crashspace
Hi, I know this is late notice (as always; will I ever learn?), but does anyone have any crashspace available for thursday and/or friday? Thanks in advance, Jody
Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises
Elaine -HFB- Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * *CwG: Right, you have seven days to produce your ID card at any police *station -- here's the appropriate bit of paper to bring along with it. *Me: Right ho. Have a nice day. I don't know that you could get away with that in the US as they'd track down the owner of the car after 7 days What car are you talking about? There is no car.
Re: compression (was: gzipping your websites)
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:11, Tom Hukins wrote; Also, I suspect the case for bzip2 becomes stronger in the future. Assume Moore's Law continues to hold for CPU speed increase. Disk and This argument is irrelevant in general, because the size of files to be compressed in general also increases with Moore's law. Just look at the Linux kernel source tree :-). memory capabilities increase faster, so none of these things matter as much as now. Bandwidth increases less rapidly than other factors[1], so for downloading files over the Internet, size becomes relatively more important. An algorithm like `lzop' would be best for on-the-fly compression IMHO. -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. ABBIE HOFFMAN
Re: Fave calendering software?
Je 2003-08-29 07:11:42 +0100, Paul Sharpe skribis: Paul Makepeace wrote: Basic hour-by-hour, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly views. Something that produces HTML output for inclusion or direct embeddable on the web would I like Mozilla calendar: * RFC2445 * Multiple calendars which can be overlayed in any view * Remote calendars with WebDAV Thanks for this - I've been using it a little while now and it seems pretty effective. I'm using latest .xpi from http://mozilla.org/projects/calendar in Firebird 0.6.1 and it's working fine (haven't tried the web upload yet). 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 ignored (at least bookmarks didn't show up). Anyone? My solution: firebird -calendar and then use a different profile (I created a Calendar profile). Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is the colour of air? It's all circles within squares. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/
Re: Fave calendering software?
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 ignored (at least bookmarks didn't show up). Anyone? Yep, install the QuickTools extension pointed to from the calender page and then use the Calender menu item that can now be found under Tools. Jody
Re: Fave calendering software?
On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 01:17, 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 ignored (at least bookmarks didn't show up). Anyone? Obviously you've never pointed Mozzy to this URL then: chrome://navigator/content/navigator.xul -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. H P LOVECRAFT
Re: Fave calendering software?
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 ignored (at least bookmarks didn't show up). Anyone? Yep, install the QuickTools extension pointed to from the calender page and then use the Calender menu item that can now be found under Tools. 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. Last I saw they still weren't going to add a menu item to switch style sheets on the reasoning that you can download an extention to do it. I think even fewer people will want to use Moz if it's nothing but gecko with plugins. I like the idea of a slim, quick browser, but I think they may be getting too religious about it. -- mike
Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * * I don't know that you could get away with that in the US as they'd track * down the owner of the car after 7 days * *What car are you talking about? There is no car. Perhaps you forgot in this long pointless thread, that you started picking on drivers licenses. e.
Re: Fave calendering software?
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. Last I saw they still weren't going to add a menu item to switch style sheets on the reasoning that you can download an extention to do it. I think even fewer people will want to use Moz if it's nothing but gecko with plugins. The nightlies of FireBird have a stylesheet switcher icon in the bottom left. No extensions needed. I presume that this will find its way into the next version. One thing I think should be a browser builtin feature (and should have been since about 1994) are the nav buttons. They're firebird's replacement for mozilla's site navigation bar. The nice thing about using these in FireBird is that it's got a customisable toolbar, so you only get the bits you want. http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions/#NavButtons -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 72 | | Address: 33 Bond St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1RD, UK. |
Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to be annoyed when someone zipped and the rared. Winzip cannot even handle this yet. Nowadays I can just say that RAR is more universial the Zip. That seem unlikely at best. I'd never even heard of winrar until somebody at work pointed it out to me... It's certainly not what I'd call anywhere close to being standard or universal. For the benefit of people likely to come up against Yet Another Compression Format, though: http://files10.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-3.2.3.tar.gz -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 72 | | Address: 33 Bond St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1RD, UK. |
Re: gzipping your websites
On 1 Sep 2003 at 21:58, Tim Sweetman wrote: Does all this negotiation run into hot water with legacy p(r)oxy caches? I believe someone mentioned that they couldn't get their cache to cache the contents if they sent the proper HTTP header (Vary: encoding, I believe, meaning Hey, proxy, the result of fetching this URL depends on the Encoding header the client sends, so only send back this stuff to clients with the same header as the one you're making this request on behalf of). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gzipping your websites
Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Sep 2003 at 21:58, Tim Sweetman wrote: Does all this negotiation run into hot water with legacy p(r)oxy caches? I believe someone mentioned that they couldn't get their cache to cache the contents if they sent the proper HTTP header (Vary: encoding, I believe, meaning Hey, proxy, the result of fetching this URL depends on the Encoding header the client sends, so only send back this stuff to clients with the same header as the one you're making this request on behalf of). That was me. Now I don't want to just say that it doesn't work outright, but I couldn't get it working. You should try it yourself and see what results you get. And when you get it working, tell me. :-) -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 72 | | Address: 33 Bond St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1RD, UK. |
Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial
On 2 Sep 2003 at 7:16, Dominic Mitchell wrote: It's certainly not what I'd call anywhere close to being standard or universal. I'm told it's fairly popular in (some?) Usenet binary newsgroups as a standard way of distributing warez and moviez. From what I gather, it supports multi-volume archives natively (which are a bit of a hack with the ZIP format); there also exists a PAR scheme which gives parity information so if you miss up to 'n' segments of a multi-segment file, you can recreate them from the parity data. Compression is also sometimes better than with ZIP, possibly because of one or both of (a) it's said to have a special multimedia mode that is tuned to compressing audio and/or video (no idea how that works, though) and (b) it can create solid archives (things .tar.gz - compress the files as one rather than compressing each file individually as in .zip, hence you can take advantage of redundancy across files). I've very rarely come across a file I wanted that was in .RAR format, though. When I started computing in the 90's on PCs, it was LZH at the beginning, replaced by ARJ shortly after I started; now it's ZIP. (And, of course, the perennial .tar.Z / .tar.gz in the *nix world, though .tar.bz2 are starting to show up in a couple of places.) So, as far as I'm concerned, .RAR isn't standard, either, but apparently there are such for whom it is. This is probably not relevant for whoever started the thread, though. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Philip Newton wrote: On 2 Sep 2003 at 7:16, Dominic Mitchell wrote: It's certainly not what I'd call anywhere close to being standard or universal. I'm told it's fairly popular in (some?) Usenet binary newsgroups as a standard way of distributing warez and moviez. Certainly a majority of warez that show up on our network are rars (and they tend to be single large files, so they're not directly taken from multipart usenet posts) the hatter
Re: Programming Email Filters
http://grou.ch/bounce.txt is very effective. But if you're using fetchmail or similar, remember the Email::Simple team chose correctness over usefulness, and not to write the emails back to mail folders, unless you want all kinds of pain. +Pete
Re: compression (was: gzipping your websites)
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:13:56AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:11, Tom Hukins wrote; Also, I suspect the case for bzip2 becomes stronger in the future. Assume Moore's Law continues to hold for CPU speed increase. Disk and This argument is irrelevant in general, because the size of files to be compressed in general also increases with Moore's law. I don't understand how this changes anything. If CPU increases outstrip bandwidth increases, CPU intensive compression/decompression becomes more appropriate compared to bandwidth intensive compression. It's already been mentioned that bzip2 performs better on large files than on small files, so if anything I would expect larger file sizes to favour bzip2. Tom
Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, the hatter wrote: It's certainly not what I'd call anywhere close to being standard or universal. I'm told it's fairly popular in (some?) Usenet binary newsgroups as a standard way of distributing warez and moviez. Certainly a majority of warez that show up on our network are rars (and they tend to be single large files, so they're not directly taken from multipart usenet posts) They might have been. The .rar file is what you get after recombining the multipart messages. Jason Clifford -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net http://www.ukfsn.org/ ADSL Broadband available now
Re: Programming Email Filters
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:27:34AM +0100, Peter Sergeant wrote: http://grou.ch/bounce.txt is very effective. But if you're using fetchmail or similar, remember the Email::Simple team chose correctness over usefulness, I typically find correct things very useful. For the cases where not, we have this wonderful thing called documentation which explains why you shouldn't expect deliberate brokenness in order to be useful. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Email-Simple/Simple.pm#CAVEATS and not to write the emails back to mail folders, unless you want all kinds of pain. Or you use the tool for the job, which is Email::Filter. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Email-Filter/lib/Email/Filter.pm -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Programming Email Filters
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030901 23:08]: I hacked up something that identified the emails I want to filter using Email::Simple, but I'd appreciate some input on what I've done. There are three areas I need help on. The first problem is identifying why the email ended up in my inbox. I need to work out which of the many email addresses in the many headers is aimed at me. Here's the algorithm I'm using. use Mail::Message; my $msg = Mail::Message-read(\*STDIN); my @dest = $msg-destinations; # list of Mail::Address objects # parsed from To, Cc, Bcc, Resent-To, ... I'm using the Email::* modules but there doesn't seem to be a way to extract the actual deliverable email address from the headers. For example, from print $_-address for @dest; I use procmail for my mail filtering, so I need to plug this new filter in with that. The processing I need is: if email is to a dodgy address then save it in 'notme' mailbox else continue with normal procmail processing end You can be in the Bcc of the sender, so valid mail does not require to have contain your address. -- MarkOv drs Mark A.C.J. OvermeerMARKOV Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://Mark.Overmeer.net http://solutions.overmeer.net
Re: Programming Email Filters
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:09:58PM -0700, Dave Cross wrote: I'm using the Email::* modules but there doesn't seem to be a way to extract the actual deliverable email address from the headers. For example, from Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] Email parsing is listed as for a future release in Regexp::Common. I could use Mail::Address, but I don't really want to install Mail-Tools given that Email::* replaces most of it. Bite the bullet. It's good enough that we use it for Siesta, and we've had to be picky about choice of address extractors in the past. -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s (was Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial)
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:24:11AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: [re RAR] I'm told it's fairly popular in (some?) Usenet binary newsgroups as a standard way of distributing warez and moviez. ACE is another format that I understand is used in that context. From what I gather, it supports multi-volume archives natively (which are a bit of a hack with the ZIP format); there also exists a PAR scheme which gives parity information so if you miss up to 'n' segments of a multi-segment file, you can recreate them from the parity data. Both correct, though I've never seen PAR actually produce a result. Actually, I've probably known about RAR for longer than most people; in 1994 I translated the documentation for RAR 1.40 from Russian to English, and uploaded it to Garbo. (Three weeks later, Yevgeniy Roshal brought out a new version with his own English translation, which was rather less comprehensible than mine, and didn't bother to answer my email.) Compression is also sometimes better than with ZIP, possibly because of one or both of (a) it's said to have a special multimedia mode that is tuned to compressing audio and/or video (no idea how that works, though) and (b) it can create solid archives (things .tar.gz - compress the files as one rather than compressing each file individually as in .zip, hence you can take advantage of redundancy across files). Also both correct. Multimedia mode, AFAIR, looks for shorter repeated sequences than in text, because there's already been some compression done. RAR used to be practically guaranteed to be smaller than ZIP, but the format has got a bit bulky of late. Basically, it started as state-of-the-art compression code of 1994 and has been updated somewhat since, whereas ZIP is state-of-the-art for early 1992 and basically hasn't changed at all (RAR has now had four or five changes to the file format). In my experience, people who really care about compressed file size and are moderately technically savvy tend to use RAR or ACE; people who want their files to be readable by everybody use ZIP; people who are catering for virus-prone fools use self-installing EXE. (All of this only applies to the Windows world, obviously; I think the parallels in Unix, or at least Linux, would be .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and dodgy commercial software with auto-extracting installers like the JRE.) Incidentally, I can highly recommend PowerArchiver, even though it's now gone shareware. It's the only archive extractor I use on Windows. I've very rarely come across a file I wanted that was in .RAR format, though. When I started computing in the 90's on PCs, it was LZH at the beginning, replaced by ARJ shortly after I started; now it's ZIP. (And, of course, the perennial .tar.Z / .tar.gz in the *nix world, though .tar.bz2 are starting to show up in a couple of places.) For a while, ARJ was looking set to displace ZIP v2; it was producing consistently smaller files, and had just grown a solid mode (which originated with HPack, but that's another story entirely). But Rob Jung insisted on keeping the source entirely closed, which meant that instead of competing with ZIP as the universal and featureful format it was competing with RAR as the small format, at which it failed. This is probably not relevant for whoever started the thread, though. Neither is anything I've said here. R
Re: Factory Classes
Dave Cross wrote:
What would be really good would be if we could autodetect which
modules they had installed during installation and choose the
local default from those - but I may leve that for a later release.
Have a look at XML::SAX. It maintains a list of SAX parsers installed on
the system, and each new install updates a local configuration file.
Users can set which ones are default in the config file (if my memory
serves me correctly), and also dynamically choose the parser at runtime.
The more I think about it, the more I realise how little I know about
XML::SAX. Might be best to ignore me
Ian
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Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s (was Re: gzipping your websitesWINRAR 40 days trial)
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Roger Burton West wrote: Both correct, though I've never seen PAR actually produce a result. Download a large enough set of rar component files (as in grabbing Buffy each week) and you'll soon find how useful par files are. Jason Clifford -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net http://www.ukfsn.org/ ADSL Broadband available now
Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s (was Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial)
Roger Burton West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my experience, people who really care about compressed file size and are moderately technically savvy tend to use RAR or ACE; people who want their files to be readable by everybody use ZIP; people who are catering for virus-prone fools use self-installing EXE. I don't actually mind .EXE files so long as I don't have to run them. If you can just extract from them using the standard unzip program, I don't have a problem with that. -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 72 | | Address: 33 Bond St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1RD, UK. |
Re: Fave calendering software?
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 6:27:04 AM, Mike Jarvis wrote:
MJ I like the idea of a slim, quick browser, but I think they may be
MJ getting too religious about it.
If you ever use That OS (even if it's just at work with an enforced NT
workstation or something), I can heartily recommend K-Meleon for a
lightweight, highly-configurable Moz-based browser.
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
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Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s
On 2 Sep 2003 at 9:43, Roger Burton West wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:24:11AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: When I started computing in the 90's on PCs, it was LZH at the beginning, replaced by ARJ shortly after I started; now it's ZIP. (And, of course, the perennial .tar.Z / .tar.gz in the *nix world, though .tar.bz2 are starting to show up in a couple of places.) For a while, ARJ was looking set to displace ZIP v2; it was producing consistently smaller files, and had just grown a solid mode (which originated with HPack, but that's another story entirely). That's certainly what it looked like to me in the early-mid 90's (my BBS/mailboxing days: roughly 1992-1994), where ARJ appeared to be the most popular compressed format by far. (Though my favourite mailbox switched over to SQZ due to its slightly better compression, I don't think that format ever became widespread.) I was away from computers for about 1995-1997 and was a bit surprised on my return to find that ZIP appeared to have taken over from ARJ. I can well imagine that the availability of Info-ZIP may have been part of this; another part is probably the advent of Win95 and WinZIP, which brought compression to the pointy-clicky masses. (ARJ and PKZIP had both been 16-bit command-line DOS programs, though there was third-pary software called ARJMENU which gave you a text-mode full-screen interface to ARJ, and I think PKZIP later came up with a 32-bit graphical version of their software.) But Rob Jung insisted on keeping the source entirely closed, which meant that instead of competing with ZIP as the universal and featureful format it was competing with RAR as the small format, at which it failed. I think it stood a decent chance at featureful if not universal; it certainly had a ton of features, which got more and more with each version. Compression was roughly the same, but ARJ was the first of the two to have multi-volume archives, for example, or backup archives storing multiple versions of the same file (it retrieved the latest version by default but you could ask for any older version as well). I think that by count of features, ARJ was probably more successful. No idea what ARJ is doing these days. They still seem to be around as a company (and have a better format called JAR, apparently), but I haven't seen an ARJ archive in many a day. I doubt they have many sales. This is probably not relevant for whoever started the thread, though. Neither is anything I've said here. But it's been interesting talking about it. -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Programming Email Filters
From: Mark Overmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 9/2/03 8:36:11 AM You can be in the Bcc of the sender, so valid mail does not require to have contain your address. Yeah, but in cases like that one of my email addresses will still be in the Received headers somewhere. I think. Dave... -- http://www.dave.org.uk Let me see you make decisions, without your television - Depeche Mode (Stripped)
Re: Programming Email Filters
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mark Overmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 9/2/03 8:36:11 AM You can be in the Bcc of the sender, so valid mail does not require to have contain your address. Yeah, but in cases like that one of my email addresses will still be in the Received headers somewhere. I think. Parsing Received headers has got be the start of a slippery road... See also qmail. -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 72 | | Address: 33 Bond St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1RD, UK. |
Re: Programming Email Filters
Je 2003-09-02 09:54:59 +0100, Dave Cross skribis:
From: Mark Overmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED]9/2/03 8:36:11 AM
You can be in the Bcc of the sender, so valid mail does
not require to have contain your address.
Yeah, but in cases like that one of my email addresses will still
be in the Received headers somewhere. I think.
It depends how your receiving MTA is set up - in Debian's exim there is
a line like,
received_header_text = Received: \
# snip reams of other stuff \
${if def:received_for {\n\tfor $received_for}}
If that were not in Received:, and Envelope-to: were turned off
you'd probably have a hard time divining the address without
spelunking MTA logfiles.
Paul
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Re: Fave calendering software?
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. Last I saw they still weren't going to add a menu item to switch style sheets on the reasoning that you can download an extention to do it. I think even fewer people will want to use Moz if it's nothing but gecko with plugins. The nightlies of FireBird have a stylesheet switcher icon in the bottom left. No extensions needed. I presume that this will find its way into the next version. It does have the icon, but it doesn't have the menu items (which sucks if you hide the status bar, and the menu items take up no more space if you have menus on). There's also no way to use a user defined stylesheet on the fly, since the icon only appears if alternate stylesheets are available. I hate it when UI elements come and go as they please and don't just stay still. I also think it's pretty unfreindly to make people dig around to find the right file to modify to use their own style sheets. I think the real problem is tunnel vision. The developers assume that if they don't use a feature, nobody else does either. The whole idea of moving everything off into extensions was fine when Firebird was just an alternative to Mozilla, but as the base browser I'm afraid it needs to bloat up some. -- mike
Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:55:13AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: I can well imagine that the availability of Info-ZIP may have been part of this; another part is probably the advent of Win95 and WinZIP, which brought compression to the pointy-clicky masses. (ARJ and PKZIP had both been 16-bit command-line DOS programs, though there was third-pary software called ARJMENU which gave you a text-mode full-screen interface to ARJ, and I think PKZIP later came up with a 32-bit graphical version of their software.) Yup, but it was more expensive than WinZIP (which of course was based on Info-ZIP) and nagged the user more about registration. ARJ never went graphical at all AFAIK, and neither did JAR. I think it stood a decent chance at featureful if not universal; it certainly had a ton of features, which got more and more with each version. It won on featureful, but that wasn't enough to get it used. Compression was roughly the same, but ARJ was the first of the two to have multi-volume archives, for example, or backup archives storing multiple versions of the same file (it retrieved the latest version by default but you could ask for any older version as well). I think that by count of features, ARJ was probably more successful. And of course it was tested a bit more thoroughly before it was released. Anyone remember PKZip 2.04e? The (plain-text) bug list was longer than the executable... No idea what ARJ is doing these days. They still seem to be around as a company (and have a better format called JAR, apparently), but I haven't seen an ARJ archive in many a day. I doubt they have many sales. JAR was available in 1996 or so, I think. I still have copies of most of the archivers and compressors I was playing with in those days... anyone remember UC2? HA? SAR? ACB? Roger
RE: Programming Email Filters
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Cross Sent: 01 September 2003 22:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Programming Email Filters Like (I guess) many people round here I'm getting Too Much Email that I don't want to read. So I'm doing something about it. Using Perl. And no, of course, no-one elses solution will work just how I want it to work so I'm in full wheel-reinvention mode. The biggest problem I'm currently having is bounces from spam that has fake addresses in my domains as the 'From:' header, so that's the problem I'm addressing first. I have a finite number of email addresses that I want to read email for and any email addressed to a different address will be filtered off to a different folder for later investigation. snip But my procmail powers are weak and I can't work out how to do it. I see that spamassassin adds a new header to the email and my next procmail rules does the filtering. That would be an acceptable solution if I can't do it all in one rule. Any help and advice on all of these issues much appreciated. I know this isn't a perl solution but I have been using spambouncer (http://www.spambouncer.org/) It's purely a who load of procmail recipies which get updated periodicly. It doesn't seem to produce too many false positives (I think I've had 4 in 3 months). It also has a series of files for configuration e.g. .nobounce is a list of domains/email addresses that should be always accepted if they appear in the from field. .myemail is a list of email addresses that I use regularly eg andyw[at]hillway.com, sms[at]hillway.com etc. It has been very useful as people are spoofing one of my domains for spam *g* Andy
Re: Factory Classes
Dave Cross sent the following bits through the ether: I've done something similar before with Symbol::Approx::Sub, but I'm not sure that the interface I designed there was as useful as it could be, so I'm open to suggestions. No, I wasn't terribly happy with it either. I've written this bit of code so often that it really needs to be a seperate module so that we can all do it A Better Way. However, every time I look, the factory modules on CPAN aren't quite there: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=factorymode=module So, I don't know, but good luck. I'm sure there's a good module or two in there somewhere (a la, return a list of modules which have the same base name as 'Foo::Plugin::'... Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... The sun ain't yellow, its chicken
Re: Programming Email Filters
Dominic Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mark Overmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 9/2/03 8:36:11 AM You can be in the Bcc of the sender, so valid mail does not require to have contain your address. Yeah, but in cases like that one of my email addresses will still be in the Received headers somewhere. I think. Parsing Received headers has got be the start of a slippery road... See also qmail. I wrote Mail::Field::Received for this; I guess that puts me at the bottom of a very murky pit of non-RFC822-compliant regexps, but hopefully saves other people from the same fate.
Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s
On 2 Sep 2003 at 10:09, Roger Burton West wrote: I still have copies of most of the archivers and compressors I was playing with in those days... anyone remember UC2? HA? SAR? ACB? I had a bunch squirrelled away on my old hard drive (125 MB, the luxury). I should have that backed up on CD-R somewhere but I'd have to dig for quite a while. Of those you mentioned, I only ever saw HA. (My version had a bug in that its help output had lines terminated IIRC by CR CR LF, causing it to double-space on my screen unless I piped it through a filter.) A couple of others I had were HAP (and its companion, PAH), SQZ, DWC (by Dean W. Cooper), PKPAK, LHARC, LHA, ICE(?), ZOO, and AR. I don't think I ever saw a DWC or AR archive in the wild, though. ICE was basically a renamed LHA, so that doesn't really count; I think most .lzh were LHA rather than the older LHARC. I didn't come across many .ARC archives either (which PKPAK and ARC created IIRC), but I did see a couple. ZOO appears to be very old indeed (and was even fairly portable, apparently; I saw a description of moving them over to a VMS machine with Kermit, for example). I remember whatever produced .ARC because it produced really bad compression in two ways: didn't squeeze as much out of the file as most other utilities, and the resulting file couldn't be compressed much, either. There were probably tons more that sprung up after my time as well; I remember seeing a compression comparison site with all sorts of apps, though most appeared to be newer (as in, developed in the last six or seven years). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fave calendering software?
Mike Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:00:20AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: The nightlies of FireBird have a stylesheet switcher icon in the bottom left. No extensions needed. I presume that this will find its way into the next version. It does have the icon, but it doesn't have the menu items (which sucks if you hide the status bar, and the menu items take up no more space if you have menus on). Can you hide the status bar? I didn't realise that... Ooh! Wow! More real estate! Thanks! There's also no way to use a user defined stylesheet on the fly, since the icon only appears if alternate stylesheets are available. I hate it when UI elements come and go as they please and don't just stay still. I also think it's pretty unfreindly to make people dig around to find the right file to modify to use their own style sheets. Yup, I agree. Using ones own style sheets should be made much easier. Although to some extent this is worked around by bookmarklets such as the stuff in the squarefree collection: http://squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ A lot of those do things that you might conceivably want to with user defined stylesheets. -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 72 | | Address: 33 Bond St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1RD, UK. |
Re: Factory Classes
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Leon Brocard wrote:
So, I don't know, but good luck. I'm sure there's a good module or two
in there somewhere (a la, return a list of modules which have the same
base name as 'Foo::Plugin::'...
That's not going to work. Quite a few of my plugins have support modules
that are called
Application::Plugin::MyPluginName::SupportName
SupportName isn't a valid plugin, it's just a module that MyPluginName
needs.
Mark.
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use strict;
use warnings;
print q{Mark Fowler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://twoshortplanks.com/};
Re: Factory Classes
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Simon Wistow wrote:
http://siesta.unixbeard.net/svn/trunk/siesta/lib/Siesta.pm
under available_plugins
1) Does that code work on platforms that don't use '/' as a directory
seperator? Ooh, maybe I should patch that.
2) That code probably will go boom if you try to use it with PAR or
something like that (since that relies on magic @INC hooks)
Maybe the 'registering as part of the install' system isn't such a bad
idea.
Here's a totally crazy system, a module that you load that can tell you
what plugins are installed and a can also add plugins, and it does this by
dynamically rewriting it's own code on disk (via finding itself in %INC).
Mark.
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use strict;
use warnings;
print q{Mark Fowler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://twoshortplanks.com/};
Re: Factory Classes
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:31:03PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Simon Wistow wrote: http://siesta.unixbeard.net/svn/trunk/siesta/lib/Siesta.pm under available_plugins 1) Does that code work on platforms that don't use '/' as a directory seperator? Ooh, maybe I should patch that. Yes, because File::Find always deals in things separated by / regardless of the local idiom. This is sometimes referred to as Rubbish, but hey, it's File::Find. -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Emailed RSS
[Well, it's written in perl, so what the hell] I've sort of finished stage one of my Email RSS Aggregator: http://era.indecorous.com/ At least, it's ready for some more general testing. So, if anyone's got some spare moments and fancies giving it a whirl (particularly if it sounds like it'd be uesful to them) that'd be groovy. Might still be a bit flaky, of course :) Ian (Apologies to those I've already mailed this to via other channels.) - -- The soul would have no rainbows if the eyes held no tears. Ian Malpass [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fave calendering software?
Hmm, so there's a Debian package mencal -- that's menstrual calendar -- which prints calendars like cal(1) but with certain days in ... red. Yes, it's written in perl. And why not, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is quids in in German? Touching myself so it *really* feels good! -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/
Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:19:37AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: JAR? No relation to the Java archive format, is there? None whatsoever - it predated it somewhat as well. I thought that Java's JAR files were just Java-tARballs. Mostly they're Zip-files, actually.. Roger
Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Philip Newton wrote: No idea what ARJ is doing these days. They still seem to be around as a company (and have a better format called JAR, apparently) [...] JAR? No relation to the Java archive format, is there? I thought that Java's JAR files were just Java-tARballs. Now you have me wondering if that's actually true. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://devers.homeip.net:8080/blog/ ALU, n. [Arithritic Logic Unit or (rare) Arithmetic Logic Unit.] A random-number generator supplied as standard on all computer systems. -- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995
Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s
On 2 Sep 2003 at 9:19, Chris Devers wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Philip Newton wrote: No idea what ARJ is doing these days. They still seem to be around as a company (and have a better format called JAR, apparently) [...] JAR? No relation to the Java archive format, is there? Correct: no relation. I thought that Java's JAR files were just Java-tARballs. I believe they're basically ZIP files with certain specifically-named members. Or something. But based on ZIP, not TAR. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Programming Email Filters
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:09:58 -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
The first problem is identifying why the email ended up in my inbox. I
need to work out which of the many email addresses in the many headers is
aimed at me. Here's the algorithm I'm using.
1/ If there's an 'Envelope-to' header then use that and stop looking.
Convince your local MDA to always insert one (such as qmail's
Delivered-to:). Then you only need this step. The other message headers are
all lies, anyway.
I'm in the fortunate position of being the only user on my mail server, so I
can reject messages which aren't addressed to me at SMTP RCPT time, and I
don't even have to receive them in the first place. Of course, I still get
hundreds of bounces addressed to me, due to the current virus/spam
addressing trend, but this did cut down the flood quite considerably.
I'm using the Email::* modules but there doesn't seem to be a way to
extract the actual deliverable email address from the headers.
Should I just write Email::Address and submit it to the Email::* project?
I've written a yapp grammar for my MUA, which (from memory) parses
everything in RFC822 addresses (not necessarily 2822 - it didn't exist)
except for domain literals. While it successfully identifies addresses
correctly, constructing sensible values for comments really only works for
comments which were sensible to start with:
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
name=Dave Cross
comment=
Muhammed.(I am the greatest) Ali @(the)Vegas.WBA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
name=
comment= (I am the greatest) (the)
At the risk of annoying the list admins, I've attached it to this message,
since I still haven't got round to putting the MUA on CPAN.
--
Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The usability of a computer language is inversely proportional to the
number of theoretical axes the language designer tries to grind.
-- Larry Wall# $Revision: 1.9 $
%token tComma tColon tSemi
%token tAngLeft tAngRight
%token tAt tDot
%token tAtom tQuotedString tQuotedPair
%%
addresses:
address
{ [ $_[1] ] }
| addresses tComma address
{ [ @{$_[1]},$_[3] ] }
;
address:
address_
{
$_[0]-ParseComments;
my $data=$_[0]-YYData;
my $addr={
addr = $_[1],
comment = $data-{COMMENT},
text = $data-{TEXT},
name = $data-{NAME},
};
delete $data-{COMMENT};
delete $data-{TEXT};
delete $data-{NAME};
$addr-{name}=~s/^\s+//s;
$addr;
}
;
address_:
group
| mailbox
;
group:
phrase tColon mailboxes tSemi
;
mailboxes:
mailbox
| mailboxes tComma mailbox
;
mailbox:
addr_spec
| opt_phrase route_addr
{ $_[0]-YYData-{NAME}.= $_[1]; $_[2] }
;
addr_spec:
local_part tAt domain
{ $_[1]$_[2]$_[3] }
;
opt_phrase:
| phrase
;
phrase:
word
| phrase word
{ $_[1] $_[2] }
;
route_addr:
tAngLeft opt_route addr_spec tAngRight
{ $_[3] } # XXX Ignore route for now
;
opt_route:
routes tColon
|
;
routes:
routes tAt domain
| tAt domain
;
local_part:
local_part tDot word
{ $_[1]$_[2]$_[3] }
| word
;
domain:
domain tDot sub_domain
{ $_[1]$_[2]$_[3] }
| sub_domain
;
sub_domain:
domain_ref
/* | domain_literal */
;
domain_ref:
tAtom
;
word:
tAtom
| tQuotedString
;
%%
my %tokens=reverse(
tComma = ',',
tColon = ':',
tSemi = ';',
tAngLeft = '',
tAngRight = '',
tParLeft = '(',
tParRight = ')',
tBraLeft = '[',
tBraRight = ']',
tAt = '@',
tDot = '.',
);
my $tokens=join '',keys %tokens;
# Remove whitespace and comments
# This is done outside the lexer, since we call it before the first token
sub ParseComments{
my($parser)[EMAIL PROTECTED];
my $data=$parser-YYData;
for($data-{INPUT}){
while(s/^(\s+)// || /^\(/){
$data-{TEXT}.=$1;
if(s/^\(//){
my $level=1;
my $ctext='(';
while($level){
s/^([^()\\]+)//
and $ctext.=$1;
s/^((?:\\.)+)//
and $ctext.=$1;
s/^\(//
and $ctext.='(' and ++$level;
if(s/^\)//){
$ctext.=')';
last unless --$level;
}
}
$data-{COMMENT}.= $ctext;
$data-{TEXT}.=$ctext;
}
}
}
}
# Debugging version
sub __Lexer{
my($parser)[EMAIL PROTECTED];
my @ret=_Lexer;
local $=',';
warn Lex returned: (@ret)\n;
@ret;
}
sub _Lexer{
my($parser)[EMAIL PROTECTED];
my $data=$parser-YYData;
# Remove whitespace and comments
$parser-ParseComments;
# Determine next token
for($data-{INPUT}){
return ('',undef) if $_ eq '';
if(s/^([\Q$tokens\E])//o){
$data-{TEXT}.=$1 unless $1 eq ',';
return ($tokens{$1},$1);
}
if(s/^//){
my $str;
while(1){
if(s/^//){
$data-{TEXT}.=qq($str);
return (tQuotedString = $str);
}elsif(s/^\\(.)//s){
$str.=$1;
}elsif(s/^([^\\]+)//){
$str.=$1;
}else{
HTTP header voodoo
Can someone remind me, what's the header voodoo that tells a browser that regardless of what it sent in the GET request, it should offer to save the file as $filename? -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla. -- Seneca
Re: HTTP header voodoo
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:41:39PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Can someone remind me, what's the header voodoo that tells a browser that regardless of what it sent in the GET request, it should offer to save the file as $filename? Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename works for me. Chris.
Re: HTTP header voodoo
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:41:39PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Can someone remind me, what's the header voodoo that tells a browser that regardless of what it sent in the GET request, it should offer to save the file as $filename? Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename Roger
Re: Fave calendering software?
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:17:05AM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: My solution: firebird -calendar and then use a different profile (I created a Calendar profile). Hmm, I just tried this and I decided to download the UK Holidays from the same page. Can anyone tell my why it has New Year's Day on the 1st of December? I also find it a little worrying that Christmas, etc are not re-occurring events. I like to speed forward to 2020 in the calendar and see that Christmas is still there.
Re: Now Married!
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:43:52AM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: Well the deed is done - I'm now a married man :) Congratulations! http://leo.cuckoo.org/cgi-bin/yapi/yapi.cgi/Wedding/030_wedding/0080_Leon.JPG = What, not an orange suit? Not even an orange shirt? Or Tie? Tsk, standards... Marcel -- We are Perl. Your table will be assimilated. Your waiter will adapt to service us. Surrender your beer. Resistance is futile. -- London.pm strategy aka embrace and extend aka mark and sweep
Re: HTTP header voodoo
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:47:09PM +0100, Chris Andrews wrote: Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename works for me. Works for me too. Cheers. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla. -- Seneca
Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)
Sam Vilain wrote: /me considers getting all his amalgam fillings changed to composite... Paul Makepeace wrote: The danger is vaporizing the mercury as the drill goes in - which makes it several orders of magnitude easier to penetrate gum cell walls. You can end up getting dosed more in those few minutes than what would naturally seep out via saliva tooth over its remaining life. Absolutely. There is a prescribed protocol for removing mercury amalgam fillings, which includes the use of a rubber dam, high speed suction, external air source, etc. Doses of charcoal and organic seaweed immediately before extraction helps with binding and excretion of whatever gets past the other precautions. My s.o. also took 10 grams of intravenous vitamin C during the procedure. Subsequest detox has been largely 'natural'; vitamin C, seagreens seaweed, selenium, and coriander. There's also a sulfur/zinc cleansing cycle but she's allergic to sulfur. The mercury in the fillings is not so much seeping out into your mouth as it is vapourising. The rate of vapourisation increases when chewing, as you'd expect. It also is higher in people who have a mixture of metal fillings, such as both mercury and gold. I imagine that there is some battery-type effect going on. Speaking of battery effects, Huggins reports that his patients don't seem to recover unless the fillings are removed in a certain order, and that order is determined by the voltage across each filling. There are other time-based ordering issues that he can't always explain but finds to be true (because patients don't recover when these rules are violated). Jason Clifford wrote: Everything I've seen on that issue indicates that it's a danger only for those who have an allergic reaction to the mercury traces. The official figures are something like 2-3% of the UK population being allergic to mercury. I suspect that this is on the low side, given how common are symptoms that may well be mercury-related. Migranes, depression, mood swings, joint pain that is assumed to be arthritis or similar without the associated structures being discovered, etc. Jason Clifford wrote: It's not possible to composite for all filings either which is a problem for those of us who have needed root canal filing work. To my knowledge, there is no filling that requires mercury amalgam, although I have heard that many dentists say that they do. I think that these statements stem from a lack of ability on the part of the dentist, or a lack of commitment to mercury-free alternatives. My s.o. has both root-filled teeth and crowns, none of which are now mercury based. Root fillings are particularly nasty because not even the mercury-free dentists agree on what substances are safe to use. Anything I report is doubtless slightly twisted. It's my s.o. that is the local expert, having read everything she could get her hands on about her illnesses. I've read little about it myself, but hear about every new discovery she makes. Our only regret is that we didn't know about and/or believe in the problems with mercury fillings five years ago. I have reached the point that if I had any persistent complaint or serious illness I would have my fillings changed by someone who knows what they're doing. In fact, I had mine out last fall just for laughs. Since then I'm rarely struck with a flu/cold, rarely have a headache, and have more energy that I used to. Colds were a monthly occurrence for me from the time that we moved to London, now I have trouble remembering when the last one was. (Obviously my brain still needs work!) best regards, Philip P.S. This is a day or so delayed and doubtless not threaded properly because I've changed subscription addresses and mail clients to accommodate the recent multi-part problem. --
Re: Stupid fucking antivirus software
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 05:50:00PM +0100, Adrian Howard wrote: Tell me about it, just cleared eight of those out of the list's admin queue. 426 since Friday 5pm. That's just the anti-virus bounces. I've given up counting the fardling virus posts. Something around 5000 here, and that's just the ones that made it thru the spam filters! (Since tweaked) (Although you might be surprised (or probably not) at just how effective it is to bounce all emails which are between 85 and 115 kb in size.) tjc -- Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:09:16AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: JAR was available in 1996 or so, I think. I still have copies of most of the archivers and compressors I was playing with in those days... anyone remember UC2? HA? SAR? ACB? I remember (and used) UC2 and, I think, HA.. What happened to UC2? tjc -- Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s
On or about Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:02:10AM -0700, Toby Corkindale typed: I remember (and used) UC2 and, I think, HA.. Want a Debian package for HA? (Privately maintained while I wait to have time to do the become-a-developer dance.) What happened to UC2? I think the company went under. They certainly stopped answering email all of a sudden - I was corresponding with them for quite a while. Roger
Re: Fave calendering software?
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Steve Keay wrote: Hmm, I just tried this and I decided to download the UK Holidays from the same page. Can anyone tell my why it has New Year's Day on the 1st of December? I also find it a little worrying that Christmas, etc are not re-occurring events. I like to speed forward to 2020 in the calendar and see that Christmas is still there. Didn't you get that memo? No Christmas for you after this year! Cthulu Matata! -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://devers.homeip.net:8080/blog/ ALU, n. [Arithritic Logic Unit or (rare) Arithmetic Logic Unit.] A random-number generator supplied as standard on all computer systems. -- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995
Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)
On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 15:48, Philip Hellyer wrote; To my knowledge, there is no filling that requires mercury amalgam, although I have heard that many dentists say that they do. I think that these statements stem from a lack of ability on the part of the dentist, or a lack of commitment to mercury-free alternatives. My s.o. has both root-filled teeth and crowns, none of which are now mercury based. Root fillings are particularly nasty because not even the mercury-free dentists agree on what substances are safe to use. My other half is a dental assistant, so I've had some of these matters drilled into me (boom boom). Always ask for `composite' fillings. They should be a gooey plastic that is set with a blue or green light. I've had teeth that strictly speaking needed a crown (a complete reconstruction of the top of the tooth) and where 75% of the tooth was missing. There is no excuse for not using it. She had to ask around in NZ to find a dentist that would do `thermo-fill' root canal treatment. This method is fast (took under 45 minutes for me) and safe. -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor. - Toynbee -
Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 03:48:06PM +0100, Philip Hellyer wrote: My s.o. also took 10 grams of intravenous vitamin C during the procedure. Isn't that above the level where vitamin C will crystalise out of urine and potentially cause damage to the urethra? I mean, the RDA for vitamin C is only, what, 60 milligrams? This seems awfully high to me. Ben
Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)
Je 2003-09-02 18:01:12 +0100, Ben skribis: I mean, the RDA for vitamin C is only, what, 60 milligrams? That's right -- at the same time there's plenty of dissention about whether that's enough, and in what circumstances. Dousing your bloodstream in anti-oxidants (C, E, polyphenols, etc) during following intense anaerobic activity is thought to help mop up free radicals that are a product of (amongst other things) heavy lactic acid production, e.g. sprinting, weights, i.e. any short duration high intensity bout. You can buy 1g megadose Vit C tablets at $chemist[rand @chemists] and I haven't read any contra- indications on them (may result in pissing shards or somesuch). Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If we can't draw, then or, just stick to the tried and true - the missionary position. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/
Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)
Paul Makepeace wrote: Je 2003-09-02 18:01:12 +0100, Ben skribis: I mean, the RDA for vitamin C is only, what, 60 milligrams? That's right -- at the same time there's plenty of dissention about whether that's enough, and in what circumstances. Dousing your bloodstream in anti-oxidants (C, E, polyphenols, etc) during following intense anaerobic activity is thought to help mop up free radicals that are a product of (amongst other things) heavy lactic acid production, e.g. sprinting, weights, i.e. any short duration high intensity bout. You can buy 1g megadose Vit C tablets at $chemist[rand @chemists] and I haven't read any contra- indications on them (may result in pissing shards or somesuch). There's got to be a difference between ingestion (where most of it probably would pass straight through your digestive tract) and directly injecting it into your bloodstream. 10 grams of vit c intravenously sounds utterly barking to me. Surely a typo, or mis-hear or something. Jasper
Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s
On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:25, Roger Burton West wrote; I thought that Java's JAR files were just Java-tARballs. Mostly they're Zip-files, actually.. Which makes sense, because .ZIP is a file format with an index at the end designed for random access, whereas .tar files need to be scanned to work out where each file starts and ends. And plain `ar' doesn't do compression. -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything ? VINCENT van GOGH
Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Sam Vilain wrote: On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:25, Roger Burton West wrote; I thought that Java's JAR files were just Java-tARballs. Mostly they're Zip-files, actually.. Which makes sense, because .ZIP is a file format with an index at the end designed for random access, whereas .tar files need to be scanned to work out where each file starts and ends. And plain `ar' doesn't do compression. Neither, in the strictest sense, does tar. S. -- Shevekhttp://www.anarres.org/ I am the Borg. http://www.gothnicity.org/
RE: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s (was Re: gzipping your websitesWINRAR 40 days trial)
On 02 September 2003 09:53 Jason Clifford wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Roger Burton West wrote: Both correct, though I've never seen PAR actually produce a result. Download a large enough set of rar component files (as in grabbing Buffy each week) and you'll soon find how useful par files are. Or Charmed :) Barbie. -- Barbie (@missbarbell.co.uk) | Birmingham Perl Mongers | http://birmingham.pm.org/
Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:16:40AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: For the benefit of people likely to come up against Yet Another Compression Format, though: http://files10.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-3.2.3.tar.gz The code in there is a lot cleaner than the last time I looked at it. (I presume I was looking at the same official unrar source; previous was in C, not C++). The old version was a liturgy of bad style tips. For example, using #include to pull in lots of other .c files, and IIRC #define BEL 007 printf (... %c ..., BEL) when the escape \a has been in C for a couple of decades now Nicholas Clark
Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 06:19:05PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: Je 2003-09-02 18:01:12 +0100, Ben skribis: I mean, the RDA for vitamin C is only, what, 60 milligrams? Right. That's the amount determined to stave off scurvy[1]. The RDA doesn't say anything about if you should have more, or the benefits of having more vitamin C in your diet. Linus Pauling had some pretty strong opinions on this -- grams per day IIRC. You can buy 1g megadose Vit C tablets at $chemist[rand @chemists] and I haven't read any contra- indications on them (may result in pissing shards or somesuch). Actually, contraindications with large (oral?) doses of vitamin C involve something called bowel tolerance. Don't know where pissing shards is on the spectrum. :-) Z. [1] Yes, scurvy is still around. Mostly with frat boys who subsist on beer, soda, white bread, hot dogs, chips and burgers.
Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)
Adam Turoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * *Actually, contraindications with large (oral?) doses of vitamin C involve *something called bowel tolerance. Don't know where pissing shards is *on the spectrum. :-) Well, Vitamin C does make a reliable abortifacient for women who are very early in their pregnancy since it blocks the uptake of progesterone. It's usually taken orally in very high doses and often combined with other herbal substances to help the process when it's a desired effect. Many products high in Ascorbic Acid are marked with a warning for pregnant women for this reason. e.
Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s
Roger Burton West wrote: JAR was available in 1996 or so, I think. I still have copies of most of the archivers and compressors I was playing with in those days... anyone remember UC2? HA? SAR? ACB? Not really. I come from a DOS background, where in the late '80s we started out with .arc and .pak, which migrated into .zip pkzip2.04e, yes, I still remember the version number, so it must have been the standard for some time :-) /Robert
Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)
Well, Vitamin C does make a reliable abortifacient for women who are very early in their pregnancy since it blocks the uptake of progesterone. It's usually taken orally in very high doses and often combined with other herbal substances to help the process when it's a desired effect. Such as Pennyroyal Tea (which makes interpreting the Nirvana song of the same name easier...), but, it seems this is *STRONGLY* discouraged... http://www.w-cpc.org/abortion/herbal.html +Pete
Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)
On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 22:30, Adam Turoff wrote; Right. That's the amount determined to stave off scurvy[1]. The RDA doesn't say anything about if you should have more, or the benefits of having more vitamin C in your diet. Linus Pauling had some pretty strong opinions on this -- grams per day IIRC. You're much better off just eating more fruit and vegetables though. Get lots of Vit. C and other antioxidants at the same time. No sense in overdosing on just one. -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. OSCAR WILDE
