Re: [Cool] [Nice] Dave's Recursive Footnotes

2003-06-30 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:33:39AM -0300, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > Dave Cross wrote: > > >[1] Which I heartily recommend if you haven't already read it[2]. > >[2] In fact, read all[3] of McEwan's books whilst you're at it. > >The man's a bloody star. > >[3] Except perhaps "Atonement". Not

Re: Linux firewall / web server

2003-06-30 Thread Chris Benson
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 03:58:36PM +, Martin Bower wrote: > I'm going to build a Linux firewall & web server at home (not necessarily > the same box) and wondered if anyone can advise of the best route to go. > > I've seen smoothwall, but would I be better hardening a linux install ? if >

Re: UK money, again

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Lancaster
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 04:35:54PM +0100, Andy Mendelsohn wrote: > > On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 03:07 pm, Dave Cross wrote: > >[3] Except perhaps "Atonement". Not enjoying that as much as > >the others. > >-- > > > > Oh no, keep at it Dave, it has a great ending. The missus and I read it > o

Hundredweight was Re: UK Money, again

2003-06-30 Thread Steve Mynott
Roger Horne wrote: On Fri 27 Jun, Philip Newton wrote: You have: cwt You want: Definition: hundredweight = 100 pounds = 45.359237 kg which sounds as if it *is* 100 somethings. But is wrong. There are 112 pounds in a hundredweight (or were when I was at school). See http://home.clara

Re: HTML to text

2003-06-30 Thread Simon Wistow
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 08:00:11PM +0100, Ian Malpass said: > I'm trying to write something that converts HTML into nicely formatted > text. I've tried this too. My current solution is # pipe through lynx my ($temp_fh, $temp_name) = tempfile(); print $temp_fh $body; close $temp_fh

Re: Linux firewall / web server

2003-06-30 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Martin Bower wrote: I'm going to build a Linux firewall & web server at home (not necessarily the same box) and wondered if anyone can advise of the best route to go. > I've seen smoothwall, but would I be better hardening a linux install > ? if so, which flavour ? Hello, Martin. I know no

Re: Linux firewall / web server

2003-06-30 Thread Jason Clifford
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Martin Bower wrote: > I'm going to build a Linux firewall & web server at home (not necessarily > the same box) and wondered if anyone can advise of the best route to go. > > I've seen smoothwall, but would I be better hardening a linux install ? if > so, which flavour ?

Linux firewall / web server

2003-06-30 Thread Martin Bower
I'm going to build a Linux firewall & web server at home (not necessarily the same box) and wondered if anyone can advise of the best route to go. I've seen smoothwall, but would I be better hardening a linux install ? if so, which flavour ? I'll be installing Apache, mod_perl, + db on the sam

Re: UK Money, again

2003-06-30 Thread Piers Cawley
"muppet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Cantrell said: >> The hundredweight is 112 lbs, or 8 stone, or 1/20 ton. > > suddenly i have a new understanding of "weighin' in at nineteen stone", from > "whole lotta rosie". indeed, that is a whole lot of woman. wow. There was apparently an occasi

Re: UK money, again

2003-06-30 Thread Tim Sweetman
Dave Cross wrote: IIRC, one of Ian McEwan's novels (I think it was "Child in Time"[1]) features a character who sat on the board that approved these designs. Dave... [1] Which I heartily recommend if you haven't already read it[2]... [2] In fact, read all[3] of McEwan's books whilst you're at it.

Re: UK money, again

2003-06-30 Thread Andy Mendelsohn
On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 03:07 pm, Dave Cross wrote: [3] Except perhaps "Atonement". Not enjoying that as much as the others. -- Oh no, keep at it Dave, it has a great ending. The missus and I read it out loud to each other, a chapter at a time. I think, along with a Child in Time, it's now m

Re: Using LWP for protected pages

2003-06-30 Thread Mark Fowler
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > Anyone got any time to write a Javascript library and integrate it into > WWW:Mechanize? Is this where I should plug the new WWW::Mechanize list? http://sourceforge.net/projects/www-mechanize, and click on the link for the mailing list. Mark. -- #!/u

[Cool] [Nice] Dave's Recursive Footnotes

2003-06-30 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Dave Cross wrote: From: Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 6/30/03 1:57:25 PM [body removed] [1] Which I heartily recommend if you haven't already read it[2]. [2] In fact, read all[3] of McEwan's books whilst you're at it. The man's a bloody star. [3] Except perhaps "Atonement". Not enjoying tha

Re: UK money, again (again)

2003-06-30 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: > As other people have mentioned, although not explicitly, the British > pound (and the Euro) have different sub-unit currency subdivisions, > ie: > > 100 50 20 10 5 2 1 > as opposed to the US model: > > 100 50 25 10 5 1 > horrific.

Re: UK money, again

2003-06-30 Thread Dave Cross
From: Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 6/30/03 1:57:25 PM > Pound coins have their own rotating series of national > designs, the newest set of which (using bridges, just like > Euro notes) have been previewed: > > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-718623,00.html IIRC, one of Ian Mc

Re: UK money, again

2003-06-30 Thread Paul Mison
On 26/06/2003 at 15:47 +0100, Iain Tatch wrote: On Thursday, June 26, 2003, 3:27:21 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: Has the inscription "Standing on the shoulders of giants" around the edge. I think this one's broke. It's got "Deoxyribonucleic Acid" written round the edge. And a rather cool double helix

UK money, again (again)

2003-06-30 Thread Paul Mison
On 26/06/2003 at 10:19 -0300, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: This is the first time I meet a monetary system that is not based on the relation 100 - 50 - 20 - 10 - 5 - 1 - 0.50 - 0.25 - 0.10 - 0.01 As other people have mentioned, although not explicitly, the British pound (and the Euro) hav

Re: HTML to text

2003-06-30 Thread alex
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 20:00, Ian Malpass wrote: > I'm trying to write something that converts HTML into nicely formatted > text. > > How can I improve it? I haven't really found anything on CPAN to do what I > want (there are "remove HTML tags" scripts and thing, but nothing with the > formatting

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2003-06-30 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:30:02AM +0100, Daniel Glyn-Jones wrote: > Hi Nicholas, > > I appreciate your feedback on this one. First time using the site was just > now so apologies if I've blundered ! > As a recruitment agency, would you recommend that I do not advertise via > this site at all or

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2003-06-30 Thread Daniel Glyn-Jones
Hi Nicholas, I appreciate your feedback on this one. First time using the site was just now so apologies if I've blundered ! As a recruitment agency, would you recommend that I do not advertise via this site at all or just that I make sure that I identify this in the subject line ? Thanks for

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2003-06-30 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:48:46AM +0100, Daniel Glyn-Jones wrote: http://london.pm.org/about/faq.html How do I advertise a job on the list? If you're a recruiter, you don't. Anyone else should advertise it with a subject line containing [JOB]. Not having a subject at all is a reall

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2003-06-30 Thread Daniel Glyn-Jones
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Re: HTML to text

2003-06-30 Thread Struan Donald
* at 30/06 10:32 +0200 Mark Overmeer said: > * Ian Malpass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030629 20:59]: > > I'm trying to write something that converts HTML into nicely formatted > > text. > > > $fh->open("lynx -dump -stdin < temp.txt |") > > HTML::FormatText produces a nice result. Although in order

Re: Using LWP for protected pages

2003-06-30 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: > > Anyone got any time to write a Javascript library and integrate it into > > WWW:Mechanize? > > Handily, the mozilla guys went and wrote a JavaScript library for us: > http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/ > > And waddaya know, it already has a Perl wra

Re: The Community Guide to Birmingham

2003-06-30 Thread David Hodgkinson
On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 03:35 PM, Jody Belka wrote: right now there isn't any content whatsoever on the site, so anyone in the birmingham area or who knows the birmingham area please feel welcome to come along and add something. Jody, There's a very active Brum community on Ecademy (yeah, I

Re: Using LWP for protected pages

2003-06-30 Thread Piers
Colin Magee said: > Maybe I can't do this using this module? Does anyone have experience of > trying to access protected pages via a login who could help point me in > the right direction? > > Thanks > Colin Magee Well time to jump in I think. hello list! Nothing to do with LWP I'm afraid,

Re: HTML to text

2003-06-30 Thread Mark Overmeer
* Ian Malpass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030629 20:59]: > I'm trying to write something that converts HTML into nicely formatted > text. > $fh->open("lynx -dump -stdin < temp.txt |") HTML::FormatText produces a nice result. -- MarkOv %-] --