Re: Porter Stemmer

2012-09-09 Thread Ian McKnight
Hi Richard I have a copy of Eric Chatonet's Stemmer. Since the list doesn't accept attachments I have sent it to ambassador at fourthworld dot com On 9 September 2012 04:41, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: In 2006 Eric Chatonet posted a Porter stemmer to RevOnline:

cmd paste ok, cmd copy doesn´t work

2012-09-09 Thread R. Hillen
Hello, long times ago, I remember, I could copy from and paste into a field of a OS X - Standalone. Now only (cmd) paste works; cmd (copy) doesn´t work. Why??? May you help? (Mac OS X 10.8, Livecode 4.6.3). Thank you, Richard. ___ use-livecode

Re: cmd paste ok, cmd copy doesn´t work

2012-09-09 Thread André Bisseret
Bonjour Richard, I had the same problem sometimes ago: Cmd C not working any more in a standalone ;-(( See, in the archives, the thread copy-paste not working in a standalone in last july http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2012-July/175010.html Thanks to replies on the list

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Roger Eller
In the printing industry, printing plate suppliers often provide trade shops expensive equipment at no cost. It is the 'consumables' they make their money from. So it seems to me that in our software world, apps and media are the consumables, phones and computers are the machines to process

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Colin Holgate
I actually don't mind the fact that Apple runs itself as if it was a business. When I worked there (1987-1992) there were a few lay-off occasions, and an ongoing rumor about being merged with Sony or IBM. There was a joke at the time: question: What would you call the company if IBM and Apple

Re: Porter Stemmer

2012-09-09 Thread Ian McKnight
Glad to be of help. On 9 September 2012 16:21, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: Ian McKnight wrote: I have a copy of Eric Chatonet's Stemmer. Since the list doesn't accept attachments I have sent it to ambassador at fourthworld dot com Thank you for sending that, Ian.

Re: Porter Stemmer

2012-09-09 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Richard, It;s not a Livecode soltuion but sqlite uses a Porter tokenizer for its Full Text Search tables. I imagine the source code (most likely C) will be on the sqlite web site somewhere. Alterntively, I found it at http://tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/ Then all you have to do is turn

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roger Eller wrote: 'Apple branded'... that is their hang up. They want to keep their users believing they are special because they own an Apple product. Well, once everybody has an iPhone, or an iPad, who's special then? It's like saying I own a TV. Uh, ok. We're way OT here, but that

Send to program

2012-09-09 Thread dunbarx
No luck on the forums. Will try here. I have been using an applescript/HC suite of tools from epsi computers for decades to run a client/server system in HC. Pretty good stuff, and I have become adept. I even defeated record locking. I have never communicated with another Mac using LC, but

Re: Send to program

2012-09-09 Thread Colin Holgate
See if this article helps: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/remotely-control-mac-simple-applescripts/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: I actually don't mind the fact that Apple runs itself as if it was a business. As a shareholder I rather like it. As a customer I use the dividends to shop at NewEgg and build my own systems. ;) Of course I honor the Apple EULA, so the more I learn about hardware and

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roger Eller wrote: A great deal of design consideration (on the inside) makes this case very desirable for gamers, and other high-end computer enthusiasts that build their own tech, regardless of what OS it will contain. The familiar MacPro-like handles make it desirable on the outside. It's

Re: Porter Stemmer

2012-09-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: Hi Richard, It;s not a Livecode soltuion but sqlite uses a Porter tokenizer for its Full Text Search tables. I imagine the source code (most likely C) will be on the sqlite web site somewhere. Alterntively, I found it at http://tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/ Then

Re: Porter Stemmer

2012-09-09 Thread Richmond
On 09/09/2012 08:17 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter Haworth wrote: Hi Richard, It;s not a Livecode soltuion but sqlite uses a Porter tokenizer for its Full Text Search tables. I imagine the source code (most likely C) will be on the sqlite web site somewhere. Alterntively, I found it at

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/9/12 9:31 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: About the $20 to upgrade to Mountain Lion, I suspect that doesn't fully pay for the development of OSX, and that's with Apple just having to support a handful of computers. Imaging their costs if they had to support every conceivable PC configuration.

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Richmond
On 09/09/2012 08:40 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 9/9/12 9:31 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: About the $20 to upgrade to Mountain Lion, I suspect that doesn't fully pay for the development of OSX, and that's with Apple just having to support a handful of computers. Imaging their costs if they had to

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/09/2012 12:45 PM, Richmond wrote: I'm sure there are many factors involved, but I think one of the primary reasons Apple doesn't want the OS used on other hardware is to avoid the mess that Microsoft got themselves into by licensing to any PC distributor. By retaining control of both

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: What me? read a EULA? Unfortunately I'm not that wierd, at least in that respect I am like other people: I mumble Yeah, whatever and hit the ACCEPT button. As an attorney, I've written a simple program to take an EULA

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: I would venture to guess that Apple's justification for not allowing purchasers of OS X to run it on hardware of their own choice is that the price of the Apple-branded computer effectively subsidizes part of the

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Warren Samples wrote: Richmond, you must be aware that there are all kinds of hardware compatibility issues one has to consider when contemplating putting Linux on any computer. Very true, Linux has to work harder than OS X or Windows because very few hardware vendors design their systems

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Funny how Linux distros don't seem to get in the mess regardless. Why, I once even had a thinkpad for which Linux power management worked. Well, sort of . . . . An OS licensed only for apple branded hardware means

Re: lcStackBrowser 1.0.1

2012-09-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Friday, September 7, 2012, 4:38:25 PM, you wrote: - Added a Preference Setting to exclude plugin stacks from the display (default is to exclude them). This will exclude any stacks loaded from either the RunRev plugins folder or the User plugins folder but not any You might

has anyone succeeded in unsubscribing from mirye.net?

2012-09-09 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I ended up on the mirye.net mailing lists when they offered their free whatever it was (I downloaded out of curiosity). I've followed the unsubscribe instructions multiple times, yet it keeps coming. Has anyone managed to get off their lists? -- The Hawkins Law Firm Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.

Re: has anyone succeeded in unsubscribing from mirye.net?

2012-09-09 Thread stephen barncard
you should contact Lynn directly - he's on these lists. On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: I ended up on the mirye.net mailing lists when they offered their free whatever it was (I downloaded out of curiosity). I've followed the unsubscribe instructions

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Ken Corey k...@kencorey.com wrote: We all know companies make the T's C's to suit themselves as much as possible, giving as little as possible while gaining as much as possible. While we're at it: http://search.dilbert.com/search?w=shrinkwrapx=0y=0 -- The

Re: an ignored breakpoint

2012-09-09 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Another thing to watch out for is setting breakpoints with variable values. This in the past would crash LC. I'm not sure if they fixed it yet. I was crashing all the time once and thought it was a really unstable build, until I

Re: an ignored breakpoint

2012-09-09 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Ben Rubinstein benr...@cogapp.com wrote: LiveCode - an ever-increasing number of ways to skin each cat. -- The Hawkins Law Firm Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 hawkinslawf...@gmail.com 3025 S. Maryland Parkway Suite A Las Vegas, NV 89109

Re: Send to program

2012-09-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:42 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Something to do with the pathname? Such a message has no issue in HC (running OS9, of course) My guess is yes, that is an OS 9/HC pathname. LC uses / not : in it's pathnames. HTH ___

Re: Send to program

2012-09-09 Thread Mike Bonner
I've been trying to get this to work here and interestingly enough even something like: do choose remote application as applescript doesn't work. It shows the machines, but selecting the machine and waiting for the dialog to finish pinwheeling returns no applications found which is of course not

Re: Send to program

2012-09-09 Thread Kay C Lan
Sorry, I take that back, I see in the dictionary that it specifically says to use colons, and that it also mentions AppleTalk zones. I have a test app that use to demonstrate this (actually two Rev apps, a sender and a receiver), which use to be at RevOnline but I notice they are no longer there.

Re: Send to program

2012-09-09 Thread Mike Bonner
I think if you ignore send to program and use applescript directly you can get things accomplished. If you decide to look in that direction, check out the (old) info here. http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/ascr006.htm Not sure it will solve the remote issues, but still worth a

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:40 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: By retaining control of both software and hardware, it just works -- at least, most of the time. I think this is it in a nutshell. Although Apple has definitely used the 'underdog' tag, from my reading of the

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Roger Eller
As Richard mentioned earlier, the underdog tag was a fair description of Apples humble beginnings, but this is currently FAR from the case. I believe the real underdogs today are just regular people (techie people) who would like to run a great OS on hardware they can hand pick for themselves.

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/9/12 11:01 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Why can't a G5 owner take out the motherboard and install an i7 on an intel-based motherboard and then install OS X? The machine would still be Apple-branded, still able to connect to iTunes, still can purchase media and books, etc. But nooo! You have

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roger Eller wrote: If a technically skilled user wants to build their own system and buy OS X for it, it should be allowed. A PC owner can continue to use most system components for ages, and just change out the parts as they break (or upgrade on occasion). Why can't a G5 owner take out

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Roger Eller
I wish somebody would tell Netflix this! I would live in Ubuntu if I could have my media too. I'm glad Android finally got it. ~Roger On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Want the security of a Unix-like OS with a modern UI, but one that can run on any hardware you