Ok, if you are foolish enough to want to go to the stay in the same
hotel as other London.pm'ers at YAPC::Europe 2002[1], the instructions
couldn't be easier. There are 2 steps you need to follow ...
1.) Go to the CMS booking system,
https://www812.verio.de/csmcon/yapc/formyapc.htm
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:35:17AM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
But could you do anything useful with it ?
Enter both the obfuscated C and perl competitions? With the same entry...
Wesley.
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 01:20:41PM +, Alex Gough wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Wesley Darlington wrote:
The story cannot possibly be true. If Spinal Tap teaches us
anything, it is that one cannot fingerprint vomit.
ITYM: dust for.
Ah yes, that's the one.
On that note, and taking a wild
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, David Cantrell wrote:
And no, I don't have passphrases on all my keys. Good advice is seldom
heeded, including by the advisor :-)
And there's little you can do on the originating server side to stop
access to the other one if it's rooted. The simple fact is that,
Someone I know just got asked to give her mother's maiden name as part
of a job application.
This is totally bogus, right?
Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In a blinding flash of inspiration ...
1. clean out my other abortive attempts from ~/.ssh/ on my work machine
(the client)
2. run ssh-keygen and specify no password
3. copy .ssh/identity.pub into thegestalt.org:~/.ssh/authorized_keys/
Don't forget
* Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Using Expedia (http://www.expedia.co.uk/), there is a terribly cheap
flight from LHR to MUC on those dates:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E2FE12A5
ie BMI 3283 17th 09:25, BMI 3272 22nd 13:10 for 90.36 quid.
i'd be interested to hear from people
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:05:18PM +, Dave Hodgkinson said:
Not on snopes and not on google.
http://www.thetube.com/content/pressreleases/0201/30.asp#email
Disseminate. Please.
From: Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:33:12 GMT
Someone I know just got asked to give her mother's maiden name as part
of a job application.
This is totally bogus, right?
Who's doing the asking?
Rob
Original message
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:33:12 GMT
From: Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Weird thing...
Someone I know just got asked to give her mother's maiden
name as part
of a job application.
This is totally bogus, right?
I've had it happen to me. I was applying
From: Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:33:12 GMT
Someone I know just got asked to give her mother's maiden name as part of a
job application.
This is totally bogus, right?
Who's it for? The only reason I can think of for wanting this information is
in order to
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:04:39AM +, Nick Cleaton said:
This is a good thing, and not just for security. To find out what
command rsync runs on the remote host, fire it up with -e 'ssh -v'
and watch.
Ok, so just to recap. Despite peoples warnings I haven't done this with
ssh agent but
Don't suppose anyone knows of a UK supplier of these?
http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=103501
--
David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david
If you save all your money for three years, you'll be able to afford this
new computer. If, however, you blow all
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:28:13AM +, Simon Wistow wrote:
Ok, so just to recap. Despite peoples warnings I haven't done this with
ssh agent but at the top of my authorized_keys(2) I have
host=$myhost
command=rsync
no-port-forwarding,
no-X11-forwarding,
no-agent-forwarding,
no-pty
Hi,
DJ Adams, a london.pm member for those who haven't met him, has had his book
on Jabber published; my copy arrived from Amazon this morning. It's not
strictly speaking a perl book of course, but there is lots of perl in it.
London.pm even gets a namecheck in the About the Author section at
From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The actual conference is from 18th - 20th Sept, so I suggest
accomodation and flights / whatever be from 17th-22nd.
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, David Cantrell wrote:
I feel that using the word 'private' is misleading anyway. Yes, you have
a public key, cos you publish it to the world. The word 'private', however,
implies too much that the key is safe. A better word would be 'personal',
or even
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 05:47, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:05:18PM +, Dave Hodgkinson said:
Not on snopes and not on google.
http://www.thetube.com/content/pressreleases/0201/30.asp#email
Disseminate. Please.
Arthur Andersen Consulting were employed by LUL to
It does help when you add a reply apparently!
From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The actual conference is from 18th - 20th Sept, so I suggest
accomodation and flights / whatever be from 17th-22nd.
I'll be booking a double room from 17th - 23rd so if anyone wants to help
share the cost I'd
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 07:19:03AM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
Arthur Andersen Consulting were employed by LUL to advise on change
management when the present organisational structure of the company was
designed.
Change managment? I suppose you could call what they did for Enron
change
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:33:12AM +, Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Someone I know just got asked to give her mother's maiden name as part
of a job application.
This is totally bogus, right?
Are we all applying for the same job at Barclays Capital :)
Dave...
--
celia romaniuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotes:
this simply due to a failure to apply standard user
interface design techniques to security? We argue that,
on the contrary, effective security requires a different
usability standard, and that it will not be achieved
through the user interface
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:55:03PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
PGP itself was a failure in the market place and the current owners
are looking for a buyer. Recently PGP itself has rather fallen from
favour in freeware programmer circles and GPG is generally prefered.
I think that's rather
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Dave Cross wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:33:12AM +, Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Someone I know just got asked to give her mother's maiden name as part
of a job application.
This is totally bogus, right?
Are we all applying for the same
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
why do you need a room Barbie?
To recover from the brainwashing after you've all left :)
Don't you know we are going to have a
96 hour braining washing session to get the secrets of the origins of
your name out of you. last years 3 hour session was
Roger Burton West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:55:03PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
PGP itself was a failure in the market place and the current owners
are looking for a buyer. Recently PGP itself has rather fallen from
favour in freeware programmer circles and GPG is
* Barbie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
It was a pretty feeble attempt it has to be said. I even managed to walk
unaided back to my room, unlike some.
Yeah, I pity the people who lived on either side of me, they had to
put up with a lot, including guests leaving and bouncing from side to
side
From: Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://london.pm.org/nx_meetings/2000_may/jpeg-mac-gamma/3medium/b3000504-0
3%5Bjbcd2-IMG_003-londonpm%5D0512.jpeg
he thinks? And, I guess I should also confirm that Richard, Robert and
Greg don't mind their photo appearing in the magazine.
Fame at last :-)
Close - http://www.pcupgrader.co.uk/amacom.asp?type=mhd
Amacom EZ Disk enclosure only
Disk enclosure only. Incorporates industry standard 3.5 hard drive.
?58.00
?68.15 inc VAT
I think you need a fancy cable also though (at bottom of same link).
Larry
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:59:50PM +, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:22:20PM +, Dave Cross said:
picked on the photo at:
New London.pm ubergruppenfuhrer cavorts with pretty brunette - shocker
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
Now this could get confusing :
I while back -- several years now I guess -- I saw an example program that
would run under, among a few others, iirc Perl C and Shell. Maybe things
like Basic Cobol too. I'm not having any luck digging it up on Google
http://www.freelancers.net/job.html?ID=5033
Senior Perl Programmer
posted in Technical on 15/1/2002
location West London
Experienced Perl Programmer urgently required to work for this leading content
provider with 80 staf...
can't vouch for this at all...
--
Natalie Ford
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:35:44PM +, Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:33:12AM +, Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Someone I know just got asked to give her mother's maiden name as part
of a job application.
This is totally bogus,
* Chris Devers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
Now this could get confusing :
I while back -- several years now I guess -- I saw an example program that
would run under, among a few others, iirc Perl C and Shell. Maybe things
i seem to remember,
Well I've just had a really helpful mail from the Cornelia at CSM, the
hotel reservation people trying to help us get into the same Hotel.
The summary of their message is, they will bend over backwards if we
book early, by early i'd say the next week or two.
So what we are going to do (CSM
Roger Burton West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:55:03PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
PGP itself was a failure in the market place and the current owners
are looking for a buyer. Recently PGP itself has rather fallen from
favour in freeware programmer circles and GPG is
Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DJ Adams, a london.pm member for those who haven't met him, has had his book
on Jabber published; my copy arrived from Amazon this morning. It's not
strictly speaking a perl book of course, but there is lots of perl in it.
London.pm even gets a
Chris Devers wrote:
I while back -- several years now I guess -- I saw an example
program that would run under, among a few others, iirc Perl C
and Shell. Maybe things like Basic Cobol too.
Like this?
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/chogan/Web/polyglot
Googling for 'polyglot
Greg McCarroll wrote:
i seem to remember, perhaps a computer urban legend, a C and Pascal
program that would be compiled sucessfully for both
http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/self_mult.htm has one such. (It's a quine in
each language.)
Cheers,
Philip
--
Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All
The winner of the last perl obfusication contest was a program that
ran as both perl and postscript.
Might wanna take a peek at that :-)
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Newton, Philip wrote:
Chris Devers wrote:
I while back -- several years now I guess -- I saw an example
program that would run under, among a few others, iirc Perl C
and Shell. Maybe things like Basic Cobol too.
Like this?
August, I think you will know the 3 words I will say to you ;-)
Beers on me?
Chris Devers wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Newton, Philip wrote:
Chris Devers wrote:
I while back -- several years now I guess -- I saw an example
program that would run under, among a few others, iirc Perl C
and Shell. Maybe things like Basic Cobol too.
Like this?
On 31 Jan 2002, Steve Mynott wrote:
There are numerous webmail open source webmail programs but none of
them quite seem to do what I want.
They never do.
So the inputs would either be reading remote mail via POP3 and/or
reading a local file (mbox, Maildir etc) and the outputs HTML, WML
Hi,
I appear to have swum out of my depth. I'm attempting to write a class
that uses a WWW::Robot object, only WWW::Robot objects need to be given
callbacks when they are created, and I want the callbacks to be instance
methods of my object. Did that make sense? I have:
$self-{rb} =
* Redvers Davies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
August, I think you will know the 3 words I will say to you ;-)
Beers on me?
close, but entirely wrong
however i have just realised i have made this problem a lot more
difficult by saying 3 instead of 4
but thats a good think, probably
--
Greg
A discussion of this topic would hardly be complete without mentioning
http://qs321.pair.com/~monkads/index.pl?node_id=133971
or
http://qs321.pair.com/~monkads/index.pl?node_id=41310
.robin.
Mark Fowler sent the following bits through the ether:
maildir, and pop3, and even imap. http://astray.com/acmemail/. Yes it's
Don't go mentioning that URL or I might have to fix the server error
someday...
Leon
--
Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 05:26:36PM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
$self-{rb}-addHook('invoke-on-contents', \Checker::invoke_on_contents);
$self-{rb}-addHook('follow-url-test', \Checker::follow_url_test);
You need to close over $self. Try this:
$self-{rb}-addHook('invoke-on-contents', sub
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:22:20PM +, Dave Cross wrote:
All this is good, of ocurse. But they've obviously been poking around our
web site looking for something to illustrate the Help Wanted column. They've
picked on the photo at:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 05:46:20PM -, Ivor Williams wrote:
$self-{rb}-addHook('invoke-on-contents',
sub {my $foo = $self; $foo-invoke_on_contents});
The intermediary $foo makes the anonymous sub into a closure.
I don't _think_ you need the intermediary $foo, unless I'm missing
Jonathan Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
$self-{rb}-addHook('invoke-on-contents',
\$self-invoke_on_contents);
I get
WWW::Robot: SCALAR(0x526e3c) is not a function reference; Ignoring it
And if I try
$self-{rb}-addHook('invoke-on-contents',
This may be of use to some of you. Looking for OSX software I came across
http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/
I downloaded the binary installation package of MySQL 3.23.47 and installed
it on OSX10.1
It works fine (tested with Apache 1.3.20/ PHP 4.0.6)
He has some other cool looking stuff,
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Robert Shiels wrote:
This may be of use to some of you. Looking for OSX software I came across
http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/
That's a great source of software :)
The PostgreSQL install from there works great too.
I haven't tried installing any CPAN modules
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 06:32:39PM -, Robert Shiels wrote:
http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/
I downloaded the binary installation package of MySQL 3.23.47 and installed
it on OSX10.1
It works fine (tested with Apache 1.3.20/ PHP 4.0.6)
He has some other cool looking stuff,
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 05:39:24PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Redvers Davies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
August, I think you will know the 3 words I will say to you ;-)
Beers on me?
close, but entirely wrong
Well, you could be buying beers for them in Munich. Except, sadly, they
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, David Cantrell wrote:
Don't suppose anyone knows of a UK supplier of these?
http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=103501
This site has a decent selection of that sort of thing: not sure if they
have the usb+firewire ones though...
http://www.pc500.net
Chris.
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Paul Mison wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 06:32:39PM -, Robert Shiels wrote:
http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/
I downloaded the binary installation package of MySQL 3.23.47 and installed
it on OSX10.1
It works fine (tested with Apache 1.3.20/ PHP 4.0.6)
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:13:10PM -0600, Chris Devers wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Paul Mison wrote:
You may want to have a look at fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/)
which is based on Debian's apt package management system and provides a
bunch of Unix-y things for OS X, including
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 05:39:24PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Redvers Davies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
August, I think you will know the 3 words I will say to you ;-)
Beers on me?
close, but entirely wrong
Well, you could be
Fourth North American YAPC: First Call for Participation
Yet Another Society
calls for your participation in
YAPC 2002
the Fourth North American
Yet Another Perl
From: Tom Hukins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, Fink is very nice too. The problem with it is that you end up
downloading everything as source [automagically] building it yourself,
and not everything works that way
If you run Fink's sudo dselect from the command line you can install
binaries.
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Robert Shiels wrote:
I want to install perl's DBI with MySQL support.
DBI should have been there already; all you'd need is DBD::mysql. Di you
not get a result if you try say perldoc DBI, or write a test script just
to see if it's accessible?
I downloaded the DBI
OS X is the greatest guys - buy apple shares if you have any money !
On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 08:43 PM, Tom Hukins wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:13:10PM -0600, Chris Devers wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Paul Mison wrote:
You may want to have a look at fink
perl.h can be found in /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h - adjust
the search path in your makefile to look in this directory
PS :
a few more sites with precompiled mac os x stuff :
http://macosx.forked.net/
http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/
http://www.macshare.com/
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:29:03PM +, Denny John wrote:
OS X is the greatest guys - buy apple shares if you have any money !
[followed by the entire preceding message]
It is traditional to:
a) post your comment *after* what you're replying to;
b) only quote relevant snippets, not the
(Ugh, Jeopardy quoting is bad! Don't do that!)
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Denny John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OS X is the greatest guys - buy apple shares if you have any money !
Hmm, I'm not convinced. I think they're going to annoy a lot of people
by making OSX the boot default, and
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:52:07PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
It is traditional to:
a) post your comment *after* what you're replying to;
b) only quote relevant snippets, not the whole damn message;
Quite.
c) have some grounding in reality
Absolutely. I've just written a zero-length
Nick Cleaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: $CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1;
: $CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1;
: $CGI::POST_MAX = 100;
: $CGI::POST_MAX = 100;
There must be a better way, but what ?
{
no warnings qw(once);
$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1;
$CGI::POST_MAX = 100;
}
..
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, David Cantrell wrote:
It is traditional to:
c) have some grounding in reality
And yet this does almost nothing to explain
the apparent popularity of Arp's output... :)
--
Chris Devers
Okay, Gene... so, -1 x -1 should equal what? A South American!
[] no
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Denny John wrote:
OS X is the greatest guys - buy apple shares if you have any money !
It's a computer operating system - I don't think that it even comes into
the realms of 'greatest'. Now if we had been talking about Elgar's Cello
Concerto, or King Lear or Crystal
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Paul Mison wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 04:24:24PM -0600, Chris Devers wrote:
If you're running low on disc space, one way to free up a bit of room is
to prune some of the localization files that many applications come with.
I think there's an app to do this.
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:16:30AM +, Nick Cleaton wrote:
: # We don't need file uploads or very large POST requests. Double
: # each line to prevent a 'variable used only once' warning.
: $CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1;
: $CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1;
: $CGI::POST_MAX = 100;
:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Chris Devers wrote:
#!/bin/tcsh
sync
df
date
foreach language ( French Dutch Spanish Italian Swedish Portuguese German )
find / -name $language.lproj -type d -exec rm -r -- {} ; -prune
end
date
df
sync
...it occurs to
* Chris Ball ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
http://printf.net/gnus.jpg
This is a Unix system. I know this. ;-)
--
Greg McCarroll http://217.34.97.146/~gem/
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:02:11AM +, Chris Ball ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Nick Cleaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: $CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1;
: $CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1;
: $CGI::POST_MAX = 100;
: $CGI::POST_MAX = 100;
There must be a better way, but what ?
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