From jduffy at semcor.com  Fri Jun  2 00:10:30 2000
From: jduffy at semcor.com (Jeff Duffy)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Perl Class
Message-ID: <393741C6.E537EF7A@semcor.com>

All,

 We will be holding class this Saturday. ACS is moving across the street
from our normal place, and I will disseminate directions to the new
conference room tomorrow after I ensure that we get all of the necessary
items moved (like chairs!).

 Watch the HRPM list and the website for updates tomorrow.

 Jeff
-- 
Jeffrey A. Duffy
jduffy@semcor.com
perl -e 'print
pack"H*","4A6566662C20416E6F74686572205065726C204861636B65720A"'

From jduffy at semcor.com  Fri Jun  2 20:21:07 2000
From: jduffy at semcor.com (Jeff Duffy)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Perl Class Cancelled
Message-ID: <39385D83.D93FC503@semcor.com>

All,

 I tried, I swear I tried, but it does not look as if we can
realistically hold class tomorrow. ACS Services, the company who
provides our classroom, is in the middle of an office move, and as of
3PM today the required equipment for class (tables, chairs, etc) had not
made it onto the moving truck, so it's pretty doubtful that we would
have a useable place to meet by 10AM tomorrow.

 I don't like missing another weekend and stretching the schedule any
more than you do, but it doesn't seem as if there's anything we can do
about this one.

 On the upside, the projector now works :)

Jeff
-- 
Jeffrey A. Duffy
jduffy@semcor.com
perl -e 'print
pack"H*","4A6566662C20416E6F74686572205065726C204861636B65720A"'

From jduffy at semcor.com  Sun Jun  4 21:33:59 2000
From: jduffy at semcor.com (Jeff Duffy)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] PCMCIA swap
Message-ID: <393B1197.C90760D1@semcor.com>

Hey,

 Does anyone here have a PCMCIA modem they'd be willing to swap for a
PCMCIA NIC? I have an extra Linksys 10baseT/10base2 NIC (model EC2T)
that is guaranteed to work in any Linux distro or any of the BSDs.

Jeff
-- 
Jeffrey A. Duffy
jduffy@semcor.com
perl -e 'print
pack"H*","4A6566662C20416E6F74686572205065726C204861636B65720A"'

From chicks at chicks.net  Fri Jun  9 15:06:29 2000
From: chicks at chicks.net (chicks@chicks.net)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Class is on!
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006091555070.27440-100001@yakko>

Yes, that's right.  We are actually having class tomorrow.  There are
actually chairs for you to sit in.  The instructor already has slides
written.  Short of a natural disaster, we're on -- unless you get lost...

The map to the new Semcor office is attached.  It'll be on the website
within a few days.  It's 825 Greenbrier Circle, Suite M.  It looks like
it's about halfway back the road to Lockheed.  Jeff indicated that Suite M
is around the back.  Look for his OpenSrc-mobile.  And we'll have some
sort of signs up.

I'm talking about regular expressions, so make sure you get plenty of
sleep and have enough caffeine to survive.  :-)

-- 
</chris>

Q. What's the difference between Batman and Bill Gates?
A. When Batman fought the Penguin, he won.
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From jduffy at semcor.com  Fri Jun  9 20:12:16 2000
From: jduffy at semcor.com (Jeff Duffy)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Class Location Verification
References: <852568F9.006EF763.00@NTMTA2.semcor.com>
Message-ID: <394195F0.A6D17FD@semcor.com>


 I'd like to clarify the location of the new office. It may have sounded
as if it was near where TWUUG meets, but is in fact just a few hundred
feet away from the old office.

 Instead of turning left into the old office parking lot from Greenbrier
Circle, continue on around the circle and take the third right *after*
that. Turn right and park (look for my car, a green '99 Accord, plates
read 'OPEN SRC'. The correct door will have a wheelchair ramp and is
labeled 825-M at the top. I included an updated image to make it a
little more clear. If you get lost beep me at 757-307-3618.

 See you there!

 Jeff

From jduffy at semcor.com  Fri Jun  9 20:13:16 2000
From: jduffy at semcor.com (Jeff Duffy)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Where's the GIF?
Message-ID: <3941962C.24E9EBD6@semcor.com>

Whoops, forgot the picture.

 Jeff
-- 
Jeffrey A. Duffy
jduffy@semcor.com
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From chicks at chicks.net  Fri Jun  9 23:46:44 2000
From: chicks at chicks.net (chicks@chicks.net)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Class Location Verification
In-Reply-To: <394195F0.A6D17FD@semcor.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006100045190.27440-100000@yakko>

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Jeff Duffy wrote:

>  I'd like to clarify the location of the new office. It may have
> sounded as if it was near where TWUUG meets, but is in fact just a few
> hundred feet away from the old office.

That's what I was thinking.  I totally read the map wrong.  My bad.

-- 
</chris>

Q. What's the difference between Batman and Bill Gates?
A. When Batman fought the Penguin, he won.


From jduffy at semcor.com  Sat Jun 10 12:44:16 2000
From: jduffy at semcor.com (Jeff Duffy)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] TWUUG/HRPM School Project
Message-ID: <39427E70.D0941232@semcor.com>

Hi all,

 I want to first say thanks to Jim Wilson ('Mr. Gizmo'), for the first
donation to the project, an NEC MultiSync 17" monitor. That's a pretty
cool thing to give away! Thanks a lot, Jim.

 We will be putting up a website for the project soon so we can make
sure that everyone who helps out gets recognized. I'm happy to say that
the Hampton Roads Perl Mongers will also be involved by rewriting some
non-free educational applications under mod_perl to take us as far as
possible in our goal of using only free software.

 We'll also be keeping track of where we are in terms of project status
on the website; I know that so far a couple of us have committed to
being responsible for the gateway/router machine using a BSD so TWUUG
can benefit from seeing it in action.

 Lastly, can anyone think of a nifty acronym-name or other name for the
project?

 Thanks,

 Jeff
-- 
Jeffrey A. Duffy
jduffy@semcor.com
perl -e 'print
pack"H*","4A6566662C20416E6F74686572205065726C204861636B65720A"'

From mark at mrmark.com  Tue Jun 13 16:26:55 2000
From: mark at mrmark.com (Mark D Wolinski)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] YAPC: Nice Raffle
In-Reply-To: <3941962C.24E9EBD6@semcor.com>
Message-ID: <NEBBLFAABBLBJKEBIKOGKEBNCDAA.mark@mrmark.com>

For those of you who are heading up to the Yet Another Perl Conference next
week have fun...

For those on the fence of deciding whether or not go, here's a bigger
incentive:

--- brian d foy wrote:

Perl Mongers <URL:http://www.perl.org> sponsor VA Linux
<URL:http://www.valinux.com> has donated a desktop linux system to be
raffled at Yet Another Perl Conference <URL:http://www.yapc.org/America>.

Support Perl Mongers and possibly win a Pentium III computer with VA Linux's
value-added Red Hat 6.2 pre-installed.  All proceeds go to Perl Mongers and
Perl advocacy.  You can't win if you don't show up!

--- End of Quote

Not sure what the whole system includes, but it could be valued at around
$2500 (cheapest PIII system I could find on VA Linux's site).

Mark W


From chicks at chicks.net  Thu Jun 15 16:57:44 2000
From: chicks at chicks.net (chicks@chicks.net)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] www.perl.com: Adventures on Perl Whirl 2000 (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006151756300.26719-100000@yakko>

In case you're not subscribed.  (If you are, they seem to send a few extra
copies recently.  Bugger.)  The Perl Whirl article was a good read.

-- 
</chris>

Q. What's the difference between Batman and Bill Gates?
A. When Batman fought the Penguin, he won.

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From mshivers11 at home.com  Sun Jun 18 23:11:48 2000
From: mshivers11 at home.com (Matt Shivers)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Perl Sardines
Message-ID: <002301bfd9a4$7d44fb80$1f8e1718@nwptn1.va.home.com>

Hello all,

I couldn't resist sharing this site with the group. I am a newbie so don't shoot me if you've seen this before...

http://www.cypherspace.org/~adam/rsa/sardines.html

Enjoy...

Matt
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From mpatten at exis.net  Mon Jun 19 04:24:39 2000
From: mpatten at exis.net (Mike Patten)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Perl Sardines
In-Reply-To: <002301bfd9a4$7d44fb80$1f8e1718@nwptn1.va.home.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006190522530.2506-100000@freya.newvalhalla.net>

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Matt Shivers wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I couldn't resist sharing this site with the group. I am a newbie so don't shoot me if you've seen this before...
> 
> http://www.cypherspace.org/~adam/rsa/sardines.html
> 
> Enjoy...
> 
> Matt
> 

That's pretty good.  I've seen code twisted into some strange shapes but
never a can of sardines.

-- 
Mike Patten <mpatten@exis.net>


From chicks at chicks.net  Wed Jun 21 10:53:07 2000
From: chicks at chicks.net (chicks@chicks.net)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Re: [twuug] What a Great June!
In-Reply-To: <009e01bfdb84$b27a78c0$04a8a8c0@att.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006211149320.9728-100000@yakko>

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Hoyt wrote:
> So the pressure is on the Perl Mongers to finish the month off with a bang.

Thanks Hoyt!  But just as a reminder, I will be talking about mod_perl
this month for real - 28 Jun 7:30p.  Jeff is here and he remembers which
night the meeting is now, so we will have a conference room.  :-)  Check
out http://norfolk.pm.org for directions.

-- 
</chris>

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make
it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way
is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
                                                        - - C.A.R. Hoare


From kcusce at home.com  Fri Jun 23 20:03:17 2000
From: kcusce at home.com (Collin/Kevin Cusce')
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Free Perl DBI server
Message-ID: <00e401bfdd77$fb3feaa0$40941718@cx782347a>

Hey, I wanted to suggest a free DBI server to everyone. They just got it up an running (I have no idea what took so long, it only took me 5 mins and im a novice), so thier documentation is null. 
They use PostgreSql which seems to do the job just fine for any small scripts you would like to write. They do have a limit of 5mbs dataspace, but they are pretty lenient about upgrades. I suggest everyone in the Perl class check it out.
The url is http://www.f2s.com 
                Collin Cusce
                kcusce@home.com 
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From jduffy at semcor.com  Mon Jun 26 18:54:19 2000
From: jduffy at semcor.com (jeff)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Who?
Message-ID: <3957ED2B.D6CAAF79@semcor.com>

 Who was it that gave me the monitor at the Perl class a couple of weeks
ago? I want to put your name on the project website.

 Jeff

From twebster at pcs.cnu.edu  Tue Jun 27 08:02:13 2000
From: twebster at pcs.cnu.edu (Troy E. Webster)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Who?
In-Reply-To: <3957ED2B.D6CAAF79@semcor.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.02A.10006270901460.1959-100000@defender>

It was me,

Troy Webster

___________________________________________________________________________
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, jeff wrote:

>  Who was it that gave me the monitor at the Perl class a couple of weeks
> ago? I want to put your name on the project website.
> 
>  Jeff
> 


From lbyrd at memach.com  Wed Jun 28 15:40:49 2000
From: lbyrd at memach.com (Lyman Byrd)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Meeting tonite???????????
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006151756300.26719-100000@yakko>
Message-ID: <XFMail.20000628164049.lbyrd@memach.com>

Is the meeting still on for tonite?

Lyman

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     Date: 28-Jun-2000     Time: 16:40:05
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From jduffy at semcor.com  Wed Jun 28 15:58:10 2000
From: jduffy at semcor.com (Jeff Duffy)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Meeting tonite???????????
References: <8525690C.0071F513.00@NTMTA2.semcor.com>
Message-ID: <395A66E2.66C4426A@semcor.com>

Lyman Byrd wrote:
> 
> Is the meeting still on for tonite?

 Yup. 7:30, and I'm already here and not leaving until after the
meeting. The more the merrier!

Jeff

From chicks at chicks.net  Wed Jun 28 16:32:02 2000
From: chicks at chicks.net (chicks@chicks.net)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Meeting tonite??????????? (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006281731020.6773-100000@yakko>

I should have sent out an announcement, but this week has been
particularly hairy.  I'm talking about mod_perl at 7:30pm tonight at
Semcor.  Check out http://norfolk.pm.org for directions.

-- 
</chris>

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make
it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way
is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
                                                        - - C.A.R. Hoare

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:58:10 -0400
From: Jeff Duffy <jduffy@semcor.com>
Reply-To: norfolk-pm-list@happyfunball.pm.org
To: norfolk-pm-list@happyfunball.pm.org
Subject: Re: [HRPM] Meeting tonite???????????

Lyman Byrd wrote:
> 
> Is the meeting still on for tonite?

 Yup. 7:30, and I'm already here and not leaving until after the
meeting. The more the merrier!

Jeff


From jduffy at semcor.com  Fri Jun 30 11:08:20 2000
From: jduffy at semcor.com (jeff)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:08:06 2004
Subject: [HRPM] Excellent mod_perl article
Message-ID: <395CC5F4.15AADA6A@semcor.com>

Here's yet another good article by Stas Bekman, one of the primary
mod_perl developers, on getting mod_perl up and running as fast as
possible:

http://apachetoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-06-23-002-01-NW-LF-SW

 Jeff