On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:34:21PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
Neil Ford sent the following bits through the ether:
Will you be requiring a projector for this?
Yes please! Will you be coming down or can we send someone to borrow
your projector for the day? ;-)
ps looks like Simon
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 23:30 21/05/2001, David H. Adler wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:28:24AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
Don't think anyone writes technical books for money. If they do, then
they're in for a big shock.
...and you can just imagine how much more
On Mon, 21 May 2001, jo walsh wrote:
please wibble at me soon if this will cause you problems, or wibble at me
or alex tomorrow if there are things you feel you're missing.
I don't seem to have my yacht or my large villa in Southern France. Is
this your fault?
Tony
Using the code below, and calling the routine with a *.jpg file. Why does
the mime_type return text/plain? I've also tried using MIME::Head-read
with a filehandle and it returns the same. I would investigate CPAN further
for clues (and the examples that ActivePerl decided not to include), but it
At 13:27 22/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
I don't know if you are parsing mail or something else, but in the past I've had luck
with MIME::Parser using the effective_type() method to get the mime type out of emails.
If you are trying to figure it out magically based on just the file format or
From: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dunno about your MIME problem (sorry), but somebody on irc mentioned
trying cpan2.org instead.
Ahh! Got it. Thanks.
Found the following:
Due to nonuniqueness of MIME encodings, there is a very good chance
that your output will not Iexactly resemble
From: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know if you are parsing mail or something else,
Isolated file.
If you are trying to figure it out magically based on just the file format
or filename or
something (e.g. just pointing it at a raw jpeg) I didn't think MIME::
would help.
Could
I don't know if you are parsing mail or something else,
Isolated file.
If you are trying to figure it out magically based on just
the file format
or filename or
something (e.g. just pointing it at a raw jpeg) I didn't
think MIME::
would help.
Unfortunately I have to rely on
On or about Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:48:17PM +0100, Robert Thompson typed:
Open up the file, read in the first few bytes and grab the magic number.
Most types of binary file have a marker of some kind to designate what they
are. Any half decent book on graphics programming should be able to tell
From: Roger Burton West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
man 1 file
man 5 magic
less /usr/share/misc/magic # on many systems
except anything written my MS of course...
Rob
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Any views expressed in this message are those of the
From: Robert Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Roger Burton West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
man 1 file
man 5 magic
less /usr/share/misc/magic # on many systems
except anything written my MS of course...
Which is precisely what this install of ActivePerl sits on. Luckily I have a
This site contains info about the raw file formats of numerous graphic
types, including sig/header block formats. All useful for anyone wanting to
play with graphics.
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~mxr/gfx/
Rob
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Any views expressed in
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:06:39PM +0100, Barbie wrote:
From: Robert Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Roger Burton West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
man 1 file
man 5 magic
less /usr/share/misc/magic # on many systems
except anything written my MS of course...
Which is
On or about Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:02:33PM +0100, Simon Wistow typed:
According to the Register ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19112.html
the Tory's want to repeal IR35, make RIPA less strict and speed up Local
Loop unbundling, whereas Labour want to introduce laws meaning that if
(because people were talking about it)
http://just-drinks.com/news_detail.asp?art=12376dm=yes
ROME, May 21 (Reuters) - Canada has won the right to compete with Germany
and Austria in supplying Europeans with Icewine, a sugary dessert wine
made from grapes harested in freezing temperatures.
c.
Nobody noticed that in my article's code examples I revealed my pick
for sexiest slayer on Buffy. Pout.
Nat
on 22/5/01 4:02 pm, Simon Wistow wrote:
the Tory's want to repeal IR35, make RIPA less strict and speed up Local
Loop unbundling, whereas Labour want to introduce laws meaning that if
you pretend to be a teenager on the Net you can be jailed for 5 years
(bad luck bK).
It seems that every
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
This is something like a request for comments.
Playing around with attributes (as per Attribute::Handler), I've done
several more attribute handlers and have also bundled a few into one
module but am not quite sure what to call it. First, here are examples
of those handlers:
1) Attribute::Tools
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Simon Wistow wrote:
According to the Register ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19112.html
the Tory's want to repeal IR35, make RIPA less strict and speed up Local
Loop unbundling, whereas Labour want to introduce laws meaning that if
you pretend to be a
At 16:02 22/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
the Tory's want to repeal IR35, make RIPA less strict and speed up Local
Loop unbundling, whereas Labour want to introduce laws meaning that if
you pretend to be a teenager on the Net you can be jailed for 5 years
(bad luck bK).
They are politicians. They
on 22/5/01 4:19 pm, Robin Szemeti wrote:
thank goodness for
proportioanl representation, it should make the next parliament a lot
more representative of what people actually want, ratehr than a choice
between 2 (and a half ) evils.
Errr... no PR yet for general elections!
Slight aside, but
Simon Cozens wrote:
I've yet to hear a Labour MP talk eloquently about anything at all. Anyone
ever talked - sorry, tried talking - to their MP about RIP?
Harriet Harman tried to tell me that I didn't really know about
computers or the Internet.
Personally I don't believe a word anybody says
Chris Heathcote sent the following bits through the ether:
It seems that every promise in the Tory manifesto is based on hearsay
It'd be okay if they were based on shaggy or fat boy slim...
Leon
--
Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/
Iterative
At 16:31 22/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
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; i
The cynicism of the
On 22/05/2001 at 16:19 +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
the immediate feeling I get is to rent some cellars at the houses of
parliament and invest in a number of big barrels of gunpowder .. oh hang
on that ones been done before and had a distinctly negative outcome .. OK
.. perhaps someting more
on 22/5/01 4:46 pm, Simon Wistow wrote:
Simon Cozens wrote:
I've yet to hear a Labour MP talk eloquently about anything at all. Anyone
ever talked - sorry, tried talking - to their MP about RIP?
Harriet Harman tried to tell me that I didn't really know about
computers or the Internet.
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 08:43:39AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 23:30 21/05/2001, David H. Adler wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:28:24AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
Don't think anyone writes technical books for money. If they do, then
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
Greg McCarroll and his (extraordinarily) lovely wife have, for the time
being, sufficiently brainwashed me as to convince me to for some
indeterminate amount of time, muck-in this kooky kerfuffle.
And lastly, in the tradition of me old beloved ny.pm, but not leastly
(but yeastly), BEER. The
At 17:01 22/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
Right, yes, which is why we - sorry, you plural, I was way out of the country
at the time - elected Labour based on their fantastic performance last time
which lead to the General Strike and the Winter of Discontent. Sorry, a
nanosecond of thought would show
At 12:06 22/05/01 -0400, you wrote:
If you haven't guessed, i'm from the states.
Ah. So 'Mars' wasn't too close.
:-)
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Jonathan Peterson
Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
From: Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 4:03 PM
According to the Register ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19112.html
the Tory's want to repeal IR35,
I've not actually seen the manifesto, but from what I'm told it really means
font size=bloody huge
On or about Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:23:32PM +0100, Cross David - dcross typed:
I've not actually seen the manifesto, but from what I'm told it really means
If you can't be bothered to take a few minutes to look, why the hell are
you posting about it? The actual text is:
A future Conservative
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 22/5/01 5:26 pm, Robin Szemeti wrote:
Errr... no PR yet for general elections!
really .. are you sure ? .. I'm certain this lot said they were going
to do something about that ... how odd.
It was part of the buttering-up in case of a need for a Lib-Lab pact. It's
certainly been pushed
On Tue, 22 May 2001, David H. Adler wrote:
Hey, maybe it's one of those cheapo 'made in China' jobs. Of course,
if it paid for a Martin or a Lowden or something else equally lovely,
then well done Mr Adler.
Ah, I wish...
The truth is somewhere in between. I got a Burns Marquee. The
Robert Thompson wrote:
This site contains info about the raw file formats of numerous graphic
types, including sig/header block formats.
And there's always http://www.wotsit.org/ The Programmer's File Format
Collection.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All opinions are my
David H. Adler wrote:
dha, who thinks the overseas copies got somehow shipped before the
domestic ones...
I *think* I read once that that's their policy. It's a nice move, since
overseas people have to wait longer anyway -- so if their copies are shipped
earlier, they might just get them no
Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether:
[SNIP!]
Please fix your mailer to do proper In-Reply-To and References
headers. It's really really annoying.
Leon
--
... Money is the root of all wealth
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:25:36PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
Thanks, that's going in my sigfile.
Your sigfile is a mighty repository of evil.
Martin
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 06:49:01PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether:
[SNIP!]
Please fix your mailer to do proper In-Reply-To and References
headers. It's really really annoying.
I *loathe* Exchange.
But they fixed references in
Someone just laid what I think is a fresh urban myth on me, but is
there any kind of embargo on comestibles going from England to France?
Like even wrapped chocolate?
--
Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star
embargo has been due to foot and mouth, embargo is bi-directional and covers
meat as well.
- Original Message -
From: Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 7:22 PM
Subject: [OT] Food exports?
Someone just laid what I think is a fresh
Here's the leaflets given to travellers
http://www.maff.gov.uk/animalh/int-trde/misc/foot/flyer.pdf
- Original Message -
From: Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 7:22 PM
Subject: [OT] Food exports?
Someone just laid what I think
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Barry Pretsell wrote:
Here's the leaflets given to travellers
http://www.maff.gov.uk/animalh/int-trde/misc/foot/flyer.pdf
Strangely enough .. I have friends in North Wales who had reason to have
speach (in welsh, unsurprisingly) with a local farmer the other day.
Seems
Barry Pretsell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here's the leaflets given to travellers
http://www.maff.gov.uk/animalh/int-trde/misc/foot/flyer.pdf
oops :-)
--
Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star
Barry Pretsell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
embargo has been due to foot and mouth, embargo is bi-directional and covers
meat as well.
Any references to this?
--
Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star
I've just put a complete version of Tie::Hash::Rank on my webshite for
your enjoyment. I'd be grateful if some of you could download it and
test it before I submit it to CPAN.
http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/tech/Tie-Hash-Rank-1.0.tar.gz
It has what I hope is a comprehensive test suite
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:11:23AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
I *loathe* Exchange.
But they fixed references in 6.0! No, wait, they just introduced a
load of Thread-* headers :-( Fucking morons.
They just innovated threading!
Tell me you're joking.
Martin
On Tuesday, May 22, 2001, at 09:32 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
I've just put a complete version of Tie::Hash::Rank on my webshite for
'webshite'? shurely shome mishtake?
your enjoyment. I'd be grateful if some of you could download it and
test it before I submit it to CPAN.
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Paul Mison wrote:
On 22/05/2001 at 16:19 +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
the immediate feeling I get is to rent some cellars at the houses of
parliament and invest in a number of big barrels of gunpowder .. oh hang
on that ones been done before and had a distinctly
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote:
hmmm .. I was tempted just to let it pass .. but I can't resist ;)
What you need to remember is this : They will say ANYTHING to get your
vote .. ANYTHING.
Even the truth? I'd very much doubt that.
Alex Gough
--
I don't believe that honesty
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:14:05PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:11:23AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
I *loathe* Exchange.
But they fixed references in 6.0! No, wait, they just introduced a
load of Thread-* headers :-( Fucking morons.
They just innovated
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:17:18PM +0200, Marcel Grunauer wrote:
Looks good. Also works with Attribute::TieClasses (once I had replaced
the '#!/usr/bin/perl -w' with 'use warnings', mysteriously).
Perhaps because I have a 'no warnings' in T::H::R?
--
David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
From: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:06:39PM +0100, Barbie wrote:
From: Robert Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Roger Burton West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
man 1 file
man 5 magic
less /usr/share/misc/magic # on many systems
except
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