Re: More Microsoft Fuckwittage

2001-06-21 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:06:15AM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: I wonder what ActiveState's reaction to this is. Especially in light of MS shipping the Windows resource kit or somesuch with ActivePerl last year if I remember correctly. Aye, and not only that, M$ *fund* some of the

Re: headers

2001-06-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:43:35PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote: work in avon (bristol) There is no avon sup1;. There's the river but no county. Bristol is its own county as of the last few years (unless it was subsumed back recently). You

Re: headers

2001-06-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:06:30AM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote: [plus it's very difficult to drive v.fast around London. Long live country roads ;-) ] get a motorbike *maniacal grin* paul

Re: Cliqueiness

2001-06-23 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:33:06PM +0100, Lee Goddard wrote: --- Obligatory perl schmutter .sig: perl -e while (1){rand0.5 ? print'\\' : print'/'} perl -e print chr 47+45*int rand 2 while 1 Cross platform! Paul -- In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly

Re: Where?

2001-06-23 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 12:31:53PM -0400, Andy Williams wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Roger Burton West wrote: By postcode 21077 - 53.56724839101 N 10.0180560659498 W You're specifying that to about 2/3 of an angstrom. I think a certain amount of variation is called for. It's

London.pm firing on more cylinders

2001-06-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
I did some more[1] tampering with the london.pm.org MTA and deliveries should be super-quick now. Let me know if anything seems odd/slower or your templating solution is sub-optimal in any way. Cheers, Paul [1] The email about the first bit is on london.pm.org's 2ndary MX, gocho.pm.org

Re: Where?

2001-06-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:50:34PM +0100, Lee Goddard wrote: Bad news is that no-one outside the UK other than Philip +1 gave a postcode, so the whole thing is seeming a bit of a waste. I'm at 93940-4408 USA Paul -- Ask people to work against their better judgement

Re: Where?

2001-06-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:22:01PM +0100, Lee Goddard wrote: Do you have ZIP+4 codes for home and work? If I'd know the words I'd've asked the same question; thanks. Glad someone knows what's going on. http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html Paul -- First work alone, then

Re: London.pm firing on more cylinders

2001-06-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:06:35PM +0200, Robin Szemeti wrote: Im not sure I see why embedding perl in a MTA would be any great advantage .. but Suppose your MTA doesn't produce bounces messages as attachments. With perl you could make it do that. Suppose your MTA can connect to a variety of

Mailing list hack perpetrated

2001-06-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
I posted this a while back but it ended up in someone's bit bucket. Or at least I didn't get it back again. - Forwarded message from paulm - Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 04:37:30 -0700 To: London.pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mailing list hack perpetrated Some people here post from one

Re: Mailing list hack perpetrated

2001-06-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 06:35:44PM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:14:42AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: likely-incoming-address subscribed-address It's a nifty idea, but can't it be patched into mailman, added to the web interface and sent upstream. That feels a bit

Re: Mailing list hack perpetrated

2001-06-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:32:11PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:14:42AM -0700, Paul Makepeace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I posted this a while back but it ended up in someone's bit bucket. Or at least I didn't get it back again. Ah. That would be my bit bucket

Re: TT new website

2001-06-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:46:42PM +0200, Marcel Grunauer wrote: On Friday, June 29, 2001, at 11:09 AM, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:52:18PM +0100, Barbie [home] wrote: Greg (Age 26.95) robin aged 37.99178 (36.75 and a bit) Lee, how about adding birthdays

Web client application survey

2001-06-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
Sun are running a poll on their Developer Connection front page for web-app languages. JSP is the current leader with 31%! Perl, fractionally behind PHP and barely ahead of ASP, is flagging with only 15%. Suspiciously C/C++ is at 21%. WhoTF uses C/C++ to develop web apps?? http://soldc.sun.com/

Users in a group

2001-06-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
How do you find the users that are in a unix group (not what groups a user is in: `groups`), based on their primary /etc/passwd gid and /etc/group contents? Been reading obscure Oracle docs and found this in the OFA paper and thought surely there's a command for that (it was written in '93)

Re: Web client application survey

2001-07-01 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:41:03PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: Sun are running a poll on their Developer Connection front page for web-app languages. JSP is the current leader with 31%! Perl, fractionally behind PHP and barely ahead of ASP, is flagging with only 15%. Suspiciously C/C

Re: Silly Season Spam (was Repellant Products (fwd))

2001-07-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:52:45PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote: These spammers must have known I was in London.pm :) -- Forwarded WTF ? Must remember to control the ^J ObClientBigotry comment=ENOMUTT / P -- Give way to your worst

OSCon poll

2001-07-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
So I finally booked a ticket to San Diego the OS Con. Who else is going? Or would it be less traffic to ask who isn't going? How about a offlist and I'll summarise back, Leon-style. Paul, who doesn't have the luxury of having a company pick up the entrance fee and who's only been working for

Re: Website: no longer fixed width

2001-07-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:36:28PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: (One of my pet peeves with OS X is that it encourages this with the new interfaces ...is the way Alt-Tab to switch tasks is, IMO, nearly useless because it insists on doing a round-robin selection of the open tasks rather than the

Re: london-pm@lists.dircon.co.uk is dead, long live london.pm@london.pm.org

2001-06-21 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 07:11:41PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: We also have a social mailing list with a heavy technical slant that you can subscribe to. To subscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line 'subscribe london-pm'. Just to clear this all up (since I

Re: Divorcing data storage from business logic

2001-07-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:09:41PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: I've just started work on a personal project which will make heavy use of serialised objects. The logical way to store these, IMO, is with MLDBM*. You just don't want to do that. Everyone I've ever heard from that's gone down

Re: Job

2001-07-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:54:01PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: My big beef with Java is that having *forced* you into an OO model (something recognised both by Perl and C++ as being bad), its own language primitives aren't in fact objects. In practice (i.e. aesthetic considerations

Re: Divorcing data storage from business logic

2001-07-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:57:53PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: Erm DB3 does transaction locks. All of the DBM routines have used locking and hence concurrency has not been an issue. The issue isn't whether you have it or not but whether they render the thing useless when 'n' instances

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-07-04

2001-07-06 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:38:30AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: People flamed Alt-Tab-ing. Nothing got done. Oddly enough it did, kind of. Thanks to the other paulm, I downloaded LiteSwitch http://www.proteron.com/liteswitch/ and was told by the author, upon asking, essentially patches welcome

Re: longshot

2001-09-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:44:12PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Don't suppose anyone has some perl lying around that strips rubbish out of MS generated HTML? I'm not talking about the de-moroniser stuff, which I've already done, but about the endless font tags and valign attributes and

SSH toolkits

2001-09-12 Thread Paul Makepeace
http://www.ssh.com/products/x509/components.cfm Anyone aware of how much Perl libraries can do this already, and how much is already provided by openssl and friends? Paul

How's Hildo?

2001-09-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
Any word on the New York MSDW folk? I notice both their mailservers are hosed. Yikes. Paul

Re: How's Hildo?

2001-09-14 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:31:36AM +0200, Merijn Broeren wrote: Apparently we have relocated those people to three back up sites and ordered 2500 pcs. Business is continueing normal. Our backbone is extremely distributed, so data is not lost. Apparently the FSA will look I can't connect to

Re: Can't remember where I saw this

2001-09-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:47:41PM +0100, Andrew Wilson wrote: Hi I'm looking for a document that I read recently and can't remeber where I got it. It was collected wisdom for CPAN authors, things to consider when writing modules. It _may_ have been compiled by Skud. Does any body have

Re: Pipermail email address parse bug?

2001-09-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:51:40AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: Is there an online email address validation CGI script? There is now, http://realprogrammers.com/cgi-bin/check_email_address.cgi It's not too quick on account of RFC::RFC822::Address using Parse::RecDescent, despite my best[1

Re: [Stas Bekman stas@stason.org] [ANNOUNCE] TicketMaster.com sponsors mod_perl development

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 09:20:14AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: (in mutt, you can do :set mime_forward to turn on forwarding in this manner) This is one of my few gripes about mutt, that this isn't a bindable key (AFAIK?). Most often forwarding I like to forward the test of the message, not

Re: Friday Morning Fun

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 02:58:10PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: $i = (1, 2, 3, 4); works as well! My interview question would be, $i = (1, 2, 3, 4); # what is $i? $i = (1..4); # what is $i? Paul

[IQ] warn sig handler interview question

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Makepeace
#!/usr/bin/perl sub yarn { Once upon a time, @_. The End. } $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { warn yarn @_ }; warn there was an interview question; What is the output? (IQ stands for interview question :-) Paul

Re: Asian

2001-09-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:35:43AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Matthew Jones wrote: in a thick asian accent. A what?! An asian accent? WTF is one of those? How does it differ from a European accent? Is it similar to an African accent? http://www.alllooksame.com/ Chinese, Japanese,

Re: Friday Morning Fun

2001-09-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:31:09PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:54:12AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 12:09:19PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:35:19AM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:15

Apache proxy -- anyone used it?

2001-09-25 Thread Paul Makepeace
I have a mini-project to gather info about multi-page form transactions. My cunning scheme right now is using a perl HTTP::Daemon-based proxy to intercept GETs, entity body POST content and cookies and make a record of these to be replayed. I was wondering whether Apache's mod_proxy or something

Re: Film Recommendatio : A Knight's Tale

2001-09-26 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:24:35PM -0400, Mike Jarvis wrote: There are good american beers and chocolates. You're just not very likely to get either one over there. In fairness, there are plenty of small/micro-breweries all over the place that are churning out reasonably- to very-decent

Re: Pager verification

2001-09-26 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 12:49:01AM +0100, robin szemeti wrote: On Wednesday 26 September 2001 21:52, Paul Makepeace wrote: In the vein of automated testing systems: most of these things like Big {Brother,Sister} etc have some form of fault reporting via pager. Now, what's to say the pager

HTTP::Request cookies

2001-09-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
I'm curious if anyone's familiar with how LWP gets cookies into the final request that's sent. AIUI, you create a request using an HTTP::Headers object. Then the request object is sent to the user-agent object. Now, the user-agent object has a cookie jar associated with it (not the request

Re: HTTP::Request cookies

2001-09-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
Mark == Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark Paul wrote: How can I prove to myself it's really sending the cookies? Mark Deja other thread: A program I wrote in POE act as a proxy that prints Mark out headers to STDOUT while it serves the request. Mark

Re: Recommended agents

2001-10-01 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:01:07AM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: So I still need a permenent linux/apache/samba sysadmin, the people I've spoken to offlist either want to be perl developers or work on contract What is for you the advantage of a perm. sysadmin versus a very responsive contractor?

Re: Id Card Fields

2001-10-01 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 02:33:44PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 02:05:53PM +0100, robin szemeti wrote: still .. looks like Tony Bliar has decided we'll all be having compulsory ID cards soon, [ and presumably random stop-and-search powers to go with them, or

Re: Politics on London.pm

2001-10-01 Thread Paul Makepeace
Hear, hear! I've been consistently impressed at how pleasant this group is even in potentially list-lethal discussions like aspects of politics. Seeing sooo many other groups lists degenerate into pathetic sniping bickering and yet how reasoned arguments are presented here, often humourously,

Advanced mail management

2001-10-01 Thread Paul Makepeace
Like many people's, my incoming mail is routed off into various folders by the MTA which I then read with mutt. The problem is that while mutt's mail folder handling is pretty darn good it's still a pain for it to scan the folders[1]. There are about a dozen I like to read throughout the day. The

Re: Advanced mail management

2001-10-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 07:41:28AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Well my solution, is not that good, but it works for me, i simly use wmbiff, a little windowmaker docking bar app that lists the number of messages in each folder, unless there are new messages in which case it lists the number

Re: outage, explanation

2001-10-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:55:28PM +0100, jo walsh wrote: hfb aka mail.pm.org has been acting as backup mx, and afaik has just been sending everything @london.pm.org straight to davorg, so i don't think That's not a backup MX, that's a misconfigured MX! Backup MXs should attempt to send the

Re: Firewall info, was Re: outage, explanation

2001-10-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 01:16:01AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: [2] Of course firewalls don't help you in the end if you start exposing services. Which is kinda what you have to do with boxen like london.pm.org if they're going to be useful...oh well. Yeeesss.. but it can be mitigated

Re: Firewall info, was Re: outage, explanation

2001-10-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:03:03AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:34:48AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 06:29:05PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: Debian++ Debian-- # all the bloody politics So assuming you're going to stick

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

2001-10-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:59:04PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: What is not good is that the hyperlink takes you to a page which has all the footnotes for the entire chapter on it, so you have to scroll to find the right one. What *should* happen is that the hyperlink should pop up the

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

2001-10-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 05:27:36AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote: people on the internet aren't like that these days. Most people happily post using MS Outlook because that's what they get given at work. Bloody hell, Dave, can't you use an email client that includes In-Reply-To: headers so it

OS X updater woes

2001-10-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
So owing to a dearth of X.1 CDs I had a friend rip a copy for me, but it doesn't boot. Is there a way with the Mac to force it to boot off CD? What's more annoying is the f*cking retards at Apple have in their infinitesimally small wisdom decided to provide a firmware updater that only runs

X breaking in Debian

2001-10-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
This is the first time in six years I've been seriously irritated with a Debian package. This bug applies to you if you're running X and recently did an woody/testing up{date,grade} which will've included xfree86-common http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200110/msg00396.html

Re: Writing a Perl Game

2001-10-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 02:22:12PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: - The world changes real-time (like everquest). Not sure it fits with a peer to peer architecture. Ah, another EverCrack addict? Something EQ like would be cool. Something like Elite and EQ would rock my world.

Re: X breaking in Debian

2001-10-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 06:47:59PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: On Fri 19 Oct 2001, Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200110/msg00396.html [...] Paul, spent far, far too long learning far, far too much about X today Are those two

Re: New Series

2001-10-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:19:38AM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: David H. Adler wrote: Don't you know this is *really* Buffy.pm? As witness http://sunnydale.pm.org/ :) http://www.leggybabes.com/ Shocking! Paul

Re: Obnoxious spam: News from NuSphere -- #10

2001-10-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 02:32:49PM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: Paul Makepeace wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Please don't do that if you can help it. It makes my excuse for an MUA (Outlook, so sue me) do this: Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- it was simply a forward mutt

Re: keyboards

2001-10-25 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 06:38:24PM +0100, Natalie Ford wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:24:23AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Isopropyl alcohol is your friend - mild solvent so it unsticks the sticky stuff - evaporates quickly and is electrically unconductive. Isopropyl alcohol is also

Re: Birthdays (was Re: sunday / saff london)

2001-10-26 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:53:32AM -0700, matt jones wrote: There was a similar page suggested for TMLTDNSIN a while back, and I was well up for that until someone pointed out that the page gave out almost all the information needed for someone to socially engineer access to your bank account

Re: a really stupid idea

2001-10-26 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:47:37PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: From nemesis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I *knew* I should have copyrighted that :) Simon, I had that domain name before you were out of swaddling cloths, matey :) I was even posting on here saying I'm going to let it expire,

Re: Neat words [was Re: keyboards]

2001-10-26 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 01:13:42AM +0100, Seonaid Woodburn wrote: Wow, not a word I know, (and I like to collect this sort of thing). What does it mean? Sorry, I missed the original message. Hmm, if it's a word it's not listed on either of bartleby or Merriam-Webster. Closest I saw was, Main

[blog] RewriteRule mailman fix

2001-10-26 Thread Paul Makepeace
I just realised one of my sites was getting a lot of 404s and it was because I switched mailman to yearly rather than monthly a while back so all the search engine-cached links of the form 2001-Month_name were invalid. So I wanted to redirect them to the year's thread index instead, and figured

Re: Birthdays (was Re: sunday / saff london)

2001-10-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:25:46AM +0100, Tony Bowden wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 04:22:06PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: What did you tell them? I'm struggling to imagine they handed over money just by you giving them your name. I bank with First Direct normally, which is a telephone

Re: london.pm.org apparently back up

2001-11-08 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:17:02PM +, Simon Wistow wrote: I've been mulling over providing some way to hot-swap the machine with another involving rsync'ing mailman configs. Anyone done this? It seems do-able just by assuming mastership of the nameservice and raising the box's MX

Re: contracts

2001-11-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:30:55PM -0500, Kirrily Robert wrote: Every now and then someone says Pssst, did you know that... Skud's... into... that *kinky* stuff? and people say duh, *everyone* knows that. That's what I want. This tactic works well for gossip-squelching too. Starting out on

Re: [ANNOUNCE]The Leadership

2001-11-14 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 04:23:32PM +, Dave Cross wrote: I guess it's time we actually did something about finding a new leader. What does a leader do, exactly? Or, what are the things you're doing? Probably worth listing typical things that one would be expected to do, for any new

Re: DaemonNews, PerlMonth and TPJ

2001-11-15 Thread Paul Makepeace
mails have some of the bizarrest content... Try it (my London.pm is around 20K message which helps). P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What would your closest friend do?

Perl modules for different bases?

2001-11-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
2.0 /* here it gets weird for me */ 0.1 .06 .1/5 .01217 1/5 .14631 quit $ It appears to interpret integers based on ibase but not fractions. Thanks, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ He's a one-legged amnesiac sorceror gone bad. She's

Re: Debian testing excuses

2001-11-19 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:14:31AM +, Sam Vilain wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 00:24:37 -0800 Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking for Xalan which has a grave bug listed against it and it's waiting for a MIPS recompile. Why wait? echo deb-src http

Re: Your Advocacy ideas

2001-11-21 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:39:31PM +, Alex Gough wrote: Then again, remember that teachers are the poor fools that end up maintaining these systems in the face of mallicious 15 year olds and most just don't have the time to look after anything complicated or gain the skills needed to do

Re: london.pm archives

2001-11-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
helpful... Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ He's a leather-clad soccer-playing card sharp on a mission from God. She's a green-fingered red-headed single mother who can talk to animals. They fight crime! -- http://paulm.com/toys

Re: a few words in favour of pmison

2001-11-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:40:24AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: * jo walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: our alternative amelia is with respect no more than a stuffed figurehead. whilst delegation is a fine and necessary ideal, what will befall us when the responsibility for it is devolved

CD jukeboxes

2001-11-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
I know some folk here have mp3 organisation fetishes and was wondering if anyone knew of good CD jukebox software, ideally open source? The requirements are thus: * central jukebox database (e.g. MySQL sitting on linux/bsd somewhere) * ability to search database and run

Re: [OT] Antialiased fonts...

2001-12-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:00:10PM -0600, Chris Devers wrote: Do I have to go KDE? Can any of the X-Windows based systems do it well these days? It's been a I use KDE2.2 and while I'm in awe of it in general I was disappoined by the anti-aliasing. First off I haven't yet managed to get it

Re: An unsatisfactory review of the XSLT book

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 02:51:36PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: I've seen systems claiming to let you build programs out of prefabricated components for at least twenty years, and the recent ones don't seem to be any better than the originals... Delphi, .NET, C# Paul

Re: [OT] Antialiased fonts...

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:36:05AM -0600, Chris Devers wrote: I still want to see a mainstream os that included something like BeOS's task bar. It could be configured several different ways, but the general idea was that each running application got a slot on the taskbar, and you could click

Re: An unsatisfactory review of the XSLT book

2001-12-05 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:13:29AM +, Roger Burton West wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:19:06PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 02:51:36PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: I've seen systems claiming to let you build programs out of prefabricated components

Re: More film goodness

2001-12-09 Thread Paul Makepeace
shouldn't be given any more excuses to procrastinate on it. Updating CVs has to be one of the most boring activities conceived. Grumble. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is good and what is evil? A silly hat worn by priests. -- http

Re: Array Ref Weirdness

2001-12-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:50:05PM +, Dave Cross wrote: Given that Code B generates an error, why does Code C work? C) push @{ $_ % 2 ? @odd : @even }, $_ foreach @ints; Because C) has seven pieces of uncontrived punctuation in a row interrupted only by a lone '2' character. Paul

Re: Cleaning up perl distributions?

2001-12-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
files belong to what libraries. AFAIK. Does anyone know if this is being addressed in perl6 or future CPAN revs? Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If you really want it, then all would be revealed. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: Cleaning up perl distributions?

2001-12-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:00:08AM +, Leon Brocard wrote: E.g. `locate CGI.pm` reveals (aside from the Template Plugin) two versions of CGI.pm which are different. I think at various times I've had at least four at various revision levels. When you install a module it does print out

Re: Cleaning up perl distributions?

2001-12-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 11:23:18PM +, Chris Benson wrote: $ grep make_install `locate CPAN/Config.pm` /usr/lib/perl5/perl5/5.005/CPAN/Config.pm: 'make_install_arg' = q[UNINST=1], /usr/lib/perl5/perl5/CPAN/Config.pm: 'make_install_arg' = q[UNINST=1],

Re: Can't call Apache::Request-new()

2001-12-14 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:44:51PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: I posted this to the modperl list with no response -- anyone here have any suggestions, or even confirm a working A::R 0.33 on perl 5.6.1? Matt Sargeant nudged me in the right direction and the mistake as it turned out was me

Re: perl acronym

2001-12-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:41:35PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Ivor Williams wrote: I have come across an anecdotal reference to Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister, but this sounds like a miss quote from Red Dwarf, as To quote the 3rd edition of the camel book

Re: Dual boot

2001-12-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
partitions but wonder what else it could do, if it Went Mad. -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the point? More bratwurst! -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: [JOB] Senior Perl .. etc. etc. Bounce

2001-12-21 Thread Paul Makepeace
then have to have open access to your pop3d or imapd (gasp!) to the world -- not a pleasant prospect. And you'd still be in the position where POP sucks compared to webmail. I think redirecting to a webmail account is perfectly reasonable thing to do. YMMV, Paul -- Paul Makepeace

Aliased subs with prototypes

2001-12-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
; Is there some way to avoid these contortions, aside from acceding to the paren monster? Paul (if not, hoping this is Yet Another Thing that'll Get Fixed in Perl 6) -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I go to bed early, then all would be revealed

Re: Aliased subs with prototypes

2001-12-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 09:59:08AM +, Chris Benson wrote: sub greet;# pre-declare, don't pre-define Ah, that's it. Thanks Chris Damian! Paul, /me scolds himself, shoulda RTFM! -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is real? Drowning

Re: Filing Systems was Re: Dual boot

2001-12-26 Thread Paul Makepeace
. . [~ 3:18p]# apachectl stop /usr/sbin/apachectl stop: httpd (no pid file) not running . . [~ 3:20p]# apachectl stop /usr/sbin/apachectl stop: httpd (no pid file) not running [~ 3:20p]# P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If I go to bed early

Re: Dual boot

2001-12-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
. D'oh! Every one that hasn't done something majorly disastrous by accident and therefore hasn't learnt the error of their ways? Oh, I've had majorly disastrous things happen more than once. The *same* disastrous things, in a few cases.. P -- Paul Makepeace

Dual boot linux/2000 (+under vmware?)

2001-12-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
and let me log in as Admin. on the Recovery Console. Sigh.) -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If there are storms in Africa, then it'd be a downer. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: OT - anti spam

2001-12-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
S [EMAIL PROTECTED]^Mys=spam^M That magic address is filtered by the perl script that looks thru' Received: lines and does the append. This is all obviously a big hack but it does cut down some. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If it were just

Re: JOB: Trainer Wanted

2002-01-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:09:22PM -, Cross David - dcross wrote: [I offer no comment on the following] Prescient Training and Research Centre (http://www.prescienttrc.com) are looking for a Perl trainer to start work on Monday. You'll need to train a class of one in a course of your

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 01:23:06AM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:47:26PM +, Kieran wrote: The other alternative is as Tony said, the description fits one particular person. Pretty damned unlikely, considering how many times it's been readvertised. If it is a

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
.. 10 months on each? The internet industry requirement is easy. If you've had an email address and been paid to write code since then you're all set. Internet = routeable, interconnected networks. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If the car

Re: Persistent/static vars in perl

2002-01-04 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 03:40:50AM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 01:14:39AM +, Richard Clamp wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 04:53:20PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: $ perl -wle 'use strict; sub id {my $id if 0; $id++} print id,id,id' 012 $ This idiom

Re: high fidelity

2002-01-06 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:24:11PM -0600, Chris Devers wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 09:49:11PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: Ack, I mean't to say top 5 songs (damn) Cheating, but I think more in terms of albums than songs... %top_five_albums = { s/{/(/ # :) P

Re: Damn Hackers

2002-01-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:06:13PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Go further back up the thread. Check out what the rootkit mentioned does. Then tell me why your proposition won't work. Doh. # wget https://.../tools/ids-kit.tar.gz # tar zxf

[humour] Geek hierarchy

2002-01-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
Pretty good, http://www.brunching.com/features/geekhierarchy.html Paul

Re: Damn Hackers

2002-01-08 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:51:44PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:19:09PM +, Chris Benson wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 07:10:55PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:42:49AM -0500, Andy Williams wrote: Can anyone think of anything else?

Re: black hat hackers

2002-01-09 Thread Paul Makepeace
-- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is naked olive oil? Fast, then expel worms. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

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