On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:18:04PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> Isn't there one with lightbulbs ?
>
> There's always one with lightbulbs.
Extensive research has shown that there are no pirate lightbulb jokes,
possibly because of the lack of lightbulbs on Pirate ships. But:
This pirate w
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:43:51PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> How about photographs that already exist? I have photos of my Jupiter
> Ace, and Sharp MZ-80K she's welcome to. (They're pics for ebay as
> they're about to be sold.)
Apparently that's great so long as they're excellent quality, at
A strange request, perhaps, but:
Does anyone happen to have a collection of old computers like BBC
micros, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, ZX 81, etc? My g/f wants to
photograph them for a book being published for the Reader's Digest as
well as an annual price guide for lunatics that collect things.
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:22:49PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, David Cantrell wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 11:35:08AM +0100, Piers / Lot105 wrote:
> > >
> > > Where what I really want is, if any handle has a line waiting, give it me,
> > > otherwise wait. I guess I'd
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:17:05AM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> My solution: firebird -calendar& and then use a different profile (I
> created a "Calendar" profile).
Hmm, I just tried this and I decided to download the "UK Holidays"
from the same page. Can anyone tell my why it has New Year's D
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:46:09AM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> I propose rejecting non text/plain messages in exim's system filter. The
> advantage of this is it is straightforward (and I know how to do it :-),
Why not simply reject senders that are not subscribed to the list at
SMTP time? The
I like the idea of this:
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=PrevalenceSkepticalFAQ
These guys are a little evangelical but I find the idea intriguing.
I'm still not too sure how easy it would be to remember to have the
data migrate itself when you change your classes. I think you'd need
som
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:15:27PM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> reason to install perl in /usr instead of /usr/local or /opt. The system
> perl would be 5.005_03 on 5.8...so you shouldn't get confused there.
I've heard lots of people say "leave the system perl in place" and
that makes good
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:31:16AM +, Martin Bower wrote:
> %hash1 contains values such as "111.666.fff.jjj.ccc.222"
> %hash2 contains values such as "111.666.fff.___.ccc.222" (where the ___
> can eixst in any position)
If there is only ever one "___" in a value you could generate all 6
po
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:55:59PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Is anyone aware of tools that will show what processes, and what in
> those processes are using the swap -- e.g. the data paged out?
If the machine is not thrashing (i.e. lots of i/o to the swapfile)
then perhaps the processes with
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:53:05PM +0100, Ian Malpass wrote:
> Only it seems that I can't use variables in the regexp of a RewriteCond.
ISTR examples in the mod_rewrite cookbook that use a RewriteMatch that
grabs the stuff you need, and then use that in the later substitutions.
I suppose the abov
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:31:36PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> I'd like to do things like create, read, and delete files in /var/mail
> owned by mail:mail. It'll (ideally) be called from within a perl module
> running under mod_perl.
Security is an emotional topic for some - I lay down and prep
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 03:05:22PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> The ICFP Programming Competition is this weekend. It starts tonight at
Well I had a greeaat time - 36 hours late to the competition I
thought, "let's try a genetic algorithm here - it's ideal" and then
thought, "well, it'll have to be
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:45:27AM +0100, Ian Watkinson wrote:
> $ExpirtyDate = Clever::Module->$hostiwant($fieldiwant);
The Gandi guys have a reasonable one:
http://open.gandi.net/download/WhoisExtract/
I wrote a more complete parser but as others have pointed out it's a
real maintainence heada
Why do people "use warnings" in a module? Why not allow the user of
your module to decide whether or not they want to be warned?
All web-based mailing list archives suck. If NNTP interface is not an
option, how about offering a service where you can do "telnet
archive.list.server" and it starts mutt on the archive folders?
It would be read-only, of course, and in a chroot jail so you can't
get a shell in any way. And it d
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:27:24PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
> It uses PostgreSQL or MySQL as the standard data store, and needs about
> half of CPAN to bootstrap itself. Works nice once you get it up & running
> though.
One of the annoying things about RT is that when people reply to
emails they
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:22:23AM +, Simon Wistow wrote:
> 1. Directory full of individual mail files (i.e maildir)
I found mairix useful for searching mail archives - it indexed hundreds
of thousands of messages in a reasonable time, and can add messages
incrementally as they arrive.
When y
> > this one feature if nothing else will be what finally nails qmail for me and
> > I'll switch to soemthing else .. but so far the presence of vpopmail is just
> > too useful to me, and Ive not made anything else work with it .. yet.
>
> Oh, I find it's the presence of the VERP in ezmlm for me
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:23:02PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> ooh .. wild guess .. (ive not seen that particular peice of DJB crackware) ..
> mmm it will need a /daemontools directory (as in a new directory in / ) the
> config files are in /var, the binaries too. the there will be some lock
>
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:55:51PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Why? You're going to get mail, so it'll get started. And it doesn't
> spontaneously exit of its own accord so why not just start it by a
> known, standard mechanism?
These mostly assume you have root. My favorite is to run daemons
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 05:41:43PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
> Hooray, spamc/spamd compiled successfully this time - in previous releases
> they wouldn't compile on this machine and I couldn't be arsed to work out
> why. So I'm gonna use 'em. Is it as simple a matter as running spamd in
> the
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:19:23PM +, alex wrote:
>
> i think what i'll do is just store the crontab line as a single text
How about using bit fields to represent hour, minute, day-of-week,
etc? You need a 64-bit int to store minutes, obviously. That
would make it easy to find a match using
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 08:33:02PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 02:06:02PM +0000, Steve Keay wrote:
> > Some kind of security (or obscurity) would be advisable so you don't
> > create an open relay.
>
> I doubt very much that "obscurity&
> Ivor Williams schrieb am Freitag, den 14. Februar 2003:
> >
> > If the message contains no pair, or the pair is syntactically
> > incorrect, the entire message is distributed as per what happens at
> > present. I am also stuck for a tag name.
It would be reasonably easy to set up a mail relay
t correctly sets "From" to my
subscribed address. I then reply to a NON-london.pm message and it
still sets "From" to be my london.pm address. People at work now
think I'm a lunatic.
To fix it I added another send-hook like this:
send-hook "~C .*" \
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:57:31AM +, Russell Matbouli wrote:
> > You need a valid username/password to proceed.
> > Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you think this shouldn\'t be
> > happenning.
>
> The line above the link gives you the login details:
I didn't mind that it wouldn't le
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 06:09:32PM -, Robert Shiels wrote:
>
> http://www.stratlink.com/timesheet/
Ahhh, quoting. The only time this happens in perl nowadays is the
infamouuus "\@", right?
You need a valid username/password to proceed.
Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you think this sho
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:34:34PM +, 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-bas
Cluster of 12 dual 1GHz pentium machines with 1 or 2Gb memory running
mod_perl on *BSD or Linux. Layer7 load balancing switches to
distribute the traffic in a sensible manner. Pair of big, fat Solaris
servers running Oracle. Another pair of PCs to serve static content.
If it dosen't go fast eno
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:25:15AM +, David Cantrell wrote:
> For one of my crack-induced ideas, I have a humungous number of objects
> floating around, which need to call methods on each other. When a method
> is called on object $a, it may well then go on to call methods on $b and
> $c, whic
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:47:15PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
>
> This leads to some very handy shell aliases for finding out the time in
> new york / california.
>
> % alias | grep date
> estdate='TZ=EST5EDT date'
> pstdate='TZ=PST8PDT date'
...and if you have gnu date, you can find out wh
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:43:32PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Walt Mankowski wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:39:45AM -, Mark Buckle wrote:
> > > Good, is there any real commercial benefit to an individual acquiring
> > > a good knowledge of PostgreSQL rather than
GI script[1].
--
Steve Keay
[1] not really a templating argument?
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:29:58AM +, the hatter wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Chisel Wright wrote:
>
> suggestions. Maybe we should schedule a Mason vs TT footie match at YAPC,
> to decide which is superior.
no strict;
print "Since all real programmers know that all templating\n";
print "sy
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:11:09PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Have you? HAVE YOU?
> Not only that but Acme::Whatif, for a limited time only, provides you
Wow, first spamassasin false positive from london.pm:
X-Spam-Report: 5.9 hits, 4.8 required;
* 0.5 -- To: repeats local-part as
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:55:12PM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote:
> My mail is sitting on my machine at home, in mbox format. I'm sitting
> at work, behind a firewall. My machine at home is running Debian Woody.
>
> I want to read and send mail, securely.
If you really want webmail, I haven't tri
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:46:27AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> For reasons best left to my own imagination I'm looking to do something
> that will show an average rating for a object based on all submitted
> ratings but also do a "if you liked this then you'd also like ...".
>
> So, anybody got
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:32:10AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
> >(I trust that this isn't inviting me to be burgled... is this mailing list
> >archived publicly and would a burglar use it to find properties?)
The thieves that are bright enough to do that kind of research are
probably not go
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:20:00PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On or about Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:14:57PM +0100, Steve Keay typed:
> >A point of order: the 73 does go direct from Euston to Angel, albeit
> >rather slowly and infrequently.
>
> Yes, but I was talking
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 03:46:40PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On or about Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 03:33:22PM +0100, Barbie typed:
> >In the event that I actually make it down on Thursday, is there a direct bus
> >route from Euston to The Angel,
>
> No single bus will do it. Best bet is to get
Worldpay offer a thing they call "select" where you redirect to their
server and the customer does all the credit card stuff there. This
means you have to worry less about security - see it in action at
www.quietpc.com. They also have other ways to do it; you used to be
able to upload CGI script
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 07:34:59AM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote:
> Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> > Alex McLintock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I am trying to download every page on my dynamically
> > > generated site so that I can upload the files as static
> > > pages onto a normal webserver
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:41:04AM +0100, 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.
Me too!
I'd find such a beast valuable; I have people who are yet to be
convinced of these things...
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:12:57AM -, iwilliams wrote:
> Dave Cross on 27 March 2002 10:29 wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a good beginners level tutorial about what
> > C and C do for you an
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 01:50:49PM +, Mark Hynes wrote:
> Mind you, if I did it wouldn't help without a suitable Content-Type to
> go on:
How come there isn't a "text/pod" mime type?
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:20:52PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> just wondering about chaining them, there's a pretty hacked exim setup
> (that queries a database to see if virus checking is enabled) and...
>
> oh sod it, i'll dig into it myself :
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:38:01AM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>
> Anyone running this combo?
Somthing similar. Works well.
Another long post, but this information changed my life in a small
way. I hope it gets put to work in somone's geek-flat...
I have an ADSL line with several people sharing the bandwidth. One of
the activities that my "community" likes best is the latest napster
equivalent.
Now, when you have l
om windows PCs then the Ethernet boxes are going to be a
better bet. If you have an always-on Linux box, and are willing to
configure it, then I can't see any advantage to the hardware Ethernet
stuff.
Steve Keay.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 01:29:32PM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> Hmmm.
>
> But, sometimes that forked child dies for no obvious reason. The same
Are you doing a proper daemonize as descriped in the perlipc manpage
(look for "setsid")?
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:51:44AM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:38:03AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >You're either going to update the atime, or you have to update the
> >ctime to reset the atime, or you have to read the raw disk somehow.
On a system where I
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:21:48AM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote:
> This reminds me of:
Oh SHIT! I just stood in some doo-doo!
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:58:25PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > I'm sure there are plenty of lurkers on this list who would fit in
It is quite a difficult thing to walk into a pub and land in a room
full of strange people (people you don't know) who are all engaged in
varying levels of intens
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 05:32:12PM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
> Okay, can people recommend some good hard scientific skiffy, e.g. along the
> lines of Carl Sagan, Neal Stephenson, Michael Crichton and Paul McAuley?
> And don't say Greg Bear, because he always disappoints me.
Hmmm, haven't heard
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:04:21PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Agenda Microwriter - alas no longer made but used a chording keyboard
> with a key resting under each finger of the right hand.
>
> I could get very close to real time 'speech' input in about three weeks
> but stopped using it
ars or
more. If you'd like to sort me a login I can have a go at fixing it
--
Steve Keay
employ them but bizarre politics at
my place of work prevents that.
If anybody can make use of value-for-money some extra manpower please
let me know...
--
Steve Keay
:r ~/.sig
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:41:23AM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > Then set up a WikiWiki for your documentation. It's quick and easy
> > enough that it actually gets used.
>
> Good idea, I shall give it a go. Anyone have any practical experience of
> making this work ?
http://twiki.sourcefo
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 01:11:31PM +0100, robin szemeti wrote:
>
> 99% of the rubbish spouted about the need for CA's is by CA's themselves.
> they are not really needed, and in time will disappear.
http://www.counterpane.com/pki-risks.html
>
> OK. I was foolish enough to give them my real details, but that doesn't seem
> to help them much. I just received some spam from them - addressed to Mr.
> Osborne.
No, *I'm* Mr. Osborne...
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:44:10PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> * Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> >
> > > So here is the challenge. You have to write a Perl program that takes
> > > two arguments, the first is the start word and the second
eye on what people are doing? Or is it not
mod_perl as we know it?
--
Steve Keay, puzzled at the thought of trying to build and support an
environment like this.
[1] I know, but it's late.
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