Re: Using perl for a high performance mailer daemon ?

2001-06-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:57:27AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: David Cantrell sent the following bits through the ether: Could you put the queue on a RAM disk? Or just use a lot of memory and a real OS? I think you'll find that qmail et al are specifically flushing the cache or preventing

Re: headers

2001-06-20 Thread David Cantrell
mails, I doubt that the swerver is adding it to anyone elses. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it-- Agatha Christie

Re: More Microsoft Fuckwittage

2001-06-21 Thread David Cantrell
many will bother to read the license? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it-- Agatha Christie

Re: Code Repository Software

2001-06-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 08:32:59AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, David Cantrell wrote: Is the code the CPAN/PAUSE available? I'd be surprised if it weren't. That would be nice... however looking around http://www.cpan.org and http://pause.perl.org turned up nothing

Re: DeCSS - illegal prime

2001-06-22 Thread David Cantrell
://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/tech/decss-gallery/ including various primes: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/tech/decss-gallery/Stego/illegal-primes.html -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's

Re: Cliqueiness

2001-06-22 Thread David Cantrell
the time to prepare it. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it-- Agatha Christie

Re: Where?

2001-06-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:20:42PM +0100, Lee Goddard wrote: Oh... you know http://www.jobserve.co.uk and http://www.jobsearch.co.uk ? I've had better luck with gisajob.co.uk - the above two seem to be a bit flaky, specially if you're using Netscape. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: headers

2001-06-21 Thread David Cantrell
. Personally, I wouldn't have unsubbed him. Given him a severe bollocking off-list maybe and a warning to behave better, but I wouldn't have kicked someone from any of my lists like that. But shrug I ain't the list admin, so it ain't my call. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: Where?

2001-06-23 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:33:33AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: I was beginning to feel nostalgic for GIS which I used to enjoy working with. That's not what you said at the time, I bet! Weren't you doing that during your time with HBC? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: TT new website

2001-06-27 Thread David Cantrell
name=MSSmartTagsPreventParsing content=true/i `find ... etc ...` $ make publish And it has the advantage that I don't have to find the several different templates which build the several distinct parts of the site :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Re: TT new website

2001-06-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:12:43AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: David Cantrell sent the following bits through the ether: I do use a home-brew embperl-a-like cos it does the job. [snip lots of perfectly valid points which hold true for MANY home-brew systems, but not for all] [I couldn't

Re: TT new website

2001-06-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:04:54AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: David Cantrell wrote: I remain open to persuasion, but haven't yet been convinced that I should spend any time with it, let alone that it is a better solution for anything I want to do than the competition. AFAICT .. TT

Re: Recipe

2001-06-28 Thread David Cantrell
but prevent them from becoming open relays (besides fixed IP, which is beyond me ATM)? POP-before-SMTP is quite popular. I don't do it myself though, as I just ssh into my box whenever I want to do maily stuff from elsewhere. Like I am now, in fact. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: Job

2001-07-03 Thread David Cantrell
they do with it. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david If a job's worth doing, it's worth dieing for

Re: Job

2001-07-03 Thread David Cantrell
hacks. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david If a job's worth doing, it's worth dieing for

Re: Job

2001-07-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:11:51PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:54:07PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: If Vignette's is a good application for it then thank fuck I haven't seen any bad applications of it. Perhaps Vignette's implementation of tcl really really

Re: Job

2001-07-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:34:46PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:27:02PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: So, as someone who probably knows tcl better than I do - is it a tclism or a SSism that you have to use a different number of depending on how deeply nested

Re: Website: no longer fixed width

2001-07-03 Thread David Cantrell
trying to read the site on the 0807 from NY, LA, SanFran, wherever. Good point well made. Although s/0807 from NY.*/1751 from Kingswood/, s/poor commuters/me/ and s/read the site/get directions to the pub/ -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ If you save all

Re: Website: no longer fixed width

2001-07-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:19:12PM +0100, Lee Goddard wrote: Yeah - so let's not force HTML on them. SMS, WML, pure XML if they can handle it. ... and then .. HTML sucks arse. HTML is like democracy. It's the worst solution to $problem except all the others. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL

Divorcing data storage from business logic

2001-07-03 Thread David Cantrell
object will have an ACL. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ If you save all your money for three years, you'll be able to afford this new computer. If, however, you blow all your money on poker, booze and loose women - you'll still be able to afford it in three

Re: Job

2001-07-04 Thread David Cantrell
primitive types Integer a = new Integer(2); Integer b = new Integer(3); System.out.println(a + b = + a.add(b)); Now you're going to say overloading is a good idea :-) Of course it is :-) and it's a pity perl doesn't let you overload *everything*. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Divorcing data storage from business logic

2001-07-04 Thread David Cantrell
, so I have to suffer from perl being slow anyway. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ If you save all your money for three years, you'll be able to afford this new computer. If, however, you blow all your money on poker, booze and loose women - you'll still

Re: Job (Parse::Perl)

2001-07-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:43:48AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: David Cantrell sent the following bits through the ether: I have frequently wanted to overload operators when not using objects - for example, I wanted to overload == to tell me whether a list contained a certain scalar

Re: Job (Parse::Perl)

2001-07-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:59:48AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:43:48AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: David Cantrell sent the following bits through the ether: I wanted to overload == to tell me whether a list contained

Re: Job

2001-07-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:12:39PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:26:45PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Or at least, that was the only way I could cast floats to int or vice versa back whn I was writing Java. Eh? [snip Java code] shrug maybe they've upgraded

Re: Big Projects / Variable Backends

2001-07-06 Thread David Cantrell
Extreme Programming) XP seems like an excellent book-selling method then, even if it turns out to be a failure as a programming method :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ If you save all your money for three years, you'll be able to afford this new

Re: Fwd: Tech books

2001-07-06 Thread David Cantrell
isilo, palmdoc, tomeraider, or $palmos_reader_of_choice. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ If you save all your money for three years, you'll be able to afford this new computer. If, however, you blow all your money on poker, booze and loose women - you'll

Re: technical book piracy

2001-07-08 Thread David Cantrell
to the same school that I went to. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ If you save all your money for three years, you'll be able to afford this new computer. If, however, you blow all your money on poker, booze and loose women - you'll still be able to afford

Re: technical book piracy

2001-07-09 Thread David Cantrell
Full stop $charity+=0.25; -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ If you save all your money for three years, you'll be able to afford this new computer. If, however, you blow all your money on poker, booze and loose women

Re: Intro

2001-07-09 Thread David Cantrell
for that one. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Defecate, don't deprecate!

Re: History of number systems [Was: Re: Happy Birthday]

2001-09-10 Thread David Cantrell
. particularly hex, which maps *really* nicely onto an 8-bit byte. I'm buggered if I can quickly convert 200 to binary, but converting 0xC8 is trivial, as each hex digit is a nibble. Octal doesn't sit well with our eight-bit bytes IMO. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Re: Secure POE and Java

2001-09-12 Thread David Cantrell
project. Any hints would be welcomed. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david There is no sigmonster

Re: [PUB] inappropriatley timed pub suggestion

2001-09-12 Thread David Cantrell
point of view this is a bit too far north to get home from after the typical meeting. Yeah, remember, one of the requirements was that it was central. Sounds very good otherwise. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david We are all atheists about most

Re: Secure POE and Java

2001-09-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 12:49:01PM +0100, robin szemeti wrote: On Wednesday 12 September 2001 12:17, David Cantrell wrote: no-one has a properly signed personal certificate for authenticating users. I have to wrestle with that problem for an upcoming project. Any hints would

Re: Secure POE and Java

2001-09-12 Thread David Cantrell
that. For our application that is achievable in a nice secure way. personal certs also mean nothing of much value. Again, we can get copies of the public half of 'em in advance. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Some people, when confronted

Re: bork

2001-09-13 Thread David Cantrell
by liberally sprinkling with my own blood in the past. Old Suns are great for this, as they have built-in knives. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats

Re: dha

2001-09-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 07:55:32AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: dha ... lunch ... Buckingham Gate I strongly recommend Quillans on Buckingham Gate. It's the best curry house in the world, according to the Curry Club. It's certainly the best I've been to. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dha

2001-09-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 05:47:42PM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 12:07:08 +0100 David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I strongly recommend Quillans on Buckingham Gate. It's the best curry house in the world, according to the Curry Club. It's certainly the best I've

Re: dha

2001-09-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 08:12:22PM +0100, Barry Pretsell wrote: My Indian friend took me to Lahore on Umberston Street ... Write a review for the website :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

Re: dha

2001-09-14 Thread David Cantrell
, is cheap and shit. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine.

Re: The best film of all time?

2001-09-17 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:19:35PM +0100, Patrick Carmichael wrote: Does this count? I know it's 14 hours long but you *can* see it all in one go sometimes. That was the reason I left out Das Boot. Directors cut, in German if you please. If you need it in English, use subtitles. -- David

Re: The best film of all time?

2001-09-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 08:28:09AM +0100, Tony Bowden wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:45:37PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Paths to Glory Don't know this one ... Do you mean Paths of Glory? Yes, as I said in a later post :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: NMS [formmail]

2001-09-18 Thread David Cantrell
? The first two lines do. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. -- Richard Dawkins

Re: Pubs

2001-09-20 Thread David Cantrell
to rule PO out as a venue, and is that a majority view? The people expressing badness about PO - for plenty of reasons - are if not a majority a sizeable minority. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Do not be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know

Re: The best film of all time?

2001-09-17 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:10:44PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: Alls Quiet on the Western Front Didn't know there was a film adaptation. As good as the book? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my

Fwd: ANNOUNCE: LonBUG meet

2001-09-25 Thread David Cantrell
The London BSD Users Group will be meeting on Wednesday. I know there are some here who have not yet Seen the Microsofty Light, so ... We'll be meeting at the Star pub in Belgrave Mews West, London SW1 from 7 onwards on Wed 26th Sept. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: Film Recommendatio : A Knight's Tale

2001-09-25 Thread David Cantrell
(slightly off-period but there in spirit) monty python holy grail bill and ted 1 Les Visiteurs: http://us.imdb.com/Details?0108500 The Navigator: http://us.imdb.com/Details?0095709 -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Any technology distinguishable from

Re: Re: RE: Re: Film Recommendatio : A Knight's Tale

2001-09-25 Thread David Cantrell
for anyone to read if they want to do any kind of filming though, as it tells you all sorts of mistakes you won't need to make yourself. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david If a job's worth doing, it's worth dieing for

Re: Chocolate/beer (was Film Recommendation)

2001-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
in the mornings. That, and because their breakfast presenter has such a fucking annoying voice that I absolutely have to get out of bed to turn the damned thing off. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david There is no sigmonster

Re: ID cards and the New Labour Totalitarian State (was Re: Chocolate/beer (was Film Recommendation))

2001-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
cards, if anyone doesn't subscribe, I think you can get it from his site http://www.counterpane.com, and failing that, mail me off-list and I'll forward it to you. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david There is no sigmonster

Re: ID cards and the New Labour Totalitarian State (was Re: Chocolate/beer (was Film Recommendation))

2001-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
why they dropped the idea. Or if they did really drop the idea or not. Or ... /me disappears into a maze of twisty conspiracies, all equally stupid -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's

Re: Advanced mail management

2001-10-02 Thread David Cantrell
--1 davidusers20028672 Aug 4 21:04 inbox-2001-07.gz -rw-rw-r--1 davidusers19995496 Sep 10 14:00 inbox-2001-08.gz -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give

Re: Firewall info, was Re: outage, explanation

2001-10-04 Thread David Cantrell
ignore the politics. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Educating this luser would be something to frustrate even the unflappable Yoda and make him jam a lightsaber up his arse while screaming praise evil, the Dark Side is your friend

Photos

2001-10-05 Thread David Cantrell
Some of my photos from last night are at the usual place, http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/london.pm/ -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god

Re: Photos

2001-10-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:39:40PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:50:11PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Some of my photos from last night are at the usual place, http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/london.pm/ ScriptAlias? Heard of it? Yes. No intention

Re: Meet report (was Re: Perl 7 RFC)

2001-10-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:24:03PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: upstairs function room filled up with faces familiar and not-so-familiar.[3] [3] Dave - your photos could do with some captions You're assuming I know who all those people were ... -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: Classic Computer Books (Non-Perl)

2001-10-18 Thread David Cantrell
really love? Cooper: Essentials of User Interface Design Schneier: Applied Cryptography The Lions Book -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Educating this luser would be something to frustrate even the unflappable Yoda and make him jam a lightsaber

Re: Procmail / Filters

2001-10-18 Thread David Cantrell
it call perl stuff if I need to do any heavy lifting. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons

Re: Classic Computer Books (Non-Perl)

2001-10-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 02:10:48PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: And the other book suggested so far that I haven't got is the UI book that Dave Cantrell suggested. It's worth reading Donald Norman's The Psychology of Everyday Things as well, although I wouldn't say it's a classic. -- David

Re: Classic Computer Books (Non-Perl)

2001-10-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 02:35:32PM +0100, Sue Spence wrote: Most (maybe all) of you have probably never used anything as antiquated as a non-relational/non-OO database. Does dbm count? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Cutting the space budget really

Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer (onsite),UK, London]

2001-10-18 Thread David Cantrell
, 50 quid for all six IIRC, from the British Museum shop. 3 - sorry for the footnotes, I couldn't resist 4 - but I bet Gibbon would use TeX if he were alive today -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Do not be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know

Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread David Cantrell
by 504 = 2520 + 1008 = 3528 = 54x = x = 65 yrs 4 months, give or take a day or two Assuming the latter ... x/6 + x/12 + x/7 + 5 + y + 4 = x # son's life is y y = (x/6 + x/12 + x/7 + 5 + y)/2 solving for x is left as an exercise for the reader. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Interesting Numbers

2001-10-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 05:55:22AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote: I believe your error was in the calculation of 4 x 504 :) Oh yeah. Oops. Look! It's the Goodyear blimp! [runs away] -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david This is a signature. There are many

Re: [Job] Possibly of interest

2001-10-19 Thread David Cantrell
elsewhere. But they did strike me as being pretty decent people to work for. Jeff Pinyan (japhy) works for them. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Us Germans take our humour very seriously -- German cultural attache talking to the Today Programme

Re: Decisions, decisions

2001-10-22 Thread David Cantrell
::R::P is best with at least some knowledge of Latin. print size=small Your house is at risk. Always. /print Particularly from water. Grr. Must get round to fixing leaky roof above front windows before next heavy rain. Anyone recommend a cheap roofer Saaf of the river? -- David Cantrell

Re: tube stations

2001-10-24 Thread David Cantrell
AFAIK nigh-on all other airliners are subject to the same catastrophic failure in the same circumstances. Actually, I'm not surprised. It would cost too much and the airline industry has bought too many politicians. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Every

Re: i18n and time

2001-10-24 Thread David Cantrell
://reefknot.sourceforge.net yet. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it-- Agatha Christie

Re: keyboards

2001-10-24 Thread David Cantrell
. Let it stand for a day or so for any remaining dampness to evaporate before re-assembling. Alternatively, just buy a new keyboard. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david This is nice. Any idea what body-part it is?

Re: New Neighbours

2001-10-25 Thread David Cantrell
permissions!?!? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Pressure was growing last night for the global war on terror to be broadened to take in a wide range of other 'rogue emotions' including horror, shock and a general feeling of bewilderment about the state

[off-topic] Getopt::Declare problems

2001-10-25 Thread David Cantrell
, if I make three individual assignments to the three keys in %args it moans when I try to assign to $args{url}. There's an example in the docs which is doing almost exactly what I am doing. Search for $args-{'-v'}{'value'} to find it. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: [off-topic] Getopt::Declare problems

2001-10-26 Thread David Cantrell
tried that, but I end up with $args{url} being '-d' or '-delete' instead of the value following it: david@lapdog:~$ perl foo -delete garbleflux action: delete md5:0 url:-delete -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Perl may be the best solution

Re: [off-topic] Getopt::Declare problems

2001-10-26 Thread David Cantrell
as it saw the first \t after the -d and -delete, that was the end of that parameter. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Us Germans take our humour very seriously -- German cultural attache talking to the Today Programme, about the German supposed lack

Re: TPJ

2001-10-30 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:59:07AM -, Barbie wrote: Alex is that Borders on Charing Cross Road? If so I'll have to make sure I pay a visit every few months :) I wonder if I can subscribe through Borders instead of CMP :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk

Re: Pimps

2001-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:48:41AM -0800, Dave Cross wrote: From: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone got any thoughts on Computer Futures and Spring IT? Both nasty. Cheers. BTW, in case anyone's wondering, I was asking on behalf of someone else. I'm not moving, I'm happy where I am

Re: Pimps

2001-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
businesses, is not enforced. /bitter_and_cynical -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david If you save all your money for three years, you'll be able to afford this new computer. If, however, you blow all your money on poker, booze and loose women - you'll still

Re: contracts

2001-11-11 Thread David Cantrell
and meat ;-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Blessed are the pessimists, for they test their backups -- anon

Re: contracts

2001-11-09 Thread David Cantrell
at somewhere between 1.5 and 2 times normal rate. Or at least time off in lieu. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it-- Agatha Christie

Re: DaemonNews, PerlMonth and TPJ

2001-11-15 Thread David Cantrell
was allowing for variant spellings of whisky... And there was me thinking you meant whist, that fine card game. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've exhausted all the alternatives

Re: [BUY] t-shirts

2001-11-15 Thread David Cantrell
have prices in Euros these days :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david emacs: for a brave GNU Word -- cdevers, in #london.pm

Re: Another Good Meeting

2001-11-16 Thread David Cantrell
, Fridays are when I piss off for long weekends, that sort of thing. London is just a state of mind :) No, it's a way of life! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ``I know, I'll use regular expressions

Re: Old ten pound note

2001-11-20 Thread David Cantrell
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): In particular, the Bank will pay out the face value of any genuine Bank of England note no matter how old. I wonder how they would pay out on a note denominated in shillings? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk

Re: Your Advocacy ideas

2001-11-20 Thread David Cantrell
people to become mindless corporate drones won't go down too well :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david o/~ I want my SMTP o/~

Re: Your Advocacy ideas

2001-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
and Apple are cheaper and faster. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Considering the number of wheels Microsoft has found reason to invent, one never ceases to be baffled by the minuscule number whose shape even vaguely resembles a circle

Re: RISC OS for christmas

2001-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
impressed. For starters, it had trouble with their own website. I have an Acorn A4 with dodgy power supply, free to a loving home ... -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Leadership - Nominations Closed

2001-11-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:00:48PM -, Cross David - dcross wrote: Just got a fifth nomination for the person who only had four, but it was sent 45 minutes after nominations closed so I can't accept it :( Did you specify which timezone's noon nominations closed? -- David Cantrell

Palm goodness [off-topic]

2001-11-22 Thread David Cantrell
I've raved about how great Citymaps is in the past. I'm told that it's now available in Dixons for forty quid, which includes both the mainland Europe and UK maps. /spam -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david If a job's worth doing, it's worth

Re: [ANNOUNCE]Nominations

2001-11-26 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:45:27PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: * robin szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote should that be 'unless you're a pedant' ? No. Of course. A true pedant would be upset by the unbalanced single-quotes. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: Small world [was] Re: London, Tube, Perl, and maths. (fwd)

2001-11-27 Thread David Cantrell
see how we can :) Are we getting Choccie Stout again? Why yes, I think I *do* have my priorities right :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david May your blessings always outweigh your blotches! -- Dianne van Dulken, in alt

Where would you like to go today?

2001-11-30 Thread David Cantrell
@modules approved for install on a public-facing box here and get a port opened on the firewall. * - neither ARIN nor APNIC, it seems, make it easy to get their data in an easily-digestible format. If anyone knows where I can get it, please let me know. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: Where would you like to go today?

2001-11-30 Thread David Cantrell
as the server uses POE. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Considering the number of wheels Microsoft has found reason to invent, one never ceases to be baffled by the minuscule number whose shape even vaguely resembles a circle

Re: Book Reviews

2001-11-30 Thread David Cantrell
any more books until they submit a review. Brutal but effective :) I'm actually already doing that unofficially. And if that don't work - name names. -- David Cantrell | hoping he's not got reviews outstanding! Perl may be the best solution for processing a text file, but asking a group

Re: IRC

2001-12-03 Thread David Cantrell
. Which server were you trying? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david o/~ I want my SMTP o/~

Re: NNTP and SNTP (was Re: REVIEW Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers fo r the Internet)

2001-12-03 Thread David Cantrell
own code, anything that I think is really important is indeed mirrored elsewhere. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H. L. Mencken

Re: web server identification

2001-12-03 Thread David Cantrell
impractical. google for apache errordocument. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H. L. Mencken

Re: [OT] Antialiased fonts...

2001-12-03 Thread David Cantrell
hanging off the same hub) and the same IP subnet. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Considering the number of wheels Microsoft has found reason to invent, one never ceases to be baffled by the minuscule number whose shape even vaguely resembles

Let meeeeee-eeeeeee entertain you

2001-12-09 Thread David Cantrell
for $big_cinema_in_west_end, it'll be at the Streatham Odeon, cos I know they have half-way decent seats and sounds. And good booze n' food nearby. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous

More film goodness

2001-12-09 Thread David Cantrell
I've just joined fantasyfilmleague.com, and I've created a 'little league' for us. So all of you, go and join now, create your films, and join league no 202, with password 'pony!'. Do it now. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david If you save all your money

Re: More Co-Lo stuff

2001-12-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:34:17PM +, Mark Blackman wrote: Mark wrote: Replies off list. Ta. www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk, 600pa+VAT Phew! Thank ghod I wasn't the only one. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Blessed are the pessimists

Re: More Co-Lo stuff

2001-12-10 Thread David Cantrell
guessing you're an x86 man? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david emacs: for a brave GNU Word -- cdevers, in #london.pm

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-12-10

2001-12-16 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:32:49PM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Can I tempt people with a Winter Ale Festival, 3-5 Jan, Cambridge? You can, and you have. One-liner? what one-liner? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david This is a signature

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