Re: DMP Availability

[Philip Newton]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:51:08 +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> > I see your whois graffiti and raise you the domain where 
> > you can do a zone transfer, chop off the first bit, sort,
> > MIME-decode and get a program. (Or something like that.)
> 
> You mean this? Unfortunately, it doesn't work anymore, but 
> when it did, you ended up with DeCSS code:
> 
> dig @138.195.138.195 goret.org. axfr | grep '^c..\..*A' | sort \
>   | cut -b5-36 | perl -e 'while(<>){print pack("H32",$_)}' | gzip -d

That's probably what I had in mind, yes.

Cheers,
Philip
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Re: DMP Availability

[pmh]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:51:08 +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> I see your whois graffiti and raise you the domain where you can do a zone
> transfer, chop off the first bit, sort, MIME-decode and get a program. (Or
> something like that.)
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't remember the domain. I think it was in France
> somewhere.

You mean this? Unfortunately, it doesn't work anymore, but when it did, you ended up 
with DeCSS code:

dig @138.195.138.195 goret.org. axfr | grep '^c..\..*A' | sort \
  | cut -b5-36 | perl -e 'while(<>){print pack("H32",$_)}' | gzip -d

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Re: DMP Availability

[Philip Newton]

Merijn Broeren wrote:
> MICROSOFT.COM.WHOIS.RESULTS.MAKE.A.GREAT.HUMOUR-LIST.COM
> 
> DNS grafitti, who would have thought...

I see your whois graffiti and raise you the domain where you can do a zone
transfer, chop off the first bit, sort, MIME-decode and get a program. (Or
something like that.)

Unfortunately, I don't remember the domain. I think it was in France
somewhere.

Cheers,
Philip
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Re: DMP Availability

[Merijn Broeren]

Quoting Merijn Broeren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 
> Guess who owns ms.com? 
> 
On checking who was first, I did a 

whois microsoft.com

What can I say but :

MICROSOFT.COM.WHOIS.RESULTS.MAKE.A.GREAT.HUMOUR-LIST.COM

DNS grafitti, who would have thought...
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Re: DMP Availability

[Merijn Broeren]

Quoting Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 
> That's semi-intentional. My company is called Magnum Solutions so we
> have as much right to use the initials as Microsoft. It amuses me that
> my Perl doodlings might be mistaken for Microsoft software.
> 
On that note, in the javaworld it is the idea that you name your classes
starting with your domainname reversed. So com.shell.Business.RipofPrice.Petrol
etc. Microsoft has taken to naming their java stuff com.ms.* 

Guess who owns ms.com? 

That's right, and we are *not* inclined to sell it to them. They tried 
though. :-) 

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Re: DMP Availability

[pmh]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 07:01:31 -0500 (EST), Dave Cross wrote:
> At Fri, 23 Feb 11:50:37 2001 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:54:50 -0500 (EST), Dave Cross wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, as it's a very primitive webmail (written by me) it
> > > doesn't store the outgoing mails, so I can't see what I'm doing 
> > > wrong.
> > 
> > Why call it "ms-webmail"? Makes it sound like MicroSoft wrote it.
> 
> That's semi-intentional. My company is called Magnum Solutions so we
> have as much right to use the initials as Microsoft. It amuses me that
> my Perl doodlings might be mistaken for Microsoft software.

I'd forgotten the name of your company. Makes sense now, and I appreciate the joke.

> > If you're not going to do that, then at least stick an In-reply-to: 
> > header in, so threading algorithms work properly. (Well, threading 
> > algorithms which aren't broken, like mine, which manages to put the 
> > same message in the thread tree multiple times under conditions known 
> > only to itself)
> 
> Or, I suppose, I could do both. OR would that break stuff?

Of course not, that's what you're supposed to do. I just stick In-reply-to: on the end 
of References: unless it was already there.

All I need is some decent (ie. existent) documentation, and I might be ready to 
release this thing.

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Re: DMP Availability

[pmh]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:53:24 +, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> JWZ has a good discussion on threading algorithms:
> 
> http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html

Thanks very much. From a quick skim, that looks somewhat similar to the scheme I've 
come up with through trial and error. However, I currently allow empty containers at 
any point in the tree which isn't a leaf, and which doesn't only have one empty 
container child. I'll look through it in detail when I haven't just been getting 
annoyed with my own algorithm so much.

Actually, the biggest problem I have with threading is Gtk's behaviour. When you 
double click on a CTree branch, it toggles the expansion state, which is highly 
annoying. I can untoggle it in most cases, but that can result in strange scrolling, 
leading to weird selections being left behind. Also, if it's an empty container being 
double clicked, I want to display the first real message, but that prevents me from 
untoggling the branch, somehow.

I guess it would be a good idea to word-wrap message bodies, too...

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Re: DMP Availability

[Dave Cross]

At Fri, 23 Feb 11:50:37 2001 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:54:50 -0500 (EST), Dave Cross wrote:
> > Unfortunately, as it's a very primitive webmail (written by me) it
> > doesn't store the outgoing mails, so I can't see what I'm doing 
> > wrong.
> 
> Why call it "ms-webmail"? Makes it sound like MicroSoft wrote it.

That's semi-intentional. My company is called Magnum Solutions so we
have as much right to use the initials as Microsoft. It amuses me that
my Perl doodlings might be mistaken for Microsoft software.

> Also, you're just copying the References: header from the message 
> you're replying to, when you should be appending its Message-id: too. 

Hmm... thought I was doing that. I'll check the code tonight.

> If you're not going to do that, then at least stick an In-reply-to: 
> header in, so threading algorithms work properly. (Well, threading 
> algorithms which aren't broken, like mine, which manages to put the 
> same message in the thread tree multiple times under conditions known 
> only to itself)

Or, I suppose, I could do both. OR would that break stuff?

Cheers,

Dave...

Re: DMP Availability

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:50:44AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Also, you're just copying the References: header from the message you're
> replying to, when you should be appending its Message-id: too. If you're not
> going to do that, then at least stick an In-reply-to: header in, so threading
> algorithms work properly. (Well, threading algorithms which aren't broken,
> like mine, which manages to put the same message in the thread tree multiple
> times under conditions known only to itself)

JWZ has a good discussion on threading algorithms:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html

-Dom

Re: DMP Availability

[pmh]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:54:50 -0500 (EST), Dave Cross wrote:
> Unfortunately, as it's a very primitive webmail (written by me) it
> doesn't store the outgoing mails, so I can't see what I'm doing 
> wrong.

Why call it "ms-webmail"? Makes it sound like MicroSoft wrote it.

Also, you're just copying the References: header from the message you're
replying to, when you should be appending its Message-id: too. If you're not
going to do that, then at least stick an In-reply-to: header in, so threading
algorithms work properly. (Well, threading algorithms which aren't broken,
like mine, which manages to put the same message in the thread tree multiple
times under conditions known only to itself)

-- 
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Re: DMP Availability

[Philip Newton]

Dave Cross wrote:
> Ah. An idea. I'll send a test to the list and cc you and me, so that 
> we can see what's going on. In fact, I'll do it with this mail.

Looks fine from over here. Here are the headers, in case you're interested:

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Re: DMP Availability

[Dave Cross]

At Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:32:39 + (GMT), Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote:
> >
> > Dave...
> > [still posting from Acxiom as the list is still eating mails I send 
> > from my dave.org.uk webmail]
> 
> I havent seen any bounces from the list here ... What ails you Dave ?

Hmmm that _is_ weird then. Everything that I've sent to the list
in the last week or so from this webmail account has failed to appear
on the list. Mails have got thru to individuals and other lists without
a problem.

Unfortunately, as it's a very primitive webmail (written by me) it
doesn't store the outgoing mails, so I can't see what I'm doing 
wrong.

Ah. An idea. I'll send a test to the list and cc you and me, so that 
we can see what's going on. In fact, I'll do it with this mail.

Cheers,

Dave...

Re: Amazon (was: RE: DMP Availability)

[Aaron Trevena]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote:
> Since I gave up Amazon, I've found myself going into bookshops more.
> Browsing in a bookshop is still _by far_ the best way to buy books.


 
> And I end up buying more books. Because for each book that I got into the
> shop looking for, I find another two that seem really interesting. Amazon's
> "readers who bought this book..." feature really doesn't achieve the same
> thing.

/me spent 100 quid on books last weekend in skoob books, PC bookshop and
Books etc (walked from goswell road to charing cross street where I spent
another 30 quid on prints and postcard prints, via holborn - quite
pleseant walk as the city and its outskirts are nice and quiet at the
weekend).

A.

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Re: Amazon (was: RE: DMP Availability)

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:06:32PM -, dcross - David Cross wrote:
> Since I gave up Amazon, I've found myself going into bookshops more.
> Browsing in a bookshop is still _by far_ the best way to buy books.
> 
> And I end up buying more books. 

That's the problem!

-Dom

Re: Amazon (was: RE: DMP Availability)

[Robert Shiels]

- Original Message -
From: "dcross - David Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 22 February 2001 12:06
Subject: Amazon (was: RE: DMP Availability)

>
> Since I gave up Amazon, I've found myself going into bookshops more.
> Browsing in a bookshop is still _by far_ the best way to buy books.
>
Yes - I agree, but I can only get to bookshops at weekends, and sometimes if
I'm busy doing other stuff it may be 2 or 3 weeks between visits. And, for
example, this book I'm looking for is not available in Windsor or Slough
(though I've noticed over the years that the computing sections are getting
much bigger and better), so I'm forced to go up to That London. So online
purchases that arrive at my door the next day are very attractive.

Sometimes I'll browse in bookshops for a whole afternoon, and then I think I
should perhaps have spent the time actually reading!

/Robert

Amazon (was: RE: DMP Availability)

[dcross - David Cross]

From: Robert Shiels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 22 February 2001 11:59

> I want to buy a book "Code" by Charles Petzold.
> 
> streetsonline - not available
> whsmith 12.45 + 2.74 = 15.19 delivery 1-2 weeks
> bol.com 12.59 + 2.95 = 15.54 delivery 3-7 days
> pcbooks 13.99 + 3.50 = 17.49 next day delivery
> amazon 11.13 + 2.75 = 13.88 dispatched within 24 hours
>
> And the Amazon website has a good review of the book, and several comments
> by other people who have bought it, whereas the other sites have no
details
> at all. No one I've found matches Amazon's service and price for books, if
> the others want to compete online they are going to have to do much
better.

Well no-one's saying you can't use the Amazon site to get reviews and info
about a book :)

> I boycotted Amazon for a while, and stopped being an Associate, but found
I
> was buying less books because they were too expensive and hard to get. So
I
> guess I'm back to them again now.

Since I gave up Amazon, I've found myself going into bookshops more.
Browsing in a bookshop is still _by far_ the best way to buy books.

And I end up buying more books. Because for each book that I got into the
shop looking for, I find another two that seem really interesting. Amazon's
"readers who bought this book..." feature really doesn't achieve the same
thing.

Dave...

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Re: DMP Availability

[Robert Shiels]

>
> I don't know what disturbs me more - my books being sold by Amazon or my
> books
> being bought by III :)
>
> Dave...

I want to buy a book "Code" by Charles Petzold.

streetsonline - not available
whsmith 12.45 + 2.74 = 15.19 delivery 1-2 weeks
bol.com 12.59 + 2.95 = 15.54 delivery 3-7 days
pcbooks 13.99 + 3.50 = 17.49 next day delivery
amazon 11.13 + 2.75 = 13.88 dispatched within 24 hours

And the Amazon website has a good review of the book, and several comments
by other people who have bought it, whereas the other sites have no details
at all. No one I've found matches Amazon's service and price for books, if
the others want to compete online they are going to have to do much better.

I boycotted Amazon for a while, and stopped being an Associate, but found I
was buying less books because they were too expensive and hard to get. So I
guess I'm back to them again now.

/Robert

RE: DMP Availability

[dcross - David Cross]

From: Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 February 2001 10:46

> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:34:06AM -, dcross - David Cross wrote:
> > * There are currently 100 copies in Europe.
> > * Another (larger) shipment from Manning ended up in Singapore somehow!
They
> > will return at some point in the next week.
> > * The large Charing Cross Road bookshops (Foyles, Blackwells,
Waterstones)
> > should all have 3 or 4 copies now.
> > * Amazon had (we think) 10 copies. Don't know how many they've sold.
> 
> There are two copies here. I *think* they both came from amazon.

I don't know what disturbs me more - my books being sold by Amazon or my
books
being bought by III :)

Dave...


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Re: DMP Availability

[Michael Stevens]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:34:06AM -, dcross - David Cross wrote:
> * There are currently 100 copies in Europe.
> * Another (larger) shipment from Manning ended up in Singapore somehow! They
> will return at some point in the next week.
> * The large Charing Cross Road bookshops (Foyles, Blackwells, Waterstones)
> should all have 3 or 4 copies now.
> * Amazon had (we think) 10 copies. Don't know how many they've sold.

There are two copies here. I *think* they both came from amazon.

Michael

Re: DMP

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Roger Burton West wrote:

> On or about Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:26:02AM -, dcross - David Cross typed:
>
> >Nah. That's what it's said for the last two weeks. They haven't got round
> >changing it to '24 hours' yet.
>
> Mine's "1 on hand",
>

Ooer, this is a family list you know ...

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Re: DMP

[Mark Fowler]

> [% UNLESS office_policy_to_use_amazon %]
>  [% INCLUDE standard_reasons_not_to_use_amazon_text %]
> [% END %]

Someone tell Andy, this doesn't seem to be working.  Either that or you
lot felt the need to rehash it all again ;-)

Didn't anyone tell you guys that perl automatically rehashes stuff when it
gets too big to handle anyway...

Later.

Mark.

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Re: DMP

[Chris Devers]

At 10:13 AM 20.2.2001 +, you wrote:
>amazon uk have started shipping data munging with perl. I have my
>copy.

Not that anyone in London cares (well ok maybe one person :), but the local 
tech/computery bookstore here in burlington.ma.us has had about ten copies of it in 
stock for a couple of weeks now, and they seem to be selling. Well done, Dave.




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Re: DMP

[Robin Szemeti]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, you wrote:

> yip, i occasionally break my moral standpoint when i'm in a rush,
> but my bill at amazon is now 10% of what it used to be

yep me too. .. err hang on snip from last time I wrote to em:

> come on! ... I placed this order on the 11th .. its the 14th today and
> theyre still showing as 'in stock - shipping soon' what is it with you
> people, how difficult is it to put a book in a cardboard wrapper ?? or
> amazon considering patenting dog slow service as well?

turned up next day special delivery with an apology note. FWIW I find my
local bookshop happy to match prices and gets then within a week usually. 

> i think B&N's appeal against them is going well for B&N

good oh ..  still think theyre a bunch of baskets though.

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Re: DMP

[Dave Hodgkinson]

Simon Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> At 10:13 20/02/2001 +, you wrote:
> >amazon uk have started shipping data munging with perl. I have my
> >copy.
> >
> >Michael
> 
> Must be very popular, it's just dropped back to "On Order; is usually 
> dispatched within 1-2 weeks" !

Maybe they sold both copies?

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Re: DMP

[Roger Burton West]

On or about Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:26:02AM -, dcross - David Cross typed:

>Nah. That's what it's said for the last two weeks. They haven't got round
>changing it to '24 hours' yet.

Mine's "1 on hand", but there are other things in that order.

R

RE: DMP

[dcross - David Cross]

From: Simon Wilcox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 20 February 2001 11:28
 
> At 10:13 20/02/2001 +, you wrote:
> >amazon uk have started shipping data munging with perl. I have my
> >copy.
> >
> >Michael
> 
> Must be very popular, it's just dropped back to "On Order; is usually 
> dispatched within 1-2 weeks" !

Nah. That's what it's said for the last two weeks. They haven't got round
changing it to '24 hours' yet.

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Re: DMP

[Simon Wilcox]

At 10:13 20/02/2001 +, you wrote:
>amazon uk have started shipping data munging with perl. I have my
>copy.
>
>Michael

Must be very popular, it's just dropped back to "On Order; is usually 
dispatched within 1-2 weeks" !

Simon

Re: DMP

[Struan Donald]

* at 20/02 11:12 - dcross - David Cross said:
> From: Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: 20 February 2001 11:01
> > 
> > * at 20/02 10:35 + Mark Fowler said:
> > > Micheal claimed that:
> > > 
> > > > amazon uk have started shipping data munging with perl. I have my
> > > > copy.
> > > 
> > > Indeed they have.  I've got mine now.  They're also 
> > shipping the mod_perl
> > > pocket reference.
> >  
> > mmm, pc bookshop tell me uk release not till july. is this kind of
> > delay normal? 
> 
> That can't be right. How did you get that info? I'll get on to the UK
> distributors and see why bookshops are getting such crap information.

i phoned up and asked, they phoned publisher/distibutor and told me
july.
 
> I would imagine that it'll be in bookshops in the next week or two.

which was more what i was expecting.

> > > [% UNLESS office_policy_to_use_amazon %]
> > >  [% INCLUDE standard_reasons_not_to_use_amazon_text %]
> > > [% END %]
> > 
> > why did amazon have to go and do things that make you not want to buy
> > books from them? it's enormously inconvenient.
> 
> Yeah, but don't you get such a good feeling of moral superiority when
> you don't buy from them.

eh?

struan

Re: DMP

[Struan Donald]

* at 20/02 12:08 + Greg McCarroll said:
> * Struan Donald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > 
> > why did amazon have to go and do things that make you not want to buy
> > books from them? it's enormously inconvenient.
> > 
> 
> yip, i occasionally break my moral standpoint when i'm in a rush,
> but my bill at amazon is now 10% of what it used to be

yeah, but then you have the "well, while i'm here..." temptaions to
resist. I was intending to get the network programming book at the
same time...
 
> i think B&N's appeal against them is going well for B&N

the fact that they might get whipped in court doesn't make amazon any
better. 

struan

RE: DMP

[dcross - David Cross]

From: Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 20 February 2001 11:01
> 
> * at 20/02 10:35 + Mark Fowler said:
> > Micheal claimed that:
> > 
> > > amazon uk have started shipping data munging with perl. I have my
> > > copy.
> > 
> > Indeed they have.  I've got mine now.  They're also 
> shipping the mod_perl
> > pocket reference.
>  
> mmm, pc bookshop tell me uk release not till july. is this kind of
> delay normal? 

That can't be right. How did you get that info? I'll get on to the UK
distributors and see why bookshops are getting such crap information.

I would imagine that it'll be in bookshops in the next week or two.

> > [% UNLESS office_policy_to_use_amazon %]
> >  [% INCLUDE standard_reasons_not_to_use_amazon_text %]
> > [% END %]
> 
> why did amazon have to go and do things that make you not want to buy
> books from them? it's enormously inconvenient.

Yeah, but don't you get such a good feeling of moral superiority when
you don't buy from them.

Dave...
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Re: DMP

[Dave Hodgkinson]

Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> why did amazon have to go and do things that make you not want to buy
> books from them? it's enormously inconvenient.

Didn't B&N get the 1-click thing overturned anyway?


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Re: DMP

[Greg McCarroll]

* Struan Donald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> why did amazon have to go and do things that make you not want to buy
> books from them? it's enormously inconvenient.
> 

yip, i occasionally break my moral standpoint when i'm in a rush,
but my bill at amazon is now 10% of what it used to be

i think B&N's appeal against them is going well for B&N



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Re: DMP

[Struan Donald]

* at 20/02 10:35 + Mark Fowler said:
> Micheal claimed that:
> 
> > amazon uk have started shipping data munging with perl. I have my
> > copy.
> 
> Indeed they have.  I've got mine now.  They're also shipping the mod_perl
> pocket reference.
 
mmm, pc bookshop tell me uk release not till july. is this kind of
delay normal? 

> [% UNLESS office_policy_to_use_amazon %]
>  [% INCLUDE standard_reasons_not_to_use_amazon_text %]
> [% END %]

why did amazon have to go and do things that make you not want to buy
books from them? it's enormously inconvenient.

struan

Re: DMP

[Mark Fowler]

Micheal claimed that:

> amazon uk have started shipping data munging with perl. I have my
> copy.

Indeed they have.  I've got mine now.  They're also shipping the mod_perl
pocket reference.

[% UNLESS office_policy_to_use_amazon %]
 [% INCLUDE standard_reasons_not_to_use_amazon_text %]
[% END %]

Later.

Mark.

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