Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

2001-03-23 Thread Leo Lapworth
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:26:35PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: Oi! stop testing your filters on the list /J\ Well, if London.pm.org (server) was set up correctly.. e.g. had Mail::Audit installed then it wouldn't have been a problem! (it does now btw - thanks Jo) Seriously, sorry, I

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread James Powell
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:45:54PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: And finally, it appears that Schwern, Michael is an Alien Drag Queen: http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03105.html http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103645 Excellent, Trevor McDonald style "And finally"

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Andrew Bowman
From: "James Powell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps - For an extra point, what show had an impression of Trevor McDonald called "Trevor McDoughnut"? Trevor McDoughnut is/was a Lenny Henry character - so it was probably Three of a Kind (remember that?), or another programme with Lenny H. in it. For

Re: Perl Training Courses

2001-03-23 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:37:13PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but I have to disagree. Firstly, I don't see how a debugger (visual or not) is much use with the 2 cases you cited. For memory leaks there are specialised tools like Purify

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Simon Wilcox
At 05:25 23/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote: For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry appeared on? Dave... Tiswas ! Actually - I think this was where McDoughnut first appeared ? Simon.

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Matthew Jones
For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry appeared on? Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And White Minstrel Show. Ph3@r my Lenny Henry trivia skills! -- matt "'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today? hey, baby, don't be pulling on my

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Simon Wistow
Dave Cross wrote: For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry appeared on? Black and White Minstrel show IIRC . Although I think he was a on a couple of talent shows first.

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Dave Cross
At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 05:31:25 -0500 (EST), Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:30:19 -, Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry appeared on? Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Matthew Jones
Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And White Minstrel Show. Hmm... now you've gone and made me doubt myself. I thought it was New Faces. http://homepages.go.com/~chefjunkie/Lennysnotlaughing.html http://ayup.co.uk/gods/gods0-4.html Search for "Minstrel". Okay, so he was

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-23 Thread pmh
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:46:07 +, Marty Pauley wrote: The interplanitary URL is sufficient for our short-term expansion plans. Unfortunatly the actual specification of the scheme is a millitary secret, but I can target your house with the following: ipbm://3/401392692/759227092/5 Well,

Re: Contract market these days?

2001-03-23 Thread Ian Brayshaw
Just wondering what it was like in the UK right now. snip ... what the overall feel of the market is right now whether people are knifing coming in and out of interviews or if it's pretty easy to find IT work, etc. It seems to be quite strong, but definitely not as buoyant as it was. A number

Re: Perl Training Courses

2001-03-23 Thread Simon Cozens
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:37:13PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (BTW does anyone know of any open source memory leak detection tools?) GNU checker is surprisingly good. Unfortunately, I'm in offline mode right now and can't find a URL. It's gccchecker in Debian. -- It's 106 miles from

Re: That book

2001-03-23 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: Here's an extract from an email I've just got from Elizabeth Castro, the author of "Perl CGI for the WWW - Visual Quickstrt Guide". She's talking about the second edition which should be out in a couple of months. "I am using many of your

Re: That book

2001-03-23 Thread Mark Fowler
L. said: World domination is ours. Muahahaha! Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive it won't be. Ideas to the usual address. *Please* Later. Mark. (damnit Jim, I'm a Technology Developer, not a Copywriter) -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);'

Re: That book

2001-03-23 Thread Mark Fowler
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: World domination is ours. Muahahaha! Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive it won't be. I don't think we tried "London.pm's Script Archive", did we? :) Okay, I

Re: That book

2001-03-23 Thread Dave Cross
At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:37:51 + (GMT), Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L. said: World domination is ours. Muahahaha! Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive it won't be. Ideas to the usual address. *Please* I thought that 'EasyScripts' (or,

Re: That book

2001-03-23 Thread Lucy McWilliam
At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:37:51 + (GMT), Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: World domination is ours. Muahahaha! Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive it won't be. Might as well mention London.pm, tho' "London.pm's Script Arcives" is a bit out

Re: That book

2001-03-23 Thread Lucy McWilliam
MBM wrote: Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive it won't be. The other possibility, I guess, given that it's london.pm is to make it relate to buffy in some way :) Or beer. Or both ;-) Lucy.

Re: That book

2001-03-23 Thread Ian Brayshaw
Dave Cross wrote: At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:37:51 + (GMT), Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L. said: World domination is ours. Muahahaha! Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive it won't be. Ideas to the usual address. *Please* I thought

Re: That book

2001-03-23 Thread Natalie Ford
How at http://london.pm.org/scripts/ 404...

Matt's Scripts Replacement - The name and sundry other things.

2001-03-23 Thread Simon Batistoni
I thought that 'EasyScripts' (or, even, 'EZScripts') had most people's approval. I thought it ws alright - well, taking the target audience into account :) ...which is the *only* important factor in this equation. I'm still enough of a newbie (those on IRC will have just experienced my joy

Re: That book

2001-03-23 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote: I thought that 'EasyScripts' (or, even, 'EZScripts') and I can tell you that ezscripts.org is still available the .com is a parking page and the .net doesn;t resolve. -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-23 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote: Well, I can make a guess at what the first number represents. Those expansion plans really are short-term. Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Put down those Windows disks Dave Dave? DAVE!!" -- HAL 9000 and for a bonus half point (cos its

script archive naming

2001-03-23 Thread Robin Houston
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:40:21PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: and I can tell you that ezscripts.org is still available There is already a site called ezscripts though: http://www.bytchandbytes.com/ezscripts/ Simplescripts is http://www.simplescripts.co.uk/ - they sell perl scripts

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-23 Thread Niklas Nordebo
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:48:42PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: and for a bonus half point (cos its easy) .. why was HAL called HAL? It's IBM with each letter shifted once to the left. -- Niklas Nordebo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The day is seven hours and fifteen minutes old, and already it's

Re: script archive naming

2001-03-23 Thread Robert Shiels
From: "Robin Houston" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 March 2001 17:51 Subject: script archive naming Your search - "london script archive" - did not match any documents. .robin. so how about londonscripts.com/org then /Robert

HAL (was: ISO8601 (was: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.))

2001-03-23 Thread Robin Houston
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:48:42PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: and for a bonus half point (cos its easy) .. why was HAL called HAL? Supposedly because join ("", map chr(1+ord), split"", "HAL") eq "IBM" though apparently that's accidental. "When someone pointed out the spurious association

Re: Houston, we have a problem [was] Re: ISO8601 [was] Re:Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-23 Thread AEF
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Niklas Nordebo wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:48:42PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: and for a bonus half point (cos its easy) .. why was HAL called HAL? It's IBM with each letter shifted once to the left. Clarke plausibly denies that he noticed this before writing

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-23 Thread Lucy McWilliam
Tony wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Love and fruit flies, I only really want /one/ of those things... Ditto. And I have the wrong one... Love and grapefruit, L.

Fruit flies like a banana

2001-03-23 Thread Robin Houston
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 06:05:21PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: AEF sent the following bits through the ether: On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Love and fruit flies, I only really want /one/ of those things... Really? How many flies do you have? There's an interactive fruit fly

Re: Fruit flies like a banana

2001-03-23 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Robin Houston wrote: Antennapedia is my favourite mutation, but I expect Lucy knows some better ones :-) Yeah, like where they knock out the alcohol dehydrogenase gene and get all the flies absolutely bladdered :-)) L. "Master of all our zones."

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-23 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote: At 17:48 23/03/2001, you wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote: Well, I can make a guess at what the first number represents. Those expansion plans really are short-term. Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Put down those Windows disks

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-23 Thread AEF
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: Really? How many flies do you have? One on each pair of trousers. Except track-suit bottoms. Tony

Re: Fruit flies like a banana

2001-03-23 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, AEF wrote: ...a real interactive fruit fly would be fun. Webcam, food and other stuff controlled by people browsing the site... bringing insect torture into the 21st century. Ooooh, don't tempt me... *grin* L. "We've got armadillos down our trousers. It's really