On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 05:06:57PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>
> As i type this in, yet again i realise what a steaming pile of shit
> windows is when it comes to the most simple things.
viz. Installed game of GF's PC last night.
Install failed because it can't read the CD.
Burnt a copy CD
* Steve Mynott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> using groups) and journaling etc. Also it still seems quite common to
> use FAT32 rather than NTFS still on many NT systems.
>
IIRC, Win32 admin types tend to use FAT32 for the equivalent of the /
partition, i.e. c:\ , for c:\windows and all that cr
Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:47:37AM +, robin szemeti wrote:
> > Windows
> > Virus
> > "No effective file permisions system"
>
> Windows NT has a more sophisticated file ownership/permissions system
> than *nix by a lng way. (Win 9x/ME suck of c
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 11:28:48AM +, Mark Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 09:59:08AM +, Chris Benson wrote:
> > > sub greet;# pre-declare, don't pre-define
> >
> > Ah, that's it. Thanks Chris & Damian!
>
> You have to tel
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 09:59:08AM +, Chris Benson wrote:
> > sub greet; # pre-declare, don't pre-define
>
> Ah, that's it. Thanks Chris & Damian!
You have to tell the compiler what's going on at compile time. The
subroutine isn't declared unt
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 09:59:08AM +, Chris Benson wrote:
> sub greet;# pre-declare, don't pre-define
Ah, that's it. Thanks Chris & Damian!
Paul, /me scolds himself, "shoulda RTFM!"
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On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 12:30:36AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Adding a dummy sub greet {} illicits the predictable "subroutine
> redefined" warning. Thus,
>
> sub greet {}
> { no warnings;
> *main::greet = sub { print "Hello ", shift };
> }
> greet "world";
>
> Is there some way to avoid th
Paul Makepeace wrote:
> If I use an alias to poke a sub into the symbol table I lose that
> ability and thus can't treat that sub as another other "first
> class" sub,
> Adding a dummy sub greet {} illicits the predictable "subroutine
> redefined" warning.
> Is there some way to avoid these con
On Friday 21 Dec 2001 18:33 pm, the might poet Dave Cross said on the wire:
-> [cut]
->
-> Although I thought that Sports.com only bought the Sportal brand, not
-> actually any of the codebase.
->
On a point of order, the Sportal brand was bought by Ukbetting plc, who also
own my current empl
I generally like to call subroutines without redundant parens most of
the time, e.g.
greet "world";
If I use an alias to poke a sub into the symbol table I lose that
ability and thus can't treat that sub as another other "first
class" sub,
*main::greet = sub { print "Hello ", shift };
greet "wo
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