Re: applying patterns

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Cross
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:09:39PM +0100, Shevek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 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!

Re: Straw poll

2002-10-08 Thread Rafiq Ismail
On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: If ${'no-one in particular'} did a talk (or tutorial) on advanced used of the perl debugger, how many people would think bah. That's more advanced that I know about. I would have preferred it if he did an introduction to the perl debugger, as my

RE: Straw poll

2002-10-08 Thread Ivor Williams
-Original Message- From: Nicholas Clark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Straw poll And if a talk introducing the perl debugger were given at a YAPC, how many people would think it worthy of going to? [Ivor]

Re: applying patterns

2002-10-08 Thread Simon Wistow
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:47:35AM +0100, Paul Mison said: I know Simon will hate this, but a lot of blogs do this. Most blog engines are baked, but people want frying for stuff like 'what mp3 am I listening to', so they output (after each entry) a php or (much less commonly) TT template

[HELP WANTED] SMS experts

2002-10-08 Thread Simon Wilcox
I've received an invitation to tender for a very nice job involving lots of SMS messaging, about which I know very little but it has a lot of potential so I'm really keen to have a go at it. If anyone has commercial experience of such things and would like to work with me on a pitch, and

Re: applying patterns

2002-10-08 Thread Marty Pauley
On Tue Oct 8 09:47:35 2002, Paul Mison wrote: I believe -- and I was half paying attention to the talk, half relaying it on IRC, which is Bad and Wrong and which I now Regret, so don't be surprised if I've got this compeletly wrong -- that mjd's point was not so much that the patterns

Re: Straw poll

2002-10-08 Thread Rafiq Ismail
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Barbie wrote: From: Ivor Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, how about covering Devel::ptkdb. This is a graphical Tk debugger, and very handy for debugging cgi scripts (just alter the shebang line to add -d:ptkdb. Even works on Windows). This I would like to see.

Re: similarity detection

2002-10-08 Thread nemesis
alex wrote: probably completely crap but following is an approach i have been thinking about for a while and have been looking for the right soft/textual dataset to try it out on. Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I certainly have some more ideass to work on. Will

Re: similarity detection

2002-10-08 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, alex wrote: so, in your particular example you could try a 26 dimensional space where each dimension is the frequency of a particular letter in the alphabet. if This will fail for the same reason that this is a crappy hash algorithm. All English sentences tend to have the

Re: similarity detection

2002-10-08 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, alex wrote: indeed - i seem to vaguely remember that i didn't use the sqrt in my postal sector[0] comparisons (it was to calculate nearest specsavers retail outlets to a postcode) and sql looked something like this: Metric space theory tells you that your distance

[APACHE - OT] RewriteRule

2002-10-08 Thread Leo Lapworth
Hi Guys, Sorry about this... I'm trying to do a (very simple!) RewriteRule but it's not having any of it... The Example in the docs shows: RewriteRule ^/somepath(.*) /otherpath$1 [R] for GET /somepath/pathinfo In my VirtualHost I have: RewriteRule ^/mag/(.*)

Re: similarity detection

2002-10-08 Thread Ben
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:11:38PM +0100, Shevek wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, alex wrote: indeed - i seem to vaguely remember that i didn't use the sqrt in my postal sector[0] comparisons (it was to calculate nearest specsavers retail outlets to a postcode) and sql looked something like

Re: similarity detection

2002-10-08 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Ben wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:11:38PM +0100, Shevek wrote: Metric space theory tells you that your distance computation is valid whether you square or not. It's still a valid metric. The unit ball is a slightly different shape ... Nonsense. d(x,y) = (x1

Re: [APACHE - OT] RewriteRule

2002-10-08 Thread Lusercop
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:45:18PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: Everything is applied correctly, but the regex just doesn't seem to work! It's RSE's code, don't expect it to work :-) -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: [APACHE - OT] RewriteRule - FIXED

2002-10-08 Thread Lusercop
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:24:36PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: An upgrade from 1.3.22 to 1.3.26 fixed the problem. What machines are these, can we r00t them via the chunked-encoding vulnerability? -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Perlidex

2002-10-08 Thread Adam Goldstein
Although it was not my original intention to have everyone on the list receive a registration code, I am not going to disable its use from this version of Perlidex. However, I most likely will disable it from future uses of Perlidex. I guess you could consider the version that you're using

Re: ADSL Help

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Shiels
From: Chris Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: code evaluation in comment!

2002-10-08 Thread Rafiq Ismail
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Barbie wrote: #print STDERR return=[$session,.(join(,,@retvals)).]; With that said, why do I get the following error in the log file? Use of uninitialized value in join or string at c:/INetPub/wwwroot/elizium/cgi-bin/lib/Security.pm line 95. You haven't got

Re: ADSL Help

2002-10-08 Thread matt baker
Because come the day you want to plug in another machine, you won't have to deal with the crawling horror that is the NAT implementation on most ADSL 'routers'? Thanks for all the help, but I think I'm now even more confused. I think I need an ADSL router (with built in firewall

Re: applying patterns

2002-10-08 Thread Nigel Hamilton
what I think si interesting is not only looking for recurring patterns in programming but looking at problems in computing as a whole (inodes, makefiles, process schedulers) and applying them on a microcosm or even on a microcosm. Or even more interesting - apply your learning to another

Re: applying patterns

2002-10-08 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Nigel Hamilton wrote: It amazes me that no single ant has a blue print for what the Ant hill is going to look like ... But yet somehow they manage to work together to make a huge hill, with little passageways and storage rooms etc. Each ant's pattern of work blends in

[Job]

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Mtasty... http://www.it.Jobserve.com/jobserve/EmailJob.asp?jobid=3dJ8C4ABDBF27FE78B5

Re: applying patterns

2002-10-08 Thread Simon Wistow
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:13:20PM +0100, Shevek said: On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Nigel Hamilton wrote: You mean agent systems? agentlink.org or whatever, FIPA, the whole show like that. Read 'Creation - Life and how to make it' by Steve Grand (http://london.pm.org/reviews/create_life.html) and

Re: [Job]

2002-10-08 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Mtasty... http://www.it.Jobserve.com/jobserve/EmailJob.asp?jobid=3dJ8C4ABDBF27FE78B5 Then again... You must have worked for a company that is involved in Network Security, preferably one that produces security products... Now that

Re: applying patterns

2002-10-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:39:54PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: This kind of stuff is incredibly simple to program[0], biologists have known it's how ants do it for years yet we still have crappy static routing tables. Random is good if you are starting from a base of no knowledge. If,

Re: similarity detection

2002-10-08 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:43:47AM +0100, alex wrote: sqrt( (x0-x1)^2 + (y0-y1)^2 + (z0-z1)^2) so, in your particular example you could try a 26 dimensional space where each dimension is the frequency of a particular letter in the alphabet. if I think you will find that this