Re: Election Manifestos
At 17:37 22/05/2001, Roger Burton West wrote: On or about Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:23:32PM +0100, Cross David - dcross typed: I've not actually seen the manifesto, but from what I'm told it really means If you can't be bothered to take a few minutes to look, why the hell are you posting about it? The actual text is: A future Conservative Government will repeal IR35 and replace it with legislation that addresses genuine abuses. Because, although I hadn't read the manifesto, I _had_ read the news stories when this piece of policy was announced about two months ago. In other words, it'll be in the pockets of whichever lobby group pays them most at the time, just as the Labour one was. Exactly. What I object to is the contractors I hear saying that just because the Tories have said they'll abolish IR35 then they _must_ vote for them. Conveniently ignoring a few facts: 1/ The second half of the sentence states that it will be replaced by something else. And we really have no idea what it might be. 2/ Most intelligent people make up their minds who to vote for on the basis of more than one issue. 3/ Some contractors don't actually agree that IR35 is such a bad thing. [snip oversized corporate disclaimer] And get a shell account, why don't you? Thanks. I already have several. And I can't get to any of them from within Acxiom without spending inordinate amounts of time doing things that I'm not being paid for. I will, however, spend some time this weekend trying to fix my webmail that my ISP broke somehow a couple of months ago. Much as I'd love it if everyone was to be able to post to the list from their favourite Unix mail client all the time, I understand that is never going to happen. We are just going to accept that some people will always be forced to post using whatever email fuckwittage their company lands them with. Yes, there _are_ always round it, but some people don't have the time or knowledge to do that. This email client snobbery is getting too frequent. Just because someone is posting from an Exchange server, it doesn't necessarily mean that what they are saying is less valid. I intended this group (and, by extension, this mailing list) to be inclusive. We should be encouraging people to use Perl, not scaring them off because they use the wrong email client. Dave... [bugger! another grumpy start to the day] -- http://www.dave.org.uk SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl Training in the UK http://www.iterative-software.com/training/
Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women
* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:17:11PM +0100, Barbie wrote: Bugger! Brain thinking faster than my hands! Your hands *think*??? dha, sees a sci-fi movie in here somewhere... that ones been done to death -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women
* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:17:11PM +0100, Barbie wrote: Bugger! Brain thinking faster than my hands! Your hands *think*??? in fact, it was a recent Angel episode -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
new york
Well back from sunny NY to good old London and what do i have waiting for me, thats right 200+ messages in London.pm! Hurrah! So instead of replying to them seperatly, I thought I'd just write a rambling email. First off, FHM 100 sexiest women, well it all comes down to your definition of what sexy means, and while I don't agree with Dave Cross' opinion about it being wrong and evil, I tend to agree that a picture can't really be sexy. I think a picture can however show attractiveness based on a set of standards/ideals which may not be everyones cup of tea. The reason I don't think it wrong is that most of the people featured make their living out of selling this 2 dimensional image and already i'd imagine can seperate it from who they are. New York was great, I took some of you guys' advice and did the Circle Line, really a good tour, loved the stories about Grant's `Tomb', the Chrysler building, the Yankee stadium etc. I also met up with dha and went to a strange pub with whips and shackles on the walls - apparently this is quite normal for greenich village. I finished it off in true intellectual style by going to WWF new york and enjoying some wrestling. Anyway speak to you all soon. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Election Manifestos
Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether: This, of course, presupposes that acmemail passes everyone's definition of a decent mail client. And if it doesn't, we can just slap the authors until it does :) You'll be happy to know that I gave up ownership of acmemail a while back stating that: a) I wasn't using it b) hence I wasn't improving it c) I don't have time for things I don't use. I handed it over to a couple of guys in the acmemail community who are slowly plodding along. It didn't hit critical mass. Discuss. Leon -- ... My other computer is a 500-node Beowulf cluster
RE: Election Manifestos
From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:43 AM Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether: This, of course, presupposes that acmemail passes everyone's definition of a decent mail client. And if it doesn't, we can just slap the authors until it does :) You'll be happy to know that I gave up ownership of acmemail a while back stating that: a) I wasn't using it b) hence I wasn't improving it c) I don't have time for things I don't use. I handed it over to a couple of guys in the acmemail community who are slowly plodding along. It didn't hit critical mass. Discuss. OK. But you'd still be able to install it far easier than anyone else in the group :) Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
Re: Election Manifestos
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:43:23AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: It didn't hit critical mass. Discuss. Yet Another Webmail Client; it wasn't exactly filling a gaping niche. (And I say that as someone who may soon be maintaining one of the others...) -- 4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
Re: Election Manifestos
Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:43:23AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: It didn't hit critical mass. Discuss. Yet Another Webmail Client; it wasn't exactly filling a gaping niche. (And I say that as someone who may soon be maintaining one of the others...) It did at the time - IIRC there weren't any (good) GPL-ed Webmail clients when Leon started Acmemail and when I (well, Mark and I) were working on it to get it integrated for a free ISP I hunted around and there wasn't anything nearly as good (IMO) except Malcom Beattie's Wing (http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mbeattie/wing/) which I looked at but didn't like the structure. It's a pity Acmemail never really took off (apart from being ripped off and turned into a succesful company by At-mail) because it had loads of great fetaures, was easy to extend and customise (especially the latest development branch) and could easily (a month of good hacking) have had feature sets to rival or beat anything I've seen including Hotmail and Yahoomail. On the other hand I learnt a lot about writing good, abstracted, large scale CGI applications and maintainable, reusable code. I learnt about doing mail and MIME properly under Perl, about working as a team on code, Open Source software development models, that Mail::Cclient is powerful but complicated and can be a bitch to install, supporting users (God some of them are stupid) and writing documentation and installation guides. Which was nice.
Re: Election Manifestos
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:04:19AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: that Mail::Cclient is powerful but complicated and can be a bitch to install, And use. Ripping that fucker out would be my first act. :) There's also http://www.horde.org/imp/ which is reasonably popular. -- Jesus ate my mouse or some similar banality. -- Megahal (trained on asr), 1998-11-06
Re: Election Manifestos
Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:04:19AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: that Mail::Cclient is powerful but complicated and can be a bitch to install, And use. Ripping that fucker out would be my first act. :) There's also http://www.horde.org/imp/ which is reasonably popular. But Mail::Cclient is also unbeleivably powerful. Lying round on my HD there's a Mail::Cclient::Simple which amkes everything much easier but it's one of many projects I've never got round to finishing. Why reinvent the wheel by rolling my own or using 5 or 6 different modules when one will do. Imp was crap when we started and it's also PHP based. I like PHP (/me gets coat) but I wouldn't do a large scale application in it (especially since I had just just done one then and hit some very large limitations) plus it doesn't have the community support that Perl does or CPAN and it was difficult to extract presentation from logic.
Re: Election Manifestos
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:17:14AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: But Mail::Cclient is also unbeleivably powerful. Lying round on my HD there's a Mail::Cclient::Simple which amkes everything much easier but it's one of many projects I've never got round to finishing. Why reinvent the wheel by rolling my own or using 5 or 6 different modules when one will do. Because it doesn't exist? :) OTOH, Mail::Cclient does do NNTP as well, which would be a boost, because WING is meant to be the Web IMAP and NNTP Gateway. Imp was crap when we started and it's also PHP based. I like PHP (/me gets coat) but I wouldn't do a large scale application in it (especially since I had just just done one then and hit some very large limitations) plus it doesn't have the community support that Perl does or CPAN and it was difficult to extract presentation from logic. If I were to deploy Imp, I wouldn't care how much community support PHP had, I'd care how much community support Imp had. -- Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken
Re: Election Manifestos
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:17:14AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: But Mail::Cclient is also unbeleivably powerful. Lying round on my HD there's a Mail::Cclient::Simple which amkes everything much easier but it's one of many projects I've never got round to finishing. Why reinvent the wheel by rolling my own or using 5 or 6 different modules when one will do. Because it doesn't exist? :) OTOH, Mail::Cclient does do NNTP as well, which would be a boost, because WING is meant to be the Web IMAP and NNTP Gateway. Mail::Cclient was (not sure if it is still) a bitch to install. Requires c headers from IMAP libraries. How likely is it that you have these (still) lying around on your client machine[1]? Most people opt for something that they can get to install easily[2] rather than something more powerful. If I can't just write a bundle for cpan then it's probably not worth the bother... Oh, let's just add it to the list of things to do once we've done NMS, the new website for london.pm.org and conferences are out of the way... Later. Mark. [1] Rhetorical question, not flame bait. [2] in under 2 hours -- My other mail has a signature
Re: Election Manifestos
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: Imp was crap when we started and it's also PHP based. I like PHP (/me gets coat) but I wouldn't do a large scale application in it (especially since I had just just done one then and hit some very large limitations) Could you elaborate on that a little? It's not too much of a danger, but I may have to persuade people that PHP isn't the right solution for a large-scale application. I know quite a few of the arguments, but it'd be nice to have some real-world examples... Tony
Re: Election Manifestos
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:06:13PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: But they fixed references in 6.0! No, wait, they just introduced a load of Thread-* headers :-( Fucking morons. They just innovated threading! Tell me you're joking. If I was joking I wouldn't have ignore Thread- in my .muttrc :-( Thread-Topic: Subject line goes here. Thread-Index: AcDZqhhI7VsxDWt9TIyjVP5af1xC5wAANWVg I've just spent five minutes trying to respond to this without actually screaming. Sorry, but I can't. Martin
Re: Election Manifestos
At 07:49 23/05/01 +0100, you wrote: At 17:37 22/05/2001, Roger Burton West wrote: And get a shell account, why don't you? Thanks. I already have several. [snip] Much as I'd love it if everyone was to be able to post to the list from their favourite Unix mail client all the time, Oxymoron, surely? have the time or knowledge to do that. This email client snobbery is getting too frequent. Just because someone is posting from an Exchange server, it doesn't necessarily mean that what they are saying is less valid. Indeed. And some of us use display technology that doesn't have an overwhelming urge to be backward compatible with 1972, and can therefore do cool futuristic stuff like handle more than 72 columns. :- Dave... [bugger! another grumpy start to the day] I blame the hot weather. It's unnatural. Jon 'Troll? Where?' Peterson -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Election Manifestos
Simon Wistow wrote: the DBI abstraction was, well, nonexistent. As in, if your script has lots of calls to mysql_this and mysql_that, it doesn't look very database independent. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Expect problem
Hi all - time for me to delurk. (dashes in from the shadows).
I've bent my brain with Expect yesterday and today, and need someone to
(metaphorically)
hit me round the head and tell me what to do right.
The scenario:
I wish to run a program, imapxfer, which transfers imap email between
two imap servers.
Each server will prompt for a password.
Getting out the trusty Perl Cookbook, I'm trying to use Expect, which is
amost working.
Here is the code:
# use Expect to run the imapxfer progam and supply its inputs
$command = Expect-spawn(/usr/local/bin/imapxfer $imapargs)
or die Couldn't start imapxfer;
# wait 20 seconds for the password: prompt
unless ($command-expect(20, password:)) {
print Timeout problem with London imapxfer \n;
}
print $command passwordr;
# wait 20 seconds for the password: prompt
unless ($command-expect(20, password:)) {
print Timeout problem with newmail imapxfer \n;
}
print $command password\r;
Things are fine up until this point - the program starts off, and both
passwords are accepted.
But when the script exits the spawned program is killed :-(, which
happens pretty quickly.
I've tried the soft_close and hard_close methods, which aren't any use.
How can I get things to wait till the spawned program finishes, or at
least let it finish properly.
I've just had success by putting in an infinite wait
unless ($command-expect(undef, nonsense)) {
};
But that seems real stupid - and of course the script will never exit
now.
Is the only thing to do to to somehow get an expect method to somehow
wait for the end of the spawned program?
Re: Email Style (was: Re: Election Manifestos)
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:52:39PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: However, the cool futuristic stuff like CORRECT BLOODY WORK WRAPPING is I generally avoid this issue by not working so much that it needs wrapping. -- Niklas Nordebo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +447966251290 The day is seven hours and fifteen minutes old, and already it's crippled with the weight of my evasions, deceit, and downright lies
Re: Expect problem
An entity claiming to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
:
: How can I get things to wait till the spawned program finishes, or at
: least let it finish properly.
: I've just had success by putting in an infinite wait
: unless ($command-expect(undef, nonsense)) {
:};
: But that seems real stupid - and of course the script will never exit
: now.
: Is the only thing to do to to somehow get an expect method to somehow
: wait for the end of the spawned program?
:
Try: $command-interact();
It connects the process to STDIN and returns when the process dies.
Mark
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Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:18:07AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:17:11PM +0100, Barbie wrote: Bugger! Brain thinking faster than my hands! Your hands *think*??? in fact, it was a recent Angel episode Only because you guys are so far behind... :-) dha, still recovering from the season finalii... -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ New Songs/New Members/New CD/Same rotten attitude - Raving Noah press release
Re: Email Style (was: Re: Election Manifestos)
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:52:39PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:32:09PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Much as I'd love it if everyone was to be able to post to the list from their favourite Unix mail client all the time, Oxymoron, surely? Not in the slightest. Now if you'd said favourite gui mail client, you might be correct. No, I think that's still not a contradiction. good gui mail client probably is, however. Indeed. And some of us use display technology that doesn't have an overwhelming urge to be backward compatible with 1972, and can therefore do cool futuristic stuff like handle more than 72 columns. However, the cool futuristic stuff like CORRECT BLOODY WORK WRAPPING is completely beyond it, despite the fact it's been implemented correctly countless times before over the past 30 years or so. You should use Damian's Text::AutoFormat. I just used it to reformat the bit above beginning with Indeed. Lovely thing. dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ philosophy department - you don't have to be to work here, but it helps
Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:53:54PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: (http://www.twoshortplanks.com/simon/filmfest/) Time for yet another movie marathon since people have been carping on about it grin and this time it's the long awaited hacksploitation night - exploring the interesting and, umm, tenuous relationship that the silver screen has with the hacker (and cracker) lifestyle. The Time : Sunday, 27th of May. About 2pm. (although I don't mind doing it earlier or later) Would love to have made this but too much on this weekend and making the technical meeting on Saturday means the rest of the weekend has to be spent being productive. Line up so far will come from ... o Hackers o War Games o Antitrust o Takedown Bugger, there's two on there I haven't yet seen and I can always watch Hackers. No, 'The Net' does not count. If anybody has any of these ... o Sneakers Had I been able to locate my copy you would have been more than welcome to borrow it it would appear mine's in storage. If I get a chance before Saturday I'll try and track it down. Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.yacsc.com
Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest
Simon Wistow sent the following bits through the ether: If anybody has any of these ... I could bring along Real Genius? (slightly more old-skool hackers though) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software...http://www.iterative-software.com/ ... Careful. We don't want to learn from this. - Calvin
Buffy gear
QVC are selling lots of Buffy gear, tune into QVC now, or check out the wbesite http://www.qvcuk.com/ukgasp/frameset.asp?nest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.qvcuk.com%2Fukgscripts%2FSearch.dllsearch=1frames=yCriteria=Buffy
Re: Buffy gear
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:18:23PM +0100, Barry Pretsell wrote: QVC are selling lots of Buffy gear, tune into QVC now, or check out the wbesite Charisma Carpenter 'Cordelia' Signed Photo £64... Now i'm scared... Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon
RE: Election Manifestos
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote: From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:43 AM Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether: This, of course, presupposes that acmemail passes everyone's definition of a decent mail client. And if it doesn't, we can just slap the authors until it does :) You'll be happy to know that I gave up ownership of acmemail a while back stating that: a) I wasn't using it b) hence I wasn't improving it c) I don't have time for things I don't use. I handed it over to a couple of guys in the acmemail community who are slowly plodding along. It didn't hit critical mass. Discuss. OK. But you'd still be able to install it far easier than anyone else in the group :) Sqwebmail is nice .. works well with the Qmail/Vopmail/Courier-IMAP suite .. been running it on a couple of sites for a couple of years and not had much trouble (apart from thick users) ... -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
Re: Buffy gear
* Dean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:18:23PM +0100, Barry Pretsell wrote: QVC are selling lots of Buffy gear, tune into QVC now, or check out the wbesite Charisma Carpenter 'Cordelia' Signed Photo £64... Now i'm scared... you mean the suggestion of going to QVC to look at BtVS gear, didn't scare you already? -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Buffy gear
At 19:16 23/05/2001, Dean wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:18:23PM +0100, Barry Pretsell wrote: QVC are selling lots of Buffy gear, tune into QVC now, or check out the wbesite Charisma Carpenter 'Cordelia' Signed Photo £64... Now i'm scared... Far cheaper on Yahoo Auctions: http://search.auctions.yahoo.com/search/auc?p=charisma+carpenteralocale=0ukacc=uk Signed photos from £9.99. Dave... -- http://www.dave.org.uk SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl Training in the UK http://www.iterative-software.com/training/
POSIX::localeconv()/Germany
Anybody have experience with POSIX localization functions/clients in
Germany?
I've got a client in .de that wants prices to look like this:
DEM 1.234,00
i.e., the thousands sep is a . and the decimal is a ,.
The posix routines return a space for the thousands sep and a dot for
the decimal, so prices look like:
DEM 1 234.00
Do I just have weird clients or is $lconv-{thousands_sep} returning
the wrong value?
Danke,
--
mike
Re: Buffy gear
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Barry Pretsell wrote: QVC are selling lots of Buffy gear, tune into QVC now, or check out the wbesite eughh! when you say 'Buffy gear' do you mean as in 'we guarantee these were worn by Buffy ... ' or something entirely more celeubrious ? fed up of finding pr0n in his mailbox this week -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
Re: POSIX::localeconv()/Germany
At 20:18 23/05/2001, you wrote:
Anybody have experience with POSIX localization functions/clients in
Germany?
I've got a client in .de that wants prices to look like this:
DEM 1.234,00
i.e., the thousands sep is a . and the decimal is a ,.
The posix routines return a space for the thousands sep and a dot for
the decimal, so prices look like:
DEM 1 234.00
Do I just have weird clients or is $lconv-{thousands_sep} returning
the wrong value?
Mike,
Haven't tried the routine you're talking about, but if you ever decide to
give up on them, the Number::Format module (from CPAN) will solve all of
your problems.
Danke,
Bitte,
Dave...
--
http://www.dave.org.uk SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perl Training in the UK
http://www.iterative-software.com/training/
Re: Buffy gear
eughh! when you say 'Buffy gear' do you mean as in 'we guarantee these were worn by Buffy ... ' or something entirely more celeubrious ? no looks like the usual crap: 1 in a billion signed prints and magazines, no soiled clothes... - Original Message - From: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 8:30 PM Subject: Re: Buffy gear On Wed, 23 May 2001, Barry Pretsell wrote: QVC are selling lots of Buffy gear, tune into QVC now, or check out the wbesite eughh! when you say 'Buffy gear' do you mean as in 'we guarantee these were worn by Buffy ... ' or something entirely more celeubrious ? fed up of finding pr0n in his mailbox this week -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
Re: POSIX::localeconv()/Germany
Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 2:45:24 PM, Dave Cross wrote: DC Haven't tried the routine you're talking about, but if you ever decide to DC give up on them, the Number::Format module (from CPAN) will solve all of DC your problems. After RTFM'ing about that fine module, I thought I found my problem. I was using thousand_sep instead of mon_thousand_sep (for money). Alas, the same problem occurs. Number::Format gets it's locale info from POSIX::localeconv, so other than the niceness of have it doing the formating of the numbers, it doesn't look like it will help me much. :( -- mike
Re: Election Manifestos
Chris Ball sent the following bits through the ether: I used to use At-mail a lot at work. Pseudo-interesting question of the day; do you really feel it was ripped off (in the stigmatism-attached sense of the word), or given that it was GPLed or Artistic'd anyway, that it's fair play to them and that's something that happens when you Give Code To The World sometimes? OK: I released acmemail under GPLAL because I wanted it to be used by the most amount of people and I wasn't intending to make money off it. @Mail (http://webbasedemail.com/) copied my code, my docs, and my images without telling me, added a configuration file, and sold it. I only found out about it by accident, which wasn't good. (it's changed a lot since). If I remember correctly, they got around any license issues by selling the webmail servers to companies as a service, and not a product. They could have handled it better. They could have told me about it, asked about selling it / giving me a token present. They could have given patches back to acmemail and not forked the code too much. I wasn't happy at all with them at the time. They sent me nasty letters about my accusations. It was blatently my code. Overall, kudos to them, they appear to be able to sell a simple Perl script for a pop to large corporations. So either I break up and cry at how lax the Artistic License is and inflict viral GPL on all my code, or I just keep on going hacking code. Which do I do? ;-) Hmmm, let's rewrite the Cathedral and the Bazaar, but as a failure for open source in this case ;-) Leon -- ... Squeeze
Re: Election Manifestos
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:50:47PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: @Mail (http://webbasedemail.com/) copied my code, my docs, and my images without telling me, added a configuration file, and sold it. I only found out about it by accident, which wasn't good. (it's changed a lot since). This is 100% within their rights. They could have handled it better. They could have told me about it, Yes, but they didn't have to. So either I break up and cry at how lax the Artistic License is and inflict viral GPL on all my code, or I just keep on going hacking code. Which do I do? ;-) If you didn't want your code to be used under the license terms you set, YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE SET THEM. Deal with it. -- It's 106 miles from Birmingham, we've got an eighth of a tank of gas, half a pack of Dorritos, it's dusk, and we're wearing contacts. - Malcolm Ray
Re: Email Style (was: Re: Election Manifestos)
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:23:49PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: You should use Damian's Text::AutoFormat. I just used it to reformat the bit above beginning with Indeed. Lovely thing. Have you integrated into a mail server (module, procmail, whatever) so that it gets cleaned on the way in, or does your mail client do it, or have you some on-demand vi/emacs macros? Do tell! Paul
Re: Email Style (was: Re: Election Manifestos)
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:41:33PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:23:49PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
You should use Damian's Text::AutoFormat. I just used it to reformat
the bit above beginning with Indeed. Lovely thing.
Have you integrated into a mail server (module, procmail, whatever)
so that it gets cleaned on the way in, or does your mail client do it,
or have you some on-demand vi/emacs macros? Do tell!
from my .vimrc:
map g !G perl -MText::Autoformat -eautoformat CR
map z !G perl -MText::Autoformat -e 'autoformat{ all = 1 }' CR
...shamelessly stolen, lock stock and barrel from Damian's article in
the new TPJ. :-)
The first does the current paragraph, the second does all paragraphs
down to the end of the document.
Damian is so cool... Now if he'd just stop blaming me for stuff like
DWIM.pm... ;-)
dha
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If God didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out
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