Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)

2004-03-14 Thread Lau
for what is a pretty trivial task. Lau If it's so trivial a task, why don't you do it for the money, Geoff offers you, Lau? ;-)) Wolfgang Because I'm being a lazy, good-for-nothing slob. -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get a domain from http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=5165217 and I'll

Re: [ql-users] RE: [ql-users] £1000 to spend!

2004-03-08 Thread Lau
is a pretty trivial task. -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get a domain from http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=5165217 and I'll get the commission!

Re: [ql-users] Machine Code Extension

2003-08-14 Thread Lau
that there was a fair degree of confusion over files that end in an underscore versus directories. -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get a domain from http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=5165217 and I'll get the commission!

Re: [ql-users] Geoff's departure

2003-08-14 Thread Lau
Tony Firshman wrote: On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 at 02:36:46, Lau wrote: Where is the Cafe du nuit? (Brussels?) 'Cap de Nuit' - in the centre of Brussels. Again we asked a policeman where we could find somewhere to eat (at 6:15am) and he laconically pointed across the square. Did you never go

Re: [ql-users] Machine Code Extension

2003-08-14 Thread Lau
will tend to crash, as the word data that follows the length byte and the even length name will not be word aligned). -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get a domain from http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=5165217 and I'll get the commission!

Re: [ql-users] Geoff's departure

2003-08-11 Thread Lau
when we came through customs and he nearly got everyone arrested? It involved his dual nationality - and shouting. Where is the Cafe du nuit? (Brussels?) And so on... -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get a domain from http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=5165217 and I'll get the commission!

Re: [ql-users] (Announce) SuperBasic syntax highlighter for free...

2003-07-15 Thread Lau
changing editors). I haven't tried SourceEdit - free is nice, but I'd like to find a good source file editor for Linux (I know there are millions of them, but I tend to just stick with vi(m)). -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get a domain from http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=5165217 and I'll get

Re: [ql-users] 2 questions

2003-06-27 Thread Lau
is the earliest instance. I think the rc directories came rather a lot later. -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get a domain from http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=5165217 and I'll get the commission!

Re: [ql-users] puzzle 1

2003-06-24 Thread Lau
Tony Firshman wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 at 00:14:53, Lau wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Tony Firshman wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 at 12:07:46, Lau wrote: Q. What's the longest monosyllabic word? (Clue: ryrira yrggref) French - Schtroumpfs By the look of its web pages, a trade name. English

Re: [ql-users] puzzle 1 (was efficient buffer size)

2003-06-23 Thread Lau
Marcel Kilgus wrote: Lau wrote: Q. What's the longest monosyllabic word? (Clue: ryrira yrggref) Has it something to do with a certain small wood creature (note that wood is not capitalised here ;-))? That's the only one I found that fits your clue. Hmmm... no, but I wonder if you have another

Re: [ql-users] efficient buffer size

2003-06-22 Thread Lau
ZN wrote: On 6/21/2003 at 11:35 PM Lau wrote: Back to my earlier mention of caching... hard drives and their controllers do caching as well. I'm not certain if they do read-ahead caching. In short, yes. Ta. I'll add a little proviso. The hardware can't know what the next logical sector

Re: [ql-users] efficient buffer size

2003-06-21 Thread Lau
to your original question: How big a buffer should I use?... one byte? -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get a domain from http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=5165217 and I'll get the commission!

Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?

2003-06-09 Thread Lau
with FE (with multiplication a slight problem and addition a nightmare!). -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get a domain from http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=5165217 and I'll get the commission!

Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?

2003-06-09 Thread Lau
://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.42.html#subj5 -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get a domain from http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=5165217 and I'll get the commission!

Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?

2003-06-07 Thread Lau
have to do 33-bit arithmetic all the time. PS. Just as an aside, I cut my teeth on IBM System/360 floating point, which used a hexadecimal exponent! Very ragged precision - not a good idea at all! -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get a domain from http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=5165217

Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?

2003-06-06 Thread Lau
bits and so on. It took quite a while before I convinced myself that my arithmetic was perfect (i.e. barring cases where results could not be represented, the IEEE result matched the Minerva result bit for bit, even on non-exact divisions and square roots!). -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get

Re: [ql-users] Minerva

2003-04-06 Thread Lau
P Witte wrote: Lau writes: Well, I've finally got around to it. It's not perfect (as I've had a bit of trouble...). See the (very out-of-date) web site. Bravo! Ive been looking forward for a long time now.. Thanks a lot! FYI the gzip version unzips without problems on the QL side. You

Re: [ql-users] Minerva / the elusive .gz file

2003-04-06 Thread Lau
Lau wrote: Very strange. I've looked closely, and I haven't found any trace of an m.gz file. I sorta take it all back - a .gz has appeared. I've had this before with my Mozilla. I'm not certain exactly what the sequence of events is, but eventually is starts to default to putting an extra

[ql-users] Minerva

2003-04-05 Thread Lau
Well, I've finally got around to it. It's not perfect (as I've had a bit of trouble...). See the (very out-of-date) web site. -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get a domain from http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=5165217 and I'll get the commission!

Re: [ql-users] Minerva

2003-04-05 Thread Lau
all. -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get a domain from http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=5165217 and I'll get the commission!

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and numbers

2003-03-16 Thread Lau
is perfect. Guess who didn't check for precision already at max? The silly bit about the above is that it's only when it comes to display the value that it whines about the invalid 32768. The computation works fine. -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get a domain from http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id

Re: [ql-users] My email

2002-11-20 Thread Lau
... in my case, it's been months. I've at least twice asked my demon address to be removed from the list, and I still receive evrything twice. At least Mozilla makes it easy to discard all the duplicates. -- Lau http://www.bergbland.info Get a domain from http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id