Re: Esperanta tradukado (was Re: Arrgh!)

2003-09-20 Thread Lusercop
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 08:48:59AM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: Je 2003-09-19 09:16:34 +0100, Elizabeth Mattijsen skribis: At 08:47 +0100 9/19/03, Paul Makepeace wrote: Aye me hearties, rum and back slappin' to arrr fine swashbucklin' monger Earle, t'day is be'in' celebrated accordin'ly,

Re: Arrgh!

2003-09-19 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 10:10:57AM +0100, alex wrote: At 08:47 +0100 9/19/03, Paul Makepeace wrote: Aye me hearties, rum and back slappin' to arrr fine swashbucklin' monger Earle, t'day is be'in' celebrated accordin'ly, Liz wrote: I wonder when it will be Talk Esperanto day... ;-) Or frist

Re: Exim and HELO

2003-09-11 Thread Lusercop
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:00:49PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:44:09PM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote: eg 195.92.249.255 (zeniiib.linux.theplanet.co.uk) Ok, how many people are sitting on a subnet with a /22 prefix or shorter (the smallest that that can be in order not

Re: Exim and HELO

2003-09-08 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:18:58AM +0100, Peter Sergeant wrote: How would one do the ditching at SMTP time? It would appear that any email from this company starts its transaction with my mail-server with 'HELO compuserve.com'. I've seen an exim4 config-file snippet to block at this point[1]

Re: Pub feedback please

2003-09-07 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:33:36PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: Hello. Could people who were at the social meet at the Green Man last night let me know what they thought of it? On or off list as you feel appropriate. In particular I would like to know whether you would complain if we went

Re: Ob-buffy

2003-09-05 Thread Lusercop
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:37:45PM +0100, Nigel Rantor wrote: You may all get your rocks ready for this one, I expect a stoning from the zealots. (and Lusercop because he can't resist a good stoning) :-) I don't tend to reply to buffy threads, not particularly agreeing with the apparent

Re: Bad C Source (Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial)

2003-09-04 Thread Lusercop
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:48:19AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: I have to admit, I like gotos in C. This is not a winning testimonial though. I've been told that my C is like Object Orientated assembler which is fair enough because I learnt C after I'd learnt 68k. Hmmm, I like gotos too, but

Re: Bad C Source (Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial)

2003-09-04 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:40:08PM +0100, Ben wrote: return foo; FAIL3: free(foo-quirka-fleeg); return NULL; FAIL2: free(foo-quirka); return NULL; FAIL1: free(foo); return NULL; } With nested structures like these, this structured approach just

Re: Stupid fucking antivirus software

2003-08-31 Thread Lusercop
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:54:56PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: *is* the sender, I don't have a problem with that. In fact, it might even be useful. But don't bloody well spam me when you know that I didn't send it. I'm not convinced that this statement is true for most corporate

Re: XML XML::LibXML declarations issue

2003-08-28 Thread Lusercop
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:03:24PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: let alone be in London. Although for the sake of public sanity it helps not to feed the trolls. There're trolls? :-) Apologies for my earlier post, I seem to be in a particularly venomous mood. It wasn't actually intended to be an

Re: golf and reversed emails

2003-08-28 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:43:01PM +1000, Andrew Savige wrote: This was a Dorothy Dixer(1), the hoped for(2) response being: perl -pe'$\=$_.$\}{' f.tmp (3) A certain Yorkshire gentleman(4), to his great credit, while certainly knowing of this solution, did not give the game away. I

Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises

2003-08-28 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:50:32AM +0100, Jo Walsh wrote: there are reams of good technical reasons - identity, security, single point of failure, obsolescence, etc - why this shouldn't be implemented - let alone social / ideological reasons. it would be good to have a Zool, you've missed the

Re: request for supercited mails

2003-08-27 Thread Lusercop
supershite, it'd be OK, but as it is, most don't, so it's horrifically ugly. What it should end up looking like, though is something like: | From: The Lusercop `the.lusercop'@lusercop.net | | Randal: the nutter who uses supershite [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. | lusercop: the nutter who doesn't

Re: High speed beer

2003-08-18 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:07:14AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: And before one of you beardy weirdy, raving CAMRA 'old guzzlers drollop beer is especially fine due to the authentic gerbil droppings' lunatics chirp in, you can get good lager, you just have to go to Germany to get it. ;-) or

Re: OT: Can't declare subtraction

2003-08-15 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:11:21PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:21:34 -0400, Mike Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They swear they're upgrading RSN, when BSD (Free? Open? Whichever.) does. They only run stable from their distro, and it's hard to fault an ISP for

Re: Siesta party

2003-08-14 Thread Lusercop
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Re: Messing with spammers

2003-08-14 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:27:53PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: IIRC there's at least one domain where warez and porn were A records for 127.0.0.1, but I forget which (or it has dropped those records) Don't know about porn, but... http://www.bofh.net/~koos/warez.html -- Lusercop.net -

Re: what are you doing

2003-08-14 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:41:49PM +0100, Michael Stevens wrote: Was talking to Paul Makepeace about his recent studies in the world of personal fitness, and started wondering. What are people doing outside Perl/IT these days? Have you got a job outside IT because there's no IT work? Or are

Re: Messing with spammers

2003-08-14 Thread Lusercop
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 09:42:31PM +0100, Peter Sergeant wrote: My personal feeling is that whatever comes and replaces SMTP has to insist that certain information be guaranteed - for example, if smtp.foo.com wants to send an email which has From: [EMAIL PROTECTED], then

Re: Oops - I meant OT Virtual Reality?

2003-08-14 Thread Lusercop
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:38:09AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote: I think that you're confusing us with ny.pm. We do actually like to think that Perl discussion is encouraged here. I feel that like to think is the important phrase in that sentence. -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since

Re: Messing with spammers

2003-08-09 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:49:06AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: Peter Sergeant sent the following bits through the ether: http://grou.ch/bounce.txt I had been thinking of using Mail::DeliveryStatus::BounceParser. Wonderful that CPAN thing, eh? I'm just wondering what happened to good old empty

Re: Verbose output idiom

2003-07-24 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:58:40AM +0100, Clayton, Nik [IT] wrote: which solves the problem quite simply for moderately sized scripts. I love it! Hmm. I wonder if I can scope @warnbuffer so that only the __WARN__ and __DIE__ subs see it... Not quite what you want, but how about: [...] |

Re: Verbose output idiom

2003-07-24 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:07:07AM +0100, Lusercop wrote: Not sure if a Damian way of solving the problem might work, turning the signals into closures: ^^^ This should of course have read signal handlers. *LART* -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: Messing with mail-owned files from Apache

2003-07-17 Thread Lusercop
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:35:52PM +0100, Andy Wardley wrote: Nick Cleaton wrote: That passes the environment unaltered to SCRIPT. In combination with the fact that you're setting the real uid/gid as well as effective, that could lead to arbitrary command execution via PATH or LD_PRELOAD

Re: Inline::Fortran

2003-07-17 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:50:49AM +0100, David Hodgkinson wrote: Why isn't there one? You can write Fortran in any language. (Just see the Numerical Recipes books' code examples if you don't believe me). -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: Messing with mail-owned files from Apache

2003-07-17 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:47:39AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: If the executable is +s, LD_PRELOAD et al will be ignored. Indeed, but will it be stripped or passed to the thing that is exec-ed (that thing is unlikely to be +s)? -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: Messing with mail-owned files from Apache

2003-07-16 Thread Lusercop
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:31:36PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: I'd like to do things like create, read, and delete files in /var/mail owned by mail:mail. It'll (ideally) be called from within a perl module running under mod_perl. Is there a best practice when performing operations as a

Re: Orange

2003-07-12 Thread Lusercop
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:32:10AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: [1] http://games.slashdot.org/ - remember your peril sensitive sunglasses Can I just have bad-web-design-sensitive sunglasses. :-/ Oh, and I think that orange sucks on search.cpan.org too. -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere

Re: [gear] Spare 1U?

2003-07-09 Thread Lusercop
. It was the most expensive part of the build. Picked up a cheap mother board at the tcr computer fair and I didn't have to pick out a special board configuration beyond: [...] That's it, pretty much. I don't have a spare case though. LuserCop might be able to give you the name of the place he got his from

Re: [JOB] Egham, Perl and SQL/DBI

2003-07-07 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:49:41AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: People here may be interested in this: Wanted programmer with strong Perl and SQL/DBI skills to work predominantly on a telecoms billing platform, but a variety of other projects are on the go. any VB and PhP skills would be

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

2003-07-03 Thread Lusercop
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... :-) -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: [Cool] [Nice] Dave's Recursive Footnotes

2003-07-02 Thread Lusercop
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:05:45AM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:33:39AM -0300, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: Dave Cross wrote: [1] Which I heartily recommend if you haven't already read it[2]. [2] In fact, read all[3] of McEwan's books whilst you're at it. The

Re: [OT] Places to go, people to see...

2003-06-25 Thread Lusercop
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:06:37AM +0100, Raf wrote: iii) After I graduated, I went camping in the Isle of White with my ^ Pet peeve: Wight -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: [OT] Places to go, people to see...

2003-06-25 Thread Lusercop
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:46:28AM +, Redvers Davies wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 11:34, Lusercop wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:06:37AM +0100, Raf wrote: iii) After I graduated, I went camping in the Isle of White with my Pet peeve: Wight Pet peeve: Shite Depends whether

Re: ADSL Hardware

2003-06-21 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:48:26PM +0100, Blackwell, Lee [IT] wrote: dreaming Maybe I should just get a T1...? /dreaming You'll need to move to the states to do that. This country doesn't have stupid 7-bit america-as-centre-of-the-phone-routing-world standards. We have E1s instead... (I'll

Re: DBD::Pg - insert_id

2003-06-21 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:22:43PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: Not if the program has been written by someone vaguely competent. Big if... -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: Number Indicating Participation in London.pm (NIPL) (was: assimilating CPAN)

2003-06-19 Thread Lusercop
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:15:06PM +0100, Andy Wardley wrote: Earle Martin wrote: I had to drop the Buffy bit. Is that based on the assumption that the bit is redundant, given that anyone whose Buffy bit isn't set can't be a *real* member of London.pm. I'll get my coat then. I suppose

Re: [JOB] Perl developer

2003-06-17 Thread Lusercop
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:54:43AM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: protype new projects. Work is original and challenging. Only programmers with the highest apptitude need apply. There's something wrong here... :-/ And they say I'm cynical. -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: [JOB][HERESY] Python / wxPython GUI developer

2003-06-13 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:33:53PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: Lusercop wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:58:23AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: ... H lp! S m b d st l ll th v w ls fr m m k yb rd! This is totally inconsistent, at the very least, y should be either a vowel

Re: [JOB][HERESY] Python / wxPython GUI developer

2003-06-13 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 03:01:38PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:52:02PM +0100, Lusercop wrote: Rubbish! If someone stole all the vowels from your keyboard, then you have to decide whether y is a vowel or not, in order to decide whether or not to steal it. You

Re: Subpackaging to CPAN? (was Re: assimilating CPAN)

2003-06-12 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:41:48AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: subclasses released by other people? The later is much quicker to do, but causes major headaches when it's time to refactor the interfaces between modules. If you design your interfaces sensibly in the first place, then this

Re: Making perl modules for CPAN

2003-06-12 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:48:59AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: It's just like morningington crescent, except that you just type weird things in to the perl interpreter and see if it complains or not. % kym i have found a bug/feature in perl. kym if you execute enough random punctuation

Re: Making perl modules for CPAN

2003-06-11 Thread Lusercop
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:15:47PM +0100, Shevek wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, David Cantrell wrote: There are loads, but since I don't live in London, I only know the ones in places I travel through, e.g. Paddington. Ask Hitler. He'll tell you where they are. Oops. I know of at least one in

Re: [JOB] Tech Start-up Seeks Perl Developer

2003-06-09 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:39:51PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: We are a tech start-up developing an email service that will provide custom email solutions to a large international professionals market; 30 million consumers worldwide. [snip] Required skills include: Perl5, UNIX (FreeBSD/or

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:58:09AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: [vi screendump] The syntax command is unknown. You didn't show the highlighting! That bit comes up as rev video on my screen. Lusercop identifies /J\ as using nvi. Lusercop's original post was with sun vi. -- Lusercop.net

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:48:19AM +0100, Tim Sweetman wrote: Lusercop wrote: Lusercop identifies /J\ as using nvi. Lusercop's original post was with sun vi. M-x identify-self-in-third-person-mode What's this M-x rubbish? :-) -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 02:39:25PM +0100, Tim Sweetman wrote: I once dreamt of two of my tech coworkers. They were in a bookshop, putting copies of one of the dilbert books in the dust jackets of copies of a sensible-looking management textbook, and of them them was explaining how this was

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-05 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:11:41PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: Elaine -HFB- Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I registered the domain 'perlnuns.org' a long time ago but it never really got going due to a decided lack of women and interest. It was likely for the best though as perl

Re: Reaping process...

2003-06-02 Thread Lusercop
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 07:41:45AM -0700, Toby Corkindale wrote: On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:15:27AM -0500, Nigel Hamilton wrote: Here is the code that is trying to reap child processes: use POSIX 'WNOHANG';# see Stein's idiom p. 305 Network Programming with Perl # kill all zombie's

Re: [OT] Co-location again

2003-06-02 Thread Lusercop
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 03:53:30PM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote: Hi folks, I'm still not sorted out for colocation of my mod_perl based sites (and java too) http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/ (do you mean co-location, or do you mean managed hosting?) -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers

Re: Reaping process...

2003-06-02 Thread Lusercop
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:29:08PM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote: while (in some idle loop or other) { if ($death) { $death-- while waitpid(-1, WNOHANG); } } I'd be inclined to swap the if and while: | while (in some idle loop or other $death) { | $death--

Re: Reaping process...

2003-06-02 Thread Lusercop
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:43:13PM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote: On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:18:26PM +0100, Lusercop wrote: How is that even remotely the same? In the first case, you end up with no zombies, in the second case you end up with a load of them? Hmm, unless I'm missing something, I'm

Re: Reaping process...

2003-06-02 Thread Lusercop
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 10:34:19PM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote: On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 10:09:00PM +0100, Lusercop wrote: Given the process ids are sequential in my little test program, it's not Perl doing some daemonlike double-fork(), so I guess some special flag gets set somewhere

Re: Net::Whois::RIPE

2003-05-30 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:42:37PM +0100, Mark Morgan wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2003, Lusercop wrote: Can't you just ask OpenSRS for the information? that's what we do. Because OpenSRS is my employer. :) The minimal parsing that we need to do is just to get the admin email address for transfers

Re: Net::Whois::RIPE

2003-05-30 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:38:06AM +0100, Chris Andrews wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:26:54AM +0100, Lusercop wrote: Can't you just ask OpenSRS for the information? that's what we do. If you're transferring from another registrar, you have to parse *their* information in order to feed

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tim O'Reilly in London

2003-05-30 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 12:32:24AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On 29 May 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: OpenBSD, PostgreSQL, Perl = I'm down with OPP (yeah, you know me!) I think Open Source Operating System, Open Source Database Manager, Open Source Programming Language ( or OOO ) is more

Re: pattern matching against phonenumbers

2003-04-12 Thread Lusercop
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 08:08:51PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: My interesting fact about Liechtenstein (thank heavens pne spelt it I just think the domain names you can get from them are cool. http://www.earth.li/ -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

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

2003-04-04 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:05:53AM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Kate L Pugh wrote: On the way home I remembered the Green Man, which is near Great Portland Street and Regent's Park tubes, and has a huge function room in the basement that they've been quite happy to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Signup for Tech Meet Mon 14th April + Tonight Social

2003-04-04 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:40:01AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ I think Jasper wrote: ] Don't get me wrong, I think Yahoo! are entitled to put in place whatever policies they want. you think signing in is bad? you try typing from behind a gas mask. :-) However, I don't think it's in

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

2003-04-04 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:45:12AM +0100, Adam C Auden wrote: 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. :) It wasn't

Re: [OT] Broken sendmail

2003-04-02 Thread Lusercop
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:44:24AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: On 02 Apr 2003 10:07:11 +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote: Bear in mind that most MTAs fork to handle some of the process, if any of the libraries that is currently using have disappeared (they have been erased and replacements with

Re: CPAN site

2003-04-01 Thread Lusercop
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:48:16AM +, the hatter wrote: I think so, the RFC was due today, but seems to have been overshadowed by a more pressing one about security bits in IP4. For those running FreeBSD, a patch is available against -STABLE which makes sure that you implement this RFC

Re: RegEx for UK Postal Codes

2003-04-01 Thread Lusercop
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:02:52PM +0100, Andy Kelk wrote: Similarly, E4 7PT is valid but E4 0PT is not. ^ I believe this statement to be false -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: RegEx for UK Postal Codes

2003-04-01 Thread Lusercop
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 04:47:25PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: On 01/04/2003 at 15:43 +0100, Jon Reades wrote: 2. Outcodes of the form [A-Z]{1,2}\d[A-Z] may in fact only apply to London-area addresses for the time being. I think this is right, but can't confirm it. In fact, in a list of

Re: Guy Langley/GB/ABNAMRO/NL is out of the office.

2003-03-28 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:15:21PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote: Some day a real rain will come, and liberators will wash this scourge from the earth. In the meantime, the rest of us have to put up with vacation messages. *sigh* Does that mean that Notes and Exchange are both the work of Iraq?

Re: PHP developers are evil

2003-03-28 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:37:43PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: Kim Sinton said: I program in PHP and more recently in mod_perl. I generally prefer PHP, especially now that PHP 5 is coming out and they are fixing the OO bugs). I miss the huge code liberties perl has though. Freudian slip, or

Re: graphics cards in servers

2003-03-27 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:34:01AM +, alex wrote: Either way, anyone have any advice for what kind of card to use in a Linux server? Will the choice of graphics card have any noticeable effect or is it OK to nick one from an old desktop? My suspicion is that if you get a slow and crap

Re: message board software

2003-03-27 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:31:20PM +, James Powell wrote: phpbb seems VERY popular. But has the major disadvantage that it's written in PHP. (cf also Roger's comment about BugTraq / Full-Disclosure). -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: c email libraries

2003-03-22 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:41:53PM +, David M. Wilson tried to flame: On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 05:47:01PM +, Lusercop wrote: And some do. I didn't realize your mum was subscribed to the list. [...] expert in every field. The fact is, you are 6 years older than me, still act like

Re: c email libraries

2003-03-22 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:31:57PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 05:47:01PM +, Lusercop wrote: I haven't seen a SunOS install in, what, 6-7 years. Perhaps you mean Solaris. I'm aware of the world outside linux/perl, and bzip2 is actually bash-2.05$ uname -sr SunOS

Re: Solaris 1 (was Re: c email libraries)

2003-03-22 Thread Lusercop
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 05:22:09PM +, Steve Mynott wrote: On Saturday, Mar 22, 2003, at 14:25 Europe/London, Nicholas Clark wrote: Is one of the root nameservers still running on SunOS? Or is that just an urban myth? I heard that admin myth and suspect its used to run until recently.

Re: c email libraries

2003-03-21 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:49:56AM +, David M. Wilson wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:16:44PM +, David Cantrell wrote: you how to compile it, but not what it calls the resulting library file, where to put it, or where the usual place for its header files is. And heaven forbid

Re: c email libraries

2003-03-21 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:51:16PM +, David M. Wilson wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:37:24PM +, Lusercop wrote: A traditionalist whose idea of programming style is almost as good as djb's. In the real world, it is often the ugly hack that gets things done. As for DJB's style

Re: c email libraries

2003-03-19 Thread Lusercop
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:36:31AM +, Simon Wistow wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:17:34AM -, Blackwell, Lee [IT] said: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mail_cclient/?topic_id=35%2C809 It's a perl module thing to encapsulate the cclient stuff. I love Mail::Clcient - it's fast,

Re: Obsolete software

2003-03-17 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:03:35PM +, Chris Benson wrote: We're spending about 6 hours every Sunday mornings gathering stats for one application :-( It seems that we've also been wasting 2hours a night gathering partial (estimated) stats ... which overwrite the complete stats. So we're

Re: Perl 6 Apocalypse 6

2003-03-15 Thread Lusercop
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 09:21:06AM +, Chris Benson wrote: I had a dem yesterday of the NetApps Filer. The presenter took a snapshot of the 500GB user filestore (takes ~5sec), ... then deleted his 2GB home dir: email, presentations, software, the whole lot. Smiling all the while. Of

Re: [OT] Magazines

2003-03-14 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:33:40AM -0800, Dave Cross wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) Greg == Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg (sorry folks that should have been a private email) Yeah, doesn't it suck when a list sets a reply-to? Just like it sucks when

Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-13 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:24:16PM +, 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 aol (apart from the qbasic bit) -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: regrouping lines of STDIN

2003-03-10 Thread Lusercop
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:21:19PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2003 15:10, Shevek wrote: /g evaluated in a list context causes =~ to return a list of all bracketed ^^ note: no is no no my pretty little vampire slayer ... its not the /g that

Re: London.pm Aptitude Test

2003-03-10 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:08:09AM -0500, David H. Adler wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:51:43PM +1030, sue gray wrote: Do you like camels as much as greg does? *no one* likes camels as much as greg. [also ducks] Greg likes ducks? -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: A sad announcement

2003-03-07 Thread Lusercop
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 04:26:11PM +, David Cantrell wrote: It is with regret that I have to announce the passing of my Copious Free Time, as I have imminent unrecovery. I shall shortly be back doing programming with a side-order of adminning. Where? As a fairy programmer? --

Re: regrouping lines of STDIN

2003-03-07 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:03:33PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for (%seen) { ^ values %seen is more likely what you want here. It won't work with strict because I get Can't use string (AA) as an ARRAY ref while strict refs in use. How do I use a proper array ref? Any

Re: regrouping lines of STDIN

2003-03-07 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:25:29PM +, Joel Bernstein wrote: Ahh, so that's what he meant. Yeah. AOL what mbm said /AOL ^^^ who's this mbm character? :-) -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: [PUB] Report on The Windmill

2003-03-01 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 02:59:09PM +, Kate L Pugh wrote: sandwich (what I had) was worth the price. lusercop, please report on the veggie food; hitherto, please report on the sausage and mash. It was very good. :-) To be honest, though I had my mind on the domain stuff that I'm working

Re: Infinity?

2003-03-01 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:47:14PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote: Brainfart. I was assuming it worked like the shell sleep command, which ISTR can work without arguments, at least on some platforms. Now that I try it though, it's not working that way on any of the platforms I can get to at the

Re: spamassassin

2003-03-01 Thread Lusercop
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:16:46AM +, Bob Walker wrote: yep. som eo fhis tuff is quite nice though. and yes he does have slight quirks. Im led to belive he doesnt comment his code either. (qmail-1.03/datetime.c) | void datetime_tai(dt,t) | struct datetime *dt; | datetime_sec t; | { | int

Re: MTA quality was Re: spamassassin

2003-03-01 Thread Lusercop
(in a very similar vein as not accepting bounces). But to throw my two matches on the fire :- OK. On Saturday, Mar 1, 2003, at 10:27 Europe/London, Lusercop wrote: So 2 comments and at least 12 unique unobvious undocumented constants. I think comment counting is a rather crude metric of code quality

Re: MTA quality was Re: spamassassin

2003-03-01 Thread Lusercop
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:08:07AM +, Dirk Koopman wrote: I am afraid that you have completely missed the point here. DJB does not expect and (AFAIK) positively *loathes* people modifying his code. He does not believe that other people can write (even) reasonably secure code. If poked, he

Re: London.pm Aptitude Test

2003-02-27 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:57:14PM +, David Wright wrote: delurk_cos_bit_drunk Ducks are edible and rather delicious. Therefore infinitely preferable to kittens, which are a bit scrawny. I'd say that neither was particularly delicious, but I'm a veggie. /delurk_cos_bit_drunk Spoilsport.

Re: London List Weekly Summary 2003-02-17

2003-02-24 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:23:21AM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: I hear unofficially from a someone connected to ICANN that the PIR.org changeover was a disaster. I think it still is. Most of the whois clients don't work properly (even asking org.whois-servers.net) let alone the fucked-up

Re: London List Weekly Summary 2003-02-17

2003-02-24 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:58:58AM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: ... MX records are not cached (ie have no TTL) so that should work almost instantly What crack are you on, and can I have some, please? Why is it that people find DNS so hard to do properly!? -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers

Re: London List Weekly Summary 2003-02-17

2003-02-24 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:56:05AM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 09:44, Lusercop wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:58:58AM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: ... MX records are not cached (ie have no TTL) so that should work almost instantly What crack are you

Re: London List Weekly Summary 2003-02-17

2003-02-24 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:14:08PM +, Jason Clifford wrote: While the move to PIR has been a balls up that has not been down to DNS or, indeed, anything to do with DNS at all. The balls up has been to do with operation of whois which is a completely separate service to dns. Thank you.

Re: London List Weekly Summary 2003-02-17

2003-02-24 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:33:51PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:14:08PM +, Jason Clifford wrote: I am unaware of any dns problems with .ORG name space. Two weeks to delete a glue record, and it still hasn't happened. Is that a separate issue from DNS too? I'd

Re: London List Weekly Summary 2003-02-17

2003-02-24 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:08:22PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:49:49PM +, Lusercop wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:14:08PM +, Jason Clifford wrote: [ I'm such a DNS bad-ass] I think both of you just volunteered lightning talks on your favourite bits

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-24 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:18:49PM +, Bill Corr wrote: [stuff] Just in reply to the subject: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: Changing namserver whois record

2003-02-18 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:16:26PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: for instance .. if you upload changes to the .uk root servers, you will notice the whois record on whois.nic.uk chnages immediately ... however the host records are only updated at ~4am, until that point the two records are

Re: Syntax Checking Anonymous Subrotuines

2003-02-14 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:21:29PM +, Simon Wistow wrote: Odd question. Due to various, err, things, I am in the situation whereby code I have written is being transformed from a source file into an anonymous subroutines which then gets evaled by something else. common in cacheing

Re: YAPC::Europe War

2003-02-13 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:41:45AM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: Not to worry, we'll all have been melted down in a nuclear conflagration by the summer anyway. I doubt it will have been melted down, more likely instantly vapourised, I suspect. And it will probably be friendly-fire that bombs

Re: Bad interpreter

2003-02-12 Thread Lusercop
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:52:30AM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote: bash: ./bad.pl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory problem. Sounds like some RedHat weirdness to me, either a messed up bash or maybe some weird environment stuff. What happens if you try the experiment running from

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