Jason Clifford wrote:
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, nemesis wrote:
Netbanx: http://www.netinvest.co.uk/ncr/netbanx/
Of the ones listed these are the only ones I would specifically avoid.
On the few occassions I've had to pay via their service it's been
impossible as their site only seem
Hi all,
I need to advise someone on online payment taking services (for a
shopping cart system), but although I have a fair idea how a lot of the
systems work, I have no idea if any of them are any good or what to look
out for. I have found a few companies that seem well known:
Netbanx: http:
Dean Wilson wrote:
James Campbell wrote:
I'm looking for a company to host a business website. Has anyone had
any good or bad experiences that they can comment on without an
ensuing lawsuite? I'm in London as I am sure (some) of you are so if
you know of any London based companies I would love to
Tony Kennick wrote:
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:14:40 +0100
Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I thought traditional london.pm advocacy was whether Willow or Buffy was
on top.
Willow and Faith custard wrestling.
On the note of advocacy, it is part of life, the problem with the mail
wasn't that it
Just discorvered that replacing this line:
print OUTPUT $buffer;
with this:
print OUTPUT ".";
works every time, leaving me with a file with some dots in it.
Will.
From a chat on IRC I realise that I haven't really included enough information.
my $buffer= "";
my $buffer_size = 16384;
#print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
I only included this line, and the exit; statement below, to debug the script.
There is a header printed out later in the script. Th
Hello.
I have a script that allows a user to upload images to the filesystem as part of
the backend to a CGI shopping cart system has been working fine. I then added
another section allowing the user to upload images for a different part of the
site but this doesn't work. The code used to pro
Nik Butler wrote:
...good sales guys ?
Isn't that an Oxymoron?
:-)
Will
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Alex" == Alex McLintock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alex> And best of all - if you don't need MySQL then it is free. (Apparently
Alex> you can't distribute MySQL as part of a commercial product.without
Alex> paying for a license)
First, I don't think that's true
Shevek wrote:
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Andy Wardley wrote:
I was surprised for Penny to mention that the servers were "swamped"
with Perl but ran fine in C++. Hence I suspected that the large
She did virtually say that they were using CGI. She wrote as a comparison
with IIS/DLLs:
Didn't Penn
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
What's the cheapest way of doing a reasonably pukka SSL site cert?
I have had success with Thawte[0] in the past. If you need to get them on the
phone it is pretty easy. Unfortunatly they are owned by Verisign I think.
Will.
[0] http://www.thawte.com/
Neil Ford wrote:
On 18/10/02 4:14 pm, "Simon Wistow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:56:56PM +0100, Nicholas Clark said:
stuff
my plan is exactly that. The box will be a Smoothwall box with two
network cards and a wireless card in it for, red, green and orange zones
re
Mark Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, nemesis wrote:
>
>
>>If I preload Page.pm and have a BEGIN {} block in it that loads the
>>template file into a variable for use within the module, would this
>>BEGIN block get run when the module was use'ed,
Leon Brocard wrote:
> nemesis sent the following bits through the ether:
>
>
>>I guess that every time this method is called HTML::Template reads in the
>>the template file from disk. I think this could be faster if the template
>>was in memory.
>
>
>
Tim Sweetman wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>
>>I guess that every time this method is called HTML::Template reads in the the
>>template file from disk. I think this could be faster if the template was in
>>memory.
>
>
> Um, RTFM on HTML::Template, which describes i
Hi all,
I have mod_perl running and I am pre-loading the HTML::Template module (among
others) when Apache starts up. I also have a self written Page.pm module with
the 'print' method and uses the HTML::Template module to do substitutions in a
template file:
sub print {
my $self = sh
alex wrote:
> probably completely crap but following is an approach i have been thinking
> about for a while and have been looking for the right soft/textual dataset
> to try it out on.
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I certainly have some more ideass to work on.
Will
Simon Wistow wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:23:59AM +0100, nemesis said:
>
>>Alternatively I could generate some stats about every field as I entered it into
>>the database, ie number of words and a list of the most repeated words (minus
>>common words) and their
Hello again,
I have a database (mySQL) full of variable length text fields (average about
1500 characters, 250 words). Curently there are about 250 fields, but I hope
this to expand to as many as possible (it is an online joke archive).
I need to be able to check that when I add another field
nemesis wrote:
> I got a free pentium (75 I think) and it is running IPcop...
It doesn't have to be free, IPcop will run on purchased hardware with a almost
no drop in performance :-)
Will
David Cantrell wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 10:27:09AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
>
>>I've just about decided to go for ADSL, and Nildram have been recommended
>>here, so I go to this page:
>>
>>https://www.getadsl.co.uk/services_home.htm
>>
>>and now I'm not really sure what I want. I think
nemesis wrote:
> foreach my $line (@body) {
> $_ = $line;
> s/^(?:>|\s)*(.*)$/$1/g;
> print;
> }
Thanks for the suggested improvements. It would have helped if @body wasn't 1
element in size and that element contained the whole of the text :-) Oh, and
thank
Hi all,
I have a bunch of jokes that people have forwarded me over the years[1] and they
all have really bad formatting [2]. I am lazy and want to do as much formatting
of the jokes as I can automatically. I have tried this piece of code to get rid
of any '>' or whitespace charachters befor
Lusercop wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:52:03AM +0100, nemesis wrote:
>
>>I quite like big soft MUAs like mozilla mail so I run an IMAP server on
>>the machine that gets the mail and use stunnel[0] to provide an
>>encrypted connection. It took about 10 minutes
Neil Fryer wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Does anyone know of a Linux mailing list in the london area, as I signed up
> to one that was supposed to exist, and well, nada?
gllug is pretty good, it is a community mailing liust but there are quite a few
technically capable people on it:
http://gllug.linux.c
Paul Johnson wrote:
> My mail is sitting on my machine at home, in mbox format. I'm sitting
> at work, behind a firewall. My machine at home is running Debian Woody.
>
> I want to read and send mail, securely.
>
> I tried http://jwebmail.sourceforge.net/, but it's in Java and it
> doesn't "jus
Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 08:06:59AM -0700, jonah wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Did you download a binary perl, or build it yourself from source?
>>
>>Apparently it was a binary perl.
Was it a binary or source installation of mysql? I seem
John Tobin wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 01:15:45PM +0100, nemesis wrote:
>
>>Now I ran the command:
>>
>># perl Makefile.PL --cflags=-I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql
>>--libs=-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm
>
>
> I t
Hi All,
I have set up a new machine (to replace a crusty old server) but I am
having a few problems installing DBD::mysql which I need for a few apps
on the box. I installed MySQL 3.23.52 in /usr/local/mysql, not
/usr/local and this seemed to cause CPAN to fail when installing
DBD::mysql so
Hello,
I have a problem with LWP::UserAgent. I am running some performance tests on a
site that uses SSL. I have Crypt::SSLeay installed and this is pretty much the
code I am using to make the requests:
$url = 'https://somedomain.com/some.cgi';
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$ua->cookie_jar(H
Brad Bollenbach wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:37:34AM +0100, Chris Carline wrote:
>
>>On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:15:19AM +0100, Brad Bollenbach wrote:
>>
>>>So my question is, if you can get a decent enough website going to make
>>>thousands and thousands of people click on a "Send" button
Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:34:07PM +0100, nemesis wrote:
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I have a script that gets some pages and it needs to remember the cookies
>>they so generously provide. I have dones this using the cookie jar
>>functi
Hi All,
I have a script that gets some pages and it needs to remember the cookies they so
generously
provide. I have dones this using the cookie jar functionality of the LWP::UserAgent
module:
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "/path/to/lwpcookies.txt
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>"David" == David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> David> The Christopher Lee impersonator they got was fantastic too.
>
> I thought that was merely a CG effect, like Yoda. On the digital
> projection, I kept seeing flicker around his face.
That mus
Alex McLintock wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Thanks for all your suggestions regarding mail list software. I think
> the consensus is to try mailman for what I need
> though of course there are still many other situations when majordomo is
> more appropriate.
>
> ---
>
> I am won
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:01:43PM +, jo walsh wrote:
>
> omg i've just seen a tv advert for a playmobil pony farm!
> we should get one to stick on top of penderel to play with while
> fscking it.
With a plastic poseable buffy with moveable limbs and a stake?
Newton, Philip wrote:
> Dominic Mitchell wrote:
>
>>german (why is "Ctrl" "Strg"?)
>>
>
> My expansion is "Steuerung", which, I suppose, is supposed to be a
> translation of "Control". But I still say "Konntrohl Tsee" for "Ctrl+C", not
> "Strig Tsee" or "Steuerung Tsee".
>
> What I'd like to kn
Chris Devers wrote:
> As for truly faster, speech-speed input -- how about a microphone?
Try visiting http://slashdot.org with voice recognition :-)
--
*claw claw* *fang*
*shred* *rip* *ad hominem* *slash*
(more attacks will require consultancy fees.)
-Nix.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Vaugly off topic...
not for this list :-)
> Made me wonder - what is the fastest method of user input into a computer.
>
> We all know that the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow us down. So,
> anyone know any good mechanisms which are designed to speed us up?
I t
David Cantrell wrote:
> So penderel is back after dieing yet again. I suggest that we replace it
> with a machine which is actually engineered to be reliable...
I would suggest this beast of a machine:
http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPic.html
--
*claw claw* *fang*
*shred* *rip* *ad
Charlie & wrote:
> I just want a good quality linux capable and usable Webcam...
Someone on the gllug list mentioned Dexxa webcams (you can search tge
archives, gllug.linux.co.uk) a while ago. They were dirt cheap at the
time and they worked.
Will.
--
*claw claw* *fang*
*shred* *rip* *ad h
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>whereas a .303 rifle may only cause slight bruising/annoyance.
>>
>
> Have you ever *held* a .303 rifle?
There is less chance of a 486 jamming in the banisters on the way down,
so you retain the edge. Of course you need the element of surprise, a
man holding a 486
Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> nemesis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>>Anyone know of a way of telling whether a perl script was called as a
>>CGI (via the apache webserver) or directly (as in as a cron script or
>>command line)?
>>
>
> if (exists $E
Anyone know of a way of telling whether a perl script was called as a
CGI (via the apache webserver) or directly (as in as a cron script or
command line)?
Will.
--
*claw claw* *fang*
*shred* *rip* *ad hominem* *slash*
(more attacks will require consultancy fees.)
-Nix.
Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> David Cantrell wrote:
>
>>If they are allowing someone to use their machine to attack me, then *they*
>>are attacking me. Not securing their own box is a sin of ommission as
>>opposed to a sin of commission, so I'll let them off with a sound flaming
>>instead of cutt
Robert Shiels wrote:
> From: "robin szemeti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>>google "wingate exploits" 3,300 pages .. hmmm
>>
>>
> Hmm, maybe my version of google is different to yours:
>
> wingate + exploits : Results 1 - 10 of about 2,120
>
> apache + exploits : Results 1 - 10 of about 19,600
>
> W
Greg McCarroll wrote:
> * robin szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>>if your scans and probes look like ...
>>
>>[4] PBServer/..%5c..%5c..%5cwinnt/system32/cmd.exe
>>
>
>
>
>>etc etc etc ad nauseum
>>
>>
>
> nope, the sequence of events went something like this
>
> portscan on 145
> 2
Ivor Williams wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Just curious, what does perl actually stand for, or is it not an acronym?
'Practical extraction and reporting language' I believe
Larry originally had the 'a' in there but wisely dropped it.
Will
--
*claw claw* *fang*
*shred* *rip* *ad hominem* *slas
[Warning: contains nut]
- Original Message -
From: "Newton, Philip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: way OT, but I thought it was amusing.
> [Warning: contains nitpicking]
>
> nemesis wrot
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $image_url = 'http://www.fyshbowl.org/temp/announcement.jpg';
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "\n";
I put some perl around the comedy image URL so there was the smallest on
topicness about this post.
Me.
- Original Message -
From: "Greg McCarroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: REMINDER: New Heretics meeting
> This is an incredible game, i've played it for about an hour now and I
> just can't believe how much fun it is,
- Original Message -
From: "Simon Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: Football
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>
> > surely there must be another 5 people in london.pm want to get a
> > little fitter with
- Original Message -
From: "Richard Clyne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 11:04 AM
Subject: Football
> I'll join in, but I'm not confident of getting enough players.
This is one of the things I would like to do if I actually had enough time
to
- Original Message -
From: robin szemeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: a really stupid idea
> On Friday 26 October 2001 16:02, nemesis wrote:
>
> > The first person to realise why hellacool.co.u
- Original Message -
From: "Simon Wistow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: a really stupid idea
> > From nemesis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>
> I *knew* I should have copyright
- Original Message -
From: "Greg McCarroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "London.pm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:03 PM
Subject: a really stupid idea
> Ok, i know this is probably a really stupid idea, however ...
>
> Would 9 other people (or more) be interested
56 matches
Mail list logo
