Is there a main general Perl mailing list?
What's the actual question?
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:52 AM, gvim gvi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/02/2014 15:38, Chris Devers wrote:
Is there a main general Perl mailing list?
What's the actual question?
What is the main general Perl mailing list, ie. most active for general
Perl questions? lists.perl.org has over
YOU…” ?
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, \@smartie_order,
$smartie_weight ), \n;
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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote:
Er... search.cpan.org seems not to be responding?
Just you.
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/search.cpan.org
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And `defaults write /etc/bootp parameter value` is definitely the way to go if
you're updating simple key/value settings. For more complex nested data
structures, look into /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy, which is way more flexible.
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Man, if only there were a way to get radio programmes, like, directly from
the radio. Right?
I mean, those are cheap, and don't require wifi or 3G or any such
technological tomfoolery.
Oh well, sounds like a lost cause.
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anywhere.
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, as it still
supports the original Intel Core Solo/Duo Macs, which had 32-bit CPUs.
Everything after the Core 2 Duo was 64-bit, and that seems to be the
baseline spec for 10.7, so an updated kernel seems like a safe guess.
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of the world's last elephants.
Right?
I dunno. I'm just glad I've never done business with his company.
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to the thing to tell it
what I want to do. But on something that small, whether with a touchscreen
or a hardware keyboard, I'd find typing to get around to be an exercise in
frustration, and so am just as happy to tap on icons on a touchscreen
instead.
YMMV :-)
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YMMV, of course :-)
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hard to just do
upup^a^d^d^dvienter
?
There's probably a Cleverer™ way to do this, but this approach works for
me.
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Thirded - a stuffed toy as chaircamel makes weird sense.
However, it can't organise pubs or techmeets, which makes it of limited
utility.
You seriously think a human would do any better?
I nominate Dipsy.
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On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote:
During the beer track at the German Perl Workshop, I was asked
what's a good place to go to in London for an evening of stand up comedy?
and I had no clue.
Parliament?
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On Mar 27, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Denny 2...@denny.me wrote:
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 19:30 +, Christopher Jones wrote:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem?wasRedirected=true
Co-incidentally, I may have said much the same thing.
What are the chances?
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more obscure (?), no ability to make copies (well, aside
from the whole analog hole thing), and better quality as well.
Plus, more shiny.
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to get taken up on this offer.
Hmm... the tricky bit is finding a tune where 'Damian Conway' will
scan...
How about the bass line from the Doctor Who theme?
Da-da-da-dahh-dah,
Da-da-da-dahh-dah...
Seems close, no?
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courses is how he
makes his living, and he can't do that if any old shmoe can just look
up SelfGOL (etc) on YouTube.
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places out there that don't put
mystery meat in everything, but I haven't found one that I found
memorable.
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place?
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Mark Fowler m...@twoshortplanks.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Leo Lapworth l...@cuckoo.org wrote:
2009/11/13 Chris Devers cdev...@pobox.com
Not to be contrarian, but is there any particular reason why random
bits of text in the main banner need
list
* Rides on Twitter's inexplicably popular coattails
* The Web 2.0, pastels, rounded corners are thrown in for free
Any takers?
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at least part of the problem you describe:
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/a-better-way-to-manage-receipts-for-business-travel/
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On Mar 9, 2009, at 7:27 PM, Simon Wistow si...@thegestalt.org wrote:
Sorry mate, it's just the way you tell them
So then he clears his throat and tries another:
..Pi?
Long pause.
Then.
Raucous laughter!
We've never heard that one before!
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Who has assigned Part One
, and it covered
the kind of turf you're talking about.
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Nigel Rantor wig...@wiggly.org wrote:
I really think that they should both say the same thing.
Then *everyone* would be happy.
Maybe?
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker ilm...@ilmari.org
wrote:
Needs RSS feeds!
If you aren't seeing them, doesn't that ipso facto imply that it's dead?
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Hermann Ingjaldsson wrote:
In Perl.
How do i change (in code) which program the user is looking at?
Depends.
(That joke never gets old. The older it gets, the more it Depends.)
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they're at it, which
you can then pull back out replace with your bigger drive later.
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are about that easy. Apple has a list of supported phones on
their site, but for a lot of others it's a matter of tweaking a .plist
file to get it to work as well as the officially supported ones.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/isync/
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DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
/medium_os6_d3_3663.html
And Larry Wall is, of course, Weird Al Yankovich.
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np: 'Yea Yea'
by The Ramones
from 'All the Stuff and More'
though: if you can get that to
work, and it can record all the data in a useful format, then you can use
whatever tools you like to analyze the results.
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np: 'Ma Muse M´amuse'
by Rabih Abou-Khalil
from
) = ...
No, that's ugly brittle at best, and hopeless at worst. Nevermind.
I am curious about good idioms for doing an array slice like this though.
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np: 'Mast Aankon Ki Kasam'
by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
from
/spamtrap.cgi
Dammit!
I think I should go home now.
Well, don't worry...
At least the .txt URL worked ;)
*pat*
Have you considered the possibilities of Apache redirects?
Now might be a good time to give some a try... :)
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SPEARS: Honestly, I
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
imagine a world where budwieser is your only choice.
I've heard that this world is called St. Louis.
Fortunately, it's a small place, easy to escape from,
and more importantly it also gave us Miles Davis.
You lose some, you win some.
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On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, muppet wrote:
stop the wrongful slander of goto!
Man, what a muppet this guy is...
Look, goto's are just bad, mmmkay?
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channeling http://www.askoxford.com/pressroom/archive/odelaunch/
you have me wondering if that's actually true.
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ALU, n. [Arithritic Logic Unit or (rare) Arithmetic Logic Unit.]
A random-number generator supplied as standard on all computer systems.
-- from _The Computer
forward to 2020 in the calendar
and see that Christmas is still there.
Didn't you get that memo? No Christmas for you after this year!
Cthulu Matata!
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ALU, n. [Arithritic Logic Unit or (rare) Arithmetic Logic Unit
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Paul Mison wrote:
On 01/09/2003 at 14:42 -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
But at my last job, when compressing daily server logs, bzip was able to
produce compressed files half to quarter the size of what gzip could do
with the same log files. Consistently, over the course
based on which
one offers the best tradeoffs between features that you need and
drawbacks that you can put up with?
This is not a case where one tool is unambiguously better, so
asserting that one should never be used seems very odd to me.
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source code, n
...
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app, n. [Diminutive of application]
The irrelevant 10 percent of your code lurking beneath, and well-nigh
inaccessible from, the glamorous, marketable GUI layer.
-- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle
will do for most email for me anyway, but having the option
to reach vim for more subtle formatting etc is nice to have.
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integral, adj.
(Of a solution) accurate to the nearest whole number, as: The PENTIUM
has
of information, is something like this:
From: Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Attchmnt:
Subject : Re: pine editor derby, was Re: London.pm identity cards
- Message Text -
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Peter
Organizer was.
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binary, adj.
1 Offering little choice; maximizing the chance of error.
2 Relating to the 20th century's boring challenge to the Babylonians.
3 Relating to a numbering system introduced to protect children from
to the
list anyway.
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ISO, n. [Origin: possibly Greek iso equal but now presumed acronym
for International Standards Organization.]
A meta-standards organization set up in 1947 in order to establish
standards for the setting up of standard organizations. See also
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Chris Devers wrote:
A less painful approach might just be to queue multipart messages for
moderator review. As has been noted, there have only been a handful of
these in the past six months, not all of which were meant to go
.
You could sign it with no hands. Or feet. Like the way you type.
That might not go unnoticed, however.
Ho ho ho.
Indeed :)
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aibophobia, n.
The fear of palindromes.
-- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Chris Devers wrote:
http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2003/07/17manssignatureof.html
[]
He said he trained himself to write his name in this unusual way,
working right-side up, as a way to make his mark unique. He said he
has been
seems like a wonderful solution.
New heretical Perl golf meme:
1. Accept challenge to do program in one line
2. Write in a separate Python script. Take as many lines as you need.
3. ???
5. Profitably demonstrate your Perl one liner that calls it !?!?!
har har har
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thought I'd post it and see if people
would come up with something better (ignoring the easy wins like
shorter variable names).
Does this count?
% echo hello there | \
perl -e 'print `rev`'
ereht olleh
Can anyone beat 11 characters?
:)
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http
accurately, at the .bom databases inside the .pkg packages -- but
it seems like there is enough information available to, say, write a
tool that could make necessary repairs if files went missing, had their
ownership or permissions changed around, or if symlink targets moved.
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Ach. I paid for the last one and felt burnt. Next time I'll get it
somewhere ... cheaper. That should make up for the ludicrous price I
paid for their RAM.
Ouch, you bought ram from the vendor? Bummer... :)
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http://devers.homeip.net:8080/resume
/showlist.cgi?name=macosx.
HTH :)
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version, latest, n.
That VERSION which most exceeds the DEADLINE for completion.
-- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995
describe users_names;
That might clarify what's what.
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network, n. v. trans. [from net reduced slightly from gross+work]
1 n. The antisynergetic interconnection of noncompatible nodal systems
divided by a common protocol.
2 v. trans
for this; at least, there used to be an option...) and then using
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel to extract the data fro the resulting .xls file.
Of course, running Access itself might be a pain under Wine... :-/
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LP, n. [Gramophonic
.
Right, Nigel? :)
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terminology, n.
Both the nomenclatura and its catastrophic side-effects.
See also ONOMANCY; WINDOWS.
-- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995
/data
manipulation. Unless the other functionality is specifically about
cartography, a more usage-neutral namespace might be better. IMO.
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-authoritative answer:
Name:warez.sevenroot.org
Address: 127.0.0.1
I blame Darren.
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was thinking it was a heads I win, tails you lose deal :)
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be patient then?
From the looks of --
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=70412cid=6398447
-- Chromatic seems to not have had the time to do it yet.
Hrm...
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best-last search, n.
Known in Ireland as the Polish search; and in Poland as the Irish
?
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Turing machine, n. [After Alan M. Turing (1912-1954), British
mathematician and computer pioneer.]
The earliest but still the fastest and most reliable computing system
ever conceived. Dis maschine vill run und run
, but I
have played around with it and it worked tolerably well.
Granted, the fact that IIS supports Telnet may be misconstrued as a bug,
not a feature...
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, but I
have played around with it and it worked tolerably well.
Granted, the fact that IIS supports Telnet may be misconstrued as a bug,
not a feature...
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of the redesign meant putting
the words quarter dollar on the front, by Washington's head, instead
of the other side where it had been for decades. Apparently this was a big
deal to the treasury numismaniacs...
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nanotechnology, n.
A quark
, of course, we're assuming the feathers are in an uncompressed
state
But you're forgetting the Manchurian Gambit of 1978, in which it was
clearly demonstrated that this very gravitational maneuveur could be used
to traverse the vacuum and end up at King's Cross station.
Tut tut.
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by the hundredweight not being a hundred anything.
Surely 100 hundreths of a hundredweight should be about right, no?
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Shevek wrote:
A jiffy is 1/HZ of a second, where HZ depends on your architecture. On
most x86s, it's 1/100.
Unless you're using a Pentium, in which case it's 1/101...
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, but this seems inelegant.
My understanding is that it is permitted only if reached by flying car,
and seeing as *those* are in such short supply...
If anyone asks how you got there, LIE.
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, to then be able to
allow any vendor to claim 'compliance' with the standard you then have
to redefine compliance to mean implements one of a number of different
possible semantics for quite core elements.
So these are the same people that drafted USB 2.0 then?
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. :-)
For once, I'm glad I'm an American... :-)
In this day age?
Viva la France!
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LINO [Acronym for Last In Never Out.]
A stack uncertain whether Pascal or C argument conventions prevail.
-- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995
ooh I hack Perl like Buddy Hobbit...
Oh oh and you're Galadriel
I don't care what they say about this stupid ring
I don't care 'bout that
*ahem*
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NAN [Not A Number]
A set of bits known as a number to Rene Magritte but rejected by the
IEEE FLOATING-POINT
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, David H. Adler wrote:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:48:16PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
In this day age?
I see everyone missed the For once part...
Viva la France!
That's Vive. HTH, HAND. :-)
I see you missed that creative spelling was the order of the day
rpm.rpm. You'll soon find out how
deep the python hole really goes.
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drag queen, n.
A move in GUI chess.
-- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995
.
Or something like that. :)
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Q: What is the difference between a duck?
A: One leg is both the same.
.
___
Boston-pm mailing list
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portable, adj.
(Of a program) able to CRASH any OS on any PLATFORM. Compare MACHINE-
INDEPENDENT
. Not that that
was one of your selection criteria or anything :)
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verification, n.
An optional method of compounding the errors of data entry: e.g., the
situation where Jo(e) decides that the 8 that Fred(a) thought was a
3 is really a 5.
-- from _The Computer
, and liberators will wash this scourge from
the earth. In the meantime, the rest of us have to put up with vacation
messages. *sigh*
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LINO [Acronym for Last In Never Out.]
A stack uncertain whether Pascal or C argument conventions prevail.
-- from _The
:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/easycalc/
Except that, hilariously, my version has somehow gotten stuck in Espanol,
with no obvious way to change it back to English. Uhh...
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payroll, n. [from pay emolument + roll to stagger, to perform a
periodic revolution
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Paul == Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul ... is where you keep warez, pr0n and rootkits.
No, I use . for that. Or maybe .\n :)
You keep rootkits, Randal?
I thought you weren't supposed to be doing that
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, etc.
Do you have a URL?
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if you eat up all your
memory crash, that will take care of itself).
Hence, something like:
while (1) {
# code here
sleep;
}
Or more idiomatic equivalent.
Unless you want it to run as fast as computationally possible, in which
case by all means skip the pause.
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for the less pedantic :) is to be careful
that infinite loops like this aren't so tight fast that they end up
consuming all your system resources, unless you're trying to smoketest
your computer for some reason.
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that one ever coming up before...
depends, usually, indifferent to tv shows, yes, 4/5's of a gem
That I'm on a different continent, but nobody's perfect...
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quack quack quack
some more :)
Do you like ponys?
Do you prefer Willow?
I suppose, but Howard the Duck was in hindsight more memorable...
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the headlines themselves.
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, but having that 'was
re:...' text in there puts it back in context without necessarily having
to go back out to the message list to see how things were threaded.
I suppose it can be redundant, but good redundancy can be good UI, no?
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cursor address, n.
Hello, cursor
,
USER_AGENT_MUTT,X_AUTH_WARNING
version=2.44
X-Spam-Level:
Subject: books 7015b70ef5c6b8d88f27ffd6d063425e
You don't heven have a positive value there :)
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there, but this is one of the more
concrete examples I'm aware of.
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guru, n. [Origin: Hinduism, spiritual guide.]
(UNIX) The local Shiva who, being one Vedic man page ahead of the site,
can create and destroy as the whim dictates. See also METHODOLOGY;
SYSADMIN
version that doesn't
use deprecated constructs? How is the second edition, anyway?
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LP, n. [Gramophonic abbrev: Long Playing -- sometimes confused,
understandably, with the abbreviation for LINEAR PROGRAMMING.]
The recording of Paul Erdos's recititation
near NC?
Um... most of them. Where's NC?
Southern end of the chain, about halfway down the east coast, between
Georgia, Virginia et al. The NC section of the Appalachains is really
nice (but then, I grew up there, so I would say that :).
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integral, adj
others on that page. More still on other pages.
It's a little like The Onion -- very funny at first, but repetitive and
slightly boring after a few minutes. As opposed to, say, The Big
Lebowski, which never gets old :)
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pun moratorium, n.
The doomed campaign
at work. I'm just the
ad monkey...
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Internet, n.
The anarchic mother of all networked networks, dedicated to the memory
and upholding the aims of the Catalan and Basque insurgents in the
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
Mother is to be taken here in the Black
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, David H. Adler wrote:
Try dha. :-)
heh heh...
Chris Devers turns up almost nothing, though the first one is good :)
chris devers is sinner against the laws of usenix
chris devers is in
chris devers is probably on we
Devers turns up more, but they seem
this should be not-too-hard, but I haven't yet figured it out.
Correct answers sent to 98.5 fm in Boston by Monday will possibly get you
free movie tickets or Britney Spears tickets or some such nonsense, but I
think the puzzle is more interesting than the prize, personally :)
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/objectcpr/
802.11 Security
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/80211security/
Managing RAID on Linux
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mraidlinux/
Any of the above still available (sorted by preference)?
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, but opinions here are a dime a dozen...
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to be the grand enforcer of list etiquette?
A: I'm quite sure no one did.
Please keep this stuff offlist, LC.
The cure is far worse than the ailment.
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for L.pm, it
would be interesting to see how well these engines do when running Perl
against them. But of course, because the big vendors seem to have terminal
benchmark-a-phobia, this never seems to be available...
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