On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:23:18PM +0100, candace wrote:
too true, seeing as how i lived there for the four years previous to
this, and i couldn't really recommend anything past picking something
*NOT* in the tenderloin,
There's a good hotel in the tenderloin, the Pheonix. Where the rock
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 04:38:13PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
imagine a world where budwieser is your only choice.
I've heard that this world is called St. Louis.
Fortunately, it's a small place, easy to escape from,
and more importantly it
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:35:46AM +0100, Jody Belka wrote:
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote:
The only challenge was /running/ the damn thing. I have no idea how to
launch it from Firebird. It's possible to launch FB from it by clicking
on the M logo but the selected profile is
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:00:20AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Mike Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which is one of my big fears with Firebird becoming Browser (that
is, the only mozilla browser). the guys running it are still wedded
to the idea of pushing everything into extensions
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:09:31AM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
Well, you know.years ago I suggested that there be a series of Perl
for kids cartoons with jingles in the vein of School House Rock [
www.schoolhouserock.com ] which were educational cartoons shown on
saturday mornings
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:00:48PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 05:13:25PM -0400, Mike Jarvis wrote:
Ok, so I've got an odd problem. Program compiles and runs just fine
on my machine with 5.8, upload it to the ISP's machine (BSD
with 5.005.03) and I get a compile
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:17:07PM +0100, Iain Tatch wrote:
Pick up a handful of Merkin change and you get things that say Nickel,
Dime, Quarter with no other clue as to their monetary value. For those
of us not brought up in the USA, even if you're aware that one's 5c and
the other 10c,
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:07:48PM +, Peter Sergeant wrote:
I've today written the first half of a perl script to screen-scrape
Natwest's Online Banking. All the authentication parts are implemented,
but now I've lost interest (no pun intended). This should probably exist
as:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:10:53PM +, Russell Matbouli wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:05:36PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
Related by banking, but in no other way, I need to write the code to
process CC payments with BoFA. The interface looks pretty
straightforward, but if anybody else
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 03:38:56PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
There would be less Email Viruses if ?
There would be fewer Email Viruses if:
'Less' is for singular, 'fewer' is for plural. ('More' can be used
with both.)
/pet-grammar-niggle,
Paul
What do you mean for plural, since
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:21:16AM +, Leon Brocard wrote:
This email got sent to the YAPC::Europe committee mailing list. I
thought I'd share it all with you. It's slightly worrying that USians
are taking it personally.
FWIW my reply was YAPC is a non-political organisation and run by
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:56:58AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Piers Cawley wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I won't be doing YAPC::Eu this year, I'm doing YAPC::NA - TPC
via the Appalachians, DC, NW, Boston, Vermont,
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:18:55PM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
I won't be doing YAPC::Eu this year, I'm doing YAPC::NA - TPC via the
Appalachians, DC, NW, Boston, Vermont, Michigan, Chicago, Minneapolis,
North Dakota, the Rockies.
Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Yell when you
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:13:43PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
There's been various very useful comments about ADSL on the list. However...
NTL now seem to be offering a 128K cable modem service for only £14.99 a
month. It's not exactly clear what they supply, or what they expect it to
work
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:46:30AM +0100, Natalie S. Ford wrote:
Also, if you say it is in a slightly dodgy area, I am even less inclined
to try to come along...
I believe Greg can point you towards a charming little place in the
back of a mini-cab stand in Soho. It would be an, errr,
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:02:45PM +0100, Marty Pauley wrote:
Um. I can't think of any others round there,
There was an Irish pub across the street from the Goose...
The one in the hotel? Bleh. Having spent a month in that hotel, I
would reccomend against the pub. But I doubt I'll make a
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:48:32AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Tim Sweetman wrote:
Well, sort of - search engines find documents to fit certain criteria;
this tries to find documents similar to other documents.
Aeguably part of the same problem space though. I don't
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:05:06PM -0700, Adam Goldstein wrote:
Dear Mr. Mison,
I know nothing about the software in question, but I know that if the
developers are incapable of putting line breaks in email it probably
isn't worth bothering with.
This level of disregard for community standards
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 02:10:18PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
[1]The hell that is welwyn garden city
You know you loved it. What were the names of the rooms at the inn?
The chipmonk suite or something? And we did manage to do serious
expense account damage too.
Of course the most
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 09:12:24PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
so what muppet (muppet show, new muppets, sesame street, etc.) do
people on london.pm remind you of, heres my list
(big smileys attached to all this, its meant to be gentle fun)
Leon- Kermit
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:24:00PM +0100, Antonio Fortin wrote:
i'm using windoze and AS Perl, so i don't think i can use locale. or
can i?
AS perl has locale support, I've used it before. I'm not sure it will
help you though.
--
mike
It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:11:46AM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:06:11PM -0400, Mike Jarvis wrote:
When do you guys get it? I won't spoil, I'll just say I have real hope
for next season. It could be really good.
Or not. Lots of potential, but it really depends
When do you guys get it? I won't spoil, I'll just say I have real hope
for next season. It could be really good.
Details gladly discussed soon, I hope.
--
mike
A whole loota hoot and just a little bit of nanny
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:16:01PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
perl -lpe '$_ = sprintf %.2f,$_; 1 while s/(?=[\d])((?:\d{3})+)(?=[.,])/,$1/'
123.1
123.10
5679.123
5,679.12
1289053234.20852
1,289,053,234.21
Is there an easier way to do this? London.pm meeting taken its toll?
I'd
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:16:58PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
So who fancies writing a sitcom/comedy show with me?
Is there a scene where the office employees play Star Wars trash
compactor with the rolling file cabinets?
I still have some notes, I think.
--
mike
A whole loota hoot and
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 06:43:07PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Roger Burton West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:57:17PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
In fact, I don't see how it would help spammers, although I can see how
it is/was used by pranksters, but that's
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 12:10:24PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Ok, so it may be hearsay but i believe Penderel has had more problems,
so I have a proposal, but lets start with the assumptions i am making
Thoughts?
Will the new box be named Yorke?
--
mike
It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 08:34:27PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
Forwarded from the boston.pm list
I found that an MD5 has does not change at all even if the input changes. In
the following example code.. The results are shown after the __END_.
Is my expectation wrong?
__END__
Data was
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 17:05, Chris Devers wrote:
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Natalie Ford wrote:
So, I need to be running X on my client end? I run ssh from windoze...
Last time I checked, there weren't any good freeware ports of Win32/X, but
maybe someone has managed to compile Xfree86 under
On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 16:42, David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:20:56PM +, Chris Benson wrote:
phone numbers, CC numbers, ... all the time :-(
Ahh, so *you're* the one who rejects one of my credit cards* cos it has the
wrong number of digits :-)
In the US you can never
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 16:51, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 04:37:42PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
Theoretically decreasing overhead means decreased prices for consumers,
but we all know that never happens in the real world.
I'm pretty sure I'm paying less for an 80GB
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 06:52, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:47:47AM +, Paul Mison said:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:20:18AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Leo Lapworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Sky Buffy... don't
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 06:42, Ivor Williams wrote:
That must make writing perl quite painful. !-)
I suppose you would get used to it though. AltGr becomes just another shift
key.
I was at a client site in Rome, using my fifth keyoboard layout for the
month, trying to write a little perl. It
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 17:04, Tim Noll wrote:
And, as far as the london.pm meetings go, I'm off to the States for two
weeks starting tomorrow. But when I return, if I can manage to drag some
of my hapless colleagues along, I might just try to avoid that teaspoon
mauling.
They've gotten
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 08:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been sitting here watching random TV and watching with vauge facination
a stenographer at work. A stenographer transcribes word for word the
proceedings of courts, meetings etc...
Made me wonder - what is the fastest method of
Anybody know somebody actually using the formmail.pl from NMS? I read
on news.admin.net-abuse.email this morning that people are noticing a
surge in probes for formmail.pl, for use by spammers.
Might be nice to get a success story or two up on the page. Hell,
success stories from users for any
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 12:20, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Or alternatively, just drink loads more coffee. As I understand it, it grows
in the same climatic conditions, so increasing coffee demand considerably
would price out the alternatives that might want to be grown.
[and likewise eat many
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 04:50, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Natalie Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:15:27PM +, Earle Martin wrote:
You're free to comment on anything London-related
So, I can'r post anything about outside of London? Pity. :)
I've seen The
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 10:44, Nicholas Clark wrote:
I realise that currently it is. *Why* do they do it?
The only valid reason I could see was that they wished to place their
company logo on the top of the CV, so that if it gets copied or passed around
it becomes obvious who provided it.
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 17:08, Chris Devers wrote:
real cynicism: pretzel shmetzel, the guy was drunk :)
Not believing everything that comes out of the White House and the right
wing controlled media (ie, all of it) isn't cynicism, it's good sense.
--
mike
Pretzel schmetzel, the guy was drunk
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 08:00, Andy Wardley wrote:
uhm, 3 good reasons I can't rant about off the top of my head:
* No-one really knows how to do the component thing properly.
COM isn't it, DCOM isn't it, .NOT? .NOT! Talking about the
fine granularity of software components in
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 05:47, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:05:18PM +, Dave Hodgkinson said:
Not on snopes and not on google.
http://www.thetube.com/content/pressreleases/0201/30.asp#email
Disseminate. Please.
Arthur Andersen Consulting were employed by LUL to
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 07:03, Newton, Philip wrote:
AFAIK, Apache manages to pass content along to the client as soon as it
receives it from the CGI program, even on Win32.
Nope, at least not yet. It's been going to be fixed in the next release
for quite a while.
2.0 though. Yep, it'll be
On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 08:51, Robert Shiels wrote:
Season 5 spoilers below:
Is this just a soap opera now, there was one undead guy near the end that
Buffy killed with a medical hacksaw, but apart from that it was all long
meaningful silences and people crying. Bored now!
This ep is
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 19:24, 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 = {
Miles Davis= Kind of Blue,
The
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 05:58, Paul Mison wrote:
Ooh, this decreeing stuff might actually work...
I'd seen london.pm'ers drunk on everything except power, up til now.
Decree away, it's the only way to herd them.
--
mike
Friday, November 23, 2001, 8:32:46 PM, Greg McCarroll wrote:
GM [3] If anyone who does go down this narrow path wants to start a
GM London.pm MP game let me know, it will probably be more popular
GM than 5-aside ;-)
Is MP working in yours? In my (US) copy, there is no MP option.
Poking
Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 8:53:55 PM, Andrew Bowman wrote:
AB b) Saddam would be finished off, either by his fellow Iraqi leaders or by
AB his beloved citizens. Sadly Saddam appears to have been well prepared (as
AB well as lucky too) to have avoided this fate (so far at least).
His beloved
Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 11:02:52 AM, Leo Lapworth wrote:
LL ## RESULTS:
LL # V: â
LL # V: â
LL # Entity: line 3: error: Entity 'rsquo' not defined
LL #test rsquo; /test
LL # ^
LL # at t.pl line 24
LL # I'm expecting a Right single quote not an
Friday, November 09, 2001, 12:41:42 PM, robin szemeti wrote:
Our supply chains are, in the majority, run by cars and trucks and other
road transport and without them the cities start to starve (both
metaphorically and literally.)
rs indeed. theres another thing that needs changing then.
Friday, November 09, 2001, 2:34:23 PM, Chris Benson wrote:
Trains are great for hauling stuff from point A to point B, but they
CB s/ian/am/; s/\bbut\b/and/;
It's nice that we're all geeks here, but it sure would be easier to
read:
Trams are good at X.
and doesn't take many more bytes.
If people are actually going to discuss perl, I throw one out.
I've got a vendor's version of perl (uhm, my company's so replacing it
isn't an option) that I believe was compiled with some odd way of
handling multibyte characters. And the guy who built it isn't around
right now. Grr.
Getting
Tuesday, October 23, 2001, 10:16:33 AM, Chris Devers wrote:
CD As it is, I'm quite sure
CD that I wouldn't like to commute there for work (unless the newly active
CD Concorde has gotten remarkably cheaper this time around...).
BA is running a half price special. Only $5k for now. I'm sure it
Friday, October 19, 2001, 9:28:41 PM, anathema wrote:
a Mike Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I love nanae too. That's why I'd suggest posting it in sightings
instead. Maybe an article *about it* in nanae, but the spam itself,
with headers, to sightings.
a Well, Ye-es, but I tend to prefer
Monday, September 17, 2001, 11:41:42 AM, Greg McCarroll wrote:
GM but what are your top films? I ask because I feel the need to buy
GM some more DVDs soon.
Citizen Kane
--
mike
Monday, September 17, 2001, 1:31:13 PM, Jasper McCrea wrote:
JM Worst movie of all time:
JM Citizen Kane or the Piano. It's a toss up between these two.
Bah! Citizen Kane changed filmmaking forever. Not just from a
technical standpoint (although it did that...check out the low shot of
Kane
Monday, September 17, 2001, 4:52:13 PM, David H. Adler wrote:
DHA Night After Night was a *great* show. I remember the night Dennis
DHA Potter was the guest. One of the best interviews I've seen on a talk
DHA show.
Wow. You are the first person I've ever met who has heard of this
show. I
57 matches
Mail list logo
