Re: Getting the "latest" related record from a SQL DB

2014-10-09 Thread Smylers
her seem particularly tidy to me, so am I missing something > completely obvious? I'd go with the approach you dismissed as “isn't possible”. Let us know which DBMS you're using and we can show you how. (The syntax differs between, say, Postgres and MySQL.) Cheers Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: CPANTS and CPAN Testers (Was: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL)

2014-08-11 Thread Smylers
ons, such as for your email address; thereafter it just works. Install it with: $ cpanm App::cpanminus::reporter Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: Interview - a Dancer in London:)

2014-06-25 Thread Smylers
there are others who are now in the position you were a year ago. So whatever you've learnt in the past year or so would likely make a good talk for somebody. That's true even if you've been doing things at a basic level, or mostly seem to've picked up a bunch of experience in h

Re: Character encodings and databases

2014-06-21 Thread Smylers
bably best to state that > clearly in questions like this.) In fairness to Andrew, it seemed pretty clear to me. Smylers -- Girls don't wear their shoes out, and boys don't care about style? Clarks think so: http://j.mp/clarksgirlboyposters Disagree? Don't want shops promoting gen

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-28 Thread Smylers
for Vista or > 7, blackhats will look to see if the same holes exist unpatched in > XP. OK. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-28 Thread Smylers
James Laver writes: > On 27 Mar 2014, at 17:01, Smylers wrote: > > Ubuntu has built in VNC support. If you can walk your mother through > setting up reverse SSH tunnel*, you’d be able to do it for her, > remotely. > > James > > * Well, it’s only one command. You’d n

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-27 Thread Smylers
David Cantrell writes: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 03:21:02PM +0000, Smylers wrote: > > > Note my concerns weren't about the OS's user interface, but scanner > > support and a couple of decades' worth of WordPerfect documents. > > Assuming that Ubuntu supp

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-27 Thread Smylers
Fred Youhanaie writes: > On 27/03/14 11:48, Smylers wrote: > > > • Ubuntu: The OS will install, but I don't know if Mum's scanner > > will work with it, and I'm pretty sure it won't work in the same > > way, where pressing a physical button on the

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-27 Thread Smylers
ery). How much is a basic Mac, and how long would it be supported for? > That laptop won't last forever and even Ubuntu will perform poorly > really. The current performance seems to be acceptable (with XP). Thanks for your reply. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-27 Thread Smylers
Raphael Mankin wrote directly to me, but has given me permission to reply on the list: > On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 11:48 +0000, Smylers wrote: > > > • Ubuntu: The OS will install, but I don't know if Mum's scanner will > > work with it, and I'm pretty sure it

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-27 Thread Smylers
to her and one of which I have no experience — please could you elucidate on what you think we should do, and why it's better than the options I listed. Thanks. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-27 Thread Smylers
t; [1] Not to be parsed as $work::s As it happens, it was actually your footnote signifier which I somehow managed to mis-parsed, initially thinking [1] was a subscript and wondering how many elements your @work array currently has! Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-27 Thread Smylers
Andrew Beverley writes: > On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 11:48 +0000, Smylers wrote: > > > Options that I can see: > > > > • Ubuntu: > > I moved my parents onto Ubuntu after getting fed up with many > "support" calls with things not working in Windows. Th

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-27 Thread Smylers
Mike Woods writes: > On 27/03/14 11:48, Smylers wrote: > > > My mum has a laptop running Windows XP, which she's happy with > > except that support for XP ends on April 8th, and she's asked me > > what she should do. The only Windows computer I've ever ow

XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-27 Thread Smylers
any more, but the latest Firefox says it still works on XP, so as long as she sticks with Firefox, what are the risks to her? Any thoughts on this matter gratefully received. Mum is 250 miles away, and we won't be visiting till July, but I may be able to prime my sister to provide local support. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: BT Wifi turns off SSL for Google Search!?

2014-03-26 Thread Smylers
ss, and a functioning direct debit mandate. If they're happy for me to make encrypted searches over their network and equipment in my own home, why should they have a problem with my doing that at a bus stop? Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: BT Wifi turns off SSL for Google Search!?

2014-03-25 Thread Smylers
tly deem the lack of Referer: header that comes with that to be some kind of breach of their human rights > It seems that BT Wifi have decided to implement this for their > customer-facing network. ... The point is that BT Wifi are > deliberately meddling in something that's not their place to meddle > in. Quite. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: tablets for parents

2014-03-11 Thread Smylers
r is BT broadband customer, then their router is likely doubling as a Fon hotspot[*1]). I'm not claiming this is a superior option for you versus 3G, merely pointing it out as a possible alternative. Smylers [*1] Weirdly, if your ADSL plan has a data quota, the quota only applies to usage t

Re: consolidate regexes

2014-02-25 Thread Smylers
something similar to what you want, but requires the 100s of things you're comparing against are fixed strings) http://aaroncrane.co.uk/2008/05/text_match_fastalternatives/ Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: Hash::Util's lock_keys

2014-02-19 Thread Smylers
has been less painful for me. ‘Odd number of elements’ bugs tend to be relatively easy to spot (the hash contains nonsense), and locking the keys in %args would catch them anyway. > So, what are your opinions about this? Please give it a go, let us know how it goes, and if it's successful start evangelizing it to the wider Perl community. Good luck! Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: Regex teaser

2013-12-05 Thread Smylers
g once I've sent this > mail. Thank you to Damian Conway, the module's author, for diagnosing and fixing this within hours: Regexp::Debugger 0.001018 is now on Cpan. As well as no longer crashing, it now only reports two successful matches in the above one-liner. Smylers -- T

Re: Regex teaser

2013-12-04 Thread Smylers
e less surprising and more useful than Perl's behaviour. Smylers -- The UK gov's proposed gagging law will suppress protest and campaigning by charities and political groups. Read more: http://civilsocietycommission.info/ Please sign this petition: http://38d.gs/1cJ9ViA Oxfam • BHA • Quake

Re: Regex teaser

2013-12-04 Thread Smylers
ike s/$/./ work. > Almost, if not actually, bug-like. I agree the behaviour isn't immediately obvious. But it does make sense when thinking about what each component means separately. So what does seem bug-like to me is the Python behaviour — can anybody explain that? Cheers Smylers -

Re: Database Design Advice

2013-11-18 Thread Smylers
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker writes: > Smylers writes: > > > Here it is in Postgres's own function language, which goes by the > > awkwardly written name PL/pgSQL: > > > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION set_document_version_num() RETURNS TRIGGER AS > > $FN$

Re: Database Design Advice

2013-11-08 Thread Smylers
Abigail writes: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 11:43:08AM +0000, Smylers wrote: > > > A discount can either be a percentage or a value in euros. I can > > think of several suboptimal ways of representing this: > > I opted for two columns, "additional" and "p

Re: Database Design Advice

2013-11-08 Thread Smylers
Dirk Koopman writes: > It all depends on the application and your view as to where the > business might go in the future. Database design should only be performed by a qualified soothsayer? James Laver writes: > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Smylers wrote: > > > • S

Re: Database Design Advice

2013-11-08 Thread Smylers
Abigail writes: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 01:03:00PM +0000, Smylers wrote: > > > version should start at 1 for each document and be > > I've used triggers to enforce business rules like this in the past Mark Stringer writes: > I've used BEFORE INSERT trig

Re: Database Design Advice

2013-11-08 Thread Smylers
which will get worse if the business concocts another discount type in future. All suggestions gratefully received. Thanks Smylers -- The UK gov's proposed gagging law will suppress protest and campaigning by charities and political groups. Read more: http://civilsocietycommission.info/ Ple

Re: Database Design Advice

2013-11-08 Thread Smylers
James Laver writes: > Smylers wrote: > > > William Blunn writes: > > > > > Instead of storing a version ID (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), you could > > > store a SERIAL. > > > > > > So for one document ID, you might store versions 10, 11, 12, 5

Re: Database Design Advice

2013-11-07 Thread Smylers
William Blunn writes: > On 07/11/2013 13:03, Smylers wrote: > > > That is, if there is a record for document_id = 3846, version = 6 > > then there should also be records for version 1 to 5 of that > > document ID. Is there a way of enforcing that at the DB level? &g

Re: Database Design Advice

2013-11-07 Thread Smylers
William Blunn writes: > On 07/11/2013 13:03, Smylers wrote: > > > A purchase consists of ordering one product from a supplier. Each > > product is only available from a single supplier. So a record in > > the purchase table just needs to store a product ID, and by &

Database Design Advice

2013-11-07 Thread Smylers
atabase enforce that they both go to the same supplier? (That is, that a purchase handled by a particular contact must be for a product sold by that contact's company?) Thank you for any advice. Smylers -- The UK gov's proposed gagging law will suppress protest and campaigning by c

Re: Tourist-y suggestions?

2013-11-01 Thread Smylers
seumofbrands.com/ And a backstage tour of the National Theatre was interesting, delivered by a very knowledgeable and enthusiastic guide. It's listed as 1 h 15 min, but ours went on for almost 2 hours: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover/backstage-tours Have fun. Smylers -- Stop

Re: Could use some hotel/travel help

2013-09-26 Thread Smylers
eans you can't do things like check they can provide a cot before paying and committing, let alone see how far they are from the nearest Tube station (or which line they're on), look for guest reviews, and so on. We wouldn't've risked that for our trip, but I can see it being u

Re: Could use some hotel/travel help

2013-09-26 Thread Smylers
Peter Corlett writes: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:20:08AM +0100, Smylers wrote: > > > We'll also be spending a couple of nights in London in November, > > where we found a Premier Inn quoting £189 for 1 night, which is > > crazy money for a budget hotel. > >

Re: Perl Doom and Gloom

2013-09-26 Thread Smylers
ey're using Perl. > > They are (or at least some of their people attend Perl training > courses) That's just a pretext for spying on Perl hackers. Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/

Re: Could use some hotel/travel help

2013-09-26 Thread Smylers
nn that quoted us £189 for a night is in London Bridge. Hopefully Randy will be less unlucky than we were in finding a reasonable price. Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.

Re: Could use some hotel/travel help

2013-09-26 Thread Smylers
ne didn't find anything additional or provide better rates. And nor was it's interface so slick or process so helpful that I'm wishing I'd used it instead of Booking.com. Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clini

Re: Could use some hotel/travel help

2013-09-26 Thread Smylers
2 stops on the Tube to your terminal. The hotel was fine, and the staff friendly: http://heathrowhotels.jurysinns.com/ Good luck with sorting it out Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/

Re: Robot Turtles — Let's Do This

2013-09-24 Thread Smylers
I'll place the order for us all”. Go on, one of you — it isn't that hard! Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/

Re: Robot Turtles — Let's Do This

2013-09-24 Thread Smylers
(and much of that time was overnight), and I've had to turn down 3 more people who expressed interest today since then. Cheers Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.allt

Re: Robot turtles

2013-09-23 Thread Smylers
ider may add their own cut on top (but Nationwide don't on mine). Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/

Re: Robot Turtles — Let's Do This

2013-09-23 Thread Smylers
ost at the end of the Kickstarter campaign. Kickstarter will charge my card at that point, not when the Robot Turtles arrive. • If you want more than 1 copy, please make that clear in your email. How's that sound? Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results.

Re: Robot turtles

2013-09-23 Thread Smylers
than either of the two individual ones. It cannot possibly make sense for this list to exist. Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/

Re: Assigning anonymous hash to a list

2013-07-30 Thread Smylers
only operating inside those parens, rather than splitting up your statement in an unwanted place. Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/

Re: Heathrow & Pushchair on BA

2013-07-08 Thread Smylers
> Ideally they'd like an "umbrella buggy" but we've not had problems > with our bigger pram. Phew! Ours does collapse, but into a plane rather than a line. > buggies are dropped off at gate, and depending on the destination come > out with the normal baggage on the conveyors, or are brought to the > aircraft door after you've landed. Be sure to ask which, Again, most useful to know. Thank you Smylers

Heathrow & Pushchair on BA

2013-07-07 Thread Smylers
"fully collapsible" means something different from "collapsible" to BA -- does our buggy have to be particularly small when folded in order to be allowed on at all? Thanks for any advice. Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petitio

Re: Living with smart match breakage

2013-06-14 Thread Smylers
de on what's going to happen. There are some on P5P suggesting that smartmatch is so broken it should be removed entirely. Personally I liked RJBS's proposal, but not everybody else did. Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get

Re: PDF creation?

2013-04-21 Thread Smylers
dvantages or disadvantages over that. Cheers Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/

Re: A stranger arrives in town ...

2013-04-09 Thread Smylers
David H. Adler writes: > Cellphone Warehouse? Carphone Warehouse -- they aren't a warehouse, and they don't sell car-phones. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: jQuery

2013-03-21 Thread Smylers
Instead of, say, jQuip. Oooh, what's that? Should I be using it instead of jQuery? Thanks Smylers [*1] Also, I tried JavaScript at some point circa 1999, and I think I may be allergic to it. -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: Raising Perl awareness on Tiobe + Wikipedia, etc.

2013-03-20 Thread Smylers
me proposal. It honestly didn't occur to me a Perl advocate would be in favour of the rename.) Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: Perl syntax highlighting

2012-10-26 Thread Smylers
e in q{...} string apparently being interpreted as the > start of a string literal Vim gets all of those correct. Smylers -- New series of TV puzzle show 'Only Connect' (some questions by me) Mondays at 20:30 on BBC4, or iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/onlyconnect

Re: Hotels for the LPW

2012-10-25 Thread Smylers
u don't need to be a member. You do get a duvet (but need to bring your own towel). Smylers -- New series of TV puzzle show 'Only Connect' (some questions by me) Mondays at 20:30 on BBC4, or iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/onlyconnect

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-05 Thread Smylers
David Hodgkinson writes: > On 4 Sep 2012, at 16:07, Smylers wrote: > > > Piers Cawley writes: > > > > > Tower of Hanoi is always a better example for solving with > > > recursion than the fibobloodynacci sequence. If nothing else, the > > > recursiv

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-04 Thread Smylers
hich mark out a good software engineer in the abstract. That of course means that what some people may consider to be a poor interview question is a most splendid question for a different vacancy. Cheers Smylers -- New series of TV puzzle show 'Only Connect' (some questions by me) Mon

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-01 Thread Smylers
y problems with it. The afternoon applicant was clearly keen to learn how he could avoid such SQL injection issues, and enthusiastically grasped the concept and advantages of placeholders. So I think the actual code an applicant writes is much less important than their replies and attitude when you as

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-01 Thread Smylers
questions correctly to be worth interviewing. After 12 years I'm not holding out hope. A year or so goes by, then: * The company I work for runs Perl courses, and Yahoo! books one. I end up turning up to Yahoo!'s offices and training some of their Perl team, I think the team I applied to work for. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

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

2012-09-01 Thread Smylers
sidential areas, have one or t'other in range. And you get a Flickr Pro account thrown in. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: Puzzle

2012-08-28 Thread Smylers
Simon Wistow writes: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 07:13:53PM +0100, Smylers said: > > For the rest of the points we still need to state what the connections > > are for t'other 3 groups. > > woolfy, book, ash, cog- use.perl/irc nicks > Acme, Email, Getopt, Date -

Re: Puzzle

2012-08-28 Thread Smylers
#x27;Batman' group. For the rest of the points we still need to state what the connections are for t'other 3 groups. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: Puzzle

2012-08-28 Thread Smylers
Will Crawford writes: > I thought "clang" _was_ an onomatopoesis, Clearly it is in general, but Simon's right that the group is specifically those used in Batman, and clang isn't one of those. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: Puzzle

2012-08-28 Thread Smylers
bash (Batman onomatopoeia) > > Except that "bash" isn't a Batman onomatopoeia word. Indeed. So those two groups aren't quite right. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: Puzzle

2012-08-28 Thread Smylers
Mark Overmeer writes: > Acme, BooK, cog, Woolfy # people > ping, comm, date, getopt # unix commands > awk, clang, bash, ash# languages > email, biff, kapow, crunch # network Sorry, none of those are groups. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: Puzzle

2012-08-28 Thread Smylers
Martin Atukunda writes: > awk clang ash bash? Sorry, not a group. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: Puzzle

2012-08-28 Thread Smylers
Will Crawford writes: > ACME, Email, Getopt, Date? Yes (though I think it's actually Acme). Sorry, haven't been around much today. It turns out London.pm see a quiz as something to do on a workday rather than a Bank Holiday -- who knew? Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Puzzle

2012-08-26 Thread Smylers
cheating. Good luck! And if you like puzzle-based quizzes, the new series of 'Only Connect' (some questions written by me) starts tonight on BBC4 at 20:30, and will afterwards be on iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m9ty9 Cheers Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-23 Thread Smylers
oon, too. O2 top-up vouchers work with Giffgaff, and are available as widely as any other brand. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: on-call rates

2012-06-28 Thread Smylers
David Cantrell writes: > For example, if I must always be contactable by phone immediately, > they'd have to compensate me for no longer being able to go to the > cinema or theatre, Or visit friends and relatives in hospital. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Smylers
Leon Brocard writes: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:25:20PM +0000, Smylers wrote: > > > If it turns out that some of the people who've signed up can't > > actually make it, is there a mechanism for them to relinquish their > > spaces and make them available fo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Smylers
ir spaces and make them available for others? Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: 5 minimums for any perl script?

2012-02-03 Thread Smylers
David Cantrell writes: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:57:35PM +0000, Smylers wrote: > > > 1 Make lots of small commits, one for each separable bug, feature, > > refactoring, or whatever, and clearly described as much: make a > > commit whenever you have something

Re: Laptop Recommendation

2012-02-02 Thread Smylers
mall downside: it only has 2 USB ports (compared with 3 on both the Dell and the ThinkPad). I now know far more about laptops than I ever wanted to. I hope that somebody finds the above useful so that they don't have to repeat my pain, and that it'll be many years before I have to go through this process again. Cheers Smylers

Re: 5 minimums for any perl script?

2012-02-02 Thread Smylers
Leo Lapworth writes: > I've been asked what would be a good minimum to have as a coding > police for a company that isn't focused on Perl, but uses it > occasionally. Hi. Thanks for posing such an interesting question, Leo, and for everybody who's contributed answers -- it's been useful to see th

Re: The proper way to open()

2012-02-01 Thread Smylers
David Cantrell writes: > On 01/02/2012 13:34, Smylers wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:12 AM, David Cantrell > > > wrote: > > > > > > > No. The correct solution to buggy code caused by precedence is > > > > not to invent

Re: The proper way to open()

2012-02-01 Thread Smylers
call I would've indicated it with parens like this, where it's quite clear that everything inside the parens happens before anything outside: my $result = (process munge $input), $limit; I find it odd that placing the opening paren after the function name makes it behave as though it were before, rather than just changing the precedence of the terms the parens enclose. (See above comment about core Perl features.) So I can see why somebody would choose to adopt the opposite policy of always using parens with all functions, to avoid this trap. Cheers Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: The proper way to open()

2012-01-30 Thread Smylers
e file's path in any way -- but I've found it preferable to have the simplicity of standardizing on always using Path::Class everywhere (rather than to open files in different ways depending on where the filename came from). Cheers Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: Laptop Recommendation

2012-01-24 Thread Smylers
It turns out it's even certified: http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201102-7187 > I apologise in advance if this solution is insufficiently idealistic > for your taste, No, it's a good idea, thank you. If I end up buying a laptop with Windows or OS X installed I shall d

Re: Laptop Recommendation

2012-01-24 Thread Smylers
Dirk Koopman writes: > On 24/01/12 09:10, Smylers wrote: > > > Right now shopping on laptop websites can't possibly be more painful > > than going into PC World and trying to engage their staff in > > meaningful technical conversation. > > > > At least

Re: Laptop Recommendation

2012-01-24 Thread Smylers
The Hatter writes: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2012, Smylers wrote: > > > Is two-finger scrolling any good (when it works, obviously)? I've > > never had a system where that was an option. > > It will become instinctive in a very short time. Thanks. > You will curse and

Re: Laptop Recommendation

2012-01-24 Thread Smylers
laptop and get a feel for how much it weighs. I could even take the kitchen scales with me ... (While finding the Acer UK website though, going via the Acer Group site I did learn that Gateway (moo!) and Packard Bell (shudder) still exist.) Bah. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: Laptop Recommendation

2012-01-23 Thread Smylers
Nicholas Clark writes: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 06:47:12PM +0000, Smylers wrote: > > > I'm not looking to change OSes right now though, and would rather > > put up with the infelicities I'm used to rather than have a whole > > bunch of unfamiliar ones inflicted

Re: Laptop Recommendation

2012-01-23 Thread Smylers
since the root-kit audio CD incident, thought that's probably irrational of me to hold that against an entirely different part of Sony many years later and without researching what other laptop manufacturers have been up to which could be just as bad.) Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: Laptop Recommendation

2012-01-23 Thread Smylers
Joel Bernstein writes: > On 23 January 2012 19:17, Smylers wrote: > > > I realize that I stupidly omitted to state that I'll be running > > Ubuntu on whatever I buy. > > Surely not on a Macbook Air though? Yes. I'm currently running Ubuntu, on a laptop

Re: Laptop Recommendation

2012-01-23 Thread Smylers
Andrew Jones writes: > On 23 January 2012 12:51, Smylers wrote: > > > The ThinkPad X220 also looks plausible. Anybody able to report on > > the touchpad? Or whether they off warranty extensions to 4 years? > > I have the X220. The touchpad seems OK to me. Thanks. &g

Laptop Recommendation

2012-01-23 Thread Smylers
ious other companies make laptops too, but finding out about them was just too painful. Suggestions of any I should consider welcome. Thanks in advance. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2

Re: Blog Spam (Was: Telecommuting)

2011-12-13 Thread Smylers
work for more technical audiences, but it's scarily successful for this one. Cheers Smylers

Re: Telecommuting

2011-12-13 Thread Smylers
all my appointments and noticing that I hadn't acknowledged them. So the first think I see on logging into the new system is a message nagging me that I'm 1773 days late for an appointment. With my last- boss-but-one, who left the company several years ago. In a building which no longer exists. Thanks, Exchange -- that's just what I wanted to know! Smylers

Re: Worst Recruitment Experience

2011-12-09 Thread Smylers
Will Crawford writes: > On 9 December 2011 12:53, Smylers wrote: > > > Leo, I appreciate your point about not naming employers before > > they've had a reasonable time to respond. The above events took > > place on 2000 August 29th -- is 11 years long enough? (If

Re: Worst Recruitment Experience

2011-12-09 Thread Smylers
e on 2000 August 29th -- is 11 years long enough? (If so, I'd like to name the employer as 'The Guardian'. If you still think it's a bit soon then I won't.) Cheers. Smylers -- Watch fiendish TV quiz 'Only Connect' (some questions by me) Mondays at 20:30 on BBC4, or iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/onlyconnect

Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

2011-12-09 Thread Smylers
community > support, I can't understand how they could think this was even > remotely acceptable. It seems quite acceptable to me, so I can understand how others would also think that. (For what it's worth, I have no connections with Net-a-Porter.) Best wishes Smylers -- Watch fiendish TV quiz 'Only Connect' (some questions by me) Mondays at 20:30 on BBC4, or iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/onlyconnect

Re: London Perl Workshop 2011 (UKPW): Industrial Strength Perl (#1)

2011-09-09 Thread Smylers
t few years, my wife is away and I'm completely free ...) I am encouraging colleagues to attend though, and work has agreed to pay expenses for people who work in non-London offices. Hope the organizing is going well, and you manage to recruit plenty of other speakers and trainers. Smylers

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-31 Thread Smylers
David Cantrell writes: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:55:48PM +0100, Smylers wrote: > > > ... advice on where I should put the config file for a command ... > > On Mac and other Unix-a-likes, .${command}rc or .$command for per-user > config, and /etc/$command or /etc/${comma

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread Smylers
Abigail writes: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:55:48PM +0100, Smylers wrote: > > > Hi. I'm looking for some advice on where I should ... ask users to ... > > put the config file for a command I'm distributing on Cpan. Where > > would you ... expect ... > &

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread Smylers
David Precious writes: > On Tuesday 30 August 2011 13:55:48 Smylers wrote: > > > Hi. I'm looking for some advice on where I should put the config file > > for a command I'm distributing on Cpan. > > Config::Find looks like it is designed for exactly what yo

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread Smylers
Philip Newton writes: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:55, Smylers wrote: > > >  I see that psql uses %APPDATA%\postgesql\psqlrc.conf for per-user > >  config > > I think that on Windows, the application data directory hierarchy is > the right place for programs to st

Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread Smylers
SSH .ssh/config. MySQL uses .my.cnf. Would .bangconfig or .bang.cnf be better than .bangrc? And on OSX: * Is this aspect of the system sufficiently similar to FreeBSD that whatever is appropriate there would be appropriate on OSX as well? If not, what's different? Thanks for any wisdom you

Re: Writing About Perl

2011-08-23 Thread Smylers
eir distribution may not be helpful. For what it's worth, I have: PERL_CPANM_OPT='--sudo --prompt' I think --sudo is definitely worth mentioning when introducing somebody to cpanm, since the casual user probably only has one Perl interpreter installed and wants modules to be

Re: Git Config

2011-08-22 Thread Smylers
Aaron Crane writes: > Jason Clifford wrote: > > > On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 11:32 +0100, Smylers wrote: > > > > > Hello. How can I make the git diff command use the -b flag (aka > > > --ignore-space-change) by default? > > > > Have you tried: git c

Re: Git Config

2011-08-20 Thread Smylers
Gianni Ceccarelli writes: > On 2011-08-20 Smylers wrote: > > > Hello. How can I make the git diff command use the -b flag (aka > > --ignore-space-change) by default? > > There does not seem to be a way: > > - no support in config > > http://git.kernel.

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