* how to do these things right.
Remember, nobody ever got fried for using Microsoft. [1]
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0 Pedants would probably state that all we really know is that they had
their 4 nameservers with IPs within the same /24 (less than that, IIRC)
but that doesn't necessarily mean
. other things too probably.
But I wasn't going to mention it first.
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:42:21PM +0100, Rob Partington wrote:
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However, IIRC all four were behind the same router,
so who cares what the topology beyond it was?
That could have been a router
If you are running SOAP servers with SOAP-Lite you may wish to read this
*now*. Before your box isn't yours.
It describes how to take advantage $object-$method() in perl to call any
function you like in *any* namespace (despite tainting) in the perl server.
Which could include this one:
at a London.pm tech meet.
(A London.pm tech meet held in London, that is. Not some cunning trick of
holding a tech meet at TPC. )
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could find online (ie ebookers)
ebookers could get Lufthansa Tuesday to Saturday for £430, IIRC.
These guy got me Lufthansa flights for £136.
They apparently have a website, but I didn't use that.
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Exegesis 4 is out:
http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/2002/04/01/exegesis4.html
(and also this message demonstrates that Pendrel is working)
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, and enough on Solaris.
(Let alone really test. Where really has all sorts of combinations of
64 bit integers, long doubles, 64 bit pointers, perl malloc etc)
(I don't think that this was quite the sort of thought that Greg was
soliciting)
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, but the mysql DBD driver fakes it^W^Wemulates them.
Maybe the code from DBD::MySQL could be grafted into DBD:Sybase?
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of apt-get update; apt-get upgrade?
[ie I want all the lastest bugs, rather than the good old fashioned bugs]
This is Deadrat 7.2, if that makes a difference.
(Or do I live dangerously and install a nicer OS on the spare 3G partition,
using the same /home?)
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:43:21PM +0100, Robbie Scourou wrote:
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robbie
this has been a content free post.
But it was all:
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=us-ascii
just like the headers said.
Unlike other nasty things.
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On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 09:00:30AM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
What is the world's current favourite pod2html conversion utility?
Pod::XML and some XSLT thingy
OK, yes, you answered the question I asked. Silly me :-)
What's a practical
):
What is this slides concept of which you speak?
Would it be useful if I transcribed my notes (which I did stick fairly
closely to) and stuck that online somewhere?
(off list replies probably better than on)
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:01:00PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:46:21PM +, Leon Brocard wrote:
Nicholas Clark sent the following bits through the ether:
What is this slides concept of which you speak?
http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/state_of_eight.html
I am
http://london.pm.org/meetings/ thinks that we have a techmeet tonight.
Is there going to be a reminder on the london.pm announce list?
Otherwise I might forget to go.
Nicholas Clark
Well, cam.pm didn't react and say Oi! stop! no! so I'll forward it here too.
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To: Friends of the Camel
Subject: make ok fast
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i
AS SEEN ON NATIONAL TV:
Making
bytecode
converter first, as that would be more interesting. And parrot may well provide
a runtime for Rindolf]
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:54:56PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
And it was cool and groovy. Remember: listen on #london.pm for rumours
of dim sum.
Not sure if work would like me doing that.
Aren't they big enough events to be announce on use.perl.org? :-)
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pass criterion 1)
and at worse flame (with polite but faulty arguments somewhere midway between
the two)
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to remember
the laws of thermodynamics. Anyway, while we're on the subject, the answer
to Why? is because it lowers the free energy
IIRC: dG = dH - TdS
]
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I wonder what Transport for London's vote counting script is written in:
http://www.transportforlondon.gov.uk/cgi-bin/ppp_vote?0
I wonder if it will cope with the superior rapid ballot stuffing abilities
of perl? I wonder if that would be counter productive?
Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:47:56AM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:20:19AM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
I wonder what Transport for London's vote counting script is written in:
http://www.transportforlondon.gov.uk/cgi-bin/ppp_vote?0
I think it would have been
://www.perlworkshop.de/2002/pics/pic.epl?pic=med.p2130222.jpgtitle=Mr.CPAN+[pcg]
Caption competition time? Just hack the URL...
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, there seems to be one (well, 2 if you count Intercal) omission
Where's Inline::Parrot?
I can't be having with all this assemblepl, test_parrot faff Why hasn't
someone (eg a Londonpm'er) written Inline::Parrot yet to make my life
easy?
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: when the subject got long enough some program thought it a good idea to fold
the headers, and picked a point before the ')'. And once the fold was in,
the subject has been getting progressively more mangled ever since.
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not easily filterable) would
MS have paid a bit more attention to security earlier on?
I fear this may be a very dangerous meme: A worm that also mounts a denial
of service attack on a single third party.
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:20:56PM +, Chris Benson wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:31:17PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
How many people use {} in real
regexps?
/(\+44\s+|0)20\D[78]\d{3}\D\d{4}\b/
phone numbers, CC numbers, ... all
::Europe in Munich we can bid on when NY.pm meetings should
take place? :-)
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!
I don't believe that those people had been careful enough to lay down
which timezone that 10am had to be in. :-)
Damn. Now I've let on... :-(
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]
Does doing just the above locals make a coredump?
Can you get it down to a terse enough case to bug report with perlbug?
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, then $a can't possibly
be a substring, so I don't need to bother trying index.
[yes, I'm still playing with Encode's compile script.
No, it's not a waste of time - I've got it taking about 37% less time
than it did 2 days ago. Much cheaper than throwing hardware at the world]
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I think that he may be violating the Trades Descriptions Act, or something
like that. Either that or Websters has some definition of easy that the OED
doesn't. Go on, prove me wrong!
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at the limit of things I can learn from DProf.
What other techniques can I use to figure out where and why it is slow?
(For information, the script is not one that I wrote - it's the compile
script for Encode in bleadperl. And it's doing M25 impressions)
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to make
installman marginally faster without slowing perlbench. But 2% is less than
5%, and less than 5% feels like it could just be noise.
There must be easier ways than this :-)
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:05:36AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:31:17PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
How many people use {} in real regexps?
s/(.{1,72})(\s+|$)/$1\n /g;
(Wordwrap for my sigs.)
D'oh!
$definition =~ s/(.{74,77},)/$1\n/g;
That bit
doesn't work
with 5.7.1 or later. Grr]
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.
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asked
me something in Russian, when she forgot that I wasn't Russian.
2 days I was asked questions in 5 languages (German, Russian, French, Flemish
and English). It was fun. I even managed to answer some of the questions which
were asked in the 3 I sort of understand.]
Nicholas Clark
PS Only needing
in my rucksack - it's full up with large numbers.
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in Amsterdam. I can add to the description - he's
also friendly, pleasant and someone I'd be happy to share a room with.
Unfortunately I can't help as I've already arranged to share a room with
H Merijn Brand (of Amsterdam.pm)
Nicholas Clark
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.
Kake (the pub minion)
Thanks for all your ongoing organising.
Nicholas Clark
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Curious instructions as seen on an Organic Columbian Blacktail Free Range Eggs
eggbox:
Store point end downwards and away from strongly flavoured foods.
This makes these eggs big endian, doesn't it? And therefore suitable for use
in Lilliput.
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Jarkko is doing his bit for both causes. Maybe we
should follow his noble example. And have you seen how many changes he's
committing to perl5? It's scary]
Not sure what legitimate crop has the same climatic preference as poppies.
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, we should change technologies to Y
]
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copied or passed around
it becomes obvious who provided it.
But some of the morons have been deformatting it without doing this.
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On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 04:22:00PM +, Leon Brocard wrote:
Paul Mison sent the following bits through the ether:
http://www.perl.org/ThePerlReview/
This is exactly the kind of thing which we could have organised last
year when everyone was out of work and had lots of CFT. If only we
mongers both IRL and on a mailing list, etc. etc.
No wonder there's no time left for anyone to patch perl5, write more
regression tests for it, or write parrot. :-(
(or do work. Maybe that's why so many .coms folded)
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, they
wont be there to drink them. At which point waste not want not.
however i have just realised i have made this problem a lot more
difficult by saying 3 instead of 4
Well, I was assuming that you weren't starting your sentence with I.
At which point 3 is easy.
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now pointed to by 117 other names unchanged. Which is why I get ratty with
bits of perl that touch, chmod or otherwise things in the source tree and
thereby cause rsync to think it should resync that file, increasing my disk
usage)
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referencing it is closed]
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On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:48:12PM +, Paul Mison wrote:
Long Numbers in Perl 5- Nicholas Clark
The original pod (converted to HTML) from which my slides *weren't* edited
down enough (sorry) is online at http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/written.html
for the moment. I may well make
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:53:59AM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Do we have a nice bit of official standards compliant HTML for a link
for cargo cult web page writing? :-)
[Better still, do we have one to put on the NMS page to encourage people
, or as close to it as possible, to get it shoved up
the list a bit.
Do we have a nice bit of official standards compliant HTML for a link
for cargo cult web page writing? :-)
[Better still, do we have one to put on the NMS page to encourage people
to link to it]
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. Unfortunately it seems
that only busy people such as Arthur really understand the guts of ithreads.
Nicholas Clark
1: we have work for you to do seems to be a very good reason to be honest.
It makes you feel wanted. And hence not likely to get the push.
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to a pipe and in
turn pump that to the client?
Maybe this is all too complex for the purposes of original question.
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you the address of the agent
c: pass your e-mail address to the agent
d: er, whatever, as long as it's ethical and legal
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I had to find the passage back
To the life I knew before
'Relax' said the dole man,
'We are programmed to receive,
You can sign off any time you like,
but you can never leave!'
Nicholas Clark
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 06:04:12PM +, Mark Fowler wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
So what's stopping any and every enterprising steganographer from getting
one of these files, one that you don't own the licence to play,
You would be required by law to decrypt
to use it. Please
tell me what obvious thing I missed.
Nicholas Clark
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:13:18PM +, Tom Insam wrote:
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:59:07PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Do the music file makers arrange to sign every file with a private key so
that anyone can detect a knobbled file?
Yes. I assume Microsoft would. Like they sign
of the Rings film are affecting my subconscious.
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they're written
on (particularly if they are double sided so that you can't print on the back),
being encourage to working all hours God sends (and in addition please find
more hours from an alternative source), crowded temporary offices, being owed
pay when the company goes insolvent, etc]
Nicholas
.
At this rate they'll be advertising for 4 years perl6 experience.
I was going to forward it verbatim from perl jobs list, but it says somewhere
that unified diffs are preferred. :-)
Nicholas Clark
--- /tmp/180Fri Jan 4 00:33:45 2002
+++ /tmp/186Fri Jan 4 00:33:39 2002
@@ -1,44 +1,47
://jobs.perl.org/job/186
Maybe it too will come around again. and again.
[and this message is going to get into the moderator queue like the one I sent
from here last night about http://jobs.perl.org/job/186]
Nicholas Clark
the mailing list. He was at
the last social meeting, and IIRC the one before that.
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doesn't usually come
for 25-35K (the range I got from at least three different agents).
So this is stage one of economising? And stage two is to rightsize
development back to the US? That being the part bit of part onsite? :-)
Why do I have a distrust of satellite development setups?
Nicholas
)
Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:43:49PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
*SPOILERS BELOW*
he is alright in the end .
IIRC we'll have to wait until next year's film to know that though, won't we?
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it depends on whether anyone suggests singing.
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, procrastination. That's why. I should know about that - I'm good at it.
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it?]
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problem, but it's not
clear to me that this is by actually acquiring a job, or simply by finding
instructive things to play with that fill the free time (and the CV)
Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:53:23PM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:00:48PM -, Cross David - dcross said:
Just got a fifth nomination for the person who only had four, but it was
sent 45 minutes after nominations
off. Hence there was a dearth of decent
development tools (and particularly no sane debugger) from roughly 1995.
No decent development tools = less software, less software = fewer reasons
to by hardware.
Nicholas Clark
At least Schwern's not here :-)
[and why can't I find the correct thread on the london.pm.org list archive
to fake this message into]
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in the near future, they could pick it up).
I expect that you can probably do it over the counter at a UK bank without
having an account there if you come to visit.
I wouldn't trust a £10 note to remain in the envelope if sent through the
post. But maybe I worry too much.
Nicholas Clark
is this Friday)
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, but it was at the meeting at the Three Cups.
You didn't seem to be there - were you in the Pendrel's Oak, or something? :-)
Nicholas Clark
written ok function can use (caller)[2] to report the line number.
IIRC Test::More uses Test::Simple::ok, which in turn is Test::Builder::ok
which does.
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to the site yet?
Nicholas Clark
I fear I am not a true London perl monger. Or maybe just not stereotypical
[Is anyone]
The project manager near me has just asked when Buffy is on again
[apparently she prefers Willow] and no-one here knows the answer. :-(
Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:00:10PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
When I looked earlier teletext said it was on on bbc2 tonight.
She wants the cable times. She's seen that one already, apparently.
I think she intimated that her life is not complete without buffy.
Nicholas Clark
its inside zone 2?
I guess it depends on whether one thinks of zone 2 as a filled in thing
with 2 edges (like the ticket machines do) or a very wide line that happens
to be (sort of) a circle.
Probably here, what the ticket machines think is more important.
Nicholas Clark
such as Harrow and Wealdstone and Harrow on the Hill)
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/ has macromedia site of the day which
I suspect is quite justified for its ability to not let me use it without
flash.
Nicholas Clark
:', for example, when I telnet
directly to port 25 and only supply From: To: Subject:).
What would you say?
Message I sent to Ask, which I didn't act any further on:
| On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 03:20:13PM -0700, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
| On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Nicholas Clark wrote:
|
| I think that you
YAPC::Europe 19100 would have been if it had been
11 times more expensive.
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, and not enough programming
challenge]
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would be happier with ordering food almost[1] as before, rather than a
buffet. The food was good.
Nicholas Clark
1: The change I'd suggest we suggest to them is that they (the real staff) do
what the relief staff figured out about halfway through last time - take
a name with each order. Oh
which won't work with any stable version of perl. :-)
Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:08:03AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
From: Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
C, C++ 12.8%
C/C++ 35.43 % (158)
Why do these dumbwit marketdroids lump C and C++ together.
They are not the same.
I like C. I don't like C++ that much.
Nick
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