first Thursday before the last Friday?
Straws will be drawn for the Surrey.pm `leader', though quite what
duties that will entail is unknown at this time.
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The 100 per cent American is 99 per cent an idiot
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
for me...
Anying daring enough to announce this officially on the list ? :-)
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Chance favors the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR
s, there will be wireless ethernet
available.
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UNIX, n:
Anything which is subtly incompatible with everything else claming
to be a UNIX.
osit for their
merchant account. Probably to do with their turnover and market
though. From what I understand that's the rough price of a payment
gateway where you only get charged 2.5%.
But you still get stung £25 for chargebacks.
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The flush toilet is t
d Lion in Godalming, if a wide
variety of ale on tap is a requirement.
> (Though I am definitely agreed in principle on a surrey.pm meet)
Me too, living right behind Guildford train station...
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Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
KEN KESEY
hat the `$class' object it having its
`attribute' member updated.
Do have a look at the accessors generated by Class::Tangram objects,
I've put a lot of thought into the way code looks when you use the
default accessors. I know that the interface to the module itself is
due for a fairly major overhaul, but try to look past that :).
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This is an object-oriented system.
If we change anything, the users object."
space on /var. If you use
MySQL/InnoDB 4.0.14 +, you can turn on O_DIRECT, and skip the
Buffercache as well 8-).
Linux is then reduced to being a glorified SCSI driver for MySQL :-).
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If youve seen one redwood, youve seen them all.
RONALD REAGAN
. Installing GRUB onto the second disk really depends
on your BIOS behaviour, ie what BIOS device numbers it assigns to
disks when one has failed. The PC's bootstrap system really sucks.
A word of advice: if you have /usr on an LVM partition, have printouts
of the man pages for the LVM command
ent and polite, too.
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Don't go around the world saying it owes you something. It owes you
nothing. It was here first!"
-- Mark Twain
On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 10:58, Lusercop wrote;
> how can it now be unsupported?". Just upgrade. It will make your
> life *so* much easier. (there are actually .debs of exim4 around
> if you want it to sit nicely with your package management).
Yes. Upgrade. To postfix.
--
Sam
am can be considered a state
machine, as it has a set of states and means of transitioning between
those states.
So, therefore goto is valid everywhere! :-)
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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we
are permitted to remain children all
't think that their servers are actually based in the UK though.
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Real computer scientists don't write the user interfaces, they merely
argue over what they should look like.
trong opinions on this -- grams per
> day IIRC.
You're much better off just eating more fruit and vegetables though.
Get lots of Vit. C and other antioxidants at the same time. No sense
in overdosing on just one.
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Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
America is the only country that we
need to be scanned
to work out where each file starts and ends.
And plain `ar' doesn't do compression.
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything ?
VINCENT van GOGH
top of the
tooth) and where 75% of the tooth was missing. There is no excuse for
not using it.
She had to ask around in NZ to find a dentist that would do
`thermo-fill' root canal treatment. This method is fast (took under
45 minutes for me) and safe.
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Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
&quo
ks didn't show up). Anyone?
Obviously you've never pointed Mozzy to this URL then:
chrome://navigator/content/navigator.xul
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Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all its contents.
H P LOVECRAFT
size
> becomes relatively more important.
An algorithm like `lzop' would be best for on-the-fly compression
IMHO.
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
ABBIE HOFFMAN
ention of this to the author of the book, see what he's
got to say.
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grand Master Turing once dreamed that he was a machine. When he awoke
he exclaimed:
"I don't know whether I am Turing dreaming that I am a machine,
or a machine dreaming that I am Turing!"
he module author to perform an impossible
request, to substitute for a lack of correct system testing on the
part of the user.
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Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chance favors the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR
27;s - eg DHA (22:6), EPA (20:5) are much better than shorter ones like
ALA (18:3) or Steradonic Acid (18:4).
Anyway, it's interesting stuff. He has several books; a recipe book
(the meals are exquisite), a book on the benefits of fish oils, a book
applying his research to vegetarians, and loads more.
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ambition is the curse of the political class.
- anon.
Without doing
He> much in the way of detox, some of her symptoms have almost
He> completely gone, and the rest about half better.
/me considers getting all his amalgam fillings changed to composite...
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Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A seeming ignorance is often a most necessary part of worldly
knowledge.
- anon.
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:35, Ben wrote;
Be> That's the second pseudo-Kornerism you've sigged us with
Be> today. Is there a reason?
Sheer chance I'm afraid :-)
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$h=$ENV{HOME};@q=split/\n\n/,`cat $h/.quotes`;$s="$h/.s"
."i
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:26, Michel Rodriguez wrote;
MR> (where is the pound sign when you need it?).
Try AltGr+Shift+3 (or AltGr+#) with a standard XFree86 keymap...
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This year's modesty award is given for a phrase spoken by a lecturer
after a rather d
roteins per day.
A couple of relevant studies for from PubMed:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12432919&dopt=Abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12065621&dopt=Abstract
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If everything would be permitted to me, I would feel lost in the
abyss of freedom
IGOR STRAVINSKY
pe!
You're not using Attribute::Handlers anywhere are you? I noticed
something similar recently. Actually in this case a method from the
wrong stash was being called.
Devel::Peek and Scalar::Util are your friends debugging these sorts of
problems. Perhaps changing it to something like:
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:29, Chris Benson wrote;
CB> I thought it already was ...
I thought that the US prison statistics were because of the War on
Drugs.
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Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To know the truth is to distort the Universe.
-- Alfred N. Whitehead (adaptation)
uted
around the world as nutritional perfection, to something actually
based on scientific study and research :-)
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Overheard at a supervision :
Supervisor : Do you think you understand the basic ideas of Quantum
Mechanics ?
Supervisee : Ah! Well,what do
ng instead for bunging the entire
previous message at the bottom of a new message, possibly preceded
by a line saying "Begin original message" or similar.
There's always RMS' extremely spartan quoting style.
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
It's screwing up the threading!
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:08, Randal L. Schwartz wrote;
RL> At a speed cost that makes it slower than Pg, and an earlier
RL> spot on the design curve which Pg has already matured on.
I think I'd rather spend the money I save on Pg DBA's on more disks.
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROT
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:28, Chris Young wrote;
CY> B. Do I take older versions of the packages I need to go with my
CY> old hardware, old OS and old database?
Try DBI 1.14 or a near later version. That was the earliest known
stable version AFAIK.
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On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:13, Nigel Hamilton wrote;
NH> Yes ... just imagine a world where we had terrabytes of RAM -
NH> everything would be stored in vast object pools.
FWIW, the NZ Stock Exchance runs on a replicated RAM database (on
Linux).
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ing ... works
very well using raw LVM partitions as tablespaces (I haven't yet found
a way to add more table space online, but I may just be overlooking
the obvious).
http://www.innodb.com/features.html
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UNIX, n:
Anything which is subtly incompatible with everything else claming
to be a UNIX.
e you have to
explicitly tell the tool what columns you've got, and how big they are
is better.
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization.
ALAN COULT
dependant on your prefix path!?
Sheer logistics, where else would it look? The registry?
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For even the strongest force will weaken with time,
And then its violence will return, and kill it.
- from the _Tao Te Ching_, chapter 30
cases.
I think a better way to put this is that all changes to the OS owned
directories should be made through the OS' native packaging system.
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it
on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality.
AL CAPONE
> This counts as "art" rather than debauchery? On the basis that
> debauchery is frowned on at social meetings?
/me smells a "what is art?" debate coming on...
/me farts in order to mask any such smell before things get out of
hand.
--
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and while writing this mail I searched for LOGO a bit and found this
site about YoYo - Java for kids.
http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/bongo/
Sheesh, that's like feeding your kids arsenic or raw sugar!
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Real computer scientists
://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=44763
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Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
He who shits on the road will meet flies on his return.
SOUTH AFRICAN SAYING
.html
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Real software engineers write in languages that have not actually been
implemented for any machine, and for which only the formal spec (in
BNF) is available. This keeps them from having to take any machine
dependencies into account. Machine dependencies
n::Maptastic, or Collection::Map.
But really, is anyone really going to use that namespace for anything?
;-)
--
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Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.
BILLY ROSE
Also following the recent discussion on pronunciations, the words
text'd or texted do not exists in the dictionary. Which do you
think will make it first!?
You forgot: "txt'd", "txted" ...
pronounced "teksd" of course :-)
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:Situation();
my $doc = new XML::Sablotron::DOM::Document(SITUATION => $sit);
$doc->parseBuffer($situa, $buffer);
my @options = $doc->xql("//form//select//option");
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The best mirror is a friend's eye.
GAELIC PROVERB
uot;break" signal if using an RS-232 console), then type
"sync" to get a crash dump, and forward the auto-analysis of it
to your local Sun support team :-)
- Join this great mailing list: http://www.sunmanagers.org/
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Real sof
#x27;install Bundle::Foo' < /dev/null
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Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come
in contact with a new idea.
JOHN NUVEEN
tc). I feel your pain.
Have you released your magic SysV CPAN packager anywhere?
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in
his mouth.
- anon.
', and skip tests if the
configuration is missing.
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The sage does not distinguish between himself and the world;
The needs of other people are as his own.
- Tao Te Ching chapter 49
hosts, all of which must
> have the same version of the package installed with the same options.
That's what OS packages are for.
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the
only thing that never fails.
T. H. WHITE
asic = $class->SUPER::install(@_);
$basic =~ s/^(install\s+::\s+.*)$/$1 install_templates/m;
$basic;
}
sub constants {
my $class = shift;
my $basic = $class->SUPER::constants(@_);
$basic = "TT_TDIR = $main::template_dir\n$basic";
$basic;
}
package main;
WriteMak
Hi all,
My spare ticket as below is now free to a good home. If anyone can be
bothered to drag their sorry ass out of bed to get to Waterloo before
8am tomorrow morning, their passage will be free.
Sam.
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:08, Sam Vilain wrote:
> Here's another couple of tickets
eople).
Oh, excellent, so it has all of the drawbacks with none of the
advantages of an open source license then!
Does anyone *really* think that putting a clause against using a piece
of software to spam in the license will work?
--
Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An eye for eye only ends up
ts cost me £59 each (hence the early departure time), I'd be
looking to recover as much of that as possible.
I'm on IRC as mugwump (though not necessarily in #London.pm).
Otherwise you can try me on 07906 189 456.
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Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UNIX, n:
Anything which is subtly i
"Jonathan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Given the way Apache is going, I'd have thought dealing with threading
> would be quite a priority for mod_perl, no?
Look out for it in mod_perl 2.0, so I've heard. It will keep a pool of
interpreter threads for c
es, or> tips you can pass on?
>
> N ([EMAIL PROTECTED], for those of you that know me there. . .)
>
>
>
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Hi, I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!
Alex,
You best bet is probably FastCGI; you should then be able to set up a
number of back-end FastCGI processes serving pages.
Converting mod_perl CGI scripts to FastCGI is pretty easy, as long as you
stayed away from the Apache API. See the man page for CGI::Fast for an
example, or http://www
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:20:49 +0100
"Newton, Philip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> FYI, the Xitami web server (at least on Win32 systems) doesn't output any of
> the CGI's output to the client until the CGI is done, so perhaps it
> implements CGI with STDOUT directed to a file, which it then reads
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 00:24:37 -0800
Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you've ever wondered why a Debian package is in unstable but is
> taking forever to make it into testing, check this page,
>
> http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html (841KB now)
>
> I was looking
I notice that PerlMonks are selling PerlMonks coffee mugs.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to buy a medium sized box of these and
fob them off at london.pm meetings?
Sam.
No? Well, if you ever find yourself doing it, make sure you stick the below patch
onto SelfLoader.pm, otherwise the debugger won't know what it's debugging, and hence
can't print out the current position in your code piece.
Perl sucks - any decent language does not let you compile code where i
On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 15:07:18 + (GMT)
Redvers Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First time I was let loose in an American town I Jaywalked by way from
> one side to the other. The typical cross halfway, down the road a bit
> cross the rest strategy of road traversal it seems is not apprecia
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:31:33 +0100 (BST)
Simon Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However you look at it, no amount of documentation makes up for
> practical experience of the system you are supporting. If you change
> sys admins every 6-12 months you end up with a layered environment,
> each lay
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:25:45 -0400 (EDT)
Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's worth noting that this was apparently not just another gratuitous
> Spielbergism. It was apparently part of the story as Kubrick was planning
> on telling it, and as produced by Speilberg was true to that.
Ca
as the same specs, I have a pair that folds up into a space only
slightly larger than a tennis ball and yet has the same stats as the
above.
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I hear that one problem with that script is the security problem that if
it is not altered, then it is possible to send mail from any address,
effectively allowing you to spam with it.
What I suggest for NMS scripts is that they have an internal configuration
function, whereby the script will ref
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:38:29 -0400 (EDT)
Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > paid 6.50 pounds ( 10 dollars :) for a large coke once at a French
> > resort once[1]. Go to Canada or the US ski resorts and some places
> > even seem to have *cheaper* than normal prices ... and they where
> >
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 12:07:08 +0100
David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I strongly recommend Quillans on Buckingham Gate. It's the best curry
> house in the world, according to the Curry Club. It's certainly the
> best I've been to.
The best curry I've had was from Panshi, who are on Ma
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