On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:39:32AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> Greg Cope sent the following bits through the ether:
> > I want to design a mailer for sending large numbers of individual
> > messages to a large list.
>
> You're writing a mailer in Perl. Mailers have been done before. If
> you're
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:08:50PM +1000, Ian Brayshaw wrote:
> I am finding XSLT & XML to be a good alternative to normal templating
> techniques. One of the biggest benifits I've found is being able to generate
> the one data set and have it rendered in different ways for different
> applicat
In case anybody hasn't noticed, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has now
become [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your mail filters may need updating,
you've probably got a ton of junk in your inbox in case you haven't
noticed. :-)
-Dom
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:39:11PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:30:24PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> > Simon Wilcox wrote:
> > > I avoided HTML::Embperl, HTML::Mason & Apache::ASP because they all
> > > embed perl into the template which is a Bad Thing (tm).
> >
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 04:36:00PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> In a moment of stupidity[1] I agreed to write an article for lathos on
> templating solutions for Perl. This was an attempt to finally break my
> writing block/issues/mindset problems. It is going to be a compare and
> contrast ar
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 10:33:57AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> Some guys out here in Brizzle want to do "Yet Another CMS". Are there
> any frameworks out there they can plug together to make something
> plausible?
>
> I guess bits of the 2.0 slashcode do the job nicely, what with being
> TT b
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:20:15PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > or do they have unmetered called in Holland? If so and we had
> > a direct line we could beg a Dutch Monger to call in and
> > set up ppp to their broadband or similar connection
>
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:41:43PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote:
> Beware, it's in Flash (or Shockwave)
> http://www.electrotank.com/lab/minigolf.html
>
> Hole 17 is a bugger
How much time did it take you to find out this incredible fact?
-Dom
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:16:00PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> yet another test
I'm sorry, but you appear to have failed again. This message is quite
visible! :-(
-Dom
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:42:30PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Robert Shiels wrote:
> > Richard wrote:
> > > If I'm trying to avoid Amazon for some technical books, what sites are
> > > currently suggested?
> >
> > I think we need a FAQ, I'm sure this has come up a few time
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:44:50AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> At 10:01 14/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
> >The data from these files will primarily be diplayed within an HTML page.
> >A
> >perceived advantage of XML here (for someone who has barely scratched the
> >surface of what XML can do), i
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:41:56PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> In other news: Microsoft SQL Server sucking (SQueaL), Sun Ultra
> Enterprise 1, google++, the Sony Clie being small and cute,
> checking out pubs for the next meet, buffy, search.cpan.org being
> hacked (Catalog module apparently)
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:28:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If this is because you don't have somewhere to stay on the Thursday night,
> > I'm sure we can collectively find a way around that. If you bring your
> > passport, we'll even let y
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:31:44AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Dominic Mitchell wrote:
>
> > And you'd have to make the daemon threaded, or end up running multiple
> > pre-forking daemons to do the job. At which point, you're only saving
> > the fork time a
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:40:38PM +0100, Matthew Robinson wrote:
> Apologies in advance if I have missed something blindingly obvious :)
>
> I need to change the default library paths in a compiled copy of perl.
> Basically, I want to move /usr/lib/perl5 into /usr/local/lib/perl5. I am
> unable
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:56:19AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> At 18:51 09/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
>
>
> >Precisely. And using Java et al is a discrimination against the mobility
> >impaired.
>
> Not to mention the way it discriminates totally against people who can't
> afford, don't ha
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:26:44AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Dominic Mitchell: 152
Oh dear. And I haven't even been subscribed since the beginning of the
year...
-Dom
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:40:20AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > I tried looking up developer docs for the clie on the web, but there's a
> > a dearth of information about it, and what there is is protected by
> > so
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:10:48AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
> From: "Dominic Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:45:09AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
> > > Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:45:09AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
> Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA.
> Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the moment. If anyone knows a good shop,
> or is good at haggling and wants to help, I'm on 07801 814138.
Has anybody g
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:46:39AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I presume that this is a permie thing?
>
> Yes. And I'd estimate that _most_ of you I know would be, um, a bit
> too "heavyweight" for them...
You calling me fat, boy?
-Dom
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:42:34AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> Leons links to TPC are ace .. thats amazing .. the best NT powered thing
> is at a piss poor 1700 ... presumably NT doesnt scale well to a 128
> processor UltraSparc then ;)))
AFAIK, the starfire (Sun Ultra Enterprise 1) only g
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:34:10AM +0100, Dean wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:29:14AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > ah well, we can probably also expect "The Rock" from WWF
> > to show up and lay the smack down on some vamps, also
> > expect to here plans for a BtVS movie as well, so they
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:16:51PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
> From: Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:07 PM
>
> > (Anyone standing on the platform of reforming bank holidays?
> > I'd buy that for a dollar.)
>
> Whatever happened to the plan to do away with
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:05:28PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Dominic Mitchell wrote:
>
> > I'd like to tell you how to get the flash plugin working, but I couldn't
> > because it's a Linux .so and can't be linked in to my FreeBSD konqueror. :-(
>
&
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:47:28AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
> > Are you using xinerama (i.e. so your monitors are spliced together into
> > one display?)
>
> No, it's KDE2 which seems to split them into separate desktops. The
> mo
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:42:50AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:26:14PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > You might need to run a 2nd copy of kwin, like this:
> >
> > % kwin -- display :0.1
>
> (--display)
Sorry, saw that after I
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:12:30AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> OK, getting more esoteric now -- is anyone running dual monitors? I
> finally got my G450 running with KDE2 but the window manager doesn't add
> decoration to the windows on the 2ndary monitor, i.e. I can't move
> windows and they d
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:27:07AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:19:21AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > Paul, who will probably end up using FreeBSD since its hardware RAID
> > (HPT370) and video (Matrox G450 dual) is apparently better...
>
> vinum in mirror mo
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:40:03AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote:
> All the one's that claimed to be valid from E::V failed chaddr!
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] had this result from chaddr:
> user: andyw. is good
> host: hillway.com is good
> address `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' is bad: rfc822 failure
>
> So I guess
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:37:48AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> At 10:28 30/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >> my name is jon i have installed an irc client on my linux shell account
> >can u tell me where the c00lest irc places are like what server and channel
> >and stuff u all use so i can le
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:51:44PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> * Dominic Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:30:23PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > > It seems that a PDP 11/73 is small enough to run at home. So do I get one
> > > or
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:30:23PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> It seems that a PDP 11/73 is small enough to run at home. So do I get one
> or not?
Yes! You'll have enough blinkenlights then.
You can always get 7th Edition running on it.
http://minnie.tuhs.org/PUPS/index.html
-Dom
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:05:59PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
> Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 2:45:24 PM, Dave Cross wrote:
>
> DC> Haven't tried the routine you're talking about, but if you ever decide to
> DC> give up on them, the Number::Format module (from CPAN) will solve all of
> DC> your probl
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:32:09PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> At 07:49 23/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
> >At 17:37 22/05/2001, Roger Burton West wrote:
> >
> >
> >>And get a shell account, why don't you?
> >
> >Thanks. I already have several.
>
> [snip]
>
>
> >Much as I'd love it if everyone
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:06:39PM +0100, Barbie wrote:
> From: "Robert Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > From: Roger Burton West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > >
> > > man 1 file
> > > man 5 magic
> > > less /usr/share/misc/magic # on many systems
> > >
> >
> > except anything written my MS of
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 01:27:10PM +0100, Barbie wrote:
> Using the code below, and calling the routine with a *.jpg file. Why does
> the mime_type return "text/plain"? I've also tried using MIME::Head->read
> with a filehandle and it returns the same. I would investigate CPAN further
> for clues
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:30:27PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
> On 21/05/2001 at 14:15 +0100, Mike Wyer wrote:
> >On Mon, 21 May 2001, Robert Shiels wrote:
>
> >>I use Outlook Express, I like it a lot. It works for me.
> >
> >Much badness. We are withdrawing Outlook and associates from all our
> >W
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:15:28PM +0100, Mike Wyer wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Robert Shiels wrote:
> >From: "Jonathan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: 21 May 2001 13:28
> >Subject: Long shot
> >
> >
> >> Anyone know a windows IMAP client that:
> >> 1. Isn't Net
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:05:20PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> At 13:27 20/05/2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
>
> >You can't expect to steal music and then bitch about how someone is
> >stealing copies of your book on line.
>
> True. But just so as we know where we all stand. I have only ever us
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:27:10AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>
> This is the sort of thing that happens in the country i grew up in
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_1336000/1336347.stm
Is that Alan Cox in the Red Hat in that photo?
Inquiring minds wish t
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
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
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
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
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)
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:19:36PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:05:25AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
> > > Loved the footnote on page 78.
> >
> > Thanks very much. It's one of my favourite jokes. It was trialed at a
> > london.pm technical meeting some months ago
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:59:07AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> I do keep intending to do something cute with my ISDN adapter and log the
> stuff coming out of the D channel and see whats in there ... but time has
> prevented it etc.
I'd be interested to hear how you get on... I was under the im
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:04:45AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
> From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > However what i'd really hate is any restrictions placed
> > on the topics of London.pm , politics should be just as
> > welcome as BtVS.
>
> Or, even, Perl :)
Oh, please, we
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:04:43PM +0100, Natalie Ford wrote:
> At 15:09 14/05/01, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> >Please, would you take the politics elsewhere? Some of us really don't
> >give a shit either way.
>
> Hear hear! I am getting tired of hitting delete... :)
procmail++
If anybody wants a
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:50:53PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:45:13PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > Particularly with the lack of an Internet Driving License, anyway.
>
> It's crap, but... http://www.ecdl.com/
Just quickly looking through
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:42:27PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On or about Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:32:32PM +, Steve Mynott typed:
> >Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> If you really work for ebookers.com, why are you sending from a hotmail
> &
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:32:32PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
> Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If you really work for ebookers.com, why are you sending from a hotmail
> > address? It doesn't lend credence to your request to have somebody else
&g
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:24:54PM +0100, Melissa Fivelman wrote:
> Just to let you know that we have had numerous e-mails coming in addressed
> to James Duncan from your address.
>
> He no longer works for ebookers. Please delete his address asap.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Melissa Fivelman
> IT Adm
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:18:00PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:06:42PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
> > Is this the point where I can try and recruit some of you compscis to the
> > bioinformatics revolution?
>
> I've always thought it sounded like fun.
>
> How does
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:56:48AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1326000/1326657.stm
Amongst the many other tributes floating around, I found this one quite
entertaining:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010513
-Dom
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:52:06AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Me neither. I came to the startling conclusion about 5 years ago that I
> don't really like. I don't hate it, just don't particularly enjoy it
> except in odd moods and even then mostly dark chocolate.
"Will drool for Green & Black's
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:19:27AM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
> There are certainly far fewer left-wing bookshops now than twenty
> years ago. Most of the young seem now more interested in single
> issues like animal rights, globalisation etc then traditional
> socialism.
Hey, that's just the yo
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 05:55:56PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:56:48AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1326000/1326657.stm
> >
> Unfortunately I got the phone call at 7:10 this morning :-(
>
> Definitely a strange day.
I
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:15:56PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2001, Mark Fowler wrote:
> > (I don't eat chocolate.)
>
> *shock*
It's not strictly necessary, as you still get the kinder egg toys...
-Dom
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:59:13PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
> From: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 4:22 PM
>
> > How many things do you have on top of your monitor?
>
> Here - none (not sure why my mini-Tux never made it
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:51:40PM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote:
> But at Torrington I had 8 items ( I think ) including marzipan models of
> Bagpuss (complete with Organ Mouse) and Tux.
>
> They have yet to migrate to my job.
They've probably been eaten by now...
marzipan++ # tasty
-Dom
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:48:40PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> Philip Newton wrote:
> > I generally bring one of my small stuffed toys to work
> ^
> or my wife's. She has me than I.
Eeek, I have more than my SO and I am wondering if in f
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:43:29PM +0200, Niklas Nordebo wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > How many things do you have on top of your monitor?
>
> I have a solitary copy of a japanese netsuke depicting a cat.
>
> My machine is
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:33:42PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 May 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
>
> > How many things do you have on top of your monitor?
>
>
> None ;-)
>
Boring! You should be able to manage some clip on furry animals.
For ref
How many things do you have on top of your monitor?
-Dom
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:17:10PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> Paul Mison wrote:
> > there may be a second constrained walk
>
> What's a "constrained walk"?
Like a silly walk, but less offensive.
-Dom
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:14:08AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:41:20AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> > > Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > > > assuming you can get into a bourne shell, y
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:41:20AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > assuming you can get into a bourne shell, you can
> > still do things like write cat(1) in sh, as well.
>
> This is not going to help you pause output.
>
> > Although it&#
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:10:13AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:25:00PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > > If your terminal has flow control enabled it will eat ^Q
> > > and ^S for you.
> > > s
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:25:00PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> If your terminal has flow control enabled it will eat ^Q and ^S for you.
> stty -ixon
> removes this problem.
But then how do you pause that long ls listing when your
less,more,pg,sed,awk&perl binaries are all fscked? :-)
-Dom
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:44:41PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote:
> > In Emacs, it's ^Q, then the character you want.
>
> only ^Q? that's not like emacs :)
Well, it's assuming that nobody's fiddled with the keymaps. You could
alternatively do:
M-x quoted-insert RET RET
-Dom
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:35:29PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote:
> kind of off topic but how do you get things like ^M and such like into
> a file for, say, writing vi macros?
>
> i've had a look through some docs but i'm beggining to suspect it's
> one of those bit of unix aracana know to a chosen
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:18:22AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:54:04AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
>
> > David Cantrell wrote:
> > > http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv
> >
> > I was going to post "I can't open that in Microsoft Word; please re-send it"
> > as a jok
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:54:04AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> David Cantrell wrote:
> > http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/cv
>
> I was going to post "I can't open that in Microsoft Word; please re-send it"
> as a joke, but when I tried to open the PDF version using the Acrobat
> plug-in in Nets
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:47:43PM +0100, Dean wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:32:35PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
> > Well, the 13 year old now claims to be 20. But no, this is his friend bk who
> > "kills people for a living" in Hereford!
>
> Um. I no longer want children.
You *want
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:57:08PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> PO?
ask po to do webby things like googling. He won't core dump.
Promise.
+or not dadadodo or not here while hitherto is on holiday
Dom2?
hmmm... Dom2 is still annoyed by how bad emacs is at doing xml,
+actually, given how
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:00:11AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> At 19:25 29/04/2001, Leon Brocard wrote:
> >Can *someone* please pick a date to go visit the camel?
>
> Can't be done until a) the foot and mouth stuff has died down and b) I've
> worked out exactly who has paid for slices.
Mmmm... S
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:04:39AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> > this mornings powerdown @ 06:00 .. what time did yours come back up and
> > has it gone up and down again since then .. mines been down twice :(
>
> Oh bcks. Mine hasn't come back up at all. H.. I have a feeling
> Sun
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:30:20PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> Philip Newton wrote:
> > Chris Ball wrote:
> > > Are postings subscriber only ..? ]
>
> Subscriber not even, more like. I bet this email never makes it to the
> list for a start.
>
> I blame majordomo, when's that mailman thi
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:59:53PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:11:40AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > >
> > > Ho ho, you should have heard the stick that support got from that little
> > > p
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:23:16AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> Robin Szemeti wrote:
> >
> > now I am absolutely totally 100% certain that some web browser (and thats
> > all it is) should *not* mess around with the way I view folders. I think
> > that was a turning point for me and my judge
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:41:00AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> [ and don't even ask me about the time Demon distributed some pox ridden
> disk with IE4.1 on it ..'err I just installed the latest version of
> Turnpike and seem to have inherited IE4 .. how do I get rid of it as its
> screwed my de
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:05:38PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> Jon Galliers asked about naming a file correctly when downloading from
> a CGI. Niklas Nordebo and Merijn Broeren provided solutions:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg04654.html
Doh! We entirely missed
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:49:34AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> I went with Barclays because they gave 12 months free banking and
> could group the online banking with my personal accounts.
On a side issue, do you know of any online banks that allow personal
accounts to download historical dat
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:14:02PM -0500, will wrote:
> An old boss of mine wanted a domain that was expiring in a few weeks once so
> he ran a cron task that checked the status of the domain every hour and
> automatically registered it when it became available. I am not sure but I
> think they r
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:58:23AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Here's a perl question (OK, not really).. Is anyone aware of a
> compatibility/wrapper library which a developer could use to take an
> app using the MySQL API and with some (ideally) minimal munging turn
> it into Oracle OCI or Pro
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:40:02PM +0100, Mike Wyer wrote:
> Camels are quite hard to see at London Zoo at the moment, owing to the
> foot 'n mouth situation. I was there a couple of weeks back, and the
> heffalump house was shut. The penguins ain't bad, though.
Last time I saw penguins at a zoo,
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:02:03AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:34:49PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > > Emacs has been able to do this for probably 10 years or more. I think
> > > even vi
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:29:09AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
> From: "Dominic Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Dunno, but I sure hope the digital packages get a bit better than the
> > current offerings otherwise I'll just switch off the telly and not turn
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:49:09PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> And there was me thinking that Chris was going to say that he doesn't have
> a TV either. But he didn't. I don't have a TV. But I'm currently camped out
> in my parents house, and they have 2. But I learn that they will both be
> ob
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 05:43:20PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
> Alexis Denisof (who plays Wesley) is going out with Alyson Hannigan
> (Willow).
For some reason, this is made even worse by the automatic word
association of "Wesley" and "Crusher".
Excuse me whilst I puke now.
-Dom
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:47:57PM +0100, Dean wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:34:49PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > Emacs has been able to do this for probably 10 years or more. I think
> > even vim can do it now, too.
>
> Never noticed that! I normally edit my
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:26:42PM +0100, Dean wrote:
> I've been using this for C coding recently and its not too bad. It has a
> couple of nice tricks though like clicking on the compile errors and being
> taken to the line.
Emacs has been able to do this for probably 10 years or more. I thin
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 01:35:25PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote:
> no idea if anyone will find this useful but:
>
> if you use mozilla (on linux/*nix at least) stick this:
>
> name="CPAN"
>description="CPAN Search"
>method="GET"
>action="http://search.cpan.org/search"
> >
>
>
>
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:26:56AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:11:45PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > You're probably going to have to grep through the kernel source to see
> > why it's being returned in that case. And I have a snea
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:02:29AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:49:20AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > If you have a complete /usr/src installed, look in there for examples
> > of how it's done in C (it looks like you have a BSD machine - so i
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:25:09AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Anyone hackers here sent broadcast packets? I think this is how you
> do it:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
>
> use Socket;
> my $dst = inet_aton("172.30.255.255");
>
> socket(SOCKET, PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, getprotobyname("ud
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 02:59:51AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Who said "release early, release often". Apple are doing the right
> thing, IMO.
Probably Eric Raymond.
Which reminds me, there used to be a comment in the code for an
authentication server at Demon:
/* fork early, fork often
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:44:57PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Sorry, ol bean, I'm already piping this list through two bots (my archiver
> and my URL-hunter). They don't say anything in public though. Yet.
You could make them auto-send a rude message on encountering
text/html...
-Dom
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