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Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 9241 Volume: 10
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 18:05:02 -0700 (PDT)
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Perl-Users Digest Wed, 24 May 2006 Volume: 10 Number: 9241
Today's topics:
Re: Installing Perl modules <tony@skelding.co.uk>
Re: John Bokma harassment <scobloke2@infotop.co.uk>
Re: John Bokma harassment <imckmavuks@mailinator.com>
Re: John Bokma harassment ilitzroth@gmail.com
Re: John Bokma harassment <antroy@gmail.com>
Re: John Bokma harassment <lard@tardis.ed.ac.molar.uk>
Re: John Bokma harassment <phaylon@dunkelheit.at>
Re: John Bokma harassment <tim.leeuwvander@nl.unisys.com>
Missing right curly or square bracket (but that isnt th <andrew.davey@gmail.com>
Search and Replace <sdhanish@gmail.com>
Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Criticism vs Constructive Critici antroy@gmail.com
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Date: 24 May 2006 04:07:21 -0700
From: "Mintcake" <tony@skelding.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Installing Perl modules
Message-Id: <1148468841.075673.171340@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
vincente13@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm doing my development on my windows machine.
> E.g.
> my perl scripts are in c:\work
>
> The modules i've downloaded i put into c:\work\<modules>
>
> It works fine.
>
> Now i need to use it on the unix machine and it doesnt seems to work by
> putting the modules into /work/<modules>
>
> How can i achieve the same without "installing" on the machine.
>
> i've tried
> BEGIN {
> unshift(@INC,"/work/<modules>");
> }
>
> Its not picking up the modules from the directory
Are you sure you have permission to access /work - this is in the root
directory
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 11:29:07 +0100
From: Ian Wilson <scobloke2@infotop.co.uk>
Subject: Re: John Bokma harassment
Message-Id: <44-dnSw6EOzlqOnZRVny3g@bt.com>
ilitzroth@gmail.com wrote:
> Xah Lee schreef:
>
>> <snip: plea for sympathy after being reported to ISP for persistent off-topic postings>
Which reminds me of
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#not_losing
> We seem to have strayed a long way from Voltaire's
> "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your
> right to say it.",
I don't think we have. Surely Voltaire didn't support speaking in
inappropriate fora? He didn't support causing a public nuisance?
Would you lay down *your* life to defend Xah's "right" to wallpaper your
street, your church, your school with printed essays about his personal
obsessions?
In societies with a right to free speech, there are limits on where and
how you may exercise that right. For example, you don't have a right to
force any newspaper or TV station to publish your speech.
Xah's ISP can decide whether their terms of service provide Xah with a
"right" to publish anything he wishes through their facilities
regardless of established standards of appropriateness.
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Date: 24 May 2006 03:35:19 -0700
From: "Alan" <imckmavuks@mailinator.com>
Subject: Re: John Bokma harassment
Message-Id: <1148466919.006694.191310@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>
With apologies to Voltaire:
If Xah Lee did not exist, it would be necessary for John Bokma to
invent him.
Xah and Bokma are both idiots, they truly deserve each other. The
sooner you killfile these two clowns, the happier you'll be.
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Date: 24 May 2006 04:00:47 -0700
From: ilitzroth@gmail.com
Subject: Re: John Bokma harassment
Message-Id: <1148468447.577714.203450@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
I agree there are limits to you right to free speech, but I believe Xah
Lee is not crossing
any boundaries. If he starts taking over newspapers and TV stations be
sure to notify me,
I might revise my position.
Immanuel
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Date: 24 May 2006 04:06:07 -0700
From: "Ant" <antroy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: John Bokma harassment
Message-Id: <1148468767.551285.14290@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>
> Surely Voltaire didn't support speaking in inappropriate fora?
Who knows? But the fora Xah posts to are few (5 or so?) and
appropriate. "Software needs Philosophers" wasn't even his rant, but
was certainly appropriate to all groups he posted to.
If you don't like Xah's posts, then don't read them. Killfile him or
whatever. But they *are* generally on-topic, they are not frequent,
they are not spam and they do seem to be intended to provoke discussion
rather than being simply trolls.
I have no particular affinity for Xah's views, but what does get up my
nose is usenet Nazism.
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:13:33 +0100
From: Alex Hunsley <lard@tardis.ed.ac.molar.uk>
Subject: Re: John Bokma harassment
Message-Id: <44743fdd$0$650$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk>
Xah Lee wrote:
> I'm sorry to trouble everyone. But as you might know, due to my
> controversial writings and style, recently John Bokma lobbied people to
> complaint to my web hosting provider. After exchanging a few emails, my
> web hosting provider sent me a 30-day account cancellation notice last
> Friday.
>
> I'm not sure I will be able to keep using their service, but I do hope
> so.
> I do not like to post off-topic messages,
You don't? Then who has been forcing you to post off-topic essays? A man
with a gun?
> but this is newsgroup
> incidence is getting out of hand, and I wish people to know about it.
Nothing out of hand here. You are abusing usenet, and for once an ISP is
doing something prompt about it. More power them.
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Date: 24 May 2006 11:18:53 GMT
From: Robert Sedlacek <phaylon@dunkelheit.at>
Subject: Re: John Bokma harassment
Message-Id: <4474411c$0$4500$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net>
In comp.lang.perl.misc Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org> wrote
> I'm sorry to trouble everyone. But as you might know, due to my
> controversial writings and style, recently John Bokma lobbied people to
> complaint to my web hosting provider. After exchanging a few emails, my
> web hosting provider sent me a 30-day account cancellation notice last
> Friday.
Look at it that way: People gave you criticisms numerous times in
various ways and many newsgroups. You ignored it. You just thought you
were right. Maybe you should read some of your posts on criticisms
yourself?
Just start taking the consequences of your actions.
As a side note, a big ++ to John and Dreamhost. I've sent a mail to DH
to thank them for taking these steps.
p
PS: This message just goes to cl.perl.misc.
--
Hear the chants of old powers, the weak fall on their swords.
Nature is above all morals, destiny a shameless whore.
-- Sol Invictus, Black Easter
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Date: 24 May 2006 04:29:09 -0700
From: "Tim N. van der Leeuw" <tim.leeuwvander@nl.unisys.com>
Subject: Re: John Bokma harassment
Message-Id: <1148470149.596188.18500@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
ilitzroth@gmail.com wrote:
> I agree there are limits to you right to free speech, but I believe Xah
> Lee is not crossing
> any boundaries. If he starts taking over newspapers and TV stations be
> sure to notify me,
> I might revise my position.
> Immanuel
Perhaps he's not crossing boundaries of free speech, but he's
repeatedly crossing boundaries on usenet nettiquette, even though
repeatedly he's being asked not to do so. (Extensive crossposting to
various usenetgroups / mailing lists, for instance).
If he would just post his stuff on a blog and find a why to get people
to visit hist blog, without crossposting to 10 usenest groups for each
post he makes to his blog, then nobody would mind him expressing his
opinions, and those interested could discuss them wildly on the blog.
But I've repeatedly seen people telling him not to crosspost his essays
to so many newsgroups, yet he continues doing it.
If that's enough to quit his subscription with his ISP I don't know,
but since I've stopped following threads originated by him I don't know
what other grounds there would be.
Cheers,
--Tim
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Date: 24 May 2006 04:46:27 -0700
From: "daveyand" <andrew.davey@gmail.com>
Subject: Missing right curly or square bracket (but that isnt the case)
Message-Id: <1148471187.729977.203490@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>
Hey guys,
I get the following error:
Missing right curly or square bracket etc......
However on doing a count i have the right number of closing to openning
brackets be it ( or [ or {.
I am however also getting about 150+ errors and it starts from after
the following bit of code.
print FH <<EOHTML;
<ul>
<li onclick="show_tree('p', $n);" class="$class"
onmouseover="this.style.background='#B8E9FF';"
onmouseout="this.style.background='white';">$provider_name</li>
<table class="hidden" id="p$n" cellpadding="0px"
cellspacing="0px">
<tr class="irrel">
<td>
<ul class="no-list-style">
<li>
Total Articles:
$provider_article_count
</li>
<li class="irrel">
Jake Link: <a href="$jake_link"
target='_blank'>View $provider_name Jake Page</a>
</li>
<li class="irrel">
Provider Id: $provider_id
</li>
EOHTML
I've had this before and have just removed the <<EOHTML and assigned it
as normal prints and it works, so it's this chunk of code. (i think
anyway) does anyone know what could be causing it, a perl nuance
maybe??
Cheers for any help
Andy
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Date: 24 May 2006 05:11:25 -0700
From: "subha" <sdhanish@gmail.com>
Subject: Search and Replace
Message-Id: <1148472685.068481.40750@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
Hi,
I wrote Perl Scripting for Alignment.
I had a Text file in which data was unaligned and with my 2 lines
coding i aligned the data.
data was something like this:
FirstName LastName Email1
--->Email2 Date Time Timetype
Output should be in one line
Name(first & Last) Email1 Email2 Date Time
Timetype
I used the code
$replace_file =~ s/\n\-\-\-\> /\t/g;
$replace_file =~ s/\s\s+/\t/g;
to get above output, but the problem comes when the user has middle
name even
if there is middle name i am getting output like
Name(first,middle, Last)Email1 Email2 date time
timetype
Can anyone help me out with this.
thanks in advance
subha
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Date: 24 May 2006 04:43:34 -0700
From: antroy@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Criticism vs Constructive Criticism
Message-Id: <1148471014.814408.186930@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>
> 24. Learn when not to reply to a troll (and bother several groups while
> doing so).
25. Learn when not to reply to a reply to a troll (and bother several
groups while doing so).
This could go on and on... ;-)
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