Re: Orange

2003-07-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Leo Lapworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 11:50:41AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Dave Cross wrote: On a similar note, I assume that Leon only won control of our web site for one year. As I stated when I took over leadership, I'm not going

Re: Orange

2003-07-14 Thread Jos I. Boumans
On Monday, Jul 14, 2003, at 08:36 Europe/Amsterdam, Greg McCarroll wrote: you could have a nice sheep background image, tastefully faded of course, or a nice buffy background image. or perhaps stars and stripes, draig goch or tricolore as the background. of course someone could organise a bid

State of the Onion

2003-07-14 Thread Alex Hudson
Hi people... I did see somewhere that the SotO speech was going to get posted online in mp3/ogg or something, but haven't seen it go up anywhere yet. Does anyone know for definite if and when it will be posted? Cheers, Alex.

Re: beer

2003-07-14 Thread David Hodgkinson
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 09:08 PM, David Cantrell wrote: is a fine pub, and the guvnor has excellent taste in both computers and beer. wrong endian, surely?

Re: ! Orange [Was: Orange]

2003-07-14 Thread Graham Barr
On Thursday, Jul 10, 2003, at 13:35 US/Pacific, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: Leon Brocard wrote: Hello. They are planning to auction the colour of search.cpan.org tonight at OSCON. I hear that it is not going to be cheap. If you want to help me make it orange and would like to pledge a small

Re: OT: More sybase related - IDENTIFIER TOO LONG

2003-07-14 Thread David Hodgkinson
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Raf wrote: Seems like a bit of poor error handling/reporting on the part of sybase though. Get the SAMS Sybase Unleashed book. Oh, and then read it.

Re: Orange

2003-07-14 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: Hello. They are planning to auction the colour of search.cpan.org tonight at OSCON. I hear that it is not going to be cheap. If you want to help me make it orange and would like to pledge a small amount that'd be wonderful. Emails offlist please.

How to make lexical warnings 'die'?

2003-07-14 Thread Philip Newton
I'm trying to find out whether I have valid input data and wanted to use warnings for this purpose - by adding zero to get a number and trapping the argument is not numeric in addition warning. Reading through perllexwarn suggests that I should be able to use warnings FATAL = qw(numeric); for

Re: How to make lexical warnings 'die'?

2003-07-14 Thread Dan Brook
How about dynamically scoped warnings dying? eval { local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { die @_ }; my $price = $content + 0; print bar\n; $totalPrice += $price; }; die ack - $@ if $@; HTH Dan

Re: How to make lexical warnings 'die'?

2003-07-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Philip Newton said: I'm trying to find out whether I have valid input data and wanted to use warnings for this purpose - by adding zero to get a number and trapping the argument is not numeric in addition warning. Reading through perllexwarn suggests that I should be able to use warnings

Re: How to make lexical warnings 'die'?

2003-07-14 Thread Philip Newton
On 14 Jul 2003 at 13:41, Paul Johnson wrote: I dunno. Works for me. This is with ActivePerl 623 (based on 5.6.0). Solaris 5.6.1 and 5.8.0. A small test-case just worked for me on Linux 2.4.7 and 5.8.0... I suppose the answer is Update, my man!, then. Thanks for the confirmation. I'd

Re: OT: More sybase related - IDENTIFIER TOO LONG

2003-07-14 Thread Raf
David Hodgkinson said: On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Raf wrote: Seems like a bit of poor error handling/reporting on the part of sybase though. Get the SAMS Sybase Unleashed book. Oh, and then read it. Why would I want to do that? You start using a new database, you f-up, you

Re: OT: More sybase related - IDENTIFIER TOO LONG

2003-07-14 Thread Dave Cross
From: Raf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/14/03 2:16:15 PM David Hodgkinson said: Get the SAMS Sybase Unleashed book. Oh, and then read it. Why would I want to do that? You start using a new database, you f-up, you learn. You ask stupid questions. Interact with those who care to answer

Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Earle Martin
Some of you may have heard this from me, some not My wife, who is not from within the EU, requires a Schengen Visa[0] to come with me to YAPC::EU. So, I just called the French consulate's visa appointment booking line (which costs a fucking outrageous pound a minute) to try and get her one.

Apology made formal

2003-07-14 Thread Raf
Original Message Subject: Re: OT: More sybase related - IDENTIFIER TOO LONG From: Raf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, July 14, 2003 4:36 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Hodgkinson said: On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 03:16 pm, Raf wrote: Just reacting to the tone I infered from

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Jason Clifford
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Earle Martin wrote: My wife, who is not from within the EU, requires a Schengen Visa[0] to come with me to YAPC::EU. So, I just called the French consulate's visa appointment booking line (which costs a fucking outrageous pound a minute) to try and get her one. They

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Alex McLintock
At 15:50 14/07/03, Earle Martin wrote: Likewise, I booked a room at this hotel: http://www.hostelparis.com/hosteldetails.php?HostelNumber=613 It's just under two miles from the CNAM, in the middle of Paris. The room has two beds and ensuite toilet, and costs GBP22 a head per night. Would it be

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 05:19:13PM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote: Would it be possible to write up people's recommendations for visiting Paris and stick it somewhere online? My girlfriend and I have been meaning to go to Paris - though I'm not going to YAPC. Perhaps we could pollute

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:47:06PM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote: On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Earle Martin wrote: The solution is to completely ignore all this nonsense about making appointments and just show up at the Embassy. You will have to wait most (all?) of the day but you should get seen.

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 06:18:03PM +0200, Mark Overmeer wrote: I do not know the exact rules, but you may go to any EU consulate for a visum. Most will be faster than the French... You can apply for a Schengen visa at either the country the majority of your visit will be spent in, or, if you

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Jason Clifford
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Earle Martin wrote: VISA ISSUING PROCEDURE Please note that all persons wishing to apply for visas to visit France MUST make an APPOINTMENT BY TELEPHONE before attending and submitting their documents in person at the Consulate. THE PHONE NUMBER IS : 09065 540 700

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Earle Martin
I wrote: Somehow I doubt that. As if that wasn't good enough, Please note that if you are a citizen of Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Burundi, China (Public Affairs passports only), Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, North

Yet Another Eurostar ticket to Paris for YAPC::Europe 2003

2003-07-14 Thread Sam Vilain
Here's another couple of tickets going to Paris for YAPC::Europe 2003; Departing from LONDON WATERLOO INT ( 22/07/2003 at 08:23) Going to PARIS NORD ( 22/07/2003 at 12:23) Return journey Departing from PARIS NORD ( 27/07/2003 at 17:10) Going to LONDON WATERLOO INT ( 27/07/2003 at

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Stéphane Payrard
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 05:19:13PM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote: At 15:50 14/07/03, Earle Martin wrote: Likewise, I booked a room at this hotel: http://www.hostelparis.com/hosteldetails.php?HostelNumber=613 It's just under two miles from the CNAM, in the middle of Paris. The room has two

Re: beer

2003-07-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Monday, July 7, 2003 10:02 pm +0100 David Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 09:08 PM, David Cantrell wrote: is a fine pub, and the guvnor has excellent taste in both computers and beer. wrong endian, surely? I am not aware that he has any middle-endian machines.

Re: [OT] Dynamic image viewers

2003-07-14 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:22:31PM +0200, Robin Berjon wrote: Paul Makepeace wrote: Although if you want something simple you might just be better off punting a few frames into Flash (which has a zoom capacity). Would save on driver downloads. Bah. Bh. Flash evil. Flash bad. Must die.

Expletives (was Eurocracy sucks)

2003-07-14 Thread Ivor Williams
- Original Message - Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:50:41 +0100 From: Earle Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Eurocracy sucks. Organization: Strike Force for Indolence and Spiritual Beauty Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some of you may have heard this from me, some

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] lacravate
Hi , En ce jour du Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:20:11 +0100, Earle Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] parlait ainsi : On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 05:19:13PM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote: Would it be possible to write up people's recommendations for visiting Paris and stick it somewhere online? My girlfriend and

Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure

2003-07-14 Thread Paul Makepeace
As a pre-YAPC bit of fun, you're invited to join me and others for some stand-up docu-comedy about how Googlewhacking took Dave Gorman around the world. Yes, this is Dave Gorman of Are you Dave Gorman? fame. http://www.davegorman.com/dggwa.html Details: 21st July 2003, starts 8pm, meet at the