingly easy to benchmark yourself ;-).
Clearly says someone who's hasn't installed Oracle recently!
[This is after all the point of community lists is to ask questions
of others who've already done it
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:31:16PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:16:32PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:45:40AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
It helps a lot (and is also blindingly easy to benchmark yourself ;-).
Clearly says someone
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:09:49AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:16:32PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Clearly says someone who's hasn't installed Oracle recently!
You can install Oracle now? Wow, they must have really been fixing it
of late.
OK, so I cheated
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:39:45AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
Flemings Premier Banking
01708 713317
God help you if you put your company into dormancy however. Then they
get really arsey since you're not depositing huge amounts of cash into
it any more.
They unilaterally decided to close my
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:17:01PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Doh! We entirely missed this:
http://www.mysql.com/news/article-57.html
That's an amusing read! 'spos it legitimises us, but, but!
Which links to (not sure if it's working right now):
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:02:48PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Yeah, but only testing it on one browser, ignoring the - what, 30%? - that
don't use IE - that's kinda silly. And unprofessional. Sure, the bank
Anything that displays in IE will display fine in Opera. Mozilla
is OK. Netscape
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:04:36PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
depends dunnit ...
Not really, Netscape 4.x sucks. No two ways about it.
and height tags) ..it doesnt care about missing /table tags, it
handles tables and CSS somewhat better than 4.7 OTOH its so far from being
You mean it
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:33:36PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
well .. it *does* handle them .. but ,,, errr .. sort of non cascading
IYSWIM ...
No it doesn't. It has almost no clue about stylesheets at all. Have you
ever developed a CSS site for Netscape? And got it to work in anything
like a
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5729530.html
Makes bizarre reading after AS's press releases.
(I assume AOL's Komodo is some Mozilla repackaging? Anyone know
anything about this?)
Paul
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:50:34AM +0100, Dean wrote:
theregister.co.uk has been running stories about it being used as a
possible alternative if AOL decides to stop bundling IE. No technical
details though...
http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=988225959
has a weensy bit at the last
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:34:19AM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
It's a cute domain. I haven't seen a domain expire and go to back to
available in a reasonable period for quite a while, though; they're kept
on as expired records for $bignum amount of time. :-)
Yeah, I don't know why that is. There
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:51:59PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote:
on 25/4/01 5:25 pm, Paul Makepeace wrote:
If you read
the small print they threaten to disconnect service if whois info isn't
accurate. Pity you have to supply perfect info for spammers.
I think that's fair, like
Here's a perl question (OK, not really).. Is anyone aware of a
compatibility/wrapper library which a developer could use to take an
app using the MySQL API and with some (ideally) minimal munging turn
it into Oracle OCI or Pro*C code?
I'm faced with converting a couple of apps that have MySQL
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:28:42PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Don't forget that even if you could automatically change the API over,
you'd still have to change all the SQL in the API as well. Which is
probably just as difficult a task, given how much SQL can vary from
product to
Are you DJ Adams?
http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010404S0014
Good, and depressing, article.
Paul
FYI, this domain is about to expire. So if anyone wants it, snag it.
I was going to transfer it to bulkregister (my preferred registrar)
but simply couldn't be arsed.
Paul
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:02:18AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, you wrote:
Hey, Robin -- remember the "reply to list" feature is on; "you wrote" is not
particularly clear :). (In this case, it's Jonathan Stowe, which is
significant.)
aol/ Yes,
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:17:22AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
Rate ca. ?22k or equivalent for contract
Is that really the going rate for Perl proggers in London? Doesn't seem
like much (for reasonable definitions of "progger" :-).
Paul
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:33:53AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl?read=4453
Shame your solution ignored the locking problem...
Ha ha, we both just posted simultaneously -- I think between our
posts we should have *that* problem sorted.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:01:10PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote:
I'm glad to say I am now employed *cheer*.
Was a rather nice birthday present to get today.
"Congratulations" x 2!
Leo
Funny name for an Aries :-) Oh well, fire sign all the same.
Paul, 10th Apr.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:46:03PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Works with Objective C too. Which is still (for my money) the best way
of messing with the NeXTSTEP object model.
s/best/only/
Paul
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 07:12:32PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our latest and greatest
operating system which we couldn't be arsed to complete
You mean, "...if you choose to install an OS over the one we're
actually supporting for those
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:52:58AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
actually supporting for those operations"?
No, I mean "unless you're using our latest and greatest operating system
which, despite us only supporting a limited number of systems to make it
This is specious. The ad is running
Anyone hackers here sent broadcast packets? I think this is how you
do it:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Socket;
my $dst = inet_aton("172.30.255.255");
socket(SOCKET, PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, getprotobyname("udp"))
or die "socket: $!";
setsockopt(SOCKET, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST,
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:12:30AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
if it doesn't work on a standard Perl install its dead in the water IMHO
FWIW, I agree. Not only that, if it conflicts with existing
distribution's package management that'd be a nightmare.
Paul
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:44:38AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
The iMac is one of the platforms supported by OS X.
One has to assume anyone installing an OS over a different is
intelligent enough to read the caveats.
In fact, CD burning doesn't work under OS X on *any* machine and isn't
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:49:20AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
If you have a complete /usr/src installed, look in there for examples
of how it's done in C (it looks like you have a BSD machine - so it's
quite likely /usr/src is populated).
The weird thing is this is even happening with
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:11:45PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
You're probably going to have to grep through the kernel source to see
why it's being returned in that case. And I have a sneaky suspicion
that the networking stuff is quite changed from the "normal" BSDs...
I've been using
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:41:49PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
According to the book in front of me (UNP2v1, P472):
"Another question is: what does a multi-homed host do when the
application sends a UDP datagram to 255.255.255.255? Some systems
send a single broadcast on the
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:20:45AM +0200, Marcel Grunauer wrote:
get it to work, and not just because of fonts. Or sendmail - I haven't
really used it much, just to route my personal mail;
I ported exim to OS X last week, it was very easy and runs fine
(qmail was a dog). Give me another day
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 08:48:10PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
All roads lead to London.pm, 'twould seem.
Welcome aboard crewmates!
Paul
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:41:51PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Whilst I thought that a radioactive-style decay was a suitable default,
for the app I wrote it for, a simple decrement every time period was
more appropriate.
Cool Uses For Technology #497: Hmm, triggered on first access would
be
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