Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Beer good. Beer Foamy. Only when you add bubble bath... L. A young, female, non-bearded, non-jumpered members of CAMRA? *shock*

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:09:16PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Dave Thorn wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:59:54PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Dave Thorn wrote: that settles it, yes. everything's for sale, even pride. London Pride? obviously. they don't just

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Barbie
From: Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:15:17PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: Just saw this linked from a hugely obvious banner ad on the Register : http://training.gbdirect.co.uk/courses/perl/for_the_register.html Great idea to tie it in to a success story I

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Barbie
From: Lucy McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beer good. But Guinness is better ;) Barbie

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-06-11

2001-06-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:41:56PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: In other news: Microsoft SQL Server sucking (SQueaL), Sun Ultra Enterprise 1, google++, the Sony Clie being small and cute, checking out pubs for the next meet, buffy, search.cpan.org being hacked (Catalog module apparently),

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:57:08PM +0100, Dave Thorn wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:59:54PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Dave Thorn wrote: that settles it, yes. everything's for sale, even pride. London Pride? obviously. they don't just give it away or hoard it, y'know? There

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:57:08PM +0100, Dave Thorn wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:59:54PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Dave Thorn wrote: that settles it, yes. everything's for sale, even pride. London Pride? obviously. they

Re: bk strikes again

2001-06-13 Thread Matthew Robinson
I have managed to resist the temptation to join previous flame wars with bk but I was feeling weak this time :( Matt -- s!msfQ!s$utvKs(Q)\1!sfiupoBs^reverse Ibdlfses^# s$#!uojsqs(.)chr(ord($1)-1)ges(.*)reverse $1see - Original Message - From: Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Barbie wrote: They probably could only get away with saying they maintain it due to the amount of complex stuff in there, and potential legal implications if they said they designed it. But I'll agree with The Goth here, do we really want to associate with the buggers?

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Barbie [easynet]
From: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Barbie wrote: They probably could only get away with saying they maintain it due to the amount of complex stuff in there, and potential legal implications if they said they designed it. But I'll agree with The Goth here, do we

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-13 Thread Mike Jarvis
Wednesday, June 13, 2001, 1:16:12 AM, Dave Cross wrote: DC On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:55:17PM -0500, Mike Jarvis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Larry speaks in a bit over 9 hours. Yippee! DC Actually - he doesn't :) DC http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/12/2255236 It all worked out ok.

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Barbie [easynet] wrote: From: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Barbie wrote: They probably could only get away with saying they maintain it due to the amount of complex stuff in there, and potential legal implications if they said they

Re: [Possible Job] Perl, Linux

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. I was fishing on behalf of a client who may well need a perl linux person in the

RE: downloady filenames

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Robin Szemeti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 June 2001 03:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: downloady filenames ISTR somebody explaing the magic incantations you could put after Content-type: text/some-funny-application in order for the browser to try and save it as

RE: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Chris Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Why, when the sun is shining (almost) and there is a popular (?) govt. do I feel like I did in early/mid 70's: like the end of the world was nigh? Hmm, not sure... but is the feeling helped buy having someone in the White House who has no real

RE: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Robert Thompson
From: Paul Makepeace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] PS -- that is one truly obnoxiously big sig. I apologise profusely for my employers lawyers need to avoid any form of litigation due to something that I may or may not say to the right or wrong person while sending an email which may or may not

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Philip Newton
This in the Opera (browser) Newsletter I received yesterday: * Opera challenges UK govt to support standards * The British government's prestigious gateway

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

2001-06-12 Thread Philip Newton
Robert Thompson wrote: I apologise profusely Sorry, you'll have to give me a hardcopy version of that before I'll believe you: E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or

RE: downloady filenames

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Robert Thompson wrote: From: Robin Szemeti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 June 2001 03:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: downloady filenames ISTR somebody explaing the magic incantations you could put after Content-type: text/some-funny-application

Re: downloady filenames

2001-06-12 Thread Roger Burton West
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

RE: downloady filenames

2001-06-12 Thread Jon Galliers
This seemed to work. print Content-type:application/whatever\n.Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file\n\n Thanks Jon * Jon Galliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer Perl/C++/MySQL/DB2/Java Design Net http://www.design.net.uk

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

2001-06-12 Thread Paul Makepeace
Isn't there some cough/ perl module that might allow us to rig a sig-stripper to be installed at dircon? Where sig = any trailer that has more than four un-para'ed lines. Or give these people a damn shell account. Or SOMETHING. (Actually I don't really care I just got carried away with the

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Struan Donald
* at 11/06 21:38 +0100 Robin Szemeti said: On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Chris Benson wrote: Didn't ukonline.co.uk complain about trademark infringement a while back? Is gateway.gov.uk the result? and is there any possible trademark confusion with this address? ring ring 'hello .. is

Re: Persistent Perl

2001-06-12 Thread Leon Brocard
Dominic Mitchell sent the following bits through the ether: I think the python scheme of creating a bytecode file on the first run is better, but I'm not sure how amenable perl's code tree is to being flattened and restored (this may be why we haven't seen a perl-java compiler). ByteCache -

Re: Persistent Perl

2001-06-12 Thread Simon Wistow
Dominic Mitchell wrote: And you'd have to make the daemon threaded, or end up running multiple pre-forking daemons to do the job. At which point, you're only saving the fork time and the parse time, which depending on how much effort it is to complete the above, may not be much of a saving

Re: Persistent Perl

2001-06-12 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:31:44AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Dominic Mitchell wrote: And you'd have to make the daemon threaded, or end up running multiple pre-forking daemons to do the job. At which point, you're only saving the fork time and the parse time, which depending on how

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Peter Haworth
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:14:41 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:34:28PM +0100, Peter Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can someone please remind me about the technical meeting on the 21st? Now that it looks like I might be in London at the time, I find I've deleted all

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way around that. If you bring your passport, we'll even let you south of the river and my sofa is very comfortable and has a well-stocked

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way around that. If you bring your passport, we'll even let you south

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way around that. If you bring your passport, we'll even let you south

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:40:44PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night, I'm sure we can collectively find a way

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: It's a TRAP! You been playing wy too much nethack recently. That was a tough level with comfy sofa and the drinks cabinet. -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread Peter Haworth
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:26:08 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:10:01PM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:14:41 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Well, er..., there will be a meeting on the 21st. I spoke to Alex last night and he said we could hold it at

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:18:43PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: It's a TRAP! You been playing wy too much nethack recently. That was a tough level with comfy sofa and

Re: YAPC::Europe Registration

2001-06-12 Thread Neil Ford
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:57:51AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: I see that registration for YAPC::Europe has opened. http://www.yapc.org/Europe/registration.html They've also accepted both my Perl for the People and Creating Data Output Files Using the Template Toolkit talks :)

Re: YAPC::Europe Registration

2001-06-12 Thread Richard Clamp
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:41:48PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: So who's registered then? ;-) I have, now to write[0] the talks. [0] always with the writing! -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Chris Benson
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:15:36AM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote: From: Chris Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Why, when the sun is shining (almost) and there is a popular (?) govt. do I feel like I did in early/mid 70's: like the end of the world was nigh? Hmm, not sure... but is

RE: downloady filenames

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Jon Galliers wrote: This seemed to work. print Content-type:application/whatever\n.Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file\n\n yadda! .. thats the cookie! .. a thousand thanks ;) right I can stop my cvs files coming up as .'something.pl' now ... ta muchly.

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:55:38PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote: Oh yes, I vaguely thought on reading about the floods in The South that maybe this was supposed to be a message like Repent your sins or I wash you off the face of the Earth. I think it's more along the lines of the Creator(s)

Re: YAPC::Europe Registration

2001-06-12 Thread Piers Cawley
Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:41:48PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: So who's registered then? ;-) I have, now to write[0] the talks. I got lucky. They didn't want the Perl Proverbs talk (which I'd have to write), but they did want 12 step (which I busk).

Re: Persistent Perl

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: Somebody tell me why this is a stupid idea because I can't think of any obvious reason but if there wasn't then I'm sure sombody would have already done it [0] ... Similar principle to mod_perl, a perl script is run but instead of a normal

Re: Persistent Perl

2001-06-12 Thread Richard Clamp
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:54:01PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: is this anything like wot FastCGI does .. or is that summat different? Since 'this' is a bit muddy I couldn't say, though I do know that FastCGI works as a constantly running coprocess, so maybe -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: YAPC::Europe Registration

2001-06-12 Thread Redvers Davies
I got lucky. They didn't want the Perl Proverbs talk (which I'd have to write), but they did want 12 step (which I busk). Result. Busk... What a wonderful turn of phrase ;)

Re: Default library paths

2001-06-12 Thread Redvers Davies
There's a couple of reasonable hex editors out there, but I usually just tend to use M-x hexl-find-file in emacs. If you're a vim user, see xxd(1). or bvi (Binary vi)

Re: Where's my bloody gun?

2001-06-12 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * * What IS the mentality of idiots who attack community sites * like this? * *maybe it was just a script kiddie .. maybe it was a worm. It wasn't anything quite so dignified. I had reinstalled the Catalog module last month after a failed attempt to

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Chris Benson wrote: I know a state-of-emergency (or whatever) has been called to right it has, as I understand it this means now that you are supposed to drive a 5.3L V8 rather than the 7.1L V8 unless absolutlely necessary ... oops .. read 358cubic inch and 427ci ... these

Re: Where's my bloody gun?

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: And, as far as the idiots go, I doubt there are any fewer today then there were yesterday. well .. my theory is: they say 'theres one born every minute'.. but sometimes, due to oversight, there isn't one born for a whole hour or so, so they

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Mike Jarvis
Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 2:55:38 PM, Chris Benson wrote: CB On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:15:36AM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote: From: Chris Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Why, when the sun is shining (almost) and there is a popular (?) govt. do I feel like I did in early/mid 70's: like

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Cross
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:55:17PM -0500, Mike Jarvis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Larry speaks in a bit over 9 hours. Yippee! Actually - he doesn't :) http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/12/2255236 Dave... -- Drugs are just bad m'kay

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Chris Benson
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:10:28PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 2:55:38 PM, Chris Benson wrote: CB I wash you off the face of the Earth. If so it missed Washington DC CB by about a 1,000 miles and Texas by 500. It probably missed GWB by a CB couple of light years.

Re: JOB: Eng. Proj Management

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan Peterson
At 00:23 09/06/01 +0100, you wrote: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A reasonably reliable headhunter I've dealt with in the past is looking for technical project managers for new web company. Let me know if interested... Hmm... I wonder if I could morph... Come over to the

Re: Conway's academic paper generator

2001-06-11 Thread jns
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Anyone got a link to this? There's a working version of it here: http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/ And the thing that drives it (The Dada Engine) here: http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/ Alex Gough -- The Texan turned out to be good-natured,

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan Peterson
At 18:51 09/06/01 +0100, you wrote: Monday morning Precisely. And using Java et al is a discrimination against the mobility impaired. Not to mention the way it discriminates totally against people who can't afford, don't have, morally object to, are too old to learn to use, computers. Sure,

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:56:19AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: At 18:51 09/06/01 +0100, you wrote: Monday morning Precisely. And using Java et al is a discrimination against the mobility impaired. Not to mention the way it discriminates totally against people who can't afford,

Re: Default library paths

2001-06-11 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:40:38PM +0100, Matthew Robinson wrote: Apologies in advance if I have missed something blindingly obvious :) I need to change the default library paths in a compiled copy of perl. Basically, I want to move /usr/lib/perl5 into /usr/local/lib/perl5. I am unable to

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Robert Shiels
From: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not to mention the way it discriminates totally against people who can't afford, don't have, morally object to, are too old to learn to use, computers. How come. It's an alternative to, not a replacement for, the usual paper based forms; isn't it?

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Mison
On 08/06/2001 at 12:30 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: ... and some not so pretty pictures. http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/london.pm/2001-06-07/ Bah. Too many of me. And not enough of you here: http://husk.org/perl/pics/ Warning: dislike of flash may lead to fuzzyness and light trails. -- ::

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Piers Cawley
Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 08/06/2001 at 12:30 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: ... and some not so pretty pictures. http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/london.pm/2001-06-07/ Bah. Too many of me. And not enough of you here: http://husk.org/perl/pics/ Warning: dislike of flash

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:19:21AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:56:19AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: I haven't looked at the certificate issue, but most of the things I've read so far state that it's only a problem because they've made it a problem by using

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Lucy McWilliam
http://husk.org/perl/pics/ Warning: dislike of flash may lead to fuzzyness and light trails. Very artistic. I think your camera was drunk (thank $deity - I don't get on with them sober). Nice to meet you all. I'll be ba-ack. L. I love the smell of fruit flies in the morning.

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Mison
On 11/06/2001 at 11:10 +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://husk.org/perl/pics/ http://www.well.com/user/pdcawley/misc_images/ But I may be biased. Nah, they are nice. But you've been selective, I'm assuming (unless you've just taken seven photos in your

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Piers Cawley
Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/06/2001 at 11:10 +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://husk.org/perl/pics/ http://www.well.com/user/pdcawley/misc_images/ But I may be biased. Nah, they are nice. But you've been selective, Of course,

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Ian Brayshaw
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not very perlish I'm afraid. a) I'm sure that will change in time (any camel shots?). b) That makes it an appropriate topic for this list. Ian _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Mison
On 11/06/2001 at 12:46 +0100, Ian Brayshaw wrote: Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not very perlish I'm afraid. a) I'm sure that will change in time (any camel shots?). http://husk.org/lndn/circ/compat/DSCF0102.jpg See, the advantages of posting everything. -- :: paul :: 'aggressive is

Re: Religion

2001-06-11 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:44:40PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: Which reminds me of something I read in the PuTTY FAQ: Question: Would you like me to register you a snappier domain name? The PuTTY web page is hard to find. Answer: No,

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Tony Bowden
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:23:26PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: Just thinking about why they are your favourites and what you did to make the image will improve your general photography. Certainly my contacts sheets have got generally better as I've taken more photographs and gone through the

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Leon Brocard
Piers Cawley sent the following bits through the ether: Unlikely. http://www.iterative-software.com/~pdcawley/acme.png is vaguely perlish though. Taking pictures of me when I've a) not slept much b) was tired anyway c) at morning when I haven't had a shower probably isn't going to produce the

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan Peterson
At 13:01 11/06/01 +0100, you wrote: Unlikely. http://www.iterative-software.com/~pdcawley/acme.png is vaguely perlish though. Hey, that's a good photo. It's Leontastic. -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl CGI For The World Wide Web

2001-06-11 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Dave Cross wrote: Remember the discussion some months ago about what a horrible book this was? Well, I've been exchanging emails with the author since slagging her off big-time on Amazon. Somehow I've managed to make her thing that my input is useful and I've just

Re: Perl CGI For The World Wide Web

2001-06-11 Thread Dan Packer
I consider this a massive improvement. The mere fact that Perl and CGI are actually differentiated in the title is a marvel in and of itself. Thank God for small miracles. Daniel Packer

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On 11 Jun 2001, Piers Cawley wrote: http://www.iterative-software.com/~pdcawley/acme.png is vaguely perlish though. Scary (no offense) L. I would say it's a 'fruit knife' but it's not big and it's not cleaver.

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. If

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Piers Cawley
Tony Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:23:26PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: Just thinking about why they are your favourites and what you did to make the image will improve your general photography. Certainly my contacts sheets have got generally better as I've

Re: [Possible Job] Perl, Linux

2001-06-11 Thread Piers Cawley
Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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.) 4XL Tall acksherly. -- Piers Cawley

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote: At 13:01 11/06/01 +0100, you wrote: Unlikely. http://www.iterative-software.com/~pdcawley/acme.png is vaguely perlish though. Hey, that's a good photo. It's Leontastic. No Red eyes, not sitting in front of a picture of well known nazi leader

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 of the

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-11 Thread Philip Newton
Leon Brocard wrote: Registration might happen pretty soon too. Ooh, goody. People at work (who fortunately will be paying for me to go to yapc::Europe again this year) have said they'll want to start to get down details. Probably better to book hotel, travel, etc. *after* I register for the

RE: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Matthew Jones
For some reason, that reminded me of tchrist, especially the ---^^^ Is that Northern for Jesus? -- matt | only a wardrobe away

Re: Some pretty pictures ...

2001-06-11 Thread Philip Newton
[Hey, where did your attributions go? Mailer-daemon ate them?] Matthew Jones wrote: For some reason, that reminded me of tchrist, especially the ---^^^ Is that Northern for Jesus? What's Northern? Northern English? Anyway, it's Unix-login-ese for

RE: Where's my bloody gun?

2001-06-11 Thread Rob Bresner
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

Re: Where's my bloody gun?

2001-06-11 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh I forgot to mention: Where's my bloody gun you haven't got one any more, the government decided they were just too dangerous for you to play with. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint

Re: Where's my bloody gun?

2001-06-11 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? maybe it was just a script kiddie

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Chris Benson
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:26:39AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: (If I understand the current requirements, you have to buy MacOS (from Apple) or Windows (from Microsoft) to run your free (no cost) browser) IIUIC IE on MacOS lets you look at the site, but you can't do anything useful due to

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Chris Benson
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:26:39AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: (If I understand the current requirements, you have to buy MacOS (from Apple) or Windows (from Microsoft) to run your free (no cost) browser) Looking at open.gov.uk, there is mention of the move to ukonline.gov.uk but no mention

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-11 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Chris Benson wrote: Didn't ukonline.co.uk complain about trademark infringement a while back? Is gateway.gov.uk the result? and is there any possible trademark confusion with this address? ring ring 'hello .. is that the government? .. oh good. I'd like to complain

Re: Default library paths

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:25:32AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: You're very probably stuck. Whilst you can use a hex editor to change strings in the binary, you can't expand the length of those strings, only contract them or retain the same length. However, a solution would be to change

Re: London.pm posting stats

2001-06-10 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Richard Clamp wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:57:52PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: 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'll have what he's drinking. Drinking ? SEE

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-10 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Redvers Davies sent the following bits through the ether: I'll be there... btw, has anyone heard back from the YAPC::Europe peeps about which papers have been accepted?... or have any idea when the

Re: Perl CGI For The World Wide Web

2001-06-10 Thread James Powell
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:16:03PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Remember the discussion some months ago about what a horrible book this was? Well, I've been exchanging emails with the author since slagging her off big-time on Amazon. Somehow I've managed to make her thing that my input is

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-10 Thread Roger Horne
On Sat 09 Jun, Robert Shiels wrote: Assume for a moment that I'm using lynx on Linux, and I want to send the government my tax return securely. What are the security implications, can it actually be done. I don't want to go off half-cocked and complain about something when I don't fully

Re: Default library paths

2001-06-10 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Matthew Robinson wrote: Apologies in advance if I have missed something blindingly obvious :) I need to change the default library paths in a compiled copy of perl. Basically, I want to move /usr/lib/perl5 into /usr/local/lib/perl5. I am unable to recompile perl as it

Re: Default library paths

2001-06-10 Thread Matthew Robinson
On Sun, 10 June 2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Matthew Robinson wrote: Apologies in advance if I have missed something blindingly obvious :) I need to change the default library paths in a compiled copy of perl. Basically, I want to move /usr/lib/perl5 into

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-09 Thread Redvers Davies
We'll start at about 7pm and people will be practiving TPC and YAPC::E talks. I'll be there... btw, has anyone heard back from the YAPC::Europe peeps about which papers have been accepted?... or have any idea when the list will be published. [1] Red

Re: [Possible Job] Perl, Linux

2001-06-09 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know about you, but I'm *definitely* fat. Big boned. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms,

Re: Religion (was Re: M$ SQueaLServer)

2001-06-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg McCarroll wrote on Freitag, 8. Juni 2001 11:11 And some pieces of software just wont be able to be plugged in - why can't i run Samba on Windows? Why would you want to? * in a heterogeneous network i may want to standardise on a single

Re: [Possible Job] Perl, Linux

2001-06-09 Thread Piers Cawley
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know about you, but I'm *definitely* fat. Big boned. Nope. -- Piers Cawley www.iterative-software.com

Re: London.pm posting stats

2001-06-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:13:19PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: here is the results from a partial mbox of ny.pm messages, it is not that complete an mbox, but it does indicate that we are simply not doing or best to take over NY.pm You

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-09 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 07:23:32AM +, Redvers Davies wrote: I'll be there... btw, has anyone heard back from the YAPC::Europe peeps about which papers have been accepted?... or have any idea when the list will be published. [1] I had an e-mail from Ann Barcomb yesterday saying that my

Re: Upcoming technical meeting

2001-06-09 Thread Leon Brocard
Redvers Davies sent the following bits through the ether: I'll be there... btw, has anyone heard back from the YAPC::Europe peeps about which papers have been accepted?... or have any idea when the list will be published. [1] Speakers will be told Real Soon Now. Registration might happen

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