Re: The List

2000-12-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:04:19PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote to london.pm: * David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Next he'll be drinking Jack Daniels and smoking Marlboros. actually this is something i was wondering about, now here me out, but unlike or american bretheren bourbon

Re: freebsd admin skills - free space

2000-12-14 Thread David Cantrell
as the rest of the world is concerned. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons.

Re: new years eve

2000-12-29 Thread David Cantrell
Professor Nathan Lewis enunciated: I'd certainly take any excuse to get together since I'm a recent immigrant. --- Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: our new years plan has come unravelled, does anyone still not have any plans and wants to get together? My New Years Eve

Re: new years eve

2000-12-30 Thread David Cantrell
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 should use one of the games published by WEG. I have a

Re: new years eve

2001-01-03 Thread David Cantrell
/2001, my place The 11th is good for me (you sure you don't mean Friday the 12th) however no alchohol allowed if its here ;-) Eek! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons.

Re: Technical Meeting

2001-01-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:21:14PM -, Dean S Wilson wrote: -Original Message- XML::Schema XML::Schema will rule the world XML::Schema gets my vote Mine too. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day

Re: Technical Meeting

2001-01-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:37:43PM +, Natalie Ford wrote: At 12:35 05/01/01, David Cantrell wrote: Mine too. AOL Me too ! ;-) /AOL I should point out that there was no exclamation mark in my reply, and so it doesn't count as an AOL/. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: German Perl Workshop

2001-01-08 Thread David Cantrell
. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: Directory to Data Structure

2001-01-10 Thread David Cantrell
en playing silly buggers. Like, for example, creating directories with names like system("format c: "); chuckle -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: the list is dead, long live the list

2001-01-11 Thread David Cantrell
password and I'll go and set it up... /me has a bone to pick with majordomo. majordomo + virtual domains = a whole world of hurt -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: the list is dead, long live the list

2001-01-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:25:26PM +, Greg Cope wrote: Roger Burton West wrote: Smartlist is good. Mailman is good. ezmlm is better Other than its unfortunate reliance on qmail. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Any technology

Re: the list is dead, long live the list

2001-01-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:39:18PM +, Michael Stevens wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:27:50PM +, David Cantrell wrote: /me has a bone to pick with majordomo. majordomo + virtual domains = a whole world of hurt It's doable, you'll just wish you hadn't. It's all working swimingly

Re: XML::Schema, YAPC::Europe, mod_perl, Camel Visit, !RANT!

2001-01-12 Thread David Cantrell
Also: T-shirts - DAV-R-CAN -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)

2001-01-12 Thread David Cantrell
method used by Helix is very nifty. lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh And that's it. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)

2001-01-13 Thread David Cantrell
in use. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-16 Thread David Cantrell
contingent. Date to be confirmed within the next couple of weeks, but will almost certainly be a week somewhere between 19 Aug and 8 Sept. It would be *really* great - especially for intercontinental visitors - if your con could be immediately before or after the LBW. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-17 Thread David Cantrell
it not be in the UK at all. After all, if my employers are going to pay to send me to a conference, then they may as well pay to send me somewhere nice. Rome. Or Vienna perhaps, cos I've never been there. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology

Re: PIMB T-shirts

2001-01-17 Thread David Cantrell
under any circumstances!" option instead of just "no graphics". junkbuster is your friend. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: Online Time

2001-01-18 Thread David Cantrell
as well. Hey, perhaps my ISDN bills are one of the reasons Oven went tits up! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

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

2001-01-18 Thread David Cantrell
. Anyone else up for it? Yes, but [caveat] [caveat] [caveat] -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

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

2001-01-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:31:02AM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, but [caveat] [caveat] [caveat] you're (we're ;-) (almost) all alcoholics with personality disorders? Actually I was thinking more along the lines of me being too damned lazy

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

2001-01-18 Thread David Cantrell
difference between what the conslutant gets and what the client pays! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

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

2001-01-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:11:23PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: From: "David Cantrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah, it's always amazed me just how crap the north American power system seems to be. Even in cities. This is a different issue, http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/power.

Re: Hardware Upgrade Fund

2001-01-19 Thread David Cantrell
backups. Perhaps that's what we should spend the upgrade money on - a cheap-ass machine with a bg cheap IDE disk to handle backups *only*. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: Oh! Idea for penderel!

2001-01-19 Thread David Cantrell
' which are equivalent to 'not bind'. It's smaller, easier to configure, and more secure. All in all, it's a Jolly Good Thing. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: Consultancy company

2001-01-19 Thread David Cantrell
they live. Trekking out to (for example) Guildford wouldn't be good for me. Yeah. What he said. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Extreme Programming (was: Re: Consultancy company)

2001-01-20 Thread David Cantrell
damned sensible that I want to give it a go. Including pair programming. I'm trying to keep an open mind on that fucking stupid idea. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: TPC5

2001-01-21 Thread David Cantrell
, there's no direct flights from .eu to Monterey :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: Lunch

2001-01-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:18:09AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: Any chance of someone posting a summary of the discussion? pdcawley: talk talk take charge talk bully us into having a clue dcantrell: is there any tea left? food: wriggle, but in a nice-tasting way NB: :-) -- David Cantrell

Re: odd -w effect

2001-01-24 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:18:17PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: Must remember to try IE under WINE. Don't bother. It doesn't work. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is nice. Any idea what body-part it is?

Re: Web site

2001-01-24 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:36:28PM +, Neil Ford wrote: 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? http://dave.told.us.to is correct though :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: Sun's Perl was Re: Application servers and e-commerce platforms

2001-01-26 Thread David Cantrell
enterprise-level support (I just ain't convinced by Dell/Compaq/HP's offerings) and when they need to run Oracle. I'm not ready to recommend Oracle on Linux yet. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently

Re: Mailing List Archive

2001-01-26 Thread David Cantrell
procmail kill them for me. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: Mailing List Archive

2001-01-26 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:37:38PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: I still have the original mail that Dave sent out somewhere ... Show off! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: Sun's Perl was Re: Application servers and e-commerce platforms

2001-01-26 Thread David Cantrell
to make a benchmark, I'll be very interested to run and compare the results. Benchmarks aren't particularly useful. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread David Cantrell
in balham this weekend and spotted one on dave's road ;-) ) You don't want to live there then. Slum landlords and all that. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread David Cantrell
/david/maps/britain.gif So there. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

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

2001-01-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:03:19PM +, Dave Cross wrote: It's starting to sound like I@m the only bugger who _hasn't_ got a copy of my book yet :( I got a copy in the mail yesterday when I got home :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any

Re: London.pm nearly have a new server (fwd)

2001-01-30 Thread David Cantrell
. I appear not to have fscked up djbdns on my box. I did, of course, test it with Someone Elses Domain :-) Haven't figured out how to do zone transfers yet, but I'm sure it can't be difficult. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology

Re: Damian's Latest

2001-01-30 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 05:23:41AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: Damian's latest diary entry talks about the work he's been doing on a module called Regex::Common. I'm still waiting for him to do Parse::Perl. Goddamnit, I *need* that module! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: previous jobs

2001-02-01 Thread David Cantrell
believe how much pleasure can be gained from drop-testing expensive hardware. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important

Re: website directory access

2001-02-01 Thread David Cantrell
. Username 'shiels' with no password? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Perl Books

2001-02-02 Thread David Cantrell
approach programming the same way. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Last Night

2001-02-02 Thread David Cantrell
should be able to have it to ourselves, but sufficiently large that we won't be crowded. They do good beer and I'm fairly certain they do food in the evenings. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently

Re: Bad programming considered harmless

2001-02-02 Thread David Cantrell
se the ignoramus pseudo-programmers for which they are responsible cause me a lot of trouble. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Bad programming considered harmless

2001-02-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:47:39PM +, Struan Donald wrote: you have to teach them some theory of good programming, as at the end of the day it _will_ make their lives easier. More importantly, it'll make *our* lives easier :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re:

2001-02-07 Thread David Cantrell
suggests that grep post a map on his website. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: OT: Buffy (or not OT, depending on your point of view)

2001-02-08 Thread David Cantrell
.. I hear that Virgin, HMV and WH Smith all have online shops :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP

[OT] symlinks to symlinks

2001-02-14 Thread David Cantrell
expect that I'm misunderstanding some of the goodies in Fcntl.pm, and that if I did understand them, then a combination of that, stat and lstat would do the job. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread David Cantrell
hindrance to me trying out scripts I 'find' is usually that I can't be bothered installing the 1/2 dozen or so modules that need to be installed first. Some would consider this to be a good thing :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology

Re: Car giveaway

2001-02-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:35:13PM +, Richard Clamp wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:33:45PM +, Dave Thorn wrote: have you *seen* the car?! :) Shush, I'm trying to get rid of it :) Does it still have a washing machine stuck in the back? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Class::DBI + job posting

2001-02-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:55:50PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: of course, i just thought today was a thursday between the 22nd and the 1st Eh? Is there something special about the first? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology

Re: No http://london.pm/ :-(

2001-02-22 Thread David Cantrell
under. * - which involved the islan's ISP, a couple of other .pm businesses and community groups, and a plan to approach ICANN and have the domain taken away from AFNIC on the grounds that they were not properly administering it. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk

Re: Greetings

2001-02-23 Thread David Cantrell
at http://dave.told.us.to -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Greetings

2001-02-23 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:52:52AM +, Michael Stevens wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:30:13AM +, David Cantrell wrote: All your questions will be answered at http://dave.told.us.to Someone seems to have mis-spelled "TVR" as "beer". Ye gods! The webmaste

Re: Greetings

2001-02-23 Thread David Cantrell
example, my own archiver does not*. In general, you should assume that anything you say on the net will be archived by someone somewhere. If you don't mean it, don't say it. * - don't worry, my archive is password protected -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Re: Meetings

2001-02-26 Thread David Cantrell
, opposite the Ritz and between Berkeley St and Albemarle St. Nearest tubes are Green Park (200 yds) and Picadilly Circus (500yds). The 8, 9, 14, 19, 22, and 38 busses stop at Green Park station. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=528992Y=180517A=YZ=1 -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Do what I mean!

2001-02-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:22:17PM +, Matthew Robinson wrote: use constant time; Obviously, the constant module would have to be overloaded to allow this along with a few tweaks to the core. s/core/universe/ but hey, what's mere reality between friends? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL

Re: lvalue subroutines

2001-02-27 Thread David Cantrell
IANAQM (but it would be helpful in debugging landrovers) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: SRN (was: lvalue subroutines)

2001-02-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 02:50:22PM +, Robin Houston wrote: http://www.qtc.ecs.soton.ac.uk/lecture1/lecture1d.html is interesting. My brain just started leaking out of my ears. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable

Tech reviewing

2001-02-28 Thread David Cantrell
by the German authors, and requires no knowledge of the product itself, but does - obviously - require some familiarity with the subject. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read

Re: Kevin Smith (and another intro)

2001-03-06 Thread David Cantrell
, vague genomes, the best kind... Is that something like Schrodingers Jeans? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important

Re: heretics meeting

2001-03-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:15:20PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: anyone fancy going early to this - i'm pretty exhausted with work and wouldn't mind getting an early pint in I'll probably leave work in an hour or so. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network

2001-03-09 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:30:39AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: Not just _any_ photo, but one of him drinking beer at a london.pm meeting. http://london.pm.org/MeetPics3.html I wonder if O'Reilly approached the copyright holder ... -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Version control

2001-03-12 Thread David Cantrell
have any comments on Perforce or Clearcase? Needless to say, both companies have crap websites with no useful documentation and a tonne of marketing arse. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
was that there was a whacking great recommendation to buy it, blazoned across the top, from the one and only Randal Schwartz. Hm Yeees. I don't think you're meant to mention that in polite society :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
the local network for open relays and then just talk SMTP to them. Someone stupid enough to not be able to install modules is stupid enough to have open relays. (joke) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it bu

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:19:46PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:09:42PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: I've just seen a downside to the "no non-standard modules&

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
Weee! Cascade! On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:38:52PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:19:46PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:09:42PM +

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
directories - but then, there's no ftp file upload, and the ftp root is in a different place from the web root anyway, and HTTP file upload is also not permitted. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:46:45PM +, Jon Eyre wrote: oops... Heh. Just remember, Evil Dave is the paranoid nutcase, Dave Cross is the one with the gold-plated cat. At Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:05:05 +, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evil Dave's server does *not* use

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
, it's not hard FFS. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
than ssh tunnels which tend to drop if not used. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:50:14PM +, Struan Donald wrote: * at 14/03 15:22 + Michael Stevens said: On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:10:02PM +, David Cantrell wrote: WebDAV is not OK, cos it means installing yet more stuff on the server which is simply not needed. If a user can't

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

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:19:54PM +, Michael Stevens wrote: Content-type: matter-transport/beer-stream Isn't that what happens in the bogs of Penderels Oak? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
on the topic at hand ... now where is 'merlin' when you need him :) If crack works in reasonable time, then you should fire the sysadmin. It is essential nowadays to use something like MD5 shadow passwords and not just plain ol' crypt. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread David Cantrell
but never seem to find the time. It is indeed lovely. Although you don't need to do tunnelling magic: rsync -options -e ssh source-list me@myserver:/destination -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one

Re: Version control

2001-03-15 Thread David Cantrell
is that I hear that Rational are concentrating development on NT as well, which is obviously a Bad Thing. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your

Re: [Need] A Perl HTML to Text converter

2001-03-16 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:07:39AM -0500, Andy Williams wrote: Does anyone know of a HTML to Text converter written in Perl? It'll need to be able to format tables!! I normally use lynx to do it but it doesn't handle tables very well :( w3m? links? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL

Re: Dedrat 7.0 and PGP

2001-03-17 Thread David Cantrell
it builds fine on 6.2. I'm using 7.0, and hating it. I should never have upgraded. I found some gpg binaries on fr.rpmfind.net which work just fine for everything I've had to do so far. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature

Re: Dedrat 7.0 and PGP

2001-03-17 Thread David Cantrell
mean. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: [ot] NetBSD

2001-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
Summary: pwd_mkdb didn't work, so I tried re-installing (it was a fresh install I'd broken anyway). I then proceded to get very annoyed with the NetBSD installer, because it doesn't let you go back and correct your stupid mistakes. And then installed Debian. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL

Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
, which actually sorts best of all... Do we really not learn from Y2K? And it's even an ISO standard! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your

Re: Matt's Scripts Projects

2001-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
use. /rant -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature

Re: Matt's Scripts Projects

2001-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:48:25PM +, Michael Stevens wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:38:09PM +, David Cantrell wrote: Then they deserve to be hurt. Really. We can't possibly support dribbling idiots, and frankly, I have no wish to do so. If someone is scared by a .tar.gz

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-21 Thread David Cantrell
money to fund the standards work but it seems a tad steep for the casual viewer such as myself. Anyone know of a free online resource ? Not for standards in general, but that particular one is at http://www.iso.ch/markete/8601.pdf -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Debian question ...

2001-03-22 Thread David Cantrell
is there an easy way of getting a list of all the packages which are currently installed? I dislike dselect intensely, and the docs for dpkg et al don't say anything useful. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said

Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-22 Thread David Cantrell
date entry field or date display has text nearby telling you the format. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons.

Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-22 Thread David Cantrell
bitchy] Naah. You're doing him a favour. You're trying to help him. cough -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons.

Re: April Meetings

2001-03-26 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:25:39AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Thanks for the offer Simon, but I've already postponed this meeting once and am loathe to do it again. Shame :-( I was hoping to be able to make it to my first non-Damian tech meet, but my sister's visiting that evening. -- David

Re: upgrade fund

2001-03-26 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:02:59PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David Cantrell: Anyone know of any good sources of cheap, BIG hard disks atm? Like in the 70 to 100Gb range, IDE? Speed not an issue, reliability is as these are for my server. I need^Wwant six

Re: white wine

2001-03-26 Thread David Cantrell
Sicily's offshore islands in a boat. I bought a mixed case before we headed south from Naples, brought a few bottles back with me but have finished them all now. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one

Re: upgrade fund

2001-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
or created myself. Pity, I know of some very nice rack mount RAID solutions with fibrechannel architecture and up to a terrabyte in 3U ... sure you can;t be tempted ? ;) I can be *tempted* but I doubt the bank account would stand it. sigh if only it was someone elses money ... -- David

Re: mmm ... toys ..

2001-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
to disk partition (can't remember what id it is, sorry :-( ) a0 IIRC, although some machines put it at the beginning of the disk, some at the end. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine

Re: white wine

2001-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
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

Re: Benchmarking [was] Re: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
ly a lot slower ? No, you got it right. You would expect the sub version to be slower, as it has to make a subroutine call and do some calculations every time, whereas the array version pre-calculates everything and then just does a tonne of comparitively inexpensive array lookups. -- David Cantr

four-argument select()s

2001-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
} } sub fhbits { # calculate bitmask of all my @fhlist=@_; # IO::Handles passed as my $bits=0; # arguments for (@fhlist) { vec($bits, fileno($_), 1)=1; } $bits; } -- David Cantrell | [EMA

Fwd: Sheffield LUG: Linux 2.4 kernel meeting

2001-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
Just in case any of our northerly lurkers are interested ... -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important

Re: white wine

2001-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
no, the few bottles I did bring back with me were just as good as I remember. Particularly on a wet blustery Thursday night in Cornwall just before christmas, IIRC. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one

Re: mmm ... toys ..

2001-03-28 Thread David Cantrell
new one. I don't have enough NICs to do it properly, and using a PCMCIA SCSI card and a CD burner seems like overkill :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first

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