Re: TT and UTF8?

2010-01-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 03:25:14PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: On 29 Jan 2010, at 14:48, Ash Berlin wrote: 2) stick a BOM in the .tt file BOM? Byte Order Mark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Immigration: making Britain

Modules being removed from core

2010-01-23 Thread David Cantrell
for %deprecated. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive There are many different types of sausages. The best are from the north of England. The wurst are from Germany. -- seen in alt.2eggs...

Re: No more IP for you

2010-01-20 Thread David Cantrell
. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing You can't judge a book by its cover, unless you're a religious nutcase

Re: No more IP for you

2010-01-20 Thread David Cantrell
sure there will be problems, but running out of address space ain't one of 'em. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it-- Agatha Christie

Re: Pig and pub! (Emergency social called for)

2010-01-15 Thread David Cantrell
. You may. You have. I shall be there. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing Please stop rolling your Jargon Dice and explain the problem you are having to me in plain English, using small words. -- John Hardin, in the Monastery

Re: SHA question

2010-01-14 Thread David Cantrell
NFS connection to the other side of the world. Mind you, absent running the rsync daemon at the other end and using that instead of NFS, I'm not sure if there's a better way of doing it. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information

Re: SHA question

2010-01-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 02:03:33PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:59:22PM +, David Cantrell wrote: Shame that local includes at the other end of a really slow NFS connection to the other side of the world. Mind you, absent running the rsync daemon at the other

Re: SHA question

2010-01-13 Thread David Cantrell
and are faster but more prone to inadvertant collisions. If you've got a lot of data to compare, I'd use one of them (eg one of the variations on a CRC) and then only bring out the big SHA guns when that finds a collision. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Nuke

Re: SHA question

2010-01-13 Thread David Cantrell
the same result for two files, verifying that they really are the same is trivial ... (and if they're not, lots of people would be Really Interested to know). -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life -- Samuel Johnson

Re: Pre-LPW drinks

2009-12-03 Thread David Cantrell
: The Kings Arms, WC1N 2JF | Saturday: LPW W1W 6UW, then Gunmakers, EC1R 5ET | Sunday: Day of rest. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Guns aren't the problem. People who deserve to die are the problem.

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009

2009-12-01 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:43:19PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Bonus question: How many people will be mildly irritated by starting a new thread with a Reply-to: to an existing one? Not as many as will be mildly irritated at me replying but chopping out the Reply-To. -- David Cantrell

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread David Cantrell
between time on night bus and bike can be upwards of 10x. Only if you're sober. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H. L. Mencken

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-20 Thread David Cantrell
- a very few people get fucked over by every bank. Those people consequently equate that bank with Satan. But in fact, most people are content with whichever bank they use. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Stepped on something soft and wobbly. Struck a match. Found

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-19 Thread David Cantrell
property rental so there's no agency fees http://www.gumtree.com/london/2548_1.html +1. Or you could look in Loot. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness Did you know that shotguns taste like candy canes? Put the barrel in your mouth and pull the trigger for an extra

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-19 Thread David Cantrell
, and is the least bankrupt of the big names. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice You don't need to spam good porn

Re: Live Rabid!

2009-11-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:46:28AM +, Dave Cross wrote: On 11/18/2009 11:22 AM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Sadly, I don't have my passport. Oy! We'll have none of that you North London bigot! ITYM oh good, we won't have to put up with dirty northern bastards -- David Cantrell | Enforcer

Re: Books to get rid of

2009-11-09 Thread David Cantrell
dear. Take something that works well and try to fix it. Oops. -- header FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLFrom =~ /david.cantrell/i describe FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLMessage is from David Cantrell scoreFROM_DAVID_CANTRELL15.72 # This figure from experimentation

Re: Every other

2009-10-30 Thread David Cantrell
Damian Conway wrote: Mark Fowler m...@twoshortplanks.com wanted: I have an array in Perl 5 [2]. I want *every* *other* element from it. Not especially fast, but very easy: use List::Maker; my @new = @old[ 0,2,..$#old ]; That is splendidly magickal! -- David Cantrell

Re: He'brew

2009-10-23 Thread David Cantrell
quite strong, almost a barley wine, and while it is very tasty, I wonder if it might be a bit one-dimensional. The biscuit malt was *really* strong, and I didn't get much else from it. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat EINE KIRCHE! EIN KREDO! EIN PAPST!

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-22 Thread David Cantrell
bother with keyboard access for many features. In the US, that's ~illegal[1]. The UK doesn't have a similar law? Since when did something being illegal stop it from happening, especially in government? -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat [OS X] appeals to me

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:53:56AM +0100, Philip Potter wrote: 2009/10/22 David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk: Since when did something being illegal stop it from happening, especially in government? Since people were unwilling to stand up for what they lawfully deserve -- either through

Re: Credit Cards

2009-10-14 Thread David Cantrell
what number I gave them? I have two numbers now, one of which I can't remember, and at least one of my accounts is so old that I lived somewhere else when I opened it, and had a phone number which doesn't even exist any more. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world I think

Re: Maintainer needed for perlsphere.net

2009-10-06 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:46:30AM -0400, jesse wrote: http://cpandeps.cantrell.org.uk/?module=Plagger deps.cpantesters.org please! It'd be worth getting it to canonicalize the URL so we stop making the mistake. Good idea. Done. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist You may now

Re: Maintainer needed for perlsphere.net

2009-10-05 Thread David Cantrell
about three quarters of it :) Miyagawa pointed out this: http://cpandeps.cantrell.org.uk/?module=Plagger deps.cpantesters.org please! And don't forget to tell it what version of perl you're using. It makes a big difference. -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard fetish club

Re: Last Straw. Camel's Back. Etc.

2009-10-02 Thread David Cantrell
. Now I'm running my own node. Such is the way of the world... I've been using news.individual.net for years, and consider it good enough to be worth paying for. -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard fetish club Vegetarian: n: a person who, due to malnutrition caused

Re: Beer was Re: Anyone drinking at the moment?

2009-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
glass, but 1/3 pint is occasionally used in pubs for barley wines, and quite often at beer festivals. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's ... programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt. --Blair P. Houghton

Re: Last Straw. Camel's Back. Etc.

2009-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
much of that is because my account is lost in a dark mysterious void that no-one has touched after Adrian sold the business to Tiscali I don't know, and have no particular desire to find out by notifying them of my continued existence. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic

Re: Last Straw. Camel's Back. Etc.

2009-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
Oh, I should also mention that the one time when stuff broke recently, the Nildram call centre understood things like traceroute and your border with $fooISP and didn't just ask me to reinstall Windows. The breakage was, of course, my fault. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-30 Thread David Cantrell
of CAMRA. -- David Cantrell | top google result for topless karaoke murders Did you know that shotguns taste like candy canes? Put the barrel in your mouth and pull the trigger for an extra blast of minty goodness!

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-30 Thread David Cantrell
will notice that four out of five are south of the river, demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt that northerners are appallingly closed-minded and ignorant, believing that the best the US has to offer is Coors. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive When a man

[ANNOUNCE] Reminder: london.pm social on Thu 1 Oct

2009-09-29 Thread David Cantrell
-- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-25 Thread David Cantrell
without. Counter-example: strawberries, which are sweet, go really well with black pepper and a splash of elderflower vinegar. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Guns aren't the problem. People who deserve to die are the problem.

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-21 Thread David Cantrell
, Lokku, the BBC, state51 and others are all hiring. Thanks James. I'm going to have to move to bloody London aren't I? :) You could be the single solitary perl coder who volunteers to work at BBC North ... -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information You may now start

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 04:24:23PM +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote: On 21 Sep 2009, at 16:14, David Cantrell wrote: You could be the single solitary perl coder who volunteers to work at BBC North ... Tell me more... Step 1. get a job in London, cos AFAIK they're not recruiting for people Oop

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-21 Thread David Cantrell
implementation. That assumes you don't have to maintain the existing code-base while you port to the Shiny! New! thing. And to read at the sort of level that is required for comprehending a large code base, you need people who can write too. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire

[ANNOUNCE] ORTHODOX social: 1 Oct: Bridge House

2009-09-18 Thread David Cantrell
has booked the Bridge House for ORTHODOXY. This follows (just about) in our long tradition of holding ORTHODOX meetings on the correct side of the river. Brother Laver promises to give you all a Pleasant Surprise. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Please stop rolling your

Padre

2009-09-18 Thread David Cantrell
I'd like to give Padre a go, but it's a pain in the arse to install, mostly because of Wx. Anyone bundled it up for OS X? (yes, I know there are instructions for building it. I'm lazy. I don't care enough to jump through all the damned hoops) -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ORTHODOX social: 1 Oct: Bridge House

2009-09-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 04:15:31PM +0100, James Laver wrote: On 18 Sep 2009, at 16:06, David Cantrell wrote: Brother Laver promises to give you all a Pleasant Surprise. No. No, he does not. Ooh you tease! -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig You know you're getting old when

Re: Does Perl has a code hider

2009-09-16 Thread David Cantrell
than one a week or so though. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.-- W C Fields

Re: [OT] SalesForce + CVS

2009-09-14 Thread David Cantrell
. Except that it quite easy for that to become .. last - trashes the repository as well. You're talking about merge conflicts? Git doesn't prevent them. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information All principles of gravity are negated by fear

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread David Cantrell
. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david You may now start misinterpreting what I just wrote, and attacking that misinterpretation.

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread David Cantrell
-books FTlose if they include diagrams or tables. E-books FTlose for giving as presents. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig Anyone willing to give up a little fun for tolerance deserves neither

Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-25 Thread David Cantrell
available for review. That's because less than 5% of review copies that I distributed actually got reviewed, and that's just unfair on the publishers. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing Vegetarian: n: a person who, due to malnutrition caused by poor lifestyle choices, is eight times

Re: More camels

2009-08-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:21:57PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: But unlike tulips (or Camels) if it comes to the crunch I can eat onions. :-) Camels are food too! -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard fetish club Eye have a spelling chequer / It came with my pea sea

Re: More camels

2009-08-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 09:46:44AM +0100, Chris Jack wrote: I've eaten camel in Holland. It was quite leathery. I wouldn't recommend it. I've had leathery beef too. It was cooked wrong. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world While researching this email, I was forced

Re: More camels

2009-08-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 03:28:05PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:57:07PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Camels are food too! Stuffed camels aren't: http://astray.com/recipes/?search=camel Well, maybe they can be, but I guess it depends on how tasty the stuffing

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London.pm Perlm[ou]ngers social, September 03 2009, Edgar Wallace, Strand WC2R

2009-08-19 Thread David Cantrell
James Laver wrote: stripy yellow and green line[1] [1] or district and circle lines if you prefer. I do not prefer. I will forever think of it as being the Earth line now. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat All principles of gravity are negated by fear

Re: Sub-refs in @INC screwing with your modules

2009-08-06 Thread David Cantrell
::WrapPackages::params - doesn't work because it de-localises at the end of this subroutine, so is gone by the time it is needed; * use Data::Dumper to stringify the %params, but that doesn't handle subrefs -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Just because it is possible to do

Re: Sub-refs in @INC screwing with your modules

2009-08-06 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:49:41PM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Manns?ker wrote: David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk writes: * use Data::Dumper to stringify the %params, but that doesn't handle subrefs $Data::Dumper::Deparse = 1; Don't think that handles closures. Indeed, I don't see how

Re: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] Reminder: London.pm social meet, Thursday evening

2009-08-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 05:47:32PM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote: On 4 Aug 2009, at 15:42, David Cantrell wrote: The Glorious Leader is, however, in Lisbon. Naively I assumed that somebody would don an orange t-shirt for the evening and play acting leader. The orange T-shirt I still have from

Sub-refs in @INC screwing with your modules

2009-08-05 Thread David Cantrell
}}) }; eval use foo ' which *should*, if I've RTFM correctly, print wibblewobble. But the wobble never appears. What am I doing wrong? -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Sobol's Law of Telecom Utilities: Telcos are malicious; cablecos are simply clueless.

[ANNOUNCE] Reminder: London.pm social meet, Thursday evening

2009-08-03 Thread David Cantrell
please grab a couple of tables outside if it's a nice day! -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire There is no one true indentation style, But if there were KR would be Its Prophets. Peace be upon Their Holy Beards.

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-31 Thread David Cantrell
by most major software vendors, who provide glossy brochures, documentation and consultancy to help you use me to enterprisificatorize your business P: Bugger -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show

Re: Tricky localization/scope question

2009-07-30 Thread David Cantrell
, scripts that you distribute with your code. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Hail Caesar! Those about to vi ^[ you!

Re: Desperately seeking Javascript help

2009-07-22 Thread David Cantrell
Richard Huxton wrote: David Cantrell wrote: Can anyone point me at a tutorial which will show me how to put a map in a page, point it at my own map tiles, and Just Work? Mostly it's people tagging google/yahoo maps. However, is this what you're after? http://wms-map.sourceforge.net/ I

Re: Desperately seeking Javascript help

2009-07-22 Thread David Cantrell
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Re: Desperately seeking Javascript help

2009-07-22 Thread David Cantrell
Andy Wardley wrote: http://wardley.org/misc/map_overlay.html It's not a tutorial but it shows the 20 or so lines of code you need to create a custom tile overlay in a google map. Ah, spiffing - thanks! -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard fetish club You know

[ANNOUNCE] London.pm social: 6 Aug 2009

2009-07-19 Thread David Cantrell
and you get there early enough, please grab a couple of tables outside. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness What is the difference between hearing aliens through the fillings in your teeth and hearing Jesus in your heart?

Desperately seeking Javascript help

2009-07-18 Thread David Cantrell
How hard can it be to put a slippy map into a web page? Very hard, apparently, unless you want to use Openstreetmap's map tiles. Which I don't. Can anyone point me at a tutorial which will show me how to put a map in a page, point it at my own map tiles, and Just Work? -- David Cantrell

Re: London.pm Beer Festival, Edgar Wallace, TOMORROW, Thursday 2009-07-16

2009-07-17 Thread David Cantrell
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[ANNOUNCE] Croyden.pm: tomorrow!

2009-07-15 Thread David Cantrell
Don't forget, Croyden.pm are meeting tomorrow at the Lion: http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Lion%2C_CR0_2QD Attendance is compulsory. Absentees will have to write 200 times I'm very very naughty and deserve a spanking. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Eye have

Re: Gnome makes me want to strangle kittens

2009-07-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 06:27:44PM +0100, James Laver wrote: On 7 Jul 2009, at 17:54, David Cantrell wrote: How does one de-Gnomeify a Ubuntu box? Its spectacularly broken focus-follows-mouse and hideously ugly window mangler and panels Just Have To Go. I believe you can aptitude install xyz

Gnome makes me want to strangle kittens

2009-07-07 Thread David Cantrell
How does one de-Gnomeify a Ubuntu box? Its spectacularly broken focus-follows-mouse and hideously ugly window mangler and panels Just Have To Go. -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard fetish club You are so cynical. And by cynical, of course, I mean correct

Re: [OT] Wrapping methods

2009-07-06 Thread David Cantrell
Class::CanBeA, and then Hook::LexWrap or something similar to wrap its run() method. It sounds like this would be terribly fragile though. eg, if run() is AUTOLOADed or otherwise defined at runtime. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Hail Caesar! Those about to vi ^[ you!

[ANNOUNCE] Croyden.pm: 16 Jul

2009-06-29 Thread David Cantrell
Croyden.pm will be meeting on Thursday the 16th of July here: http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Lion%2C_CR0_2QD -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age EINE KIRCHE! EIN KREDO! EIN PAPST!

Re: Big Geek Day Out: Bletchley Park 18th July

2009-06-25 Thread David Cantrell
Wales, look you boyo) at the weekend and the water was undrinkable. The lovely countryside made up for it though. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H. L

Re: Geekiest place on earth? (was Re: Big Geek Day Out)

2009-06-25 Thread David Cantrell
there, but that was over a decade ago. Honrable mentions to National Space Centre, Leicester It looked rubbish when I went there for a Go tournament. Nothing but kiddy crap. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist Wow, my first sigquoting! I feel so special now! -- Dan

Re: joint Perl/PHP social for July

2009-05-21 Thread David Cantrell
of going on a pub crawl to help you find a venue, as long as I don't have to drink lager. -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard fetish club

Re: joint Perl/PHP social for July

2009-05-21 Thread David Cantrell
that changed? -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig Compromise: n: lowering my standards so you can meet them

Re: joint Perl/PHP social for July

2009-05-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 07:13:00PM +0100, James Laver wrote: On 21 May 2009, at 12:27, David Cantrell wrote: Tell you what, I volunteer for the onerous duty of going on a pub crawl to help you find a venue, as long as I don't have to drink lager. Sunday, 11am, my flat. Dare we try

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread David Cantrell
Line that are within your acceptable travel time. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence NANOG makes me want to unplug everything and hide under the bed -- brian d foy

Re: setting up a file hierarchy

2009-05-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 06:30:03PM +0100, Ash Berlin wrote: On 19 May 2009, at 17:19, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:50:06PM +0100, Chisel Wright wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:33:06PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: I'll pay attention when it doesn't rely on Module::Install

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread David Cantrell
walk out of the overground, into the central line and emerge one stop later at White City. It counts as a trick? Woo! Where do I sign up to get my wizzarding robe? -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:35:07PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: I cut my beeb commute by half (quarter if you include money) by using a scooter. YMMV tho... I don't trust myself to not ride like a loon :-) Also, trains++ for forcing me to take the time to read a book. -- David Cantrell

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 04:29:06PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Stray Taoist m...@straytoaster.co.uk wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:51:51PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Also, trains++ for forcing me to take the time to read a book. Oh, I so agree

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 05:10:13PM +0100, Jasper wrote: 2009/5/20 David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk: Also, trains++ for forcing me to take the time to read a book. Huh, some of us can multi-task. If you can read and ride a bike or drive a car at the same time, then I'm both impressed

Re: setting up a file hierarchy

2009-05-19 Thread David Cantrell
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Re: setting up a file hierarchy

2009-05-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:50:06PM +0100, Chisel Wright wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:33:06PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: I'll pay attention when it doesn't rely on Module::Install. Should I ask why? Would you like to install mandatory pre-requisite Foo::Bar for this 'ere module what you

Re: Best practice for releasing Perl modules to staging and live

2009-05-18 Thread David Cantrell
that I can install? Suggestions for a Helpful Thing to add to http://deps.cpantesters.org gratefully accepted. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist I remember when computers were frustrating because they did exactly what you told them to. That seems kinda quaint now. -- JD Baldwin

Re: Best practice for releasing Perl modules to staging and live

2009-05-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 05:13:40PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: David Cantrell wrote: Suggestions for a Helpful Thing to add to http://deps.cpantesters.org gratefully accepted. Ah - that's the sort of thing I was looking for. Between deps.cpantesters.org and matrix.cpantesters.org I should

Re: [ANNOUNCE] June Social, Gunmakers EC1R, Clerkenwell. Thurs 4th June.

2009-05-15 Thread David Cantrell
was a bit of a pain. I'd work on the assumptio nthat people who might like to travel by bus are clever enough to figure shit out for themselves. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist NANOG makes me want to unplug everything and hide under the bed -- brian d foy

Re: Hack Day 2009

2009-05-06 Thread David Cantrell
are these things publicised? -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Planckton: n, the smallest possible living thing

Re: Measuring power

2009-04-29 Thread David Cantrell
some downtime to use an inline meter. Or you could yank the power and see how long the UPSes last :-) -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Did you know that shotguns taste like candy canes? Put the barrel in your mouth and pull the trigger for an extra blast of minty goodness!

Re: Beautiful is better than ugly

2009-04-22 Thread David Cantrell
similar to this which don't). And what's with the huge but slightly blurry body text? -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard fetish club The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place

Re: Anniversary Beer

2009-04-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:58:51PM +0100, James Laver wrote: P.S. why haven't I heard of other PM groups organising anniversary beer? Perhaps it is related to the problem of orgynising a piss-up in a brewery? -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Just because it is possible to do

Re: system() with timeout

2009-04-17 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:24:01AM +0100, Matt Lawrence wrote: David Cantrell wrote: I ended up doing ... eval { if(my $pid = fork()) { # parent local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { kill 9, $pid; # quit RIGHT FUCKING NOW die(Child process timed

Re: system() with timeout

2009-04-16 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 06:32:08PM +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 06:18:45PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Anyone recommend a module to give me something like system(@list) but with a timeout? Does IPC::Run have something suitable? I seem to recall it has quite

Re: [OT] finding memory hungry bits of my code

2009-04-09 Thread David Cantrell
/apache-perl Do these numbers look reasonable to others? The SHR value seems crazy low, but that might be me reading it all wrong. That's quite small for mod_perl. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness Hail Caesar! Those about to vi ^[ you!

Re: compression algorithm!

2009-04-08 Thread David Cantrell
of Illiterate Teenagers and some cheap blingy mobile phones. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig Languages for which ISO-Latin-$n is not necessary, #1 in a series: Latin

Re: a friday question... a saturday answer

2009-04-04 Thread David Cantrell
of a circular definition about it, so I recommend forming an inter-departmental committee to discuss over beers the terms of reference for an inquiry into the subject. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information NANOG makes me want to unplug everything and hide under the bed

Re: a friday question... a saturday answer

2009-04-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 06:01:42PM +0100, James Laver wrote: On 4 Apr 2009, at 17:29, David Cantrell wrote: However, this has the distinct whiff of a circular definition about it, so I recommend forming an inter-departmental committee to discuss over beers the terms of reference for an inquiry

Re: ExtUtils::Installed vs pminst vs?

2009-03-31 Thread David Cantrell
instead of filenames. If you're paranoid about package names and filenames not matching up, there's code in CPAN::ParseDistribution that you could use. It doesn't appear to have propagated across the interwebnet yet, so ... http://tinyurl.com/cpan-parsedistribution -- David Cantrell | Hero

Re: CPAN Testers stats on search.cpan.org

2009-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
. An email is sent out daily to authors summarising recent test failures. See here https://prefs.cpantesters.org/ for details. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness It's my experience that neither users nor customers can articulate what it is they want, nor can

Re: Recession rates

2009-03-11 Thread David Cantrell
now looking, so the dearth of quality is over! Feel free to send him my way. -- David Cantrell | top google result for topless karaoke murders For every vengeance, there is an equal and opposite revengeance. -- Cartoon Law X

Re: Recession rates

2009-03-10 Thread David Cantrell
on 30,000 a year. And plenty more on a lot less than that, who live OK. Oh boo hoo they can't buy a shiny new laptop at the drop of a hat, or buy foie gras at Fortnums. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best

Re: Action address in HTML forms

2009-03-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:27:18AM +, James Laver wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:32 PM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: I've always wondered what the point was of having a seperate /cgi-bin or equivalent.  I stopped doing that as soon as I switched to a web server

Backpan mirror wanted

2009-03-04 Thread David Cantrell
Can anyone bring a backpan mirror to the pub tomorrow on a USB thingy please so I can copy it? -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age You can't spell slaughter without laughter

Re: Backpan mirror wanted

2009-03-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:37:51PM +, Andy Armstrong wrote: On 4 Mar 2009, at 16:13, David Cantrell wrote: Can anyone bring a backpan mirror to the pub tomorrow on a USB thingy please so I can copy it? There's http://backpan.hexten.net/ It's not on a USB thingy (and in any case I won't

Re: Action address in HTML forms

2009-03-03 Thread David Cantrell
to a web server that didn't enforce it. -- David Cantrell

Re: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] London.pm social, Knights Templar WC2, Thu 5 Mar 2009

2009-02-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:47:00PM +, amp...@gmail.com wrote: Is this for Linux. Swine, or just for the perls? (Linux Users or Perl programmers) All are welcome. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist All children should be aptitude-tested at an early age and, if their main

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