On Feb 13, 2010, at 9:30, Nicholas Clark wrote:
[Checking binaries into VCS]
This system likely *wouldn't* scale if we needed even a second architecture.
We have a git submodule for cpan/. We primarily deploy and develop on x86_64
linux, but we also keep the darwin/OS X arch updated so we
On Jan 20, 2010, at 6:28, Bruce Richardson wrote:
IPv6 offers much much larger ranges and much simpler renumbering schemes.
The old mistakes are undone: enough ways to make new mistakes.
The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the
resource., to quote the general
On Jan 20, 2010, at 16:44, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Isn't it a case of wresting some class-A addresses from the like of IBM,
ATT and HP and making them use pukka internal addresses for inside
the firms?
That'd help for a little while; just like whatever market will come up for IPv4
addresses
On Jan 15, 2010, at 14:19, ian wrote:
My understanding[*] is that it computes a checksum for each block of a file
and only transmits blocks that have different checksums.
And to calculate the checksum on each block of the file, it has to, um,
read each block of the file... yes?
Doesn't
On Dec 14, 2009, at 4:09, Jurgen Pletinckx wrote:
But what is the etiquette in these situations? I'd rather not reveal to them
to what extent my friend is interested in the domains. To hide that I have
to go through aliases or proxies. Which feels just a bit sordid, somehow...
1) Offer more
On Nov 30, 2009, at 13:21, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
A sysadmin and pedant's point of view
I take it sysadmins are too angry and bitter to understand or care for the
holiday[1] spirit I'm sure the quiz was sent in. Why don't you go change
someones password?
- ask
[1]
On Oct 31, 2009, at 15:17, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Using Sort::Key::OID or sort::maker would have been great, except
that
we need to deploy the script to a rather large number of servers
and it
is traditionally long and painful to get modules approved and
deployed
in our machines.
Then
On Oct 14, 2009, at 13:39, the hatter wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Avleen Vig wrote:
Here in the US, when you place a credit card order online, you almost
always have to give the phone number associated with the credit card
account, and that is definitely verified by the CC company / bank.
I
On Sep 29, 2009, at 8:26, Ricardo Signes wrote:
...but there's also a large culture of beer ignorance.
Once at the local Beverages and More[1] where they have hundreds of
different beers from around the country and the world I overheard a
couple talking about choosing between Miller and
On Sep 21, 2009, at 15:16, Abigail wrote:
I've been bumming around contracting for the last few months - but I
think that a regular salary probably suits me (and my slackness about
invoicing) better. Is anyone interesting hiring at the moment or has
this financial meltdown thing (news of which
On Aug 23, 2009, at 16:54, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Prove you haven't dicked with a digital copy.
(Knowing this is London.pm):
In the US the taxman actually specifically allows reasonable digital
copies. It's sorta vague what a proper copy is; I'm guessing so if
it's a terrible scan that
On Jul 27, 2009, at 11:19, Paul Makepeace wrote:
I've just discovered that iTunes will merrily rip CDs with errors and
make no mention of this. Is there a way to have iTunes bail or retry
on rip error?
I've no idea what it does, but there's a Use error-correction on
Audio CDs checkbox in
On Jul 6, 2009, at 9:06, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Of course this can also be solved in various other ways, such as
having the
code be
@ISA = 'Generic::Base::ClassWithTimeout';
sub run_with_timeout {
... # does stuff
}
and Generic::Base::ClassWithTimeout having a run() method
jobs.java.org? Weird ... that doesn't work. :-)
- ask
On Jun 5, 2009, at 19:34, Avleen Vig wrote:
All is not what it seems.
Take this with a spoon of salt.
That is so unfair; you must tell more. :-)
On Jun 4, 2009, at 13:49, duncan.garl...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Can somebody please point me in the direction of some authorative
reliability statistics for server hardware, preferably including add-
ons such as disc arrays?
Google has a paper on that stuff for individual disks. In my
On May 19, 2009, at 7:22, Paul Johnson wrote:
The way I do this is to build perl and all the modules I need on the
development machine. Then I package up the whole lot as a single
package.
The big failure in this is that you can only have one version of
stuff. One developer
On May 18, 2009, at 6:22, ian wrote:
How best to ensure different environments have the same versions of
Perl modules?
A CPAN module is part of the application code, so treat it as such.
We have a Perl installation with a basic clean perl install; no
extra modules. Our application has
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