Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-15 Thread Philip Newton
acme wrote: > This london-list weekly summary has been brought to you with IRC > nicknames instead of, err, real names. This is just an experiment - we > reckon it's a bit silly and more confusing. What do you reckon? I didn't know who "dumrats" was but it didn't take long to figure out. Whether

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-15 Thread Robin Szemeti
> This london-list weekly summary has been brought to you with IRC > nicknames instead of, err, real names. This is just an experiment - we > reckon it's a bit silly and more confusing. What do you reckon? hmmm .. dunno .. you start off ok with 'blech' but then go on to use the same name spelt t

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-15 Thread Robin Houston
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > [...] summaries of #london.pm traffic :) Now _there's_ an idea :-) Is anyone feeling really, really bored? .robin.

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-15 Thread Philip Newton
Robin Houston wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > > [...] summaries of #london.pm traffic :) > > Now _there's_ an idea :-) > > Is anyone feeling really, really bored? Isn't 30% of the traffic of the type " for cream nauseous disgrace extensibility"? :-) Ch

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-15 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > > [...] summaries of #london.pm traffic :) > > Now _there's_ an idea :-) > > Is anyone feeling really, really bored? No, but I'm getting hungry... -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Robert Shiels
Is this a suitable place to talk about our server? I guess we should have a separate mailing list for it eventually I was just wondering if we could make a list of things that have been installed and services that are available. I would be willing to start a FAQ and wish list if someone else isn

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: > > I'd like to know which perl modules are already installed. > I think Meestah Cross has written something that does this, as have I and I think that Tom Phoenix has released Inside now which is a properly implemented way of doing same (I beta tested it

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Roger Burton West
On or about Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:26:27PM -, Robert Shiels typed: >I'd like to know which perl modules are already installed. http://www.perlfaq.com/faqs/id/205 Roger

RE: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Jonathan Peterson
> > To start: > > I'd like to be able to have a http://london.pm.org/~shiels > web address, and > a cgi-bin directory. > > I would like to have (at least) one mysql database to play with. > > I'd like to know which perl modules are already installed. > Why don't we just install all of CPAN to beg

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Robert Shiels
From: "Jonathan Stowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 15 February 2001 15:40 Subject: Re: Penderel Configuration > On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: > > > > I'd like to know which perl modules are already installed. > > > > I think Meestah Cross has written something t

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Robin Houston
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:26:27PM -, Robert Shiels wrote: > > I'd like to know which perl modules are already installed. Add this handy alias to your ~/.bashrc and you'll be able to find out whenever you like :-) alias lsmodules='perldoc -m perllocal | perl -nle '\''print $1 if /L<(.*?)>/'

RE: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread jo walsh
> > I'd like to be able to have a http://london.pm.org/~shiels > > web address, and > > a cgi-bin directory. k i can do the ~/public_html thing and sort this out is that the best way? or there is a group of web users who can write to the docroot if you prefer (both?) > > I would like to have (a

RE: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Gareth . Harper
I notice you don't have Symbol::Approx::Sub installed ;) On a side note, now I've figured out how to send proper plain text mail, anyone know how I can tell outlook to prefix replies with > or likewise ?? Thanks Gareth -Original Message- From: Robin Houston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] S

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Michael Stevens
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:00:53PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I notice you don't have Symbol::Approx::Sub installed ;) > On a side note, now I've figured out how to send proper plain text mail, > anyone know how I can tell outlook to prefix replies with > or likewise ?? Tools -> Options ->

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Steve Mynott
Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: > > > > I'd like to know which perl modules are already installed. > > > > I think Meestah Cross has written something that does this, as have I and > I think that Tom Phoenix has released Inside now which is

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Philip Newton
jo walsh wrote: > > And can we have password based SSH(or whatever we have to > > call it now) as well as PK based ? > > no problems, is enabled. call us at state51 or start a 'talk' > session on the box, i guess, and get told a password This reminds me of my experience in trying to change my

RE: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Andrew Bowman
> From: Michael Stevens [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Tools -> Options -> Preferences -> E-mail Options ... > (This is Microsoft Outlook 2000 SR-1 Corporate or Workgroup) Outlook 98 and Outlook Express also have this feature. Outlook 97 (my current employer's choice) doesn't (so the above quoting is

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Robert Shiels
From: "jo walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 15 February 2001 15:56 Subject: RE: Penderel Configuration > > > > I'd like to be able to have a http://london.pm.org/~shiels > > > web address, and > > > a cgi-bin directory. > > k i can do the ~/public_html thing and sort this

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:33:00PM -, Robert Shiels wrote: > The ~/public_html is what I had in mind, this should be fairly easy to turn > on in httpd.conf, although when I looked it seemed like it was already > configured, but I couldn't get mine to work. The web user needs read access to y

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Philip Newton
jo walsh wrote: > mysql is installed and should be running, Seems not to be. [pne@penderel pne]$ mysql ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111) [pne@penderel pne]$ date Thu Feb 15 16:41:25 GMT 2001 Cheers, Philip

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:21:34PM -, Andrew Bowman wrote: > It may be heresy to admit it around here (come on then MuttCarroll!), but I > actually quite like Outlook Express (as distinct from Outlook) as a mail > client. Once it's configured to disable scripting etc. it's biggest flaw, > asid

RE: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I notice you don't have Symbol::Approx::Sub installed ;) > > On a side note, now I've figured out how to send proper plain text mail, > anyone know how I can tell outlook to prefix replies with > or likewise ?? > In Outlook menu - Tools/Options sele

RE: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Jonathan Peterson
> > > > > > this is a good idea. > > We have enough disk space (just !), so I agree totally. > > Have fun with all the binary dependencies :-) Or are you > talking about > having a CPAN mirror, which is an entirely different > water-boiling-device > of pisceans. > Oh no, CPAN mirror is b

Matt Sergeant Technical Talk

2001-02-15 Thread Dave Cross
The next technical meeting will be next Thursday (22nd Feb). Our guest speaker for the night will be Matt Sergeant who will be talking about AxKit . Meeting starts at 7:30pm and will be at Torrington Interactive. Address and further details are on the web site. (Still t

The Conway Lecture

2001-02-15 Thread Dave Cross
(please circulate this to any interested parties) London Perl Mongers proudly presents THE CONWAY LECTURE "Quantum::Superpositions" by Damian Conway In the Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL On Monday 26th Feb, 2001 At 7pm For more information: On Damian Conway see

RE: The Conway Lecture

2001-02-15 Thread Andy Mendelsohn
> > THE CONWAY LECTURE > > "Quantum::Superpositions" > by Damian Conway > > In the Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL > On Monday 26th Feb, 2001 > At 7pm Having seen him give this lecture last week at the Silicon Valley Perl Mongers meeting, I can't stress how good a lecture

Re: Penderel Configuration

2001-02-15 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > HTML email is bad. In this weeks LWN letters page, there's a cute > letter from Alan Cox explaining how you don't need JS enabled to get > tricked. If you look for "HTML email privacy" at: > I've always been *enabled* whaddya talking about ... /

Re: The Conway Lecture

2001-02-15 Thread Leon Brocard
Andy Mendelsohn sent the following bits through the ether: > Mind you, does anyone need encouraging to go and see Damian Conway > talk? No. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Sucks Syntax

Re: The Conway Lecture

2001-02-15 Thread Neil Ford
>(please circulate this to any interested parties) > Forwarded to the UK FreeBSD User Group and the Brighton Linux User Group. Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Yet Another Computer Solutions Company [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Conway Lecture

2001-02-15 Thread Greg Cope
Neil Ford wrote: > > >(please circulate this to any interested parties) > > > Forwarded to the UK FreeBSD User Group and the Brighton Linux User Group. Brighton LUG - Where ? Greg > > Neil. > -- > Neil C. Ford > Yet Another Computer Solutions Company > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Pony and Buffy (was Re: Mailing List Stuff)

2001-02-15 Thread Mark Fowler
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Michael Stevens wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:34:15PM +, Robin Houston wrote: > > > what is it with ponys? > > I've wondered that too. > > Seems to be a #perl obsession... > > >purl< pony > [purl] pony is Gimme a Pony! Pony! Pony! Pony Pony Pony! Pony Pony >

Re: The Conway Lecture

2001-02-15 Thread Neil Ford
>Neil Ford wrote: >> >> >(please circulate this to any interested parties) >> > >> Forwarded to the UK FreeBSD User Group and the Brighton Linux User Group. > >Brighton LUG - Where ? > http://www.brighton.lug.org.uk It's a fairly dorment group but it does exist. The web page has details on ho