Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:30:45AM +, Dave Cross wrote: > For the website maintainers: That page has a broken image on it. -- Natalie Ford .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: london.pm digest, Vol 1 #611 - 24 msgs

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:04:02PM -, Tim Noll wrote: > > And, as far as the london.pm meetings go, I'm off to the States for two > weeks starting tomorrow. But when I return, if I can manage to drag some > of my hapless colleagues along, I might just try to avoid that teaspoon > mauling. An

Re: [OT] making bit vectors for characters in a string

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:13:44PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Sorry to be off topic. > > If I have a string of some length, containing characters between 0 and 255, > I'm wondering there's a fast perl way to make a 64 byte long bit vector > from it, with bits set for any character present in

Re: Iris (was Re: Bolloxia and Tea)

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > Speaking of which, has anyone seen Iris and did you notice Paulin McGlynn > (Mrs Doyle from Father Ted) as nurse? Yes, and no. Iris was fantastic though, and is worth being seen. Alex Gough

Re: Tea (was Re: Bolloxia)

> I've been drinking lots of Chinese tea recently, as opposed to my normal > can't-stand-a-spoon-in-it-cos-the-spoon-would-melt Indian/East African > teas. Whittards do a particularly fine jasmine tea, which I am drinking > right now with a pinch of sugar. i have very beautiful green tea from b

Re: Tea (was Re: Bolloxia)

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:24:19PM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > Gosh, isn't the webternet fantastic. C'mon you avid Earl Grey drinkers, > this is s'posed to be a thread about tea. Actually, Earl Grey is > disgusting. I've been drinking lots of Chinese tea recently, as opposed to my normal ca

[OT] making bit vectors for characters in a string

Sorry to be off topic. If I have a string of some length, containing characters between 0 and 255, I'm wondering there's a fast perl way to make a 64 byte long bit vector from it, with bits set for any character present in the original string. If I can do this quickly, then when I'm trying lots

Re: Bolloxia

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you can't do this you need to get your player repaired (it comes > prebroken). I regularly buy region 1 & region 4 DVDs and they play > beautifully on my repaired region 2 pioneer. Food for thought then: http://www.ne

Re: Bolloxia

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 04:00:28PM -, Robert Shiels wrote: > I can buy a DVD in the US, and play it on my DVD player in the UK . > umno skip that one :-) If you can't do this you need to get your player repaired (it comes prebroken). I regularly buy region 1 & region 4 DVDs and they

Re: Is it a bird ?

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:14:08PM +, Earle Martin wrote: > blah Note to self: you are catching up on old traffic. Don't bloody reply to it. Sorry. -- feel the city inside you feel the city define you

Re: Is it a bird ?

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:25:18AM -0600, 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. > > Does anyone remember a sample like this? Have a copy?

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:04:47AM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > However, should wallflowers need lubrication it's really is up to the > elders of the group to ensure they spend the first couple of hours > mingling in a vaguely social and sober kind of way before coalescing > into the usual dru

Re: Developing Perl based products for windows.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 04:39:21PM -, Ivor Williams wrote: > Tommie M. Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > > I am a Perl developer who mostly works with Unix. I have a perl program > > that I would like to sell to windows users. > In terms of GUIs, there's also Win32::GUI, which give

Re: Developing Perl based products for windows.

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Tommie M. Jones wrote: > I am a Perl developer who mostly works with Unix. I have a perl program > that I would like to sell to windows users. You might want to skim over the archives of Boston.pm -- they were discussing this very thing over the past couple of days: Archive

Re: Developing Perl based products for windows.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:23:05AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote: > > I am a Perl developer who mostly works with Unix. I have a perl program > that I would like to sell to windows users. > > I was wondering if anyone has any experience creating easy to install CD's > for perl based product. I

Re: Developing Perl based products for windows.

On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 11:23, Tommie M. Jones wrote: > > I am a Perl developer who mostly works with Unix. I have a perl program > that I would like to sell to windows users. > > I was wondering if anyone has any experience creating easy to install CD's > for perl based product. I assume that I

RE: Developing Perl based products for windows.

Tommie M. Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I am a Perl developer who mostly works with Unix. I have a perl program > that I would like to sell to windows users. > I was wondering if anyone has any experience creating easy to install CD's > for perl based product. I assume that I will

Re: Developing Perl based products for windows.

* Tommie M. Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > and all the basic modules. Also I will need a GUI IFC. Does anyone have > any suggestions for a Gui on Windows? TK maybe. there was a very good talk at YAPC::Europe 2000 about talking with Perl to mobile phones, i.e. accessing their address boo

Re: Developing Perl based products for windows.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:23:05AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote: >Does anyone have >any suggestions for a Gui on Windows? TK maybe. Can't help with your other concerns, but I've written quite a bit of software for Perl/Tk and Windows users have told me it runs without any problems. Roger

Developing Perl based products for windows.

I am a Perl developer who mostly works with Unix. I have a perl program that I would like to sell to windows users. I was wondering if anyone has any experience creating easy to install CD's for perl based product. I assume that I will have to include perl itself and all the basic modules. Al

Re: Programming Jabber

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:45:52AM -, Robert Shiels wrote: > DJ Adams, a london.pm member for those who haven't met him, has had his book > on Jabber published; He also gave a talk on it at FOSDEM and it was one of the best talks at the conference. If you can book him for a London PM Tech mee

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

From: "Peter Sergeant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If you're having a special 'open day' meeting in a part of the pub you've > taken over, what about a pub-quiz kinda thing where teams are picked > randomly, or, failing that, PS2 and Projector league... Still, I like the > idea that you're lumped on a

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:29:48AM +, Struan Donald wrote: > * at 20/02 10:13 + Paul Mison said: > > > > I know a fixed start time is a possible solution, but it doesn't sound > > like a good one to me. As to an introductory speech, I doubt I'd be able > > to talk in front of you lot with

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Paul Mison wrote: > This touches on something that came up elsewhere, about meeting people > straight away. The problem is (or at least, has been in the past) that > there are regulars who arrive at 6 and inevitably form a small group, > and newcomers have to squeeze into tha

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:13:26AM +, Paul Mison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:41:01AM -, Ivor Williams wrote: > > > There's also the issue of who counts as a newbie. A suggestion is to pick a > > special date - N year anniversary - and lay on some champagne for e

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

* at 20/02 10:13 + Paul Mison said: > > I know a fixed start time is a possible solution, but it doesn't sound > like a good one to me. As to an introductory speech, I doubt I'd be able > to talk in front of you lot without a little booze inside me... which > would also guarantee not going ov

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:41:01AM -, Ivor Williams wrote: > > I advocate more speeches involving the whole crowd - even if they're 2 > > minute efforts along the lines of, "Buy a tee shirt." or, "Come to the > > next technical meet." or, "Here's our new fearless leader to say a few > > words

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Sounds like a great plan. If Grep promises to sing 'Heartbreak Hotel' > I'll be there ;-} > Well since my camel left me . -- Greg McCarroll http://217.34.97.146/~gem/

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:54:16AM +, Piers Cawley wrote: > Actually, if we've got the whole bar, this might not be totally > impossible. Dreamcast + VGA + projector (if we can blag one) or > something. Muttley? That is SUCH a bad idea! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.can

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:54:16AM +, Piers Cawley said: >> Actually, if we've got the whole bar, this might not be totally >> impossible. Dreamcast + VGA + projector (if we can blag one) or >> something. Muttley? > > I should be able to handle that.

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:02:33AM +, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:42:49PM +, the hatter wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: > > > * "How about offering a free pint to first-time attendees at the social?" > > Hurrah, make that 10. > > That was original

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

* the hatter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Struan Donald wrote: > > > * at 20/02 00:02 + David Cantrell said: > > > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: > > > > > * "How about offering a free pint to first-time attendees at the social?" > > > > > > That was originally

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:54:16AM +, Piers Cawley said: > Actually, if we've got the whole bar, this might not be totally > impossible. Dreamcast + VGA + projector (if we can blag one) or > something. Muttley? I should be able to handle that. -- : it's pretty hard to look miserable when y

RE: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

Steve Keay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote > It is quite a difficult thing to walk into a pub and land in a room > full of strange people (people you don't know) who are all engaged in > varying levels of intense conversation. I would like to draw on some personal experience - running a success

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

Kate L Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * "Let's have dancing girls at the next social." > > I vote Leon to organise this, or at the very least to provide a > dancing Leon. Samba di Amigo ahoy! Actually, if we've got the whole bar, this might not be totally impossible. Dreamcast + VGA + projec

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: > Long mail; bear with me. > > On Fri 15 Feb 2002, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'd like to suggest that we make this a special social meeting. Lets > >> take the whole of the cellar and make it a challenge for us as a group > >> [...] to

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:23:44AM +, Struan Donald wrote: > > is a good idea too as it's a bit weird to walk up to a bunch of > > strangers and offer to buy them $alchohol but buying your own drink > > and then sitting nursing it in the corner isn

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Struan Donald wrote: > * at 20/02 00:02 + David Cantrell said: > > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: > > > > * "How about offering a free pint to first-time attendees at the social?" > > > > That was originally my silly suggestion, but I'll stand by it. I'll buy

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

Steve Keay wrote: > It is quite a difficult thing to walk into a pub and land in a room > full of strange people (people you don't know) who are all engaged in > varying levels of intense conversation. What he said. Especially if you get the feeling that they know each other so well they prefer t

Re: pipelines

Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://search.cpan.org/doc/MLEHMANN/Coro-0.532/Coro/Channel.pm > > which is part of > > http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Coro > > it may be just what I'm looking for :) > > Anyone know how portable it is? It seems to only work currently on Linux :