From: "Dean S Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Don't know how many of you have seen this:
> http://www.oreilly.com/survey/perlcd.html
>
> Vote to decide if they should put Mastering Regular Expressions or the
> cookbook on the new CD.
Hmmm. For my money the Cook Book has more everyday use(s) than MR
From: "Nathan Torkington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> We're planning a London Open Source Convention. The dates we're
> looking hard at now are August 20-23. Are there any obvious clashes
> that you can think of?
You mean apart from the traditional British summer hols[1]? August is, in
some quarters
From: "Nathan Torkington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Bugger, we were afraid of that. It's more than just Perl, it's for
> a lot of Open Source (Python, Linux, MySQL, PHP, etc.) What we really
> need to know is: will our attendance from Europe suffer because it's
> in August?
I imagine it will to som
> From: Greg McCarroll [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> write a suggestions document of where the project management and
> management functions are going wrong
>
> if they ignore it leave
Do you know anywhere this has happened Greg? ;-)
From: "Nathan Torkington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> (update on the OScon in Europe thing--London in August seems to be
> a bad idea, so we're looking elsewhere and elsewhen ...)
London in September would be really good - the weather is generally very
pleasant (not too hot, not too cold, not too wet)
From: "Paul Makepeace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Where you'll be consulting for a munitions firm? :-)
Nah, I don't know enough about encryption ;-)
But then again, ignorance doesn't seem to be an obstacle to most lobbyists
or salesmen! Reminds me of ye olde joke:
Q. What's the difference between a
From: "Nathan Torkington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Timing in London is hard, because there aren't very many hotels
> capable of supporting such an event. It's quite amazing to us, in
> fact, how difficult it has been to find a place to hold it in London.
What sort of numbers are we talking about th
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:38:31PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > la la la la *has hands over ears* i cant here you, la la la la
>
I like the sentiment, but must record the problems it caused when I tried
that response to Mrs. B's arguments - it didn't help matters, oh no, not at
all, even th
From: Greg Cope [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Does MT have a special T shirt vendor ?
>
> Yesterdays was a monopoply joke that I did not get
I tuned in halfway through an item about ECGD (the UK Govt's export credit
guarantee department), which was something to do with two hotels they helped
fu
> From: Greg McCarroll [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Ron and I were quite drunk one evening a few christmases ago and
> we were getting the train home to Croydon. The train came to the
> stop and we hadn't paid attention to where we were. The train
> had stopped at another station it didnt normally s
> From: Michael Stevens [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Last night I cunningly managed to get off the tube at stratford, get
> halfway out of the station, and then realise I don't actually
> live in Stratford.
The boyfriend of a colleague of mine who lived in Essex often went out
drinking after work,
> From: Michael Stevens [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Tools -> Options -> Preferences -> E-mail Options
...
> (This is Microsoft Outlook 2000 SR-1 Corporate or Workgroup)
Outlook 98 and Outlook Express also have this feature. Outlook 97 (my
current employer's choice) doesn't (so the above quoting is
> From: Robin Szemeti [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Has anyone yet called French a glue language for English?
>
> ahh ... but what it boils down to is you are indulging in a little
> horse play at the expense of our Gallic freinds. it is amusing to
> make thes little remarks on the hoof is it not?
> From: Mike Jarvis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Just be glad they didn't start playing "Slap the Yank".
You mean like the Polizei that you mentioned during our happy sojourn in The
Bunker at ebookers? Those were the days :-) (The Bunker, not the Polizei!).
Andrew.
> From: Greg McCarroll [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> i should be there from 4:30~5 ish, enjoying a relaxing
> pint and explaining why i have a limp
A limp what?
Your message seems to have been truncated Greg ;-)
Andrew.
> From: Michael Stevens [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> MMDDYY is about as backwards and illogical as you can possibly get[0].
>
> Our cousins across the ocean appear to like it for some reason. I suspect
> this was the motivation for the module.
Along with a few other quirks, such as:
- copper plat
[Continuing off-topic - not a surprise on London.pm, I'm sure (I thought Mr.
Cantrell's [ot] the other day denoted 'on-topic' :--)]
> From: Marty Pauley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> In some countries the 'family name' is actually defined by your
> job, location, or other mutable property. It used
From: "James Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ps - For an extra point, what show had an impression of Trevor McDonald
> called "Trevor McDoughnut"?
Trevor McDoughnut is/was a Lenny Henry character - so it was probably Three
of a Kind (remember that?), or another programme with Lenny H. in it.
For a
Just now there are two interesting discussions going on, one about Perl
certification, the other about databases, under the subject 'Re: Job: I'm
looking for one..", both of which forked off from the original discussion a
long while back.
Can one or preferably both sets of participants please cha
> From: Greg McCarroll [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Did you all know that i used to blow up pressurised butane
> cannisters as a child?
I guess that goes with the accent Greg ;-)
If you hadn't discovered Perl goodness knows what you'd be doing now...
Andrew.
P.S. Did you do the old WD40 flamethr
> From: David Cantrell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Why the hell not. The farm which I believe Greg has in mind
> (www.middlefarm.com) also sells mead. Yum!
And do they supply Butane canisters and matches too? ;-)
Andrew.
> From: Simon Wistow [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>> How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject
>>> to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into
> ^^^
>> Hmmm. Do the words "foot" and "mouth" mean nothing to you?
> /me suspects Da
> From: dcross - David Cross [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> If you know the difference between it's and its, you're and your,
>> and don't write 'alot', you're probably in the top 1%-ile :)
True. Shouldn't we also need to include "should'nt" (etc.) here as well? .
These are trivially simple rules to
> From: Dave Hodgkinson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
And of course, the best English speakers are probably the Scots and
> the Welsh. Discuss!
>
I'm not so sure about the Welsh you know ;-)
Re. the Scots, me apart, it depends on which part of Scotland. Some of the
clearest and most pleasant English
> From: Neil Ford [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> The perl script to do stuff with wireless scanning and GPS
> had me salivating :-) Time to buy an eTrek I think.
Where was GPS mentioned? I had a good hunt round (by myself and with the
assistance of the Altavista host: search parameter) but couldn't f
I'm trying to install the Tk module on a Win32 system (I realise this is
where my mistake lies, however, leaving that aside...). The docs say to:
perl Makefile.PL
nmake
nmake test
nmake install_perl
Which seems to presume the presence of nmake as part of either an MS C or
Borland C compiler set
> From: Dean [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> If you don't really need to compile it yourself how's about:
> ppm install Tk?
Good idea - I can see PPM being useful if I have to persist with Win32
stuff!
Thanks for the pointer James & Dean.
Andrew.
> From: Robert Shiels [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Also, if you have any firewall problems, or a fast link at work and a
> slow dialup at home
Thanks again - I got it installed okay (no firewall probs). The laughable
thing is that I have a fast link at home[1] and a slow ISDN at work (soon to
be up
> From: Barbie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Installing CPAN modules requires that you have Microsoft DevStudio or
> nmake.exe installed. If you are installing modules that contain xs files,
> then you need DevStudio, otherwise you only need nmake.exe.
>
> You can download nmake from
>
http://do
From: "Paul Makepeace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > point of order - they are filters, not bots
>
> Isn't that two points? And is a line the shortest distance between them?
Point of yet further pedantry: I think you mean a directed line segment that
intersects two points...
Andrew.
> From: Philip Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Chris Heathcote wrote:
> > Mega-Shiels 2001 Ltd.
>
> Shiels-Up! PLC
In a similar vein, how about 'Green Shiels Temps'?
It has a certain ring about it to those of us old enough to remember reams
of the things being dished out in Woolies and the
> From: Dominic Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Um. I no longer want children.
>
> You *wanted* them? :-)
I think you need to make a distinction between which children. My own are
little darlings, not without their faults, but darlings nonetheless. I hope
I still feel the same about the
Excuse me for my ignorance of this matter, however I can't figure out what
'CHOPS' means in this context (and am sure I'm not alone among London PMers,
at least not on this question).
According to acronymfinder.com it's "Controlled Humidity Operational
Preservation System", but I doubt this is wh
From: Cross David - dcross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> It's what Chris uses to sign off his more erudite postings at
> the Cookwood
> board - either that or the even more scarey 'PISHA'!
That much I'd figured out - perhaps I'm being too deep and meaningful in
assuming that 'CHOPS' has some grea
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