Re: Toshiba Laptop Repair in London

2011-09-28 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
On 28/09/2011 21:06, Tom Hukins wrote: Hi, Mongers. A friend has a year old Toshiba laptop with a broken DC input jack. Toshiba have decided this consists of reasonable wear and tear and so want to charge £80 just to look at it. They refuse to estimate or guess how much a repair might cost.

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-08-15 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
On 14/08/2011 17:32, Andrew Smith B.Sc(Hons),MBA wrote: I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. Machine generated from his email contacts either on desktop or silently via grabbing his phones contacts database. Usefull but privacy-lethal is how I describe LI.

Re: website maintenance gig available

2011-08-03 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
On 03/08/2011 11:33, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote: On 2011-08-01 19:11, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: please let me know off list Did you also mean that all who don't will not be considered? Dont reply or reply on-list and risk the notorious l-pm satire? I assumed it was a test - with on-list===fail

Re: CFT?

2011-07-30 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
On 29/07/2011 23:37, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: If anyone else is interested in doing interesting things (to me at least!) with images on the internet, put up your hand. There are learning experiences for all :) What sort of images what sort of manip? I am doing $work with GPU's at the mo and

Re: Part-time Perl Developer Position based Reading, UK

2011-05-23 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
On 23/05/2011 10:03, Denny wrote: On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 08:46 +0100, Arife Vural wrote: http://www.cwjobs.co.uk/JobSearch/JobDetails.aspx?JobId=50455325Keywords=websense For a part-time job, I would expect the advert to say how many hours/days per week are involved. When hours/days are not

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-04-20 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
On 20/04/2011 13:29, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:22, Bill Crawfordbillcrawford1...@gmail.com wrote: If (as recently happened) you discover a dependency chain that leads to CPAN complaining that you need a newer perl because it's a core module ... it gets extra annoying.

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
On 11/03/2011 11:09, Michael Lush wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Nicholas Clark wrote: A B: You want it live? No worries, you don't need to attend. At which point, what's the incentive for attending? Speaking personally the incentive to attend any meeting is facetime with people I know and

Re: IT Crowd Reynholm Industries website referencing Perl

2011-01-10 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
On 10/01/2011 11:54, Kaoru wrote: Hey, Reynolm Industries has announced they are hiring! http://www.reynholm.co.uk/employment.php The website is pretty funny if you know the show well and catch all the in-jokes. If you get deep enough you might find this...

Re: Leadership Election

2010-10-13 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
James Laver wrote: If elected, she will stand down immediately and nominate as her replacement our former glorious leader, Leon Brocard. Ah our glorious (orange) leader. A political camel with common sense :-)

Re: Leadership Election

2010-10-13 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Dave Cross wrote: Any questions? To the list in general, Can I sell my vote for charity? Yes, I *am* serious. Note that I do not want to cause a flame war so 1) dont stand up for me if someone disagrees with the idea because I agree that it is a stupid idea but if it helps balou get his

Re: Manifesto for London.pm election

2010-10-04 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
James Laver wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 04:27:56PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: I was going to say 'may the best person win' - but that's not really appropriate :) Leo He's had it pretty much foisted upon him and he's not complaining. I know where my vote is going. yes but no one has

Re: London.pm leader election

2010-09-24 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Denny wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 21:17 +1000, Kieren Diment wrote: Can we vote for the stuffed Camel? You have to nominate it first. I second. Thirded - a stuffed toy as chaircamel makes weird sense.

Re: Advice on HTML editting

2010-04-29 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Roger Burton West wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:14:40AM +0100, Victoria Conlan wrote: My first thought was a simple RE, then I decided that was silly and started looking at modules. HTML::Parser and HTML::TreeBuilder are what I've looked at so far. What I tend to do in this sort of

Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?

2010-04-16 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Smylers wrote: Seems a little harsh to reject people for that. Some people forget an interview goes two ways - they measure you and vice versa. I remember having an interview in the south of france for a MPP provider and after a lot of trick questions and technical/business glitz I asked...

Re: Perl and OWASP

2010-03-28 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
James Laver wrote: What is actually required is to systematically audit each library for potential pitfalls and see what the system as a larger entity potentially opens up in them. And all that could take some time. Code reviews are seriously hard work but well worth it. We used to run code

Re: [Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position]

2010-02-12 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Peter Edwards wrote: I do hope anyone considering the online gambling gig has read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carruthers#Arrest_during_US_transit_flight That was one reason I originally asked - I was wondering if they lost the last body to a US stopover? Jacqui

[Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position]

2010-02-11 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
The market must be picking up - I am getting head hunted again :-) Ok, I *know* its a trawl and a not very targetted one but the fact that the RA's are bothering to do trawls must mean things are picking up again. I dont really fancy moving abroad - quite happy where I am - but I am curious

Re: On-topic: HTML/JS help please

2010-02-05 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
David Cantrell wrote: I want to add a Thingy to CPANdeps to let users collapse/expand portions of the dependency tree. How would one go about this? Naively wrapping trs in divs and toggling their style.display doesn't work, presumably because div isn't kosher in a table. Jquery tree thingy

Re: Brazilian PM looking for a job in London area

2010-01-11 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Paul Makepeace wrote: I'd be curious to hear of any language where grammar/idiom errors suddenly render it incomprehensible. reverse polish?

Re: Tree Algorithm

2009-12-31 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
ian wrote: I remember it being easy to use this in a database since it makes it possible to get (for example) all descendents or all children in a single query, something not always possible with other algorithms. I Does this help?

Re: Production databases on SSDs?

2009-11-10 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Ovid wrote: I only meant minimal cost in relation to setting up a bunch of master/slave mysql servers, configuring them, getting replication going, etc. OpenMosix or one of its successors?

Re: Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II

2009-10-21 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
James Laver wrote: On 21 Oct 2009, at 01:24, Paul Makepeace wrote: PS for the real layout nerds, http://colemak.com/ is a better choice than Dvorak if you're going to start from scratch http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/ is worth a mention too. I got myself up to about one-quarter-speed on

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-21 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Chris Jack wrote: I had been seeing an osteopath who pointed out My interest in this thread is two fold. 1) I write or edit a lot of code. Why should I spend my days typing many repetitive words over and over. Does anyone here remember spectrums or ZX81's? :-) 2) My sister has a

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-21 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Smylers wrote: You shouldn't; you should use an editor which has completion on words which are used in your project. I use a few with completions - with no one being best for the various languages I use. Which brings up what perl editors do people use and why? FYI: Currently writing a js