On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:01:05AM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
Mmmm, so if there are 3 water lilies with circular leaves, what is the
largest they can grow on the surface of a sphere without overlap?
On a circle it's easy to see it's just less than the radius of the
circle. Not so easy with a
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:41:57AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Users will say: I don't have Flash and don't want to download it.
Therefore, I should leave out the Flash bits of the site. Users will say: I
read that JavaScript can expose security holes, so I'll turn it off.
Therefore, I will make
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 04:36:00PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
First, are there any others that I should look at? Also I'd really like
any objective input people have about templating with these modules. It
is important to me to try and not just get the article done and dusted,
but for once to
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:30:24PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
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.
Separation of code and data -
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 06:52:04PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Ok, now how can you distribute N points around the origin in _3_ dimensions,
again all of them at the same distance from the origin? Obviously
there will be an imaginary sphere again, but where do you put the points.
Best general
On or about Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:01:33AM +0100, Robert Thompson typed:
CSV is an option - except that an awful lot of the data will need to be
escaped out before it goes into the file, and I would rather only have to do
when its rendered out to the browser.
DBD::CSV is your friend. Sits on
On or about Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:10:32AM +0100, Robin Szemeti typed:
someone somewhere a few weeks ago posted something about an extra line
you could put not dissimilar to 'Apparent-filename: something.xyz' .. its
not so much a mime types thing but a browser thing ..
Content-Disposition.
R
On or about Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:58:11PM -0700, Paul Makepeace typed:
At the end of the day, the simple fact is that Windows 2000 crashes more
frequently than *n[ui]x does -- this surely is unquestioned fact.
Bear in mind also this item from Monday's RISKS (21.44):
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001
On or about Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:40:20AM +0100, Robin Szemeti typed:
I just dont get why they wont release specs .. surel;y the plan is to
sell as many memory sticks as possible? ..or hav I missed someting?
Yup. The plan is (a) not to get kicked out of bed by MS and (b) not to
have cheap
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 08:04:46PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
is 15 quid a shot
cheap [ ]
normal [ ]
expensive [ ]
for lobbing a dat tape into a box and slinging in a new one?
It's not Telehouse prices, but it sounds expensive to me.
R
On or about Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:27:44PM +0100, Paul Mison typed:
(Isn't
there an extra bank holiday next year for Golden Jubilee shenanigans?)
http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/bankhol.htm
On or about Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:39:03PM +0100, David Cantrell typed:
Pah!
Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!
Humbug!
The people's flag is black as night
From
On or about Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:37:22PM +0100, Mark Fowler typed:
I seem to remember downloading an .exe last week (which I no longer have
and no longer seems to be where it was on thier site.) Are they randomly
switching between MSI and .exe and haven't bothered to upload the
installer
On or about Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:07:31PM +0100, Greg McCarroll typed:
yip i've seen this format as well, does anyone know what advantages it
has? does it enforce any standards for the software? is it just a M$
ploy to control the standard install packages?
I'll take option C for six million
On or about Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:48:17PM +0100, Robert Thompson typed:
Open up the file, read in the first few bytes and grab the magic number.
Most types of binary file have a marker of some kind to designate what they
are. Any half decent book on graphics programming should be able to tell
On or about Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:02:33PM +0100, Simon Wistow typed:
According to the Register ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19112.html
the Tory's want to repeal IR35, make RIPA less strict and speed up Local
Loop unbundling, whereas Labour want to introduce laws meaning that if
On or about Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:23:32PM +0100, Cross David - dcross typed:
I've not actually seen the manifesto, but from what I'm told it really means
If you can't be bothered to take a few minutes to look, why the hell are
you posting about it? The actual text is:
A future Conservative
On or about Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:09:50PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson typed:
Ah, an excellent typo consisting of one additional character, one omitted character,
and a transposed pair. I shall put it in my collection. I should say by the look of
it, this one was speed induced.
Goes off to
On or about Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:29:42AM +0100, Matthew Jones typed:
As far as it being sensual, that is not a word you would attribute to
country music.
They obviously haven't been listening to The Archers recently.
R
On or about Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:57:23AM +0100, Greg McCarroll typed:
Does anyone have a recommendation for an online provider of PC components,
i'm looking for a couple of big hard drives (50Gb+).
I've had success with DABS - just make sure the thing's in stock before
ordering.
Roger
On or about Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:45:45AM +0100, Matthew Jones typed:
I genuinely believe that the
public are sick of watching the NHS, education system etc wasting away on a
starvation diet and would be willing to pay a bit of extra tax to make sure
that their kids can get schooled and that
On or about Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:04:52AM +0100, Matthew Jones typed:
When have they ever been asked?
During elections. Like I say, in 1997, the UK voted in a party that was (I
reckon) seen as the guardian of the public services, the party that is
traditionally associated
In 1997 the UK
On or about Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:37:23AM +0100, Cross David - dcross typed:
Here's a pretty fundamental issue. Why do so many people seem to think that
low taxes are good?
Because many people think that they are better judges of how their own
money should be spent than the government (of
On or about Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:29:41AM -0500, will typed:
Has anyone seen some perl around here? I thought I saw some earlier but it
sems to have gone now :-)
use Politics;
use Quantum::Superpositions;
(the rest I leave to your imagination)
On or about Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:48:41AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson typed:
You know, from the outside, Unix looks so well designed and clean and modern...
From the outside, Windows looks as if it works.
ObRant: computers and OSes in their current state are not consumer devices.
They're not
On or about Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:37:20AM +0100, Struan Donald typed:
but then any reasonably flexible multi-purpose device is always going
to have a hard time being a consumer device as by it's nature it's
complex and trying to make complex things appear simple is very very
hard.
Yes.
On or about Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:32:33AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson typed:
Roger Burton West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ObRant: computers and OSes in their current state are not consumer devices.
They're not sufficiently reliable or intuitive. Bad marketing has made
people think they need
On or about Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:35:29PM +0100, Struan Donald typed:
kind of off topic but how do you get things like ^M and such like into
a file for, say, writing vi macros?
ctrl-x 0 d
but using it in a search/replace pattern is harder.
Roger
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:49:56PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
A cow-orker of mine had to be told that Spain was in Europe, not South
America.
Cue story about Spanish woman being turned away from the Hispanic
channel at US Immigration.
Roger
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:33:36PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
actually .. nutscrape under Linux annoys me when it insists on looking up
a hostname no matter how hard you click on the stop button .. bad
threading.
Excellent reason to use a proxy. Junkbuster's good...
Roger
On or about Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:46:16AM -0700, Paul Makepeace typed:
Does anyone have any Real World experience with the speed-up (even
hand-wavy vague anecdotes) of using bind values v. reparsing the SQL
each time (for databases that support this obviously). Postgres and
Oracle I'm
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:11:47AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
Warning - MSB used to have the reputation of being the biggest bunch of
cowboys in the recruitment industry. I wouldn't normally pass this on
but thought it might be of interest to some of the ex-Torrington people.
FYI this particular
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:33:19AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote:
Hi,
Can any one tell me what this traceroute actually means... it has me
completely confused (not that difficult actually!!)
Yup. The machines on hops 11-24 aren't answering the traceroute
packets, but are passing them on. Possibly
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:38:44AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
any you have the ``right'' attitude when it comes to beer and
explosives
http://firedrake.org/roger/fireworks/
'nuff said.
R
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 03:24:03PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Unfortunately, while the disclaimer came out fine, my mailer (MS Outlook)
displayed the real "body" (with your message) as an attachment.
That would be because it was sent uuencoded. I'm sure there's a reason
for this, but I don't
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:04:05PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Anyway, the whole 'numbers' thing is long over due to be replaced by
those new fangled 'letters'. Works for DNS...
Oh @deity, let's not do that. Consider the mess the WIPO's causing
now, and then think about competition for "good"
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:19:12PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote:
Just to let you all know I'm on the market again.
Me too. Looking for senior developer/senior unix admin (ideally a blend
of the two), permanent, London, no Windows. CV on request.
Roger
On or about Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:43:28PM +, David Cantrell typed:
is there an easy way of getting a list of all the packages which are
currently installed? I dislike dselect intensely, and the docs for
dpkg et al don't say anything useful.
To make a local
On or about Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:40:18AM -0500, Dave Cross typed:
I really think I should drop the author a polite note offering him a
patch or three.
s/entire_file/strftime/ ?
Roger
On or about Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 12:24:38PM -0500, Chris Devers typed:
Would a CPAN replacement have to be "drop-in"? I can see the argument behind making
replacements for MSA code be functionally identical in most visible ways, but when
you're dealing with CPAN code, presumably, you're
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 01:58:14AM +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
the keyfile was an ascii armoured v6.5.8 keyfile, 1024 bit RSA that I
got with pgp -kxa .. GPG said 'unrecognised key format' since one of the
things I need is for users to be able to export their public keys from
PGP then being
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 02:01:11PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
I haven't considered the GPG option yet .. its going to be for a user
thing .. and PGP is more common .. I am right in thinking that GPG and
PGP are basically different and not interchangeable aren't I ?
No.
Itried
importing PGP
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:45:34PM -, Jim Gillespie wrote:
My main beef with CVS (and ClearCase) is that there doesn't seem to be any
way to access the release string programatically - I can tag all my source
as "FOO_R1-0" or whatever, but I can't tell from within the source that it
has been
On or about Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:34:32PM +, Jon Eyre typed:
is there an idiot-proof graphical front-end for scp? windows
clients?
PuTTY.
my several users require them, or they'll just continue
using ftp, because it's *easier*... People are lazy, and security
measures which are a pain
On or about Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:00:22PM +, Greg McCarroll typed:
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
They won't if you stop running the ftp daemon on the server :)
Rule one of security:
Ensure availability for authorised users
Rule zero of security:
A system with no
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:39:12PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:19:54PM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
Content-type: matter-transport/beer-stream
Isn't that what happens in the bogs of Penderels Oak?
Is it just me who has
On or about Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:34:03PM +0100, Philip Newton typed:
Generally, @INC contains '.', so it should work (though remember that
Net::SMTP has to go into ./Net/SMTP.pm and not ./SMTP.pm or ./Net::SMTP.pm).
Otherwise, use lib '.' should be your friend.
I believe IIS does horribly
This strikes me as something that needs a perl module... anyone feeling
particularly bored and like playing with XS?
]librsync (http://freshmeat.net/projects/librsync/)
] by Martin Pool (http://freshmeat.net/users/bootswork/)
]
]librsync makes the network-delta functions of the popular rsync
On or about Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:31:09AM +, Leon Brocard typed:
Roger Burton West sent the following bits through the ether:
]librsync (http://freshmeat.net/projects/librsync/)
I was *sure* something like this was already on CPAN[1]. H. I still
don't really see what advantages having
On or about Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:16:17PM +, Struan Donald typed:
to be more helpful see above[1].
[1]: wondering how to make mutt do things in the right order when
replying to multiple posts.
Tag the posts you want, then reverse the sort order (shift-o whatsit).
Roger
On or about Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:44:31PM +, Greg McCarroll typed:
someone simplified this to ...
meetings are held on the day after the first wednesday of
the month
Guilty. What can I say, it was my first meeting.
Roger
On or about Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:46:18AM +, Simon Wistow typed:
yet another t-shirt idea methinks
any(@londonpm)
R
On or about Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:29:19PM +, Amias Channer typed:
Each company would have a team (or combine to make teams) and play 40 over
matches on sunday afternoons in some sort of league .
Does this appeal to anyone ? gambling is optional .
You mean... actual physical exertion?
On or about Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:26:02AM -, dcross - David Cross typed:
Nah. That's what it's said for the last two weeks. They haven't got round
changing it to '24 hours' yet.
Mine's "1 on hand", but there are other things in that order.
R
On or about Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:26:27PM -, Robert Shiels typed:
I'd like to know which perl modules are already installed.
http://www.perlfaq.com/faqs/id/205
Roger
On or about Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:31:16AM +, Michael Stevens typed:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:28:37AM +, Neil Ford wrote:
I can't get onto any of rhizomatic.net. Is anyone else having problems?
Michael
we're all there fine
in actuall fact as I type this you've just appeared :-)
On or about Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:39:08PM +, Michael Stevens typed:
Now if they'd just actually send me the copy I ordered...
(I think they said 3-5 weeks)
Ditto. It's one of the 9 things remaining before they ship my latest
order.
Roger
On or about Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 02:11:41PM +0100, Philip Newton typed:
Granitecanyon? The boxes that are chronically down? Which resulted in me
getting mail from the domain registry telling me to get a working nameserver
up with thein week or they might yank the domain? Where noone seems to
On or about Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:07:02AM +, Michael Stevens typed:
I imagine you could get a pc service contract on the same level as
Sun do, but I have no experience in the area. Has anyone got any experience
paying vast amounts of money for PC support? did you get much for your
money?
On or about Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:08:22PM -, Jonathan Peterson typed:
And then people wonder why I like open source...
Even within OS software there's good support and bad support. There's plenty
of OS software that _doesn't_ have helpful user groups, and has very poor
documentation and
On or about Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:43:46PM +, Michael Stevens typed:
We need to just get on with using linux, and other sensible stuff, and
IF PEOPLE ASK QUESTIONS then we can tell them about it. But we shouldn't
try to promote it as what they want, because invariably they start going
On or about Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:33:44PM +, Robin Szemeti typed:
there
is a whole class of clients so clueless (' I just want one of those
dot-com things') that you probably need another level of handholding ...
they discuss the artistic and 'feelgood' bits of the project in as
precise
On or about Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 01:09:40PM +, Robin Houston typed:
Did you mean
http://www.webreview.com/archives/broken/2000/04_07_00.shtml
?
Yes. Been a while since I looked at that one.
R
On or about Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:08:29PM +, Piers Cawley typed:
And if the Big Cheese does hand down decisions that override the
Minion then the contract between developer and client should stipulate
that the client pays for the wasted time.
Contracts _should_ say that the client pays
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:37:02PM +, Kieran Barry wrote:
Yup. There isn't enough talent around, so people get promoted beyond
their competence. If you train your people they'll only leave.
The only way out of that cycle is to train in-house,
and treat people so well that they stay.
Which
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:28:13AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
One customer. On site. Full time. Absolute honesty.
Nice idea if you have customers who can take the truth, and who know
when to shut up and let people get on with things. I'd like to see
it working, but I haven't yet.
R
On or about Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:35:32AM -0500, Mark Rogaski typed:
That would be c.l.p.m ... unless of course you aren't referring to Tom.
You weren't at the technical meeting last night, were you? This thoth
is a network monitoring system.
R
On or about Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:39:47AM -0500, Dave Cross typed:
It'll be purely for home use, so:
I'd use Debian 'cos I like it. Downside: latest versions of stuff
aren't usually available as packages. Upside: doesn't mess you about
the way the Windowsy distributions (RH, SuSE) do.
R
On or about Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:37:27AM +, Steve Mynott typed:
RH/Slackware/Debian/Solaris/FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD are all fine
systems but they need to be setup by someone who knows what they are
doing in the same way that Perl has to be written by clueful
programmers.
And competent *ix
On or about Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:28:13AM -0800, Paul Makepeace typed:
apt-get install libapache-mod-perl gets you the dynamic version -- is there a
particular advantage to having it statically built?
Want mod_perl and mod_ssl? Debian stable doesn't do this easily without
recompilation.
R
Given an array full of data which need to be output as a CSV...
return join(',',map{defined$_?s/"/''/g+1?/,/?"\"$_\"":$_:0:''}@{$ar})."\n";
Roger
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:34:21PM +, Tony Bowden wrote:
If you present the chart in a different format to how they did then
there's nothing they can do...
Take a look at http://www.bath.ac.uk/~bssnrw/getchart.html for a
differing viewpoint.
Roger
On or about Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:07:01AM +, alex typed:
[better instructions soon, but it takes up most of rhoda street, bethnal
green, nearest tubes are old street, shoreditch, liverpool street and
bethnal green, or closest of all, bus route number 8]
Oh dear oh dear oh dear... that's
On or about Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:25:42AM +, David Hodgkinson typed:
OK, Now I'm REALLY hungry. I'll be at the New World at one
O'Clock.
Are you going to set your machine's clock to the right time first?
Roger
On or about Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:54:23PM -, Matthew Freake typed:
...and thinking about it, didn't the Wendy's on Shaftesbury Avenue used to
be a Taco Bell as well ?
I don't think so; there was one on the other side of Haymarket, though,
towards Leicester Square.
R
On or about Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:01:49AM +, Michael Stevens typed:
You know you're drunk when, faced with the problem of getting through
an underground ticket gate, you get out your house keys and start fiddling
with them looking for the right one.
Or when, faced with the problem of
On or about Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 04:44:20PM +, Mark Fowler typed:
4. Mission Impossible.
Only if you don't know or didn't like the original - or if you can have
your brain rewired so that you don't remember it.
R
On or about Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 05:06:15PM +, Mark Fowler typed:
4. Mission Impossible.
Only if you don't know or didn't like the original - or if you can have
your brain rewired so that you don't remember it.
I think you're missing the point. M.I. is crap. Don't even get me
started on
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:45:56PM +, David Hodgkinson wrote:
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 06:28:29PM +, David Hodgkinson wrote:
We're meeting on Thursday, right?
If we aren't I'm going to be getting pretty lonely drinking on my own...
I'll join
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