Re: Job

2001-07-04 Thread Struan Donald
* at 03/07 21:01 +0100 Chris Benson said: > > 2. By Linux I assume you mean Linux/ix86 ... I've been trying to get > an app running on Linux/PPC for a few weeks on-and-off: I'm definately a > 2nd-class citizen. I wonder how the Linux/MIPS, Linux/ARM, Linux/390 > people get on! heck, i have en

Re: Job

2001-07-04 Thread Jonathan Peterson
At 17:36 03/07/01 +0100, you wrote: >On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:12:45PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:54:01PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > > My big beef with Java is that having *forced* you into an OO model > > > (something recognised both by Perl and C++ a

Open Source Content Management Systems

2001-07-04 Thread Andy Williams
Has anyone had experience with Midgard? (http://www.midgard-project.org/) Aty first glance it looks pretty good. Andy Williams http://www.lampsolutions.co.uk "Pub... a meeting place where people attempt to achieve an advanced state of

Re: Divorcing data storage from business logic

2001-07-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is more than can be said for MySQL with the horror that is MyISAM. So don't do it - use one of the three other schemes that pretend to have locking... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chi

Re: Divorcing data storage from business logic

2001-07-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:24:52AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is more than can be said for MySQL with the horror that is MyISAM. > So don't do it - use one of the three other schemes that pretend to > have locking... Indeed, but most

Re: Web client application survey

2001-07-04 Thread Simon Wistow
Robin Szemeti wrote: > again, its a while ago I looked at this stuff .. wasn;t there supposed to > be a ssl-a-like that was going to be a standard and in the next > generation of phone ?? Yes, called WTLS which is a crippled version of TLS which is in turn a kind of weakened SSL. I spent nearly

Re: Open Source Content Management Systems

2001-07-04 Thread Simon Wilcox
Andy Williams wrote: > > Has anyone had experience with Midgard? (http://www.midgard-project.org/) > > Aty first glance it looks pretty good. Apart from being written in PHP ? You might have a look at Open Interact which is perl based. www.openinteract.org I haven't used it so can't say if i

Re: Open Source Content Management Systems

2001-07-04 Thread Andy Williams
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Simon Wilcox wrote: > You might have a look at Open Interact which is perl based. > www.openinteract.org For some reason I've never been able to install it Maybe one more try... Andy

Re: Divorcing data storage from business logic

2001-07-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was waiting for you to say this. :-) You an Linux expo on Thursday? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web

Re: Web client application survey

2001-07-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I spent nearly three weeks in Toronto working on it during February > having been pimped out to a company called Certicom who, AFAIK, worked > on the reference version with RSA. Hey, Toronto rocks! -- Dave Hodgkinson, http:

Re: Web client application survey

2001-07-04 Thread Simon Wistow
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Hey, Toronto rocks! Unfortunatley I was staying in Mississauga which basically an industrial estate outside Toronto. And it was fricking freezing. I stayed up for the first 48 hours I was there and by the end of it I thought I was a humming bird. http://www.twoshortpl

RE: Divorcing data storage from business logic

2001-07-04 Thread Richard Clyne
We probably could have a special London PM meet there! > -Original Message- > From: Dave Hodgkinson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 04 July 2001 11:17 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Divorcing data storage from business logic > > Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On 4 Jul 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > You an Linux expo on Thursday? Gah. No bloody students. Like I'm not one of the resident informaticists and have no say whatsoever in the products my department uses... Still, it leaves more time for the consumption of cold beverages. Tho' my attendan

Re: The august social meet...

2001-07-04 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On 3 Jul 2001, Piers Cawley wrote: > Will be the first evening of YAPC::Europe. If no other pub has yet > been recommended, may I commend Inn de Wildeman on Nieuwezijds Kolk to > the company? Is anyone *not* going to YAPC? Does anyone want to gather at the Great British Beer Festival instead (

Re: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [1] The Tomorrow's World live event was rather shiny. Lots of toys, > including Steve Bennett's 10 metre rocket. > I wonder if we could persuade Steve Bennett to become an honourary member of London.pm - he is just the sort of loon that would fit

Re: The august social meet...

2001-07-04 Thread Alex Page
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:53:08PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > Is anyone *not* going to YAPC? Yes. > Does anyone want to gather at the Great > British Beer Festival instead (www.gbbf.org)? Yes, but I'm moving house that weekend. Alex -- "Four pints of milk, a turkey baster and some plasti

Re: The august social meet...

2001-07-04 Thread Roger Burton West
On or about Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:53:08PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam typed: >Is anyone *not* going to YAPC? Yes. >Does anyone want to gather at the Great >British Beer Festival instead (www.gbbf.org)? I shall certainly be there on the Thursday evening (Dutch beer tasting 6.30-7.30). Roger

Re: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Struan Donald
* at 04/07 13:02 +0100 Greg McCarroll said: > * Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > [1] The Tomorrow's World live event was rather shiny. Lots of toys, > > including Steve Bennett's 10 metre rocket. > > > > I wonder if we could persuade Steve Bennett to become an honourary > memb

Re: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 04 Jul 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > On 4 Jul 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > You an Linux expo on Thursday? I'll be there .. are we all gonna try and meet up at luncheon time for a swift glass of some cool refreshment? if so .. when where ? .. > [1] The Tomorrow's World live even

Re: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Robert Shiels
From: "Robin Szemeti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [1] The Tomorrow's World live event was rather shiny. Lots of toys, > > including Steve Bennett's 10 metre rocket. > > its a pity that what was once a reasonably serious and informative > programme has now been dumbed down so far that there is more te

Re: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > On 4 Jul 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > You an Linux expo on Thursday? > > Gah. No bloody students. Like I'm not one of the resident informaticists > and have no say whatsoever in the products my department uses... IIRC from last year they really

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scalar::Properties 0.10

2001-07-04 Thread Philip Newton
Chris Benson wrote: > DBI uses 'OEO' to mean 0-but-true. I think "0E0" (zero E zero) not "OEO" (oh E oh) as you wrote :) 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: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Cross David - dcross
From: Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 1:54 PM > More to the point, I can't see anyone actually wanting to give their real > details after the large quantity of cold calls and spam (both electronic > and paper) that I received after attending in the past. OK. I was

Re: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Simon Wilcox
Cross David - dcross wrote: > > From: Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 1:54 PM > > > More to the point, I can't see anyone actually wanting to give their real > > details after the large quantity of cold calls and spam (both electronic > > and paper) that I receiv

Re: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Keay
> > OK. I was foolish enough to give them my real details, but that doesn't seem > to help them much. I just received some spam from them - addressed to Mr. > Osborne. No, *I'm* Mr. Osborne...

RE: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Ian Brayshaw
Cross David - dcross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... I just received some spam from them - addressed to Mr. Osborne. You too, huh? Ian _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

RE: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Richard Clyne
And I've yet to receive anything from them - including a badge! > -Original Message- > From: Cross David - dcross [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 04 July 2001 15:41 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: LinuxExpo/Social > > From: Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesd

RE: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Lee Goddard
> > OK. I was foolish enough to give them my real details, but that doesn't seem > > to help them much. I just received some spam from them - addressed to Mr. > > Osborne. > > No, *I'm* Mr. Osborne... No! *I* am Mr Osborne...!

Re: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Roger Burton West
On or about Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:20:19PM +0100, Lee Goddard typed: >> > OK. I was foolish enough to give them my real details, but that doesn't seem >> > to help them much. I just received some spam from them - addressed to Mr. >> > Osborne. >> No, *I'm* Mr. Osborne... >No! *I* am Mr Osborne

Re: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Robin Szemeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 04 Jul 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > On 4 Jul 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > > > You an Linux expo on Thursday? > > I'll be there .. are we all gonna try and meet up at luncheon time for a > swift glass of some cool refreshment? > > i

Re: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Leon Brocard
Richard Clyne sent the following bits through the ether: > And I've yet to receive anything from them - including a badge! I got a nice email from them, addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software...http:

Re: Job

2001-07-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
> At 17:36 03/07/01 +0100, you wrote: Could people please configure their mail readers to attribute correctly? I.e. at least include the full name of the person replying. I think this mostly applies to people using Eudora? (Is there a "go to message to whom this is a reply" command in mutt? I ha

saturday plan

2001-07-04 Thread alex
the walkers are walking this saturday, the 7th of july! here is the plan: meet at 10:30am at little venice. anyone know a particular landmark that we can stand next to? http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?x=526250&y=181750&zoom=1&isp=187&ism=500&arrow=y?73,59 contact number: 07

Re: Job

2001-07-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:54:01PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > My big beef with Java is that having *forced* you into an OO model > (something recognised both by Perl and C++ as being bad), its own > language primitives aren't in fact objects. In practice (i.e. aesthetic considerations a

Re: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Richard Clyne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > And I've yet to receive anything from them - including a badge! > it's a shame they haven't got those out yet, apparently the printer gave them a really good deal as long as every badge had the same text, Mr Osbourne -- Mr Osbourne

Re: Divorcing data storage from business logic

2001-07-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:57:53PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > Erm DB3 does transaction locks. All of the DBM routines have used locking > and hence concurrency has not been an issue. The issue isn't whether you have it or not but whether they render the thing useless when 'n' instances

Re: saturday plan

2001-07-04 Thread alex
by the way, it's a canal walk, along regents canal. alex

Big Projects / Variable Backends

2001-07-04 Thread Alex Page
OK, I've been banging my head against the wall here, and I've got conflicting answers on IRC, so I thought I'd ask a question which'll probably start a flamewar, distracting me from the problem at hand *g* I have a project. The details don't really matter (it's a bug tracking system for hardware

Re: Big Projects / Variable Backends

2001-07-04 Thread Peter Haworth
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:41:06 -0400, Alex Page wrote: > However, I'm trying to future-proof on this project, so > I'd like some optional backend modules which can be swapped > in by changing a single configuration line - for example, > using an LDAP server instead of a database table for user > pass

Re: Job

2001-07-04 Thread Chris Benson
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 08:39:07PM +, Steve Mynott wrote: > Chris Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2. By Linux I assume you mean Linux/ix86 ... I've been trying to get > > an app running on Linux/PPC for a few weeks on-and-off: I'm definately a > > 2nd-class citizen. I wonder how the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Scalar::Properties 0.10

2001-07-04 Thread Chris Benson
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:24:36PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > Chris Benson wrote: > > DBI uses 'OEO' to mean 0-but-true. > > I think "0E0" (zero E zero) not "OEO" (oh E oh) as you wrote :) 'gonna have to fix the fonts in Konsole ... oh, and get my brain-hand co-ordination sorted :-) -- Chris

Re: Job

2001-07-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Chris Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If it can be done for fine languages like find, sed and awk why not Java?? cf2tt -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, w

Re: Job

2001-07-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:09:48AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:54:01PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > My big beef with Java is that having *forced* you into an OO model > > (something recognised both by Perl and C++ as being bad), its own > > language primitiv

Re: Divorcing data storage from business logic

2001-07-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:22:37AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:57:53PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > Erm DB3 does transaction locks. All of the DBM routines have used locking > > and hence concurrency has not been an issue. > > The issue isn't whether you ha

t-shirts

2001-07-04 Thread Greg McCarroll
is there anything like cafepress (http://www.cafepress.com/) in the uk? -- Greg McCarrollhttp://217.34.97.146/~gem/

Re: t-shirts

2001-07-04 Thread Neil Ford
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:56:28PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > is there anything like cafepress (http://www.cafepress.com/) > in the uk? > Muttley's T-shirt Printer? :-) Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Divorcing data storage from business logic

2001-07-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What would be represent half an hours down time with a sensible system is > going to take all day with MySQL - WHY DO PEOPLE DO IT ? Oh bollocks, you haven't thought hard enough about it. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.h

Re: LinuxExpo/Social

2001-07-04 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > [1] The Tomorrow's World live event was rather shiny. Lots of toys, > > including Steve Bennett's 10 metre rocket. > > I wonder if we could persuade Steve Bennett to become an honourary > member of L

Re: The august social meet...

2001-07-04 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Roger Burton West wrote: > On or about Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:53:08PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam typed: > > >Does anyone want to gather at the Great British Beer Festival instead > > I shall certainly be there on the Thursday evening (Dutch beer tasting > 6.30-7.30). I'll be wor

Re: The august social meet...

2001-07-04 Thread Tony Kennick
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:53:08 +0100 (BST) Lucy McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3 Jul 2001, Piers Cawley wrote: > > > Will be the first evening of YAPC::Europe. If no other pub has yet > > been recommended, may I commend Inn de Wildeman on Nieuwezijds Kolk to > > the company? > > Is