They are all vampires!

http://members.netscapeonline.co.uk/antibetdesign/vampires.htm (via popbitch), Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software...http://www.iterative-software.com/ ... Useless invention no. 404: Fireproof matches

TPC Quiz Team

I need three volunteers to join me in the london.pm team for Jon Orwant's Internet Quiz at The Perl Conference. This is our big chance to get revenge for the injustices of last year. Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of

Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > I don't think Perl 6 can be a tremendous leap forward, not because > of RFC's along the lines of `Perl must stay Perl', but because > the next leap forward is VisualPerl which will be as much about > IDE as core language. Now lets not get hung up on th

Re: TPC Quiz Team

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > I need three volunteers to join me in the london.pm team for Jon Orwant's > Internet Quiz at The Perl Conference. Does it have questions on Buffy and drinking competitions? Later Mark. -- The use of the beer glass image in association wit

RE: TPC Quiz Team

From: Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 9:24 AM > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > > I need three volunteers to join me in the london.pm team for Jon Orwant's > > Internet Quiz at The Perl Conference. > > Does it have questions on Buffy and drinkin

Re: e-mail

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > Hi, > > due to some BT/ADSL fun and games last night i managed to bounce > almost every message that was directed to me, so if you mailed me > about something important please resend it. Did you get my post? .. here it is again: > Greg .. I just ha

Re: TPC Quiz Team

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:17:04AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: > I need three volunteers to join me in the london.pm team for Jon Orwant's > Internet Quiz at The Perl Conference. > > This is our big chance to get revenge for the injustices of last year. I'll help. Mike Stok and I between

Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Coo, coo, see the fabled perl6, remark how it looks just like perl5, > > wonder if anything's different and if there's a point to all this ;-) > > Blasphemy ahead .. > > I don't think Perl 6 can b

Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:06:22PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > And just to complete my final blasphemy, Visual Basic, may have > > a shit language behind it, it may have performance problems, > > it may be very limited and may force you to implem

test

just a test -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net

Re: e-mail

* Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Did you get my post? .. here it is again: > > > Greg .. I just had a call from a freind of mine who tells me the Bank > > Of England are having a bit of a clear out tonight, apparently they need > > the storage space and are giving away lots of old

Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

* Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > I don't think Perl 6 can be a tremendous leap forward, not because > > of RFC's along the lines of `Perl must stay Perl', but because > > the next leap forward is VisualPerl which will be as much about > >

Re: test

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:06:41AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > just a test You say that it's just test. Who are we to believe you. In fact, I think you're part of the US Govt consipracy to overload foreign networks with test messages. Prove that you're not. -Dom (Not My Real Name)

Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:06:22PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > of RFC's along the lines of `Perl must stay Perl', but because > > the next leap forward is VisualPerl which will be as much about > > IDE as core language. Now lets not get hung up on t

Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

* Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greg McCarroll writes: > > I don't think Perl 6 can be a tremendous leap forward, not because > > of RFC's along the lines of `Perl must stay Perl', but because > > the next leap forward is VisualPerl which will be as much about > > IDE as core lang

Re: Enough!

Simon Cozens wrote: > Now *this* is why I want programmable mobile phones. Me strokes the Java (well, J2ME) phone he has lying around and points at http://www.midletcentral.com/. I've just spent the last two days coding for the ARM chip in a new phone for Sendo. It was hell. You don't want to

Re: test

* Dominic Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:06:41AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > just a test > > You say that it's just test. Who are we to believe you. In fact, I > think you're part of the US Govt consipracy to overload foreign networks > with test messages.

Re: Enough!

Simon Cozens wrote: > One of the things I plan to do on my way around America after TPC is sit > down with Kevin and DHD and start writing some funky robots. sphinx + > infobot + reefknot + festival -- why hire a secretary when you can write > one? :) I've been meaning to have a crack at hookin

Re: They are all vampires!

* Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > http://members.netscapeonline.co.uk/antibetdesign/vampires.htm Lots of work for the Buffster to do, i'm sure Buffy will have to wrestle with Scully to slay her - perhaps in a vat of jello ;-). > (via popbitch), Leon Sure Leon, we believe you got it vi

Re: T-Shirts

Cross David - dcross wrote: > Dave... > [waiting for Simon to send his bank details so he can bankroll the deal] Err, yeah, sorry about this. What with going to Geneva on Friday, Huddersfield on Saturday and Sunday and then sunny Birmingham for the last two days I haven't had time. On its way n

pc components

Does anyone have a recommendation for an online provider of PC components, i'm looking for a couple of big hard drives (50Gb+). -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net

Re: Enough!

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:27:47AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > Fairly easy to write your own 'Wildfire'-esque system with this. Hook it > into Mister House (open source home automation program, > http://misterhouse.net/) and you could do some really funky things by > just phoning up your house

Re: pc components

On or about Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:57:23AM +0100, Greg McCarroll typed: > >Does anyone have a recommendation for an online provider of PC components, >i'm looking for a couple of big hard drives (50Gb+). I've had success with DABS - just make sure the thing's in stock before ordering. Roger

Re: pc components

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:57:23AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > Does anyone have a recommendation for an online provider of PC components, > i'm looking for a couple of big hard drives (50Gb+). Dabs.com is fine. Scan.co.uk has great deals, but if you get some kind of after-sales it seems you're

Re: pc components

On 17/05/2001 at 10:57 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: >Does anyone have a recommendation for an online provider of PC components, >i'm looking for a couple of big hard drives (50Gb+). Simply? Dabs? Although the former spam you a bit, and have atrocious site design, and the latter have a ridiculousl

Re: pc components

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Roger Burton West wrote: > On or about Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:57:23AM +0100, Greg McCarroll typed: > > > >Does anyone have a recommendation for an online provider of PC components, > >i'm looking for a couple of big hard drives (50Gb+). > > I've had success with DABS - ju

Re: pc components

Greg McCarroll wrote: > > Does anyone have a recommendation for an online provider of PC components, > i'm looking for a couple of big hard drives (50Gb+). > > -- > Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net www.scan.co.uk paul -- Paul Sharpe Te

Re: pc components

On Thu, 17 May 2001, AEF wrote: > later to say that it wasn't in stock (there website said it was). However, ^ Ugh! I can't believe I did that... Tony

Re: streaming output

> From: Robert Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: Philip Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > At a guess: "Content-Encoding: gzip" instead. > Yep that worked, According to RFC2616 Content-Encoding: x-gzip should have worked as well: Use of program names for the identification of encodin

Re: T-Shirts

From: "Simon Wistow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ...and then sunny Birmingham .. You must have been dreaming! Barbie, currently sitting in a high-rise office block in rainy Brum.

Re: T-Shirts

Barbie wrote: > > ...and then sunny Birmingham .. > > You must have been dreaming! I was stuck in the Chamberlain hotel on Broad Street. I wanted to go out for a walk and go to a bar and a restaurant (rather than being stuck in the hotel ones) but it was absolutley pissing it down with rain so

Re: test

Greg McCarroll wrote: > just a test Sorry, didn't arrive in Germany. You have some kind of UK only filter on these things? Please sent it again, with the filter turned off. Cheers, Philip (feeling testy) -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're

Re: e-mail

Greg McCarroll wrote: > talking of old money did you know that about 92%[1] of used > fifty pound notes have traces of cocaine on them? Probably from the crack-snorting scientists who test them. > [1] i couldnt remember the exact figure, but it was high, so > 92% sounded good. Did you know th

Re: Buffy ...

Robin Szemeti wrote: > http://page.auctions.yahoo.com/uk/auction/51586918 Yum. Pricey, though. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

Paul Makepeace wrote: > The -> to . conversion [...] will be a wonderful thing. To be honest, I never understood the point of that conversion. Is it an attempt to make Perl look more like VB? Or like Java? Or trying to save keystrokes? Simplify the lexer? The array seemed fine to me the way it

Re: pc components

From: "Roger Burton West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On or about Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:57:23AM +0100, Greg McCarroll typed: > > > >Does anyone have a recommendation for an online provider of PC components, > >i'm looking for a couple of big hard drives (50Gb+). > > I've had success with DABS - just

RE: Buffy ...

From: Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 11:57 AM > Robin Szemeti wrote: > > http://page.auctions.yahoo.com/uk/auction/51586918 > > Yum. Pricey, though. Oh, I don't know. It's not _that_ expensive. I may have another look just before it closes tomorrow morning. If it

Shoot out

Hi, Have you seen http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ ? My pike loving friend was amused to see Perl and Python trounced. But the testing rig was written in Perl at least. Cheers -- Merijn Broeren | Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavour of life, Software Geek | take big bites

Re: Shoot out

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:19:27PM +0200, Merijn Broeren wrote: > Have you seen http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ ? > My pike loving friend was amused to see Perl and Python trounced. But > the testing rig was written in Perl at least. His perl isn't necessarily the fastest in all cases. I

Re: Shoot out

Quoting Tony Bowden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > His perl isn't necessarily the fastest in all cases. I sped some of his > scripts up quite significantly - enough to move it back up above Python > anyway ;) > I was looking at the attributions page and saw only your name. I was kind of expecting the

Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:26:17AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: > I tried to use VB once. I kept thinking "Why isn't this as good as > Interface Builder is on NeXTSTEP?" Actually, I find myself thinking > that when I use almost any IDE... Heh. Same here, although if you discount Interface Builder

Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

Now I'm not buying into the argument on either side, but it does remind me of a lovely quote by Australian programming legend Alan Kennington: Eiffel is some sort of avant-garde French computing movement which believes that programming is reactionary and oppressive. Inste

[OT] Cordelia (was Re: They are all vampires!)

Speaking of vampires, you've got a treat coming up with Angel. After the exploitative tv show there was a lull of a week, and then ... Boobapalooza! You boys will be capturing plenty of stills from the season-ending shows. Think Princess Leia only funny and jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Nat

RE: TPC Quiz Team

Cross David - dcross writes: > Having read Nat's article in the new TPJ, I think we should also have: > > "The use of Buffy the Vampiure Slayer in association with the Perl language > is a trademark of the London Perl Mongers" It's been so long, I have to ask: what was my article in the most rec

Re: pc components

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:03:35AM +0100, AEF wrote: > When I last ordered a HDD from Dabs, they mailed me a couple of days > later to say that it wasn't in stock (there website said it was). My motherboard from Dabs has spent two days "awaiting credit card clearance" and two days "awaiting desp

Re: Buffy ...

Cross David - dcross wrote: > Oh, and there's a picture of the whole cast, just signed by > SMG tho' at . I suppose at this point, grep will wonder why the Bufster uses her fake name when signing pictures. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EM

RE: Buffy ...

> From: Philip Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Cross David - dcross wrote: > > Oh, and there's a picture of the whole cast, just signed by > > SMG tho' at . > > I suppose at this point, grep will wonder why the Bufster > uses her fake

Re: [OT] Cordelia (was Re: They are all vampires!)

-Original Message- From: Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >... Boobapalooza! You boys will be capturing plenty of stills from >the season-ending shows. I'd never sink that low. I know how to use google and wget... >Think Princess Leia only funny and jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Reno

Re: pc components

-Original Message- From: Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >My motherboard from Dabs has spent two days "awaiting credit card clearance" >and two days "awaiting despatch". It *is* in stock, it's just taking them >four days - and counting - to get around to shipping it. If your in London

Re: pc components

> Thinking of big hard drives... > > http://www.dabs.com/products/compare.asp?action=selected&prodtype=14 > > Nice feature. Bugger I bought a 41.1Gb IBM Deskstar the other month from Dabs and now they've drop their price by £25. Barbie

Re: pc components

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:01:11AM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: > > find / -name "*your_base*" -exec chown us:us {} \; If I had a penny for every variation on this sig I'd seen, I'd... er, well, I might have a cheap Mars bar. But still. Martin

Re: pc components

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:36:58PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:01:11AM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: > > > > find / -name "*your_base*" -exec chown us:us {} \; > > If I had a penny for every variation on this sig I'd seen, I'd... er, > well, I might have a cheap Mars bar. B

Re: Buffy ...

* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Cross David - dcross wrote: > > Oh, and there's a picture of the whole cast, just signed by > > SMG tho' at . > > I suppose at this point, grep will wonder why the Bufster uses her fake name > when s

Re: pc components

* Dean S Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >My motherboard from Dabs has spent two days "awaiting credit card > clearance" > >and two days "awaiting despatch". It *is* in stock, it's just taking > them > >four days - and

Re: pc components

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:03:35AM +0100, AEF wrote: > > When I last ordered a HDD from Dabs, they mailed me a couple of days > > later to say that it wasn't in stock (there website said it was). > > My motherboard from Dabs has spent two days "awaiting

Re: pc components

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Alex Gough wrote: > Simply have a habit of sending me things in a really big brown paper bag, Simply sent my HDD in a big brown box. Which was in a really big brown paper bag. Tony

Re: Shoot out

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:19:27PM +0200, Merijn Broeren wrote: > My pike loving friend was amused to see Perl and Python trounced. But > the testing rig was written in Perl at least. I was astounded by the performance of Ocaml. Being forced by an insane lecturer to debug an obfuscated Ocaml pr

Re: Shoot out

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:04:47PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote: Statement: > (And _boy_ can you write obfuscated Ocaml programs if you try! > User-definable infix operators are an especially nice touch in > that regard) Answer: > Why isn't Ocaml more popular? Is there a good reason? -Dom

Re: Shoot out

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:06:45PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:04:47PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote: > > Statement: > > > (And _boy_ can you write obfuscated Ocaml programs if you try! > > User-definable infix operators are an especially nice touch in > > that regar

Re: Shoot out

* Robin Houston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:19:27PM +0200, Merijn Broeren wrote: > > My pike loving friend was amused to see Perl and Python trounced. But > > the testing rig was written in Perl at least. > > I was astounded by the performance of Ocaml. > But the qu

Re: Shoot out

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:12:58PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote: > I don't find that enormously convincing as a reason, though. > You may have noticed that it's possible to write obfuscated > Perl programs ;) No, I've only over seen pleasant, readable perl code posted to this list. > C++ is also p

Re: pc components

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:41:06PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > > > find / -name "*your_base*" -exec chown us:us {} \; > > > > If I had a penny for every variation on this sig I'd seen, I'd... er, > > well, I might have a cheap Mars bar. But still. > > *mumble* xargs(1) *mumble* find / -

Re: Shoot out

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:20:08PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > I still remember an article about C++ templating being a turing complete > language in it's own right or something weird. This isn't it, but is > entertaining anyway: > http://www.annexia.org/freeware/cpptemplates/ And if yo

Re: pc components

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:25:22PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: > I haven't seen a really good one for SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB yet. > apt-get install the-bomb doesn't qualify. dpkg --configure ? -- "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.

Re: pc components

At 14:48 17/05/01 +0100, you wrote: >If your in London then forget mail order and go to TCR on a Saturday, >you get to take home what you pay for and with the drop in spending >lately its getting easier to haggle the price down. Are you refering to the 'computer fair' or just TCR in general? Al

Re: pc components

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:32:03PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: >> apt-get install the-bomb doesn't qualify. > dpkg --configure ? *laughs out loud in the middle of easyEverything* Nice one. :-) ~C. -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I must not edit

Re: pc components

- Original Message - From: Martin Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 9:25 AM Subject: Re: pc components > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:41:06PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > > > > > find / -name "*your_base*" -exec chown us:us {} \; > > > >

Re: Shoot out

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Merijn Broeren wrote: > Quoting Tony Bowden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > His perl isn't necessarily the fastest in all cases. I sped some of his > > scripts up quite significantly - enough to move it back up above Python > > anyway ;) > > > I was looking at the attributions

Re: Shoot out

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:28:13PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > But the question is, are they generating C code from Ocaml code > and compiling it, I don't think so. I think the Ocaml compiler compiles directly to machine code. But what difference does it make, ultimately? > this would explain

Re: TPC Quiz Team

On Thu, 17 May 2001 09:17:04 +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: > I need three volunteers to join me in the london.pm team for Jon Orwant's > Internet Quiz at The Perl Conference. Count me in! > This is our big chance to get revenge for the injustices of last year. I'm finding it more annoying

Re: pc components

-Original Message- From: Jonathan Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >At 14:48 17/05/01 +0100, Dean wrote: >>If your in London then forget mail order and go to TCR on a Saturday, >>you get to take home what you pay for and with the drop in spending >>lately its getting easier to haggle the p

Re: pc components

- Original Message - From: Dean S Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 10:51 AM Subject: Re: pc components > >>If your in London then forget mail order and go to TCR on a > Saturday, > >>you get to take home what you pay for and with the drop in

Re: pc components

- Original Message - From: will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 4:47 PM Subject: Re: pc components >Not as pretty as Buffy or Willow about as close as you can get (sort of). In terms of celebrity status I mean. Quick, someone pass me a shovel.

Perl Journal in the shops?

Has anyone sighted TPJ in a (London) newsagent or bookshop, or know who the UK distributor is? cheer j --- jon eyre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (http://simpson.dyndns.org/~jon/) the slack which can be described is not the true slack

Re: pc components

will wrote: > rm -f zig mv zig/* CATS/ , surely? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: TPC Quiz Team

Peter Haworth wrote: > Come to think of it, if "Buddy" was the password, how come we > all know what it is (now, at least). Aren't passwords > supposed to be secret? I believe there was a news story about the first law to be signed into, well, law electronically by the POTUS "by typing in his d

Re: Buffy ...

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:25:44AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > At 17:20 16/05/2001, Dean wrote: > >On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 05:08:17PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > > > > http://page.auctions.yahoo.com/uk/auction/51586918 > > > >"The economy took another downturn today as the few remaining London

Re: pc components

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:42:43PM -0500, will wrote: > > rm -f zig > > ? No! for GREAT_JUSTICE in $WAY_TO_DESTRUCTION; do mv zig $WHAT_YOU_DOING; done Martin

Re: pc components

will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote something that looked like the following: >Apparently it is Craig 'Red Dwarf' Charles's regular and he was >there a few weeks ago when we were there. Not as pretty as Buffy or >Willow about as close as you can get (sort of). I saw Craig Charles at the Melbourne Com

RE: pc components

> From: Ian Brayshaw > (who'd like to meet either Buffy or Willow in a dark alley...) The man has a death wish... --- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states

Re: pc components

- Original Message - From: Ian Brayshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 11:18 AM Subject: Re: pc components > will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote something that looked like the following: > > >Apparently it is Craig 'Red Dwarf' Charles's regular and he

Re: More Questions

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:15:56PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > Did you mean like this? > > tie my %scores, 'Tie::Hash::Rank'; > [overengineering snipped] Or you could do it in two lines: my $i; my %rank = map { $_ => ++$i } sort {$scores{$a} <=> $scores{$b}} keys %scores; -- teco < /dev/aud

Re: pc components

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:18:16AM +1000, Ian Brayshaw wrote: > I saw Craig Charles at the Melbourne Comedy Festival a couple of years ago > and it was a waste of time and money. He walked out on stage, said he was > p1ssed, drank beer in front of the audience for an hour, occasionally > scream

Re: More Questions

On or about Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:25:52PM +0100, Simon Cozens typed: >Or you could do it in two lines: > >my $i; >my %rank = map { $_ => ++$i } sort {$scores{$a} <=> $scores{$b}} keys %scores; But can you make it do: 1. 20 2. 17 2. 17 4. 15 etc.? Roger

Re: pc components

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:27:17PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:18:16AM +1000, Ian Brayshaw wrote: > > I saw Craig Charles at the Melbourne Comedy Festival a couple of years ago > > and it was a waste of time and money. He walked out on stage, said he was > > p1sse

Ken Campbell is a god (was: pc components)

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:27:17PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Now Ken Campbell was worth watching, but a bit of a head fuck. Ken Campbell is a god. Here is my proof: http://www.puffinry.freeserve.co.uk/wol-wantok/narafaladei.mp3 .robin. ps. The other day I randomly met someone who sp

Re: pc components

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:27:17PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:18:16AM +1000, Ian Brayshaw wrote: > > I saw Craig Charles at the Melbourne Comedy Festival a couple of years ago > > and it was a waste of time and money. He walked out on stage, said he was > > p1sse

Re: More Questions

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:25:52PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:15:56PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > Did you mean like this? > > > > tie my %scores, 'Tie::Hash::Rank'; > > [overengineering snipped] > > Or you could do it in two lines: > > my $i; > my %rank = map {

Re: More Questions

On Thu, 17 May 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > EINSUFFICIENTLYSPECIFIEDPROBLEM :-) Probably. Here's my solution, and I can't see any obvious way of making it smaller. Suggestions? #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my %scores = ( Adams => 78, Davies

Re: More Questions

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:58:01PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > Ah, but those don't do the same do they. You have to regenerate your > rankings whenever you add a new score, whereas mine lets you get the rankings > directly from the hash. Who said anything about adding a score? I just said yo

Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to use VB once. I kept thinking "Why isn't this as good as > Interface Builder is on NeXTSTEP?" Actually, I find myself thinking > that when I use almost any IDE... Any idea what the going rate for a NeXT black box is these days? Dave // Just g

Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:40:42PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I tried to use VB once. I kept thinking "Why isn't this as good as > > Interface Builder is on NeXTSTEP?" Actually, I find myself thinking > > that when I use almost any IDE... > > A

FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

Just picked up the latest FHM to check out the above mentioned list... The interesting bits are as follows; At no. 11, Sarah Michelle Geller At no. 10, Alyson Hannigan!!! Nuff said :-) Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: pc components

www.insight.com - they 0wn Action, and they've never let me down. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy

Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Indys are very nice indeed. However, I think I got a pretty good deal > when I swapped mine for a loaded Sun SS1000e :-) Sellout! -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star

Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

Neil Ford sent the following bits through the ether: > The interesting bits are as follows; > > At no. 11, Sarah Michelle Geller > > At no. 10, Alyson Hannigan!!! You missed out the very important: No 27, Charisma Carpenter ;-), Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.ast

Re: TPC Quiz Team

Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether: > I need three volunteers to join me in the london.pm team for Jon Orwant's > Internet Quiz at The Perl Conference. If you'll accept me, I'd be happy to join you... Leon ps amsterdam.pm team last time, so which .pm next time? ;-)

Re: pc components

Simon Cozens sent the following bits through the ether: > My motherboard from Dabs has spent two days "awaiting credit card clearance" > and two days "awaiting despatch". The same happened to me. I've given up buying things on the Internet. I do all my research on the web, and then head down to

Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:36:12PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: > > Just picked up the latest FHM to check out the above mentioned list... > > The interesting bits are as follows; > > At no. 11, Sarah Michelle Geller > > At no. 10, Alyson Hannigan!!! > > Nuff said :-) Oh, you bastards. You utter,

Re: [gnat@frii.com: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2]

On Thu, 17 May 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > > Dave // Just got a 1995 vintage Indy :-) > > Indys are very nice indeed. However, I think I got a pretty good deal > when I swapped mine for a loaded Sun SS1000e :-) I remember paying $stupid for an indy not very long ago as part of an online edit

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