RE: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-18 Thread Gareth Kirwan
Hey - I didn't realise there was a second edition. Mastering Regular expressions is what I learnt from, found it great. Gareth -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Fowler You'd be better off with the 2nd Edition. O'Reilly: 0-596-00289-0

Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-18 Thread Mark Fowler
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Phil Dobbin wrote: You can't go wrong with Jeffrey Friedl's `Mastering Regular Expressions' (O'Reilly: 1-56592-257-3). You'd be better off with the 2nd Edition. O'Reilly: 0-596-00289-0 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/ Shouldn't someone be reviewing this for the

YAPC::NA CFP ends on Tues 25th March

2003-03-18 Thread Mark Fowler
Hello. This is a reminder that the deadline on abstract submittal for YAPC::NA is on the 25th (i.e. a week today.) This is for all types of talks (lightning, short, long, and extra long.) http://www.yapc.org/America/cfp.shtml This has been a public service announcement, we now return you to

Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-18 Thread Kris Boulez
Quoting Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Phil Dobbin wrote: You can't go wrong with Jeffrey Friedl's `Mastering Regular Expressions' (O'Reilly: 1-56592-257-3). You'd be better off with the 2nd Edition. O'Reilly: 0-596-00289-0

Starting Again

2003-03-18 Thread Brian Smart
Hi All, I started to learn Perl and then had a period in Hospital which has put me right back where I started. I would like to delete all references to Perl on my website so that I can start from scratch. My website is hosted on an Apache server and I use windows2000 on my PC. I tried to delete

Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-18 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Phil Dobbin wrote: You can't go wrong with Jeffrey Friedl's `Mastering Regular Expressions' (O'Reilly: 1-56592-257-3). You'd be better off with the 2nd Edition. O'Reilly: 0-596-00289-0

Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-18 Thread Marty Pauley
On Tue Mar 18 10:21:20 2003, Mark Fowler wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Phil Dobbin wrote: You can't go wrong with Jeffrey Friedl's `Mastering Regular Expressions' (O'Reilly: 1-56592-257-3). You'd be better off with the 2nd Edition. Or you could come to Belfast next Monday and hear Mark

Re: Starting Again

2003-03-18 Thread Jason Clifford
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Brian Smart wrote: I started to learn Perl and then had a period in Hospital which has put me right back where I started. I would like to delete all references to Perl on my website so that I can start from scratch. My website is hosted on an Apache server and I use

Re: Starting Again

2003-03-18 Thread Mark Fowler
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Brian Smart wrote: could not be deleted because the directory held files that I could not view. You can delete all directories and files within a directory by logging into your apache box with ssh/telnet, or the command line ftp utility[1]. bash$ pwd

Oracle Jobs @ UK? [Was: Re: Obsolete software]

2003-03-18 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Hy list folks. I was reading this thread and wondering about how is the oracle DBA market at London. Can anybody here tell me if there is good job offers for a certified oracle DBA at London and surroundings? Thank you very much for any informations. Best regards. --

Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 18/3/03 10:21, Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Phil Dobbin wrote: You can't go wrong with Jeffrey Friedl's `Mastering Regular Expressions' (O'Reilly: 1-56592-257-3). You'd be better off with the 2nd Edition. [...] Hey, I've bought thirty-two O'Reilly books

Re: Oracle Jobs @ UK? [Was: Re: Obsolete software]

2003-03-18 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 12:31, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: Hy list folks. I was reading this thread and wondering about how is the oracle DBA market at London. Can anybody here tell me if there is good job offers for a certified oracle DBA at London and surroundings?

Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-18 Thread Chris Benson
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:41:18PM +, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hey, I've bought thirty-two O'Reilly books as it is ;-) I'll raise you: (gulp) forty-eight at home[*] including the 1988 (first?) edition of the X11 manuals. I blame Josette. You can't turn round without getting a discount: London

Re: Oracle Jobs @ UK? [Was: Re: Obsolete software]

2003-03-18 Thread Chris Benson
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:51:49PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 12:31, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: I was reading this thread and wondering about how is the oracle DBA market at London. Can anybody here tell me if there is good job offers for a certified oracle

RE: Starting Again

2003-03-18 Thread Brian Smart
Hello Mark and others who replied to my query, I have managed to delete the offending files so I am now back to the start. Ivor queried if I was using Activestate on my PC. I installed that without any difficulty and have been able to run Perl on my PC. My problems start when I try to upload and

Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-18 Thread Jon Reades
Jonathan Peterson wrote: I assume that this was supposed to be: =~ m/\s*(?:y|(ok))/i I did. But this is hardly easier than 'eq'. Easier for the programmer? Of course not! Heh, when I say better I mean better for the user, and therefore a better bit of software. Programmers are just staff,

Capturing local machine's IP address in bash

2003-03-18 Thread Jon Reades
Mongers, I've been trying to assemble a simple bash script that will set up some simple VPN tunnels for me when I need to connect to my company's Netscreen box. I've made it most of the way there, but I currently need one script for each possible address (e.g. sh /init.d/vpn/192.168.0.1.sh,

Re: Capturing local machine's IP address in bash

2003-03-18 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 05:12:35PM +, Jon Reades wrote: Mongers, Mongchop to you ;-) I've been trying to assemble a simple bash script that will set up some simple VPN tunnels for me when I need to connect to my company's Netscreen box. I've made it most of the way there, but I

Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-18 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Chris Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:41:18PM +, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hey, I've bought thirty-two O'Reilly books as it is ;-) I'll raise you: (gulp) forty-eight at home[*] including the 1988 (first?) edition of the X11 manuals. I blame Josette. You

Re: Capturing local machine's IP address in bash

2003-03-18 Thread Ian Brayshaw
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 17:12, Jon Reades wrote: A much easier way to do this would be to have the bash script get the local IP address by requesting it directly from the client machine. Unfortunately, ifconfig is a little hard to parse if you're not human and using bash, and I can't find any

Re: Capturing local machine's IP address in bash

2003-03-18 Thread darren chamberlain
* Jon Reades jreades at fulcrumanalytics.com [2003-03-18 12:15]: Does anyone have suggestions for where/how I could obtain this information? It's not bash, but it will work: perl -MSys::Hostname -MSocket -e 'print inet_ntoa inet_aton hostname' (darren) -- Whatever is done for love is

c email libraries

2003-03-18 Thread Simon Wistow
I'm convinced that there *must* exists somewhere a C library to parse emails and another one that implements jwz's threading algorith, But I'll be bggered if I can find one. Does such a beast exist? -- it's a short link to a dead king

Re: Capturing local machine's IP address in bash

2003-03-18 Thread Jon Reades
Joel Bernstein wrote: snip /sbin/ifconfig|grep eth0 -2|grep inet|cut -f2 -d:|awk '{print $1}' would work, non? for eth0 anyway. that extends fairly trivially to something for each eth stanza... Ah, piece of cake, why didn't I figure that out for myself. ;) I knew there was a reason I broke out

Re: c email libraries

2003-03-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 05:48:12PM +, Simon Wistow wrote: I'm convinced that there *must* exists somewhere a C library to parse emails and another one that implements jwz's threading algorith, apt-get source mutt Paul -- Paul Makepeace ...

Re: c email libraries

2003-03-18 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 17:48, Simon Wistow wrote: I'm convinced that there *must* exists somewhere a C library to parse emails and another one that implements jwz's threading algorith, But I'll be bggered if I can find one. Does such a beast exist? you asked him? -- Dave Hodgkinson

Re: c email libraries

2003-03-18 Thread Leon Brocard
Simon Wistow sent the following bits through the ether: Does such a beast exist? Dunno, but Simon's Perl Email Project looks promising: http://search.cpan.org/author/SIMON/Email-Simple/ Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/

Re: c email libraries

2003-03-18 Thread Marty Pauley
On Tue Mar 18 17:48:12 2003, Simon Wistow wrote: I'm convinced that there *must* exists somewhere a C library to parse emails http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/ I'm not sure how stable it is. and another one that implements jwz's threading algorith, Dunno about that. I thought he

Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-18 Thread Dave Cross
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:41:18PM +, Phil Dobbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey, I've bought thirty-two O'Reilly books as it is ;-) I quick count in the area round my desk at home finds 120 O'Reilly books. There are others at work as well I think. Dave... -- Brian: Oh screw

Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-18 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
- Original Message - From: Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 3:51 PM On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:41:18PM +, Phil Dobbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey, I've bought thirty-two O'Reilly books as it is ;-) I quick count in the area round my desk at home

Re: [OT] PDA recommendation, and rants, and IMAP, and MTAconfiguration

2003-03-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Monday, March 17, 2003 12:28 + Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/03/2003 at 11:45 +, Andy Williams \(IMAP HILLWAY\) wrote: 1) Get at my email using my mobile phone as the modem. I guess Bluetooth is the best way of doing this. 2) Read Word and Excel docs that people keep

Re: [OT] PDA recommendation, and rants, and IMAP, and MTA configuration

2003-03-18 Thread Roger Burton West
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:41:20AM +, David Cantrell wrote: Personally, I'd say don't bother using a PDA for email, the interface is just crap. If you must, then use Multimail - which I *think* Palm have bought and bundle with new devices, which will send/receive via the hotsync cradle and

Re: [OT] PDA recommendation.

2003-03-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:45:53AM -, Andy Williams (IMAP HILLWAY) wrote: Hi, I've decided to enter the 21st century and buy a PDA. Does anyone have any recommendations? LinuxDevices is reporting that the Linux PDA Sharp Zaurus 5500 is going for US$200 (!) presumably thanks to Sharp

Re: Starting Again

2003-03-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 11:59 + Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bash$ ls -a # list _all_ files, inc. hidden in current dir bash$ ls -a foo # same for the directory foo ls -A is useful too - it does the same as -a but doesn't list . or ... That last one is

Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 11:29 + Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You'd be better off with the 2nd Edition. O'Reilly: 0-596-00289-0 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/ Shouldn't someone be reviewing this for the site? *looks down at the

Making running X listen on TCP

2003-03-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
Is it possible to make X listen for network connections, without restarting it? Or maybe run another one that doesn't interfere graphically with the current one? (me - no X-pert) I have a big X session I'd rather not lose, and Phoenix still doesn't have a Save Session feature :-/ But I'd like to

Re: [OT] PDA recommendation.

2003-03-18 Thread Adam Spiers
Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:45:53AM -, Andy Williams (IMAP HILLWAY) wrote: Hi, I've decided to enter the 21st century and buy a PDA. Does anyone have any recommendations? LinuxDevices is reporting that the Linux PDA Sharp Zaurus 5500 is

Re: Starting Again

2003-03-18 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Paul == Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul ... is where you keep warez, pr0n and rootkits. No, I use . for that. Or maybe .\n :) You keep rootkits, Randal? I thought you weren't supposed to be doing that :) -- Chris

Re: [OT] PDA recommendation, and rants, and IMAP, and MTAconfiguration

2003-03-18 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 08:41, David Cantrell wrote: y, I'd say don't bother using a PDA for email, the interface is just crap. If you must, then use Multimail - which I *think* Palm have bought and bundle with new devices, which will send/receive via the hotsync cradle and your desktop

Re: Starting Again

2003-03-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Paul == Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul ... is where you keep warez, pr0n and rootkits. No, I use . for that. Or maybe .\n :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/