Re: DBIx::Class - Related Tables

2008-10-07 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:54 +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > On 7 Oct 2008, at 10:10, Minty wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> Then what's the benefit of an ORM? (general question, not just to > >> you :) > > > > Dunno about ORMs in

Re: Exceptions

2003-09-25 Thread Shevek
l pretty much has this anyway with exporting symbols into the callee namespace. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-17 Thread Shevek
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Robin Berjon wrote: > Shevek wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Robin Berjon wrote: > >>sub foo { @_==2 ? shift->{foo} = pop : shift->{foo} } > > > > This is semantically different, and therefore not an appropriate answer. > >

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-17 Thread Shevek
y this package which we all tested so thoroughly falls on its arse. I'm sure we've all met this before somewhere in a profiler. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-17 Thread Shevek
the lhs, without which > chained assignments wouldn't work. > > Ah well. > > sub foo { @_==2 ? shift->{foo} = pop : shift->{foo} } This is semantically different, and therefore not an appropriate answer. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-17 Thread Shevek
ecoded system I use, it computes rvalues before lvalues, therefore this would fail. In Perl, this does what? And is the behaviour guaranteed in nthe future? Basically... No. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-16 Thread Shevek
The very fact that one has to resort to the documentation to discover that this is just an assbackwards way of doing something perfectly simple. That in itself quite clearly increases effort for the maintainer, in contradiction of your earlier mail. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-16 Thread Shevek
ass(); } private class InnerClass { private InnerClass() { System.out.println("Foobar"); } } } I would credit who wrote this, but I'm not sure if he'd want it known. *snigger* S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-16 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:44:25PM +0100, Shevek wrote: > > > This whole chained accessors thing is a definite perl-ism and will do you > > no favours with people for whom Perl is not a primary language. > > I see similar

Re: back to the 80's

2003-09-16 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:07:12AM +0100, Shevek wrote: > > Other random amusements include a PC with nearly 250 CD-ROMs. *snigger* > > It's kind of rackmounted... > > Wow, are they all connected? (128 channel ide co

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-16 Thread Shevek
effort into giving the programmer something he already has. All of the other options fall into this category [object, new value, previous value]. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [ot] doubtless silly perl question

2003-09-15 Thread Shevek
hat do you understand by the line: > my $foo=( split ',' => $line )[7]; > ? I understand that you should have used two lines. Why not do so? my @tmp = split /,/, $line; my $foo = $tmp[7]; S. > i'm trying to get the split to return an array, of which I then get the > 7t

Re: back to the 80's

2003-09-15 Thread Shevek
s. *snigger* It's kind of rackmounted... S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Partitioning?

2003-09-10 Thread Shevek
home (snigger) /dev/md3 4031152 86048 3740292 3% /tmp > 750megswap > remaining lvm physical volume > > drive2: 1024meg swap > remaining lvm physical volume S. -- Shevek

Re: Partitioning?

2003-09-10 Thread Shevek
it really matter? You can just resize on the fly when you work out that you messed up. I don't suppose it works quite as nicely as Tru64 with optional rebalancing though. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Sets and existing CPAN modules

2003-09-10 Thread Shevek
dated to reflect the changes. I don't expect my collection to look > though the contents one by one. > > Does anyone know of any existing modules that offer this functionality? > I'm looking in the long run to adapt something like this to work with > Pixie. Whut? S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Module dependencies

2003-09-08 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: > Je 2003-09-08 15:29:16 +0100, Shevek skribis: > > I like the suggestion later in this thread about having a standard way of > > specifying "optional" modules. I think that such a feature could benefit > > from conside

Re: Module dependencies

2003-09-08 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Kate L Pugh wrote: > Shevek wrote: > >> Surely identifying the dependencies of any one module is incomputable in > >> general, and most likely incomputable in the specific cases of many > >> popular modules, especially those with baroque plugin

Re: Module dependencies

2003-09-08 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > Shevek wrote: > > > > Surely identifying the dependencies of any one module is incomputable in > > general, and most likely incomputable in the specific cases of many > > popular modules, especially those with b

Re: Module dependencies

2003-09-08 Thread Shevek
7;t > find it now. Surely identifying the dependencies of any one module is incomputable in general, and most likely incomputable in the specific cases of many popular modules, especially those with baroque plugin architectures. Yay, I get to rain on Kake's parade again. S. -- Shevek

Re: PDF addition

2003-09-08 Thread Shevek
sn't do textwrapping (or at least I can't see how to do text > wrapping with it.) > > Suggestions? Isn't PDF a stack machine language similar to PostScript? Therefore text wrapping is your problem (and a very hard one at that, look at TeX). S. -- Shevek

Re: Exim and HELO

2003-09-08 Thread Shevek
h Debian, and I'm unable to work out > a nice solution. > > Can anyone suggest how one might convince Exim 3 to do this? > > Thanks! > > +Pete > > -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Limiting process startup

2003-09-05 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Paul Crowley wrote: > Shevek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Isn't this the kind of thing grid engine and its ilk have been designed to > > solve? There are many such architectures already written, I'm suprised > > noone has ment

Re: Limiting process startup

2003-09-05 Thread Shevek
7;m suprised noone has mentioned it. There's not much point growing your own using IPC. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

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

2003-09-04 Thread Shevek
t; private: > auto_ptr q; > }; > > auto_ptr smith (surbiton_context * context, int * error) { > auto_ptr foo; > > try { > foo = auto_ptr (new miner); > } catch (bad_alloc e) { > *error = ENDORIAN; > return foo; >

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

2003-09-02 Thread Shevek
th an index at the > end designed for random access, whereas .tar files need to be scanned > to work out where each file starts and ends. > > And plain `ar' doesn't do compression. Neither, in the strictest sense, does tar. S. -- Shevek

Re: Programming Email Filters

2003-09-01 Thread Shevek
spoofed spam. :0 * ^Subject:.*Returned /dev/null :0 * ^Subject:.*deliver /dev/null :0 * ^Subject:.*failure /dev/null # By now we've trapped 98% of the spam bounces, and we're left

Re: Getting a Hashkey for a Perl Data Structure

2003-08-29 Thread Shevek
fferent versions of Storable and > Data::Dumper will hash to different values. It's possible that even They bloody well should. They store the version number in the data. S. > with hash key sorting you may get other "random" differences - offhand > I can't thin

Re: Getting a Hashkey for a Perl Data Structure

2003-08-29 Thread Shevek
> only problem I see with this is things like different versions of Storable > suddenly hashing to different values. > > Ideas? > > Mark. > > -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises

2003-08-28 Thread Shevek
round. It would be like credit cards, with the legal protection as a primary backup mechanism to prevent fraud. Randomness. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: golf and reversed emails

2003-08-24 Thread Shevek
ment? S. > current perl, but thinking that a fancy multi-threaded implementation > might not guarantee it (so that very long lists could be mapped without > using too much memory). > > -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] SQL woes

2003-08-23 Thread Shevek
e a unique index? > values]". Of course, having to use such a constraint probably means Create a not-null join to a table containing only those values? > that my database design was wrong. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: hash lookup with regex

2003-08-23 Thread Shevek
"111.666.fff.___.ccc.222" (where the ___ > can eixst in any position) This is a job for a tree. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: perl and marketing

2003-08-17 Thread Shevek
The only thing I really noticed with the advent of Perl 5.8 was that I think Tangram stopped working due to lack of overloads? Yes, we need some PR. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT] SQL woes

2003-08-17 Thread Shevek
s.name' and put it into > PS> 'user.user_realname' where the 'user_id' column match. I just can't seem > PS> to find the SQL to make MySQL do this. > > is it not simply: > > UPDATE user UPDATE user, user_names >

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-16 Thread Shevek
: > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-Expression This appears to take the previously suggested approach, using a hand-coded SR-parser, generating and then emitting a tree. Cool, I will use it. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Werm wrote: > Shevek wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Andy Wardley wrote: > >>Shevek wrote: > >> > >>>Yapp is a brilliant piece of code which I love both in architecture and > >>>implementation, but it's desperately fucki

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Andy Wardley wrote: > Shevek wrote: > > Yapp is a brilliant piece of code which I love both in architecture and > > implementation, but it's desperately fucking slow. > > Slow at compiling the grammar or when running the parser that it builds? Ver

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, darren chamberlain wrote: > * Shevek [2003-08-15 12:39]: > > The effective halfway house, which does produce a good but fast > > sandbox, is to parse the thing properly, generate a parse tree, then > > emit guaranteed clean Perl code from the pars

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Shevek
it, was amazing. The effective halfway house, which does produce a good but fast sandbox, is to parse the thing properly, generate a parse tree, then emit guaranteed clean Perl code from the parse tree, and eval that. I do this on a fairly large scale. S. -- Shevek

Re: [OT] Decompiling perl2exe apps

2003-08-15 Thread Shevek
word trivial seems to crop up a lot without actually giving much > detail on how to do it. 'strings' is probably a good start. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [JOB] Security in Amsterdam

2003-08-14 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: > The Canon Security Group based at Canon Europa NV in Amstelveen > (Amsterdam) is currently recruiting a Security Analyst. Aww shit. This is my ideal job. And I'm not going to apply. I suppose I could chase them up in a year or two. S.

Re: Reordering Arrays.

2003-08-14 Thread Shevek
tively, something like: map { my $a = $_; map { $arr->[$_]->[$a] } (0..$#arr) } (0..$#{$arr->[0]}) S. > But does anyone know a module that can do this? Any super fast cleverness > that I don't want to even think about? You could tie it to something that just pretends th

Re: Pollution and Inheritance

2003-08-14 Thread Shevek
mnew = \&Some::Module::new; *Some::Module::new = sub { shift; return new Some::Module::Extended(@_); } sub new { fuck_with(@_); return smnew(@_); } # tum ti tum tiddle ti tum... this is why we are supposed to use factory # methods... 1; -- Shevek

Re: what are you doing

2003-08-14 Thread Shevek
Or are you learning > something outside IT / planning to do something like this? I'm going to be a perpetual student, because by all accounts, I'm probably unemployable anyway by now. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the B

Re: interrupt only working once

2003-08-06 Thread Shevek
ce... > > $SIG{'HUP'} = \&catch_signal; # best strategy > > sub catch_signal > { > etc > etc > } > > This should be a simple one You might need to reset the signal handler in your routine. Different unixen do this differently. S. -- Shevek

Re: HTML::Parser

2003-08-04 Thread Shevek
The invocation system might be easier for what you're trying to do. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Net::FTPServer - solved

2003-07-25 Thread Shevek
In one place, it was looking at $], in another place it was looking at some environment variable which nothing sets! It should look at $] in both places if it's going to have a hope of working on 5.8 S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the

Net::FTPServer and MakeMaker

2003-07-25 Thread Shevek
or xs targets, but not both (or something like that, I worked it out once). Anyway, does this build for anyone, and if so, how? Tomorrow's pain in the arse will be: Apache::Test, a very good idea, but not working with DSOs. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres

Re: Verbose output idiom

2003-07-24 Thread Shevek
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Matthew Lawrence wrote: > Shevek wrote: > > >On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Clayton, Nik [IT] wrote: > > > >{# It's a scope! > > my @warnbuffer; > > $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { frob @warnbuffer; } > > $SIG{__WARN__} = s

Re: Verbose output idiom

2003-07-24 Thread Shevek
b { frob @warnbuffer; die join "", @warnbuffer; } } I'm a lazier programmer than you are. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Book for review

2003-07-18 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, David Cantrell wrote: > Does anyone here have any experience of running Linux on IBM zSeries? Cos > Prentice Hall have a book on it. Was this written by someone inside IBM? S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am th

Re: fork()ing (pedantry)

2003-07-18 Thread Shevek
efragment, but ... most of these problems tend to evaluate in quadratic time and most people care more about constant time allocation than overall memory optimality. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: fork()ing in perl

2003-07-18 Thread Shevek
or read-write data. > 3. point me at information on the web. I've STFWd already, but couldn't > find anything. http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/rej/gcbook/gcbook.html will give some overview of the problems of memory management. Also read the (older?) BSD malloc source cod

Re: Messing with mail-owned files from Apache

2003-07-17 Thread Shevek
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Michael Stevens wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:25:56PM +0100, Shevek wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > But then again, majordomo is pretty trivial to 0wn through the wrapper. > > Look at -C. > > If you can find holes

Re: Messing with mail-owned files from Apache

2003-07-17 Thread Shevek
I couldn't figure out in a > hurry how to make it build from apt-get source (anyone?). I > remember majordomo have a wrapper that's been around a long time, > so looked at that. But then again, majordomo is pretty trivial to 0wn through the wrapper. Look at -C. S. -- S

Re: parsing lisp s-expressions in perl?

2003-07-16 Thread Shevek
RecDescent or FastDescent? On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Raf wrote: > Hi, > > Just a quick query to find out if there's a good tried and tested module > for parsing lisp s-expressions into perl datastructures (or eventually > into xml?)? > > thanks. > &g

Re: License question

2003-07-15 Thread Shevek
as distributed are then free. Any data they generate using third party sources might not be. This is valid. A distribution of the generated data is not free. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

2003-07-10 Thread Shevek
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Shevek said: > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Richard Clamp wrote: > >> Or, if you're familiar with the fun of perls OO it remains the much > >> more similar: > >> > >> my $obj = Factory->$type(...);

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

2003-07-10 Thread Shevek
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Richard Clamp wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:14:21PM +0100, Shevek wrote: > > But if this were the case (for a general system of this type), then the > > type of storage now becomes a matter for the code, rather than just a > > configuration vari

Re: [gear] Spare 1U?

2003-07-10 Thread Shevek
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:09:31PM +0100, Shevek wrote: > > http://www.gothnicity.org/ > > http://goth.paulm.com/the_new_black.jpg (75K, work safe) > contains one answer ;-) To which question? The site displays a random question e

Re: Neural nets

2003-07-10 Thread Shevek
> until you start scaling up, though. It really depends what you're doing. For some jobs, I've actually started writing them in XS rather than in C, because then I get access to all these nice primitives for doing various sorts of object management, and this even if I don't have any

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

2003-07-10 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Jon Reades wrote: > Shevek wrote: > > > But in answer to John's comments, look at what DBI does! > > You assume that I think DBI is a good model for OO design. ;) > > Personally, I'd be happier if DBI worked like: > > my $db = DBI:

Re: [gear] Spare 1U?

2003-07-10 Thread Shevek
d 70C. > You also need a motherboard that supports memory being installed at an > angle that has been designed to provide for decent airflow through the > case. I deny this, since I have owned several 1Us where this was not the case. S. -- Shevekh

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

2003-07-07 Thread Shevek
it... ;-) I dislike it intensely. It's a whole new syntax. But in answer to John's comments, look at what DBI does! S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

2003-07-06 Thread Shevek
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Mark Overmeer wrote: > * Shevek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030706 17:28]: > > On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > > Perhaps this will illustrate. > > > > sub new { > > my $class = shift; > > my $type = shift; > >

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

2003-07-06 Thread Shevek
cme::new to return an instance of a subclass. There's no reason in Perl why Acme::new has to return an Acme. Perhaps this will illustrate. sub new { my $class = shift; my $type = shift; $class .= "::$type"; return $class->new(@_); } S. -- Shevek

Re: mod_perlness

2003-07-02 Thread Shevek
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Robin Berjon wrote: > Shevek wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > >>Call me thick but so far as I can see the only way to access stuff in > >>the apache config file (such as PerlSetVar statements) is via the apache > >

Re: mod_perlness

2003-07-02 Thread Shevek
y just not do that? > > Jon, trying to figure out if mod_perl is still cool or not. > > -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Linux firewall / web server

2003-07-01 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Ben wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:21:03PM +0100, Shevek wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Ben wrote: > > Anyway, even having looked at filtergen, who really gives a toss if it > > came in on eth0? That's assembly programming for firewalls. What

Re: Linux firewall / web server

2003-07-01 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Ben wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:47:40PM +0100, Shevek wrote: > > I do not understand the need for [the added complexity and perversion > > of] [firewall rule management] packages since it is perfectly possible > > to write something almost synta

Re: Linux firewall / web server

2003-07-01 Thread Shevek
y with it. I do not understand the need for [the added complexity and perversion of] such packages since it is perfectly possible to write something almost syntactically identical in the shell anyway using a few shell variables. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: ICFP This Weekend

2003-06-28 Thread Shevek
;ve realised how easy XS is for little tasks, and how my first XS project (writing a compiler) was rather jumping in at the deep end, and how useless h2xs is. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: UK Money, again

2003-06-26 Thread Shevek
sing) A jiffy is 1/HZ of a second, where HZ depends on your architecture. On most x86s, it's 1/100. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: Contracts for contractors

2003-06-26 Thread Shevek
exactly the same as Math::Units? S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: G5 benchmarks

2003-06-24 Thread Shevek
ng is going to make Intel look sucky in big public places, they will probably want to do something about it. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: SQL standards

2003-06-21 Thread Shevek
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Ian Malpass wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Shevek wrote: > > > Can someone please recommend a core informational reference book for > > the implementation of SQL used in Postgres. > > I've got O'Reilly's "SQL in a Nutshell"

SQL standards

2003-06-20 Thread Shevek
the 'with grant option' clause. Is this information available online _anywhere_? Thanks. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: [OT]: ImageMagick compression trouble

2003-06-20 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > Shevek wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > > > >> I'm writting quick so I can back to the today's problem here, a C / > >>ImageMagick program to manipulate im

Re: Misquoting Raf && [OT]: ImageMagick compression trouble

2003-06-20 Thread Shevek
ITT Group [34] Fax Compression Standard. Vague memory tells me that this is only suitable for monochrome (1-bit) TIFF files using packbits compression. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/

Re: dns woes

2003-06-15 Thread Shevek
rs, rejecting requests from the > web form with the message > > "ERROR[-310] line [15] [ns1-handle:[69541] not found in tld registry]" This is normal. You need to register the hostname and IP of all nameservers explicitly with the registry. I don't know ho

Re: Where to buy IBM laptop?

2003-06-12 Thread Shevek
ly. They're also reachable by public transport if you are sufficiently determined to walk from Thameslink. I would recommend them. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: Making perl modules for CPAN

2003-06-10 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, David Cantrell wrote: > On Monday, June 9, 2003 13:38 +0100 Shevek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * It's cheaper for you to buy say an HSCSD modem, or go into an internet > > cafe. > > Cheaper if you provide the modem, maybe, and write

Re: Z or S?

2003-06-09 Thread Shevek
reserved the point. Eric Partridge in Usage and Abusage presents more logical limited agreement that we should be using the -ize form; he refers to an article in the OED specifying a precise list of forms which are to be terminated -ize, all others must be terminated -ise. I

Re: Making perl modules for CPAN

2003-06-09 Thread Shevek
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, David Cantrell wrote: > On Thursday, June 5, 2003 13:14 +0100 Shevek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Upload the lot. It's only 10Kb. We are no longer running at 14.4; > > management overhead costs more than bandwidth. > > Yes bandwidth i

Re: Making perl modules for CPAN

2003-06-05 Thread Shevek
? Upload the lot. It's only 10Kb. We are no longer running at 14.4; management overhead costs more than bandwidth. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: Making perl modules for CPAN

2003-06-05 Thread Shevek
bed above, but > if they're all in a lump I don't want one tripping over the other. Question now irrelevant. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: checking port status with perl

2003-06-04 Thread Shevek
ns > > see what I mean ;0) > > Thanks > > On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 14:36, Shevek wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Andy Ford wrote: > > > > > Hi all > > > > > > I am writing a Perl script to check the status of a number of processes > > >

Re: checking port status with perl

2003-06-03 Thread Shevek
o do something similar with > apache or sshd to see if they are running and accepting connections? Yes. Mon. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: Reaping process...

2003-06-03 Thread Shevek
ng code I > used. I guess reaping is just fragile under high load. Ignore the SIGCHLD. POSIX only guarantees signal delivery within 4 minutes. Just reap a few whenever you get to an appropriate point in your code. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anar

Re: Someone must have solved this one ?

2003-05-28 Thread Shevek
and feed each entry of the master list into the regex. This would probably be faster. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tim O'Reilly in London

2003-05-28 Thread Shevek
el inside' of the next generation of computer > > applications". > > > > Er, isn't the 'M' in there something to do with , cough, MySQL ... ? Sh. The 'P' is PHP. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: IPC and buffering wierdness...

2003-04-02 Thread Shevek
me printed(1049294107) I like buffy > time recieved(1049294109time printed(1049294109) I like buffy > time recieved(1049294111time printed(1049294111) I like buffy > time recieved(1049294113time printed(1049294113) I like buffy > > Ie, the CGI script *is* outputting the lines

Re: [OT] Broken sendmail

2003-04-02 Thread Shevek
o the mmap()'d space for the new copies. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: [OT] Broken sendmail

2003-04-02 Thread Shevek
/proc/*/maps if you don't believe me. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

RE: RegEx for UK Postal Codes

2003-04-01 Thread Shevek
PT is valid but E4 0PT is not. What happened to NW10? > > So you could do: > > m/[A-Z]{1,2}[1-9]{1,1}\d{0,1}[A-Z]{0,1}\W[1-9]{1,1}[A-Z]{2,2}/ > > I also assume you'll be using some form of case-insensitivity in > there... > > -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: use warnings and 5.005

2003-03-31 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Richard Clamp wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:04:10PM +0100, Shevek wrote: > > On 31 Mar 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > Wrong. I can't get this to shuttup in Perl 5.5: > > > > > > my @punctuation = qw(. , ! ?); >

Re: use warnings and 5.005

2003-03-31 Thread Shevek
pinion the strongest argument for not disabling warnings at deployment. > And Fleeg dies. Poor Fleeg. Whoops. [weak anti-war joke snipped] S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

Re: use warnings and 5.005

2003-03-31 Thread Shevek
On 31 Mar 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "Shevek" == Shevek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Shevek> You should never ignore warnings. The code should be coded so > Shevek> as not to issue them. > > Wrong. I can't

RE: use warnings and 5.005

2003-03-31 Thread Shevek
er happens as it occurs, either by changing the code or by flagging it as above. Warnings shouldn't be _that_ common anyway. I probably use about one such construct per thousand lines of code, if not fewer. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://design.anarres.org/

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