Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)

On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 22:30, Adam Turoff wrote; > Right. That's the amount determined to stave off scurvy[1]. The > RDA doesn't say anything about if you should have more, or the > benefits of having more vitamin C in your diet. > Linus Pauling had some pretty strong opinions on this --

Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)

> Well, Vitamin C does make a reliable abortifacient for women who are very > early in their pregnancy since it blocks the uptake of progesterone. It's > usually taken orally in very high doses and often combined with other > herbal substances to help the process when it's a desired effect. Such

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

Roger Burton West wrote: JAR was available in 1996 or so, I think. I still have copies of most of the archivers and compressors I was playing with in those days... anyone remember UC2? HA? SAR? ACB? Not really. I come from a DOS background, where in the late '80s we started out with .arc and .

Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)

Adam Turoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: *> *>Actually, contraindications with large (oral?) doses of vitamin C involve *>something called "bowel tolerance". Don't know where pissing shards is *>on the spectrum. :-) Well, Vitamin C does make a reliable abortifacient for women who are very early in t

Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 06:19:05PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: > Je 2003-09-02 18:01:12 +0100, Ben skribis: > > I mean, the RDA for vitamin C is only, what, 60 milligrams? Right. That's the amount determined to stave off scurvy[1]. The RDA doesn't say anything about if you should have more, or

Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:16:40AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > For the benefit of people likely to come up against Yet Another > Compression Format, though: > > http://files10.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-3.2.3.tar.gz The code in there is a lot cleaner than the last time I looked at it. (I pr

RE: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s (was Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial)

On 02 September 2003 09:43 Roger Burton West wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:24:11AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > > [re RAR] > >> I'm told it's fairly popular in (some?) Usenet binary newsgroups as a >> standard way of distributing warez and moviez. > > ACE is another format that I understand

RE: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s (was Re: gzipping your websitesWINRAR 40 days trial)

On 02 September 2003 09:53 Jason Clifford wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Roger Burton West wrote: > >> Both correct, though I've never seen PAR actually produce a result. > > Download a large enough set of rar component files (as in grabbing > Buffy each week) and you'll soon find how useful par fil

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Sam Vilain wrote: > On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:25, Roger Burton West wrote; > > > >I thought that Java's JAR files were just Java-tARballs. > > Mostly they're Zip-files, actually.. > > Which makes sense, because .ZIP is a file format with an index at the > end designed for ra

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:25, Roger Burton West wrote; > >I thought that Java's JAR files were just Java-tARballs. > Mostly they're Zip-files, actually.. Which makes sense, because .ZIP is a file format with an index at the end designed for random access, whereas .tar files need to be scanned to

Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)

Paul Makepeace wrote: > > Je 2003-09-02 18:01:12 +0100, Ben skribis: > > I mean, the RDA for vitamin C is only, what, 60 milligrams? > > That's right -- at the same time there's plenty of dissention about > whether that's enough, and in what circumstances. Dousing your > bloodstream in anti-oxida

Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)

Je 2003-09-02 18:01:12 +0100, Ben skribis: > I mean, the RDA for vitamin C is only, what, 60 milligrams? That's right -- at the same time there's plenty of dissention about whether that's enough, and in what circumstances. Dousing your bloodstream in anti-oxidants (C, E, polyphenols, etc) during &

Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 03:48:06PM +0100, Philip Hellyer wrote: > > My s.o. also took 10 grams of intravenous vitamin C during > the procedure. Isn't that above the level where vitamin C will crystalise out of urine and potentially cause damage to the urethra? I mean, the RDA for vitamin C is

Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)

On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 15:48, Philip Hellyer wrote; > To my knowledge, there is no filling that requires mercury > amalgam, although I have heard that many dentists say that they > do. I think that these statements stem from a lack of ability on > the part of the dentist, or a lack of commit

Re: Fave calendering software?

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Steve Keay wrote: > Hmm, I just tried this and I decided to download the "UK Holidays" > from the same page. Can anyone tell my why it has New Year's Day on > the 1st of December? > > I also find it a little worrying that Christmas, etc are not > re-occurring events. I like t

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

On or about Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:02:10AM -0700, Toby Corkindale typed: >I remember (and used) UC2 and, I think, HA.. Want a Debian package for HA? (Privately maintained while I wait to have time to do the become-a-developer dance.) >What happened to UC2? I think the company went under. They

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:09:16AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > JAR was available in 1996 or so, I think. I still have copies of most of > the archivers and compressors I was playing with in those days... anyone > remember UC2? HA? SAR? ACB? I remember (and used) UC2 and, I think, HA.. What

Re: Stupid fucking antivirus software

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 05:50:00PM +0100, Adrian Howard wrote: > >Tell me about it, just cleared eight of those out of the list's admin > >queue. > > 426 since Friday 5pm. > > That's just the anti-virus bounces. I've given up counting the fardling > virus posts. Something around 5000 here, and

Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)

>> Sam Vilain wrote: >> >> /me considers getting all his amalgam fillings changed to composite... > >Paul Makepeace wrote: > > The danger is vaporizing the mercury as the drill goes in - which makes > it several orders of magnitude easier to penetrate gum cell walls. You > can end up getting dosed

Re: HTTP header voodoo

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:47:09PM +0100, Chris Andrews wrote: > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="$filename" > works for me. Works for me too. Cheers. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla.

Re: Now Married!

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:43:52AM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: > Well the deed is done - I'm now a married man :) Congratulations! http://leo.cuckoo.org/cgi-bin/yapi/yapi.cgi/Wedding/030_wedding/0080_Leon.JPG => What, not an orange suit? Not even an orange shirt? Or Tie? Tsk, standards... Marce

Re: Fave calendering software?

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:17:05AM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: > My solution: firebird -calendar& and then use a different profile (I > created a "Calendar" profile). Hmm, I just tried this and I decided to download the "UK Holidays" from the same page. Can anyone tell my why it has New Year's D

Re: HTTP header voodoo

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:41:39PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: >Can someone remind me, what's the header voodoo that tells a browser >that regardless of what it sent in the GET request, it should offer to >save the file as $filename? Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename Roger

Re: HTTP header voodoo

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:41:39PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > Can someone remind me, what's the header voodoo that tells a browser > that regardless of what it sent in the GET request, it should offer to > save the file as $filename? Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="$filename" work

HTTP header voodoo

Can someone remind me, what's the header voodoo that tells a browser that regardless of what it sent in the GET request, it should offer to save the file as $filename? -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exem

Re: Programming Email Filters

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:09:58 -0700, Dave Cross wrote: > The first problem is identifying why the email ended up in my inbox. I > need to work out which of the many email addresses in the many headers is > aimed at me. Here's the algorithm I'm using. > > 1/ If there's an 'Envelope-to' header then use

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

On 2 Sep 2003 at 9:19, Chris Devers wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Philip Newton wrote: > > > No idea what ARJ is doing these days. They still seem to be around > > as a company (and have a better format called JAR, apparently) [...] > > JAR? No relation to the Java archive format, is there? Corr

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Philip Newton wrote: > No idea what ARJ is doing these days. They still seem to be around > as a company (and have a better format called JAR, apparently) [...] JAR? No relation to the Java archive format, is there? I thought that Java's JAR files were just Java-tARballs. No

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:19:37AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: >JAR? No relation to the Java archive format, is there? None whatsoever - it predated it somewhat as well. >I thought that Java's JAR files were just Java-tARballs. Mostly they're Zip-files, actually.. Roger

Re: Fave calendering software?

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:35:46AM +0100, Jody Belka wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > The only challenge was /running/ the damn thing. I have no idea how to > > launch it from Firebird. It's possible to launch FB from it by clicking > > on the M logo but the selected profile i

Re: Fave calendering software?

Hmm, so there's a Debian package "mencal" -- that's "menstrual calendar" -- which prints calendars like cal(1) but with certain days in ... red. Yes, it's written in perl. And why not, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ "What is quids in in German?

Emailed RSS

[Well, it's written in perl, so what the hell] I've sort of finished stage one of my Email RSS Aggregator: At least, it's ready for some more general testing. So, if anyone's got some spare moments and fancies giving it a whirl (particularly if it sounds

Re: Factory Classes

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:31:03PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Simon Wistow wrote: > > > http://siesta.unixbeard.net/svn/trunk/siesta/lib/Siesta.pm > > under available_plugins > > 1) Does that code work on platforms that don't use '/' as a directory > seperator? Ooh, maybe I

Re: Factory Classes

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Simon Wistow wrote: > http://siesta.unixbeard.net/svn/trunk/siesta/lib/Siesta.pm > under available_plugins 1) Does that code work on platforms that don't use '/' as a directory seperator? Ooh, maybe I should patch that. 2) That code probably will go boom if you try to use it

Re: Factory Classes

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: > So, I don't know, but good luck. I'm sure there's a good module or two > in there somewhere (a la, return a list of modules which have the same > base name as 'Foo::Plugin::'... That's not going to work. Quite a few of my plugins have support modules tha

Re: Fave calendering software?

Mike Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:00:20AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: >> The nightlies of FireBird have a stylesheet switcher icon in the bottom >> left. No extensions needed. I presume that this will find its way >> into the next version. > > It does have t

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

On 2 Sep 2003 at 10:09, Roger Burton West wrote: > I still have copies of most of the archivers and compressors I was > playing with in those days... anyone remember UC2? HA? SAR? ACB? I had a bunch squirrelled away on my old hard drive (125 MB, the luxury). I should have that backed up on CD-R

Re: Programming Email Filters

Dominic Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: Mark Overmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 9/2/03 8:36:11 AM > > > >> You can be in the Bcc of the sender, so valid mail does > >> not require to have contain your address. > > > > Yeah, but in ca

Re: Factory Classes

Dave Cross sent the following bits through the ether: > I've done something similar before with Symbol::Approx::Sub, > but I'm not sure that the interface I designed there was as useful > as it could be, so I'm open to suggestions. No, I wasn't terribly happy with it either. I've written this bit

RE: Programming Email Filters

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Cross > Sent: 01 September 2003 22:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Programming Email Filters > > Like (I guess) many people round here I'm getting Too Much > Email that I don't want to re

Re: gzipping your websites

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:40:53PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > > Now, gzipping your outgoing webpages is a good thing cos it cuts down on > transmission time and reduces your bandwidth costs. > > Unfortunately it's also fairly processor intensive. > > So I'm looking for a external solution and

Re: Factory Classes

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:09:53PM -0700, Dave Cross said: > What would be really good would be if we could autodetect which > modules they had installed during installation and choose the > local default from those - but I may leve that for a later release. I'm not sure if this is what you mean b

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:55:13AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: >I can well imagine that the availability of Info-ZIP may have been part >of this; another part is probably the advent of Win95 and WinZIP, which >brought compression to the pointy-clicky masses. (ARJ and PKZIP had >both been 16-bit

Re: Fave calendering software?

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:00:20AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Mike Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which is one of my big fears with Firebird becoming "Browser" (that > > is, the only mozilla browser). the guys running it are still wedded > > to the idea of pushing everything into exte

Re: Programming Email Filters

Je 2003-09-02 09:54:59 +0100, Dave Cross skribis: > From: Mark Overmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>9/2/03 8:36:11 AM > > You can be in the Bcc of the sender, so valid mail does > > not require to have contain your address. > > Yeah, but in cases like that one of my email addresses will still > be in the

Re: Programming Email Filters

Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Mark Overmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 9/2/03 8:36:11 AM > >> You can be in the Bcc of the sender, so valid mail does >> not require to have contain your address. > > Yeah, but in cases like that one of my email addresses will still > be in the

Re: Programming Email Filters

From: Mark Overmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 9/2/03 8:36:11 AM > You can be in the Bcc of the sender, so valid mail does > not require to have contain your address. Yeah, but in cases like that one of my email addresses will still be in the "Received" headers somewhere. I think. Dave... --

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

On 2 Sep 2003 at 9:43, Roger Burton West wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:24:11AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > > >When I started computing in the 90's on PCs, it was LZH at the > >beginning, replaced by ARJ shortly after I started; now it's ZIP. (And, > >of course, the perennial .tar.Z / .t

Re: Fave calendering software?

On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 6:27:04 AM, Mike Jarvis wrote: MJ> I like the idea of a slim, quick browser, but I think they may be MJ> getting too religious about it. If you ever use That OS (even if it's just at work with an enforced NT workstation or something), I can heartily recommend K-Mele

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s (was Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial)

Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my experience, people who really care about compressed file size and > are moderately technically savvy tend to use RAR or ACE; people who > want their files to be readable by everybody use ZIP; people who are > catering for virus-prone fools use

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s (was Re: gzipping your websitesWINRAR 40 days trial)

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Roger Burton West wrote: > Both correct, though I've never seen PAR actually produce a result. Download a large enough set of rar component files (as in grabbing Buffy each week) and you'll soon find how useful par files are. Jason Clifford -- UKFSN.ORG Financ

Re: Factory Classes

Dave Cross wrote: > What would be really good would be if we could autodetect which > modules they had installed during installation and choose the > local default from those - but I may leve that for a later release. Have a look at XML::SAX. It maintains a list of SAX parsers installed on the sy

DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s (was Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial)

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:24:11AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: [re RAR] >I'm told it's fairly popular in (some?) Usenet binary newsgroups as a >standard way of distributing warez and moviez. ACE is another format that I understand is used in that context. >>From what I gather, it supports mult

Re: Programming Email Filters

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:09:58PM -0700, Dave Cross wrote: > > I'm using the Email::* modules but there doesn't seem to be a > way to extract the actual deliverable email address from the > headers. For example, from > > "Dave Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [snip] > Email parsing is listed as "for a

Re: Programming Email Filters

* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030901 23:08]: > I hacked up something that identified the emails I want to filter > using Email::Simple, but I'd appreciate some input on what I've > done. There are three areas I need help on. > > The first problem is identifying why the email ended up in my > i

Re: Programming Email Filters

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:27:34AM +0100, Peter Sergeant wrote: > http://grou.ch/bounce.txt is very effective. But if you're using > fetchmail or similar, remember the Email::Simple team chose correctness > over usefulness, I typically find correct things very useful. For the cases where not, we

Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, the hatter wrote: > > > It's certainly not what I'd call anywhere close to being "standard" or > > > "universal". > > > > I'm told it's fairly popular in (some?) Usenet binary newsgroups as a > > standard way of distributing warez and moviez. > > Certainly a majority of warez

Re: compression (was: gzipping your websites)

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:13:56AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:11, Tom Hukins wrote; > > > Also, I suspect the case for bzip2 becomes stronger in the future. > > Assume Moore's Law continues to hold for CPU speed increase. Disk > > and > > This argument is irrelevant

Re: Programming Email Filters

http://grou.ch/bounce.txt is very effective. But if you're using fetchmail or similar, remember the Email::Simple team chose correctness over usefulness, and not to write the emails back to mail folders, unless you want all kinds of pain. +Pete

Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Philip Newton wrote: > On 2 Sep 2003 at 7:16, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > > It's certainly not what I'd call anywhere close to being "standard" or > > "universal". > > I'm told it's fairly popular in (some?) Usenet binary newsgroups as a > standard way of distributing warez and

Re: Fave calendering software?

On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 01:17, Paul Makepeace wrote; > The only challenge was /running/ the damn thing. I have no idea > how to launch it from Firebird. It's possible to launch FB from it > by clicking on the M logo but the selected profile is ignored (at > least bookmarks didn't show up). Any

Re: Fave calendering software?

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: > The only challenge was /running/ the damn thing. I have no idea how to > launch it from Firebird. It's possible to launch FB from it by clicking > on the M logo but the selected profile is ignored (at least bookmarks > didn't show up). Anyone? Yep, insta

Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial

On 2 Sep 2003 at 7:16, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > It's certainly not what I'd call anywhere close to being "standard" or > "universal". I'm told it's fairly popular in (some?) Usenet binary newsgroups as a standard way of distributing warez and moviez. >From what I gather, it supports multi-vol

Re: gzipping your websites

Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1 Sep 2003 at 21:58, Tim Sweetman wrote: > >> Does all this negotiation run into hot water with legacy p(r)oxy caches? > > I believe someone mentioned that they couldn't get their cache to cache > the contents if they sent the proper HTTP header ("Va

Re: gzipping your websites

On 1 Sep 2003 at 21:58, Tim Sweetman wrote: > Does all this negotiation run into hot water with legacy p(r)oxy caches? I believe someone mentioned that they couldn't get their cache to cache the contents if they sent the proper HTTP header ("Vary: encoding", I believe, meaning "Hey, proxy, the

Re: Fave calendering software?

Je 2003-08-29 07:11:42 +0100, Paul Sharpe skribis: > Paul Makepeace wrote: > > >Basic hour-by-hour, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly views. Something that > >produces HTML output for inclusion or direct embeddable on the web would > I like Mozilla calendar: > > * RFC2445 > * Multiple calendars

Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial

[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used to be annoyed when someone zipped and the rared. Winzip cannot even > handle this yet. Nowadays I can just say that RAR is more universial the > Zip. That seem unlikely at best. I'd never even heard of winrar until somebody at work pointed it

Re: compression (was: gzipping your websites)

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:11, Tom Hukins wrote; > Also, I suspect the case for bzip2 becomes stronger in the future. > Assume Moore's Law continues to hold for CPU speed increase. Disk > and This argument is irrelevant in general, because the size of files to be compressed in general also inc

Re: compression (was: gzipping your websites)

On 1 Sep 2003 at 20:52, Paul Mison wrote: > However, here's some rampantly unfair tests on a text file: [snip] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l File-Type.html* > -rw-r--r--1 blech 3631 Sep 1 20:51 File-Type.html Yes, that sounds rather unfair to bzip2. >From what (little) I know, it doesn't r

Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises

Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: > *> > *>CwG: Right, you have seven days to produce your ID card at any police > *>station -- here's the appropriate bit of paper to bring along with it. > *>Me: Right ho. Have a nice day. > > I don't know that

Re: Fave calendering software?

Mike Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which is one of my big fears with Firebird becoming "Browser" (that > is, the only mozilla browser). the guys running it are still wedded > to the idea of pushing everything into extensions. Last I saw they > still weren't going to add a menu item to switc