Re: london.pm digest, Vol 1 #1485 - 18 msgs

2003-07-14 Thread Ivor Williams
- Original Message - > Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:46:11 +0100 > Subject: Re: OT: More sybase related - IDENTIFIER TOO LONG > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: David Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 03:41 P

Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure

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

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

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

Expletives (was Eurocracy sucks)

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

Re: [OT] Dynamic image viewers

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

Re: beer

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

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

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

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

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

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

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

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

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

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

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

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

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

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Mark Overmeer
* Jason Clifford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030714 17:49]: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Earle Martin wrote: > > My wife, who is not from within the EU, requires a Schengen Visa[0] to come > > with me to YAPC::EU. So, I just called the French consulate's visa > > appointment booking line (which costs a fucking

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

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

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Jon Reades
I've also discovered that, for some countries/visas at least, it is possible to have a company help you out (for a fee, of course). I don't recommend this in all but the most urgent cases, but a colleague of mine needed to get to Russia on short notice and found a company that took care of ever

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

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

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

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

Apology made formal

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

Eurocracy sucks.

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

Re: OT: More sybase related - IDENTIFIER TOO LONG

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

Re: OT: More sybase related - IDENTIFIER TOO LONG

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

Re: How to make lexical warnings 'die'?

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

Re: How to make lexical warnings 'die'?

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

Re: How to make lexical warnings 'die'?

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

How to make lexical warnings 'die'?

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

Re: Orange

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

Re: OT: More sybase related - IDENTIFIER TOO LONG

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

Re: ! Orange [Was: Orange]

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

Re: beer

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

State of the Onion

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

Re: Orange

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

Re: Orange

2003-07-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Leo Lapworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 11:50:41AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > > On a similar note, I assume that Leon only won control of our web site > > > for one year. > > > > As I stated when I took over leadership,