Re: Maths Problem

2001-06-18 Thread Philip Newton
. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: early peek at a bit of fun

2001-06-18 Thread Philip Newton
:) Who holds the distance record? dha, presumably? (I suppose Simon Cozens had him beat while he was in Japan, but was he part of London.pm then? I think he is now.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution

Re: early peek at a bit of fun

2001-06-18 Thread Philip Newton
address according to RFC 2?822. Bad Apache.) Cheers, Phi I got a '500 Server Error'. What's wrong with my script? lip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: early peek at a bit of fun

2001-06-18 Thread Philip Newton
at the bottom please email me off list, i just skipped through the who's who very quickly getting a decent list of people who looked london.pm-ish to test it. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part

Re: Government Websites

2001-06-18 Thread Philip Newton
read that JavaScript can expose security holes, so I'll turn it off. Therefore, I will make all my navigation work without JavaScript turned on. Sounds like a good idea to me so far. Cheers, philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part

Re: YAPC::Europe

2001-06-18 Thread Philip Newton
first (and it's closer to the hotel as well); change at Leiden Centraal or at Schiphol(Airport). Still only 1:02 or 1:12, depending on your connection. (Although you'd have to get to Rotterdam Centraal from the airport, I admit.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions

Re: Government Websites

2001-06-18 Thread Philip Newton
Roger Burton West wrote: Users will say: Ooh! Shiny!. You need to get some better users. Cheers, philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: e-smith

2001-06-18 Thread Philip Newton
David Cantrell wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:12:33PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: Tangentially on-topic for this list because of skud's involvement... What is this 'topic' of which you speak? Something matching /^[fyreub ]+\z/i, I think. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL

Re: early peek at a bit of fun

2001-06-18 Thread Philip Newton
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). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own

Re: Templating Solutions

2001-06-18 Thread Philip Newton
Simon Wilcox wrote: I avoided HTML::Embperl, HTML::Mason Apache::ASP because they all embed perl into the template which is a Bad Thing (tm). Why is that so evil? I'm willing to be enlightened here. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my

Re: Templating Solutions

2001-06-18 Thread Philip Newton
) and my day job at the moment includes StoryServer (Tcl embedded in HTML), so I don't think I have much idea of how something else would work. Explanations welcome. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution

Re: checking your CPAN modules are up to date?

2001-06-17 Thread Philip Newton
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Nope. It was much easier than that. It just iterated down the installed modules and checked them. ppm verify [--upgrade] :) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part

Re: Tie::Hash::Transactional

2001-06-14 Thread Philip Newton
David Cantrell wrote: It was disgustingly easy to write Yeah, awful language this Perl. Makes things much too easy. I hope our bosses never find out that things take a fraction of the time they would with other languages :-) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions

Re: *Buffy's Not Included

2001-06-14 Thread Philip Newton
Roger Burton West wrote: DBD::CSV is your friend. I second that. DBD::CSV is yum. Also handles escaping of double quotes or commas when inserting strings, etc. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution

Re: Y::E accomodation

2001-06-14 Thread Philip Newton
) DEM 140 - DEM170, or ca. GBP 40 - GBP 55 (guessed). And it seems to be a 5* hotel. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Philip Newton
. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Obnoxious sigs (was Re: www.gateway.gov.uk)

2001-06-12 Thread Philip Newton
supposed to align with the longest line of text *on the print-out*, and are based on sending HTML or Rich Text email in Arial, not a fixed-width font such as I use to compose my messages. Cheers, Philip Newton -- datenrevision GmbH Co

Re: [Possible Job] Perl, Linux

2001-06-11 Thread Philip Newton
Piers Cawley wrote: I don't know about you, but I'm *definitely* fat. 4XL, innit? (Remembering you at yapc::Europe:19100 at the T-shirt stand, wondering whether even to bother looking at them.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-11 Thread Philip Newton
Greg McCarroll wrote: * Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: AFAIK Samba implements the SMB protocol, which is the native resource (file, printer, ...) sharing protocol of Windows. So if you have Windows, you've already got an SMB client and server running. for the same reasons

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Philip Newton
Piers Cawley wrote: http://www.iterative-software.com/~pdcawley/acme.png For some reason, that reminded me of tchrist, especially the region around the mouth and chin. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-11 Thread Philip Newton
for the conference, or I might end up travelling to AMS for nothing. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Philip Newton
for Tom Christiansen, whom you may have heard of in the context of Perl ;-). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-08 Thread Philip Newton
of Windows. So if you have Windows, you've already got an SMB client and server running. Sounds a bit like How can I port MKS's korn shell to Unix? Is it possible?. Well, maybe the analogy is not so hot, but it's the best I can think of. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions

Re: Religion

2001-06-08 Thread Philip Newton
is hard to find. Answer: No, it isn't. You type putty into Google and it's the very first thing that comes back. How true. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: London.pm posting stats

2001-06-08 Thread Philip Newton
** David Cantrell: 563 ** Paul Makepeace: 504 Leon Brocard: 459 ** Piers Cawley: 378 David H. Adler: 365 *** Simon Wistow: 355 *** Philip Newton: 331 ** Well, I just

Re: Inline::PERL

2001-06-08 Thread Philip Newton
). Next you'll be saying that in scalar context should return the number of lines in the file. Cheers, Phi while($file = readdir BLA) { process($file) } lip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part

Re: Election Manifestos

2001-05-23 Thread Philip Newton
Simon Wistow wrote: the DBI abstraction was, well, nonexistent. As in, if your script has lots of calls to mysql_this and mysql_that, it doesn't look very database independent. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part

Re: MIME stuff - Am I missing something?

2001-05-22 Thread Philip Newton
Robert Thompson wrote: This site contains info about the raw file formats of numerous graphic types, including sig/header block formats. And there's always http://www.wotsit.org/ The Programmer's File Format Collection. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my

Re: Happy Happy Joy Joy!

2001-05-22 Thread Philip Newton
no more than a couple of months after Americans start crowing about the latest issue of TPJ on IRC or mailing lists. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: TPC Quiz Team

2001-05-18 Thread Philip Newton
of pink here and there. But a bit further on, I saw you're right! Yum. Yes, we should get a trademark of BtVS in connection with Perl :) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: test

2001-05-17 Thread Philip Newton
Greg McCarroll wrote: just a test Sorry, didn't arrive in Germany. You have some kind of UK only filter on these things? Please sent it again, with the filter turned off. Cheers, Philip (feeling testy) -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're

Re: e-mail

2001-05-17 Thread Philip Newton
that 18% of all statistics are completely made up out of raw cloth, and 57.384% of all statistics claim unwarranted precision in their figures? Cheers, Philip (who notes that there's a German saying don't trust any statistic that you didn't forge yourself) -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All

Re: Buffy ...

2001-05-17 Thread Philip Newton
Robin Szemeti wrote: http://page.auctions.yahoo.com/uk/auction/51586918 Yum. Pricey, though. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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

2001-05-17 Thread Philip Newton
it was. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: Buffy ...

2001-05-17 Thread Philip Newton
Cross David - dcross wrote: Oh, and there's a picture of the whole cast, just signed by SMG tho' at http://page.auctions.yahoo.com/uk/auction/51612812. I suppose at this point, grep will wonder why the Bufster uses her fake name when signing pictures. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL

Re: pc components

2001-05-17 Thread Philip Newton
will wrote: rm -f zig mv zig/* CATS/ , surely? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: TPC Quiz Team

2001-05-17 Thread Philip Newton
name, Buddy, as the password, or verbage to that effect. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Happy Happy Joy Joy!

2001-05-17 Thread Philip Newton
I finally received my copy of TPJ in the mail yesterday. And there was much rejoicing :) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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

2001-05-16 Thread Philip Newton
Seen in news:de.alt.sysadmin.recovery : http://www.frankwestphal.de/XPueberdieSchultergeschaut.html The poster thought it was satire; I'm not so sure. Anyway, if you understand German (or trust Babelfish), have a look at it. Enjoy! Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All

Re: streaming output

2001-05-16 Thread Philip Newton
as possible values. Any help, pointers much appreciated. Hope this helps some. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: Caller ID (was Re: Enough!)

2001-05-16 Thread Philip Newton
(?) network in Germany where you pay by the packet rather than by the minute, and where no permanent connections are established: a bit like UDP). So you could have your email delivered to you, or stock ticks, or other stuff that didn't need high bandwidth. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL

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

2001-05-16 Thread Philip Newton
Simon Cozens wrote: That's not argument, it's just contradiction! I'm sorry; I'm not allowed to argue with you unless you've paid. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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

2001-05-16 Thread Philip Newton
Robert Shiels wrote: Leon ... 640K ought to be enough for anybody ...is that dollars or pounds... Turkish lire? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: Enough!

2001-05-15 Thread Philip Newton
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: and before simon gets there: use Mail::Audit; To which Johan Vromans would probably reply: use Mail::Procmail; Chacun à son goût. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part

Re: Enough!

2001-05-15 Thread Philip Newton
David Cantrell wrote: a delightfully Heath-Robinson mechanical whatsit which will clip on to the inside of your letter box, and will reject spam with GREAT VENGEANCE and FURY. For GREAT JUSTICE. Cheers, Phi how do smurfs make little smurfs? lip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All

Re: Monitors

2001-05-14 Thread Philip Newton
Lucy McWilliam wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2001, Philip Newton wrote: Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Depends on the day. Today, two things: a goose called Lucy[1] ! :) It did cross my mind while posting the message that you were also

Re: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)

2001-05-14 Thread Philip Newton
Jonathan Peterson wrote: 2. A teacher can't be alone in a room with a pupil unless the door is open. Things were obviously different back when I spent the occasional lunch break (or after school) in detention :) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own

Re: putting escape characters in files

2001-05-11 Thread Philip Newton
binaries are all fscked? :-) Use dd with the count= option for the first page, and with count= and skip= for subsequent pages :) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: putting escape characters in files

2001-05-11 Thread Philip Newton
-- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: putting escape characters in files

2001-05-11 Thread Philip Newton
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: That breaks if the line is longer than the width of your screen. So do a lot of cheap pager routines. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: (OT) constrained walk

2001-05-11 Thread Philip Newton
Paul Mison wrote: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts: it appears that the DNS operator for this domain has installed

Re: (OT) constrained walk

2001-05-11 Thread Philip Newton
Paul Mison wrote: there may be a second constrained walk What's a constrained walk? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: (OT) constrained walk

2001-05-11 Thread Philip Newton
suppose I could have taught myself from the RFC without too much pain; after all, that's how I learned to speak POP3.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: Monitors

2001-05-11 Thread Philip Newton
, as a present for my wife. -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: Monitors

2001-05-11 Thread Philip Newton
Dominic Mitchell wrote: For reference, I have 8 Kinder egg toys, 4 of which are Giraffes. Ah. At home I also have Kinder egg toys on my monitor. Three of them to be precise. I think they're all cars. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's

Re: Monitors

2001-05-11 Thread Philip Newton
Philip Newton wrote: I generally bring one of my small stuffed toys to work ^ or my wife's. She has me than I. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread Philip Newton
. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: Native Code Experts

2001-05-07 Thread Philip Newton
. Pity :) Cheers, Philip, who was looking forward to v2 of the module, incorporating london.pm's suggestions -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: US$ bank account

2001-05-02 Thread Philip Newton
in England). If they can do it, why can't a global e-commerce leading-edge pioneer-type place like Amazon? The mind boggles. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: require Module; and filehandles

2001-04-27 Thread Philip Newton
Jonathan Stowe wrote: And hide the test failures if you are running on SCO OpenServer or Unixware (see p5p passim) :) Does anyone still run SCO? Thought they'd all died. Cheers, Phi OpenSewer lip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're

Re: require Module; and filehandles

2001-04-27 Thread Philip Newton
is an object. If you place an AUTOLOAD method in TrueHandle instead of the READ and READLINE methods, only DESTROY is called. Did you tell p5p about this? Perhaps they can do something about it, if they consider this a bug. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my

Re: Good Accountants

2001-04-27 Thread Philip Newton
Chris Ball wrote: Are postings subscriber only ..? ] As far as I know, yes; Jonathan Stowe has to hand-approve non-subscriber postings for them to make it to the list. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part

Re: Good Accountants

2001-04-27 Thread Philip Newton
? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: Company Name

2001-04-25 Thread Philip Newton
Chris Heathcote wrote: Mega-Shiels 2001 Ltd. Shiels-Up! PLC Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: BtVS : Best Male

2001-04-20 Thread Philip Newton
ad pink hair once as well ... :) another twenty years matey and you'll be posting : " i had hair once ... " :)) From what I remember of how jns looked, I'd give him more like two years :) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my

Re: Server Upgrade

2001-04-20 Thread Philip Newton
memory doesn't seem to care that it's accessed more slowly than it's capable of. (And another bank has, I think, PC100 memory in it -- the mix-n-match doesn't seem to be deleterious, either.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not

Re: [OT] Flecktones in London next month

2001-04-20 Thread Philip Newton
a month?) Cheers, Phi ISO-8601 rules lip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: Komodo

2001-04-19 Thread Philip Newton
Robin Szemeti wrote: in the *nix variant can you load stuff from CPAN straight in ? Lemme check... yep, you can. (Using the Solaris version of ActivePerl 618.) I used a non-XS module, but I believe I've done it with XS modules as well. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All

Re: (Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

2001-04-19 Thread Philip Newton
to support it? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: Komodo

2001-04-18 Thread Philip Newton
). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: Mourning clothes for London.pm

2001-04-18 Thread Philip Newton
Mike Jarvis wrote: CNN reports that BtVS's SMG will wed Freddie Prinz. Who's he? Is he that Wesley bloke that I haven't seen yet? (Note to self: must get around to watching all those Buffy episodes I have on CD.) Cheers, Philip PS: $willow++; -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-17 Thread Philip Newton
David H. Adler wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:03:43AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: dha, how's your "last read" mark? Eh? An obscure reference to a remark you made in Penderel's Oak after yapc::Europe 19100. Something to the effect that you have a mark which indicates, i

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-12 Thread Philip Newton
; you have to pay money to get a "real" cc). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-12 Thread Philip Newton
u may need a more recent distribution. I don't think HPUX comes any newer than 11. He just needs a recent Perl; you don't get decent Perl (nor decent cc) shipped with HPUX. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the soluti

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-12 Thread Philip Newton
HP's for-pay ANSI C compiler or gcc, for example). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re:

2001-04-05 Thread Philip Newton
ngling. I found a workaround which I can live with; if I hadn't, I would probably be using Pegasus, which I also have installed on this machine. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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

2001-04-05 Thread Philip Newton
ike that in. I hope it had s/say/write/ , since I don't hear any difference when someone *says* "all right" or "alright". A German example is "gar nicht wird gar nicht zusammengeschrieben" (new spelling, I believe, would use "zusammen geschrieben"). Cheers, Ph

Re: Mmm... Perl 5+i

2001-04-05 Thread Philip Newton
Piers Cawley wrote: I'm really liking Damian's work on this. Favourite so far: %new_hash = map {yield munge_key($_); munge_value($_)} %a_hash ^ Looks like someone's been doing too much Ruby to me Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All

Re: going extreme

2001-04-04 Thread Philip Newton
James Powell wrote: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5424853.html?tag=lh Cool. Where can I get me some Extreme Programming? Cheers, Philip, whose project[1] has a deadline today [1] that's been running for at least six months and was supposed to be done in November -- Philip Newton

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-04 Thread Philip Newton
partition. Heck yeah. Leon++, Leon++ for having taken on the daunting task of summarising each week's 2GB or so of traffic. dha, how's your "last read" mark? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, y

Re: The Open Constitution Project (was Re: Crazy Idea)

2001-04-04 Thread Philip Newton
peech but no permission to send spam" and cvs update -- and spammers will have to think of a different disclaimer. This has potential. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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

2001-04-04 Thread Philip Newton
with "print" ("print" works, however; see one of Abigail's sigs, which also plays with __PACKAGE__). I think. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re:

2001-04-04 Thread Philip Newton
you do the honours, please?) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re:

2001-04-04 Thread Philip Newton
(with your message) as an attachment. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re:

2001-04-04 Thread Philip Newton
ents -- so it was probably uuencoded.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: Test

2001-04-04 Thread Philip Newton
Clarke, Darren wrote: Bloomin' Outlook HTML ... *grumble* I agree. Your mail server lost again. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re:

2001-04-04 Thread Philip Newton
emails as plain text just fine, until someone fiddled with the MSexChange configuration. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re:

2001-04-04 Thread Philip Newton
nding them with "end" and enjoying the wails of OE users "I can't see your posting! There's just an attachment that won't decode!" or something like that. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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

2001-04-02 Thread Philip Newton
ean a name that reverses to itself? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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

2001-03-30 Thread Philip Newton
for non BIND gurus to be able to tell wahts going on ... Yes, it's useful. I like nslookup. (Plus I feel that dig is pretty verbose, but maybe there's a flag to control that that I've been too lazy to look for.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my

Re: Hello?

2001-03-29 Thread Philip Newton
is.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2001-03-29 Thread Philip Newton
for "empirical comparison Python Rexx program" for a few references. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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

2001-03-29 Thread Philip Newton
Tcl plugin for Netscape that nobody used. Probably not because of merit or lack thereof, but just because it wasn't hyped enough, and/or didn't ship as standard with a major browser. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of th

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

2001-03-29 Thread Philip Newton
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Given we can now have kanji URLs, [...] Can we now? I thought there were several different proposed schemes, but none has been officially accepted as standard. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're

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

2001-03-29 Thread Philip Newton
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Philip Newton wrote: Unless you translate them to an acceptable set, which is, I believe, where domain i18n is heading. The question is in which algorithm to choose for translation. Right. Which is evil and horrid. nslookup

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

2001-03-28 Thread Philip Newton
number. But maybe this'll change in the future -- with 1 being always/never present. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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

2001-03-28 Thread Philip Newton
dialing codes (071, 081 -- or was it 0171, 0181? Or both, one after the other? I forget). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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

2001-03-28 Thread Philip Newton
Simon Wistow wrote: It was origially 01 ne c'est pas? (ITYM "n'est-ce pas?") Yes, it was. I remember that time. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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

2001-03-28 Thread Philip Newton
; Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: yapc::Europe::19101?

2001-03-28 Thread Philip Newton
Dave Cross wrote: At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:38:51 +0200, Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else heard anything about yapc::Europe::19101? Yeah. Dates and venues and stuff have been announced. And there was a CFP. It's all on http://www.yapc.org/Europe/. I know. Thing

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