[CV][JOB WANTED]

2001-03-02 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
Apologies to those who have already read this via [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other means. I'm looking for another job. As soon as possible being preferable. My current CV is at http://colondot.net/mbm/cv.shtml I can do Perl (lots of it) and mod_perl. I also have a little experience with XS and a

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-09 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
uch a piece of code by the now infamous Matt Wright ever again...) -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) VMS, n.: The world's foremost multi-user adventure game.

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
/lib/sendmail interface works properly. [1] qm**l MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) Tell me, O Octopus, I begs, / Is those things arms, or is they legs? / I

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:09:42PM +0000, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > I've just seen a downside to the "no non-standard modules" rule, which is > > > tha

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
#x27;s the way to abuse them. :) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) Tell me, O Octopus, I begs, / Is those things arms, or is they legs? / I marvel at thee, Octopus; / If I were thou, I'd call me us. -- Ogden Nash

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:19:46PM +0000, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:09:42PM +0000, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > > > On Tue,

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:20:48PM +0000, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Michael Stevens wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:47:48PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > > > > Write some stuff which w

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Robin Houston wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:09:42PM +0000, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > /usr/lib/sendmail -t -oem > Use -oi as well. > You don't want "\n.\n" to terminate the message prematurely. Yes, indeed. Self-LART applied. MBM -

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Philip Newton wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > Why is this a problem? /usr/lib/sendmail is the published > > interface. > (As others have already written, no /usr/lib/sendmail [or /usr/lib, for that > matter] on Win2K or NT web servers.) S

Re: Strange Request

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:38:52PM +0000, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > > > I neither know nor care. I was taking issue with your claim that relying > > > on /usr/lib/sendma

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
ol, so if the people who are doing the uploading screw up, you have some chance of rolling back. DAV over HTTPS is not that bad, though... MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 61

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
t to run an ISP and have to deal with all the clueless people? Well, quite. Of course, if their computer hasn't got a queueing mail system, then I don't want that either :) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://col

Re: LWP::Simple

2001-03-16 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
iverse, > pretty much; so you'd have to be a pretty severe > standards pedant to say there was no such thing ;-) Lynx doesn't. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956

Re: LWP::Simple

2001-03-16 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Philip Newton wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Robin Houston wrote: > > > And so does every other user agent in the universe, > > > pretty much; so you'd have to be a pretty severe > > > standards pedant to

Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-20 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
s best of all... Do we really not learn from Y2K? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) Science is built up of facts, as a house with stones. But a collection of

Re: Perl Training Courses

2001-03-21 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
o get london.pm doing courses? > Sorry. Perl training in *programming* not perl training in *drinking* ;-) Good programmers aren't necessarily good teachers. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL

Re: Perl Training Courses

2001-03-21 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On 21 Mar 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > d) Debugging Amen MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) perl -e 'print reverse split//,"\n

Re: "That book"

2001-03-23 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: > > World domination is ours. Muahahaha! > Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive it > won't be. I don't think we tried "London.pm's Script Archive", did we? :) MBM --

Re: "That book"

2001-03-23 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: > > > > World domination is ours. Muahahaha! > > > Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive

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

2001-03-26 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I vaguely recall it standing for something like "Heuristic Algorithmic > Logic," but that doesn't really set it apart from anything. how does that explain SAL9000? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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

2001-03-26 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
mentioned on the NT CDs. (if you choose to have a *real* one, of course ;) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) Amoebit: Amoeba/rabbit cross; it can multiply and divide at the same time.

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

2001-03-27 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
t; so i look at their site, they have chatroom functionality! why? > why does a site selling this sort of thing need chatroom > functionality? what is the benefit compared to its cost well, quite. So you can chat about how crap they are. And of course, because everyone else is doing it, so we

Re: Helping Less... er... Able... Programmers

2001-03-27 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
If anyone wants > to join in my fun, the board is at: > <http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl> Haven't got the time to do my standard flamey stuff, and my asbestos suit is looking a little worn at the moment... :) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PR

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-03-27 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
at% \ifnum\i=1 th\else \ifcase\n th\or st\or nd\or rd\else th\fi\fi\fi}$} was how I wrote it in TeX, so sub th{(($_[0]-10-$_[0]%10)/10%10)?(qw(th st nd rd),('th')x6)[$_[0]%10]:"th"} in perl? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714

Re: Perl Training Courses

2001-03-27 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Philip Newton wrote: > (Don't know whether CPAN.pm knows this for you. It may.) Yes, it does. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile)

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

2001-03-27 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Simon Wilcox wrote: > At 13:29 27/03/2001 +0000, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > So - Did I get this heinously wrong or is MBM's sub really a lot slower ? You didn't get it wrong. It's a lot slower partly *because* it's a sub rather than an arr

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

2001-03-27 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
he array). I don't like that kind of thing. It's a personal choice. I think the bit I objected to most was the $th[31]="st" bit. I shouldn't have put it like that, but as Robin says, TIMTOWTDI,so yeah. > It seems to me that it doesn't but as you say, YMMV and I got to p

Re: four-argument select()s

2001-03-27 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
e delving through logfiles I've been doing recently, and I did learn > something useful. :) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) Knebel'

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

2001-03-28 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
l be the vendor JVM's fault. :) > the first choice of someone who is going on buzzwords, and hasn't really > thought about the technical issues involved. True. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-28 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > Would this be an appropriate time to point out that my TPC talk > proposes the creation of a Parse::Perl::Approx module :) You are an evil man. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-28 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:38:16 +0100 (BST), Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > Would this be an appropriate time to point out that my TPC talk > > > pr

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

2001-03-28 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
ers can reply _on list_ we can get a good sense > of commitment, i think i identified some parties in the previous > email. If I see a sensible plan for certification, this sounds sensible, but consider what most people think of eg. MCSEs. Please enlighten us. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Madd

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

2001-03-28 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > TIMTOWTDI kind of screws things up. Different people will code in > > different styles. How can you evaluate this? > it doesn't matter how they achieve most things, as lon

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

2001-03-28 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:05:43PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > If I see a sensible plan for certification, this sounds sensible, but > > consider what most people think of eg. MCSEs. > That's mainly due to the M rathe

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

2001-03-29 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
trations > are committing a gross fraud, as registrants are led to believe that their > new gobbledigook.com will be usable when it ain't. Possibly true. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAI

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

2001-03-29 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Philip Newton wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > the host (according to RFC1123) must match > > /^([a-z0-9]+)((.[a-z0-9-]+)*(.[a-z0-9]+))?$/i > > which doesn't really give you support for hostnames in those many > > characters. &

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

2001-03-29 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
use and useful so they decided to deprecate it to > make it harder for non BIND gurus to be able to tell wahts going on ... It's not easy to use, but it has better error reporting than the default host(1) command. I think it really is time to switch to using adnshost more... MB

Re: Social Meeting (fwd)

2001-03-29 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: > (Spring Cascade today at the Orange Brewery brewpub > in Pimlico. Not a bad beer.) I thought you were in Wales... MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot

Re: Social Meeting (fwd)

2001-03-29 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:37:11AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: > > > (Spring Cascade today at the Orange Brewery brewpub > > > in Pimlico. Not a bad be

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

2001-03-30 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
give the message "try again" to nxdomain responses, for example... MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) There are worse things in life than de

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

2001-04-01 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:41:14PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > host(1)'s error messages are often misleading - it can give the message > > "try again" to nxdomain responses, for example... > Given how fast

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

2001-04-01 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote: > agreed it is a dumb thing, especially if your nameserver doesnt have a > name to lookup Erm!!?!? How exactly were you planning to point anything at it? an NS RR requires an authoritative name as it's RHS. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Mad

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

2001-04-02 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
s for a resolver, however again, the small amount of work involved in assigning a name for the machine in question suggests that you get no added benefit by *not* doing so. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[E

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

2001-04-02 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Philip Newton wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > > agreed it is a dumb thing, especially if your nameserver > > > doesnt have a name to lookup > > Erm!!?!? How exactly were you planni

RE: archiving

2001-04-03 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
^ Is it just me that finds your disclaimer really quite funny in context? :) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) Science is built up of facts, as a house with

Re: Crazy Idea

2001-04-03 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
probably written in BASIC :( ) -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) Science is built up of facts, as a house with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a sc

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
at least) two accomplished unicyclists... Doesn't that make a bicyclist? > Paul, whose uni got nicked in fscking cambridge. "Ooh, it's got a wheel! > Not the usual two, but fuck it, let's steal it anyway!" Ah, but people so often have quick release front wheels... erm. MBM

Re: Crazy Idea

2001-04-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
if you're only producing charcoal. You need to be vapourising things... erm. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. -- George Nathan

Re: Crazy Idea

2001-04-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
.. And you seemed so normal when I met you MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. -- George Nathan

Re: Silly postings

2001-04-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:22:38AM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > > > ...geeks, goths, jugglers, Natscis. And that's just me. > > ex-natscis too. :) > A

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
who only used linux because they didn't have to pay for it. Tushar was an exception. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) What passes for woman's int

RE: Silly postings

2001-04-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, james_h wrote: > Ok so that is possibly the most unfunny thing i have ever seen. No offense. If that's what you think was it necessary to quote the entire message? MBM (hasn't done this flame on london.pm yet... :) -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL

Re:

2001-04-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. -- George Nathan

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Dean wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:52:32PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > Last time I went to Lonix, it was full of w4r3z d00dz. :( The kind of > > people who only used linux because they didn't have to pay for it. > How long ago was this?

Re:

2001-04-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
onal ..and > if so how to you tell the difference between plain text > begin 777 RE: > and an attachment? You don't. Remember that uuencoding was devised in a time before MIME. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colo

Re: Test

2001-04-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
s good at making things smaller, but not as good as not having > > crap in the first place. > If it's just an ordinary Unix mailbox, may I suggest Mail::Audit? Feature request - IMAP client. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) h

Re:

2001-04-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
the attitude you were arguing *against*. Oh well. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) What passes for woman's intuition is often

Re:

2001-04-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:17:15PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > > > No. I couldn't be bothered. If what he has to say isn't important > > > enough to send pro

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-05 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Dean wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 06:19:46PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:52:32PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > > > Last time I went to Lonix, it was full of w4r3z d00dz. :( The kind of > >

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: > dcross - David Cross wrote: > > Mr Cantrell has them I believe. > I shall proceed from here whence forth unto smack Mr Cantrell until he > doth giveth over the designs. Hither-unto. And heretowards. Can we all join in? :) MBM -- Matth

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: > > > I shall proceed from here whence forth unto smack Mr Cantrell until he > > > doth giveth over the designs. Hither-unto. And

Re: Perl on HPUX

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
shebang or anything similar. What end of line characters is your editor putting in? If not \n this may be part of the problem. Also you're missing a "-w" on the end of the shebang line... :) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (

RE: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
he derived work. What it *does* do, however is to say that the derived work must be under a GPL-compatible license, which makes it, in general, uneconomical to sell the work. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[

RE: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: > > [broken quoting snipped] > > > You want the GPL for that. Which means that you can't use my copyright > > &g

Re: Beginners Guide

2001-04-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
[thinking maybe he should have taken this to (void)] No, it's "on-topic" for london.pm. :) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) Only Irish coff

Re: [OT] Flecktones in London next month

2001-04-20 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote: > > 5/2/2001Pizza Express London, England > Which Pizza Express ? *The* Pizza Express (in Soho) where they play the jazz. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Good Accountants

2001-04-26 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote: > But, how is it non compliant? And when was 75MB of diskspace an issue? > That's about 20p. Where do you get sensible disk (including backup) that cheap? We'd all like to know... MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Good Accountants

2001-04-26 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:20:35PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > > But, how is it non compliant? And when was 75MB of diskspace an issue? > > > That's about 20p. &g

Re: its TRUE I tell you ...

2001-04-28 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
ame productions -perm -0400 ? so it's true is it? :) You're late by about 28 days, sorry. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) I'm not even going to *both

RE: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
an't sensibly error handle with Net::SMTP. This is why there was discussion, however, on widnoze, (not sure about vanilla mac (rather than os x)) there is no sensible way to do a queued message. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (H

Re: tube strike / may meeting postponed til 10th

2001-05-02 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
we shouldn't shift the date again: > http://www.thetube.com/content/pressreleases/ > Where will the (delayed) meeting be? Have we booked a room? ;-) PO? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/

Re: TBA?

2001-05-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, 10 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is a venue decided on for tonights meeting, or is it still TBA? Penderels Oak. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ +44 7956 613942 (Mo

Re: Bah!

2001-05-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
aven't updated it recently, but will > >do. I'll make it so that requests for .../cv.foo get translated to > >.../cv[latest-version].foo. > HTTP::Approx anyone? mod_speling MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://

Re: putting escape characters in files

2001-05-11 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
st $ans = "q" && exit 0 > fi > done That breaks if the line is longer than the width of your screen. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ +44 7956 613942 (Mobil

Re: (OT) constrained walk

2001-05-11 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
ber of people (Bloated Goats, Sexchange) who manage to get it wrong still surprises me. And the spamware that carries on blindly even though it gets errors MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/

Re: (OT) constrained walk

2001-05-11 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
s. (We're deciding that on crisps, when > > it works.) > Has anyone got a proper lundun map with tube lines indicated... that would > be just chops. There are machines in the tube that sell them. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
how tightly bound you are by the license of the previous work. > I could be wrong of course - buit that is how it seems. I don't know. IANAL. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

RE: BOFHs requiring license

2001-05-14 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
ected > him in the first place. Once it gets to that stage it's effectively a > dictatorship. Umm.. why the implication that this *hasn't* happened yet? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/

Re: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)

2001-05-14 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
decided - having been elected with quite such a large victory - that it could do what it wanted, so it changed all the policies to the tory ones... MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ +44 7956 61394

Re: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)

2001-05-14 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
f the international oil companies' cartel? use the tube and electric trains? Most power stations aren't oil fired AFAIK. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ +44 7956 613942 (Mobi

Re: Enough!

2001-05-15 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
> Hear hear! I am getting tired of hitting delete... :) > procmail++ > If anybody wants a hand getting it set up to autofilter mail, give me a > shout. Exim ++ http://colondot.net/mbm/mailfilter.shtml and before simon gets there: use Mail::Audit; MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick

Re: Caller ID (was Re: Enough!)

2001-05-16 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
nted it etc. > I'd be interested to hear how you get on... I was under the impression > that the D channel was an always on 16k-thing. It'd be interesting to > see what gets sent down there normally... CLI / Destination number that kind of thing. Signalling information b

Re: A look over the shoulder of an XP programmer (auf deutsch)

2001-05-16 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Barbie wrote: > sysadmin, being the shortsighted Solaris guru that he claims he is, has > deemed outgoing and ingoing ports that aren't for HTTP, FTP be blocked :( dare I enquire how you sent this mail, then? :) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[E

Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

2001-05-16 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 04:48:41PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: [VB] > It's a wonderful fantasy, but the only type of problem I solve that > could fit that approach are those tedious CGI+database CRUD things. > Everything else requires original thought and invention, and I'll chew > my left nut

Re: Shoot out

2001-05-17 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:20:08PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > I still remember an article about C++ templating being a turing complete > language in it's own right or something weird. This isn't it, but is > entertaining anyway: > http://www.annexia.org/freeware/cpptemplates/ And if yo

Re: pc components

2001-05-17 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:27:17PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:18:16AM +1000, Ian Brayshaw wrote: > > I saw Craig Charles at the Melbourne Comedy Festival a couple of years ago > > and it was a waste of time and money. He walked out on stage, said he was > > p1sse

Re: pc components

2001-05-18 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:54:41PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: > From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 11:04 AM > > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > > He was touring with Norman Lovett, who wasn't nearly as good. > > I fou

Re: Beer fest beckons

2001-05-25 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:00:40PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:28:49PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > So I get a call on my mobile in the middle of the beer fest from a > > potential collaborator telling me he can't send me the promised > > documentation due to the

Re: Grammar -> Class creation

2001-05-29 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:27:40AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > Anyway, PDF is easier re: packing/endianness since it's a text format! > The only time you get binary data is for unencoded streams (which they advise > against, although it's permitted, for example PDFlib generates it) > like a <<

Re: bad greg

2001-05-30 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:38:17AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > i'm sorry about asking this, but i've purged too many old archives > > of london.pm to find this one - someone one once mentioned a domain > > name registry with a neat web based managem

Re: Email::Valid

2001-05-30 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:02:11AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote: > Has any one used this module at all? > I just tried it and got some wierd results!!! > It though the following where VALID: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > tricad@dial,pipex.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED],co.uk > enquiries@peter-il;land.co.uk > marty

Re: Email::Valid

2001-05-30 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:49:06AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > * Andy Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > So I guess [EMAIL PROTECTED] is invalid even though it works wierd! > > its not the email address thats broken, its your SMTP server

Re: Email::Valid

2001-05-30 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:56:56AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > > You are correct in that these shouls all be invalid. > Great. > > > and that this was INVALID: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It is. &g

Re: Email::Valid

2001-05-30 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:14:15PM +0100, Matthew Robinson wrote: [IsValidAddress sub, which was built from the RFC822 grammar...] Unfortunately, a fair few mailers don't allow IP literals as valid domain-parts anymore, due to abuse. MBM

Re: bad greg

2001-05-31 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:55:39PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:27:19AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > i'm sorry about asking this, but i've purged too many old archives > > of london.pm to find this one - someone one once mentioned a domain > > name registry with a neat

Re: bad greg

2001-05-31 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:07:15PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:09:28PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:55:39PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: > > > Mr Couzens > > Die, alien slime! > My apologies was typed in a hurry on a tube train and I didn't doub

Re: Slow disks under linux

2001-05-31 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:19:21AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > Paul, who will probably end up using FreeBSD since its hardware RAID > (HPT370) and video (Matrox G450 dual) is apparently better... vinum in mirror mode is not supposed to be that good (apparently it does no integrity checking of

Re: Slow disks under linux

2001-05-31 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:43:16AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:27:07AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:19:21AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > > Paul, who will probably end up using FreeBSD since its hardware

Re: tape changes

2001-06-05 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:31:37AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: [hosting providers] > so thats another big vote for Nildram then .. [snip] > hmm .. we're trying to justify a move to 5gb a month .. at which point > Nildram sounds like a cheaper option. ... is Aylesbury nice? An alternative: http://

Re: tape changes

2001-06-05 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:10:47PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:31:37AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > [hosting providers] > > > so thats another big vote for Nildram then .. > > [snip

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