PHP code sample to do the tinyURL bit...
?
$link = mysql_connect(MYSQLHOST, MYSQLUSER, MYSQLPASS) or die(Could not
connect);
mysql_select_db(MYSQLDB) or die(Could not select database);
$strURL=http://invalidvaluelocation;;
$result2 = mysql_query(SELECT strURL FROM tblRedirects WHERE
On 7 Nov 2007, at 06:00, Brian Butterworth wrote:
On 06/11/2007, Fearghas McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 16:12 + 6/11/07, Brian Butterworth wrote:
If the TV Licence was changed to a BBC Licence, it could be
collected by the Internet ISPs on top of their monthly charges,
which
Hi Andy - in fact we're very lucky that Mark from the OSC has kindly agreed
to come in an be interviewed for the next backstage podcast - we're aiming
to get it done this week and will be asking others to join in - mainly some
of the guys who actually built iPlayer...
It's not minutes from the
I couldn't agree more. The problem seems to be that everyone has bought the
DRM snake oil, and no one is willing to admit they got it wrong. Indeed I'm
sure there are many people who still believe that DRM is the solution to a
problem*; and no one in the broadcasting industry seems to be capable
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On 06/11/2007, Fearghas McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 16:12 + 6/11/07, Brian Butterworth wrote:
On 07/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The rules for this discussion forum is deploy filters. If you are
offended, please stop reading. There is no need to consider flaming.
That's not an excuse for Ad Hominem attacks - which could easily get
you kicked if someone
On 06/11/2007, David McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... and then later realised that:
What do you mean realised later? These are the kind of things that
would be in the feasibility study. 10 minutes with even a half way
competent engineer would have shown you that proprietary technology
was
Brian,
I hope your not using the code below anywhere as it looks wide open to
SQL Injection.
Adam
Quoting Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
PHP code sample to do the tinyURL bit...
?
$link = mysql_connect(MYSQLHOST, MYSQLUSER, MYSQLPASS) or die(Could not
connect);
LOL
On 07/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 07/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The rules for this discussion forum is deploy filters. If you are
offended, please stop reading. There is no need to consider flaming.
That's not an excuse for Ad Hominem
On 07/11/2007, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Brian Butterworth
On 06/11/2007, Fearghas McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 16:12 + 6/11/07, Brian Butterworth wrote:
If the
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:29:39PM +, vijay chopra wrote:
I notice Ashley's misleading people again. From his blog-post:
We do maximise the reach of our services by distributing our content via
closed or prioprietary networks (Virgin Media, Sky, Tiscali TV/HomeChoice,
mobile platforms,
On 07/11/2007, Andy Leighton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:29:39PM +, vijay chopra wrote:
I notice Ashley's misleading people again. From his blog-post:
We do maximise the reach of our services by distributing our content
via
closed or prioprietary networks
On 07/11/2007, George Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 06:05:00 +, Brian Butterworth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Various parts of its non-DRM on demand radio proposals (book readings,
classical music) failed the Public Value Test due to the BBC Trust's
fears over
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 06:03, Brian Butterworth wrote:
On 07/11/2007, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 06/11/2007, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
It's not quite as simple as that. It's not to do with receiving
broadcast
television anymore, its
I don¹t think it would do us any harm to be a little politer on here to each
other sometimes But that¹s just me.
In fact I¹m also of the opinion we should go back to signing all our letters
with...
Your obedient servant,
m
On 7/11/07 10:29, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 07/11/2007, Jonathan Tweed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:15:41 +, Brian Butterworth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looks like an unmanageable mess to me. I must prefer a database table,
much
easier to manage, especially if the short code is translated into a
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:15:41 +, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Looks like an unmanageable mess to me. I must prefer a database table,
much
easier to manage, especially if the short code is translated into a
integer.
Or if that's the case you could make the algorithm two way
On 07/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That wouldn't be very dynamic, would it? You would have to restart the
servers everytime you wanted to create a new one!
Why would you ever want dynamic regex based rewrites?
I thought we were talking about having short codes which
On 07/11/2007, Peter Bowyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 07/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 07/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Depending on volumes and volatility of data, it may be 'insane' to
have a database connection, query and teardown for every
I thought I was reponding to do not top post by top posting. It was
supposed to be a joke. Sorry, if seemed otherwise.
On 07/11/2007, Matthew Cashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think it would do us any harm to be a little politer on here to
each other sometimes But that's just
On 07/11/2007, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian,
I hope your not using the code below anywhere as it looks wide open to
SQL Injection.
Of course not. It was simply a response to the rather dumb suggestion of
doing it via httpd.conf
Adam
Quoting Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 07/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Google OS (windows platform) 53.9%
What's a windows platform?
It's the thing that stops PUTs on the Jubilee Line extension?
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Brian Butterworth wrote:
Oh, and your quoting of entire emails takes up a LOT of space and
make's it harder to read.
Or you can use Gmail and it sorts it all for you.
Not on the evidence of that post, it doesn't. I've just had to redo your
quoting manually to make this make sense.
S
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On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:34:49 +, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If they are to be reproduced in newspapers and the like, then they codes
really need to be case insensitive and treat zero/O and one/I as the same
character. This would allow a total of 34 characters
1. Google OS (windows platform) 53.9%
What's a windows platform?
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NEVAR JOKE! TEH INTRAWEBS ARE SERIOUS F**KING BUSINESS.
On 07/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought I was reponding to do not top post by top posting. It was
supposed to be a joke. Sorry, if seemed otherwise.
On 07/11/2007, Matthew Cashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 07/11/2007, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 06:03, Brian Butterworth wrote:
On 07/11/2007, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 06/11/2007, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
It's not quite as simple as that. It's not to do
Brian Butterworth said:
£45 million a year is spent on BBC Radio 3. It seems a poor use of
this spending to not allow the classical music to be podcasted, I was shocked
when the Trust showed a certain myopia on this front. It's not like any of
this music has copyright issues, for a
On 07/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 07/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Depending on volumes and volatility of data, it may be 'insane' to
have a database connection, query and teardown for every redirect,
too. What works on the bench doesn't always
Depending on volumes and volatility of data, it may be 'insane' to
have a database connection, query and teardown for every redirect,
too. What works on the bench doesn't always work in the field...
I would recommend against any method that involved network I/O for Apache.
If you have large
On 07/11/2007, Peter Bowyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 07/11/2007, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth
Sent: 07 November 2007 11:13
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
On 07/11/2007, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: 07 November 2007 11:13
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails
On
Or you can use Gmail and it sorts it all for you.
Two points:
1) I may be using a phone, small screen or assistive device on which
your emails can take pages and pages of scrolling to get to the real
content - even then it could be confusing enough to miss.
2) I DO use Gmail (check the
On 07/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 07/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Google OS (windows platform) 53.9%
What's a windows platform?
Last time I checked, it was an OS. My question was really, how do you
run an OS on top of another OS. Or rather,
On 07/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought we were talking about having short codes which could be used
by
something like go.bbc.co.uk/shortcode where new codes would be added
everytime a new news story (or sport or whatever) came up.
Yes - you can do this with a
On 11/6/07, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Forget management, I fear you'll find that the BBC Trust's permission
to offer 7 days catchup TV was predicated on using DRM.
Various parts of its non-DRM on demand radio proposals (book readings,
classical music) failed the Public Value
I thought we were talking about having short codes which could be used by
something like go.bbc.co.uk/shortcode where new codes would be added
everytime a new news story (or sport or whatever) came up.
Yes - you can do this with a single regular expression.
Oh, and your quoting of entire
Anthony Anderson, managing director of Naxos UK, one of the biggest
publishers of classical-music CDs, complained: By offering downloads for
nothing, the BBC was distorting the marketplace. Is this what a public-sector
broadcaster, largely funded by the licence fee, should be doing?
Yes.
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:59:29AM +, Brian Butterworth wrote:
On 07/11/2007, George Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 06:05:00 +, Brian Butterworth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Various parts of its non-DRM on demand radio proposals (book readings,
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:59 +, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Various parts of its non-DRM on demand radio proposals
(book readings,
classical music) failed the Public Value Test due to the
BBC Trust's
fears over the negative market impact of non-DRM
Noah Slater wrote:
What's a windows platform?
Last time I checked, it was an OS. My question was really, how do you
run an OS on top of another OS. Or rather, why would you want to.
For the heck of it, perhaps? (This post brought to you by Nexenta*
running under VMWare Server on Ubuntu
On 07/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NEVAR JOKE! TEH INTRAWEBS ARE SERIOUS F**KING BUSINESS.
And here I was thinking that they were just an ordinary series of tubes...
On 07/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Depending on volumes and volatility of data, it may be 'insane' to
have a database connection, query and teardown for every redirect,
too. What works on the bench doesn't always work in the field...
I would recommend against any method
Jonathan Tweed wrote:
Don't forget to also drop at least u, otherwise you might end up with offensive
short codes.
You may have noticed that the programme ids don't have any vowels in them. This
is deliberate ;-)
Sounds like an interesting little algorithmic challenge - what shortcode
On 07/11/2007, Steff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Oh, and your quoting of entire emails takes up a LOT of space and
make's it harder to read.
Or you can use Gmail and it sorts it all for you.
Not on the evidence of that post, it doesn't. I've just had to redo your
Steve Jolly wrote:
Jonathan Tweed wrote:
Don't forget to also drop at least u, otherwise you might end up with
offensive short codes.
You may have noticed that the programme ids don't have any vowels in
them. This is deliberate ;-)
Sounds like an interesting little algorithmic challenge -
On 07/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 07/11/2007, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 07/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Google OS (windows platform) 53.9%
What's a windows platform?
Last time I checked, it was an OS. My question was
On 08/11/2007, Adam Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Jolly wrote:
Jonathan Tweed wrote:
Don't forget to also drop at least u, otherwise you might end up with
offensive short codes.
You may have noticed that the programme ids don't have any vowels in
them. This is deliberate ;-)
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