Friday morning whimsy

2002-03-22 Thread pdcawley-london . 0dd185
So, I was daydreaming on the train this morning, when I came up with this idea which may, or may not amuse you all: http://use.perl.org/~pdcawley/journal/3717 -- Piers It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite.

Tech talk

2002-03-22 Thread Simon Wilcox
For those who are interested, the slides from my talk at the tech meeting last night are online at: http://www.simonw.demon.co.uk/talks/lpm020321/ Thanks to State 51 for hosting the event and to Jon for the loan of his dinky projector. Simon. -- Ooh, the hair thieves... they come in the

REVIEW: Linux Companion for System Administrators

2002-03-22 Thread Roger Burton West
[I got this through Alex, so it'll be on the Diverse Books site, but I assume it should go to london.pm.org's review list as well...] A somewhat confused book, but a good introduction to Linux software and services for the novice user. Linux Companion for System Administrators (second

Visitor

2002-03-22 Thread Dave Cross
I've just seen this on PerlMonks: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=151955 It's an Australian Perl Monk coming to London and wanting to meet us. Unfortunately he posted it a week ago and arrives today. Hopefully he'll see my response and get in touch. Dave... --

Me too

2002-03-22 Thread Richard Clamp
My slides from last night lurk here: http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/lab/talks/acme-your/acme-your.slides/ -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pipeline slides

2002-03-22 Thread Leon Brocard
Slides for my highly technical pipeline talk last night are available: http://www.astray.com/pipelines/ Hope you enjoyed it ;-), Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Nanoware...http://www.nanoware.org/ ... DO {nothing} WHILE

Sky One Buffy - No Spoilers

2002-03-22 Thread Dave Cross
Ignore this mail if you have no interest in Buffy. Next weekend (Easter weekend) Sky One are having a Buffy weekend. Here's what they're showing: Friday 29th 11:00 Five episodes from series 3 back to back * Anne * Dead Man's Party * Band Candy * Lover's Walk * The Prom 16:00 Buffy's Back

# fsck penderel

2002-03-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
I'm at state51 and am trying to diagnose/fix penderel so if london.pm.org is unavailable, you now know why. Paul

Advocacy

2002-03-22 Thread iwilliams
Simon, Just thinking about Perl advocacy, and having what blech refers to as a brainfart. I think that Perl has a major hurdle, yet to be overcome, regarding commercial takeup. I am thinking about software houses, and in particular, their techies and their managers. The open source cause is

Slides from tech meet

2002-03-22 Thread Alex Gough
The slides from my confused attempt to explain Data::Dimensions are here: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~shug0957/dd/ Thanks for listening, and all that. Alex Gough -- Lucid Nonsense, Awkward Customer, Thorough But... Unthinkable, Advanced Case of Chronic Patheticism, Another Fine Product From The

Re: Search Engine listings - getting them up!

2002-03-22 Thread Leo Lapworth
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 04:03:08PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:33:09PM +, Leo Lapworth wrote: Personally I think that the site we have is the best estate agent site for London (notice I said best not prefect). That may be the case. However, as a user, I'm

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tech meet report and misc. announcements

2002-03-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:56:08PM +, Paul Mison wrote: Well, the tech meet seemed to go OK. Our six intrepid speakers all performed well, and we have slides for all their talks (except Nick Clark, whose talk The State of 5.8 didn't use slides, preferring the conversational approach):

Book review, 0th draft

2002-03-22 Thread pdcawley-london . 0dd185
Okay, here's the zeroth draft of a review. Comments, questions, spelling flames are all appreciated. =head1 NAME Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, by Kent Beck =head1 SYNOPSIS ISmalltalk Best Practice Patterns is not just for Smalltalk programmers, it's the best book about Design Patterns

RE: Advocacy

2002-03-22 Thread iwilliams
Philip Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Was this meant to go to the london.pm mailing list, or did you simply fall into the Reply-To trap? I initially addressed it to Simon, as his talk was about advocacy. In case you weren't there, he did ask for any war stories. Composing the

RE: rate-limiting disk i/o

2002-03-22 Thread Scottow Adrian - adscot
Hello, Chris Benson wrote: Mmmm. What system? AIX 4.3.3 and 5 can do with with Work Load Manager -- wot I have just been reading up on. Don't know about other \w+N[iu]Xen. We are currently looking at using Work Load Manager for our stuff. Have you actually got round to using it? I

Re: Advocacy

2002-03-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:11:40PM +, the hatter wrote: and a business about internet services will have its needs also held closely to web-based presentation. Really? We're primarily (nay, exclusively) about internet services,

Re: # fsck penderel

2002-03-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 04:09:47AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: I'm at state51 and am trying to diagnose/fix penderel so if london.pm.org is unavailable, you now know why. Phew, what a day. I think I've fixed it, and at the least it has a modern kernel, rather than the stock RH 2.4.2 running

Fwd: [Boston.pm] MD5 hash

2002-03-22 Thread David Cantrell
Forwarded from the boston.pm list -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ---BeginMessage--- I found that an MD5 has does not change at all even if the input changes. In the following

Re: Fwd: [Boston.pm] MD5 hash

2002-03-22 Thread Mike Jarvis
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 08:34:27PM +, David Cantrell wrote: Forwarded from the boston.pm list I found that an MD5 has does not change at all even if the input changes. In the following example code.. The results are shown after the __END_. Is my expectation wrong? __END__ Data was

Slash book, initial review.

2002-03-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Thanks to Alex for the slightly annotated review copy. The summary is: fine, but actually stops short of what _I_ would have bought it for: an annotated roadmap of how all the templates hang together. Full review to follow.

Re: Advocacy

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, the hatter wrote: On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, iwilliams wrote: I think that Perl has a major hurdle, yet to be overcome, regarding commercial takeup. I am thinking about software houses, and in particular, their techies and their managers. The open source cause is actually

Re: Advocacy

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, the hatter wrote: a business about internet services will have its needs also held closely to web-based presentation. Er, bollocks. If this was the case I wouldn't have the job that I do. To summarize I

Re: Advocacy

2002-03-22 Thread the hatter
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, the hatter wrote: a business about internet services will have its needs also held closely to web-based presentation. Er, bollocks. If this was the case I

The state of five point eight

2002-03-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:01:00PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:46:21PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: Nicholas Clark sent the following bits through the ether: What is this slides concept of which you speak? http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/state_of_eight.html I am