?
I'm half tempted to see what they'd teach me though... :)
hmmm .. whilst I don't know what their Perl skills are like I do know
they are a generally clueful outfit .. ISTR one of the founders has his
name on more than one UNIX book of repute ...
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Barbie [easynet] wrote:
From: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Barbie wrote:
They probably could only get away with saying they maintain it due to
the
amount of complex stuff in there, and potential legal implications if
they
said
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Robert Thompson wrote:
From: Robin Szemeti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 12 June 2001 03:14
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: downloady filenames
ISTR somebody explaing the magic incantations you could put after
Content-type: text/some-funny-application
.
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.. the speed of mod perl without the 'this
process will be around for years .. if it leaks, you;ll know' sort of
problems and also lets you chop and change on the fly .. sounds ace ...
is this anything like wot FastCGI does .. or is that summat different?
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... these new fangled litres and
things don't work over there yet :))
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they have to
send along a particularly stupid one to keep the averages up.
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a very powerful
argument regarding the potential 'back doors' in Linux.
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~cullenm/2dart/regi.jpg
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
oh I forgot to mention:
Where's my bloody gun
you haven't got one any more, the government decided they were just too
dangerous for you to play with.
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advisiories girls, and as leisure
suit larry always used to say 'save early, save often' ;)
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of teeth Tony has?'
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ISTR somebody explaing the magic incantations you could put after
Content-type: text/some-funny-application
in order for the browser to try and save it as 'something.xyz' instead of
'scriptname.pl' .. enlighten me please as I have flushed my archive and
lost it.
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government
agencies contained within the 'government gateway' site .. of course they
deny all responsiblity for it as well...
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On Sat, 09 Jun 2001, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:10:38PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
I complained to the UK Online helpdesk .. they deny all responsiblity
for the thing .. but can give you helpdesk contacts for the 3 government
agencies contained within
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, Struan Donald wrote:
* at 08/06 11:35 +0100 Robin Szemeti said:
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
calling wordpad an editor is as laughable as calling vi an editor ;-)
arrghh .. burn the heretic! ... speak brother, for the truth will out ..
have you
...
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On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Robert Shiels wrote:
From: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
whether there were any Masai tribespeople on the list. Anyone? Anyone?
reminds me of that Reggie Perrin snippet ..
'Is there anyone here from Tarporley ...'
I dunno .. maybe I'm getting old.
pass
boredom. So my only real
want is reasonably standard kit inside and battery life.
www.laptopshop.co.uk
or just buy a nice new Dell ;) ...
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://www.sterlingxs.co.uk/system/index.html
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to
be from someone with a copy of IDA pro and Softice reversing the windoze
drivers.
I just dont get why they wont release specs .. surel;y the plan is to
sell as many memory sticks as possible? ..or hav I missed someting?
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to work on my laptop, too...
and if you could make the 'stop play FF REW' buttons on my inspiron
accessible to something linuxy on my Inspiron I'd be pleased too.
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the memory stick for data capture in a
datlogger I;d been working on .. but it lokkslike im stuck with either
SmartMedia or CompctFlash ... prolly compact flash as it mounts as a
plain IDE device.
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On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Paul Mison wrote:
On 06/06/2001 at 10:47 +0100, Peter Haworth wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 19:54:04 +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
however Sir Arnold Bax [1] got slightly closer to the truth:
One should try everything once, except incest and folk dancing
Bah, I had
constructed little data structures to each element of the hash,
and then filling little arrays of data structures with really small
patterns ...
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, what a totally unique concept. ;)
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as it sounds.
Ho ho .. Ian, April fools day was ages ago ...
I didn't even reallise you could get NT for serious mips .. I though it
only ran on likkle PC things ...
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On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Leon Brocard wrote:
whether there were any Masai tribespeople on the list. Anyone? Anyone?
reminds me of that Reggie Perrin snippet ..
'Is there anyone here from Tarporley ...'
I dunno .. maybe I'm getting old.
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themselves years ago ... tell em .. then tell em what
you told em .. then tell em again .. if they still don;t get it then fsck
em. they're clueballs. let em implement it and enjoy the laughter.
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about google is its uncanny ability not only to
index everything .. but it seems able to find the *right* thing .. many
many times the thing I want is in the no1 spot .. with AV its often on
page 2, 3 or more ...
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if it is a dirt-cheap host.
hmm .. we're trying to justify a move to 5gb a month .. at which point
Nildram sounds like a cheaper option. ... is Aylesbury nice?
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On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:31:37AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
[hosting providers]
so thats another big vote for Nildram then ..
[snip]
hmm .. we're trying to justify a move to 5gb a month .. at which point
Nildram sounds like a cheaper
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:10:47PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:31:37AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
[hosting providers]
so thats another big vote for Nildram
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hmm .. we're trying to justify a move to 5gb a month .. at which point
Nildram sounds like a cheaper option. ... is Aylesbury nice?
There's some nice villages outside... ;-)
Question - how much data
the 'localnet' at the colo
facility .. in which case I suspect they'd charge us more than 15 quid
just fo rhaving a non-internetted box their on the shlef .. and part of
the goodness of tapes is that you can at least move em easily off site
incase of damage by fire/flood/vampires/cleavage
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.. hmm .. decisions decisions.
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umm ..
so .. you people with boxen in various places .. quick show of hands:
is 15 quid a shot
cheap [ ]
normal [ ]
expensive [ ]
for lobbing a dat tape into a box and slinging in a new one?
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.
kewl ... so Buffy likes necklaces then.
we could give her one as a present .. that would be nice ... diamond
maybe ...or since we are a Perl group perhaps ... oh ok .. you're way
ahead of me on this one aren't you. ;)
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On Sun, 03 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, 03 Jun 2001, Neil Ford wrote:
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 04:45:45PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote:
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:19:56AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 07:47:00AM
On Sat, 02 Jun 2001, Piers Cawley wrote:
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote:
There's a fine version of it to this tune by Billy Bragg and Dick Gaughn on
BB's mini-album The Internationale.
undef error - Can't locate auto
hmmm .. maybe I need to see this.
however Sir Arnold Bax [1] got slightly closer to the truth:
One should try everything once, except incest and folk dancing
nuff said.
[1] oft, incorrectly, attributed to George Bernard Shaw (who said it also,
but later)
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kneck and
putting an orange in your mouth .. or is that a different tradition?
but I digress ... you've just reminded me of the Ali G episode when he
visited Belfast ...
' ... what about if it was The Corrs ... all of them' ?
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On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote:
There's a fine version of it to this tune by Billy Bragg and Dick Gaughn on
BB's mini-album The Internationale.
undef error - Can't locate auto/Billy/Bragg/tune.al in @INC ...
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is to mount the two IDE devices on seperate controllers ..
seems to improve things sometimes.
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monitor or tvout stuff working under Linux ..
does under windoze though ... and ATI reckon to provide oodles of
assistance to the Linux community so it should happen soon i hope.
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earn a pint ;)
Also for future reference does any one know a better way to do this than
Compress::Zlib, core or non-core.
I suppose
# tar -xzf [archivename] [filename/that/you.want]
is too easy .. I'm missing something again aren't I?
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remind me of the
url?
www.register.com
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On Wed, 30 May 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:38:17AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
i'm sorry about asking this, but i've purged too many old archives
of london.pm to find this one - someone one once mentioned
for 1 hour slots.
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so .. I've RTFM and still don't get it.
ExtUtils::MakeMaker .. how do I get it to run a script at make time .. I
have a .pl in a directory that I need run every 'make' .. I know how
to add it as a POSTOP or PREOP to a 'make dist' or whatever .. but not
just on a plain 'make' ...
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uses the words
qw/ baby groovy yeah/ in the same mail. .. this could be quite often.
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On Tue, 29 May 2001, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:59:48AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Leon Brocard wrote:
Other programming languages need code generators to spit out
libraries. Perl doesn't need to do this as it's dynamic, baby. This is
why
thru' their skulls and ultimately them being wrapped in
polystyrene and put on a cold shelf in Sainsbury's...
indeed. there's one thing I can honestly say is 'nothing to do with me
guvnor'[1]
[1] err apart from my motorcycle leathers .. and I was intending wearing
them, not eating em.
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On Thu, 24 May 2001, Matthew Jones wrote:
Wow, and she's got three kids by Steven Seagal.
The eighties were a crazy decade and people did a lot of things they
regret.
Well, would *you* say no to Steven Seagal?
personally, yes I would.
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call a serious disease.
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the generous MAFF
payouts to convert from hill sheep farming to other more profitable
schemes.
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long in the cellar playing with sparks when I was a kid ...
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of sites for a couple of years and not had
much trouble (apart from thick users) ...
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in his mailbox this week
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and invest in a number of big barrels of gunpowder .. oh hang
on that ones been done before and had a distinctly negative outcome .. OK
.. perhaps someting more subtle then ;)
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in a Korg Pandora
2 personal effects/amp and you have the ultimate hotel room practice set
up.
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how upset he was .. mainly cos its got too many 'll's in
it.
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On Tue, 22 May 2001, Paul Mison wrote:
On 22/05/2001 at 16:19 +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
the immediate feeling I get is to rent some cellars at the houses of
parliament and invest in a number of big barrels of gunpowder .. oh hang
on that ones been done before and had a distinctly
it bigtime with a calendar .. but I don;t think the
novelty of seeing London.pm arranged in orfer of merit and semi clad will
do the quite the same thing.
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of about 20 or so all in .. should be one you like ;-))
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by a significant anount.
Most people who would have actually bought a real one .. actually buy a
real one. Most dodgy copies are kept by people who wouldn't have bought
one anyway.
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to, when they should be on a nice high shelf somewhere.
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and promptly claim thats 20,000
dollars of lost sales .. like the kid would have spent 20,000 dollars on
games.
So yeah .. try and get the site pulled .. (shouldn't be that hard) but
don;t worry too much I doubt its hurting your pocket in reallity.
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? ...
I'm beginning to have a real downer on all religions right now.
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tonight though so get down there.
hope its not too late.
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into other tests so that
should move perl up a bit.
weirdly .. one thing I tried 'hmm no explicit DESTROY sub,... hmm I
wonder if it spends time searching for one .. I'll make a sub DESTROY { }
and see if it speeds it up ..' nope 40% slower overall ...
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On Wed, 16 May 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:59:07AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
I do keep intending to do something cute with my ISDN adapter and log the
stuff coming out of the D channel and see whats in there ... but time has
prevented it etc.
I'd
is particularly funky.
A freind has one .. I don't know eaxactly how much they are but 30K was
rumoured ...
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does anyone happen to know if you can discover the asset number of a Dell
poweredge swerver remotely? apparenlty its 'in the bios' .. how useful.
[ I need to order a part .. Dell needs an asset tag number .. the swerver
is in mailbox .. I'm 200 miles away .. ]
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http://page.auctions.yahoo.com/uk/auction/51586918
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the same for
Dia, but surely a betterer plan would be not to involve SIOD at all and
simply write a XS module to access the Dia api directly from Perl?
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get the number of the switchboard ratehr than the office
extension number. I simply don't want people phoning me up who refuse to
own up to who they are before they invade my privacy.
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The box said requires windows 95 or better
So I installed Linux!
, reject on unavailable might not be such a good
idea.
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On Tue, 15 May 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:09:47PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
yeah .. thats fine .. it doesn't work from creaky old strowger exchanges
either (are there any of those left ? ) but there is a subtle difference
between 'number withheld' and 'number
of those little plastic credit card things
they were giving out before the last election with 10 things 'let us be
judged on these:' ..
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So I installed Linux!
to wreck
yours' .. its social decline.
Hospitals are much the same. Theres enough cash, but it seldom ends up in
the right place.
Basically .. what we need is a change in government, not just a change in
the people implementing (or failing to implement) the same policies.
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The box said
On Mon, 14 May 2001, you wrote:
But it does mean you need some
really AWFUL schools to pull the average down...
AIUI suitable arrangments have been put in place to enable this to happen.
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So I installed Linux!
is the preffered debugging method for discovering what this
little leak might be .. strip the app down and build bit by bit .. or is
there a clever way of looking at heap contents?
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The box said requires windows 95 or better
So I installed Linux!
On Thu, 10 May 2001, you wrote:
From: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
so what is the preffered debugging method for discovering what this
little leak might be .. strip the app down and build bit by bit .. or is
there a clever way of looking at heap contents?
Would MJD's Memoize (http
On Thu, 10 May 2001, you wrote:
Robin Szemeti sent the following bits through the ether:
so what is the preffered debugging method for discovering what this
little leak might be .. strip the app down and build bit by bit .. or is
there a clever way of looking at heap contents
might be fetching a premium wiht the pet food lot, so
the price might be up a bit.
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So I installed Linux!
the same thing IIRC
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So I installed Linux!
me... and the airconditioning has failed /
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The box said requires windows 95 or better
So I installed Linux!
;)
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So I installed Linux!
so .. who is the FormMail csar? ... I lost track of who was dealing with
what. I spotted a few things in there and have comments .. or should i
just post em on the list .. ???
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So I installed Linux!
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, you wrote:
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote:
http://www.mslinux.org/
so it's true is it? :) You're late by about 28 days, sorry.
I know (the news items in the RH frame 'microsoft send monkeys to Mars'
'Bill Gates buys Cuba' etc kinda give it away
a whole new side to you I didn't know existed. Coupled with the news
in another of the weekend mails that the list moderator is a fairy, I
think I need a large G+T.
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So I installed Linux!
umm ...
so .. anyone else with a server at Mailbox (ISTR there were a few)
this mornings powerdown @ 06:00 .. what time did yours come back up and
has it gone up and down again since then .. mines been down twice :(
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So I installed
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, you wrote:
Robin Szemeti sent the following bits through the ether:
this mornings powerdown @ 06:00 .. what time did yours come back up and
has it gone up and down again since then .. mines been down twice :(
Up at midday, which is terrible as the box wasn't
http://www.mslinux.org/
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So I installed Linux!
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, you wrote:
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:41:36AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
with a webcam and they used to all go in and wave at as at exactly 12:30
so we could see them when we were in birmingham .. it was sorta nice.
err .. no .. I lied .. it was Belfast ... you
with Linus and I won't be going
back to the cult od Gates[2].
[1] Before Linux
[2] Well .. unless the client is paying .. hey .. I'am a contractor after
all ..
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So I installed Linux!
with the appropriate (AUTO_INCREMENT, ROWID, oid, SEQUENCE
or whatevr) technique and a library::insert($sql,@args) method) and then
you just have to plug in the approprate wrapper between your app and
todays choice of DB and in theory the app can stay the same.
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The box said
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, you wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:38:45AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
but of course .. however the topic was (somewhere along the thread)
related to portable methods to try and keep from having to change all the
SQL between different db version.
Why do
' method and took it as
an opportunity to rod the thing out ;)
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So I installed Linux!
, templating system, and have moved onto
many different DBI abstraction layers to cope with all databases at
the same time. The OO-DB persistence modules all have their own way of
doing it too...
I know .. I know .. damm programmers keep messing with things until they
break them ...
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