TCP5 CFP

Save money at TPC5. Present a paper and get in free :) Dave... -- http://www.dave.org.uk | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data Munging with Perl

Re: TCP5 CFP

On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:54:22PM +, Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, you wrote: > > Save money at TPC5. Present a paper and get in free :) > > > > > > > > .. mmm ... nice ferret. It's a walking dead sea otter. Obvi

RE: Re: freebsd admin skills - free space

From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12/14/00 4:20:55 PM >On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:13:44AM +, Rob Partington wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > America lost. >> >> s/America/We all/ > > Nope. Whilst it may make a minor d

RE: Re: [phillip@goats.com: Re: Meeting reminder]

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12/15/00 2:58:04 PM > nope i really do have a big list He does too. After a few drinks, it can be as large as 25 degrees. Dave... -- "The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one", he said. But still th

Date/Time (was: Re: me-commerce)

From: "John Gold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 1/23/01 1:10:57 PM John, Any chance you could put you server's clock right or stop posting from the TARDIS or something. You're playing havoc with the sorting in my in-box. Cheers, Dave... -- "The

FW: Perl Developer position.

This is from an agent who contacted me this morning. I'd have investigated further myself, but I accepted an offer half an hour before I heard of it. Dave... From: Adam Bassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12/18/00 12:18:54 PM > Hi Dave, > > here is the initial requirements needed for the Perl

RE: Re: Donation..

From: Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12/18/00 9:40:40 AM >"Leo Lapworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Ok, ok, *stop twisting my arm Greg!* yes we did >> get Aaron from the perl list. >> >> So I've wangled the authorisation for $500 as >> a donation to YAS. >> >> Leon asked me to

RE: Re: Donation..

From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12/18/00 11:34:11 AM >Piers Cawley sent the following bits through the ether: > >> > Just as a reminder, still looking for Senior Perl Guys >> > to join Leon and the rest of our team, and I get to >> > donate $1000 if they come from the list *nudge*

RE: Re: Donation..

From: Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12/18/00 4:34:59 PM >Dave Cross wrote: >> But it may be worth pointing out that Sportal are still >> looking for Perl developers. CVs to me. > > In Germany, too? I know I've seen adverts for Sportal in > Ger

RE: Re: Donation..

From: Robin Szemeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12/20/00 1:35:41 PM > I just think its a bit odd that out of XXX million people > .. purely by chance, the current president is the brother > of the one before last ... Brother? Now that _would_ be weird - a family that named all its sons "George"

RE: Re: Donation..

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12/20/00 3:44:05 PM >* Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > I just think its a bit odd that out of XXX million >> > people .. purely by chance, the current president is >> > the brother of the one before last ... >> >> s/brother/son/; # s

RE: Re: Donation..

From: "David H. Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12/20/00 4:28:42 PM >On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:01:21PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: >> >> didn't you just have a panto in the states, i seem to >> remember that gore played tweedle-dee and bush played >> tweedle-_dumb_ > > I thought panto was

Re: Donation..

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12/20/00 5:09:41 PM >* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> From: "David H. Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 12/20/00 4:28:42 PM >> >> >On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:01:21PM +,

Re: Donation..

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:22:07PM +, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Your memory is flawed. Pantos aren't even slightly entertaining. > > > > not even the comic genius jim davidson's adult

Re: Donation [off topic]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 06:13:32PM -, Dean S Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 20 December 2000 17:23 > Subject: Re: Donation.. > > > >> Your memory is flawed. Pantos aren't even slightly entertaining. > > > >no

Re: Jim Davison (was Re: Donation..)

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:06:50PM -0700, Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dave Cross writes: > > > not even the comic genius jim davidson's adult one? > > > > "Peter Cook is a sadly missed comic genius, unlike Jim Davidson, who is > > a t

Re: Jim Davidson (was Re: Donation..)

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:17:59PM -0700, Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dave Cross writes: > > "Okay, sheriff, we're gonna fuck you now. But we're gonna fuck you > > reealll slloowww." > > Whoa. You're saying that this was ori

Re: Jim Davidson (was Re: Donation..)

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:28:16PM -0700, Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dave Cross writes: > > That's a direct quote from the Carlin routine. Are you sure that it > > wasn't a Carlin tape you were listening to? > > Even at that early an age I co

Re: Donation [off topic]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:07:03AM +, Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, you wrote: > > > I thought he was supposed to b*gger off (along with Paul > > Daniels and Andrew Lloyd Webber) when Labour won the last election ;) > > hah .. chance would be a fine thing!

Re: Donation [off topic]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:33:33AM -, Dean S Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -Original Message- > From: James Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Aha, a Jim Davidson connoisseur! > > Complement or insult? Taking the lists view i'll go with insult ;) I expect you'd be right there.

Re: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623

On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 02:40:37AM +, Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Makefiles are no where near the norm on the Windows boxes where the > > bulk of ActiveState's users currently reside, learning how makefiles > > work (And I have to admit my experience in writing makefiles is very

Re: German Perl Workshop

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 02:50:45PM +, DJ Adams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > http://www.perlworkshop.de/2001 > > So, apart from Leon (and Piers H and me as mere mortals) anyone going then? > > Timetable: http://www.perlworkshop.de/2001/times.epl What with (probably) two YAPCs next year and

Re: German Perl Workshop

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 07:07:44PM +, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > What with (probably) two YAPCs next year and (possibly) two TPCs I'm > > having to pick and choose which conferences to go to. One of t

RE: Re: OT for London.pm : Forwarded : The Perfect Storm - The Condensed Script

From: Tony Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12/26/00 1:05:40 PM > Worst Film of the Year (original story) award goes to > Topsy-Turvy. Finally got round to seeing this on video a couple of weeks ago and was hugely disappointed. My least favourite Mike Leigh film by a long way. In fact probably

Clue Distribution

I seem to have found myself on a CGI discussion mailing list populated by people with no clue and I wondered is anyone out there fancied joining me in a little clue distribution. For example I'm currently involved in a discussion on why using CGI.pm (or something similar) is better than rewritin

Re: Clue Distribution

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12/28/00 4:03:31 PM >* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> I seem to have found myself on a CGI discussion mailing >> list >> populated by people with no clue and I wondered is anyone >> out th

Re: Perl CD BookShelf 2nd Edition

On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:16:22PM -, Dean S Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Natalie Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 28 December 2000 18:54 > Subject: Re: Perl CD BookS

Perl Geek Code

Interesting post on PerlMonks today: You might, in particular take a look at C definition :) Dave... -- http://www.dave.org.uk | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data Munging with Perl

Perl::Flash

It seems that Simon's Perl::Flash is currently the lead story on /. I hope the server can handle it :( Dave.. -- http://www.dave.org.uk | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data Munging with Perl

Re: Perl Geek Code

On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 12:27:08PM +, Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:31:21PM +, Dave Cross wrote: > > > &

Re: new years eve

At 23:03 30/12/2000, David Cantrell wrote: >Greg wrote: > > > i vote that DAV-R-CAN organises it, > >Eek! I know we had a volunteer to GM this, but I disremember who. Was it >GRE-G-MCC or DAV-U-CRO? In any case, a coupla days isn't enough time to >prepare a game properly, so perhaps the GM shou

Re: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623

On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 05:40:36PM +, Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [from my so-called signature] > > The information contained in this communication is > > > > Is there anything you can do about that? Eeeeugh! Working on it. I wasn't going to post at all, having realised earl

Re: Perl Geek Code

On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:45:56PM +, David Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 06:28:29PM +, David Hodgkinson wrote: > > > Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I like the idea that we're an actu

TPJ to Close?

>From Jon Orwant, via a circuitous route... Dave... -- http://www.dave.org.uk | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data Munging with Perl

Fwd: [orwant@oreilly.com: The state of TPJ]

More on the TPJ saga. Dave... - Forwarded message from Jon Orwant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:18:48 -0500 To: Jon Orwant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> January 2, 2001 Some folks have been asking me about the status of The Perl Journal #20, and prospective authors have been as

JOB: At A Very Well-Known Company

I posted something like this a couple of weeks ago, but Adam tells me that they're looking for another person with a similar skillset. If you're interested, contact Adam, not me. Cheers, Dave... - Forwarded message from Adam Bassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Adam Bassett <[EMAIL PROT

JOB: City-based

Another one that an Agent sent me today. I wouldn't normally spam so much, but I know there are people out there looking for work right now. Dave... - Forwarded message from Fiona Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Fiona Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Dav

Technical Meeting

It was pointed out this evening that I hadn't send out a reminder for the technical meeting which is in two weeks time (Jan 18th). We'll be holding it at State 51 and I'm hoping that Alex or Jo will post detailed directions. As always I'm looking for volunteers to speak at the meeting. If you've

Damian's Visit

As you'll have seen from his web site , Damian will be in London on 25th and 26th Feb. I've exchanged emails with him and here are a few more details. He flies in at 11:30am on Sunday 25th and is teaching all day Monday and most of Tuesday, before flying out aga

Re: Damian's Visit

On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:26:45AM -0500, David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:14:17AM +0000, Dave Cross wrote: > > As you'll have seen from his web site > > <http://www.yetanother.org/damian/>, Damian will be in London on > > 2

More Visitors

We're so popular! At the official February monthly meeting (i.e. not the McCarroll heretics meeting) we'll be graced with the presence of Mark-Jason Dominus. Dave... -- http://www.dave.org.uk | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data Munging with Perl

Re: Book is out!

On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:15:43AM -0700, Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dean S Wilson writes: > > While looking for a release date on the manning site I found this: > > http://www.manning.com/cross/ebook.html > > Cool! Congratulations, Dave! Thanks, Nat. > I wonder what the $

Re: one liner

On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:02:14PM +, jo walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > of course you need a name, I personally like Rope - its > > a play on Zope and it conveys the idea that the rope is strong > > because it has many strands within it > > how about 'Pope' because it is infallible

Re: Book is out!

On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:27:46PM +, David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:16:27PM +0000, Dave Cross wrote: > > > ... they've opened the Author Online forum for you all to > > embarass me with difficult questions. > > "

Re: one liner

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:22:31PM +, Tony Bowden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:14:59AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: > > We also have another Perl/Tk book coming out. It's more advanced than > > "Learning ..." and, we hope, learns from the criticism levelled at >

joke or bug?

I just sent Randal an email and got an automated response from his "answering machine". All very clever stuff, but the subject of the email is given below: "answering machine message, most recently updated 100/11/14" What do you think? Joke or bug? Dave... -- http://www.dave.org.uk | [EMAIL

Re: joke or bug?

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:02:01PM -0500, David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:12:06PM +0000, Dave Cross wrote: > > I just sent Randal an email and got an automated response from his > > "answering machine". > > > > All very

Fwd: [lenzo@cs.cmu.edu: [yas] First CFP: YAPC 2001 in Montreal (en/fr)]

- Forwarded message from kevin lenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: kevin lenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # CFP in English, followed by French (see below) # Third North American YAPC: First Call for Participation Yet Another Society

Technical Meeting Agenda

(Aren't we getting organised!) Date: Thu 18th Jan Time: 7:30 until we run out of stuff or get thirsty Venue: State 51 (full details - and a map? - to follow) We'll start with four or five lightning talks. Currently I've only got Robin talking about Oulipo, but I'm sure we can come up with a coup

Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)

At Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:50:57 +0100, Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Trevena wrote: > > does lingua::nadsat exist yet? or anything along those lines? > > Er, what's nadsat? The language spoken by the droogs in 'A Clockwork Orange'. Dave... [who got the video for xmas and hasn't

Re: PIMB T-shirts

At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:17:29 + (GMT), Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quite frankly I'd rather not piss of O'Reilly. IMHO they're a nice > company that do nice things and the legality of the issue really has > nothing to do with it. I think this is a _very_ good point. On a tangen

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:58:25 +, Tony Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:54:50PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: > > 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 > > Depends

Re: PIMB T-shirts

At 17 Jan 2001 10:09:29 +, Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Puff the Magic Dragon] > Snopes has this to say: > > http://www.snopes2.com/music/songs/puff.htm Which I'd be happy to read in detail if it wasn't for the fscking midi of the tune blasting out and letting everyone in th

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:00:57 +, James Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Vienna] > This means nothing to me, ohhh... True pop fact: Vienna never made it to number one in the UK. It was help at number two for weeks, by Another Record. Pop quiz: A pint on Thursday night to the firs

RE: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:09:46 -, Mark Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> This means nothing to me, ohhh... > >> > >>True pop fact: Vienna never made it to number one in the UK. > >>It was help at number two for weeks, by Another Record. > >> > >>Pop quiz: A pint on Thursday ni

RE: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:18:12 -, Mark Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Joe Dolce] > Do any others watch those Top Ten programs on Ch4? I think I > knew this due to watching the Top Ten Comedy records! Wow, I really > must get out more. And there's me thinking that you must be an old g

RE: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:15:01 + (GMT), Kieran Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought Joe Dolce was only number 1 for a week or so, to be knocked > off the top by Jealous Guy from Roxy Music. And poor old Vienna hung > about at number 2 for yonks. Hmm... you may be right. Anyone know a

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

At 17 Jan 2001 15:54:31 +, Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Anyone know a site that lists UK top tens for the 1980s? > > I don't but there is a excellent book called something like the > "Guiness

Network Programming with Perl

I picked up a copy of Lincoln Stein's new book "Network Programming with Perl" last night. I've only had time to flick thru a few chapters but it looks very interesting. I'll bring it along tonight if anyone wants to hav a look. Dave...

Re: apologies

At Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:54:40 +, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apologies one and all, > > i am not going to be able to make it tonight, today is my first day > back at work after some flu like illness. i had hoped to make it > tonight but currently feel like matt wrights code

TPJ

According to a mail I got on the SPUG mailimng list last night, TPJ #20 _has_ been printed and is in the post now. Which is good news. Dave...

Re: [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

At 18 Jan 2001 10:09:04 +, Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And on the same lines...what with all these perlmongers on the market > right now, just bloody band together and start a consultancy. Sounds good to me. Anyone else up for it? Dave...

Re: [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

At 18 Jan 2001 10:31:02 +, Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes, but [caveat] [caveat] [caveat] > > you're (we're ;-) (almost) all alcoholics with personality disorders? Depending on who we're targetting as clients, image _may_ b

Re: [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

At Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:16:59 +, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:56:43PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > > > there is a big question here, do people want to create a small > > > business with a few perl

Re: apologies

At Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:03:39 +, "Andy Wardley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 18, 4:57am, Dave Cross wrote: > > > OK. So we're now a speaker down. Anyone want to save the day by > > stepping in to give a 20 min talk - or do I have to talk about

Hardware Upgrade Fund

A quick reminder of something I mentioned last night. The hardware spec for penderel (our server) is starting to show its age (I don't know exactly what the specs are, but the box is at least 18 months old). There are also a number of people who have expressed an interest in joining the exclus

Re: Hardware Upgrade Fund

At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:10:26 + (GMT), alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > Anyone fancy it? > > I forgot to mention, I offered to do this before, and that offer still > stands. Alex, Thanks for the offer. I'm more th

Re: Hardware Upgrade Fund

At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:12:58 +, Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Cross wrote: > > > I'm therefore looking for a volunteer to organise this. The > > organiser would, of course, be given a free login on the server. > > > > Anyone fancy

Re: Hardware Upgrade Fund

At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:41:38 + (GMT), alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > How soon do you think you can have a list of the kinds of hardware > > that you want to buy? That would give us an estimate of how many new >

Re: Hardware Upgrade Fund

At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:34:11 +, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [upgrading penderel] > What's the current specs of the machine? (Just out of interest) I'm not sure. I don't think I've ever known this. I'm hoping that someone woh a) bought it or b) is sitting next to it will be able to leap

Re: Oh! Idea for penderel!

At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:52:54 -, "Jonathan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could we create domains for every user and then put the zone files in > each person's home dir, with a SUID script to kick named? > > Then I could have *.jon.penderel.state51.co.uk and be able to quickly >

Re: Penderel query

At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:09:21 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been lurking on the list for a while and am hoping to make the > meeting on the 1st. > > Please excuse my ignorance with this question, but could someone > outline what services penderel provides to account holde

Re: Penderel query

At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:15:29 -0500 (EST), I wrote: > Basically, you get an account on a server which is permanently > connected to the web. Net! I meant net, goddamit. I'm very tired and have been absorbing too much media that doesn't know the difference. I'm sorry. I'll go and have a lie dow

Holy War

When I got home last night there were two big boxes from Dell waiting in the middle of the lounge. This is my new 1400 Mhz Pentium IV, 256 Mb Turbo Bastard Nutter machine. One of the (many) advantages of having a new box is that I'll be able to do a completely fresh Linux install for the first t

Re: Holy War

At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:33:57 +, Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On or about Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:29:18AM -0500, Dave Cross typed: > > >So I'm looking for advice on the best distro to use. > > What are you planning to do on the box? It&

Re: Consultancy company was [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:34:31 +, Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Hodgkinson sent the following bits through the ether: > > > Sounds like a table at the New World one lunchtime... > > OK. We might as well do this quickly, how about Monday 12.30 at the > New World restaurant in C

Re: AUTOLOAD speed

At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:02:23 +, Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was just typing this ... > > # Unsigned int 8bit > sub ui8() { my $self; = shift; $self->UI8()} > > # Unsigned int 16bit > sub ui16() { my $self; = shift; $self->UI16() } > sub Word() { my $self;

Re: Holy War

At Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:33:40 -, "Robert Shiels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > What are you planning to do on the box? > > > > It'll be purely for home use, so: > > > > * Hacking perl > > * Prototyping web sites > > * Playing with new toys like AxKit and Camelot > > * Write > > * Surf

Re: Holy War

On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 05:13:30PM +, Redvers Davies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Seriously, my current machine is a PentiumPro 200 Mhz and that's > > getting so frustrating that I knew I needed a new machine and I > > always buy the fastest I can so it will last as long as possible. > >

Damian/TPC Papers

I see that in Damian's latest diary entry (you _are_ reading Damian's diary I assume) he talks about the ridiculous number[1] of papers, talks and tutorials that he's proposing to give at TPC5. The piece also seems to act as an advert to encourage other people to submit proposals to the conferenc

Re: Consultancy company

At Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:42:46 +, Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Mee sent the following bits through the ether: > > > One of the best solutions I've come accross to this problem is to > > take an > > iterative approach to development. > > Inded. Look at XP. The whole idea is t

Re: Lunch

At 22 Jan 2001 12:18:05 +, Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lunch was fabulous if only to hear Cantrell say: "this is nice, what > the hell is it?" (or something). Any chance of someone posting a summary of the discussion? Dave...

Re: Lunch

At 22 Jan 2001 12:18:05 +, Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lunch was fabulous if only to hear Cantrell say: "this is nice, what > the hell is it?" (or something). Any chance of someone posting a summary of the discussion? Dave...

Re: odd -w effect

At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:08:50 +, Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:04:33PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: > > On or about Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:08:37PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > > >Got it -- something else to stick in the commit checks... grrr...

Re: odd -w effect

At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:18:16 +, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:08:50 +, Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:04:33PM +, Roger Burton W

Re: odd -w effect

At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:18:17 +, Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just find Windows too bloody frustrating whenever I want to do > anything other than edit "documents". I wrote my book under Windows - I figured that Word would be the easiest way to produce it. This was a mi

RE: odd -w effect

At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:23:57 -, "Bates, Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I wrote my book under Windows - I figured that Word would be the easiest > way to produce it.<< > > so in retrospect what would be the best format to produce a book in? Oh, I'd probably do something based using th

Re: Web site

At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:36:28 +, Neil Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave > > I know you've probably got load on at the mo, but the website still > lists the February meeting as being at the PO. An update perhaps? Which page did you have in mind? It all looks up to date to me. Dave..

Re: Web site

At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:20:36 +, Neil Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:36:28 +, Neil Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dave > >> > >> I know you've probably got load on at the mo, but the website > >> still lists the February meeting as being at the PO. An up

Re: Web site

At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:41:01 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:36:28 +, Neil Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dave > >> > >> I know you've probably got load on at the mo, but the website > >> still lists the February meeting as being at the PO. An update > >>

Reminder

Today is the last day to submit paper proposals to TPC5. Tutorials and presentations have another week. Dave...

Technical Meeting Venues

I'm still looking for suggestions for venues for the next two technical meetings (Feb 22 & 26). How do people feel about going back to State51? Does someone want to contact the ICA? Any other suggestions? Dave...

Re: Dumb-assed question

At Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:37:07 +, Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dreamweaver is by far the best GUI html development tool I'm aware of. Maybe, but calling something the 'best' in that product category is probably damning with faint praise. Dave...

Re: Dream weaver

At Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:37:24 +, Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would actually be interested to hear from someone on the > Dreamweaver side of this argument... > > Anyone? Wouldn't it go along the lines of: "ooh! pretty!" Dave...

RE: Dream weaver

At Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:43:47 -, Mark Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I would actually be interested to hear from someone on the > >>Dreamweaver side of this argument... > >> > >>Anyone? > >> > >>Michael > > I'

Mailing List Archive

>From the discussion on IRC, it seems that Leon's summary mail has opened a bit of a can of worms. There are a number of people who don't like the idea of a publically advertised archive of this mailing list. It seems that mail-archive.com have been archiving our list for some time and anyone who

Fwd: [uri@sysarch.com: free copy of data munging with perl]

TECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: free copy of data munging with perl this is forwarded from manning and they are offering each pm group a free copy of data munging with perl by dave cross. uri New Book Announcement: Data Munging with Perl by David Cross January 18, 2001 This message i

RE: Mailing List Archive

At Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:23:17 -, Mike Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why don't we make our own archive and ask mail-archive.com to stop > doing their thing? Then we have control of what is published and > everyone's happy... I don't think that mail-archive would be amenable to removing

Re: Mailing List Archive

At Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:59:34 -, "Robert Shiels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never say anything I wouldn't stand by on any list, but as the > search engines get better, more people than I'd like will have access > to what I say. How many of you who have discussed drug use would like > th

Re: List Archive ( was SUBSCRIBE london-list archive@jab.org (fwd))

At Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:01:21 + (GMT), Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those that might be interested this was when mail-archive started > archiving london-list. > > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 07:11:22 -0400 (EDT) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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