Re: [OT] Availability of Jobs -- was Re: [SOLICITATION] Programmer available for contracting..

2001-01-11 Thread Eric Strovink
Are you a programmer? Have you showered recently? You're married. "J. J. Horner" wrote: "How do you expect women to know you[']r[e] married if you don't wear the ring?", [my wife] asked.

Re: [certification]

2000-12-07 Thread Eric Strovink
Somebody wrote: If I'm way off base, please let me know. I'm spending considerable brain power on this idea and if I'm wasting it, I need to know. I don't have much spare brain power and I could use it to try to figure out my wife . . . You're way off base. Figure out the wife. I've

[OT] 1%, two-phase commits, etc.

2000-12-06 Thread Eric Strovink
"Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote: Machine A is controlling a transaction across Machine X and Machine Y. A modifies a row in X and adds a row to Y. A commits X, which succeeds. A commits Y, which fails. A cannot guarantee a recovery on machine X because there might already be other transactions

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Eric Strovink
A number of people have been beating around this bush, so why not just mow it down? A huge win for advocacy would be a small set of complete example applications targetted at, say, the last two RedHat distros. Each application should install itself -- .conf files, .htaccess files, dbm's,

Re: Apache Modules in General

2000-10-30 Thread Eric Strovink
You need an Apache book (www.oreilly.com), the Guide (perl.apache.org/guide), and a Valium, not necessarily in that order ;-) Jimi Thompson wrote: I think it's all a hoax

Re: Interfacing from Apache to Access

2000-07-11 Thread Eric Strovink
Lorenzo Gordon wrote: Hello, I am a software developer for The London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine, UK. My query is the following: I have been able to successfully run a Perl script from MS-DOS that would pull out the necessary info. from an Access database I wrote last year

Re: Vulnerability awareness

2000-06-07 Thread Eric Strovink
Gunther Birznieks wrote: snip From: Jan Dubois [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think so. You should never let people execute arbitrary code on your web server anyways. If you do, then the potential intruder can do much more nasty things than just snooping around in memory. -Jan I think Jan is

Re: [performance/benchmark] printing techniques

2000-06-07 Thread Eric Strovink
Eric Cholet wrote: Of course the slowest stuff should be optimized first... Right. Which means the Guide, if it is not already so doing, ought to rank-order the optimizations in their order of importance, or better, their relative importance. This one, it appears, should be near the bottom

[OT] Tone on this list

2000-05-26 Thread Eric Strovink
I've been lurking on this list for a long time, learning tons, implementing some things on my own, helping out as I can (which isn't much). I feel like I know all the frequent posters on the list by now. It's funny how that happens, but I can recognize each person's "tone," like a familiar

[OT] Re: 100% sessions?

2000-05-09 Thread Eric Strovink
Stas, this thread is very interesting. Guide material?

Re: modperl success story

2000-01-14 Thread Eric Strovink
The troll vanisheth! - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to mc5.law5.hotmail.com.: RCPT To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 Requested action not taken:user account inactive 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User unknown

Re: Mailing list size

1999-12-05 Thread Eric Strovink
Stas is right, I've been mass-deleting the "logo" and "demand" threads for several days, resulting in a quite manageable list. The nice thing is, you can always search the archive if you accidentally delete something (and you *should* search the archive before posting, anyway, as well as check

Re: Bug in libapreq makes form elements stick to an apache child

1999-11-20 Thread Eric Strovink
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "if (@foo) {...}" is *idiomatic* Perl for "are there any elements in @foo, and if so, do this". If you don't understand the idioms, please choose a more familiar language. :) Don't you think this is a rather nasty response, smiley notwithstanding? Normally I enjoy

Guide addition?

1999-10-07 Thread Eric Strovink
The guide points out that __DATA__ and __END__ tokens are not allowed in Registry scripts. However, the error generated into the logfile in this case complains "Missing right bracket", and the line given is the last script line before the token. Oddly, if one *adds* a (syntactically incorrect)