On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:59:18AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
mmm ..
by some dint of fate I appear to be the proud owner of a rather nice new
Dell laptop.
Bit slow ( 850mhz P3 ) and 128 mb of ram is hardly enough to run Vi in is
it .. a poxy 32Gb hard disc means I'll probably run out
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:59:18AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
mmm ..
by some dint of fate I appear to be the proud owner of a rather nice new
Dell laptop.
Bit slow ( 850mhz P3 ) and 128 mb of ram is hardly enough to run Vi in is
it .. a poxy 32Gb hard disc means I'll probably run out
James Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:59:18AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
mmm ..
by some dint of fate I appear to be the proud owner of a rather nice new
Dell laptop.
Bit slow ( 850mhz P3 ) and 128 mb of ram is hardly enough to run Vi in is
it .. a
- Original Message -
From: "James Powell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 March 2001 09:41
Subject: Re: mmm ... toys ..
Alternatively if anyone has one of the titanium macs going spare?
I have an original bondi-blue iMac, running MACOS9 at the moment, with 32Mb
RAM. I
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Unfortunately, the lovely Italian wine I found in caffs
throughout Naples
back in November does not seem to be available over here at all.
Why ship the good stuff to the ignorant Brits when they can
keep it for
themselves?
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote:
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roger Burton West wrote:
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.
er.. and me.
Ah. The DotCom Apocalypse :)
/J\
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.
er.. and me.
Ah. The DotCom Apocalypse :)
Rumour has it that many people are bringing tech in house, which is hitting
conslutancies and agencies harder. I'm
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:41:50PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
Usually when people talk about servers with 600 gigabytes of data its
fair to assume that their will be a considerable load on them, clearly
thats not the case here .. so I'm sure IDE will be just fine.
500Gb - RAID-5 means I
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Rumour has it that many people are bringing tech in house, which is hitting
conslutancies and agencies harder. I'm still not convinced that there's a
major downturn in the total number of tech jobs.
i also think there is still room for
At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:08:04 +0100, Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
at cebit, BT devices crashed and burned - why? they had been rushed
out. BT is essentially a good technology if done right, the same is
true for web sites, the industry just needs to slow its self down
'BT' eq
At 10:31 27/03/2001 +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Rumour has it that many people are bringing tech in house, which is hitting
conslutancies and agencies harder. I'm still not convinced that there's a
major downturn in the total number of tech jobs.
That's exactly what we're doing. I have a
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:08:04 +0100, Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
at cebit, BT devices crashed and burned - why? they had been rushed
out. BT is essentially a good technology if done right, the same is
true for web sites, the industry
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:43:44AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Fips should be able to. All it does is shrink your FAT partition (NTFS
need not apply). When looking at the partition table, also, don't
change the 4th partition towards the end of the disk, if there is one.
It's the suspend
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:22:27AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Unfortunately, the lovely Italian wine I found in caffs
throughout Naples
back in November does not seem to be available over here at all.
Why ship the
* Simon Wilcox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At 10:31 27/03/2001 +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Rumour has it that many people are bringing tech in house, which is hitting
conslutancies and agencies harder. I'm still not convinced that there's a
major downturn in the total number of tech
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
ironically, a lot of .com problems could of been avoided and yet they
still would of made the deadlines imposed by `internet time', if they
had slowed down and used traditional business techniques such as
cost/benefit analysis to prioritise
on 26/3/01 10:04 pm, Greg McCarroll wrote:
The problem of course with London (London.pm?) is that
every activity we can think of is drink related.
Well we do have a river here ya know ;)
Other ideas:
taking over a London Eye pod
hiring a room in the VA, Science Museum or Nat Hist Museum
* Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
ironically, a lot of .com problems could of been avoided and yet they
still would of made the deadlines imposed by `internet time', if they
had slowed down and used traditional business techniques
taking over a London Eye pod
Did this on Friday. Not worth the money. Especially in the fog.
hiring a room in the VA, Science Museum or Nat Hist Museum
If you could get a private view (so to speak) of the difference engine or
the BABY stuff they are doing in the Sci museum, that would be
At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:41:05 +0100, Chris Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sunday morning Perl advocacy at Speaker's Corner
This _really_ should happen.
Dave...
This _really_ should happen.
Can we get some O'Reily collateral to hand out to the congregation?
At 00:07 27/03/2001, you wrote:
* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Ooh good. I got one of them for Christmas and still haven't gotten
around to
drinking it. Not sure I'll like it though, because Italian reds tend to be
very thin, and I like chewy wines. We'll see.
I don't want
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:41:05 +0100, Chris Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sunday morning Perl advocacy at Speaker's Corner
This _really_ should happen.
well then, lets store it up - next time we get a visitor whos up for
it, we will do it,
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:41:17AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mysql has been ported to OSX. You can find it at
http://www-u.life.uiuc.edu/~mwvaugh/MacOSX/Packages/
I was playing with it for a while and it seems fairly stable.
The only real problem I had was installing DBD::mysql
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:41:05 +0100, Chris Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sunday morning Perl advocacy at Speaker's Corner
This _really_ should happen.
well then, lets store it up - next
From: "Dave Cross" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't want to sound like a twat, but it may be too late already so here
goes, one of the things i hate about going out to a italian restaurant
is the wine.
Nonsense. You just order the most expensive Barolo on the wine list.
homer
mmm Barolo
/homer
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
The other possibility, I guess, given that it's london.pm is
to make it relate to buffy in some way :)
That reminds me of an idea I had this morning on the way to work -- encode
text using "Buffy" with uppercase and lowercase letters: uppercase letters
stand
Paul Makepeace wrote:
The world would be a much better place if everyone habitually quoted
their phone number +access_code area_code local_number. You don't
realise how important this is 'til you have to repeatedly find people
in various desolate stations dotted all over the world with scant,
At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:39:34 +0200, Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
The other possibility, I guess, given that it's london.pm is
to make it relate to buffy in some way :)
That reminds me of an idea I had this morning on the way to work --
encode
I've developed this weird habit of hanging around places where less
able Perl programmers congregate and trying to distribute clues.
The latest place I've found is the BBS for readers of Liz Castro's
book. It certainly gives you some perspective[1] on her target
audience.
Here's an example
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
I've developed this weird habit of hanging around places where less
able Perl programmers congregate and trying to distribute clues.
You've also developed the bad habit of referring to them as "programmers".
The latest place I've found is the BBS for
Dave Cross wrote:
At Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:21:52 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Stowe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyhow what are we going to do about the 'C++' ones :)
Ignore them. Pretend they aren't there :)
You misspelled "Rewrite them in Perl". HTH.
Cheers,
Philip
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Mark Fowler wrote:
1) Is POSIX.pm a standard module
I believe it is, but the functionality might not be the same everywhere -- I
think it just gives you as much as the platform itself provides. However,
strftime so basic I'd guess any vaguely ANSI-/POSIX-compliant C library
should have it.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Mark Fowler wrote:
1) Is POSIX.pm a standard module (and how do I work this out for
myself) and supported on all O.S.es so I don't have to rewrite strftime.
Its definitely in the 5.00404 on one of the machines here so I would that
it could be said to be standard. Anyhow
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
Anyway, I didn't want to keep this delight to myself. If anyone wants
to join in my fun, the board is at:
http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl
Share Enjoy,
Must .. Control .. The .. Keyboard .. Of .. Fire
/J\
From: "Robin Houston" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 March 2001 14:59
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:08:11PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
2) How do I get strftime to produce th/st/nd for the date? I can't see
it
on man strftime, but I might just be going blind.
use POSIX 'strftime';
my @th=(qw(th
Mark Fowler wrote:
b) This is how to get objects from CPAN, these are a few
critical classes that you need to know about. E.g. this
is Data::Dumper, it's fscking useful. LWP::Simple is
your friend. Etc, etc. Something of a quick tour.
LWP::Simple is a good example, since if
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Philip Newton wrote:
(Don't know whether CPAN.pm knows this for you. It may.)
Yes, it does.
MBM
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:14:22PM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
%e seems to be Linux specific. %d works on both Linux and Windows.
Not Linux-specific, it's part of the Single Unix Specification.
Point taken about Win32.
.robin.
--
select replace(a, CHR(88), replace(a,,'')) from (
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:29:57PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
my @th=(qw(th st nd rd),("th")x16)x2; $th[31]="st";
That's an evil and gross hack.
sub th{(($_[0]-10-$_[0]%10)/10%10)?(qw(th st nd rd),('th')x6)[$_[0]%10]:"th"}
TIMTOWTDI, thank ghod ;-)
.robin.
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At 13:29 27/03/2001 +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
my @th=(qw(th st nd rd),("th")x16)x2; $th[31]="st";
That's an evil and gross hack.
[snip]
sub th{(($_[0]-10-$_[0]%10)/10%10)?(qw(th st nd rd),('th')x6)[$_[0]%10]:"th"}
The first one I understood. Not sure about the second but I'll work
Simon Wilcox wrote:
So - Did I get this heinously wrong or is MBM's sub really a
lot slower ?
Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the
array each time. To be fair, you should include the array initialisation
inside the loop and see who wins then.
Cheers,
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:19:08PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote:
I thought I would play around with Benchmark.pm, because I don't use it
nearly often enough, so I made this script:
@th=(qw(th st nd rd),("th")x16)x2; $th[31]="st";
sub th{(($_[0]-10-$_[0]%10)/10%10)?(qw(th st nd
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:40:19PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the
array each time. To be fair, you should include the array initialisation
inside the loop and see who wins then.
Hey, that's not _fair_!
The whole point of
At 16:53 27/03/2001 +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:40:19PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the
array each time. To be fair, you should include the array initialisation
inside the loop and see who wins
Some of you will have seen me posting in #london.pm asking about the
four-arg form of select(). Some other people confessed ignorance too.
I eventually figgered it out by gratuitously copying and pasting from
POE::Kernel and then poking it to see how it broke :-) For anyone who's
interested,
At 10:15 AM 27.3.2001 +0100, Robert Sheils wrote:
I have an original bondi-blue iMac, running MACOS9 at the moment, with
32Mb RAM. I was in an Apple shop at the weekend and found that a 128Mb
upgrade and OSX will only set me back about 200gbp. I was assured that
all my OS9 applications will
At 01:44 PM 27.3.2001 +0200, you wrote:
I think America requires you to add "1" at the beginning; though it's not
part of the area/STD code as the 0 is in England and Germany, I think
most places require it to show you're dialling a long-distance call.
Correct. Standard format is an implicit 1,
From: "Chris Devers" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 10:15 AM 27.3.2001 +0100, Robert Sheils wrote:
I have an original bondi-blue iMac, running MACOS9 at the moment, with
32Mb RAM. I was in an Apple shop at the weekend and found that a 128Mb
upgrade and OSX will only set me back about 200gbp. I was
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Simon Wilcox wrote:
At 16:53 27/03/2001 +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:40:19PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the
array each time. To be fair, you should include the array
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:09:21PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote:
/me only drinks belgian beers/lagers.. or ales/bitter esp not any of that
american crap.
Ahem. There are some fine american beers. You probably just don't see
them over there (lord knows they're hard enough to find here...)
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:07:44PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
agreed, this is just f*cking crazy, sorry for the swearing, but this
is the craziest thing i've seen this year
What, no CiP rating???
dha
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An entity claiming to be Robin Houston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
: IO::Select will take the pain away.
: use IO::Select;
:
However, when you start to throw signals, timers, and other nastiness into
the mix, I have found Event.pm to be terribly useful.
Mark
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
agreed, this is just f*cking crazy, sorry for the swearing, but this
is the craziest thing i've seen this year
I wouldnt get too carried away after all its only march :)
/J\
Just in case any of our northerly lurkers are interested ...
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DavidC:
According to the critics, it is 'acceptable if not great' but fuck it,
*I* liked it.
Remember a lot of wine suffers from the holiday effect, and doesn't seem
quite as nice on a wet blustery Thursday night.
Lachryma Christi del Vesuvio, in case anyone is interested.
Ah, I have heard
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:09:21PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote:
DavidC:
According to the critics, it is 'acceptable if not great' but fuck it,
*I* liked it.
Remember a lot of wine suffers from the holiday effect, and doesn't seem
quite as nice on a wet blustery Thursday night.
Ah no,
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:18:51PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Just in case any of our northerly lurkers are interested ...
This northerly lurker thanks you. Of course Sheffield-Newcastle direct
is via Virgin, the alternative is GNER to Doncaster. Neither of these
seem particularly
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:44:49PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Still not enough. It'll work for the Americans (yet again...)[1] but if you
have a phone number whose country codes identifies it as being in country X,
and you are in country X on a business trip and want to call that person,
At 03:28 PM 27.3.2001 -0800, you wrote:
With 10 digit dialling, it's 10 digit dialling, no extra '1' required.
E.g. if I was in Houston (which has three area codes and is 10-digit) I
would dial 713 555 1212 regardless of whether I was already in 713.
Ahh. This explains why a cell phone works
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:31:00PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
then we get on to the 'wine so sweet you could stand a spoon up in it'. I
am a complete sucker for anything from Sauternes, Lupiac, Pauliac,
Graves, Monbazilac etc. and had a very nice Trochenbeerenauslese a
You would enjoy the
I don't suppose anyone else chose 'root' as their primary account
name during install?
I did and am wondering if this is why my OS X installation is totally
hosed useless: I can't open folders in my (own!) Home (Insufficient
Privileges), all Applications in Finder appears as folders, all
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:11:13PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
I don't suppose anyone else chose 'root' as their primary account
name during install?
I did and am wondering if this is why my OS X installation is totally
hosed useless: I can't open folders in my (own!) Home (Insufficient
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