Re: nice part of San Francisco and hotel?
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:23:18PM +0100, candace wrote: too true, seeing as how i lived there for the four years previous to this, and i couldn't really recommend anything past picking something *NOT* in the tenderloin, There's a good hotel in the tenderloin, the Pheonix. Where the rock stars stay. Of course it's in the tenderloin, so no matter how nice the hotel is some people won't want to stay there. I liked it, my girlfriend didn't like walking to/from it, but liked the hotel. perhaps preferably somewhere around union square There's a cheap place on Union Square. The Ramada is about as inexpensive as you'll find in San Francisco, but it shows. I stayed in the same room that Billie Holiday was arrested in(heroin, 1949), which was cool. But not so cool that I didn't move across the street to the Hyatt the next day (which was nice, but much more expensive.) -- mike way too squirrely for Karl Rove
Re: Pub feedback please
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 04:38:13PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: imagine a world where budwieser is your only choice. I've heard that this world is called St. Louis. Fortunately, it's a small place, easy to escape from, and more importantly it also gave us Miles Davis. On Euclid Ave there is(or was when I attended Mizzou) a good pub run by a Welsh family that had decent beer (Dressel's if you're ever stuck there for some reason). It could just be the exception that proves the rule tho. I certainly wouldn't call St Louis small either, after living in Columbia, Missouri. Columbia does probably have nearly the same number of cultural attractions as St Louis, and twice that of KC. -- mike
Re: Fave calendering software?
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:35:46AM +0100, Jody Belka wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: The only challenge was /running/ the damn thing. I have no idea how to launch it from Firebird. It's possible to launch FB from it by clicking on the M logo but the selected profile is ignored (at least bookmarks didn't show up). Anyone? Yep, install the QuickTools extension pointed to from the calender page and then use the Calender menu item that can now be found under Tools. Which is one of my big fears with Firebird becoming Browser (that is, the only mozilla browser). the guys running it are still wedded to the idea of pushing everything into extensions. Last I saw they still weren't going to add a menu item to switch style sheets on the reasoning that you can download an extention to do it. I think even fewer people will want to use Moz if it's nothing but gecko with plugins. I like the idea of a slim, quick browser, but I think they may be getting too religious about it. -- mike
Re: Fave calendering software?
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:00:20AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: Mike Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which is one of my big fears with Firebird becoming Browser (that is, the only mozilla browser). the guys running it are still wedded to the idea of pushing everything into extensions. Last I saw they still weren't going to add a menu item to switch style sheets on the reasoning that you can download an extention to do it. I think even fewer people will want to use Moz if it's nothing but gecko with plugins. The nightlies of FireBird have a stylesheet switcher icon in the bottom left. No extensions needed. I presume that this will find its way into the next version. It does have the icon, but it doesn't have the menu items (which sucks if you hide the status bar, and the menu items take up no more space if you have menus on). There's also no way to use a user defined stylesheet on the fly, since the icon only appears if alternate stylesheets are available. I hate it when UI elements come and go as they please and don't just stay still. I also think it's pretty unfreindly to make people dig around to find the right file to modify to use their own style sheets. I think the real problem is tunnel vision. The developers assume that if they don't use a feature, nobody else does either. The whole idea of moving everything off into extensions was fine when Firebird was just an alternative to Mozilla, but as the base browser I'm afraid it needs to bloat up some. -- mike
Re: perl and marketing
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:09:31AM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: Well, you know.years ago I suggested that there be a series of Perl for kids cartoons with jingles in the vein of School House Rock [ www.schoolhouserock.com ] which were educational cartoons shown on saturday mornings with the regular cartoons. 30 years later I can still remember every lyric and every tune [ listen to some of the clips and you'll understand...even Jarkko found lolly,lolly,lolly... to be viciously addictive. Someday someone might even take my idea seriously :) To this day I cannot recite the preamble to the US constitution without singing it. I remember being in school wishing they had done the Gettysburg address too, since I had to memorize both in the same grading period in school. Too bad that not all of the songs they added for the DVD were up to the same quality. I still wish I had the parody from the Simpsons about how a constitutional amendment is passed. -- mike
Re: OT: Can't declare subtraction
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:00:48PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 05:13:25PM -0400, Mike Jarvis wrote: Ok, so I've got an odd problem. Program compiles and runs just fine on my machine with 5.8, upload it to the ISP's machine (BSD with 5.005.03) and I get a compile error. It's a huge PITA to get the error, since I don't have shell access, but the admins ran perl -c unhelpful Your ISP is: * running 5.005 * not providing error logs * not providing shell access I'd say the compile error is the least of the problems here :-/ They swear they're upgrading RSN, when BSD (Free? Open? Whichever.) does. They only run stable from their distro, and it's hard to fault an ISP for that. They do provide access to the error logs, but compile errors don't make it in. Drat. Now that I think of it I could have done something clever like have a cgi that runs perl -c on it myself. As for shell access, it's hard to complain about $7.77/mo for 45GB xfer. The old perl is my only complaint, and it's supposed to be fixed in the next month or two. FWIW, try: my $max = scalar(@name) - 1; And make sure there are no weird characters in the source file. That fixed it. I owe you several beers. Thanks. -- mike
Re: UK money, again (again)
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:17:07PM +0100, Iain Tatch wrote: Pick up a handful of Merkin change and you get things that say Nickel, Dime, Quarter with no other clue as to their monetary value. For those of us not brought up in the USA, even if you're aware that one's 5c and the other 10c, there's no obvious way to get from the names nickel and dime to their monetary values. The quarter says quarter dollar, which is no more slangy or less accurate than 25 cents. The nickle says very plainly just under the picture of Monticello five cents and nowhere on it does the word nickle appear. The dime says one dime and nowhere gives its value in cents. Of course those of you up on your middle english will know that dime means one tenth, and therefore isn't really a cutesy name. Hey, I don't have a Maine quarter yet. -- mike
Re: Natwest module
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:07:48PM +, Peter Sergeant wrote: I've today written the first half of a perl script to screen-scrape Natwest's Online Banking. All the authentication parts are implemented, but now I've lost interest (no pun intended). This should probably exist as: Finance::Bank::Natwest Related by banking, but in no other way, I need to write the code to process CC payments with BoFA. The interface looks pretty straightforward, but if anybody else has already written it, I'd love to steal from you. http://www.bankofamerica.com/merchantservices/index.cfm?template=merch_ic_estores_developer.cfm -- mike
Re: Bank Of America (was: Re: Natwest module)
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:10:53PM +, Russell Matbouli wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:05:36PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: Related by banking, but in no other way, I need to write the code to process CC payments with BoFA. The interface looks pretty straightforward, but if anybody else has already written it, I'd love to steal from you. Putting bofa in search.cpan.org returns Business::OnlinePayment::BankOfAmerica as the first result... D'oh! I swear I checked. Thanks for correcting my brain damage for today. -- mike
Re: [Job] Looking for a Sales Guy
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 03:38:56PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
There would be less Email Viruses if ?
There would be fewer Email Viruses if:
'Less' is for singular, 'fewer' is for plural. ('More' can be used
with both.)
/pet-grammar-niggle,
Paul
What do you mean for plural, since both have to do with quantities? I
think of it as 'less' is things you can't count and 'fewer' is for
things you can. Less sand, fewer grains of sand. Or less email, fewer
messages.
Oh. I see what you're saying now. Same thing I am, but since I'm
dense, my way seems easier to remember, or at least figure out when
you need to.
/also-my-pet-grammar-niggle
--
mike
A whole lotta hoot and just a little bit of nanny
Re: YAPC::Europe War
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:21:16AM +, Leon Brocard wrote: This email got sent to the YAPC::Europe committee mailing list. I thought I'd share it all with you. It's slightly worrying that USians are taking it personally. FWIW my reply was YAPC is a non-political organisation and run by volunteers. Subject: [yapc-comm] Meeting Location To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:18:44 -0500 It's a shame that YAPC will exclude many potential attendees by being held in a country that has so soon forgotten how the western allies went to war to free THEM from tyranny and oppression in WW II, and now flaunts itself against those very allies when they are attempting to disarm yet another ruthless tyrant. [more drivel snipped] I'm amazed how many USians seem to forget the role that France played in freeing us from evil and still want to hold WWII over them. Shouldn't we just call it even? I'm much more worried about our ruthless tyrant than I am about any others. Consider yourself lucky if the moron who wrote the above doesn't show up. -- mike They had fangs, they were biting people, they had this look in their eyes: pure arrogance. I think they were young Republicans. BtVS - the movie
Re: YAPC::Europe
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:56:58AM +, Piers Cawley wrote: Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Piers Cawley wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I won't be doing YAPC::Eu this year, I'm doing YAPC::NA - TPC via the Appalachians, DC, NW, Boston, Vermont, Michigan, Chicago, Minneapolis, North Dakota, the Rockies. Which section of the Apalachans? Going anywhere near NC? Um... most of them. Where's NC? Southern end of the chain, about halfway down the east coast, between Georgia, Virginia et al. The NC section of the Appalachains is really nice (but then, I grew up there, so I would say that :). Well, we're planning on starting at Atlanta so that's a yes. Where's good to stop? A little east of the mountains, but Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill is fun. Chapel Hill of course is the only place in North Carolina with a Sonic Youth song named for it. Speaking of fun college towns, while in Atlanta, pop over to Athens and hang out at the 40 Watt club, home of REM. Sorta anyway. It's on its fourth location, but still fun. Peter Buck's ex still owns it, I think. Most of my US tourism centers around dingy rock clubs. I can tell you the best place to see a noisy band in about 35 states, but I'm less good on campgrounds, etc. -- mike Whatever, I'm still waiting for the Next Grunge...Chris Devers
Re: YAPC::Europe
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:18:55PM +, Piers Cawley wrote: I won't be doing YAPC::Eu this year, I'm doing YAPC::NA - TPC via the Appalachians, DC, NW, Boston, Vermont, Michigan, Chicago, Minneapolis, North Dakota, the Rockies. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Yell when you know dates for DC, and let me know live music clubs or martini/cigar bars. Either way tours can be arranged. :) -- mike Obviously, this was a mistake. This hot dog posed no threat to us. Virginia State Police spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell
Re: not ADSL, but NTL
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:13:43PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: There's been various very useful comments about ADSL on the list. However... NTL now seem to be offering a 128K cable modem service for only £14.99 a month. It's not exactly clear what they supply, or what they expect it to work with, but based on this: http://www.ntl.com/locales/gb/en/home/broadband/services/need/ it seems that as you need USB port (recommended) - if not present Network Interface Card (Ethernet Card) they are supplying some sort of device that is can do both USB and Ethernet. About 6 months ago I got cable broadband access (although not in the UK). My cable company said all the same stupid things yours does. Hogwash. I've got a Toshiba cable modem I picked up at Best Buy for $79 that works with USB or a NIC. All of the documentation from my cable company tells about configuring it with USB on windows, and I simply ignored them. It looks as if you don't have the choice of getting your own modem, but I'd consider giving the service a shot. Worst case, set up a windows machine, let the installer set it up, then move the modem to your real computer. So to answer your specific questions with my experience: 1)The modem will run with any machine. No device drivers or anything, it just talks over the network. Just set up for DHCP and you're fine. 2) I didn't need any software. The software they did give me included a browser, a mail program, and a dohickey to reset network stuff under windows. 3) My service is locked to the MAC of the modem. Cox has no idea what the MAC on any of my computers is. 4) Make them run the cable to another room, just as they would have to do for a TV. -- mike It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time, it's tricky
Re: Next Thursday; was: small hairy Belfast.pm geek...
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:46:30AM +0100, Natalie S. Ford wrote: Also, if you say it is in a slightly dodgy area, I am even less inclined to try to come along... I believe Greg can point you towards a charming little place in the back of a mini-cab stand in Soho. It would be an, errr, interesting meeting. -- mike A whole lotta hoot and just a little bit of nanny
Re: Next Thursday; was: small hairy Belfast.pm geek...
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:02:45PM +0100, Marty Pauley wrote: Um. I can't think of any others round there, There was an Irish pub across the street from the Goose... The one in the hotel? Bleh. Having spent a month in that hotel, I would reccomend against the pub. But I doubt I'll make a meeting anytime soon, so do as you will. -- mike Love will get you like a case of anthrax And that's something that I don't want to catch
Re: similarity detection
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:48:32AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Tim Sweetman wrote: Well, sort of - search engines find documents to fit certain criteria; this tries to find documents similar to other documents. Aeguably part of the same problem space though. I don't know where you can find them anymore [ironically], but when it was just a Stanford research project, Google had white papers on, among other things, their techniques for finding filtering out similar documents from search results. Here's a wacky idea. Let Google index them. Search google for similar items, restricting the search to your web site. Of course it depends on how google defines similar. It could say *every* joke is similar, since even differnt jokes would have many things in common. -- mike It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time, it's tricky
Re: Perlidex Comment
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:05:06PM -0700, Adam Goldstein wrote: Dear Mr. Mison, I know nothing about the software in question, but I know that if the developers are incapable of putting line breaks in email it probably isn't worth bothering with. This level of disregard for community standards means I can ignore anyting perl related from them. -- mike
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Meetings in July
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 02:10:18PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: [1]The hell that is welwyn garden city You know you loved it. What were the names of the rooms at the inn? The chipmonk suite or something? And we did manage to do serious expense account damage too. Of course the most interesting part was the train ride as the Arsenal game got out. -- mike We shoulda kept it every Thursday in the afternoon.
Re: the muppets
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 09:12:24PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: so what muppet (muppet show, new muppets, sesame street, etc.) do people on london.pm remind you of, heres my list (big smileys attached to all this, its meant to be gentle fun) Leon- Kermit - he chose it mstevens- Beaker - he chose it John Stowe - Animal - fairly obvious Paul / blech- Oscar the grouch- fairly obvious Myself - Fonzi Piers - Waldorf - heckling I think you mean Fozzie (the bear), not Fonzi (the greaser from Happy Days). Do you remember on Sesame Street the two martians who came to earth and tried to talk to everything they met? I particular, I remember them having a fascinating conversation with a phone (Bng! Bng!) As a consultant I've spent much time mindlessly making pleasing noises back to people, even though I can't understand wtf they're talking about (even on the rare occasion they're speaking english). -- mike It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time, it's tricky
Re: newbie question
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:24:00PM +0100, Antonio Fortin wrote: i'm using windoze and AS Perl, so i don't think i can use locale. or can i? AS perl has locale support, I've used it before. I'm not sure it will help you though. -- mike It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time, it's tricky
Re: Buffy S6E21-22
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:11:46AM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:06:11PM -0400, Mike Jarvis wrote: When do you guys get it? I won't spoil, I'll just say I have real hope for next season. It could be really good. Or not. Lots of potential, but it really depends on where they go with it. It could still be fairly mediocre without too much trouble. Potential is all I need for hope. It could be worse than mediocre, it could be downright awful. I can think of two plot developments that could come that would be painful to think about. joke[1] Anyway, they have many ways they could go. And since Buffy gave birth to full grown demon children, think of the madcap hilarity that awaits us next year! /joke [1] No, nothing like what I described happened on the show. It was a joke, but somebody bitched at me last year for the giving away the ending with the same joke, so I felt obliged to repeat it. -- mike A whole lotta hoot and just a little bit of nanny
Buffy S6E21-22
When do you guys get it? I won't spoil, I'll just say I have real hope for next season. It could be really good. Details gladly discussed soon, I hope. -- mike A whole loota hoot and just a little bit of nanny
Re: Formatting currencies
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:16:01PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
perl -lpe '$_ = sprintf %.2f,$_; 1 while s/(?=[\d])((?:\d{3})+)(?=[.,])/,$1/'
123.1
123.10
5679.123
5,679.12
1289053234.20852
1,289,053,234.21
Is there an easier way to do this? London.pm meeting taken its toll?
I'd use locale, but it's still ugly. From perllocale:
# Get some of locale's numeric formatting parameters
my ($thousands_sep, $grouping) =
{localeconv()}{'thousands_sep', 'grouping'};
# Apply defaults if values are missing
$thousands_sep = ',' unless $thousands_sep;
if ($grouping) {
grouping = unpack(C*, $grouping);
} else {
grouping = (3);
}
# Format command line params for current locale
for (ARGV) {
$_ = int;# Chop non-integer part
1 while
s/(\d)(\d{$grouping[0]}($|$thousands_sep))/$1$thousands_sep$2/;
print $_;
}
print \n;
--
mike
I got Nirvana in my head, I'm so glad I'm not dead
Re: I'm bored
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:16:58PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: So who fancies writing a sitcom/comedy show with me? Is there a scene where the office employees play Star Wars trash compactor with the rolling file cabinets? I still have some notes, I think. -- mike A whole loota hoot and just a little bit of nanny
Re: OT: Mailing list software
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 06:43:07PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Roger Burton West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:57:17PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: In fact, I don't see how it would help spammers, although I can see how it is/was used by pranksters, but that's different. If you operate a mailing list which does not require confirmation of subscription, you are deemed to be a spammer by at least some black-hole services. It's a much easier and more objective test than many of the others. Not an answer to the question. How does it help _spammers_? It holds everybody to the same level of responsibility that we insist on from marketers. Spammers will always say but you asked for information on penis mortgage weight loss bread. Insisting that everybody use confirmed opt in pretty much does away with that excuse. -- mike A whole loota hoot and just a little bit of nanny
Re: penderel
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 12:10:24PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Ok, so it may be hearsay but i believe Penderel has had more problems, so I have a proposal, but lets start with the assumptions i am making Thoughts? Will the new box be named Yorke? -- mike It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time, it's tricky
Re: Fwd: [Boston.pm] MD5 hash
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 08:34:27PM +, David Cantrell wrote: Forwarded from the boston.pm list I found that an MD5 has does not change at all even if the input changes. In the following example code.. The results are shown after the __END_. Is my expectation wrong? __END__ Data was abcffdgfdgfdg vdefdfjdfjds lkfjdfjsd digest is = o?AO?Co6}UoP digest is = A?/?e_rYoC!,,j8 The digest was different, but creating the digest is destructive. It resets the data. The hexdigest and base64 were both performed on empty strings. -- mike That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. - Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars p318
Re: rsync and mutt woes
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 17:05, Chris Devers wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Natalie Ford wrote: So, I need to be running X on my client end? I run ssh from windoze... Last time I checked, there weren't any good freeware ports of Win32/X, but maybe someone has managed to compile Xfree86 under Cygwin or something. Yep, Xfree86 does run under cygwin. Binaries are available. http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/ KDE runs pretty well too. Has anybody tried gnome? As for the performance issues Chris brings up, it depends on what you're doing. If you have a reasonably modern computer, you should be able to get it to run. Gimp over the network is pokey, but you would expect that. Xemacs is fine, and even web browsing is ok (I'd rather use galeon than IE, and my network is faster than my phone line, so it works ok.) -- mike '''Roger Waters had issues'. -- Robert Jones' -- Todd Larason' -- Barry Yarbrough
Re: How to optimise slow perl scripts?
On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 16:42, David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:20:56PM +, Chris Benson wrote: phone numbers, CC numbers, ... all the time :-( Ahh, so *you're* the one who rejects one of my credit cards* cos it has the wrong number of digits :-) In the US you can never have any idea of the length of a CC number (except maybe on amex, but I'd never bet on them not changing). Just check for greater than 10 digits and mod10 compliant. Ick. I just saw that Matt's Archive has as credit card verifier. I may have to go look (much as I would have to go look at a train wreck). -- mike Tact is just not saying true stuff - Cordelia on BtVS
Re: Bolloxia
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 16:51, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 04:37:42PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: Theoretically decreasing overhead means decreased prices for consumers, but we all know that never happens in the real world. I'm pretty sure I'm paying less for an 80GB of harddrive storage now than I would've paid two years ago. And so on. If decreased overhead didn't equate to decreased price for consumers then, * there is a monopoly situation (see: rules regs) * someone else will decrease *their* price and reap the rewards What about the case of the previously mentioned Levis? If their production costs dropped to 0, do you think the price would drop? How about sodas? I doubt production *could* get cheaper, yet neither Coke or Pepsi ever drop prices. The entire system is predicated on point 2) (someone else will decrease *their* price and reap the rewards) and the public buying the best product for the best price. They don't. Added price adds perceived value (it costs more, it must be better). If the world worked as it does in textbooks, you would be absolutly correct. And no, I don't have an answer or a better system. -- mike
Re: Buffy... Wow
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 06:52, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:47:47AM +, Paul Mison said: On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:20:18AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Leo Lapworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sky Buffy... don't scroll if you didn't see it last night. spoiler... preserving... Oh, I have a theory about this. But it's not original. All I'll point out is that we've seen the three nerds (oh, Simon Wistow posted about these somewhere- IRC, maybe- and I can see his point about them completely, but he should probably reiterate it if he cares) a load of stereotype nerdlings straight from an 80's movie. Christ, I'm suprised he doesn't make them wear thick black glasses, pocket protectors and propellor beanies. He better have a fucking good reason for this. to distract people from the real seasion big baddy ... Willow and no, i don't know this for sure yet I don't think it's Willow either. Amy is much more likely, but I won't say more here, since I can't keep up with what you do and don't already know. But Amy is also just a guess. This isn't the first time they've waited so long to tell us. Series 3 and 4 both waited until more than halfway through to let you know. -- mike Asked why the right wing despises him so, the former president answered simply, Because I won.
RE: User Input at speed
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 06:42, Ivor Williams wrote: That must make writing perl quite painful. !-) I suppose you would get used to it though. AltGr becomes just another shift key. I was at a client site in Rome, using my fifth keyoboard layout for the month, trying to write a little perl. It took a half hour to track down somebody in the office who knew how to make a tilde. ~. Or it may have been another symbol. Ten different people were asked, none knew. grrr. Of course part of the problem was my lack of Italian, and many humourous hand signals trying to explain what bit of weird punctuation I needed. The weirdest thing about the office was seeing an ashtray on top of a Sun 4500. The espresso was great too. -- mike Asked why the right wing despises him so, the former president answered simply, Because I won.
Re: london.pm digest, Vol 1 #611 - 24 msgs
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 17:04, Tim Noll wrote: And, as far as the london.pm meetings go, I'm off to the States for two weeks starting tomorrow. But when I return, if I can manage to drag some of my hapless colleagues along, I might just try to avoid that teaspoon mauling. They've gotten worse. When I was there the game was slap the yank. Seems like they've escalated. -- mike Asked why the right wing despises him so, the former president answered simply, Because I won.
Re: User Input at speed
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 08:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been sitting here watching random TV and watching with vauge facination a stenographer at work. A stenographer transcribes word for word the proceedings of courts, meetings etc... Made me wonder - what is the fastest method of user input into a computer. Do you mean into human readable, non translated english? Court reporters don't actually transcribe full words. Kinda like mechanical gregg shorthand. They input phonetic equivilents, not real words. And it can be a bitch for them to read somebody else's tapes. Possible, just a pain in the ass, and much slower. To actually produce english transcripts, the court reporter goes somewhere quiet, reads the transcripts into a recorder, and sends the audio tapes to a typist. So it turns out to be a *really* slow way to make transcripts, but the most reliable way to caputure the info in real time. Actually, everything I just told you is wrong these days. I'm fairly sure technology has marched on and a lot of the retyping has been computerized away. But until fairly recently this was all acurate. We all know that the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow us down I could swear I read somewhere that this was a UL, but I can't find a reference. -- mike Asked why the right wing despises him so, the former president answered simply, Because I won.
NMS
Anybody know somebody actually using the formmail.pl from NMS? I read on news.admin.net-abuse.email this morning that people are noticing a surge in probes for formmail.pl, for use by spammers. Might be nice to get a success story or two up on the page. Hell, success stories from users for any of the programs, telling how easy, powerful, etc, but I thought this shows *why* NMS is the better alternative. groups.google for Gozilla and formmail probing -- mike Pretzel schmetzel, the guy was drunk
Re: Columbia is Lilliput
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 12:20, Nicholas Clark wrote: Or alternatively, just drink loads more coffee. As I understand it, it grows in the same climatic conditions, so increasing coffee demand considerably would price out the alternatives that might want to be grown. [and likewise eat many many more bananas, particularly from the Caribbean. Ha! All Americans know banannas come from Canada. At least since Reagan was president. When we started the embargo against Nicaragua, we started buying our banannas from Canada. -- mike Pretzel schmetzel, the guy was drunk
Re: [plug] grubstreet
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 04:50, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Natalie Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:15:27PM +, Earle Martin wrote: You're free to comment on anything London-related So, I can'r post anything about outside of London? Pity. :) I've seen The League of Gentlemen, i know what things you lot outside of the M25 protection system eat. No we don't want any of your type poluting the database, this is a London database, for London people. I've been to St. John's, that snout to tail place Leon's so fond of. I know what you Londoners eat. shudder The marrow *was* tasty, just a pain in the ass to eat. -- mike Pretzel schmetzel, the guy was drunk
Re: JOB: wanted (all serioues offers considered)
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 10:44, Nicholas Clark wrote: I realise that currently it is. *Why* do they do it? The only valid reason I could see was that they wished to place their company logo on the top of the CV, so that if it gets copied or passed around it becomes obvious who provided it. They've done it to mine, trying to make me more buzzword compliant. Yes, I do know a lot (too much) about IIS. No, I won't take a job using nothing but IIS. Headhunters don't care about what jobs you want. They care about having enough buzzwords in your cv that you match any job that pops up. -- mike Pretzel schmetzel, the guy was drunk
Re: Something for the CFT brigade
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 17:08, Chris Devers wrote: real cynicism: pretzel shmetzel, the guy was drunk :) Not believing everything that comes out of the White House and the right wing controlled media (ie, all of it) isn't cynicism, it's good sense. -- mike Pretzel schmetzel, the guy was drunk
Re: .NOT! (was: OSX)
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 08:00, Andy Wardley wrote: uhm, 3 good reasons I can't rant about off the top of my head: * No-one really knows how to do the component thing properly. COM isn't it, DCOM isn't it, .NOT? .NOT! Talking about the fine granularity of software components in the future will be great just as soon as someone figures out how to do it without the whole thing becoming a great sluggish, bloated and bloody tangled mess. Moore will save us. We're at what, 2Ghz Intel chips now? When it hits 16Ghz many of today's apps will run properly. Of course MS will have built 5 more layers on top of everything by then, making sure application responsivness stays constant at best. * Microsoft software is shit. Not just in terms of performance, reliability or anything else like that, but because they keep pushing a proprietary Microsoft-wins-all model that real developers just aren't interested in. The scary thing is that the people who *pay* programmers like it when somebody tells them, look! pointy clicky! no thinking! * Solving the software crisis (of which this is just the latest silver bullet after structured programming, OOP, 4GLs, CASE Tools, UML, XML, Open Source, etc.) will most likely require several huge paradigm shifts. That's not going to happen under Microsoft's near-monopoly on personal computing because they're followers, not leaders. It'll probably require a new world order. In others words, Microsoft will have to topple before software engineering and personal computing really evolve to the next level. And by that time, I'll be too busy partying... :-) I doubt you'll be partying when MS is toppled. Whatever comes next is sure to be worse. Think government issued licenses for programmers. Register with the police if you own a compiler. You will be protected from evil hacker d00ds, whether you want it or not. Our society depends on quality software. Can't have amateurs messing with things like that. -- mike Pretzel schmetzel, the guy was drunk
Re: (OT) Forwarded : Stuff about the lack of hygiene on the tube
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 05:47, Simon Wistow wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:05:18PM +, Dave Hodgkinson said: Not on snopes and not on google. http://www.thetube.com/content/pressreleases/0201/30.asp#email Disseminate. Please. Arthur Andersen Consulting were employed by LUL to advise on change management when the present organisational structure of the company was designed. Change managment? I suppose you could call what they did for Enron change management. Changing sheets of paper into little shreds. -- mike Pretzel schmetzel, the guy was drunk
Re: OT perl question
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 07:03, Newton, Philip wrote: AFAIK, Apache manages to pass content along to the client as soon as it receives it from the CGI program, even on Win32. Nope, at least not yet. It's been going to be fixed in the next release for quite a while. 2.0 though. Yep, it'll be fixed then, -- mike
Re: Buffy series 6 first episode video
On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 08:51, Robert Shiels wrote: Season 5 spoilers below: Is this just a soap opera now, there was one undead guy near the end that Buffy killed with a medical hacksaw, but apart from that it was all long meaningful silences and people crying. Bored now! This ep is important in buffydom because it's the first time that anybody cared about somebody dying in 5 years of carnage. There was a lot about this one that was great (Buffy seeing/hearing things, Santa isn't a myth, Anya doesn't get it). I really do like this episode, but I also understand why some people won't. For the most part I prefer the first two or three seasons. They were much sillier, and the skirts were shorter. But of course season 2/3 is more soap opera-ey than anything since. All that crap about Buffy falling for a vampire that acts more like a art student. Bleh. -- mike
Re: high fidelity
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 19:24, Chris Devers wrote:
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 09:49:11PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Ack, I mean't to say top 5 songs (damn)
Cheating, but I think more in terms of albums than songs...
%top_five_albums = {
Miles Davis= Kind of Blue,
The Beatles= Abbey Road,
Fugazi = Repeater,
Morphine = Cure for Pain,
Public Enemy = Fear of a Black Planet
};
Remarkably close to my list, but we're both USians, so that may not be
so surprising. I like Rubber Soul or Revolver better than Abbey Road,
and prefer to have Coltrane lead the band rather than just play in it.
I have no idea why Morphine wasn't the biggest band in the world.
While I can't decide which one to remove, my list has to include
something by Alex Chilton/Big Star.
--
mike
Re: Next meetings
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 05:58, Paul Mison wrote: Ooh, this decreeing stuff might actually work... I'd seen london.pm'ers drunk on everything except power, up til now. Decree away, it's the only way to herd them. -- mike
Re: warning
Friday, November 23, 2001, 8:32:46 PM, Greg McCarroll wrote: GM [3] If anyone who does go down this narrow path wants to start a GM London.pm MP game let me know, it will probably be more popular GM than 5-aside ;-) Is MP working in yours? In my (US) copy, there is no MP option. Poking around shows that they meant to put it in, but my guess is there wasn't time to get it right before release. -- mike
Re: (void) Iraq, Biowar, Afghanistan, books, etc. (was: Plane Crash (only a little, mostly incoherent rant))
Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 8:53:55 PM, Andrew Bowman wrote: AB b) Saddam would be finished off, either by his fellow Iraqi leaders or by AB his beloved citizens. Sadly Saddam appears to have been well prepared (as AB well as lucky too) to have avoided this fate (so far at least). His beloved citizens did rise up right after the war. He used the helicopters we let him keep to slaughter them. We didn't stop him because we wanted a coup, not a revolution. Actually having the people in charge rather than a friendly puppet wasn't in the cards, and we can always use a bogeyman. -- mike
Re: XML::LibXML - character encoding - help
Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 11:02:52 AM, Leo Lapworth wrote: LL ## RESULTS: LL # V: â LL # V: â LL # Entity: line 3: error: Entity 'rsquo' not defined LL #test rsquo; /test LL # ^ LL # at t.pl line 24 LL # I'm expecting a Right single quote not an 'a' with a hat! LL # My feed has rsquo; (not the other values) how can I LL # get it to just pass through or convert it - thanks I'd say that a with a hat *is* a right single quote, but your terminal can't display it. Output it to html with meta HTTP-EQUIV='Content-Type' CONTENT='text/html; charset=utf-8' in the head section and check it out in a browser. As for the entity reference not working, my guess is LibXML doesn't recognize it. Under the html specs there are only what, like four entities? Most browsers support more, and maybe the xhtml spec defines more. libXML is probably doing the right thing here. -- mike
Re: contracts
Friday, November 09, 2001, 12:41:42 PM, robin szemeti wrote: Our supply chains are, in the majority, run by cars and trucks and other road transport and without them the cities start to starve (both metaphorically and literally.) rs indeed. theres another thing that needs changing then. That will be an interesting trick. Many kinds of business only work well (or work more efficiently) in high population densities. Farming is not one of those things. Trains are great for hauling stuff from point A to point B, but they really suck at negotiating all of those twisty little streets in the city. Trucks are the most efficient way of getting stuff into the shops. At least until they bring back and expand the old pneumatic tube system. Which would be a lot more fun to watch. -- mike
Re: contracts - transport
Friday, November 09, 2001, 2:34:23 PM, Chris Benson wrote: Trains are great for hauling stuff from point A to point B, but they CB s/ian/am/; s/\bbut\b/and/; It's nice that we're all geeks here, but it sure would be easier to read: Trams are good at X. and doesn't take many more bytes. When the static string is close to the same size as the code to replace it, the overhead saved by not computing the answer more than makes up for the difference. Sorry, not attacking you personally, just something I find annoying in our entire tribe. -- mike
[off-topic] Multibyte perl on win32
If people are actually going to discuss perl, I throw one out.
I've got a vendor's version of perl (uhm, my company's so replacing it
isn't an option) that I believe was compiled with some odd way of
handling multibyte characters. And the guy who built it isn't around
right now. Grr.
Getting garbage back from Win32::NetAdmin (I know, I know, again, not
an option). Sample script:
use Win32::NetAdmin;
my @mbrs;
my $status = Win32::NetAdmin::LocalGroupGetMembers(,Guests,\@mbrs);
print Status= $status\n;
print scalar(@mbrs), members in group\n;
foreach my $result (@mbrs) {
print line=$result\n;
}
And the output:
C:\shared/vendor/bin/perl blah.pl
Status= 1
5 members in group
line=xn?
line=xn?
line=xn?
line=xn?
line=xn?
ActiveState perl does this:
C:\shared/perl/bin/perl blah.pl
Status= 1
5 members in group
line=Guest
line=IUSR_MACHINE-NT
line=IWAM_MACHINE-NT
line=TsInternetUser
line=ILS_ANONYMOUS_USER
Ideas? Suggestions? WAGs?
--
mike
Re: tube stations
Tuesday, October 23, 2001, 10:16:33 AM, Chris Devers wrote: CD As it is, I'm quite sure CD that I wouldn't like to commute there for work (unless the newly active CD Concorde has gotten remarkably cheaper this time around...). BA is running a half price special. Only $5k for now. I'm sure it will go back up when people forget that for deaths/hours flown it's the deadliest plane in the air. -- mike
Re: Obnoxious spam: News from NuSphere -- #10
Friday, October 19, 2001, 9:28:41 PM, anathema wrote: a Mike Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love nanae too. That's why I'd suggest posting it in sightings instead. Maybe an article *about it* in nanae, but the spam itself, with headers, to sightings. a Well, Ye-es, but I tend to prefer having the headers right there in nanae a myself, regardless of the fact that that's not what it's there for. So a compromise. Headers and description to nanae, full text of spam to sightings. Everybody's happy, and no proper quoting style flame war. -- mike
Re: The best film of all time?
Monday, September 17, 2001, 11:41:42 AM, Greg McCarroll wrote: GM but what are your top films? I ask because I feel the need to buy GM some more DVDs soon. Citizen Kane -- mike
Re: The best film of all time?
Monday, September 17, 2001, 1:31:13 PM, Jasper McCrea wrote: JM Worst movie of all time: JM Citizen Kane or the Piano. It's a toss up between these two. Bah! Citizen Kane changed filmmaking forever. Not just from a technical standpoint (although it did that...check out the low shot of Kane returning to the office) but more importantly, from a narrative standpoint. Kane changed everything. At University of Missouri (home of the world's first and finest school of journalism) the students recite the lines along with the movie every year during j-school week. I was already thinking about Kane this week. Spanish-American war anybody? -- mike
Re: (time_t)1E9 (was Re: Stuff)
Monday, September 17, 2001, 4:52:13 PM, David H. Adler wrote: DHA Night After Night was a *great* show. I remember the night Dennis DHA Potter was the guest. One of the best interviews I've seen on a talk DHA show. Wow. You are the first person I've ever met who has heard of this show. I thought that the only three viewers were my old roommate, my gfriend, and me. Is there some sort of Nick Bakai underground movement I hadn't heard about? The Giant Wheel of Shag has a whole different meaning when discussed on london.pm. -- mike
