Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises

2003-08-28 Thread Adam C Auden
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Steve Mynott wrote: > Most UK passports are still sufficient being machine-readable (mine is > and its three years old) and the biometric requirement is currently only > for new passports issued after 2004. Indeed, the machine readable passports have been around for at least

Re: @INC

2003-08-21 Thread Adam C Auden
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Steve Keay wrote: > I've heard lots of people say "leave the system perl in place" and > that makes good sense to me, but, Indeed. Removing the system Perl is Bad and Wrong, m'kay. However, all the Perl scripts shipped with Solaris use /usr/perl5/bin/perl so you can replace

Re: General UNIX type question hmmmmm!!

2003-08-01 Thread Adam C Auden
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Andy Ford wrote: > It shows how many waiting processes I have (77). Nope, w is the number of swapped out processes - which isn't really waiting. From the vmstat man page: The fields of vmstat's display are procs Report the number of processes in each of t

Re: [gear] Spare 1U?

2003-07-10 Thread Adam C Auden
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Shevek wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Andrew Beattie wrote: > > > > You also need a motherboard that supports memory being installed at an > > angle that has been designed to provide for decent airflow through the > > case. > > I deny this, since I have owned several 1Us where

Re: [PUB] Green Man, Marylebone, big function room

2003-04-04 Thread Adam C Auden
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Lusercop wrote: > One time we had an ASRLon there, they ran out of beer. :-( Ah, but were they given fair warning of the thirst of bofhs? If so, then very well done to the attendees in question. :) A. -- aca114

RE: RegEx for UK Postal Codes

2003-04-01 Thread Adam C Auden
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Andy Kelk wrote: > ISTR (although I can't find where now) that 0 is not valid for the > numeric parts. I am not 100% sure on that... > If so, you can't have E0 7PT but you can have E20 7PT. > Similarly, E4 7PT is valid but E4 0PT is not. I can confirm that 0 is valid for the s

Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-13 Thread Adam C Auden
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Peter Sergeant wrote: > This seems to be a recurring theme - regular expressions are hard. This > is not my experience. After QBasic, Perl was the first language I > learned, and regular expressions were a topic I found very easy (and > there were plenty of topics I found hard

Re: Recruitment Consultant Database (was: Re: Perl jobs in London?)

2003-02-28 Thread Adam C Auden
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Is it possible to list agencies as "we can't say because they are threatening > to sue for libel" without getting sued, so that one can make a judgement > based on that? Or was the problem that you were deemed as publishing the > individual libellous co