Re: Another Perl Question

2001-05-24 Thread Mike Wyer
d like blessed( $svref ) would be nice. ref and I quote: Returns a TRUE value if EXPR is a reference, FALSE otherwise. If the referenced object has been blessed into a package, then that package name is returned instead. my $wtf = ref $could_be_anything; if ($wtf) { if ($wtf eq "HASH&qu

Re: Long shot

2001-05-21 Thread Mike Wyer
it. It is an administrative nightmare, and the source of more viri than any other component on our systems (NT and Linux). In a networked environment, it is the Devil incarnate. Standalone, you might be ok. The interface may be nice, but the code has more design flaws and vulnerabilities than

Re: Monitors

2001-05-11 Thread Mike Wyer
eball cap and t-shirt Lara Croft t-shirt Veritas baseball cap Cowboy hat Cheers, Mike -- Mike Wyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || "Woof?" http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mw || Gaspode the Wonder Dog Work: +44 020 7594 8440|| Mobile: +44 07879 697119|| ICQ: 43922064

Re: Dim Sum?

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Wyer
mber where I first heard it although both Red Dwarf and Calvin >and Hobbes spring to mind. Wayne's World. -- Mike Wyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || "Woof?" http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mw || Gaspode the Wonder Dog Work: +44 020 7594 8440|| Mobile: +44 07879 697119|| ICQ: 43922064

Re: next social meeting vs tube strike

2001-04-19 Thread Mike Wyer
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: >On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:12:20PM +0100, Mike Wyer wrote: >> The okapi was much better (think giraffe crossed with zebra with a >> tongue any muff diver would kill for) > >Do they have bonobo? I thought bonobo were the generic

Re: next social meeting vs tube strike

2001-04-19 Thread Mike Wyer
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: >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 ho

Re: next social meeting vs tube strike

2001-04-19 Thread Mike Wyer
blic camels. Maybe now would be the time for a trip to the >zoo. 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. Cheers, Mike -- Mi

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-17 Thread Mike Wyer
ing- I use my Ericsson rebadged 5MX as a pocketable terminal emulator at work- plugs straight into a serial port with decent terminal support. Ideal for administering UPSs, remote power control units, and machines with the system administrator shell running on the serial port. Cheers, Mike -

Re: Perl commandments

2001-01-10 Thread Mike Wyer
t to spend the first 18 months on holiday in Hawaii, and then come back and buy the kit to do the crunching. Not particularly profound, but a fun thought nonetheless. And of course the fact that the cheapest time to buy a computer is tomorrow. Cheers, Mike -- Mike Wyer <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Much Coolness XML Wise.

2001-01-09 Thread Mike Wyer
Data::Dumper that outputs well formed xml. >Two minutes to read the docs and make a quick test script and tada! >Well formed xml files of my structures ready to be used. In under five >additional lines of code. How does the output compare to XML::Simple::XMLout() ? Cheers, Mike --