Re: Scalar Context vs List Context

* at 14/03 10:37 -0500 Dave Cross said: > ... and how much trouble you can get in for not knowing the difference: > > the best thing about this is the number of links to this story that give the impression the kids were arrested for not knowin

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-12

On or about Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:06:16PM +, Dominic Mitchell typed: >On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:19:54PM +, Michael Stevens wrote: >> Content-type: matter-transport/beer-stream >For the unenlightened, please consult the standards document: >http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc

Re: Matt's Scripts

David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is indeed lovely. Although you don't need to do tunnelling magic: > rsync -options -e ssh source-list me@myserver:/destination rsync is a wonderful beast. The -a and -z options, accompanied by --progress (if they're big files) and --delete (for

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-12

Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 wh

Re: Scalar Context vs List Context

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:04:47AM +, Struan Donald wrote: > * at 14/03 10:37 -0500 Dave Cross said: > > ... and how much trouble you can get in for not knowing the difference: > > > > > > the best thing about this is the number of links t

Re: Scalar Context vs List Context

* at 15/03 11:18 - David Cantrell said: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:04:47AM +, Struan Donald wrote: > > * at 14/03 10:37 -0500 Dave Cross said: > > > ... and how much trouble you can get in for not knowing the > difference: > > > > > >

Silliness

I feel stupid for even asking but.. For reasons that are too silly to go into here, I want to run this snippet from the command line: print unpack('u', ';0FEG($)R;W1H97(@:7,@=V%T8VAI;F<@>6]U'),"\n"; But I just can't seem to get the right combination of single quotes, double quotes and swi

Re: Silliness

At Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:48:47 +, Simon Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I feel stupid for even asking but.. > > For reasons that are too silly to go into here, I want to run this > snippet from the command line: > > print unpack('u', ';0FEG($)R;W1H97(@:7,@=V%T8VAI;F<@>6]U'),"\n"; > >

Re: Silliness

> print unpack('u', ';0FEG($)R;W1H97(@:7,@=V%T8VAI;F<@>6]U'),"\n"; perl -e 'print unpack("u",q{;0FEG($)R;W1H97(@:7,@=V%T8VAI;F<@>6]U}),"\n";' Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_>6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name => 'Mark Fowler',Title => 'Technology Develop

Re: Silliness

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:48:47AM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: > > print unpack('u', ';0FEG($)R;W1H97(@:7,@=V%T8VAI;F<@>6]U'),"\n"; I tried this: perl -e "print unpack('u', ';0FEG($)R;W1H97(@:7,@=V%T8VAI;F<@>6]U'),qq/\n/;" and it worked :-) dj

Re: Silliness

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > but that wouldn't work on Win32 platforms as they seem to insist on double > quotes to delimit command arguments. Speak for yerself, I use bash on my windoze box ;-) Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_>6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a

Re: Silliness

At Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:52:07 + (GMT), Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > but that wouldn't work on Win32 platforms as they seem to insist on > > double quotes to delimit command arguments. > > Speak for yerself, I use bash on my windoze bo

Re: Silliness

Thanks everyone. That exposes my lack of familiarity with the q & qq operators ;-) Another little bit of learning learned. S.

New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly

Well, sort of. It's a repacking of some existing stuff - a second edition of the Perl CD Bookshelf Looks like the contents of the new edition is: * Programming Perl, 3rd Edition * Perl for System Administration * Perl in a Nutshell * Perl Cookbook * Advan

Re: Matt's Scripts

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > now where is > > 'merlin' when you need him :) > > ITYM 'merlyn' (or 'q[merlyn]'). ahh yes .. you have the better of me there. -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!

Re: New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly

>Well, sort of. It's a repacking of some existing stuff - a second >edition of the Perl CD Bookshelf > >Looks like the contents of the new edition is: > >* Programming Perl, 3rd Edition >* Perl for System Administration >* Perl in a Nutshell >* Perl Cookbook

RE: New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly

> Compare to the old edition which had: <...> > * Learning Perl > * Learning Perl on Win32 Systems Ditching these two makes sense - they're good books, but they do exactly what it says on the tin, and once you've got your teeth into perl, you use the Camel, Cookbook et al as everyday reference

Re: New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, you wrote: > Well, sort of. It's a repacking of some existing stuff - a second > edition of the Perl CD Bookshelf > > Looks like the contents of the new edition is: > > * Programming Perl, 3rd Edition > * Perl for System Administration

RE: New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly

> As a Perl novice I'd have to say the old version looks much better. > Just replacing Programming Perl would have been enough. As another person at an early stage in my Perl self-development, I'll second this, and add that I'd like to add the Owl book on regexps, although I suppose that's not s

Re: New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:58:19PM -, Matthew Jones wrote: > > As a Perl novice I'd have to say the old version looks much better. > > Just replacing Programming Perl would have been enough. > > As another person at an early stage in my Perl self-development, I'll second > this, and add that

Re: Matt's Scripts

Subject: Re: Matt's Scripts > > > is there an idiot-proof graphical front-end for scp? windows? > > > > On Windows I use pscp which comes from the same people as putty. It > > works well, but it doesn't have a pretty graphical front-end. > > Yes there is. http://www.i-tree.org/ixplorer.htm.

[boring] Statistics

Quick question for any statisticians out there: Does this look like it should be modelled with a Poisson distribution to you? This data represents the number of logins on a workstation per hour. 00: 01: 02: 03: 04: 05: 06: 07: 08: 09: ### 10: ###

Re: [boring] Statistics

David Cantrell wrote: > > Quick question for any statisticians out there: > > Does this look like it should be modelled with a Poisson distribution to > you? This data represents the number of logins on a workstation per hour. Don't think so, there's too much of a dip at 11:00 and 14:00

An enquiry

Title: An enquiry If this is anappropriate for this list the please accept my apologies. Is anyone looking for an experienced web designer who is looking to pick up Perl and run with it? Regards, Darren Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]

XML One London

Is anyone going to XML One London next week? I'll be there until Wednesday, but the Thursday didn't look any use to me. -- Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Ok, print the message, then put it in your shoe and put your shoe in front of the fireplace... then wait till Santa come and give

[social] London Walk

As you may be aware, some members of (void) are doing a London Walk on Sunday. If you'd like to join the 12 comitted nutters already taking part, we congregate at Alexandra Palace rail station, North London, at 6.00 am, and proceed southwards along a single column of the A-Z until sunset (with, pr

Re: Version control

> From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > But there are alternatives. Does anyone here have any comments on > > Perforce or Clearcase? Needless to say, both companies have crap websites > > with no useful documentation and a tonne of mar

Re: Version control

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 b

Re: Version control

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:45:34PM -, Jim Gillespie wrote: > > > But there are alternatives. Does anyone here have any comments on > > > Perforce or Clearcase? Use Perforce. It's very good. > It took me quite a while to get the hang of ClearCase but I was growing to > like it by the end o

Re: Version control

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:45:34PM -, Jim Gillespie wrote: > Does ClearCase work with anything but Solaris? I was talking to my current > boss and he reckons it needs a patched kernel in order to do funky stuff > with the file system. I know it works with NT (yeah, OK). What's worrying is