On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 14:20 +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Does anyone know if powerline adaptors (things that turn your socket ring
into something like a LAN) just work or require multiple faffing
sessions?
Just work. I've used the 85Mbps and 200MBps products from Devolo[0] in a
number of
Dave Cross wrote:
What would be really good would be if we could autodetect which
modules they had installed during installation and choose the
local default from those - but I may leve that for a later release.
Have a look at XML::SAX. It maintains a list of SAX parsers installed on
the
Robin Berjon wrote:
Also, at some point there should be a
new version of XML::LibRSVG but I haven't heard about it in a while.
... That would be because I have not been in communication about it. My bad.
I have nearly completed the next release of XML::LibRSVG which will
allow you to
On Sunday 06 July 2003 4:06 pm, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
The user could select back end like so:
my $acme = Acme-new('DBI', {'dbname' = 'foo'..});
And Acme would dynamically subclass as required.
From this I take it that you're wanting to play with @Acme::ISA at run time?
That would be bad
On Thursday 26 June 2003 9:13 am, Cal Henderson wrote:
hi,
could someone/anyone test a module for me? it builds fine on all my
machines but keeps failing for cpan testers. it's non-xs and very
small:
Inline::Interp 0.03
I haven't tried it, but in t/01basic.t don't you mean $@ not $! ?
On Thursday 26 June 2003 10:12 am, Cal Henderson wrote:
At 09:33 GMT 26.06.03, Ian Brayshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I haven't tried it, but in t/01basic.t don't you mean $@ not $! ?
argh. thankyou
Not a problem. You might also want to have a look at Test::More and
Test::Exception
On Monday 23 June 2003 9:16 pm, Raf wrote:
If anyone's awake, I need to find some package which will validate an xml
document according to some provided xml schema.
In a nutshell, you have to leave Perl and enter the world of Java. You oculd
have a look at XML::Schematron, but that might not
On Friday 20 June 2003 9:50 am, Andy Williams \(IMAP HILLWAY\) wrote:
Hi,
I need to get a adsl[1] router with a 4 port 10/100 switch.
I only have about £100 to spend and have been looking at the D-LINK 504.
I currently have the ISDN version of this (DL 304) and am very happy with
it.
Any
On Friday 20 June 2003 12:28 pm, Blackwell, Lee [IT] wrote:
I have the Netgear DG814 which I'm very happy with. Dabs is
selling them for £99 (inc VAT).
My (new) DG814 won't keep a session up, or re-establish a session
automatically. Still chasing NetGear support. Back on my old SpeedTouch
From within an XS routine, how do I access the name a subroutine was called
by? In Perl-space I'd simply use caller(), and in XS I presume I have to
play with the call stack itself. OK, that's fine, except, how do I
determine where in the call stack I am? From digging in the sources
(pp_ctl.c
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Golfish, obvious or downright cunning answers all welcome:
I'd like to pipe text in (either with just linebreaks, or dos-style
carriage return + linebreak's) and get out word-wrapped lines of not
more than 80 characters prefixed with .
Can anyone recommend an online DVD rental site in the UK?
--
s@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@##@@#y^#@712($;='z')s(..)0$1gs$0s(.)([^01])
$1x$2xge($.='a')s$d4823604df80d7e51d7018b9(@_=$...$;)undef$.;do
{s(.)(.*)(.)$..=$1.$3,$2e}while(length);s$.;$*=0;undef$.;$..=($_?$_[(
$*+=$_)[EMAIL
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 17:12, Jon Reades wrote:
A much easier way to do this would be to have the bash script get the
local IP address by requesting it directly from the client machine.
Unfortunately, ifconfig is a little hard to parse if you're not human
and using bash, and I can't find any
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:43, Shevek wrote:
My opinion on programming (this week) is that the modern generation of
programmer has never used any system where commands are executed as you
type them, and thus they have no concept of a sequence of instructions,
and therefore they cannot
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:14, shn wrote:
Hey,
I was just bored and was wondering what would be a better way to
titlecase
something, using this right now:
perl -e $_='boink boink';@a=split' ';foreach(@a){$_=ucfirst;}$_=join'
',@a;print
shn
PS. dont mind the boink's, it just sounds
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 09:03, Peter Sergeant wrote:
Would we run foul of the data-protection act or some-such if we were to
create a database of recruitment consultants, along with thoughts and
experiences of them by people who've used them?
It has been attempted before (davorg, were you apart
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 22:18, Bill Corr wrote:
snipI might need a London job.../snip
Well, as everyone else has said, the market ain't what it used to be.
I'm currently looking for work myself at the moment and have found it
to be quite tough. I have my CV with about 50 agencies, and feel as
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 10:14, Simon Wistow wrote:
I think that's your problem right there. 50 agencies is too many I think
it's been discussed before that it's better just to find one or two good
agents and stick with them.
Agreed. But when you need a job you apply for all the jobs you can
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 14:06, Peter Hickman wrote:
Ian Brayshaw wrote:
Agreed. But when you need a job you apply for all the jobs you can find.
Those 50 agencies represent over 50 jobs that I feel I have the skills
for and would like to do. It's more a measure of how flooded the market
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 03:13, Earle Martin wrote:
...for a brain furnace that isn't working.
This whole self-teaching thing really isn't working out. Where can I hire
someone patient for one-on-one Perl lessons, and how much will it cost me?
Are you looking for a formal Look! I got a
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 11:25, Simon Wistow wrote:
snipStuff about repaeting dates/snip
Careful when trying to output SQL to make sure it isn't a proprietry SQL
that works only for some DB (if you can).
Great idea for a module. I would recommend having the option to used
named parameters for the
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 12:49, Simon Wistow wrote:
I've actually found Schedule::Match
http://search.cpan.org/author/TAIY/Schedule-Match-0.07/Match.pm
Which looks like it could take care of a lot of the repeating event
stuff.
Cool.
I think the biggest problem with this is definitely the
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 14:33, Dave Cross wrote:
I'm bored. It's Friday afternoon. So here's another film quiz
for you all.
Dave...
Twice in the history of the Oscars two different actresses have
been nominated for playing the same character in the same film.
In both cases, one actress has
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 11:12, Neil Fryer wrote:
Can anyone recommend a decent IDE for Windows?
Oh yeah, and free. :-)
If it wasn't for the free restriction, I'd suggest Komodo from
ActiveState (http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo). Never used it,
but have heard good things about it.
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 12:08, Joel Bernstein wrote:
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:58:31AM +, Tim Sweetman wrote:
FWIW, a project I've worked on recently, where I've indulg^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
been forced into serious database renormalisation, has resulted in
queries that used to take ~20sec
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 12:51, Joel Bernstein wrote:
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 12:39:07PM +, Ian Brayshaw wrote:
That's a pretty horrific scenario, and certainly one I wouldn't want to
encourage. Anyway, who's really at fault here? The original coder or the
client? Sure, the code monkey
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 23:36, Paul Makepeace wrote:
I'm trying to decide on the best way of checking small fragments of HTML
for well-formedness, i.e. catching overlapping tags, missing end tags,
etc. Nothing fancy, just an aid when inputting HTML in a form.
E.g., something that could be fed
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 15:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey guys, I hope you enjoyed the talk (hah!) at the tech meet yesterday,
just in case you want to look at these from the comfort of your own
keyboard/reverse engineer them/whatever, some of my sigs can be found
here:
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 15:58, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Without going into lots of detail about what this is, since I'm trying
to be generic, has anyone here been involved with mod_perl sites that
do a substantial amount of full HTML page (i.e. non-banner-ad)
traffic? There'll be some SQL and
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 18:39, Chris Ball wrote:
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:07:36, Simon Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I have a path, say dira/dirb/../dirc/file and I want to
collapse it to a canonical path dira/dirc/file.
File::Spec does it. The canonpath() method. I saw it
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 20:02, Simon Wilcox wrote:
On 12 Dec 2002, Ian Brayshaw wrote:
One thing you should be aware of is that File::Spec won't always
collapse to the neatest form. From memory (it's been a while since I
used it) it doesn't remove extraneous ./ from the path (which may
David Cantrell wrote:
The following are avaialbe now or over the next month or so if anyone who's
not on the naughty list fancies taking a stab at reviewing them. All from
O'Reilly, and I've cut out a few I didn't think were particularly relevant:
snip
802.11 Security
Dave Cross wrote:
I _thought_ I understood XML and DTDs, but I'm obviously missing
something.
snip type=problem with DTD/
It works with xmllint if you use the --loaddtd option. Still not sure
why the browser is being a pig, though.
Ian
--
Nicholas Clark wrote:
I'd like to review Extending and Embedding Perl by Tim Jenness and
Simon Cozens
Bumf at http://www.manning.com/jenness/
(and I hope I'm the first person to ask to review it)
Go for it. I've nearly finished reading it and will post a review in the
next week. The
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to get my HGV licence. Anyone recommend a driving school in saaf
Landan?
Didn't know you needed a licence to drive a HGV in saaf Landan... A licence
certainly seems to be a bonus rather than a requirement for most of the HGV
drivers I meet when
Newton, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, what distro do people prefer and why? What's better in Debian than in
Distro X? What's bad about distro X?
Currently, I'm running DeadRat (have been for about 5 years now). Why?
Because I was young and foolish and that's what was on the CDs I found.
Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah finally, a company that apparently realises that when you ship a
piece of reasonably generalised computing hardware (cash register,
wristwatch, etc) someone, somewhere *will* get linux running on it.
Rather than fight it, they commercialise it:
Rob Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK... does anyone know of any good reason why I shouldn't do this to
determine which packages/objects I use at runtime?
Because you'll go blind...
#!/usr/local/perl5/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $objtype = object1;
eval require report::$objtype;;
From Aaron Trevena [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As part of my Day Job I am helping a very MS-dependant (and some would
even say biased) company open up their development and move from VB to
java and perl (possibly via .NET/Mono) - anybody have any advice on making
the journey more pleasent (both for me
[ should probably not be OT for london.pm, but ... ]
I have just had a call from a guy representing the company Free Phone
Upgrade, who are in the business of arranging upgrades for your mobile
phone (presumably, for free). He asked a few basic questions, such as was
I over 18 and did I have
Lucy McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
How painful is it to make a machine Win/Linux dual boot (apart from
finding another license)? It would make my research s much easier.
Anyone got any convincing arguments for my superiors?
Not too much of a problem, especially if the Win side of
Neil Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] broke the silence with
Just seeing if the list is down or if it's just been increadibly quiet.
Yippee!!! An e-mail!!! Thanks Neil!
I've been coding through the night without so much as an electron in my
Inbox. Phew! The drought is broken. I can sleep in peace ;)
In the lastest installment of IT fuckwittage, I now bring you ...
news type=fuckwittage
'Self destructing' emails developed
A US firm has developed software which enables e-mails to
self-destruct after a certain period of time, leaving no trace in
inboxes or servers.
Omniva Policy Systems's
Robert Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mubbled through the ether:
From: David Cantrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
The quick alternative to this is to build javascript data
structures with your application use JS in combination with DHTML to
generate the pages clientside. (disclaimer: i
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