Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
*>
*>so tell me now that normal cron is easier and simpler? :)
Normal cron is easier and simpler.
Nathan, you might want to look at Sean Burke's 'crontab2english' which you
can find via search and looking in his dir on backpan [ the archive link ]
e.
Rebecca Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
*>>
*>>Or are they still part of the axis of aevil?
Not since I moved to the EU as they like to add 22% tax to any and all
amazon.com boxes :)
Someone must want the book though as junglescan shows an interesting
spike: http://1.junglescan.com/scan/details.php
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
*>I talked to the people about the CPAN site
*>being an April Fools Joke. Everyone chuckled.
*>Perl's reputation appears safe, though some
Well, there's always next year :)
*>still accuse me of "Operator Error" for my
*>work at the keyboard. Oh well...
John Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
*>
*>Never-the-less, it seems to me that if we want perl,
*>CPAN, and open source to be considered seriously in a
*>grown up world, anything representing these org's should
*>be predictable and, I suppose, more boring.
That's what ActiveState is for.
e.
John Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
*>
*>It seems to me that this April Fool's joke is detrimental
*>to perl, CPAN, and open source in general.
You've got to be putting me on. Did you miss last year's CJAN? or what
about Parrot, the April Fool's joke that someone actually did. It's easy
advertis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
*>
*>perhaps I would have investigated further at the time,
*>but I was attempting to demo to some people
*>the benefits of perl, one of which being CPAN.
*>
*>I typed the URL in several times, got the bogus page,
*>did some hand waving, and said something
Daniel R. Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
*>Looks like Jarkko is running on GMT+3 ?
We, as well as the main CPAN mirror, are in EET which is GMT+2...Helsinki,
Finland.
e.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
*>hey, when i put in www.cpan.org right now,
*>I end up at "Matt's Script Archive, Inc."
*>what the heck is that???
APRIL FOOLS...damn, you'd think people would a) try the links or b) check
the calendar as 1 April comes only once a year. CHERISH THE HUMOU
Charles Reitzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
*>
*>Due to it's single implementation, Perl should be spared the worst. But,
*>for that same reason, the advanced features could well weigh down the
*>language as a whole in both interpretation and execution speed.
Perl 4 people said the same thing many
Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
*>
*>I'm not a linguistic scholar, but I read once that linguistic scholars
*>have noticed that throughout human history, there has always been a
*>trend of languages diverging, rather than converging (as one might
*>expect). As the amount of widespread-ednes
Joe Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
*>
*>Do you trust Larry and Damain?
I wish they'd just stop circulating the Apocs so widely as every time
Larry emits one there is a rash of people who think the world has needed
to know or cares that it's not what they wanted or needed to use. It's the
typic
Tolkin, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
*>I think I am in the same camp as Chris Nandor and John Tobey.
*>They, and I, have just given up on Perl 6.
*>
*>But there is a problem in staying with Perl 5.
*>Due to Perl 6 the Perl 5 community is deprived of the
*>resources of several key people, e.g. La
Ron Newman [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>I'm trying to use the CPAN shell to fetch and build a package,
*>but not having any luck. What am I doing wrong, and how do
*>I reconfigure my system to do it right?
*>Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file () are
*>valid.
*>The urlli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
*>> Well, but I'd bet you could recite word-for-word
*>> the entire 1-3 seasons of Buffy by rote :)
*>
*>Nope, sorry. as a general rule, I don't watch TV,
*>except maybe to hang out with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>> "Et tu, Brute". It's vocative case, dammit!
*>>
*>> Geez, screwing up Latin AND Shakespeare in one short phrase. Don't
*>> they teach you kids across the pond ANYTHING these days? :)
*>
*>Yeah, efficiency. two screw ups in just three words is pre
Chris Devers [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>
*>So it's unanimous then? Perligata it is?
*>
*>Oh well, de gustibus non est disputandum.
Quod erat demonstrandum :)
Well, yankees have trouble enough speaking English so expecting those who
didn't have a nun beating Latin into them for 8-years to be ent
Adam Turoff [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>
*>Really? I flipped through it in the bookstore and didn't find much
*>of value to a long-time UNIX user. Specifically, I wanted to see much
*>more discussion about netinfo and other darwin/osx-isms that you don't
*>find on other *NIXes. The coverage of
Daniel Rinehart [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*> For anyone that was interested in the Somerville Christmas Lights
*>tour, information can be found online at:
*>
*> http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/programs/illum/
As well as last years 'Merry Megawatt Massachusetts Christmas' which even
Sean Quinlan [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>
*>As always - here here! :)
*>
*>How about the 18th or 19th of Dec.?
I'll be sunning in Cancun right about then. I was thinking since Ron
mentioned there was no agenda and that this is the 'holiday season' that
it might be nice to just chuck it and have a
John Saylor [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>
*>Or caffiene and seasonal angst.
*>
*>Whichever feels best.
In these times there is a holiday and a beverage to accompany it for
everyone :)
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Ronald J Kimball [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:00:47PM -0500, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
*>> Boston.pm's Tech Meeting for December will be held next Tuesday, October
*>> 23. The meeting will take place at the offices of Boston.com. The
*>> meeting will begin at 7:30.
*>
*>T
Joel Gwynn [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>I'm trying to install Mail::SpamAssasin at pair.com.
*>
*>At pair, they have instructions for using the cpan module:
*>http://www.pair.com/pair/current/insider/0102/cpan.html
*>
*>It basically involves setting a LIB variable, like so:
*> o conf makepl_arg L
Joel Gwynn [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>Hello all. If anyone else is squandering their Saturday evening coding,
*>maybe you could answer a quick question. I want to install some modules in
*>my local pair.com account using the CPAN module. How do I do this?
see the FAQ at http://www.cpan.org/m
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