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msg-033ee964bb357e33aa7329e76428d9a0 | comp.lang.php | Mon, 13 May 2013 17:22:54 +0200 | Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn | Re: Booleans compared to strings | Jerry Stuckle wrote:
The reason for this is type juggling, not “string comparison”.
What you might have meant is how a string value in a type-converting
conditional expression is evaluated (like that of “if ($string)” or
“($string) ? … : …”), where type juggling is performed as well.
PointedEars
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msg-034867b426eedefc8db9cb968cc37440 | comp.lang.php | Mon, 13 May 2013 13:24:32 -0700 (PDT) | Doug Cassidy | Re: Booleans compared to strings | On Monday, May 13, 2013 6:13:11 AM UTC-7, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
got it, thanks |
msg-cac4babfeead30a6c8da058765496685 | comp.lang.php | Mon, 13 May 2013 13:23:42 -0700 (PDT) | Doug Cassidy | Re: Booleans compared to strings | On Monday, May 13, 2013 6:57:10 AM UTC-7, Robert Heller wrote:
Dealing with mistakenly written legacy code. |
msg-f799cffe83d695dd2b2874149f33aa3d | comp.lang.php | Mon, 13 May 2013 23:21:48 +0100 | The Natural Philosopher | Re: Booleans compared to strings | On 13/05/13 16:18, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
even when spelt* correctly
* that is a valid and in many ways more correct version of 'spelled'
Thats the trouble with a loosely typed language that trys to second
guess what you mean. You cant second guess total iditiots. And ometimes
you may fail to cor... |
msg-15da8b688366112a74f4ef3680fc4160 | comp.lang.php | Mon, 13 May 2013 23:22:13 +0200 | M. Strobel | Re: Booleans compared to strings | Am 13.05.2013 22:24, schrieb Doug Cassidy:
My favourite link to comparison in PHP is
http://www.php.net/manual/en/types.comparisons.php
where you have also the "if ($x)" results.
Highly recommended.
/Str. |
msg-486700ad94a767507f5aefb2e9d03906 | comp.lang.php | Mon, 13 May 2013 23:46:35 +0200 | Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn | Re: Booleans compared to strings | M. Strobel wrote:
Slighty off, though, because “if” is _not_ a function.
PointedEars
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Sometimes, what you learn is wrong. If those wrong ideas are close to the
root of the knowledge tree you build on a particular subject, pruning the
bad branches can sometimes cause the whole tree to collapse.
-- ... |
msg-2164fbdfa84d5349ae388506f610b9ff | comp.lang.php | Mon, 13 May 2013 23:26:26 +0100 | The Natural Philosopher | Re: Booleans compared to strings | On 13/05/13 22:22, M. Strobel wrote:
Yuk I do not like "0" being a representation of FALSE at all.
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msg-a432d901020e6c23c413aa7f8a856be6 | comp.lang.php | Mon, 13 May 2013 23:28:55 +0100 | The Natural Philosopher | Re: Booleans compared to strings | On 13/05/13 22:46, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
Semantics. It behaves like one, takes two variables and returns a value.
In FORTH its like any other function IIRC, But then everything is a
function , in forth :-)
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msg-d780c30ab18793af43ec9804e66e45db | comp.lang.php | Mon, 13 May 2013 18:57:43 -0400 | Jerry Stuckle | Re: Booleans compared to strings | On 5/13/2013 6:26 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Then create your own language. Or live with what the language defines.
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[email]
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msg-c17701a811b4cc4742f3f5818d338dad | comp.lang.php | Tue, 14 May 2013 00:41:31 +0200 | Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn | Re: Booleans compared to strings | The Natural Philosopher wrote:
I am not usually reading your postings because of your notorious address
munging and anonymous posting, but really …
What the *heck* are you talking about? An “if” *statement* does not return
anything (in neither programming language where it is a statement), and it
does no... |
msg-a9d6051875c8b43e9f2033a432067c08 | comp.lang.php | Mon, 13 May 2013 18:56:27 -0400 | Jerry Stuckle | Re: Booleans compared to strings | On 5/13/2013 6:28 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Who cares about forth? This is a PHP newsgroup.
But then you don't know the difference.
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Remove the "x" from my email address
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JDS Computer Training Corp.
[email]
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msg-47f94d59ccfc5372801d4fc24d5828ac | comp.lang.php | Tue, 14 May 2013 21:36:17 +0200 | M. Strobel | Re: Booleans compared to strings | Am 14.05.2013 00:28, schrieb The Natural Philosopher:
Hmm, in Forth you do 0= or something, then "if" takes a flag off the stack and does a
branch/jump to the else address if the flag is false.
Not easy to see it as a function.
/Str. |
msg-c69dbdc62c8caf4c61404656bd50d699 | comp.lang.php | Tue, 14 May 2013 21:17:32 +0100 | The Natural Philosopher | Re: Booleans compared to strings | On 14/05/13 20:36, M. Strobel wrote:
try writing the FORTH interpreter...
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msg-de3a418b059d5b408f7576777248099f | comp.sys.mac.portables | Tue, 19 Dec 2000 03:44:25 GMT | Joe Mugnai | G3 wallstreet memory info needed | I am getting a little confused about the several different memory types
available.
Currently, I have a PB G3 Wallstreet (300mhz, 14.1" screen). I have
128MB Ram now (64 original +64 upgrade) and have just ordered a 128MB
Low profile Ram upgrade.
No problem so far.
I also have a 333mhz iMac (Grape) that my kids us... |
msg-e4084092b2a1c335eaba212cf3ac70b4 | comp.sys.mac.portables | Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:57:37 GMT | Bill Evans | Re: G3 wallstreet memory info needed | In article <[email]>,
Joe Mugnai <[email]> wrote:
Same memory for iMacs < 350 MHz and G3 PowerBooks.
Go to the memory page of www.smalldog.com and see for yourself.
-Bill (not) |
msg-da33b606ef733c402c73c6bf03653f24 | comp.sys.mac.portables | Wed, 20 Dec 2000 02:11:56 GMT | Joe Mugnai | Re: G3 wallstreet memory info needed | In article <[email]>, Bill Evans
<[email]> wrote:
Thanks for the confirmation. |
msg-bbe18bea3a8c45f3cc44ea83def0ccda | comp.sys.amiga.datacomm | 30 Jun 92 21:40:24 GMT | Edward Swatschek | Re: SupraFaxModem V.32bis - bogus commands? | That 1640 cps figure is due to error correction, not compression (v42bis
should automatically disable when transfering a compressed file) - error
correction allows ~24% increase in throughput (~1780cps for a 14400
connection). |
msg-52bad3402736c2feb0d5a07f927badd3 | comp.sys.amiga.datacomm | 1 Jul 92 03:51:14 GMT | Randy Schnedler | Re: SupraFaxModem V.32bis - bogus commands? | In <[email]>, [email] (Edward Swatschek) writes:
Huh?? Am I missing something here? How can you say that error correction
increases throughput?? By definition, it only ensures error-free
transfer, not higher throughput.
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| Randy Schnedl... |
msg-da41481ac44d9d24f095d165167814c6 | comp.sys.amiga.datacomm | 2 Jul 92 15:51:49 EST | Kenneth Yarnall | Re: SupraFaxModem V.32bis - bogus commands? | In article <[email]> [email] (Edward Swatschek) writes:
Sorry, I don't believe you. I see no way error correction could speed up a
transfer to past the "theoretical limit." I can make transfers faster on a
noisy line as the hardware is faster at detecting bad blocks and requesting
a resend, but this isn't going to g... |
msg-99c8fe6e923f83a404b2818a1324655c | comp.sys.amiga.datacomm | Thu, 9 Jul 1992 09:42:48 GMT | Philipp Knirsch | Re: SupraFaxModem V.32bis - bogus commands? | In <[email]> [email] (Randy Schnedler) writes:
OK, this is one of those FAQ`s in the comp.sys.dcom.modems, but i`ll
answer it anyway:
With "normal" modems, and sugesstig you use 8N1, what is nowadays nearly
a standard, your modem sends in reality 10 bits per byte over the line:
1 startbit
8 databits
1 stopbit
When y... |
msg-2aa4a8888262c56d96856283f9f74bfa | comp.sys.amiga.datacomm | 3 Jul 92 17:43:46 GMT | Kenneth Yarnall | Re: SupraFaxModem V.32bis - bogus commands? | In article <[email]> I snapped:
Well, now -- that is the second time I've done that. I went and re-read
things a bit more carefully, and would like to apologize to Edward -- he is
quite right. Error correction protocols strip of the (now unnecessary)
start and stop bits, instead sending an occasional checksum, which... |
msg-5d541930fbbbb11868b688707a466c88 | comp.sys.amiga.datacomm | Fri, 3 Jul 1992 01:29:37 -0500 | Stefan Berg | Re: SupraFaxModem V.32bis - bogus commands? | [email] (Kenneth Yarnall) writes:
You`ll love this one! :-)
Error correction really does speed up your transmission, which is due to
the fact, that error correction gets rid of the start and stop bit. There
might be other things involved, but I`m not an expert. Here is a part of
my Supra manual (page 13):
"Error Cor... |
msg-b3aaec86410d07b2aee2b38f3d2abaa9 | comp.sys.amiga.datacomm | 4 Jul 92 16:38:06 EST | Kenneth Yarnall | Re: SupraFaxModem V.32bis - bogus commands? | In article <[email]> Stefan Berg <[email]> writes:
Yeah, the sad thing is, it is in my manual, too. I'm even bright enough to
have figured it out for myself, had I stopped to try. I spent the whole week
popping off without thinking. I'm usually a better net.citizen than this... |
msg-6b004e02ee592e70976b2d9527b6b575 | comp.sys.mac.graphics | 1997/05/27 | John Kheit | Re: Why PostScript Sucks (was Re: GX game graphics...) | "Lawson English" <[email]> wrote:
This is such a silly thing. GX doesn't let you edit it AS it's
being passed. All it let's you do is edit something after the
print menu has been selected, but before it is sent a dialog can
be accessed that let's you twiddle with some options. Big deal.
It's not as if you are modif... |
msg-38b6c49381b5800750982f3ed841048f | comp.sys.newton.programmer | 10 Mar 1994 20:42:36 -0800 | Steve Klingsporn | Review: Newton MessagePad 110 [brief] | I went and bought a Newton MessagePad 110 this morning. I'm not going to
say where I bought it because the place I bought it treats customers
poorly, and they don't deserve a free reference.
I'm not going to give any more of an overview than I have in a previous
post because I hate this Duo keyboard of mine, and some... |
msg-97d8222ee517501091aade755cbc83cf | comp.sys.newton.misc | Sat, 12 Mar 1994 01:52:56 GMT | Jesse Devine | Re: Review: Newton MessagePad 110 [brief] | In article <2losrs$[email]> Steve Klingsporn, [email]
writes:
Not to mention that the place you are referring to has a policy in place
whereby all clerks must have an IQ under 75 in order to work there....
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msg-480b807b78bc41ca555f3f41492e8b3d | comp.sys.newton.programmer | Fri, 11 Mar 1994 01:45:55 -0800 | Kevin Fox | Re: Review: Newton MessagePad 110 [brief] | In article <2losrs$[email]>, [email] (Steve Klingsporn)
wrote:
<major snippage>
Just make sure it's someone with good handwriting or a lot of patience!
Kevin Fox
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<< Kevin Fox >>
<< Paladin Sys. >>
<< [email] >> My ideas! Mine!
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msg-e3aeb757c93249d4d8cccd15869c77ef | comp.sys.newton.misc | 17 Mar 1994 20:10:02 GMT | Sean O. Luke | Re: Review: Newton MessagePad 110 [brief] | Jesse Devine ([email]) wrote:
: In article <2losrs$[email]> Steve Klingsporn, [email]
: writes:
: >I went and bought a Newton MessagePad 110 this morning. I'm not going to
: >say where I bought it because the place I bought it treats customers
: >poorly, and they don't deserve a free reference.
: Not to mention that ... |
msg-49f742b64763dde4fc8c98e575af2902 | comp.sys.newton.misc | 17 Mar 1994 15:37:03 -0500 | Heywood Fl | Re: Review: Newton MessagePad 110 [brief] | How about letting us know, so we can avoid it in our search for Newts ? (or
just stop by and poke fun at the salespeople).
Heywood |
msg-6619648913b9883d3b0f7c61f5d1d363 | comp.sys.newton.programmer | 24 Mar 1994 02:51:49 GMT | William Chang | Re: Review: Newton MessagePad 110 [brief] | [email] (Sean O. Luke) writes:
I'd beg to differ. I have a very high opinion of MS's sales and
marketing staff. I mean... how else would any company sell
20 year old software for full retail prices???
;-)
---wc |
msg-382921b31b04fbbc291d1b7e2f42e84d | comp.periphs.scanners | 29 Aug 2002 14:30:14 -0400 | John Eyles | scanning color negatives as slides ? | I downloaded a tutorial from www.computer-darkroom.com,
that describes a "better" way to scan negatives. Basically
you scan as a postive, with no corrections applied (e.g.
in Vuescan you'd just save a raw file). Then, in Photoshop,
you invert (creating a cyan masked image) and then use
"Levels" to remove the color ca... |
msg-c8bdc15586aca9f404f6b2191d37a518 | comp.periphs.scanners | Sat, 31 Aug 2002 03:08:37 +0100 | Kennedy McEwen | Re: scanning color negatives as slides ? | In article <[email]>, karmadon
<[email]> writes
Well, that is an example that pretty much fits the bill. The scanner
takes 2-3 times as long to scan in negative mode as it does in positive
mode. At the very least, this means that there is 2-3 times less signal
in the CCD when scanning in positive mode.
Yes - see... |
msg-15334590cc1afd714366f86b3366a766 | comp.periphs.scanners | Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:09:59 -0700 | J. A. Mc. | Re: scanning color negatives as slides ? | Since that's basically the process that vuescan uses <G>, it should
look the same.
One addition to the 'photoshop' way, is that after scanning and
inverting, you can use the levels eyedroppers to set the white and
black points exactly for thet neg.
One operation balances -and- removes the cast.
On 29 Aug 2002 14:30:... |
msg-ed9c3d90b65a9c0d410138e7f6f8dfc7 | comp.periphs.scanners | Fri, 30 Aug 2002 02:46:34 GMT | Leonard Evens | Re: scanning color negatives as slides ? | John Eyles wrote:
For the reasons others have given, I can't imagine this method can do as
good a job as Ed does in Vuescan. |
msg-b9fe02a10a3a6252fce4e7be6c0e2cb8 | comp.periphs.scanners | Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:17:27 +0100 | Kennedy McEwen | Re: scanning color negatives as slides ? | In article <aklp7m$119$[email]>, John Eyles <[email]>
writes
This red herring appears on this news group regularly and one thing you
can be absolutely certain of, the approach certainly isn't "better" than
scanning as a negative in the first place, either in Vuescan or the
scanner's native driver for negative film.... |
msg-6a07ac5f3ce4d1882342a8e6f41e9046 | comp.periphs.scanners | 4 Sep 2002 13:21:08 -0700 | karmadon | Re: scanning color negatives as slides ? | Kennedy,
Thank you for an excellent explanation. It makes perfect sense... and
shame on me for not taking the very basic signal-to-noise ratio
considerations into my line of thinking...
I still have a question about orange mask removal. When the scanner
determines the amount of exposure increase for blue and red chan... |
msg-d0b9feb2b2bc99fe4d8c1d5fdafeda6f | comp.periphs.scanners | 29 Aug 02 17:32:15 MDT | Joe Doupnik | Re: scanning color negatives as slides ? | In article <[email]>, J. A. Mc. <[email]> writes:
Yes, the cast, but leaves the rest of the image out of balance.
The various dye layers have slightly different characteristics which
need tending to so that colors match over wide ranges of exposure. That
means the film's characteristics count, and indeed it is obviou... |
msg-012ac08c0648db0eb57f162e9fa7dd84 | comp.periphs.scanners | Fri, 30 Aug 2002 03:24:05 GMT | Wayne Fulton | Re: scanning color negatives as slides ? | In article <[email]>, [email]
says...
No, it is not the same process. Vuescan (and most all color negative
scanning software) instead increases the CCD exposure time of the blue
and green channels, around 2x and 3x more exposure than normal, more
than the red channel. This simulates a color filter, like on a came... |
msg-4538eddfe059199b806d7d8e7c1ed37b | comp.periphs.scanners | 30 Aug 2002 09:18:40 -0700 | karmadon | Re: scanning color negatives as slides ? | Kennedy McEwen <[email]> wrote in message news:<[email]>...
Could you elaborate with this specific example?
Minolta Elite II. At 2880dpi with ICE enabled, at 16 bits it takes
about 5-6 minutes for a finished scan when filn type is set to colour
negative. It takes about 2 minutes when film type is set for colour
posit... |
msg-b5187ef7463f14c7fc46a49d52cd8684 | comp.periphs.scanners | Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:27:07 -0700 | Ed Hamrick | Re: scanning color negatives as slides ? | "karmadon" <[email]> wrote:
VueScan uses a fixed multipler for the green and blue channels,
but this is scanner dependant. It's 1.0, 2.5, 3.5 for red, green
and blue CCD exposure time on most scanners.
Using fixed multipliers instead of making the multipliers image
dependant makes color correction of saved raw scan ... |
msg-8b7e99af47aa55b297067f8c821aeda0 | comp.periphs.scanners | 30 Aug 2002 13:54:07 -0400 | John Eyles | Re: scanning color negatives as slides ? | Good explanation, Wayne. I wonder where Ian Lyons is coming from
when he says the other method works better ? Have you read hisd
turorial at www.computer-darkroom.co.uk, click on "Alternative
Scanning Method for Colour Negative Film" ?
I guess he's talking in the context of SOME very crappy scanner-
supplied softwar... |
msg-6af47c2166889b2a46b68bc605d0a906 | comp.periphs.scanners | 30 Aug 2002 14:00:11 -0400 | John Eyles | Re: scanning color negatives as slides ? | I'm consfused. If you're scanning, what difference does it make if you use
negative or reversal in terms of producing prints easily ? Or is it
just easier to have your proof prints made by a lab ? Even given that,
if they have something like a Fuji Frontier it doesn't make any difference.
John |
msg-eba76b77b55bc259483ba8f6db79a6a0 | comp.periphs.scanners | Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:09:15 GMT | Wayne Fulton | Re: scanning color negatives as slides ? | In article <akobfv$e0o$[email]>, [email] says...
I think you're right. There is the one sentence about "even the most
expensive scanner applications", but otherwise I dont read Ian as
exactly proposing that method to be generally superior. The emphasis
seems to be where he says "However, not all scanner software i... |
msg-a4e1d6d07d2a39d7fab233d1abb425f8 | comp.periphs.scanners | 30 Aug 2002 21:47:51 -0700 | karmadon | Re: scanning color negatives as slides ? | [email] (John Eyles) wrote in message news:<akobrb$e1t$[email]>...
It is simply unpractical to, say, scan ten rolls of 36 frames after a
wedding. Of course I use lab for proofs, as well as for enlargements,
digitised or not. But you are right, for Frontiers, at least in
theory, it matters not, trannies or negs. |
msg-7e6490a9499343a141a76e4e2e3bc702 | comp.periphs.printers | Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:56:42 GMT | K&C Hayward | HP 932 vs 952 | Is the photo paper tray the only difference between these two printers?
Does anyone have a 952? Is the tray worthwhile?
Thanks. |
msg-e57109a54279ecc6e3743f281c4031e3 | comp.periphs.printers | Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:34:30 -0400 | BF | Re: HP 932 vs 952 | I think the 952 is a little faster, but other than that print quality is
supposed to be the same.
"K&C Hayward" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]... |
msg-7ea2ddf567ae757e9e0399e8c4e4058f | comp.periphs.printers | Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:09:31 -0400 | Ron Marshall | Re: HP 932 vs 952 | I just decided to buy the HP 950 over the HP 930. As someone already stated
the 950 is faster. The reason that I got the 950 was that the printer case
and the paper trays for the 950 were of better quality (IMHO). The picture
quality on the two is said to be the same. I know the print quality on the
950 is GREAT. B... |
msg-fcddddee9c616191817274b00c531f8c | comp.periphs.printers | Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:50:46 -0600 | [redacted] | Re: HP 932 vs 952 | K&C Hayward <[email]> wrote:
I have the 952. It's marginally faster than a 93X, but the tray is significantly
better - and not just for photos. |
msg-4a57917c4e641ea589da469204cad750 | comp.os.linux.hardware | 6 Feb 2002 10:17:35 -0800 | John Williams | Windows XP vs Linux | Windows XP vs Linux
I have been a Linux user for about ten months. My distribution of choice is
Mandrake 8, which has good hardware detection and is the most accessible one
for newbies.
However, I recently upgraded my WinMe PC to Windows XP Home Edition, and this
is how I think it compares to Mandrake for the average... |
msg-1b938f4a22d403408e8939cb2348e2bc | comp.os.linux.hardware | Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:06:28 +0000 (UTC) | Jacek Popławski | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | John Williams wrote:
Windows users can't read. It's newsgroup about hardware. |
msg-92371612b56718d8017d635693f56650 | comp.os.linux.hardware | Fri, 08 Feb 2002 00:28:09 GMT | Jim Haynes | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | In article <[email]>,
John Williams <[email]> wrote:
I don't see any reason for this posting, unless it is simply a troll.
If you like Windows and don't like Linux we don't care. Whatever floats
your boat... I doubt you will ever be forced to buy a computer with
Linux pre-installed and have to install Windows on it... |
msg-2317e0a388c9ab5514aea619e0dd27a1 | comp.os.linux.hardware | Fri, 08 Feb 2002 08:58:35 +0000 | eric the brave | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | On 6 Feb 2002 10:17:35 -0800, [email] (John
Williams) wrote:
You are 3 years old and I claim my thre tellytubies...
I had to go back to WinME. some of my games don't work on XP.
Oh and......
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msg-a86455698655ca7a128133a8bc4f9198 | comp.os.linux.hardware | Thu, 07 Feb 2002 02:38:49 GMT | Robert M. Taylor, Jr. | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | John Williams wrote:
==========================Crap Deleted=============================
Who is this pecker-wood? |
msg-1f41869337cd90e62fe19c8a9716d559 | comp.os.linux.hardware | Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:05:02 -0600 | Chris Barnes | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | "John Williams" <[email]> wrote
Each to his own. I reverted my WinXP theme to "classic".
Beauty in the eye of the beholder and all that.
Since Linux isn't marketed for the home-user, do you have a point here,
or are you just frothing?
ROTFL.
Hear this well - I am NOT a "Windows guy" and I am NOT a "Linux guy". I
u... |
msg-011240632cbce94e720758f80ca4c591 | comp.os.linux.hardware | Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:23:21 +0100 | Michael Heiming | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | John Williams([email] -
<[email]>) wrote at Wednesday
06 February 2002 19:17:
[crap]
Read this somewhere else, face it, we like Linux, if you don't, your
problem.
For proper ng usage, these URL should be helpfull:
http://tgos.org/newbie/index2.html
http://livinginternet.com/u/ua.htm
"ESR's Howto ask smart ques... |
msg-de7e1012aecfe2b9b3bce268cd3b1266 | comp.os.linux.hardware | 6 Feb 2002 13:30:15 -0800 | Stef | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | My advice keep forking $$$ every 6 months or so for your Windows and
don't forget to keep your anti-virus up to date.
[email] (John Williams) wrote in message news:<[email]>... |
msg-0c257594e578f607909481af0938d21c | comp.os.linux.hardware | Wed, 06 Feb 2002 22:31:38 +0100 | Axel Skrodzki | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | John Williams wrote:
Yes, you got it =)
Really good operating systems require really good specalists.
That's why we like it 8)
cheers, Axel |
msg-1c8250d6d1aa3863c5f50298946501b1 | comp.os.linux.hardware | Wed, 06 Feb 2002 20:09:37 -0500 | Yan Seiner | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | Chuckles turning to guffaws.....
I run an OLD version of RedHat that's known to be buggy on my home
system. It stays up for weeks at a time. Try that in Windows (any
Windows). It runs 3 (yes three) GUI sessions. Try that in windows.
Now set one up in English, one in Japanese, and one in Czech.
Last time I look... |
msg-2e46bf925aa9d9685d9db866addf1dc0 | comp.os.linux.hardware | Wed, 06 Feb 2002 22:22:49 -0500 | Steve Martin | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | I suspect that he's actually a Microsoft employee, since he has a
(volatile) Hotmail account. He's the same guy who put out almost
exactly the same diatribe back on 9-3-2001 claiming that Win98 was
soooooo much better than Linux, even a lot of the comments are
phrased the same. He's a troll... ignore him. |
msg-e872046aec320e5ec8cddd2cde6215bb | comp.os.linux.hardware | Thu, 07 Feb 2002 01:29:56 +0100 | Ralf Bader | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | Sergei Rodionov wrote:
Yes, and this person did so in the "WinMe vs Linux" thread mentioned in his
posting. The present pile of crap is largely a regurgitated elaboration of
the previous one. It isn't worth any further comment.
--Ralf |
msg-2cd40eeb86f7d14b9b0703ab0260713f | comp.os.linux.hardware | Thu, 07 Feb 2002 01:43:00 GMT | Sergei Rodionov | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | Bevan Coleman wrote:
Hmm.. I missed what they done with project it in past few months :) Except
its kind of workaround for xp.. :) I could even use my old Chroma to make
WinXP to be pretty but thats not the point :)
Eh? I have Platinum edition of desktop version for Summit2.0 and its been
around 90$ as i recall it... |
msg-1e27c4c609c06c09f2e3d80f6728e369 | comp.os.linux.hardware | 08 Feb 2002 12:28:36 +0100 | Moritz Franosch | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | "Bevan Coleman" <[email]> writes:
I don't quite understand this "X is stable or not" debate.
Any X program can grab the mouse and keyboard totally (and this is
intended and documented behaviour, is this correct?), so a local user
isn't able to kill any program with the help of his window manager
(Ctrl-Alt-Esc in KDE... |
msg-53c97b485842d0cb42135f661447acd3 | comp.os.linux.hardware | Fri, 08 Feb 2002 18:29:34 +0100 | Ralf Bader | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | Moritz Franosch wrote:
it is explicitly discouraged behaviour. It may be found useful to keep
users from anything but logging in on the display manager screen, but
normally server grabbing should be avoided.
The SysRq key is reacted upon by the kernel himself. It is available if
/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq contains the... |
msg-9fd4c6ed835d09d72281da3322f513bc | comp.os.linux.hardware | 11 Feb 2002 13:36:05 +0100 | Moritz Franosch | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | Ralf Bader <[email]> writes:
Yes. But should CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ be really enabled for a kernel
intended to be used by a normal user? Probably not, as even rebooting
is disallowed for normal users by default on most Linux/Unix
systems. Moreover, SysRq is no solution that can compete with Windows
NT/2000/XP Ctrl-Alt-Ent... |
msg-46e6dfdf5262ad6d873fe743d5b5a476 | comp.os.linux.hardware | Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:41:45 GMT | John Thompson | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | In article <[email]>, Moritz Franosch wrote:
If it's just a single app wedging the GUI, what's wrong with CNTRL-ALT-Fn
to a different virtual console and killing the app from there? If you
really need the GUI pointy-clicky stuff I suppose you could "startx -- :1"
run gtop from the GUI and kill the app that way, bu... |
msg-a8015dbe808ce9edf78996f3449a64ff | comp.os.linux.hardware | 12 Feb 2002 14:20:24 +0100 | Måns Rullgård | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | John Thompson <[email]> writes:
The problem is if some program has grabbed the keyboard so Ctrl-Alt-Fn
doesn't work. AFAIK in that case Alt-SysRq-R will set the keyboard to
normal (not raw) mode making vt switching possible. Then the offending
process can be killed, Ctrl-Alt-Fn back to X which will set keyboard
raw li... |
msg-650f1cf33e1bba33fa42ab6b26c294d3 | comp.os.linux.hardware | 13 Feb 2002 14:57:23 +0100 | Moritz Franosch | Re: Windows XP vs Linux | [email] (Måns Rullgård) writes:
So the desired functionality already exists. It only has to be
adjusted so that it is usable by a normal "desktop" user. E.g. there
could be a kernel compile option such that Alt-SysRq does nothing but
switch to a configurable virtual console. Then distributors could
possibly make up so... |
msg-8b3f5656551aa92d62b8b5e571d8a8b4 | comp.sys.mac.databases | Wed, 16 Nov 1994 17:03:57 +1300 | Julian Melville | FMPro - copying single to repeating fields | Hi all. I've got a question relating to a database I've inherited and am
upgrading. It's a requisition file, containing info about orders, vendors
and such like. The existing file has a form with seven lines, each of
which is a separate field. As you can imagine, this makes things like
finds very difficult.
The new ve... |
msg-57fbb28fdf274a8e6127950390767ef9 | comp.sys.mac.databases | 16 Nov 1994 12:03:12 GMT | Robin A. Poirier | Re: FMPro - copying single to repeating fields | In article <[email]>,
[email] wrote:
There is a product available through Elkhorn Press ($40 I think) called
Make Repeats that
I beleive does what you're looking for. If you need more info, please let
me know. |
msg-74fc8f733aaf8d373b7d7396f91c27ec | comp.sys.mac.databases | Thu, 17 Nov 1994 15:38:51 +0100 | Martin Trautmann | Re: FMPro - copying single to repeating fields | In article <[email]>,
[email] wrote:
My hack is doing this by a standard text processor, replacing some special
characters (e.g. " Carriage Return ;") by the line feed that you find in
the repeating fields of exported texts |
msg-38e794c1ed7874de5dc9dc6367e33985 | comp.sys.mac.databases | Tue, 22 Nov 1994 15:27:43 +1300 | Julian Melville | Re: FMPro - copying single to repeating fields | In article <[email]>,
[email] (Martin Trautmann) wrote:
Well, now I've solved the problem myself over the weekend with a Python
script to automate exactly what Martin suggested. It'll save me heaps of
time...
You give it a text file exported from FMPro, with the fields you want to
become repeated grouped together in ... |
msg-d45f801375ee52b92520f954b896fc21 | comp.os.linux.hardware | 19 Feb 2003 03:23:29 -0800 | Mark | Linux as a television video server? | A client has a need for a video server to select clips and quickly put
them on air. They don't have the budget for a "professional" system,
and I know a PC-based approach would work in this case.
Which video cards support:
-TV-OUT in which video would play through ONLY the TV-OUT. The
standard linux text screen would... |
msg-7b827070887bc68428cb4bd172b4d9d5 | comp.os.linux.hardware | Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:31:41 +0100 | Thomas Gies | Re: Linux as a television video server? | "Mark" <[email]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[email]...
I'm using a nvidia card to view movies on television. There is a tool at
sourceforge that controls the TV-Out (nvtv I think).
For me this solution works, but for semiprofessional use, this is not
appropriate. There is a lack of stability (when using the wrong sett... |
msg-ecd8d473d415ae0ad3d9705750d0f5b8 | comp.os.linux.hardware | 19 Feb 2003 19:07:13 -0800 | Mark | Re: Linux as a television video server? | "Thomas Gies" <[email]> wrote in message news:<[email]>...
I thought of this as well. However, the card would have to be
dual-display (or dual-cards). One display would run the usual Linux
console (not X), the other display would have the video routed through
it. This possible?
I know this is possible under windows b... |
msg-c1b9446276db148441340497539e6f25 | comp.os.linux.hardware | Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:23:04 -0500 | Duke Robillard | Re: Linux as a television video server? | Mark wrote:
Why don't you want to run X on the other screen? (I think "screen" is
the right X buzzword for what you have two of when you use a dual-head
video card with X.)
I know you can set up dual-head card under X and display different things
on the two screens...I've done that with a Matrox G450 dual-head. I'v... |
msg-fdb9fcfd09ab90c459397860e6b0fca7 | comp.os.linux.hardware | 20 Feb 2003 18:02:34 -0800 | Mark | Re: Linux as a television video server? | Duke Robillard <[email]> wrote in message news:<[email]>...
Why make things more complicated than they need to be? The text screen
only needs to display what's cued to play, and the time-to-end of the
current clip. All video-clip selection is done through a web-interface
on another system. This system just receives re... |
msg-6ba8c93a227210e3575707c7a6bcaadd | comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix | 1999/04/13 | Neill | Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? | In the past we have used the names of pop/rock groups in the past - e.g.
Aerosmith, Offspring etc.
We also called one "Spice Girls" but it kept going down on us...? |
msg-79c40f48e540957942bd7f6f71679c3c | comp.periphs.scanners | 18 Nov 2003 17:28:22 -0800 | Dave Palmer | blob? blotches? fuzzy? slide scanning | Hi,
Not sure how to describe my issue.
I've a Nikon LS-2000. I am using Vuescan.
I've scanned over 700 slides of 35mm or 126 format
The slides are 30 years old. They have been stored in slide trays and
in dark, comfortable temperatures.
A very few of the scanned images, less than 25, show blotches, or
blobs of colo... |
msg-d2998bc2f0f46fef3422055c6f5ee487 | comp.periphs.scanners | Wed, 19 Nov 2003 04:30:54 -0700 | Ed Hamrick | Re: blob? blotches? fuzzy? slide scanning | "Dave Palmer" <[email]> wrote:
Make sure you aren't using "Input|Long exposure pass". This can
result in strange artifacts sometimes.
Otherwise, it might be mould. Try experimenting with
"Filter|Infrared clean" to see if this causes it to go away.
Regards,
Ed Hamrick |
msg-07ae2f1819bb5a6ce2062bd8afcc0e91 | comp.periphs.scanners | 19 Nov 2003 14:09:38 -0800 | Dave Palmer | Re: blob? blotches? fuzzy? slide scanning | "Ed Hamrick" <[email]> wrote in message news:<bpfk97$4a6$[email]>...
Ed,
Thanks for the tips.
I'm not using 'long exposure pass'
I am using infrared clean.
I posted a couple of samples. Maybe these will help?
They are at:
www.theblackriver.net/s1.jpg
www.theblackriver.net/s2.jpg
Again any help will be appreciated..... |
msg-df642a4ae5db855753cdcb7b2bd8d42f | comp.periphs.scanners | Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:34:22 -0500 | Mac McDougald | Re: blob? blotches? fuzzy? slide scanning | In article <[email]>,
[email] says...
Are they Kodachrome?
If so,turn off IR Clean.
Mac |
msg-69bbc08b474e345928659531ab650101 | comp.periphs.scanners | 21 Nov 2003 20:25:39 -0800 | Dave Palmer | Re: blob? blotches? fuzzy? slide scanning | Mac McDougald <[email]> wrote in message news:<[email]>...
Mac,
They are Kodachrome.
I turned off IR Clean (light was the setting)
The results are fantastic.
You can see the difference at:
www.theblackriver.net/irfilt.jpg and
www.theblackriver.net/noirfilt.jpg
Sorry about the file size...
Mac, is it a rule to not ... |
msg-ed5811b3513fd9eb94c855ad080c8c49 | comp.periphs.scanners | Sun, 23 Nov 2003 06:54:42 -0500 | Mac McDougald | Re: blob? blotches? fuzzy? slide scanning | In article <[email]>,
[email] says...
In general, yes.
Right here, and you just did, eh? :-)
(works even less well on b/w silver-based film).
My pleasure. |
msg-9d774c317c07f492c937c44a22318e2c | comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 | Sun, 4 Apr 2004 12:10:02 +0200 | Martin Johansen | New-line characters and windows | Does the windows API have any functions to handle/convert between different
newline characters??
e.g.
Unix: '\n'
Windows: '\r\n'
Mac: '\r'
I am programming in C. |
msg-f137c23238aba4dfd5aba28355360517 | comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 | Tue, 6 Apr 2004 13:36:32 +0200 | navi | Re: New-line characters and windows | "Martin Johansen" <[email]> wrote in message
news:ZgRbc.4750$[email]...
| Does the windows API have any functions to handle/convert between
different
| newline characters??
|
| e.g.
|
| Unix: '\n'
| Windows: '\r\n'
| Mac: '\r'
|
| I am programming in C.
|
if you are working on windows: when working with files in text ... |
msg-30f8b2f86ffb01d781cacda65ca52f82 | comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 | Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:10:37 GMT | Sten Westerback | Re: New-line characters and windows | "Martin Johansen" <[email]> wrote in message
news:ZgRbc.4750$[email]...
different
You could try MultiByteToWideChar() + WideCharToMultiByte()
with suitable code pages but i'm not sure if they do care about
the line end issue.
Opening file in text mode might be able to collapse these to \n
but the easiest way is to do... |
msg-824b136e7b90416397610c7fe95d4473 | comp.groupware.lotus-notes.admin | 3 Dec 2001 11:33:37 -0800 | [redacted] | Groups as e-mail addresses | I just installed my first Lotus Domino system, using 5.0.8. It is
being used to replace our aging e-mail system.
On the old system, when we need another address such as support or
sales we setup a user called support or sales. When trying to setup a
similar scenario on Domino I did see the field for forwarding e-mai... |
msg-9297e4cb53b8bb03e73c3935ca90381c | comp.groupware.lotus-notes.admin | Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:47:14 +0100 | Mathias Bierl | Re: Groups as e-mail addresses | It is not the best way to do it, because if you need many of such addresses
you have to differ normal users from such only mail addresses.
The better way is to create mail-in database documents for that.
There you can set any notes database as recipient for this mails and there
is no id needed for it.
Ciao
Mathias
<... |
msg-fb28684031f170a2aa470ad2b148c097 | comp.groupware.lotus-notes.admin | Mon, 03 Dec 2001 19:53:51 +0000 | Tony Evans | Re: Groups as e-mail addresses | In comp.groupware.lotus-notes.admin, [email]
([email]) wrote:
Nope, that's one way of doing it. The main issue is that people need to
talk to each other to make sure stuff they get is processed. The other
option is to use mail-in databases, where you have a mail file, but no
associated ID file, and people can go in ... |
msg-be53c7a5d9b26e11a2d4902172dc2b11 | comp.groupware.lotus-notes.admin | Tue, 4 Dec 2001 07:57:04 +0100 | goose | Re: Groups as e-mail addresses | Nope this is correct,
This is helpfull to have a static name on the outside and you can change te
receipient on the inside.
grtz
Peter
<[email]> schreef in bericht
news:[email]... |
msg-0b8fb8b5c86df9d3cd94b80617f6165e | comp.sys.mac.programmer.help | 1998/04/17 | David Zwiefelhofer | Re: No One Knows How to Tell if Monitor is Sleeping? | In article <[email]>, Peter S Lau
<[email]> wrote:
Hey, DMGetAVPowerState looks promising. I'll check it out.
Thanks,
Dave
__________________________________________________________________
DavidZ "put an at here" mailbag "and a dot here" com |
msg-8dbbd206fba44b1eb18e8d17b6ad5c3b | comp.mail.sendmail | Wed, 09 Jan 2002 16:18:39 GMT | vkd | /var/spool/mail and NFS | What are the issues in storing mail onto an NFS partition? Is that something
that works in a production environment?
Example:
Two smtp servers accepting mail and using /nfs/mailspool dir.
Third server mounting /nfs/mailspool and running IMAPD and POPD.
Would there be any problems associated with having NFS as the ma... |
msg-aa3226a26bd27c1c07267309205b5852 | comp.mail.sendmail | Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:11:00 GMT | Jon | Re: /var/spool/mail and NFS | Yes it workls. I am not going to go in to security, 'cos others
already did. The upshot is 'BE VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY
VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY CAREFUL!'
That's the way it's done in most scalable arena's now. Whether or not
the FS is used over NFS is another matter. To share the
directory/nam... |
msg-f560c9af1d6350ab3729b4fa953033d3 | comp.mail.sendmail | Wed, 09 Jan 2002 21:21:52 GMT | Rich Teer | Re: /var/spool/mail and NFS | On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, it was written:
I don't know about "much better"; it all depends on the implementation.
again, it depends on how it's set up. IF the NFS traffic is
behind a firewall, the risks are a lot smaller. And if you use
secure NFS, they're even smaller. Using a dedicated staorage
network will minimise t... |
msg-e40d834ccfa439cbf5e9c50546413b3c | comp.mail.sendmail | Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:25:39 +0800 | Suresh Ramasubramanian | Re: /var/spool/mail and NFS | vkd [comp.mail.sendmail] <Wed, 09 Jan 2002 16:18:39 GMT>:
Locking issues - these go away quite well if you use maildirs
Maxtor, Netapp or other fileserver boxes if you can afford them. Preferably
netapp.
Oh, and remember to have something firewalling your nfs from the world - let
only your surrounding IPs (your MTA... |
msg-edcfceca1c9685172b9697c2ad23a0b5 | comp.mail.sendmail | Wed, 09 Jan 2002 18:29:04 GMT | hal | Re: /var/spool/mail and NFS | On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 16:18:39 GMT, wrote:
That would work, but you would have much better performance if you
used an external dual channel SCSI RAID array.
OK
Security and performance. Security because NFS ain't. Performance
because you add latency to the transaction to go out over the network.
Hal |
msg-5e7d73bdafd7f5b33b9ca50cb2eddb04 | comp.mail.sendmail | Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:50:16 GMT | vkd | Re: /var/spool/mail and NFS | <Jon> wrote in message news:3c3d9e53.533327834@212.35.34.213...
something
/var/spool/MAILDIRS/[0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9]/groupidentifier/username/Maildir/
Thanks. I am actually curious about the maildrop util. I am planning on
trying it out and seeing how it works. Having virtual users would be very
convenient instead of u... |
msg-801ba695b24446dd34e5cc93a713195d | comp.mail.sendmail | 09 Jan 2002 19:47:17 -0500 | David Magda | Re: /var/spool/mail and NFS | Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email]> writes:
[...]
You could also have these hosts be dual-homed. Since they are servers
you set them up so no one would be able to log into them (except
admin. staff through ssh (on the internal interface only)). |
msg-54e7c3c58198b30d0907984d949f84bf | comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy | Sun, 29 Oct 2000 12:32:47 -0000 | Stef Pritchard | CIX Scripting | I need some advise on where to find this software CIX32 and where I can get
some documentation to learn it. Can anyone help?
Stef |
msg-9dcf279a549a0129e43986121a34cf6d | comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy | Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:22:48 -0000 | Stef Pritchard | Re: CIX Scripting | Sorry guys it's called Cixtart, get it on resourse kit.
"Stef Pritchard" <[email]> wrote in message
news:8th992$6rm$[email]...
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