On 10/03/2014 17:17, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Anyone up for a quick warmup tincture in a while?
Name a place - I'll be heading that way shortly.
S.
On 29/10/2014 19:39, Tom Hukins wrote:
We'll meet in the Barrowboy and Banker, a large Fuller's pub near
London Bridge:
My first ever London.pm was at the Barrowboy & Banker.
2001 iirc, with MJD in attendance.
Feeling all nostalgic now :)
S.
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, the hatter wrote:
> Erm, if you restore an AI to the state it was in some time ago, why would
> it be any more confused than when it was first in that state ? Unless
> you're implying that some part of the AI's 'spirit' isn't included in the
> backups, but I can't see an eas
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Natalie Ford wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 05:21:55PM +, Paul Mison wrote:
> > Peopke have brought the old idea of there being a beer kitty back to the
> > fore, so we should probably do this; bring a fiver or tenner to chuck in
> > when the meeting starts.
>
> I hope t
So I've written a module, complete with docs and tests.
What's the best way (if there is a way) to figure out if I've tested
everything I should test ?
How should I structure my tests for maintainability if I'm repeating tests
with different values ?
Why can't my code Just Work [tm] so I don't
Paul mentioned on IRC that no-one has reported on the last social meeting.
I don't have a weblog so I'll post one to the list.
As last month, Kate had booked us the back section of the cellar bar at
the Cittie of Yorke, a space supposedly capable of taking about 40, with
the front half reserved
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:39:21AM +, Leon Brocard wrote:
> > The RT311? Do you use it? Does it Just Work?
>
> Yes, have done; yes. Fantastic for what you pay, and laughably easy
> to set up. Netgear make some great stuff (but stay away from their
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:20:03AM +0000, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > > to set up. Netgear make some great stuff (but stay away from their
> > > FAxxx NICs).
> >
> >
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Alex McLintock wrote:
> I've been contacted about a site which is an Apache/mod_perl website.
> The problem is that the live production server is Windows 2000 and not
> negotiable :-(
>
> In theory this is ok - Apache and mod_perl should run ok on Windows 2000
> shouldn't it?
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 03:23:16PM +, Leo Lapworth wrote:
>
> > I've been asked to get a company in to help improve
> > our search engine ranking (which no one has even
> > considered in recent years). Does anyone have
> > any recomendations ?
>
>
For those who are interested, the slides from my talk at the tech meeting
last night are online at:
http://www.simonw.demon.co.uk/talks/lpm020321/
Thanks to State 51 for hosting the event and to Jon for the loan of his
dinky projector.
Simon.
--
"Ooh, the hair thieves... they come in the nig
So the IRC denizens are wondering if the list is broken...
Simon.
--
"They hung in the air exactly the same way bricks don't."
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Dave Cross wrote:
> People don't like the "use constant" pragma. The main problem
> seems to be that the constants it returns are subroutines in
> disguise and therefore don't interpolate in double-quoted strings
> as expected.
I like "use constant" because I can define cons
So I thought that C optimised things such that simple things
such as this:
print "debug on" if DEBUG;
would be optimised out completely if DEBUG was false, thus speeding up my
code in production. However, Dave got me thinking so I ran a benchmark:
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use constant
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Richard Clamp wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 01:58:59PM +0000, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> > use constant DEBUG => 1;
> > my $debug = 0;
>
> Spot the difference.
What a fcuking idiot I am !
Rate Scalar Scalar Comp Constan
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>
> Ok, so it may be hearsay but i believe Penderel has had more problems,
> so I have a proposal, but lets start with the assumptions i am making
> ...
[snip assumptions]
> If the above assumptions are true, I propose we strip Penderel of its
> scsi dr
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> I want to bounce the
> bloody things and make the senders life hell if possible, rather than
> silently sending them to /dev/null locally)
Oh please don't do that !
Most spammers spoof their return add
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> There must be something I'm missing, else this ASP idea is potentially
> business suicide for anyone who out-sources something critical.
It is if you do it over the internet. Anyone seriously contemplating this
kind of route needs to put in multiple r
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote:
> We've got this Mason only, bosses pet, who is trying to challange our
> decision to rebuild a site in Template, as opposed to Mason.
Well, I've built a CMS in TT and very easy it was too but not what you'd
call a major site.
The largest site I
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> For a paragraph in The Book (oh, you're going to get SO bored with
> this ;-), I'm talking about processing stuff from "plain" text into
> HTML before stuffing it in the database. The kinds of mangling I have
> include:
>
> 1. Running HTML::Entities a
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Writing script which finds the frozen ones
> and tries to exim -M (unfreeze and deliver) does nothing, one that does
> a exim -Mt (unfreeze/thaw) unfreezes everything but mail doesn't get
> through. Eventually everything fre
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Rhys Hopkins wrote:
> I have been asked to investigate replacing an existing application written
> in VB that talks to another application on the same Win32 box using
> COM/DCOM, with an application written in perl on another (linux) box. It
> would still need to talk to the
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Newton, Philip wrote:
> Simon Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Rhys Hopkins wrote:
> >
> > > an application written in perl on another (linux) box. It
> > > would still need to talk to the second application via DCOM.
> >
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote:
> I'm already using StatINC so I'm going to have to do a toss between
> code which I've already written and converging to the Apache::Dispatch
> interface.
Not on a production site I hope !
StatInc does *lot's and lot's* of system calls at every
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> so what muppet (muppet show, new muppets, sesame street, etc.) do
> people on london.pm remind you of, heres my list
[snip list]
> any additions?
Simon Wilcox (essuu) - Beaker - So I've been told
Simon.
--
"R
People may recall that when we went to the zoo last year the camels didn't
look very happy.
Well I went to the zoo a couple of weeks ago and I am pleased to report
that they seem much happier now.
Following the move of the elephants to Whipsnade, the camels have been
moved into the old elephant
On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> If ${'no-one in particular'} did a talk (or tutorial) on advanced used of the
> perl debugger, how many people would think "bah. That's more advanced that I
> know about. I would have preferred it if he did an introduction to the perl
> debugger, as my
I've received an invitation to tender for a very nice job involving lots
of SMS messaging, about which I know very little but it has a lot of
potential so I'm really keen to have a go at it.
If anyone has commercial experience of such things and would like to work
with me on a pitch, and hope
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>
> Mtasty...
>
> http://www.it.Jobserve.com/jobserve/EmailJob.asp?jobid=3dJ8C4ABDBF27FE78B5
Then again...
"You must have worked for a company that is involved in Network Security,
preferably one that produces security products..."
Now that
e turns up
nothing.
Simon.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:16:34 +0100 (BST)
From: Simon Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: xxx
Subject: Memoize test failure
Hi,
Memoize's test fail in tie_ndbm.t on my machine. Switching on $Verbose and
runn
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Simon Batistoni wrote:
> I think personal bios still have a problem, in that there has to be
> some criteria for "bio-worthiness", which doesn't wind up looking
> elitist. I have a sinking feeling that the two things are
> incompatible, and that nice idea as it is, it really
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Lusercop wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:49:27PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> > * Must be a poster to the list
> > * Or a regular on IRC
> > * Or a regular at the pub and/or technical meets.
>
> OK, how do you judge any of these?
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Roger Burton West wrote:
> > And you're asking "does any part of Test lie within Interval"?
> >
> > 0 if test.start > interval.end
> > 0 if test.end < interval.start
> > 1 otherwise
> Nah, return true if the two intervals
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Chisel Wright wrote:
> What about the negative property of having to (re)boot into windows, or
> find a windows box, type up your CV. Save.
Or use OpenOffice.org or StarOffice or whatever reckons it can save in a
Word format.
If you believe that a plain text cv makes a big
I don't know if anyone is having a go at these but I am stuck on this
weeks expert quiz before I've even written any code.
If anyone can explain to me how the algorithm works and how to make it
scale to best-of-n games I would be most grateful.
The problem is described here:
http://perl.plove
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Simon Wistow wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:56:56PM +0100, Nicholas Clark said:
> > stuff
>
> my plan is exactly that. The box will be a Smoothwall box with two
> network cards and a wireless card in it for, red, green and orange zones
> respectively.
Beware that Smooth
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 1: If these devices will run attached via Ethernet to any machine running any
>OS? [or does the device require their software to help bootstrap it]
I have telewest cable modem service, using a Motorola SURFboard modem
supplied (and replaced once)
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 10:54, Shevek wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Simon Wilcox wrote:
>
> > If anyone can explain to me how the algorithm works and how to make it
> > scale to best-of-n games I would be most grateful.
> >
> > The problem is described here:
> >
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> However I was wondering what the name of the street was which had the
> pub we always used to meet at and Betty Boo was on it as well. Can
> anyone remember?
http://www.coffeeshopbettyboop.com/ suggests it is at Nieuwezijdskolk 12,
1012 PV Amsterdam
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Kevin Gurney wrote:
> "** TOTALS 5533.860.000.000.00 5533.86
> 0.00 5533.860.00 5533.86 5533.86"
>
> P.S If anyone feels so inclined, a better way of matching the numbers would
> be most appreciated as I'm simply picking
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 11:04, Simon Wistow wrote:
> I've implemented Jwz's mail threading algorithm, as described here
>
[ snip gory details ]
>
> Comments?
Does Mail::Box::Threads do what you want ?
http://search.cpan.org/author/MARKOV/Mail-Box-1.324/Box/Threads.pm
Simon.
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 11:55, Andy Williams wrote:
> so I've opted for using RTF::Writer.
>
> Basically just wondering if anyone has any stories (good or bad) about using
> this module or combining it with TT2.
I don't have any experience of RTF::Writer but TT2 does have a LaTeX
filter that can c
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, David Cantrell wrote:
> Hey contractory people, I might get some short-term work next week, can
> anyone point me at a sensible standard contract I can use? Bear in mind
> that I don't give a monkeys about IR35 as I have no intention of being
> an evil tax-evader.
Would this
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 20:17, David Cantrell wrote:
> There are several people still on the Naughty List from before I took over
> as Minister For Books. In the next few days, I will be naming and shaming
> those who have yet to review the following:
> Programming Cold Fusion
I own up to having t
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 12:22, Alex McLintock wrote:
> At 17:46 21/11/02, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> >On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 20:17, David Cantrell wrote:
> > > There are several people still on the Naughty List from before I took over
> > > as Minister For Books. In the next
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 10:59, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 10:43, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> > > ObPerl: Anyone using Apache 2.0 with mod_perl in production yet?
> >
> > Anybody who upgraded to RedHat 8.0 without checking will be...
>
> Well, it rather,
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 16:07, Jasper McCrea wrote:
> I'm not sure how GPRS would work with Demon at all. Don't they still require you
> to be connected via dial-up to access the POP server. I know they used to. I
> just use the webmail for my demon mail for this reason, but it'd be nice to know
>
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 14:47, Andy Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been asked a to build in someones php application into our website. The
> website is all perl/cgi/template toolkit
Unlucky :)
> So my question is, is there any way I can tell apache (maybe with headers)
> that this is php outp
On 11 Dec 2002, Nigel Wetters wrote:
> Andy Wardley (AW) and Simon Wistow (SW) said:
> AW>> There's almost no way to make one module work for both version, as
> AW>> far as I can see, except to pepper the source with #ifdefs and
> AW>> effectively bodge both versions into one file. And I don't li
I can't find anything on the CPAN but I can't believe this module doesn't
exist :
I have a path, say "dira/dirb/../dirc/file" and I want to collapse it to a
canonical path "dira/dirc/file".
I also need to deal with "dira/dirb/../../dird/file" collapsing back to
"dird/file".
Anyone point me
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Graham Barr wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 06:07:36PM +0000, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > I can't find anything on the CPAN but I can't believe this module doesn't
> > exist :
> >
> > I have a path, say "d
On 12 Dec 2002, Ian Brayshaw wrote:
> One thing you should be aware of is that File::Spec won't always
> collapse to the neatest form. From memory (it's been a while since I
> used it) it doesn't remove extraneous ./ from the path (which may or may
> not be a problem). As an alternative you could
On 12 Dec 2002, Alex Hudson wrote:
> Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree, but I don't think you can just
> 'throw away' bits of the directory path (i.e., ./somedir/../ != ./ ).
>
> For example, on my system I can contrive a directory such that:
>
> me$ cat ./one/../test/file
> foo
> me$ cat ./te
On 12 Dec 2002, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 20:52, Simon Wilcox wrote:
>
> > Not a problem for this example as web browsers use the simple method for
> > turning relative paths into absolute urls they can request.
> >
> > It is relevant for file
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Shevek wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Simon Wilcox wrote:
>
> > for my $part (@parts) {
> > next if $part eq $curdir;
> > if ($part eq $updir) {
> > die "Can't climb past start" unless (shift @canon)
I have a variable thus:
$mailprog = '/some/mailprog';
Later, it gets used thus:
$result = open SENDMAIL, "| $command";
And then stuff gets printed to it.
I want to capture the stuff that's printed to it into a plain text file.
What unix command can I use that will take it's input and write i
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, darren chamberlain wrote:
> * Simon Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-12 15:02]:
> > Seems to work on the test cases I can think of and it should be
> > portable too. Not sure if the die is too harsh, maybe it should return
> > undef.
>
&g
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 05:54:24PM +0100, Robin Berjon wrote:
> > Gzip and Apache::Clean are your friends.
>
> Gzip because it's actually net faster to compress the outgoing data to get
> rid of outgoing connections sooner? Or just because CPU is cheap
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Having looked at some of the crap in HTML, it seems to be lots of font and
> colo(u)r tags, things more tersely done once in a CSS, especially if the
> spec is allowed to say "we're aiming at $modern browser" where modern is
> defined to mean CSS works.
On 7 Jan 2003, Nigel Wetters wrote:
> For example, it is possible that multinational companies (and ISPs) may
> use US-registered IP addresses outside of the USA. It is difficult to
> see how this could be measured.
When I worked for Morgan Stanley in 1998, they routed all their internet
traffic
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Nigel Hamilton wrote:
> You probably know that when a programmer is employed in the UK IT
> industry, there is an implied contract of service (i.e., work for hire)
> ... this means any copyright works created while working is assigned to
> the employer ... most IT contra
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Before I write one... Has anyone heard of a simple contained script or
> tool to create & edit .htaccess and .htpasswd files? I got bored of
> doing it by hand after my first two. Web-based would be nice but a
> parser/generator would be a great start.
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Shevek wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote:
>
> > Before I write one... Has anyone heard of a simple contained script or
> > tool to create & edit .htaccess and .htpasswd files? I got bored of
> > doing it by hand after my first two. Web-based would be nice but
I'm not sure which piece of magic might do want I want but here's the
problem:
I'm buiding an app using Class::DBI. There is a master object called
DataStore which is the sub-class of Class::DBI and from which all the
business objects (represented by tables in the database) inherit.
Most of t
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Simon Wistow wrote:
>
> It's been a while since I've done a full blown web app, especially with
> a templating system, and I'd appreciate some advice.
>
> Single CGI with a load of if/else statments based on mode or something
> ...
>
> my $q= new CGI();
> my $mode = $q-
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 10:23, Simon Batistoni wrote:
> On 20/01/03 10:21 +, Alex McLintock wrote:
> > A perl question.
> >
> > I'm considering whether to build a web app on an NT4 box using perl and
> > apache, or java and tomcat. The existing box is NT and although I'd
> > normally recom
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Shevek wrote:
> I just gave away a 386/8MHz which ran it. Slackware 4.0.
386/8MHz ? Thee were lucky lad !
When I were a boy I had to make do with an abacus !
An abacus ? Thee were lucky lad !
When I were a boy I had to make do with scratching in the dust with a
rusty nail
Our new leader seems to have excellent delegating skillz as I've found
myself volunteering to be the cat herder for YAPC this year !
More details here: http://www.yapc.org/Europe/2003/index.html
So - who's going and how long do people want to stay ?
Right now I'm thinking travel on the 22nd and
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> However, I suspect that somewhere between a majority and an overwhelming
> majority would prefer the Sunday. It might turn out that travelling back
> on one day is significantly cheaper than the other. (My hunch is that cheaper
> ticket deals prefer you
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 17:34, Simon Batistoni wrote:
> We're currently considering shifting our core mod-perl system here at
> work to use Class::DBI, since many of the classes we have already are
> pretty much reinventing its wheel, and we currently have the time and
> space to make a few structura
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Andy Wardley wrote:
> Penny Bamborough wrote:
>
> > The site has grown considerably since that time, we do use Win2k servers
> > with our own IIS extensions written in C++ to power the site
>
> I'm a little surprised by that. Although I must admit that I've never
> writt
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 12:51, Joel Bernstein wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 12:39:07PM +, Ian Brayshaw wrote:
> > monkey's? Afterall, the client has the right to refuse to pay the coder
> > and refuse the final product if explicitly stated standards are not met.
>
> Fair enough, but at what p
On 11 Feb 2003, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> Yes, maybe, but show me one of these systems that _consistantly_
> produces faster code than someone who is "talented". I willingly agree
> that the code is physically produced faster - but it don't go as well.
>
> And this is the nub of it. Basically there
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 12:35, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 12:28, Ben wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:49:25AM +, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> > >
> > > And just maybe I might retrain as one seeing some of the salaries / fees
> > > plumbers are getting these days...
> >
> > To say
Lawyers - never use one word when ten will suffice.
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 12:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free
> as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed,
> arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Th
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:21, Leon Brocard wrote:
> This email got sent to the YAPC::Europe committee mailing list. I
> thought I'd share it all with you. It's slightly worrying that USians
> are taking it personally.
>
> FWIW my reply was "YAPC is a non-political organisation and run by
> voluntee
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:45, Mark Fowler wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Simon Wilcox wrote:
>
> > Not to worry, we'll all have been melted down in a nuclear conflagration
> > by the summer anyway.
>
> This is no excuse not to at least to attempt to organise the tri
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:06, Tim Sweetman wrote:
> Lusercop wrote:
> > I doubt it will have been melted down, more likely instantly vapourised,
> > I suspect. And it will probably be friendly-fire that bombs london by the
> > USAF, because they got their maps upside-down, too.
> PS. This is not th
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Simon Wistow wrote:
> What I hope is that Perl 6 is like that. That most people will never see
> the complicated bits. What I worry about is maintaining code by someone
> like Piers (sorry Piers :) which is so full of clever bits that I will
> have to deal with 'Full on Larry
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 15:59, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Has anyone implemented a barebones or better DNS blocklist? I'm
> wondering if Net::DNS::Update might appear somewhere there, and what
> changes to named.conf would be needed.
>
> Basically I'm trying to keep my secondary MXs aware of any IPs th
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 17:50, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 04:51:56PM +0000, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 15:59, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > > Has anyone implemented a barebones or better DNS blocklist? I'm
> > > wondering if Net::DN
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 19:24, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>
> So I was on IRC today, and someone (feel free to name yourself) was
> talking about how cool it would be to have perlforge / perl
> breadbasked / oyster bed (as you can see we got into naming). Anyway
> whatever it would be called it would be
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 08:11, Simon Wistow wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:00:03PM +0000, Simon Wilcox said:
> > What would it's *purpose* be ?
>
> What Aaron/Teejay was talking about (for yay, it was he), I think, was
> something I bought up a while back viz that ins
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:15, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> * Clayton, Nik [IT] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > I don't think videoing speakers is useful.
> >
> > It is if you're speaking, and want to see what needs improving in your
> > presentation skills.
> >
>
> I think this is a myth put forward
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 15:59, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>
> Ok, its been talked about in the past, but does anyone have any plans
> for a london.pm meet up to watch Ireland kick Englands arse on sunday.
> How about somewhere nice and central as well, what about the pillars
> of hercules? or does someon
Over on the GLLUG list there's a thread about why someone doesn't use
CGI.pm. His answer is that it doesn't support CSS very well, which is
kinda true but then he should be using a templating system for that kind
of advanced stuff.
I want to recommend that he uses CGI.pm anyway, for it's form par
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 13:07, Jon Reades wrote:
>
> Yikes, there's also BFPO...
Is that actually a postcode ?
AFAIK it's the acronym for British Forces Posted Overseas and is just
part of an address that doesn't have a postcode, as not all addresses
need them. For instance Named Freepost addresse
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 13:25, Jon Reades wrote:
>
> Yes, you're right -- it's military and not technically a postcode
> (neither is SAN TA1). I'd guess, however, that many people would throw
> it into the postcode field of a form since it rather 'looks like one'
> (although one wouldn't expect t
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Jasper McCrea wrote:
> Simon Wistow wrote:
> > It is *really* important that you sign up though. You will not "under
> > any circumstances" be let in if you've not signed up according to the
> > office manager.
>
> Not that I've been to many tech meets, but this doesn't seem l
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Jasper McCrea wrote:
> Simon Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Jasper McCrea wrote:
> >
> > > Not that I've been to many tech meets, but this doesn't seem like a very good
> > > policy for a meeting place. Although
Many thanks to everyone who has replied requesting various combinations of
travel and accomodation.
I will be submitting the list to the travel agent on Monday morning. After
this time I can't guarantee that we'll be able to get extra people into
the hotel so make sure I get your details befor
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> You don't have an option for travel only - is it going to be possible
> to do that?
Probably, I'll talk to you offlist about it.
> Much that I love london.pm, I suspect that I may be sharing with someone
> from another PM group. And generally I find th
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:41, Peter Haworth wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:32:37 -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
> > p.s. There's a great letter in this week's Radio Times. Someone is
> > complaining about a recent TV version of some Shakespeare play. Their
> > complaint is that it was performed
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:51, Jasper McCrea wrote:
> What are the various shakespeare -> strange genre adaptations? I can only think
> of Forbidden Planet offhand.
Romeo & Juliet -> West Side Story
On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 15:54, Mark Fowler wrote:
[ snip moon->request ]
> Suggestions?
File::DirSync ?
http://search.cpan.org/author/BBB/File-DirSync-1.07/lib/File/DirSync.pm
Seems to work for me in a webapp.
Simon.
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Ha`s anyone used a Telewest modem and had problems having it play nicely
> with Linux?
Yes and No. My Smoothwall runs just fine.
> I'm wondering if the modem is rejected the MAC of the linux box while
> the Windows's box's lease is still in effect or
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Dave Cross wrote:
> 1/ How much chance is there that a Samba installation will cause
> problems? How stable is Samba?
Very few although make sure you have a recent version if you're using
Windows 2000 or XP anywhere. There were some issues that needed to be
resolved when the
Does anyone have recommendations for dyanmic image viewers that I can
incorporate into a website to allow visitors to zoom in/out on product
images ?
3D isn't really a requirement but would be nice to have. I've looked at
ipix and iseemedia but they seem to be aimed at panorama views from a
f
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Raf wrote:
> I've just been asked to provide the name of a recommended hotel for the
> conference. Is there one? Since the site has a number of links, I
> wondered if anyone could give me a good suggestion if the company is
> forking the bill? Since I've got to pay for my gf
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Raf wrote:
> > Are you sure about the number? I just dialed 441422 886440 and got a
> > puzzled lady at the end of the phone. I repeated the number to her and
>
> In the event that anyone else is thinking of calling, the number appears
> to be:
>01482 886 440
Bah. Sorry
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