Re: Simple cryto script

2003-02-13 Thread David Cantrell
stored. If they match, then it is assumed that the password provided matches and you allow login. Use of crypt() for this is deprecated, nowadays you should be using MD5 or - preferably - SHA1 for your password-hashing needs. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http

[ANNOUNCE] Croydon.pm drinks

2003-02-13 Thread David Cantrell
the 250 bus from Brixton and walk from West Croydon. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david I hear you asking yourselves why?. Hurd will be out in a year ... -- Linus Torvalds, in [EMAIL PROTECTED]

books 7015b70ef5c6b8d88f27ffd6d063425e

2003-02-12 Thread David Cantrell
that to the subject. Like this. Hello spam filters. -- David Cantrell | Sysadmin/programmer for hire | [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hear you asking yourselves why?. Hurd will be out in a year ... -- Linus Torvalds, in [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Language optimality (was WWW::Map::UK::Streetmap)

2003-02-11 Thread David Cantrell
versions of perl. If you're going to argue about speed, I want to see meaningful benchmarks, otherwise you're just engaging in idle speculation. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david For every vengeance, there is an equal and opposite revengeance

Re: Language Gentlemen and Ladies

2003-02-11 Thread David Cantrell
the hell you want through ssh. Of course, it's *not* fool-proof, as the large number of HTTP POSTs coming from your workstation will be, errm, noteworthy, to your local security wookie. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david When a woman has a man on a string

Re: Perl / UTF-8 (Was Re: WWW::Map::UK::Streetmap - A tale of woe)

2003-02-11 Thread David Cantrell
is not fundamental. I'd use it if I knew how shrug. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Considering the number of wheels Microsoft has found reason to invent, one never ceases to be baffled by the minuscule number whose shape even vaguely resembles

Re: Language Gentlemen and Ladies

2003-02-11 Thread David Cantrell
to those ports then yes. But normally they'll use an http proxy, which will nto pass your ssh packets. Hence me recommending http tunnel. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david For every vengeance, there is an equal and opposite revengeance

Re: WWW::Map::UK::Streetmap - A tale of woe

2003-02-10 Thread David Cantrell
, problems which can preclude using it in very busy or very large environments, or at least limit its use. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it-- Agatha

scaling (was: Re: WWW::Map::UK::Streetmap - A tale of woe)

2003-02-10 Thread David Cantrell
. * - those multiple small machines might be partitions of a single big machine of course, like a Sun Ebignum or some IBM behemoth. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Educating this luser would be something to frustrate even the unflappable Yoda and make

connection pooling (was: Re: WWW::Map::UK::Streetmap - A tale of woe)

2003-02-10 Thread David Cantrell
anyway. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david It would be reasonable to judge cannabis less of a threat to health than alcohol or tobacco ... this should be borne in mind by social legislators who, disapproving of other people's indulgences, seek

C irritations

2003-02-10 Thread David Cantrell
correctl for an ordinary passwd file. Except that I'm using shadow passwords, and pwnam-pw_passwd contains the ever- so-useful string 'x'. What do I need to do to get it wurking? -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david I guess that, if you're

Re: C irritations

2003-02-10 Thread David Cantrell
into another problem. AFAICT from RingTFM, if I have a line in inetd.conf like ... $port blah blah blah $user /path/foo wibble cluck bark then when someone tickles $port, /path/foo should get run (which it does) with arguments wibble cluck and bark (which it doesn't seem to be). /me growls -- David

Re: C irritations

2003-02-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 08:51:56PM +, David Cantrell wrote: Now, I've run into another problem... OK, so I forgot to restart the daemon. BLAM BLAM BLAM -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david I guess that, if you're in Microsoft's shoes

Re: Anyone for a pub meet? South of the Thames?

2003-02-08 Thread David Cantrell
:-) -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david emacs: for a brave GNU Word -- cdevers, in #london.pm

Re: stat

2003-02-06 Thread David Cantrell
on whether the file matches or not: 503$ stat -size Linux 1871128575 504$ echo $? 0 505$ stat -size Linux 1234 506$ echo $? 1 The latter is jolly useful in a script. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david WARNING! People in front

Re: WWW::Map::UK::Streetmap - A tale of woe

2003-02-04 Thread David Cantrell
is probably better than CGI.pm as the syntax is simpler. he proclaims that 'all CGI programs should run under ... -Tw ... use strict' [...] Hmph. Could'a fooled me. -- David Cantrell | Data Archaeologist | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david I hear you asking yourselves why?. Hurd will be out

Re: Anyone for a pub meet? South of the Thames?

2003-02-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:02:57PM +, Phil Pereira wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The next meet is next Thursday - not that far away. But sure, I'd not mind meeting up for a few geeky drinks. Maybe we could call it Croydon.pm :-) Croydon.pm it is! Now for a venue - any

Re: Anyone for a pub meet? South of the Thames?

2003-02-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:42:03PM +, Phil Pereira wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slightly more seriously - how about the Dog n Bull on Surrey St? Just to confirm, this is the pub location: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=pc=CR01RG Yup. I'm pre-booked

Re: Anyone for a pub meet? South of the Thames?

2003-02-01 Thread David Cantrell
geeky drinks. Maybe we could call it Croydon.pm :-) -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Vegetables are what food eats

Re: dragons

2003-01-31 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:19:44PM +, the hatter wrote: On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Ben wrote: Is anyone thinking of going to this tonight? http://www.tateandegglive.com/event1_cai.html Mmm, fire, fireworks, explosions. I might be tempted. Sounds like fun. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David

Re: Book Press Releases

2003-01-31 Thread David Cantrell
the DiverseBooks.com website if they are interesting. I'm puzzled, why would you want to put press releases on there? I thouhgt divrsebooks was book reviews. -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david With ... the fact that Linux has become so easy to install that certain

Re: REVIEW: XML and Perl

2003-01-31 Thread David Cantrell
I've posted this on the web site. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Do not be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know and misbehave -- Fergus Henderson

Re: $host-ip_address

2003-01-30 Thread David Cantrell
in turn doesn't resolve to anything. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david While researching this email, I was forced to carry out some investigative work which unfortunately involved a bucket of puppies and a belt sander -- after JoeB, in the Monastery

Re: How to split 6 digits into 3 lots of 2

2003-01-29 Thread David Cantrell
used incantations like this: echo 123456 | awk 'BEGIN {FS=} {print $1$2-$3$4-$5$6}' -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Usenet is a co-operative venture, backed by nasty people. Follow the standards. -- Chris Rovers, in the Monastery

Re: SQL switcheroo

2003-01-29 Thread David Cantrell
TRANSACTION UPDATE pageplans SET rank=(SELECT rank+1 FROM pageplans WHERE id=20) WHERE id=20 UPDATE pageplans SET rank=(SELECT rank-1 FROM pageplans WHERE id=10) WHERE id=10 COMMIT Or summat like that, haven't written any SQL for ages. Or use a stored procedure. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent

Fwd: London Sci-Fi film festival

2003-01-29 Thread David Cantrell
http://www.sci-fi-london.com/programme.htm Some interesting stuff here: * 'Solaris' on the big screen on Saturday * A PKD documentary * Westworld/Soylent Green double bill on Sunday -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david There is no sigmonster

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread David Cantrell
like that with a Fascists for Peace or suchlike banner ;-) -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david While researching this email, I was forced to carry out some investigative work which unfortunately involved a bucket of puppies and a belt sander

Re: [PUB] The Windmill, Mayfair

2003-01-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:13:37PM +, Kate L Pugh wrote: Spotted this on grubstreet and just phoned them up. http://grault.net/cgi-bin/grubstreet.pl?Windmill,_W1S_2AT http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=529001Y=180921A=YZ=1 It's a jolly good pub. -- Lord Protector David

Re: YAPC::Europe

2003-01-26 Thread David Cantrell
Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david If you're doing business with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing. His word isn't worth shit, not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal -- W.S.Burroughs, Words of Advice for Young People

Re: [PUB] Rising Sun, Ebury Bridge Road, Victoria

2003-01-24 Thread David Cantrell
considered to be too far north so I don't see what the problem is. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david o/~ I want my SMTP o/~

Re: [REVIEW] Test Driven Development by Example

2003-01-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:26:28AM -, Dean Wilson wrote: Test Driven Development by Example [snip review] I have posted this on the website, as well as Dave Cross's review of the Red Hat Linux 8 Bible. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Re: [OT] Oldest machine still running perl

2003-01-21 Thread David Cantrell
that range. It just doesn't use base two. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david It's my experience that neither users nor customers can articulate what it is they want, nor can they evaluate it when they see it -- Alan Cooper

Re: doc management

2003-01-16 Thread David Cantrell
seem to use the header tags to get bigger fonts and not for the purpose of marking up headers. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david o/~ I want my SMTP o/~

Re: Tech meeting note

2003-01-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:03:20AM +, Kate L Pugh wrote: On Mon 13 Jan 2003, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LBW probably last two weeks of August Location? Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Re: rackmount question

2003-01-14 Thread David Cantrell
. The fastest you can afford *after* putting in as much RAM as you can afford, a decent disk controller, and decent disks. If you have room in the case, throw in a PC Weasel too before you consider the processor. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david There are many

Re: Tech meeting note

2003-01-13 Thread David Cantrell
The Perl Whirl1st-9th June OSCON (Feat. TPC) 7th-11th July YAPC::NA 16th-18th July (unconfirmed dates) YAPC::Europe YAPC::Asia::Taiwan FosdemFeb 8/9 LBW probably last two weeks of August -- David Cantrell

Re: Recreating a debian install

2003-01-11 Thread David Cantrell
from /etc for free, and all you'll have to do is re-run lilo. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david May your blessings always outweigh your blotches! -- Dianne van Dulken, in alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove

Re: Recreating a debian install

2003-01-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:36:15PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:13:36AM +, David Cantrell wrote: Bollocks to that, just use dd. That gives you changed files from /etc for free, and all you'll have to do is re-run lilo. Does dd operate with different target

Re: copyright and NFS

2003-01-11 Thread David Cantrell
the court would find there was a 'copy' in this case. I think the answer is no court would care about that for my running program copy. Wanna bet? That, IIRC, is the argument the .auian courts used to ban PS2 modchips. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

LDAP Book

2003-01-10 Thread David Cantrell
Manning have released LDAP Programming Management and Integration by Clayton Donley. If anyone who is not on the naughty list would like to review it, please let me know off-list. First come first served. http://www.manning.com/donley/index.html -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http

Photos

2003-01-10 Thread David Cantrell
http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/photos/london.pm/20030109 -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine.

Re: [OT] Playstation2 as DVD Player

2003-01-08 Thread David Cantrell
extended version. I know that there have been PS2 firmware updates specifically to address issues with DVD playback, so maybe you have an older machine with the old firmware. I believe you can get update disks from Sony. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Re: Estimating accuracy of IP-country lookup

2003-01-08 Thread David Cantrell
, but it seems pretty obvious now that they require some form of geolocation. Sadly, I expect they're using the methods that we've already discussed, with perhaps manual tweaking to fix erroneous results as and when they find out about them. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http

Re: Estimating accuracy of IP-country lookup

2003-01-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:04:21PM +, robin szemeti wrote: On Wednesday 08 January 2003 12:29, David Cantrell wrote: It's also worth considering why you are doing the lookup, and whether false- positives or false-negatives are preferable. In my case, I was doing it with the intention

Re: [OT] Playstation2 as DVD Player

2003-01-08 Thread David Cantrell
, dave. Nah, nothing to do with that. All the cable does is carry the video and sound signal from the PS2 to the telly. A bad cable may cause the signal coming out the other end to be crap quality, but it won't make the disk skip or fail to read. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http

Re: Estimating accuracy of IP-country lookup

2003-01-07 Thread David Cantrell
. That would certainly give you the scale you need. Trouble is, you need to have an awfully big carrot/stick to tempt/hit people like BT and AOL with. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david When a woman has a man on a string, controlling his every thought

Re: Of Plum Beer and Stewed Heads

2003-01-03 Thread David Cantrell
? Sure, thanks for volunteering to package it for me and convert my configuration. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david This is nice. Any idea what body-part it is?

Re: Of Plum Beer and Stewed Heads

2003-01-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:30:31PM +, Dirk Koopman wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 12:15, David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 09:53:01AM +, Dirk Koopman wrote: Other than I note that apart from the originator, every MTA handling this email was exim (including this list's

Photos from the Pillars of Hercules

2003-01-03 Thread David Cantrell
http://www.cantrell.org.uk/photos/london.pm -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Us Germans take our humour very seriously -- German cultural attache talking to the Today Programme, about the German supposed lack of a sense of humour, 29 Aug 2001

Re: Photos from the Pillars of Hercules

2003-01-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 04:31:45PM +, the hatter wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, David Cantrell wrote: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/photos/london.pm The requested URL /photos/london.pm was not found on this server http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/photos/london.pm Refunds are available from our

LotR:TTT

2002-12-19 Thread David Cantrell
Someone has dropped out, so I have one spare ticket for tonight. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david It requires zero configuration once you're configured properly -- pudge, talking about Rendezvous (zeroconf) in Jagwyre

pubs

2002-12-19 Thread David Cantrell
Here's another nice pub we could try ... http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/show.shtml/269/ -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david o/~ I want my SMTP o/~

Re: Fifteenth anniversary of Perl.

2002-12-18 Thread David Cantrell
Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david o/~ we wish you a merry currency and a happy new euro o/~

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread David Cantrell
from performance issues (which are still there even with mod_perl's connection pooling) you will run in to trouble when your database dies (and it will, at the least convenient time possible) and your web servers start to hang. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http

Re: [cam.pm] Christmas Perl Programming

2002-12-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 04:35:36AM +, Liyang HU wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:46:05PM +, David Cantrell wrote: # otherwise recurse Recursion is overrated, man. And I thought Perl programmers were all about being lazy... Oh we are. The recursive solution is incredibly

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pubmeet, Friday 13th December / Social 9th Jan

2002-12-12 Thread David Cantrell
, and where the guvnor is a Vax and SGI geek. There will be an emergency pubmeet on Friday 13 December from 5:30pm at the Knights Templar on Chancery Lane. It's a big pub. Where will we be in it? -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david If you save all your

async method calls

2002-12-11 Thread David Cantrell
of the examples and prodding it til it worked, and that's Wrong. ** - that would be the most realistic simulation, but sucks for obvious reasons. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Usenet is a co-operative venture, backed by nasty people. Follow

Re: New York, New York

2002-12-11 Thread David Cantrell
to Italian unification. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine.

Re: REVIEW: Domain Names: A Practical Guide

2002-12-10 Thread David Cantrell
this on the web site. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Vegetables are what food eats

great excitement!

2002-12-10 Thread David Cantrell
make it will get them. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david One person can change the world, but most of the time they shouldn't -- Marge Simpson

Re: Perl and Time zones.

2002-12-09 Thread David Cantrell
calculations involving dates and times to be sane. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david engineer: n. one who, regardless of how much effort he puts in to a job, will never satisfy either the suits or the scientists

Re: Perl and Time zones.

2002-12-08 Thread David Cantrell
. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david [OS X] appeals to me as a monk, a user, a compiler-of-apps, a sometime coder, and an easily amused primate with a penchant for those that are pretty, colorful, and make nice noises. -- Dan Birchall

Re: [cam.pm] Christmas Perl Programming

2002-12-08 Thread David Cantrell
= shift; grep { $code-($_) } @_; } -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Considering the number of wheels Microsoft has found reason to invent, one never ceases to be baffled by the minuscule number whose shape even vaguely resembles

Re: Email full html with images

2002-12-03 Thread David Cantrell
and punctuation altogether. -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Liver with fava beans and a nice chianti is less appealing if the donor has cirrhosis -- after Coyu, in soc.history.what-if

Re: Film: LotR:TTT

2002-12-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:03:28PM +, S. Joel Bernstein wrote: At 30/11/2002 17:56 [], David Cantrell wrote: The Two Towers opens on the 18th. I suggest that I book tickets for the 19th, which is a Thursday. Alternatiely, we could go on Mon 23rd, but that's probably a wee bit too close

Re: Film: LotR:TTT

2002-12-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:25:35PM +, Natalie S. Ford wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:07:59PM +, David Cantrell wrote: Oh, and when I posted the above - I was kinda hoping people would mail me off-list with their preferred day. I did... ;-) /one_liner Natalie gets a gold star

Re: Film: LotR:TTT

2002-12-02 Thread David Cantrell
don't think so - mostly because they're embarrassed by the fascism. Battlefield Earth too - the film was just as awful as the book. Oh, and looking at my sig ... Naked Lunch. -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david If you're doing business

Film: LotR:TTT

2002-11-30 Thread David Cantrell
to a showing at or before 6pm so that we can fit food in afterwards. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david There are many different types of sausages. The best are from the north of England. The wurst are from Germany. -- seen in alt

books

2002-11-29 Thread David Cantrell
/ Running Linux 4e http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux4/ sendmail 3e http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmail3/ Understanding the Linux Kernel 2e http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel2/ XSLT Cookbook http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xsltckbk/ -- David Cantrell | Benevolent

Re: 5.8.0

2002-11-28 Thread David Cantrell
. -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: REVIEW: Extending and Embedding Perl

2002-11-28 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:35:20PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: Review of Extending and Embedding Perl [snippety-snip] I have posted this on the web site, at: http://london.pm.org/reviews/extending-and-embedding-perl.html -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http

Re: mod_perl2 (was) Re: [JOB]

2002-11-27 Thread David Cantrell
the documentation before installing stuff, right? -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Dave, being Evil is no excuse for indenting like a moonshine-crazed lemur -- Aaron Trevena

Re: The Naughty List

2002-11-25 Thread David Cantrell
in catalogues and deciding whether to buy the book largely based on the title, that should defnitly go in your review :-) -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david attractivating: inducing the quality of being attractive, especially to members

Re: REVIEW Perl for C programmers

2002-11-25 Thread David Cantrell
, as I've now done all my background reading. Thanks, I've put this up on the web site. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons

Re: The Naughty List

2002-11-22 Thread David Cantrell
- would you be so kind as to update the list ? [clickety-click] done -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david While researching this email, I was forced to carry out some investigative work which unfortunately involved a bucket of puppies and a belt sander

Re: REVIEW: Web Caching

2002-11-22 Thread David Cantrell
that the meta-information is more consistent. Yes, some data are missing for some books, I hope to fill in the blanks this weekend. If anyone spots I made any boo-boos please let me know. I made a backup before messing with them all. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http

Re: contracts

2002-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david WARNING! People in front of screen are stupider than they appear -- Tanuki the Raccoon-dog, in the Monastery

Re: contracts

2002-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:35:41PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, David Cantrell wrote: Hey contractory people, I might get some short-term work next week, can anyone point me at a sensible standard contract I can use? Bear in mind that I don't give a monkeys about IR35

Re: contracts

2002-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
you were still employed. So charge them more to make up for the lack of holiday and sickness payment. I don't see the problem here. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons

Re: contracts

2002-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
anything I do using their resources, or which is *directly* related to my job, none of them have withdrawn their offers of employment, and they paid me, so they clearly accepted it. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david All praise the Sun God

Re: The Naughty List

2002-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:31:28PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 08:17:47PM +, David Cantrell wrote: There are several people still on the Naughty List from before I took over as Minister For Books. In the next few days, I will be naming and shaming those who

Re: Book: Best of the Perl Journal

2002-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
it is means time off from work anyway. Monday and Friday next week are free for me. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced

Re: Book: Best of the Perl Journal

2002-11-19 Thread David Cantrell
if it was delivered to someone to the south of London. Oh goodie, I was wondering when that would be out. I can come down to Guildford and take it off your hands, then pass it on to someone for review. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Pressure was growing

contracts

2002-11-19 Thread David Cantrell
Hey contractory people, I might get some short-term work next week, can anyone point me at a sensible standard contract I can use? Bear in mind that I don't give a monkeys about IR35 as I have no intention of being an evil tax-evader. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http

Re: MySQL - PostgreSQL migration

2002-11-19 Thread David Cantrell
hobbyist/evaluation licence. Probably still do. -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Us Germans take our humour very seriously -- German cultural attache talking to the Today Programme, about the German supposed lack of a sense of humour, 29

Re: irrelevant questions for candidates

2002-11-18 Thread David Cantrell
. * - insert mwuhahahahaha as appropriate -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david It doesn't matter to me if someone else's computer is faster because I know my system could smash theirs flat if it fell over on it. -- (with apologies to Brian Chase)

Re: PIG photos

2002-11-17 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:14:29AM +, alex wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 20:15, David Cantrell wrote: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/photos/london.pm/PIG/ There are no pictures of any food there apart from small baskets of bread. There were some pics of food, but they didn't come out

Re: MySQL - PostgreSQL migration

2002-11-17 Thread David Cantrell
of course, but still runs faster than Oracle on skimpy hardware. I haven't had a chance to compare them against each other running on big beastly machines. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Perl may be the best solution for processing a text file

[ANNOUNCE] An election broadcast by THE DAVE CONSPIRACY

2002-11-17 Thread David Cantrell
will be permitted - nay, encouraged; Decision-making will be faster. There will not be protracted arguments about which pub to go to; The Conspiracy will try to build relationships with other geekly groupings in London. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

orbz

2002-11-17 Thread David Cantrell
Today (or maybe yesterday) orbz started listing the entire internet. So if you're using an old spamassassin or similar, update your rule files to ignore it. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Nuke a disabled unborn gay baby whale for JESUS!

Re: irrelevant questions for candidates

2002-11-17 Thread David Cantrell
If they're irrelevant I'll save time and space by not bothering to answer. -- David Cantrell|Reprobate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Gehyrst þu, sælida, hwæt þis folc segeð? Hi willað eow to gafole garas syllan, ættrynne ord and ealde swurd, þa

Re: orbz

2002-11-17 Thread David Cantrell
use such lists merely as one of many tools each of which indicates that a message may or may not be Bad, and only flag messages for special treatment if they trip over a certain threshold. Note that I said flag messages for special treatment. Not decline them. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL

PIG photos

2002-11-16 Thread David Cantrell
http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/photos/london.pm/PIG/ -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david attractivating: inducing the quality of being attractive, especially to members of the appropriate sex. -- Henrik Levkowetz

Re: Technical Reviewer

2002-11-14 Thread David Cantrell
a free copy of the book once it's published (what Manning do) or let you pick a couple of books for free that they have already published. I don't think I'm being taken advantage of. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Usenet is a co-operative venture

Re: Technical Reviewer

2002-11-14 Thread David Cantrell
, or O'Reilly, and I'll try to get a copy for you. Your payment is the free book, and you may only have one book for review at a time. * - IT-related, vaguely techie. So books on digital photography don't count, but books on Windows admin, programming in Python, or wrangling routers do. -- David

book

2002-11-08 Thread David Cantrell
O'Reilly have Building Secure Servers with Linux available, anyone want to review it? -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H. L. Mencken

fun with maps

2002-11-08 Thread David Cantrell
If I have nest maps, like so ... map { map { foo } bar } is there any (elegant) way of getting at the outer map's idea of what $_ is from within the inner map? I'd rather not use a temporary variable if at all possible. -- David Cantrell

Re: Zoe

2002-11-07 Thread David Cantrell
and damned well should be found. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david All principles of gravity are negated by fear -- Cartoon Law V

Re: Usernames?

2002-11-06 Thread David Cantrell
. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation. -- Johnny

Re: Usernames?

2002-11-06 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:44:17AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: Now i'm sure this has been all cleared up, however would you trust a company who had put out shit like the above again quickly? And as important, would you trust an NT shop to have applied the patches? -- David Cantrell

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