Re: [OT] Any Mini owners on this list?

2003-07-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Thursday, July 3, 2003 15:17 +0100 Lusercop `the.lusercop'@lusercop.net wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 06:45:59PM +0100, Blackwell, Lee [IT] wrote: And I mean BMW Mini as opposed to the classic Mini. Just curious. How is this off-topic? I don't see any mention of Perl... :-) I also see no

Re: Hundredweight was Re: UK Money, again

2003-07-04 Thread Alex McLintock
At 11:31 04/07/03 +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: Come to think of it, why aren't zetta and yotta the other way round? That way you'd at least get (e)x y z at the end, which would make some kind of sense. Cause zetta and yotta are greek letters and that is the order they come in the greek alphabet?

Re: Hundredweight was Re: UK Money, again

2003-07-04 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:56:04AM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote: Cause zetta and yotta are greek letters and that is the order they come in the greek alphabet? At least that is what my greek teacher told me. http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html He was, as you see, lying. R

Re: Hundredweight was Re: UK Money, again

2003-07-04 Thread Paul Johnson
Peter Haworth said: On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 21:28:07 -0400, muppet wrote: kbyte 1024 byte megabyte 1024 kbyte gigabyte 1024 megabyte +terabyte1024 gigabyte +petabyte1024 terabyte +exabyte 1024 petabyte

FreeTDS DBD::Sybase Netcool

2003-07-04 Thread Andy Ford
Anyone had any experience with FreeTDS DBD::Sybase Netcool? Andy

Re: FreeTDS DBD::Sybase Netcool

2003-07-04 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:45:21PM +, Andy Ford wrote: Anyone had any experience with FreeTDS DBD::Sybase Netcool? Yes, but not all in combination and more of the former two than the latter. R

Re: Hundredweight was Re: UK Money, again

2003-07-04 Thread Tom Hukins
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:31:46AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: megabyte 1024 kbyte gigabyte 1024 megabyte +terabyte 1024 gigabyte +petabyte 1024 terabyte +exabyte1024 petabyte +zettabyte 1024 exabyte +yottabyte

Re: FreeTDS DBD::Sybase Netcool

2003-07-04 Thread Toby Corkindale
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:45:21PM +, Andy Ford wrote: Anyone had any experience with FreeTDS DBD::Sybase Netcool? I use FreeTDS DBD::Sybase at work to talk to a MS SQL Server - works fine. (Although i do feel a bit dirty afterwards) Haven't used netcool though. What's up? Toby --

Text::CSV_XS

2003-07-04 Thread Chisel Wright
I've had a quick google and can't find anything mentioned out there, so I thought I'd ask the other hackers out there if they've had any problems with Text::CSV_XS. Let me explain; I've got a text file, where the fields are TAB-separated, and there isn't any quoting (or more precisely quotes

Re: Text::CSV_XS

2003-07-04 Thread Robin Berjon
Chisel Wright wrote: I've had a quick google and can't find anything mentioned out there, so I thought I'd ask the other hackers out there if they've had any problems with Text::CSV_XS. $csv = Text::CSV_XS-new({ 'binary'= 1, 'sep_char' = \t,

Re: Text::CSV_XS

2003-07-04 Thread Chisel Wright
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 06:02:23PM +0200, Robin Berjon wrote: The default escape char is , have you tried to set it to undef or the empty string? It looks as if it's escaping \t and \n setting escape_char to undef seems to do exactly what I was expecting it to do before. why didn't I try that

Re: [OT] Any Mini owners on this list?

2003-07-04 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Jasper McCrea ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Joel Bernstein wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 06:23:05PM +, Andy Ford wrote: 6'4 and 16 1/2 stone - I'd need a convertible, the wheel in the middle and sit on the rear seat!! No, you don't sound very Mini. I'm 6'3, and there's

Re: Text::CSV_XS

2003-07-04 Thread Robin Berjon
Chisel Wright wrote: On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 06:02:23PM +0200, Robin Berjon wrote: The default escape char is , have you tried to set it to undef or the empty string? It looks as if it's escaping \t and \n setting escape_char to undef seems to do exactly what I was expecting it to do before. why

Re: OSCON

2003-07-04 Thread Peter Haworth
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 17:07:40 +0100, Andy Wardley wrote: So who is going to be at OSCON? Sadly, this will be the first one I've missed, having been to every TPC since the first one. Neither IOPP nor myself can afford to send me this year. Will London.pm field a team in the quiz (I'm up for it!)

Re: Using LWP for protected pages

2003-07-04 Thread Piers Cawley
Piers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Piers (a different one!) Argh! But which of us is the anti-Piers? Will there be mutual destruction if we end up in the same place? -- Piers

Re: list all installed perl modules

2003-07-04 Thread Piers Cawley
Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 05:22:17PM +0100, 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

Re: OSCON

2003-07-04 Thread Piers Cawley
Andy Wardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So who is going to be at OSCON? Me! Will London.pm field a team in the quiz (I'm up for it!) No quiz! Will beer be drunk? Probably. -- Piers

Re: Hundredweight was Re: UK Money, again

2003-07-04 Thread Piers Cawley
Steve Mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: Text::CSV_XS

2003-07-04 Thread Chisel Wright
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 06:54:52PM +0200, Robin Berjon wrote: I thought about it because CSV is a terrible, terrible format and I got bitten by it badly much more than once. Baah. For tiny databases, DBD::SQLite is *much* better. Heck, as much as I bitch about people misusing XML for a

Re: Hundredweight was Re: UK Money, again

2003-07-04 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Tom Hukins wrote: I wonder what the value should be for a trilobyte. /me, impressed by this riff, tries to pick up from there... $ grep 'byte$' /usr/share/dict/words presbyte $ dict presbyte 1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged