Re: Dear Dr Who experts...

2014-10-08 Thread Michael Lush
They'd figured out the stairs thing in Rememberence of the Daleks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfoYrCBea74 here is a 5 second version of the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBkzlcpBJ-I

Re: Finding the intersection between two regexes

2014-04-24 Thread Michael Lush
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote: If your goal is to simply identify overlaps rather than generate encompassing regexes, you could try attacking it with intelligently/heuristically generated random numbers. Paul Its just about possible to brute force

Re: tablets for parents

2014-03-03 Thread Michael Lush
You could ditch the 3G on the tablet and use a mobile phone as a WiFi hotspot... I would assume they already have a mobile and it may work out cheaper to upgrade their package than get a new one (they should be able to get unlimited talktime as a bonus and be able to position the phone to get the

Re: PDF to CSV?

2013-12-12 Thread Michael Lush
pdf is where data goes to die. I've been peripherally involved in extracting data from tables in scientific papers, it is fairly easy to extract text from a pdf, but not the formatting with is liable to get *horribly* scrambled. If i were actually given the job I'd be inclined to convert the

Dramatic reveal and USB keyboards

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Lush
= `cat /dev/hidraw2 | head -c 7`; my $char = ord(substr($data, 2, 1)); print $char \n;; } However this fails if you keep mashing the key it stops reading the keyboard output. any pointers? -- Michael Lush

Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband?

2012-08-30 Thread Michael Lush
I'm a long term user/fan of Zen (http://www.zen.co.uk). While not the cheapest they have terrific customer support and reliability. -- Michael On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Andrew Beattie and...@tug.com wrote: i am moving out of the london.pm area, into a broadband wasteland in PA17 5DA,

Re: Perl Skills Test

2011-09-29 Thread michael lush
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Aaron Trevena aaron.trev...@gmail.com wrote: Sunny Cornwall : http://www.headforwards.com/perl-jobs.html A couple of us just went for a nice run through some woods and along the stream along one of the mineral trails here. Anyone in that neighbourhood could do

Re: Should I get my mum a Kindle?

2011-09-20 Thread michael lush
conference keydrives and circulate them between you and her, there are a lot of radios with a USB socket she could then play straight off a key drive. Its not so good if she wants to maintain a collection of stuff she wants to go back to. -- Michael Lush

Re: LPW 2011 carpooling

2011-08-19 Thread michael lush
the price below that and even Ryanair would give you a better ride. -- Michael Lush

molecular computing

2011-06-17 Thread Michael Lush
Rather interesting ... The seesaw magic book: the computational power of DNA molecules http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsq8AmpQaOkfeature=ivannotation_id=annotation_11138 -- Michael

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Michael Lush
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: On 11 Mar 2011, at 09:01, Leo Lapworth wrote: I'm not sure what the advantage of a live webcast is over someone uploading it the next day? It would also be better to have it available for posterity rather than just live (I'm sure both could be done).

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Michael Lush
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 networking with people I don't. The reason

overlapping find and replace

2010-10-18 Thread Michael Lush
I have a string ABCDEFGH and want to highlight two overlapping hits BCDE and DEFG in HTML to make AbBCiDE/bFG/iH The obvious $string =~ s{(BCDE|DEFG)}{b$1/b}g; does not work as the modified string doesn't match the second query and I don't get differnet fonts for each overlapping match. Is

gifts for geeklings

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Lush
Christmas is coming (not to mention birthday) and I've got to come up with main presents to get my boy (will be 12 we've already done the usual suspects Wii, DS, phone, camera, LEGO Mindstorm and he has enough LEGO! ) Rather idealistically I'm looking for somthing that will not be used

Re: gifts for geeklings

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Lush
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:35:02AM +0100, Michael Lush wrote: Christmas is coming (not to mention birthday) and I've got to come up with main presents to get my boy (will be 12 we've already done the usual suspects Wii, DS, phone, camera, LEGO

Nice traffic RSS feed

2010-03-05 Thread Michael Lush
I've been writing a little traffic warning script for my nslu2 (nothing special it plays traffic jam noises if there is a problem on the road to work:-) Anyway I started out scraping the BBC traffic page, however I had cause to look for a better source and came across this rss feed from the

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Michael Lush
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Paul Makepeace wrote: I think this is a great idea, and would be much, much funnier (and well received) if Perl spent some time poking fun at itself. Lord knows, there's enough scope for that. (guy in t shirt)Hi I'm Perl (guy on trampolene) Hi I'm Befunge . . --

Geekiest place on earth? (was Re: Big Geek Day Out)

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Lush
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Pedro Figueiredo wrote: I went about a month ago thanks to the organising super-powers of Billy, and let me tell you it's the geekiest place on Earth, period. I think you have an excellent case here, interesting exhibits, tour and history but to prove it it must be

Re: Geekiest place on earth? (was Re: Big Geek Day Out)

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Lush
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Dominic Thoreau wrote: 2009/6/15 Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk: As much as I'm going to regret even *mentioning* this Games Workshop is pretty heavily geeky, 'tis true - but even geekier would be their head office and museum in Nottingham, Warhammer World. More

Quick and dirty convertion to HTML

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Lush
I'm writing a CGI text checking tool (on a CentOS server) I'd like to allow users to upload Excel, Word and pdf files and have them displayed as an HTML approximation. I've had a look at Spreadsheet::ParseExcel but I think a more lightwieght solution is in order I don't need a

Re: Measuring power

2009-04-29 Thread Michael Lush
A frend of mine has a Power Owl http://www.greenstamp.co.uk/product_info.php/cPath/33/products_id/68?gclid=COmqvdzclZoCFR4hnAodx3XzNw You clip the sensor round the mains power were it comes in to the electricity meter. I guess you could clip it round the server power cable I'd be inclined

Re: compression algorithm!

2009-04-08 Thread Michael Lush
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, abhishek jain wrote: Hi Friends,I have a task to discover or search for a compression algorithm which compresses even 300 - 400 characters to about at least 200-300% compression reducing them to 150 characters. Is this a possibility, i know it should be, I need to research

Re: !0

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Lush
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Jonathan Stowe wrote: 2009/2/12 Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk: Just been studying a CPAN module and I see a load of references to !0. Er, what is that? Googling most unhelpful. It's Genius for '1' :-) Please to be clubbing the perpatrator to death with a copy of their own

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-04 Thread Michael Lush
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, James Laver wrote: Perl may have taken a huge hit with the banks going bust but it's still going (albeit somewhat wounded). Even when bust, a banks datacenter looks liable to keep chugging along