RE: Where's my bloody gun?
t'was probly a Python maniac. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 3:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Where's my bloody gun? I guess it's old news to you all, but there's a notice on http://search.cpan.org to the effect that it has been hacked. I use this a lot. What IS the mentality of idiots who attack community sites like this? Where's my bloody gun Copyright in this message and any attachments remains with us. It is confidential and may be legally privileged. If this message is not intended for you it must not be read, copied or used by you or disclosed to anyone else. Please advise the sender immediately if you have received this message in error. Although this message and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by Open Link International for any loss or damage in any way arising from its use.
Re: O'Reilly Safari - anyone use it?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you don't pay money, whether you justify it because you already own the book, or because you're a poor student, you're screwing the authors. But they won't miss my $1. Your dollar is no different from everyone else's, and if everyone else thought the same thing, there'd be no dollars. I don't think that's necessarily true. Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt gave away their Programming Ruby book by putting it online so you can read it without pirating it or paying for it. I know 3 people, me included, who went a bought a second copy of the book when they did that. I know people who have bought the book after reading it on the Ruby website. If I had a need for the Cookbook, I'd buy a dead tree copy 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
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lucy McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmmm, would it be bad form to reminisce about all things Manc on a London.pm list?! Given the number of people I've seen from Manchester Uni at the technical meetings, probably not... -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/ Bsc(Hons) Computer Science University of Manchester Graduated 1995
Re: perlismybitch.com
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, due to the slovenly fashion in which most places (coughNetwork Solutions/cough) seem to update their whois databases this stands a good chance of being too slow against somebody else 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
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 accept, conversative in what you send." -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/
Re: The Natives are Revolting
In message 20010418220311.VUOR29087.viemta05@localhost, Marcel Grunauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Apologies if this comes through as HTML mail - i'm trying to get mail set up on OS X, but can't get nmh to work, so I'm using OS X's Mail at the 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: (Don't Laugh) Buying PGP
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:03:33PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: Obviously, from the bottom line this is a bit of a no-brainer. But this leaves us having to copy files over to a PC, unencrypt them, and copy them back to the Unix machine. Which I'd like to avoid. Wouldn't be so bad if you're using Samba to share the Unix files. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://browser.org/
Re: Torvalds not impressed with OS X
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.msnbc.com/news/555930.asp Not really surprising news, though, since he was fighting with Tannenbaum in 1991 about whether micro-kernels were worth the bother or not. I mostly like MacOS X, but 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
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: CGI .. its out to get me ...
Robin Szemeti wrote:
OK girls ..
...
[submit form with parameter init_login='Login'
my($q)=CGI-new;
...
if ( defined($q-param('init_login')) ){
#do someting and it happens
}
... some code goes by
if ( defined($q-param('init_login')) ){
#do someting and it DOESNT happen
}
now .. you are all about to say .. ahh .. something is reseting the
parameter elsewhere ... either Delete('init_login') or some such BUT if I
swap the first test to be
First question - is the second if statement in a separate block?
Second question - is your server using mod_perl?
If the answer to both those questions is yes, then mod_perl is doing something nasty
with closures and your blocks/subs.
Try passing $q around as a parameter - that usually solves the problem.
Alternatively, if you don't mind using the standard interface, then use that.
Rob Thompson
Re: Ruby
In message BF7C70E24CF5D311B52F00B0D0215D411B13FE@IH_SERVER, "Jonathan Peterson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey, Dude. The language Ruby looks really cool. Can anyone tell me: It is really cool. 1. Why on earth you'd use Python instead of Ruby. I wouldn't any more. The only reasons I used Python were sensible OO and the XML parsing was less painful than XML::Parser at the time. Now I get my OO from Ruby, and my sensible XML parsing from XML::DOM or XML::XPath. 2. If anyone here has used it for production code and knows more 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: lvalue subroutines
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AIUI, square roots apply to numbers, so how can you have a square root of something that isn't a number, like an operator? You may as well say that you can take the square root of anything - 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: Quantum Weirdness
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robin Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just bought a Mars bar, and it's *drum roll* sixty-five grams! They already did that on IRC! Keep up, that man! Tue1129#London.pm/Ranguard Arrg, Damion lied - British Mars bars weigh 65 g! not 60.. the Quarks must have put on weight! -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/
Re: template toolkit .. one more kwestion
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this works fine if the function returns a list with more than one thing in it .. if there is only one thing in the array I get a 'dont know how to access [ 3 ].0 if for example item 3 is 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 only one result? -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/
Re: Technical Meeting Venues
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And they all talk funny. North of the river they're all called Hamish and Angus, and they wear flat caps and have whippets. 'eyup! My uncle used to race greyhounds and whippets (and pigeons!) 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: Sun's Perl was Re: Application servers and e-commerce platforms
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [1] My main gripe with *BSD is lack of binary package management Um, then what's this? pkg_add ftp://ftp.plig.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.8/packages/i386/dia-0.86p1.tgz That installed a precompiled binary 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: Sun's Perl was Re: Application servers and e-commerce platforms
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On RedHat I can do something like 'rpm -e sendmail' to clean up before installing qmail and, alas, I can't do this on OpenBSD (although there has been talk of extending the binary 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 sendmail back. -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/
Re: Consultancy company
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...? gdr -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/
