Re: Tech meeting note

2003-01-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:03:20AM +, Kate L Pugh wrote: > On Mon 13 Jan 2003, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > LBW probably last two weeks of August > Location? Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/da

Potential new module

2003-01-14 Thread Ivor Williams
I've been reviewing what I have learned from the LWP stuff I have been doing for Grubstreet. This involved form filling and POST method. I was struck with the feeling that boiling down the form data is something that has probably been done many times over - but a search didn't find anything obv

Re: Potential new module

2003-01-14 Thread Ben
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:26:40AM -, Ivor Williams wrote: > I've been reviewing what I have learned from the LWP stuff I have been doing > for Grubstreet. This involved form filling and POST method. > > I was struck with the feeling that boiling down the form data is something that > has pr

Re: Potential new module

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Fowler
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Ivor Williams wrote: > I was struck with the feeling that boiling down the form data is something that > has probably been done many times over - but a search didn't find anything > obvious. Would you consider: http://search.cpan.org/author/TJMATHER/HTML-FillInForm-1.01/lib/

Re: Potential new module

2003-01-14 Thread Chris Ball
>> On 14 Jan 2003 10:26:40, Ivor Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I've been reviewing what I have learned from the LWP stuff I have > been doing for Grubstreet. This involved form filling and POST > method. I can't work out exactly what you're trying to do (probably because I'm all i

VERY OT: Archimedes/RISC OS 3.x file types

2003-01-14 Thread Raf
Hi. This is a tad off topic and rather than just mail Dave, I figured that I'd see if anyone out there can guide on what I'm doing wrong. I've got an Acorn A4 on my desk and have just copied some ArcFS .arc files from my box onto the A4 via a 1.44 dos floppy. K? Now, I want to unsparc these, ho

Re: VERY OT: Archimedes/RISC OS 3.x file types

2003-01-14 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:19:32PM +, Raf wrote: > Hi. > > This is a tad off topic and rather than just mail Dave, I figured that I'd > see if anyone out there can guide on what I'm doing wrong. > > I've got an Acorn A4 on my desk and have just copied some ArcFS .arc files > from my box onto

Re: VERY OT: Archimedes/RISC OS 3.x file types

2003-01-14 Thread Raf
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:19:32PM +, Raf wrote: > Either way, I think the filetype shouldn't matter - run !Spark or !Sparkplug > or !SparkFS or !ArcFS (whichever you have) and drag the file to the icon > on the icon bar. I believe that all share the

Re: Potential new module

2003-01-14 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:56:15AM +, Chris Ball wrote: > >> On 14 Jan 2003 10:26:40, Ivor Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> I've been reviewing what I have learned from the LWP stuff I have >> been doing for Grubstreet. This involved form filling and POST >> method. > > I c

Re: VERY OT: Archimedes/RISC OS 3.x file types

2003-01-14 Thread Alex McLintock
At 14:19 14/01/03, Raf wrote: K? Now, I want to unsparc these, however they aren't set to the correct file type. Sparc should be able to identify any file as a sparc archive and change the file-type appropriately. Just drag the file over to the running program. Gosh that takes me back. Fail

POD for unix

2003-01-14 Thread Jonathan Peterson
I was just doing my New Year documentation, and wondered if there was something like POD for unix. In other words, something where instead of writing a big document explaining how a system has been configured, something that slurps up specially formatted comments in various files, together with

RE: POD for unix

2003-01-14 Thread Peter Pimley
doxygen. Never used it, but there's loads of documentation made by it where I work. I've been told it's very similar to javadoc (which itself is not completely unlike POD) Peter -Original Message- From: Jonathan Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 January 2003 15:49 To: [EM

RE: POD for unix

2003-01-14 Thread Peter Pimley
Sorry, I misread the question. I believe doxygen is C++ only. -Original Message- From: Peter Pimley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 January 2003 16:08 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: POD for unix doxygen. Never used it, but there's loads of documentation made by it where

rackmount question

2003-01-14 Thread Jody Belka
hi all, ok, i'm trying to decide what exactly to put into my 1U rackmount case and thought i'd ask for some advice as i just can't make a decision. firstly, for reference purposes, this box is going to be to running several vmware virtual machines, so whatever i end up with needs to be able to cop

Re: rackmount question

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Fowler
Jody wrote: > So, anyone got any advice that could help me make a decision? An aside issue: Where's this being hosted? Is it going in an Airconed room, and will you be able to get half a U gap between this server and the next one or are you likely to be sandwidtched inbetween two other potential

Re: rackmount question

2003-01-14 Thread Dirk Koopman
Personally, unless you can find a really good heatsink *designed* for 1U high operation on AMD (this may involve searching http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ rather carefully) and a power supply which is meaty enough - I think you are looking at Intel Hardware. On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 17:44, Jody Belka

Re: rackmount question

2003-01-14 Thread the hatter
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Jody Belka wrote: > So, anyone got any advice that could help me make a decision? A lot of your cooling effects will depend on what else is sitting around your machine. We've tried several 1U boxes tha are supposed to run happily. On their own, they do, but some of them obv

Re: rackmount question

2003-01-14 Thread Jody Belka
Mark Fowler said: > An aside issue: Where's this being hosted? Is it going in an Airconed > room, and will you be able to get half a U gap between this server and > the next one or are you likely to be sandwidtched inbetween two other > potentially hot servers? it's actually just going to end up

Re: rackmount question

2003-01-14 Thread Jody Belka
Dirk Koopman said: > Personally, unless you can find a really good heatsink *designed* for 1U > high operation on AMD (this may involve searching > http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ rather carefully) and a power supply > which is meaty enough - I think you are looking at Intel Hardware. > well both o

Re: rackmount question

2003-01-14 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Jody Belka wrote: > Mark Fowler said: > > An aside issue: Where's this being hosted? Is it going in an Airconed > > room, and will you be able to get half a U gap between this server and > > the next one or are you likely to be sandwidtched inbetween two other > > potentially

Re: rackmount question

2003-01-14 Thread Roger Burton West
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:44:43PM -, Jody Belka wrote: >ok, i'm trying to decide what exactly to put into my 1U rackmount case and >thought i'd ask for some advice as i just can't make a decision. firstly, >for reference purposes, this box is going to be to running several vmware >virtual mach

Re: rackmount question

2003-01-14 Thread robin szemeti
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 17:58, Mark Fowler wrote: > Jody wrote: > > So, anyone got any advice that could help me make a decision? > > An aside issue: Where's this being hosted? Is it going in an Airconed > room, and will you be able to get half a U gap between this server and the > next one or

Re: rackmount question

2003-01-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:44:43PM -, Jody Belka wrote: > ok, i'm trying to decide what exactly to put into my 1U rackmount case and > thought i'd ask for some advice as i just can't make a decision. Start with a Sparc ATX mobo, or pull a board out of an iMac. >

Re: rackmount question

2003-01-14 Thread Roger Burton West
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:54:01PM +, robin szemeti wrote: >Unless you are putting this somewhere really expensive and well >airconditioned (eg Telecity) then 1U boxes do not pay off in the (cost of >box)V(cost of hosting) trade off. This hasn't been my experience - I paid about UKP200 more

Re: rackmount question

2003-01-14 Thread Jody Belka
Shevek said: > Oddly enough, that's almost exactly the reason I bought 16 of them. > Beware the 'not bad prices'. > well, whether i put an athlonXP 1800+ or a celeron 1.3GHz into it, together with 1gig of ram, i'm talking about £220/£230 for everything but the hard drives, which is not bad. Jody

Re: Potential new module

2003-01-14 Thread Simon Wistow
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:53:07AM +, Mark Fowler said: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Ivor Williams wrote: > > > I was struck with the feeling that boiling down the form data is something that > > has probably been done many times over - but a search didn't find anything > > obvious. > > Would you c