On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:44:11AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> Are there any of you lot still looking for jobs?
Still open? I think I might have someone for you.
--
If you give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. If you set a man on fire,
he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:10:53PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> And how about a signal/noise bias? ;-)
The noise *is* signal.
--
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
-- Lillian Hellman
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:59:48PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Are these e-mail addresses? If so, does it make it possible to forward all
> 4 denials in 1 message To: all four and ask for one "joined up government"
> answer?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19340.html says the man to tal
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:26:40PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> I tend not to pay much attention to conspiracy theories.
Me neither.
http://linuxtoday.com/imgs/microsoft/gateway-microsoft-rationale-statement.pdf
--
This process can check if this value is zero, and if it is, it does
something
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:06:24PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> So yes, the only reason for not allowing me to use it is incompetence on
> the part of whichever civil 'servants' were in charge of implementing it.
And nothing to do with the deal struck between Microsoft and the government.
No.
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:27:08PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> As a public service I would exhort all of you to go to this site and then
> complain when it tells you that you are using an 'Unsupported Browser'
> (which I guess will be more than half of you :)
Well done. The Reg picked this up
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:38:44AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Assuming you're not a Masai tribesperson.
On this list, anything is possible.
--
I don't understand how people can think SCSI is anything more quirky
than a genius with peculiar dietary requirements in a world where the
creators of
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:53:53PM +0100, Barbie wrote:
> the only surviving English/British religion, Paganism
Nice try.
--
diff: usage diff [whatever] etc.
- plan9 has a bad day
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:00:22AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> > FreeBSD users, Debian committers, OpenSRS registry (can do .co.uk's too),
> ^
> are they??
Indeed they are. http://www.earth.li/~noodles/computers.html
--
The Second Law of Thermodynamics:
If you thi
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:55:39PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote:
> Mr Couzens
Die, alien slime!
--
When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb.
-- Steve Haflich, comp.lang.c++
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:28:27AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
> my @array = $h{two};
^
In perl 5 at least, *this* is your scalar context.
--
"Little else matters than to write good code."
-- Karl Lehenbauer
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:59:12AM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote:
> Ah, he'd be fine if it weren't for those fucking mood swings.
You mean I'm nice at times?
--
Ever wake up feeling like a null pointer? -Allan Pratt
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:21:08AM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
> Well, I would if you'd just stop putting those evil thoughts in my head...
Evil Ideas BOF at TPC. ISAGN.
--
>God Save the Queen!
And let Satan take the Prime Minister...
- Tanuki, in the monastery.
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:50:47PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> @Mail (http://webbasedemail.com/) copied my code, my docs, and my
> images without telling me, added a configuration file, and sold it. I
> only found out about it by accident, which wasn't good. (it's changed
> a lot since).
This is
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:17:14AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> But Mail::Cclient is also unbeleivably powerful. Lying round on my HD
> there's a Mail::Cclient::Simple which amkes everything much easier but
> it's one of many projects I've never got round to finishing. Why
> reinvent the wheel by
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:04:19AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> that Mail::Cclient is powerful but complicated and can be a bitch to
> install,
And use. Ripping that fucker out would be my first act. :)
There's also http://www.horde.org/imp/ which is reasonably popular.
--
"Jesus ate my mouse"
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:43:23AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> It didn't hit critical mass. Discuss.
Yet Another Webmail Client; it wasn't exactly filling a gaping niche.
(And I say that as someone who may soon be maintaining one of the others...)
--
4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:37:23PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
> If you can't be bothered to take a few minutes to look, why the hell are
> you posting about it?
But I wanna type, I wanna type, I wanna type!
Roger, where we come from we have a word for people like that.
--
I did write and
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:16:41PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
>Labour were voted in on the basis of the Tories screw ups.
Yes, so what you said about the party's previous record as, indeed,
irrelevant.
> Labour hasn't screwed up yet.
Thanks, that's going in my sigfile.
Oh, and fix your
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:44:25PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> We vote for the encumbent party until they screw up big time and then we
> switch and repeat the process.
Except we don't while they can arrange for elections to be when everyone's
forgotten about their big screwups. Also, in fa
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:16:16PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote:
> From air-conditioned tubes, thru to RIPA, to cheap petrol, it's
> bandwagon-jumping.
Ah, congratulations! You seem to have been completely politically
brainwashed; it's become so de rigeur for parties to completely
disregard the w
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:08:22PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> The interesting question for me is : if I already own a paper copy of the
> book, which costs 30p to produce and the remaining ?39.70 is for 'a
> licence on the copyright'
Whence did you pluck these figures, if it's not completely o
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:49:56AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> I disagree. IMO, posting a link to site containing pirate copies of books
> _is_ advocating piracy. YMMV.
"Here is how to do it. Now *you* have a choice."
Have you read "A treatise on the construction of locks"?
--
"The C Programmi
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:23:05AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> I have in the past had a pirate copy of O'Reillys Network Bookshelf ...
> but a) I would not have paid for the CD in the first place and b) Iliked
> what I saw so much that I went on to buy a whole bookcase full of
> O'Reilly stuff.
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 09:10:02PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> I'm curious what the perceived payback is on books: kudos on the one
> hand, benefit to humankind on the other, and then cash. How does it
> all stack up?
The kudos is fun but unless you write something completely
earth-shattering,
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 07:20:31AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Who here has written a book? Simon and Dave at least. It's not easy,
> is it?
You're asking the wrong guy. I don't write books for money, I write
them to contribute information.
This is why, unlike some people, I don't blatan
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:21:47PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> Now all I have to do is not volunteer for the p5p summary, Leon
You're a marked man, you realise?
--
"If that makes any sense to you, you have a big problem."
-- C. Durance, Computer Science 234
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 an
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:58:01PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Ah, but those don't do the same do they. You have to regenerate your
> rankings whenever you add a new score, whereas mine lets you get the rankings
> directly from the hash.
Who said anything about adding a score? I just said yo
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:15:56PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Did you mean like this?
>
> tie my %scores, 'Tie::Hash::Rank';
> [overengineering snipped]
Or you could do it in two lines:
my $i;
my %rank = map { $_ => ++$i } sort {$scores{$a} <=> $scores{$b}} keys %scores;
--
teco < /dev/aud
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:25:22PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
> I haven't seen a really good one for SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB yet.
> apt-get install the-bomb doesn't qualify.
dpkg --configure ?
--
"I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:03:35AM +0100, AEF wrote:
> When I last ordered a HDD from Dabs, they mailed me a couple of days
> later to say that it wasn't in stock (there website said it was).
My motherboard from Dabs has spent two days "awaiting credit card clearance"
and two days "awaiting desp
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:27:47AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Fairly easy to write your own 'Wildfire'-esque system with this. Hook it
> into Mister House (open source home automation program,
> http://misterhouse.net/) and you could do some really funky things by
> just phoning up your house
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:06:22PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> of RFC's along the lines of `Perl must stay Perl', but because
> the next leap forward is VisualPerl which will be as much about
> IDE as core language. Now lets not get hung up on the IDE bit
> of that statement
So, let me get thi
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 04:31:18PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> 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.
Ah, you going into consulting as well, eh?
--
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:41:58PM +0100, James Powell wrote:
> > You've hit the fundamental problem with XP. Getting anything done
> > requires two programmers to agree on something; this, as everyone
> > knows, is impossible.
>
> No it isn't!
That's not argument, it's just contradiction!
--
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:08:40PM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote:
> Having two people look at/develop a piece of code is better than one.
> Therefore having three people must be even better.
> But why stop there - why not four, five, six . . .
> Better yet - design/develop by committee!
You've hit
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:37:25PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> > Well it isn't English, but it's *almost* comprehensible...
> Sounds a bit like dadadodo, only it makes more sense :)
Which does? :)
--
"Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient.
It's called 'ra
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:19:36PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
> What's the footnote on page 78, Dave?
IAND, but... "I like the fact that the new name includes the word "Symbol",
since it means that we can also call it
The::Module::Formerly::Known::as::Sub::Approx.
--
"It's God. No, not Richar
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:09:47PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> yeah .. thats fine .. it doesn't work from creaky old strowger exchanges
> either (are there any of those left ? ) but there is a subtle difference
> between 'number withheld' and 'number unavailable'
There is, but not all phones ma
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:38:26PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> Ok, so you should have said "Caller detect doesn't work for some
> international calls either".
But, you see, if a call ID is withheld, you can't tell whether they're
international calls with non-working caller detect or domestic
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:25:23PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Caller detect doesn't work for international calls either.
>
> Untrue. When I get calls from friends in Sweden I can see who they
> are.
And when I get ca
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:43:59PM +0100, James Powell wrote:
> > No; many people withhold automatically, it a legitimate privacy concern.
> That's what the terse message is for ("reveal yourself, or bugger off").
> I suppose it could go to answerphone.
Caller detect doesn't work for internation
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:30:59PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
> Ho hum. If I wasn't trying to get some work done, I'd grab sphinx and
> write some code.
One of the things I plan to do on my way around America after TPC is sit
down with Kevin and DHD and start writing some funky robots. sphinx +
in
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:15:32PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:04:24PM +0100, James Powell wrote:
> > Heh, don't forget to have a RBL-like list of source telephone numbers.
> Definitely. A whitelist too, of course.
Now *this* is why I want programmable mobile phones.
-
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:10:23AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> we are considering funding the development of a procmail-a-like for
> snail-mail.
I want a procphone.
--
VMS must die!
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:58:41PM -0400, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Rule one, man, rule one.
> What? Always be wary of smiling old men?
purl, rule one?
it has been said that rule one is "People Are Stupid"
--
"They
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:54:26PM +0200, Niklas Nordebo wrote:
> > It's crap, but... http://www.ecdl.com/
> Isn't that more of a Microsoft Driving License?
It may have escaped your notice but the people who need it tend to be the
people likely to use Microsoft software...
--
"IT support will,
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:45:13PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> Particularly with the lack of an Internet Driving License, anyway.
It's crap, but... http://www.ecdl.com/
--
emacs: Terminal type "emacs" is not powerful enough to run Emacs.
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> Of course we could make a cyberpunk movie instead, now let
> me thing about it
IN AD 1987, PERL WAS BEGINNING.
--
The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, then hire a
hitman to kill the poster, his
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:49:26PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> Unless the door to the pupil's mind is open then there is no teacher.
> And he was enlightened.
http://simon-cozens.org/hacks/grok
--
For detailed information on the "info" command, type "man info".
- plan9 has a bad day
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:17:14AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> 2. A teacher can't be alone in a room with a pupil unless the door is open.
I know it's one of those Zen koans, but I just can't work it out.
--
Feed me on TOASTIES! There's no HALL for PHILOSOPHERS ON FRIDAYS.
- Henry Bra
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:16:27PM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
> It also irtritates me when the oil companies hike fuel prices and the "dump
> the pump" lobby respond by suggesting that the government drop tax. Why
> don't they ever have a go at BP or Shell?
You don't elect BP or Shell.
--
"He
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:37:23AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
> Here's a pretty fundamental issue. Why do so many people seem to think that
> low taxes are good?
Rule one, man, rule one.
--
EFNet is like one big advertisement for lobotomies.
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:58:42AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> I recall the previous government being impressively dishonest about a great
> many things.
When was the last government that was *not* impressively dishonest?
I think there might have been one around 1868, but I'm not sure.
> The
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:52:50AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote:
> I keep meaning to ask, where do all these plan9 bad day quotes come from?
The plan9 fortune file. It's the mistakes they made while they were
developing it.
--
yes >/dev/kmem # Shutdown is broken. This'll have to do
- pla
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:30:44PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
> Hey, what if we had a system where we just elected a *candidate* we
> liked, like one for each local area or something? Pretty crazy, huh?
Democracy? In this country? It wouldn't work.
Democracy is overrated. I think a meritocracy is
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:35:24PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Do the Lib Dems think along these lines? No-one knows cos the LDs have
> never seemed to have any policies ever.
Actually, I like the idea of parties which don't have any policies. They're
supposed to represent what we tell them t
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:22:49PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> How can any socialist not feel that when it came to the crunch socialism was
> rejected by intelligent people who understood its principals and benefits
> intimitadly because they could see it would not work for modern Britain?
Whi
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:30:31AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/18866.html
> Absurd, laughable and bizarre. What *is* wrong with the UK?
Don't ask me, you elected 'em. And it looks like you're all stupid enough
to do it *again*.
--
Pray to God, but keep
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
> > Snow Crash, essentially.
>
> I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film.
You're obviously not the only one:
http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/snowcrash.html
--
Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young
> people from the world and has lots of flashy stuff on it (ok it would be
> flash, but this is a movie, so its just going to be BIG FONTS AND SWIRLING
> S
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.
--
SM is fun. ADSM is not.
"Safe, Sane, Consensual"... three words that cannot used to describe
A
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:22:45AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
> Do you write it in raw Tex/LaTeX, or do you generate that from some other
> format (like, perhaps, XML)? I'd be interested in seeing the intermediate
> stages.
For my writing these days, I do
SGML -> tex ( -> pdf | -> d
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:55:16AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> On the subject of music (despite the Subject: of movies) ... anyone
> here into trad. Irish instrumental music?
Yes, very definitely. Unfortunately I don't play anything vaguely relevant,
apart from the guitar. I'd *really* love
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 08:14:47PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
> package DotsForArrows;
> use Filter::Simple;
> FILTER { s/\b\.(?=[a-z_\$({[])/->/gi };
That's BORING. Obviously the right way to do it is to allow lvalue
overloaded operators, and overload "." for everything.
--
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:25:16PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> ... Did you know there's a guy living in our closet?
You've seen him too?
--
King's Law of Clues : Common sense is inversely proportional to the
academic intelligence of the person concerned.
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.
--
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:07:08PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Can any of you boozy reprobates recommend a boozer in Dublin for a geeky
> piss-up?
My first recommendation would be the Messrs. Maguire on Burgh Key is a
nice place - very *big* pub (it's on three levels) and serves pretty
good fo
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:00:40PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:55:06PM -0400, Alex Page wrote:
> > Blimey, there's an Oxford perl mongers! You mean I'm not the
> > only perl coder in this city?!?
> No.
By which I mean, yes, you'
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:55:06PM -0400, Alex Page wrote:
> Blimey, there's an Oxford perl mongers! You mean I'm not the
> only perl coder in this city?!?
No.
--
"I find that anthropomorphism really doesn't help me with a place full
of bugs." -- Megahal (trained on asr), 1998-11-06
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:50:18PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> OK, I give you Perl, the Perl debugger, and B::Generate. First one to
> optimise Perl code (maybe replacing bits of Perl with XS on the fly?)
> gets a pat on the back.
I think NI-S is working on it; see recent perl6-language discussi
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:39:38PM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
> I thought of "Shiels IT Services",
> but one potential acronym of this is not very pleasing :-)
Well, that might be a feature, you know. After all, it's what a lot of people
think of when they think of contractors.
--
Simon: `hel
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:02:16AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
> How did contractors here come up with the names for their companies
Your main choice is between sounding "established", "professional" or
"informal".
"Established" companies contain merely names, and give no indication of what
they
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:50:46PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
> The slides for the talk I gave this evening are online at
> http://London.pm.org/~robin/semantic-talk/0.title.html ff.
Funny. You've come across the same idea I did.
http://simon-cozens.org/pg.pdf
--
?warning: write might change g
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:12:20PM +0100, Mike Wyer wrote:
> The okapi was much better (think giraffe crossed with zebra with a
> tongue any muff diver would kill for)
Do they have bonobo? I thought bonobo were the generic sexual zoo inhabitant.
--
"MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight --
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:12:57PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> Can't you call it an "Enterprise cross-platform file sharing solution" or
> something like that?
So is Napster.
--
DEC diagnostics would run on a dead whale.
-- Mel Ferentz
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:38:44PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
> There's a fairly long standing and, from what I remember, well
> respected habit of using JOB in the subject line- if it really annoys
> you, filtering on that should reduce the jobness of the list quite a
> lot.
Ah, bingo. Thanks.
>
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:53:09AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
> This is for people who don't have a problem working in a bank.
Would it be worth forking london-pm-jobs?
--
The steady state of disks is full.
-- Ken Thompson
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:02:03AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Then you're missing half the fun. Seriously. M-x compile was the
> reason I started using emacs in the first place.
And I \N{WHITE HEART SUIT} M-x gdb
--
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
--
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:34:30PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> but I should also add that I see anyhting which looks like splintering
> the nice world of One Big [*nix] Perl [1] into several different
> incompatible
AS Perl on Unix isn't incompatible.
--
Every little bit of seaweed kelps.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:23:34PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> I can not see however a place in linux for any perl IDE that doesnt use a
> standard perl install. simple as that.
Then don't buy one. Those who do, will. Isn't the free market great?
--
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that fai
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:29:43AM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
> CNN reports that BtVS's SMG will wed Freddie Prinz.
You know you've been core hacking too long when you read that as "SVtB's set
magic".
--
Um. There is no David conspiracy. Definitely not. No Kate conspiracy either.
No. No, there i
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:58:00AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> umm ... since Linux accounts (at a guess) for 75% of Perl usauge, thats
> quite an 'afterthought'.
That's irrelevant. ActiveState's business is 90% Windows, so they do Windows
first.
--
heh, yeah, but Aretha could be reading out
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 01:35:25PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote:
> no idea if anyone will find this useful but:
> if you use mozilla (on linux/*nix at least) stick this:
To do something similar for Netscape, look at
http://bofh.concordia.ca/ns/ns-cli.txt
(Netscape can call out to a CGI program to p
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:28:58AM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
> has anyone noticed much traffic on the perl-cert list or is my
> subscription just funted?
No. Greg was going to tell us Ze Master Plan. I think it involves
alcohol.
--
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Won
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 07:12:32PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Methinks Activestate are too much in the Windows world
I note that the Linux distribution of Kodomo contained complete distributions
of Mozilla, Perl and Python.
--
The sky already fell. Now what? -- Steven Wright
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:54:56PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote:
> it no longer kills dia
This appears not to be the case, as of dia 0.86.
--
I did write and prove correct a 20-line program in January, but I made
the mistake of testing it on our VAX and it had an error, which two
weeks of searchi
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:57:17PM +0100, Dean wrote:
> Has anyone got an views on it or the Linux version?
The Linux version is broken; it won't install, claiming you need a new
license.
lathos: I just talked to the Komodo lead. He suggests a) don't evaluate
Komodo on the Linux version, yet. b
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:04:15AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> ooh .. that reminds me .. the Census man has just dropped a form in .. I
> didn't reallise it was this year .. excellent .. now dont forget .. your
> religion is 'Jedi' ok ?
"Discordian". No, seriously. (Fnord)
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On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:36:40AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Unfortunatly this is largely a valid point. Perl is not used by
> many *professional* people. Perl is used by a lot of people, and some of
> them are professional, but I wouldn't consider it the
> majority.
A professional is s
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:27:57PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> No, best pizza is in NY or the hypehnated environs.
> You go to Italky for the wine and the antipasti.
It's a hell of a trip back for the main course, though.
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:24:57PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> @P=split//,".URRUU\c8R";@d=split//,"\n?neht krow siht seod woh oS";sub
> p{@p{"r$p","u$p"}=(P,P);pipe"r$p","u$p";++$p;($q*=2)+=$f=!fork;map{$P=
> $P[$f^ord ($p{$_})&6];$p{$_}=/^$P/ix?$P:close$_}keys%p}p;p;p;p;p;map{$p
> {$_}=~/^[P.]/
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:45:40PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
> Thanks for reinforcing the view that people outside of New York don't
> know dirt about pizza... :-)
I thought it was "people outside of Italy". My how times change.
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:54:25PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
> Grr. I don't *want* to turn into an elitist wanker
I seem to solve this by being one all along...
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:41:56AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> There's also Mail::Cclient (by Malcolm Beattie) which can be tricky to
> install and the interface is a bit unfriendly
That's the fault of the underlying Cclient library. :(
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:50:34PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote:
> Following on from recent topics, can anyone point me at any scripts to help
> with breaking up mailbox files?
This is what I do:
Use Mail::Audit in a loop over the mailbox, doing something like this:
my ($y, $m) = (localtime)[5,4
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:19:15PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> Feature request - IMAP client.
Mail::IMAPClient exists, so I guess it's a real possibility. When I get a
spare second. (Yeah, right.)
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 01:58:22PM -0500, Doug Sparling wrote:
> >My experience suggests it may have something to do with being in the
> >right place at the right time... :)
>
> Same goes for authoring -:)
I'd dispute the use of the word "right" in that context.
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:30:53PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> However, it's more all these *** job agencies sending me things
> in multi-crap that I'm shifting home over a modem to read at home.
> scp -C is good at making things smaller, but not as good as not having
> crap in the firs
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