Re: Using LWP for protected pages

2003-07-02 Thread Roger Burton West
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:18:27PM +0100, Colin Magee wrote: Now I notice that lynx has a -auth:ID:PWD argument in its standard documentation for sites where authorisation is required. That'll probably only work for real authorisation, which is so desperately untrendy that most modern web sites

Magazines

2003-07-02 Thread Dean Wilson
I've been clearing out my bookmarks and found one for the Perl Review, (http://www.theperlreview.com/), after a quick mosey around the site it looks like its stopped being published. Does any one know the story behind it? It seems a shame to lose first perlmonth and now The Perl Review[0] The TPJ

Re: Magazines

2003-07-02 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Dean Wilson wrote: I've been clearing out my bookmarks and found one for the Perl Review, (http://www.theperlreview.com/), after a quick mosey around the site it looks like its stopped being published. Does any one know the story behind it? The work force behind the Perl Review is brian d

Re: Using LWP for protected pages

2003-07-02 Thread Roger Burton West
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:44:27AM +0100, Michael Stevens wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:01:09AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: That'll probably only work for real authorisation, which is so desperately untrendy that most modern web sites don't use it, preferring instead to reinvent this

Re: Magazines

2003-07-02 Thread Chisel Wright
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:49:35AM +0100, Dean Wilson wrote: The TPJ however is still going, does anyone here subscribe to it and is it worth the cash? (I know its not that much.) I subscribe. I think it's $1/issue or something silly. I find it to be an interesting read, and it sometimes makes

[Fwd: DBD::Sybase - Transactions with Declare @foo and select @foo]

2003-07-02 Thread Raf
Hi, This is really troubling me. I've included a trace at the bottom of the original mail. What I'm finding is that even though I set AutoCommit to 0 prior to my do('declare @foo int'), the transaction appreas to occur after it. Can someone please help? I'd be really greatful. Cheers, Raf

Re: Magazines

2003-07-02 Thread Redvers Davies
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 09:49, Dean Wilson wrote: I've been clearing out my bookmarks and found one for the Perl Review, (http://www.theperlreview.com/), after a quick mosey around the site it looks like its stopped being published. Does any one know the story behind it? It seems a shame to lose

mod_perlness

2003-07-02 Thread Jonathan Peterson
H, Call me thick but so far as I can see the only way to access stuff in the apache config file (such as PerlSetVar statements) is via the apache request object. But you don't have a request object until a request has been made. So how do packages being used by mod_perl programs access the

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

2003-07-02 Thread Lusercop
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:05:45AM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: 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

Re: mod_perlness

2003-07-02 Thread Shevek
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Call me thick but so far as I can see the only way to access stuff in the apache config file (such as PerlSetVar statements) is via the apache Remember almost all of the config file is scoped to a Location and so won't make sense without a

Re: mod_perlness

2003-07-02 Thread Robin Berjon
Shevek wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Call me thick but so far as I can see the only way to access stuff in the apache config file (such as PerlSetVar statements) is via the apache Remember almost all of the config file is scoped to a Location and so won't make sense

Re: [OT] Yet more on UK Money...

2003-07-02 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Can you please tell me about London, where to stay, what to eat, employment, social life, where to study and related things? I would love read your considerations and comments. Semi-serious response follows: Where to stay. 1) Under no circumstances live south of the river. This part of

Re: mod_perlness

2003-07-02 Thread Shevek
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Robin Berjon wrote: Shevek wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Call me thick but so far as I can see the only way to access stuff in the apache config file (such as PerlSetVar statements) is via the apache Remember almost all of the config file is

Re: [OT] Yet more on UK Money...

2003-07-02 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:20:23PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: 1) Under no circumstances live south of the river. This part of London is reserved for social outcasts who enjoy the complete absence of public transport (as opposed to the near abscence of it north of the river). Not sure if

Re: [OT] Yet more on UK Money...

2003-07-02 Thread Dave Cross
From: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/2/03 12:20:23 PM Where to stay. 1) Under no circumstances live south of the river. This part of London is reserved for social outcasts who enjoy the complete absence of public transport (as opposed to the near abscence of it north of the

Re: mod_perlness

2003-07-02 Thread Robin Berjon
Shevek wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Robin Berjon wrote: For the parts that aren't however, I remember there being something called a server object (iirc Apache::Server). However I don't have any of my modperl books handy so I can't point to where it's defined. Well, a server has a hostname. This

Re: UK money, again (again)

2003-07-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: Of course, the US has to give their coins cutesy names, just to LOL. You'll have to try harder than that. Shilling, bob, pony, monkey, quid, godiva, ton, large one, .. The US has nothing on the UK here. Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Re: UK money, again (again)

2003-07-02 Thread Paul Mison
On 02/07/2003 at 14:48 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: Of course, the US has to give their coins cutesy names, just to LOL. You'll have to try harder than that. Shilling, bob, pony, monkey, quid, godiva, ton, large one, .. The US has

Re: UK money, again (again)

2003-07-02 Thread Iain Tatch
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, 2:48:38 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote: PM On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: Of course, the US has to give their coins cutesy names, just to PM LOL. You'll have to try harder than that. PM Shilling, bob, pony, monkey, quid, godiva, ton, large

list all installed perl modules

2003-07-02 Thread Andy Ford
What is an easy way to find all installed perl modules Is there a module to do it!! Andy

Re: [OT] Yet more on UK Money...

2003-07-02 Thread Earle Martin
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:20:23PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: [Many things.] Some of us are also trying to build a guide to London: http://openguides.org/london/ Jonathan, is there any chance I can bribe you (with a pint?) to contribute? You've already demonstrated your ability to write

Re: UK money, again (again)

2003-07-02 Thread Mike Jarvis
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:17:07PM +0100, Iain Tatch wrote: Pick up a handful of Merkin change and you get things that say Nickel, Dime, Quarter with no other clue as to their monetary value. For those of us not brought up in the USA, even if you're aware that one's 5c and the other 10c,

Re: list all installed perl modules

2003-07-02 Thread Redvers Davies
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 00:36, Andy Ford wrote: What is an easy way to find all installed perl modules Is there a module to do it!! Speak to shiny, orange acme and acquire cpanstats. http://www.astray.com/cpanstats/

Re: list all installed perl modules

2003-07-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:36:29AM +, Andy Ford wrote: What is an easy way to find all installed perl modules perldoc perllocal P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I make new friends in Portland, then it'd grow exponentially, unbounded by

Re: UK money, again (again)

2003-07-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:17:07PM +0100, Iain Tatch wrote: Pick up a handful of Merkin change and you get things that say Nickel, Dime, Quarter with no other clue as to their monetary value. For those Quarter Dollar. Pretty obvious. The dime only says dime and I can't remember nickel. of us

Re: list all installed perl modules

2003-07-02 Thread Alex Hudson
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:36:29AM +, Andy Ford wrote: What is an easy way to find all installed perl modules Is there a module to do it!! I'm posting this in the hope someone will show how wrong I am. perl -e 'foreach $a (@INC){next if ($a eq .);@m = `nice find $a -name *.pm`;

Re: [OT] Yet more on UK Money...

2003-07-02 Thread Merijn Broeren
Quoting Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 1) Under no circumstances live south of the river. This part of London is reserved for social outcasts who enjoy the complete absence of public transport (as opposed to the near abscence of it north of the river). Yes please! Stay north! Go

Re: UK money, again (again)

2003-07-02 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Iain Tatch wrote: Pick up a handful of Merkin change and you get things that say Nickel, Dime, Quarter with no other clue as to their monetary value. You don't have any US change handy, do you? :) penny ($0.01): says ONE CENT nickel ($0.05): says FIVE CENTS dime

Re: UK money, again (again)

2003-07-02 Thread Iain Tatch
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, 3:49:35 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote: PM What is your point? That the US currency is failing somehow because it PM doesn't explicitly put its cents value on its coinage? No, the point was that although there are dozens of slang words for various monetary amounts in

XML book recommendations?

2003-07-02 Thread Philip Newton
Can someone recommend a decent XML book or books? I've been asked to have a look at XML and XSLT, and the book they gave me is Wrox's _Professional XML_ (first edition, I believe). I googled for that on newsgroups and found both positive and negative comments; however, it seems that one major

Re: list all installed perl modules

2003-07-02 Thread Philip Newton
On 3 Jul 2003 at 0:36, Andy Ford wrote: What is an easy way to find all installed perl modules Is there a module to do it!! Well, there's Tom Phoenix's Inside ( http://search.cpan.org/author/PHOENIX/Inside-1.01/ ). I think it's a script rather than a module, though. Cheers, Philip --

Re: list all installed perl modules

2003-07-02 Thread Andy Ford
or the slightly modded version perl -e 'foreach $a (@INC){next if ($a eq .);if(-d $a)[EMAIL PROTECTED] = `nice find $a -name *.pm`;} map{s/^$a\/?(.*)\.pm$/$1/;s/\//::/g; push (@n,$_) if ($_!~/\.|-/);} @m; print @n;}' | grep Digest Saves on errors ;0) Andy On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 14:59,

Re: list all installed perl modules

2003-07-02 Thread James Campbell
Hi Andy What is an easy way to find all installed perl modules Try this one James #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # findModules.pl- is for finding modules on a machine - based upon work # From: Jaimee Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Date: Wed Apr 17, 2002 09:24:35 US/Pacific # To: [EMAIL

Re: list all installed perl modules

2003-07-02 Thread Belden Lyman
Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:36:29AM +, Andy Ford wrote: What is an easy way to find all installed perl modules perldoc perllocal P Some modules overwrite perllocal rather than appending. Funny that I have a short list yet haven't contacted authors... Belden

RE: XML book recommendations?

2003-07-02 Thread Clayton, Nik [IT]
Can someone recommend a decent XML book or books? I've been asked to have a look at XML and XSLT, and the book they gave me is Wrox's _Professional XML_ (first edition, I believe). For XSLT, the definitive reference is Mike Kay's: http://www.wrox.com/books/0764543814.shtml which

Re: XML book recommendations?

2003-07-02 Thread Tom Hukins
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 05:01:13PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: Can someone recommend a decent XML book or books? I've been asked to have a look at XML and XSLT, and the book they gave me is Wrox's _Professional XML_ (first edition, I believe). It depends on how you like to learn, but I

Re: list all installed perl modules

2003-07-02 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Andy Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: *What is an easy way to find all installed perl modules * *Is there a module to do it!! http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_installed_modules e.

Re: list all installed perl modules

2003-07-02 Thread Leon Brocard
Redvers Davies sent the following bits through the ether: Speak to shiny, orange acme and acquire cpanstats. http://www.astray.com/cpanstats/ Look, okay, I'm sorry. I broke cpanstats a while ago and have zero free time to fix it. I'm sorry, very sorry. Leon -- Leon

Re: XML book recommendations?

2003-07-02 Thread Alex McLintock
At 17:01 02/07/03 +0200, Philip Newton wrote: Can someone recommend a decent XML book or books? I have a bunch of XML books obtained through reviewing for http://news.DiverseBooks.com/ I'd point you at the page which lists all the XML books but since that bit is written in Java Struts... it is

RE: XML book recommendations?

2003-07-02 Thread Alex McLintock
At 16:42 02/07/03 +0100, Clayton, Nik [IT] wrote: Can someone recommend a decent XML book or books? I've been asked to have a look at XML and XSLT, and the book they gave me is Wrox's _Professional XML_ (first edition, I believe). For XSLT, the definitive reference is Mike Kay's:

Re: mod_perlness

2003-07-02 Thread Jonathan Peterson
You can have one per vhost, which can be useful, and you needn't a request, it'll all about the config, which is a property of the process... Ah, Apache-server did the trick, especially after I realised that PerlSetVar directives have to go in the config file _before_ the PerlRequire

Re: list all installed perl modules

2003-07-02 Thread Paul Sharpe
Leon Brocard wrote: Redvers Davies sent the following bits through the ether: Speak to shiny, orange acme and acquire cpanstats. http://www.astray.com/cpanstats/ Look, okay, I'm sorry. I broke cpanstats a while ago and have zero free time to fix it. I'm sorry, very sorry. Leon Say it like

[OT] Any Mini owners on this list?

2003-07-02 Thread Blackwell, Lee [IT]
And I mean BMW Mini as opposed to the classic Mini. Just curious. Lee