Re: early peek at a bit of fun

2001-06-18 Thread Rob Partington
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eh-hem. Apparently my nearest five groups are Belfast, SouthWales, Glasgow, > Bathgate and Manchester. "I couldn't tell, sorry. Use the map instead." Waah, it hates me! -- rob part

Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?

2001-05-19 Thread Rob Partington
opy whether it was freely pirated online or not -- I can't get online in the bath, or on a train, or in a car, so online copies are relatively useless. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/ (just 2p worth)

Re: Good Accountants

2001-04-27 Thread Rob Partington
meetings, probably not... -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/ Bsc(Hons) Computer Science University of Manchester Graduated 1995

Re: perlismybitch.com

2001-04-25 Thread Rob Partington
registering it. I wrote a script a few years back that downloaded the root zones from (iirc) doc.ic.ac.uk via FTP and compared them with the previous days to find expired or new domains. Checking NS records may be more reliable than the whois information... -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: The Natives are Revolting

2001-04-21 Thread Rob Partington
e moment. Will hack tools in Perl, though.) It compiles with a small tweak to the Makefile and removal of the stupid sys_errlist[] declaration in one of the .c files. Seems to work fine, so far. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: The Natives are Revolting

2001-04-21 Thread Rob Partington
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ian Brayshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (... Mind you, it all looks lovely(?) and dandy(?) under IE ... you've got > to love the "near enough is good enough" approach of M$ ...) "Be liberal in what you

Re: (Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

2001-04-19 Thread Rob Partington
#x27;t be so bad if you're using Samba to share the Unix files. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://browser.org/

Re: Tie::Scalar::Decay ...

2001-04-10 Thread Rob Partington
-Decay-1.0.tar.gz. > shurely Tie::Array::Decay would be better Didn't Tony from Blackstar do this already? Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:33:40 + From: Tony Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RFC: Tie::Scalar::Timeout Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Torvalds not impressed with OS X

2001-04-07 Thread Rob Partington
t it is way too resource hungry. I shouldn't need >64M to run a GUI and Unix comfortably, that's just crap. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: Crazy Idea

2001-04-03 Thread Rob Partington
In message <D3AF8264E04FD311A18200508B12B1D5037C84AA@SRVLON20>, dcross - David Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave... > [thing are getting strange, i'm starting to worry...] Should I call Mulder and Scully? -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: [Need] A Perl HTML to Text converter

2001-03-16 Thread Rob Partington
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's not Perl, but try using w3m instead. It's a far superior text mode > browser. Lynx is from the stone age. :-) -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: Ruby

2001-03-01 Thread Rob Partington
any of the books on it etc etc? "Programming Ruby", by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, ISBN 0-201-71089-7 -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: Ruby

2001-03-01 Thread Rob Partington
s a pretty good book although i've not yet finished it... I'll second that. I bought two copies, it was so useful. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: Ruby

2001-03-01 Thread Rob Partington
e about it. Yes, I use it, and I know a bit about it. It's fun. > It looks cool. It is. :) -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: Quantum Weirdness

2001-02-27 Thread Rob Partington
weigh 65 g! not 60.. the Quarks must have put on weight! -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: lvalue subroutines

2001-02-27 Thread Rob Partington
- like the square root of equals, > or the square root of a pony. I think sqrt(not) only works because it cancels itself out much the same as sqrt(-1) does. Other things don't have the toggle-nature, so wouldn't make sense. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: [OT] symlinks to symlinks

2001-02-14 Thread Rob Partington
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 07:02:32PM +, Rob Partington wrote: > > In message <006801c096a7$c4342370$390010ac@MACH2>, > > "Mike Chamberlain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writ

Re: [OT] symlinks to symlinks

2001-02-14 Thread Rob Partington
inode == inode/device pair, surely, since inodes are only unique within a filesystem... -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Rob Partington
eons!) and I have a flat cap. But I don't talk funny, and I'm not called Hamish. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: template toolkit .. one more kwestion

2001-01-29 Thread Rob Partington
returned. > > if I access the result as just plain [% item %] it works fine if there is > one item in the list .. and returns lots of ARRAY0x1241234 if there is > more than one ... Sounds like your dereferencing function may be returning a SCALAR instead of an ARRAY when there's o

Re: Sun's Perl was Re: Application servers and e-commerce platforms

2001-01-26 Thread Rob Partington
ry packages to include the base > OS). If you install the postfix package, you get a script which switches your system mailer between postfix and sendmail. Much nicer than "rpm -e", because if you then don't get on with postfix, just run postfix-disable and you get sendma

Re: Sun's Perl was Re: Application servers and e-commerce platforms

2001-01-26 Thread Rob Partington
of dia for me. Or do you mean that, say, pkg_* don't have the same functionality as RPM? -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: Consultancy company

2001-01-20 Thread Rob Partington
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > And table football's no fun if you're playing with > yourself. Maybe if you kept your hands on the table football...? -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)

2001-01-13 Thread Rob Partington
sary, ftp and install those first. Much like CPAN.pm, except without the insane desire to install Perl5.6 at every opportunity. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: freebsd admin skills - free space

2000-12-14 Thread Rob Partington
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > America lost. s/America/We all/ -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/