Re: Unix test

2002-10-07 Thread S. Joel Bernstein
At 07/10/2002 13:20 [], Ivor Williams wrote: I have been asked at work, to come up with a Unix technical test for use in interviewing prospective candidates, and I was wondering if there already was such a test in existence. To search the list, I tried a google advanced search on pm.org - without

Re: Unix test

2002-10-07 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Ivor Williams wrote: It's not that I intend to crib the entire test, more that it will give me ideas as to the kind of questions to ask. I tend to ask the same question multiple times, once using a kiddie algorithm, once using an undergraduate algorithm and (if there

Re: Unix test

2002-10-07 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:20:47PM +0100, Ivor Williams wrote: I did ask whether there was any preference as to shell, and what the role involves. I was told that the role is a Unix developer with C/C++; the client has a bias towards Korn shell. No perl there - shame! I would certainly

Re: Straw poll

2002-10-07 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 11:44:20PM +0100, Barbie [home] wrote: From: Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if a talk introducing the perl debugger were given at a YAPC, how many people would think it worthy of going to? would be good. Not sure what an Advanced talk would be about, as to me

Re: Please clean up our CPAN directory

2002-10-07 Thread Barbie
From: Randal L. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Putting the CPAN on CD-ROM is no problem with my new little gadget: http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col42.html It is if you're NOT running it on a Win32 system. Thought I'd burn my own CD mirror using the script. Set up the

Perl magazines

2002-10-07 Thread Dean Wilson
I've just seen the 'call to arms' on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/07/1443229.shtml?tid=145) about the Perl journal missing its required number of subscribers by over two thirds and i thought i'd ask about other peoples views on The Perl Review and TPJ. My view is that if a

Re: Perl magazines

2002-10-07 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dean Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've just seen the 'call to arms' on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/07/1443229.shtml?tid=145) about the Perl journal missing its required number of subscribers by over two thirds and i thought i'd ask about other peoples views on The Perl

Re: Perl magazines

2002-10-07 Thread Dave Cross
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:52:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Dean Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've just seen the 'call to arms' on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/07/1443229.shtml?tid=145) about the Perl journal missing its required number of

Re: Perl magazines

2002-10-07 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:52:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'd be willing to buy at least 2 subscriptions to TPR TPR _does_ have a similar call to arms http://www.theperlreview.com/. Excellent, before I buy 2+

Re: ADSL Help

2002-10-07 Thread Jon Reades
Paul Golds wrote: David Cantrell wrote: snip with zen (http://www.zen.co.uk) and he claims to have 8 IP's. I've signed up with Zen, and can confirm this 8 IP business. Bear in mind though that network, broadcast, and router IPs are taken out of this chunk, leaving five for those actual

applying patterns

2002-10-07 Thread Simon Wistow
It has oft (http://perl.plover.com/yak/design/) been said that patterns in the Gang of Four sense don't really apply to Perl. However today whilst I was looking over Yahoo!'s super shiny publishing systems I started to notice that I was saying things like Oh right! So this bit works likes a

Re: ADSL Help

2002-10-07 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:42:32PM +0100, Jon Reades wrote: I wish that Zen let you specify a number of IP addresses -- their handy 'configurator' is smart enough to ask a few questions about what you want to do ('Do you just want to play games and surf the Web?') but not smart enough to

Web Classified Ads System in Perl

2002-10-07 Thread Martin Gardner
Hi, Can anyone point me in the direction of information about how to put together a classified ads web site in perl. I am looking for something that can handle different types of advert, some paid for some free, pictures and varying lengths. I'm googling, checking CPAN and nms as I write

Re: applying patterns

2002-10-07 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Simon Wistow wrote: It has oft (http://perl.plover.com/yak/design/) been said that patterns in the Gang of Four sense don't really apply to Perl. What fool said that? Of course they apply! Sure some of the strict typing stuff isn't quite so required, but the patterns are

Re: Perl magazines

2002-10-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:30:03PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:52:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'd be willing to buy at least 2 subscriptions to TPR TPR _does_ have a similar call to arms

{OT} elegant MAC address formatting code?

2002-10-07 Thread Chris Benson
Hi, within the last few weeks I've seen a nice bit of code to format irregular 0:2:7E:4:7:0 style MAC addresses into standard 00027E6437C0 ones. Unfortunately now I need same, I can't remember what or where. I've grepped my London.pm archive and looked in the usual places ... Does anyone else

Re: {OT} elegant MAC address formatting code?

2002-10-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:00:24PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote: Hi, within the last few weeks I've seen a nice bit of code to format irregular 0:2:7E:4:7:0 style MAC addresses into standard 00027E6437C0 ones. I'm not sure where the 6, 3 and C come in those last three high nybbles. A simple

Perlidex Comment

2002-10-07 Thread Adam Goldstein
Dear Mr. Mison, I am the developer of Perlidex, a program you seem to dislike. I was reading http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20020722/012307.html, and came accross your commentary. I would like to address your concerns. Several people have commented on the one-window

Re: ADSL Help

2002-10-07 Thread Chris Andrews
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Lusercop wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:42:32PM +0100, Jon Reades wrote: I wish that Zen let you specify a number of IP addresses -- their handy 'configurator' is smart enough to ask a few questions about what you want to do ('Do you just want to play games and

Re: {OT} elegant MAC address formatting code?

2002-10-07 Thread Chris Benson
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:29:18PM +0100, Chisel Wright wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:00:24PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote: Hi, within the last few weeks I've seen a nice bit of code to format irregular 0:2:7E:4:7:0 style MAC addresses into standard 00027E6437C0 ones. Not worked out

Re: {OT} elegant MAC address formatting code?

2002-10-07 Thread Chris Benson
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:00:24PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote: Hi, within the last few weeks I've seen a nice bit of code to format irregular 0:2:7E:4:7:0 style MAC addresses into standard 00027E6437C0 ones. I'm not sure

Re: Please clean up our CPAN directory

2002-10-07 Thread Barbie [home]
From: Randal L. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] File::Find is returning / names instead of \ names, which breaks against File::Spec's idea of names! It sucks that there are two core modules that do different things... I did my darndest to make it portable. Barbie Not figured out the problem

Re: Perlidex Comment

2002-10-07 Thread Mike Jarvis
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:05:06PM -0700, Adam Goldstein wrote: Dear Mr. Mison, I know nothing about the software in question, but I know that if the developers are incapable of putting line breaks in email it probably isn't worth bothering with. This level of disregard for community standards

Re: {OT} elegant MAC address formatting code?

2002-10-07 Thread Graham Barr
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:32:55PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:29:18PM +0100, Chisel Wright wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:00:24PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote: Hi, within the last few weeks I've seen a nice bit of code to format irregular 0:2:7E:4:7:0 style

Re: Please clean up our CPAN directory

2002-10-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Barbie == Barbie [home] Barbie writes: Barbie Bit of a bugger that. I have temporarily circumvented the problem by Barbie commenting out the call to clean_unmirrored(); Cheating I know, but it works Barbie for me ;) Will try and have a play tomorrow, now I know the suspected Barbie