Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-20 Thread Philip Newton
On 19 Mar 2003 at 19:31, Chris Benson wrote: [Getting ORA books at a discount as a *.pm member] > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:06:53PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > > (Presumably only works when ordering directly from ORA.) > > Yup, I used to have a card with Josette's contact details, ... I'll try

Re: [OT] PDA recommendation.

2003-03-20 Thread Philip Newton
On 17 Mar 2003 at 12:00, Frank Booth wrote: > The iPaq does all that, but be sure to get one with lots of memory as > the WinCE PDF reader is something like 9 Meg IIRC. > > You can play doom on it too, but the controls can get a bit annoying. Or NetHack, which I did for a bit on my HP Jornada (a

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

2003-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 21:30 + Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Though be aware that Multimail's IMAP client is not standards-compliant; it falls over whenever it meets a fairly common server extension. And that would be ... what? -- David Cantrell

[OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6

2003-03-20 Thread Andy Williams \(IMAP HILLWAY\)
Hi guys, Sorry about this as it's way of topic... I've done (well a designer did anyway) some html that does some VERY weird things. When it initially loads some of the images apear to be missing. I hit refresh and some of them appear I hit refresh again and some more appear... on the fou

Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6

2003-03-20 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Andy Williams (IMAP HILLWAY) wrote: > Has anyone had a similar problem and managed to resolve it? Are you testing this by double clicking on the icon, or are you downloading it from the server? It's possible that there's a problem with the server (for example, it's taking to

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

2003-03-20 Thread Roger Burton West
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:08:05AM +, David Cantrell wrote: >On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 21:30 + Roger Burton West ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Though be aware that Multimail's IMAP client is not standards-compliant; >>it falls over whenever it meets a fairly common server extension. >And

Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6

2003-03-20 Thread Andy Williams \(IMAP HILLWAY\)
- Original Message - From: "Mark Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 9:30 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6 > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Andy Williams (IMAP HILLWAY) wrote: > > > Has anyone had a similar problem and mana

Re: Online DVD rental

2003-03-20 Thread Alex McLintock
At 14:24 19/03/03, Someone wrote: Can anyone recommend an online DVD rental site in the UK? Movietrak.com seem like a competant bunch of people. [Ob perl] And they use perl for their website Alex Available for java/perl/C++/web development in London, UK or nearby. Apache FOP, Cocoon, Turbine, S

Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6

2003-03-20 Thread Jon Reades
Can you give us a URL? I *have* seen this behaviour before, but not recently so I don't remember off-hand what the issue might be. Is there any CSS? What happens if you simply remove the flagged attributes? Generally speaking, the best way to debug HTML/JavaScript/CSS interactions is to slowly

Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6

2003-03-20 Thread Paul Mison
On 20/03/2003 at 09:15 +, Andy Williams \(IMAP HILLWAY\) wrote: I've done (well a designer did anyway) some html that does some VERY weird things. When it initially loads some of the images apear to be missing. I hit refresh and some of them appear I hit refresh again and some more app

Re: Starting Again

2003-03-20 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Philip Newton wrote: On 19 Mar 2003 at 9:34, S Watkins wrote: Naaah, you keep them in "." Tricky to see and difficult to remove without "tricks". Also popular are directory names with embedded ^H's. $ ls foo $ cd foo ksh: foo: not found $ cd 'fa^V^Hoo' $ The trouble with all these approa

Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6

2003-03-20 Thread Andy Williams \(IMAP HILLWAY\)
- Original Message - From: "Jon Reades" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6 > > Can you give us a URL? > http://generator.mx00.com/campaign_library.html Although I have noticed tha

Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6

2003-03-20 Thread Andy Williams \(IMAP HILLWAY\)
- Original Message - From: "Paul Mison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6 > > Were the images created in Photoshop 7? It embeds XML colour profile > information that IE6 (most usua

Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6

2003-03-20 Thread Marna Gilligan
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Andy Williams (IMAP HILLWAY) wrote: [crazy image table behaviour] If you remove the table - or just pop the images in another, otherwise empty, page, do you still get the same problems? 'Cuz that would indicate a problem with the images themselves, or their getting to you, ra

Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6

2003-03-20 Thread Andy Williams \(IMAP HILLWAY\)
- Original Message - From: "Jon Reades" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6 > > Can you give us a URL? These are some images from every time I refresh locally if it helps! (Ab

Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6

2003-03-20 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
- Original Message - From: "Andy Williams (IMAP HILLWAY)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 8:33 AM > > - Original Message - > From: "Jon Reades" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:30 AM > > > Can you give us a URL? > http://generator.mx00.com

Re: [OT] PDA recommendation.

2003-03-20 Thread Matthew Allum
on Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:49:12AM +, Adam Spiers wrote: > > Finally! Don't suppose anyone bought a CL-700 yet? Am very tempted ... > I have one, ;-) . If you want one, dont bother with dynamism, try shop.conics.net - they are ~500$ there. It takes a couple of minutes to turn one ( mostly

Re: dim sum

2003-03-20 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed 19 Mar 2003, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joel and I are going for dim sum on friday at the new world (see > website for details) at around 1pm, feel free to join us if you want. Oh, maybe I should say this on list as well as IRC. I've booked Friday afternoon off, and Greg w

Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6

2003-03-20 Thread Jon Reades
A few things I noticed: 1. Extraneous table at the top 2. Main table combines absolute (pixel) and relative (percentage) values -- generally, this is a no-no and you should go with one or the other consistently. Considering the effect that you appear to be going for I'd probably go with all ab

[JOB] perl database programming

2003-03-20 Thread Greg McCarroll
If anyone is looking for a contract position, average market rate, doing DBI + SQL stuff give me a mail offlist. You should probably have 3 commericial years of DBI/SQL and be happy with basic RDBMS optomisation on a commercial database (Sybase, Oracle, DB2, ...). Greg -- ***

Re: dim sum

2003-03-20 Thread S Watkins
Greg McCarroll wrote: Joel and I are going for dim sum on friday at the new world (see website for details) Greg Sounds intersting, and I'm bored. Which website? Steve ==

Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6

2003-03-20 Thread Andy Williams \(IMAP HILLWAY\)
- Original Message - From: "Jon Reades" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6 > > A few things I noticed: > > 1. Extraneous table at the top > > 2. Main table combines absolute (pix

Re: dim sum

2003-03-20 Thread Greg McCarroll
* S Watkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Sounds intersting, and I'm bored. Which website? > hmm, i can't find it on grubstreet or london.pm , anyway its on gerrard place in china town, you can't miss it Greg -- *** *** *** E

Re: dim sum

2003-03-20 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:57:52PM +, S Watkins wrote: > Greg McCarroll wrote: > >Joel and I are going for dim sum on friday at the new world (see > >website for details) > > > > >Greg > > Sounds intersting, and I'm bored. Which website? http://london.pm.org/ - look for the New World [which

Re: dim sum

2003-03-20 Thread Paul Mison
On 20/03/2003 at 14:39 +, Greg McCarroll wrote: * S Watkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sounds intersting, and I'm bored. Which website? hmm, i can't find it on grubstreet or london.pm , anyway its on gerrard place in china town, you can't miss it It's not listed on http://london.pm.org/meeting

Re: dim sum

2003-03-20 Thread Alex McLintock
At 14:39 20/03/03, Greg McCarroll wrote: * S Watkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Sounds intersting, and I'm bored. Which website? > hmm, i can't find it on grubstreet or london.pm , anyway its on gerrard place in china town, you can't miss it Greg It doesn't yet have a page to itself. http://gr

Re: dim sum

2003-03-20 Thread S Watkins
Paul Mison wrote: On 20/03/2003 at 14:39 +, Greg McCarroll wrote: * S Watkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sounds intersting, and I'm bored. Which website? hmm, i can't find it on grubstreet or london.pm , anyway its on gerrard place in china town, you can't miss it It's not listed on http:/

Re: dim sum

2003-03-20 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Paul Mison wrote: > [0] Perhaps someone wants to work out how to dynamically generate nice, > grouped indexes based on that semantically rich XML we use? [1] Patches welcome ;-) I'll put it on the list of things todo this w/e, along with organising the next social, next

Re: dim sum

2003-03-20 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:16:36PM +, Kate L Pugh wrote: > On Wed 19 Mar 2003, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joel and I are going for dim sum on friday at the new world (see > > website for details) at around 1pm, feel free to join us if you want. > > Oh, maybe I should say thi

YAPC::NA

2003-03-20 Thread Leon Brocard
Get your proposals in for http://yapc.org/America/ I'm going to try and organise the London.pm trip to YAPC::NA. If you want to join us on our trip to sunny Florida, can you email me offlist and I'll try to get it all happening. Ta, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.ast

Why Assembler is better than Perl

2003-03-20 Thread Greg McCarroll
At last years YAPC::Europe (you know the really cool European conference you should go to), Nick started off the why $foo is better than Perl competition so he could generously give away some of his hard earned money to YAS. Its currently in a very special phase of rediscovery, however I recently

CPANPLUS and long pathnames

2003-03-20 Thread Kate L Pugh
I had a test failure report for Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::SimpleBlog: http://archive.develooper.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg33437.html Essentially, it was failing a use_ok test because it couldn't find a module - but the module was part of the distribution. I asked for more info and got so

Re: CPANPLUS and long pathnames

2003-03-20 Thread Roger Burton West
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:51:25PM +, Kate L Pugh wrote: >So, has anyone else seen this behaviour? And any idea what I can do >about it? I am made suspicious by the fact that the surviving filename is 100 characters long. File a bug against CPANPLUS? R

Re: CPANPLUS and long pathnames

2003-03-20 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:58:37PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:51:25PM +, Kate L Pugh wrote: > >So, has anyone else seen this behaviour? And any idea what I can do > >about it? > > I am made suspicious by the fact that the surviving filename is 100 > character

Re: Why Assembler is better than Perl

2003-03-20 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Greg McCarroll wrote: > http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/dc_why_assembler_is_better_than_perl.png > > p.s. it might be slow going over ADSL but just you lot wait a week, oh > yes, and then you will all see who has a slow webserver and who has > not, oh yes indeedy. For the lo

Re: [OT] PDA recommendation.

2003-03-20 Thread Adam Spiers
Matthew Allum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:49:12AM +, Adam Spiers wrote: > > Finally! Don't suppose anyone bought a C700 yet? Am very tempted ... > > I have one, ;-) . Ooooh :-) > If you want one, dont bother with dynamism, try shop.conics.net - they > are ~500$

Re: dim sum

2003-03-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:51:00PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Paul Mison wrote: > > > [0] Perhaps someone wants to work out how to dynamically generate nice, > > grouped indexes based on that semantically rich XML we use? [1] > > Patches welcome ;-) Has someone actuall

Re: dim sum

2003-03-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:27:59PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:51:00PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Paul Mison wrote: > > > > > [0] Perhaps someone wants to work out how to dynamically generate nice, > > > grouped indexes based on that seman

Re: CPANPLUS and long pathnames

2003-03-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:44:31PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:58:37PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:51:25PM +, Kate L Pugh wrote: > > >So, has anyone else seen this behaviour? And any idea what I can do > > >about it? > > > > I a

Re: Starting Again

2003-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003 09:34 + S Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Makepeace wrote: ... is where you keep warez, pr0n and rootkits. Naaah, you keep them in "." Tricky to see and difficult to remove without "tricks". Which reminds me, I really need to create /usr/local/bin/perl^

Re: c email libraries

2003-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:36 + Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:17:34AM -, Blackwell, Lee [IT] said: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mail_cclient/?topic_id=35%2C809 It's a perl module thing to encapsulate the cclient stuff. I recently had to install c

Re: c email libraries

2003-03-20 Thread David M. Wilson
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:16:44PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > I recently had to install c-client on this box so I could install mailsync. > The instructions that come with c-client are WOEFULLY incomplete. It tells > you how to compile it, but not what it calls the resulting library file,

Re: Why Assembler is better than Perl

2003-03-20 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/dc_why_assembler_is_better_than_perl.png > > > > p.s. it might be slow going over ADSL but just you lot wait a week, oh > > yes, and then you will all see who has a slow web

Re: Why Assembler is better than Perl

2003-03-20 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 05:56:14AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > who knows, however i dont think it was the only thing i forgot about > auctioning, i put it down to the trauma caused by schwern auctioning > off everything he was wearing and the further trauma caused by people > actually wanting