Re: Building Perl 6
On 11 September 2014 08:20, Nicholas Clark wrote: > (Are there any 8 core phones yet?) http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/features/seven-octa-core-android-smartphones-you-can-buy-under-rs-2-509367 I think so... :)
Re: 25 Years of Perl
On 20 November 2012 15:45, Uri Guttman wrote: > On 11/20/2012 04:44 AM, Dave Cross wrote: > >> Quoting "Randy J. Ray" : >> >> 1/ Technical What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other technical things that need to be covered? >>> >>> I'd be sure to mention the strong role Perl played in the emergence of >>> CGI applications-- both the Perl 4 cgilib.pl and Perl 5's CGI.pm. I >>> came in to Perl just a year or two before 5.000 rolled out, so I can't >>> talk to much from the pre-5 era. (My job at the time was using Perl on >>> a large scale to do software configuration management (20+ application >>> scripts, 15+ libraries, ~70,000 LOC), which I ended up transitioning >>> from Perl 4 to Perl 5.) >>> >> >> Yeah. I'd already got CGI.pm, but had forgotten about cgilib.pl. Thanks >> for the reminder. >> > > in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but they > helped perl gain massive numbers of users. many were kiddies but some > actually learned perl. Especially FormMail.pl... I remember that one well...
Re: Anyone got a US iTunes account
I've used wildtwig.com before with no problems. On 27 August 2011 23:26, Andy Armstrong wrote: > On 27 Aug 2011, at 23:15, Steve Mynott wrote: >>> I've got a UK account which won't allow me to make purchases in the US >>> store. I also have a US based account - but I can't pay for anything on it >>> without a US based payment source. >> >> https://www.usunlocked.com/blog/?p=431 > > > Aha! Capitalism saves the day - thanks! :) > > -- > Andy Armstrong, Hexten > > > >
Re: iPhone Barcode Readers
On 1 March 2011 10:34, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > On 1 March 2011 09:49, Dave Cross wrote: >> >> Need some advice on iPhone Barcode reading apps - so I turn to london.pm, my >> favourite group of iGeeks. >> >> My wife is a teacher and they're about to start a stocktake of all of the >> books in the English department. Rather than count them all, she wondered if >> there was an iPhone app that could help them. > > My experience with iphone apps and barcode readers suggests that if > you're going to be scanning a large number of barcodes, get a > dedicated device. Last few times I've done that sort of thing I've first got a Palm Symbol barcode scanner and used PalmOS software to create a csv, then the 2nd time just a USB scanner and netbook > On a side note - I've got a moderate library, of books, DVDs and CDs, > and feel the need for some library management, not least so I can tell > where individual items actually are. > > But I'm also a coder, and I'd like to have the results available to me > on multiple systems (ie it needs to sync to the cloud), which nothing > out there quite seems to do. I'm willing to at least think about > writing this myself, but > > Are there any public APIs out there that can take barcodes / ISBN > numbers and resolve them to products, bearing in mind some things I > have would have been released in non UK/US/EU markets and thus may be > harder to identify You could use the Amazon API, it's how I got my book database created originally.
Re: Dear LazyWeb - FreeBSD makefiles
2009/11/19 Simon Wistow : > I have a Makefile (actually a Makefile.am from autoconf but that's > not important, I think( and it has the rule > > %.1: > -rm -f $@ > pod2man --center="TimeSpliceDB Documentation" --lax \ > --release='$(VERSION)' $(@).pod > $@ > > > Which takes everything of the form .1.pod and truns it into a man > page. > > Which works fine and lovely on my available Mac and Linux boxen but > fails dismally on my FreeBSD box. > > How does one do wildcard Make fules in bsdmake? Please tell me I don't > have to add 20 nearly identical rules because that will make me cry. The slightly cheating way (which lots of ports understandably use) is to install the gmake port and use that instead...
Re: BCS: Geeks, Gizmos & Gadgets Christmas Show n'Tell
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:48:58 + (GMT), "Billy Abbott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > On 5 Dec 2008, at 09:29, L?on Brocard wrote: > >> There has been some talk recently about getting more involved with > >> other user groups, specifically the British Computer Society. Seeing > >> as we are a society of computer users in Britain, you'd think we'd get > >> on together - but the BCS has traditionally had large organisations as > >> members and ignored open source and independent developers. They are > >> holding a fun event next week. Anyone want to show off Perl? > >> > >> http://www.nlondon.bcs.org/ > >> > > > > I've submitted the old live departure boards alarm clock hack, and if it > > gets accepted it would be really nice to see some friendly faces in the > > audience. > > I'm already signed up and offered to pitch my Sony Reader and > accoutrements if they need more people to babble about gadgets. Better > get > cracking on the epub ebook perl module I was working on, unless anyone > else knows of one already out there? Not perl, but http://www.juliansmart.com/ecub just got announced, unfortunately not open source :( -- Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Obsolete software
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 10:02, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Aaron Trevena wrote: > > I mean in college I used UNIX and SQL, but in the first year at university > > we used rubbish like Access (later we obviously used Oracle and decent > > databases). > > Oracle? Decent Database? That's a whole other thread. ;-) Compared to Ingress which almost put me off databases for life when in uni? :) -- Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LotR:TTT
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 14:43, Dave Cross wrote: > > From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 12/19/02 2:30:52 PM > > > Someone has dropped out, so I have one spare ticket for > > tonight. > > I'm almost tempted to go and see it again. > > But I won't as "Once More Wtih Feeling" is on BBC2 tonight :) I'm still waiting to see it for the first time, my new daughter picked a bad time to be born :) -- Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Social photos
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 15:22, Neil Ford wrote: > On 17/12/02 12:58 pm, "Simon Dick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a canon a40 proper digital camera, but I also have one of those > > nokia 7650 mobile phones with built in 640x480 cameras, if I want to > > keep any pics from it I just send them across to my palm via bluetooth > > and store them on my memory card, it's not too bad a compromise from my > > point of view. > > Nah, a proper digital camera would be a Nikon D100 or D1X or a Canon D60 or > 1Ds, but then we are talking a whole magnitude of cost above the average > consumer digicam :-) Proper by my (admittedly low) standards when it comes to cameras :) -- Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Social photos
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 12:55, Robert Shiels wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Alex McLintock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:32:38AM +, Tom Insam wrote: > > > > Have you /seen/ the camera these came out of? > > > > > > > > Lack of white balance is not it's largest limitation. > > > > At 09:52 17/12/02, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > >It's astonishing how many people have these cameras, considering you > > >wouldn't generally expect a LEspion to breed... > > > I bought one of these and took it on holiday. I took about 20 photos, then > got a low battery warning, so stopped using it. When I got home all my > photos had drained away. > > It actually drains a AAA battery in a few days even if you don't use the > camera, so I keep it in a small polythene bag with a battery, and if I want > to take a picture I put the battery in, take it, then ASAP get to my PC to > upload it. This is so far from ideal that I hardly ever do it. I have a canon a40 proper digital camera, but I also have one of those nokia 7650 mobile phones with built in 640x480 cameras, if I want to keep any pics from it I just send them across to my palm via bluetooth and store them on my memory card, it's not too bad a compromise from my point of view. -- Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl CGI and PHP - with some TT thrown in
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 14:47, Andy Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been asked a to build in someones php application into our website. The
> website is all perl/cgi/template toolkit
>
> At the moment I have the following:
>
>
> print $q->header;
> my $we_template = Template->new({
> OUTPUT => \$we_copy,
> INCLUDE_PATH => $conf->{template}->{lib}
> });
>
> $we_template->process('app.php', { copy => $copy }) or die $template->error;
>
> print $we_copy;
>
> This actually worked ok apart from apache treating the resulting page as
> just html and printing it php tags and all.
>
> So my question is, is there any way I can tell apache (maybe with headers)
> that this is php output and needs to be processed through php?
Does setting Content-Type to application/x-httpd-php help?
--
Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advice Needed: Sony Clie -> Nokia 8310 -> Demon POP
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 16:53, Mark Blackman wrote: > > > > Do any ISPs do this? :( > > > > As at least 4 or 5 subscribers to the london-pm list have > full root access to the entire Netscalibur (UK) infrastructure, I'm > sure something could be arranged at one ISP. :) Knew there was something I forgot to do when I was on contract there, I didn't even get a dialup account ;) -- Simon
Re: Advice Needed: Sony Clie -> Nokia 8310 -> Demon POP
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:32:20PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Roger Burton West wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:07:16PM +, Jasper McCrea wrote: > >>I'm not sure how GPRS would work with Demon at all. Don't they still > >>require you > >>to be connected via dial-up to access the POP server. > > > >No. If you have set up a POP3 password separate from your dial-up > >password, you can access the POP3 server from any IP address. This has > >been the case since at the latest 1997, when I started to do it. > > Annoyingly, however, they don't provide POP over SSL, which would > actually make this a useful feature. And have a very low implementation > cost for them. Grrr. Do any ISPs do this? :( -- Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advice Needed: Sony Clie -> Nokia 8310 -> Demon POP
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 03:41:59PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 03:15:59PM +, Dave Cross wrote: > > >The Orange web site recommends installing MultiMail, but that > >seems to be written to talk to Exchange servers. > > MultiMail has a mode it calls "IMAP", but it's not actually IMAP > compliant - specifically RFC1730 2.2.2 "A client MUST be prepared to > accept any server response at all times." If your IMAP server advertises > its capabilities without being asked to, MultiMail will panic and drop > the connection. > > Personally I use TGssh and mutt. For me, the problem is TGssh doesn't work with any hires palm (in hires) :| (if I ever get time I may try fixing that but I'm not holding my breath) -- Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Webmail
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 22:42, Chris Devers wrote:
> On 30 Oct 2002, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>
> > does anyone have any recommendations for webmail that won't degenerate
> > into a templating argument?
>
> Yeah, I'm impressed that in all this thread (over 100 messages?) I think
> maybe one or two posts actually addressed the question. I was also looking
> forward to an answer to this one. If Squirrelmail is bad because it's PHP
> and $hand_rolled_with{$template} is even worse, then what doesn't suck?
>
> I'd also like to set up such a thing, if any projects out there came
> recommended highly enough. Apparently nothing is better than all of them?
You'll be happy to know that SquirrelMail developers are looking into
templating it properly, but are concentrating more on cleaning up the
code first :)
--
Simon
Re: Viewing MS Word docs in email
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:35:29PM +0100, Marty Pauley wrote: > On Sun Oct 20 21:49:03 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > A while back there was a discussion on IRC where I trolled how I bounced > > returned a form response for emails containing .docs requesting a > > document in a format that doesn't require a license* > > ... > > > > * (of course, I don't actually do this but it was quite amusing watching > > a fair proportion of the channel try to defend their right to send MS > > Turd emails). > > My intended response to email containing Word docs is to bounce and > attach a Debian GNU/Linux boot disc image. floppy or compact? -- Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT:Linux mailing list
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:03:32PM +0100, Dean wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:52:47PM +0100, Lusercop wrote: > > > Lonix is the social arm of GLLUG and is a great informal meeting place. > > So who's the guy with the silly smile second from the right, then? > > I knew someone would pick up on that, bastard ;) > > That would be me at the London Linux Expo two years ago when SGI had the > six foot ice penguin that urinated vodka (Long story). > > Disclaimer: I'm a long term Lonix/GLLUG attendee. So am I, I just tend to miss about 4-5 months in a row between attendances :) -- Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: JOB wanted
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:46:22PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > I am looking for a job. > > That is all. Good luck :) -- Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT - Palms.
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:11:17PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 02:05:53PM +, the hatter wrote: > > On Thu, 9 May 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > > Can you drive a video projector from one? > > > [If you think I'm crazy, maybe I am. But why lug a laptop if your PDA > > > can present your presentation?] > > > > I'm fairly sure you can't get anything which outputs the screen as svga or > > something. But with modern projectors which are so advanced, you can > > Bah Take a look at this then: http://www.margi.com/news/pressreleases/pr_handera.html Basically a CF type 1 card you can plug into a handera 330 and do presentations with (I believe there's a springboard modules for the visors too from them). (The handera is PalmOS with a CF and SD slot and hires, nice :) (another nice part about it is being able to do hotsyncs via 802.11b O;) -- Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
