Nx wrote:
Why unpack inputvalues if your next step is to pack'em back again ? Or
what did I miss ?
The original values in this case are being read from a text file
with one value including a linefeed per line and the original idea was,
that having them read into a list was the best way to
I'd say, start with Python and work yourself into more complex
languages. Python teaches you to indent properly, and it is good with
being simple, yet powerful at the same time. I'd be happy to teach you
the basics with Python. I've taught a few people how to program, and
they learn Python pretty
I have a simple 192-line Python script that begins with the line:
dummy0 = 47
The script runs in less than 2.5 seconds. The variable dummy0 is never
referenced again, directly or indirectly, by the rest of the script.
Here's the surprise: if I remove or comment out this first line, the
script
Carsten Haese wrote:
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 11:04, I hastily wrote:
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 10:43, Nx wrote:
Thanks for the many replies
here is an example for what it will be used for , in this case
fixed at 31 fieldvalues:
Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mike Schilling wrote:
Another advantage is that evewry internet-enabled computer today already
comes with an HTML renderer (AKA browser), so that a message saved to a
file
can be read very easily.
I
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 04:44:24PM +, Mark Dickinson wrote:
I have a simple 192-line Python script that begins with the line:
dummy0 = 47
The script runs in less than 2.5 seconds. The variable dummy0 is never
referenced again, directly or indirectly, by the rest of the script.
[David MacQuigg]
The key new features needed in a spam filter are the ability to
extract the sender's identity (not that of the latest forwarder), and
to factor into the spam score the reputation of that identity.
This will only work if your system is immune to forgeries, while being
largely
Mark Dickinson wrote:
Questions:
(1) Can anyone else reproduce this behaviour, or is it just some quirk
of my setup?
(2) Any possible explanations? Is there some optimization that kicks
in at a certain number of lines, or at a certain length of
bytecode?
(3) If (2), is there
Mike Schilling wrote:
Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mike Schilling wrote:
Another advantage is that evewry internet-enabled computer today already
comes with an HTML renderer (AKA browser), so that a message saved to a
file
Mike Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mike Schilling wrote:
Another advantage is that evewry internet-enabled computer today
already comes with an HTML renderer (AKA browser), so that a
On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:13 am, Peter Hansen wrote:
Terry Hancock wrote:
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:12 pm, Peter Hansen wrote:
Or even http://www.pythoncad.org/ which, although probably for
mechanical CAD work (I haven't looked at it, don't really know), is
surely a good place to
Hi,
I am trying to non-dimensionalize some data I have obtained. There are
no 'standard' dimensionless groups for my application, so I would like
to obtain the 'best' non-dimensional groups based on some statistical
measures of the resulting transformed data.
At this point, I am looking for a way
On 8/25/05, Mark Dickinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a simple 192-line Python script that begins with the line:
dummy0 = 47
The script runs in less than 2.5 seconds. The variable dummy0 is never
referenced again, directly or indirectly, by the rest of the script.
Here's the
On 8/25/05, Erik Max Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Dickinson wrote:
Questions:
(1) Can anyone else reproduce this behaviour, or is it just some quirk
of my setup?
(2) Any possible explanations? Is there some optimization that kicks
in at a certain number of lines,
T Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we argue that people are evolving the way e-mail is handled, and
adding entire new feature sets to something which has been around
since the earliest days of the internet, then that's perfectly
feasable. HTML itself has grown. We've also added Javascript
Bill Mill wrote:
Unlikely; 2 people have confirmed these results already.
I did find, though, that if I remove all print statements from the
program, the dummy and non-dummy variable versions take indentical
time. Can others reproduce this?
Yes, it's obviously a real effect given the other
Bill Mill wrote:
Pentium M 1.8 GHz Windows 2k. Here's the top of the profile results
for fast and slow on my machine (these won't look decent except in a
fixed-width font):
snip profiles
Interestingly, the test.py:36 line, which takes 45 seconds (!!) in the
slow version, does not appear
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:35:04PM -0400, Bill Mill wrote:
On 8/25/05, Erik Max Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Dickinson wrote:
Questions:
(1) Can anyone else reproduce this behaviour, or is it just some quirk
of my setup?
(2) Any possible explanations? Is there
T Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mike Schilling wrote:
Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mike Schilling wrote:
Another advantage is that evewry internet-enabled computer
today already comes with an HTML renderer (AKA
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill
Mill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of my own: what in the world made you think maybe I'll add 29
dummy global variables to speed things up?
You mean this isn't a well-known optimization technique? :)
I was refactoring the code, and after making a particular
Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mike Schilling wrote:
Another advantage is that evewry internet-enabled computer today
already comes with an HTML renderer (AKA browser), so that a message
saved to a file can be read very easily.
I think you're missing the point:
Mark Dickinson wrote:
Questions:
(1) Can anyone else reproduce this behaviour, or is it just some quirk
of my setup?
yes. I get 7 sec vs 1 sec on my laptop.
(2) Any possible explanations? Is there some optimization that kicks
in at a certain number of lines, or at a certain length
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:55:48PM -0400, Bill Mill wrote:
Bill Mill wrote:
Pentium M 1.8 GHz Windows 2k. Here's the top of the profile results
for fast and slow on my machine (these won't look decent except in a
fixed-width font):
snip profiles
Interestingly, the test.py:36
On 8/25/05, Jack Diederich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:35:04PM -0400, Bill Mill wrote:
On 8/25/05, Erik Max Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Dickinson wrote:
Questions:
(1) Can anyone else reproduce this behaviour, or is it just some quirk
Mark Dickinson wrote:
I have a simple 192-line Python script that begins with the line:
dummy0 = 47
The script runs in less than 2.5 seconds. The variable dummy0 is never
referenced again, directly or indirectly, by the rest of the script.
Here's the surprise: if I remove or comment
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mike Schilling wrote:
[Off Topic discussion of netiquette, seen on comp.lang.perl.misc:]
Gosh, if you say they should be, there's no point trying to have an
intelligent discussion, is there?
Discussion about netiquette on any of these cross-posted groups cannot
by
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As far as position reporting goes, it seems pretty clear that find()
will always report positive index values. In a five-character string
then -1 and 4 are effectively equivalent.
What on earth makes you call this a bug? And what are you proposing
that
On 8/25/05, Erik Max Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bill Mill wrote:
Unlikely; 2 people have confirmed these results already.
I did find, though, that if I remove all print statements from the
program, the dummy and non-dummy variable versions take indentical
time. Can others
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:23:09PM +0300, Stelios Xanthakis wrote:
The explanation is this: hash
and comparison of objects depends on the state of the memory
allocator. A sample case is this:
class A: pass
dummy0=47 # comment this to get a different result for min
a=A()
Hi all,
Still a newbie but making some headway. So I have a file structure
like this..
top/
--modules/
metrics.py
--metrix/
uptime.py
Now metrics.py is my superclass, and uptime.py inherits the superclass
metrics.py.
So for arguments sake
metrics.py
class metrics():
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Mike Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mike Schilling wrote:
Another advantage is that evewry internet-enabled computer today
already
[michael wrote]
SOLVED! Thank you.
I wonder why this was needed for 2.4 and not 2.2? I don't think it was
lingering things from old installs because it happened on a persons
computer that had never had any python installed before 2.4.
It might be due to a bug in the Python 2.4 installer not
On 8/25/05, Jack Diederich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:23:09PM +0300, Stelios Xanthakis wrote:
The explanation is this: hash
and comparison of objects depends on the state of the memory
allocator. A sample case is this:
class A: pass
dummy0=47 #
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Bokma wrote:
Just have a look at some web based message boards, and you might see why it
would be another disaster on Usenet. Moreoever, why keep people insisting
on making Usenet better? If you want HTML and fancy mark up, start a
message board. You probably can get
Slight correction..
rh0dium wrote:
Hi all,
Still a newbie but making some headway. So I have a file structure
like this..
top/
--modules/
metrics.py
--metrix/
uptime.py
Now metrics.py is my superclass, and uptime.py inherits the superclass
metrics.py.
So for arguments sake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey, if the man wants to write it that way, let the man write it that
way. If it works for him, great... he's sure confused the heck out of
all of us, and that translates into job security for him! As you can
see, the name of the post is 'variable hell' and that is
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Stelios Xanthakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the sudoku solver, there is a min (number, object) which is
probably what's affected by the extistance of the dummy variable.
Now, in sudoku puzzles some times the algorithm has to suppose
that in a box the right
Does anyone know how to stop the command line pychecker from analyzing
particular modules? It really gets slowed down on some big ones.
In particular having 'import wx' takes a long while (30 - 60s). If you
try pycheck'ing the program below it takes a while and prints a zillion
warnings.
#---
I don't want to offend you or anything, but doesn't the second sentence mean
that someone DID do a speed comparison?
I did provide Language Shootout link in the next paragraph of the post
you referred to along with an obligatory caution about interpreting
benchmarks. The Language Shootout is a
TonyHa wrote:
Hello,
Does any one have using Python to write a Unix diff command for
Window?
I generally just us the diff built into tortoiseSVN. That way it's only
a rightclick away.
--
hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark
http://www.mxm.dk/
IT's Mad Science
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Trent Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[Neil Hodgson wrote]
Thomas Heller:
Yes. There's a script in your Python distribution:
Tools/scripts/diff.py
See also the docs for the 'difflib' standard library module.
Is the opposite code, a Python equivalent to 'patch' available? I
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill
Mill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm also pretty sure I've caught a bug in his code, though I'm not
sure how it works exactly. I replaced the 'min' built-in with my own
min, and he's going to get nondeterministic results from this line:
mm =
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the
bowels of my modules, I may not know what the contents are at code-time,
Then how do you write your code?
rg
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In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the argument that usenet should never change seems a little
heavy-handed and anachronistic.
No, simple since there *are* alternatives: web based message boards. Those
alternatives *do* support HTML formatting (often the subset
I have been using Eclispe IDE with the PyDev plugin for Python
Development.
it allow you to set up projects. you can use PyAnt to build them.
It works great for me. It's free an easy to use.
Eclipse is at http://www.eclipse.org
There is also Emacs with the python plugin
Rob M.
python project
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the argument that usenet should never change seems a little
heavy-handed and anachronistic.
No, simple since there *are* alternatives: web based message boards. Those
alternatives *do* support HTML formatting
Mark Dickinson wrote:
I have a simple 192-line Python script that begins with the line:
dummy0 = 47
The script runs in less than 2.5 seconds. The variable dummy0 is never
referenced again, directly or indirectly, by the rest of the script.
Here's the surprise: if I remove or comment out
rafi wrote:
Adriaan Renting wrote:
You might be able to do something along the lines of
for count in range(0,maxcount):
value = values[count]
exec(eval('a%s=%s' % (count, value)))
why using the eval?
exec ('a%s=%s' % (count, value))
should be fine
And this demonstrates why
Stelios Xanthakis wrote:
Mark Dickinson wrote:
I have a simple 192-line Python script that begins with the line:
dummy0 = 47
The script runs in less than 2.5 seconds. The variable dummy0 is never
referenced again, directly or indirectly, by the rest of the script.
Here's the surprise:
Two observations:
1 - The difference in run time with and without the dummy* globals is
due to a difference in the number of invokations of the search()
function: 1,140 resp. 27,530 in my environment.
To verify, just change the line
def search():
to
searches = 0
def search():
Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
exec(eval('a%s=%s' % (count, value)))
why using the eval?
exec ('a%s=%s' % (count, value))
should be fine
And this demonstrates why exec as a statement was a mistake ;)
It actually is
exec 'a%s=%s' % (count, value)
Noted.
In the meantime another question
Ron Garret wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the
bowels of my modules, I may not know what the contents are at code-time,
Then how do you write your code?
With style. ;-)
I use a Bunch where I might otherwise use a dictionary inside my modules
rafi wrote:
In the meantime another question I cannot find an answer to: any idea
why does eval() consider '=' as a syntax error?
eval ('a=1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File stdin, line 1, in ?
File string, line 1
a=1
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
eval
Exists some tool, programs or some able to compute the minimal regular
expression, namely ,taking a series of regular exoression, the minimal
one that makes the same matching?
thanx in advance
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rafi wrote:
Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
exec(eval('a%s=%s' % (count, value)))
why using the eval?
exec ('a%s=%s' % (count, value))
should be fine
And this demonstrates why exec as a statement was a mistake ;)
It actually is
exec 'a%s=%s' % (count, value)
Noted.
In the meantime
FWIIW,
We use PyChecker all the time with Python files using importing wx plus
wx.grid or wx.stc, etc. and the run times vary between 5 and 15
seconds.
This is Python 2.4 with wxPython 2.4.2.4 and RedHat Fedora Core 2 Linux
running on a 1.2 GHz Pentium 4 M laptop.
/Jean Brouwers
--
With special thanks to Dimitri Pater to contribute his documenation
from http://www.serpia.com and Nir Aides for the documentation about
the debugger. Also thanks to all Mac donors who bring real Mac support
for SPE more and more close. For more info visit the homepage.
Stani
Spe is a free
Привет Xah!
11 aug 2005 at 18:23, Xah Lee wrote:
XL Jargons of Info Tech industry
XL (A Love of Jargons)
XL Xah Lee, 2002 Feb
XL People in the computing field like to spur the use of spurious
...skipped...
Look at this site for some info: http://lleo.aha.ru/na/en
Alexander, [EMAIL
Steve Holden wrote:
Because eval() takes an expression as an argument, and assignment is a
statement.
I am definitely not a language lawyer... but I should a little bit more
thanks,
--
rafi
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
(Albert
Windows Apps:
Since you said professional looking applications, I assume you mean
graphical interfaces (windows - GUI):
If so, I recomend PythonCard ( http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/ ).
It is very easy to use, very similar to Visual Basic or Delphi (drag
and drop widgets on a form...).
Web
Windows Apps:
Since you said professional looking applications, I assume you mean
graphical interfaces (windows - GUI):
If so, I recomend PythonCard ( http://pythoncard.sourceforge. net/ ).
It is very easy to use, very similar to Visual Basic or Delphi (drag
and drop widgets on a form...).
Web
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to use the magic file to detect the filetype, if this is
possible. I have the attachement stored and (generally) decoded in a
variable.
There is a Python binding to the libmagic library, see
http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2003/55.html
Meanwhile,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote]
Exists some tool, programs or some able to compute the minimal regular
expression, namely ,taking a series of regular exoression, the minimal
one that makes the same matching?
def get_minimal_regex(*regexes):
return .*
:) Or, slightly less smart-ass-y:
The problem is that when the sax handler raises an exception,
I can't see how to find out why. What I want to do is for
DodgyErrorHandler to do something different depending on
where we are in the course of parsing. Is there anyway
to get that information back from xml.sax (or indeed from
any
I've learnt my lesson :) Thank you for your help, and apologies
for wasting other people's time with this as well as my own!
I've learnt my lesson reading through this thread, too.
I am glad to be given the chance of wasting my time
with it and very happy and thankful, that you posted
your
I'd like to propose a new PEP [no, that isn't a redundant 'process'
in there :-)--pre-PEP is a different process than PEP], for a
standard library module that deals with files and file paths in an
object oriented manner. I believe this module should be included as
part of the standard
very nice
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A example in learning Python by Mark Lutz and David Ascher
about function scope
example like this:
def outer(x):
def inner(i):
print i,
if i: inner(i-1)
inner(x)
outer(3)
Here supposely, it should report error, because the function inner
cannot see itself since inner
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Ulrich Hobelmann wrote:
CSS sheet. If things were that way, suddenly people *would* use Outlook
No no no! Let's keep those Outhouse lusers away from Usenet. There's
tto much top posting as it is!
--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member
President,
Rite Online
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the argument that usenet should never change seems a little
heavy-handed and anachronistic.
No, simple since there *are* alternatives: web based message boards.
Those alternatives *do* support HTML
Ulrich Hobelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the information side (in contrast to the discussion side) RSS is
replacing Usenet,
LOL, how? I can't post to RSS feeds. Or do you mean for lurkers?
There is no real reason why NNTP couldn't be used like RSS (i.e.
contain a small description and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Exists some tool, programs or some able to compute the minimal regular
expression, namely ,taking a series of regular exoression, the minimal
one that makes the same matching?
thanx in advance
length? (define minimal) :-D.
--
John
Learning Python wrote:
A example in learning Python by Mark Lutz and David Ascher
about function scope
example like this:
def outer(x):
def inner(i):
print i,
if i: inner(i-1)
inner(x)
outer(3)
Here supposely, it should report error, because the function
This is not reproducible under either Python 2.3.4 (UNIX), Python 2.4.1
(UNIX) or Python 2.4.1 (Windows). If you still need help, we need to
know precisely what you're doing.
= scope_test.py =
#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# (insert his code, verbatim...)
#
if __name__=='__main__':
I have a user who is is having trouble getting MacPython on his OS X
10.3.8 system.
When he runs ConfigurePythonCarbon, he gets this error:
[terminated]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
traceback )most recent call last):
File Moes:SWdev:Jack:Python2.2:Mac:script:configurePython.py,
1. Whichever one works best for you, of course. :) There are lots of
editors and IDEs out there. I find myself coming back to Emacs and
jEdit the most, but there are a sizable number of vi partisans
(benighted heathens tho they be) and an increasing number of Eclipse,
Wing and Komodo
Learning Python wrote:
def outer(x):
def inner(i):
print i,
if i: inner(i-1)
inner(x)
outer(3)
Here supposely, it should report error, because the function inner
cannot see itself since inner is only in local namespace of outer.
There is no error. the
infidel wrote:
Learning Python wrote:
A example in learning Python by Mark Lutz and David Ascher
about function scope
example like this:
def outer(x):
def inner(i):
print i,
if i: inner(i-1)
inner(x)
outer(3)
Here supposely, it should report error, because the
I get it, I missed the little parintheses or however you spell it. () .
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Thanks all for replying.
I finally know what's going on.
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Paul Miller wrote:
I have a user who is is having trouble getting MacPython on his OS X
10.3.8 system.
When he runs ConfigurePythonCarbon, he gets this error:
[terminated]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
traceback )most recent call last):
File
Name: lib64python2.4-devel
Summary: The libraries and header files needed for Python development
Description: The Python programming language's interpreter can be extended
with dynamically loaded extensions and can be embedded in other programs.
This package contains the header files and
Kenneth McDonald wrote:
I'd like to propose a new PEP [no, that isn't a redundant 'process' in
there :-)--pre-PEP is a different process than PEP], for a standard
library module that deals with files and file paths in an object
oriented manner. I believe this module should be included as
Steve Holden asked:
Do you just go round looking for trouble?
In the course of programming, yes, absolutly.
As far as position reporting goes, it seems pretty clear that find()
will always report positive index values. In a five-character string
then -1 and 4 are effectively equivalent.
Why would any of the issues below be any more difficult than they are withthe current file functions? I'm not proposing a C replacement for currentfunctions, merely a Python module that wraps all of those functions (andadds some additional ones) in an appropriate class.On Aug 25, 2005, at 5:28 PM,
Kenneth McDonald wrote:
Why would any of the issues below be any more difficult than they are with
the current file functions? I'm not proposing a C replacement for current
functions, merely a Python module that wraps all of those functions (and
adds some additional ones) in an appropriate
I am not sure if you are still watching this thread, but I seem to have
a bit of a problem with the code sample you so graciously provided.
It seems to work in all instances, except the original example I
provided (namely, 1234567890). On my system, the number 1234567890,
gets converted to
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
rafi wrote:
Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
exec(eval('a%s=%s' % (count, value)))
why using the eval?
exec ('a%s=%s' % (count, value))
should be fine
And this demonstrates why exec as a statement was a mistake
my husband is installing an extra bathroom poolside. there is a perfect size
hole (unless you have a huge cock) to stick your dick through into the adjoing
room. come around the side of my house(perfect if you look like a repair man)
enter into the unfisnished bathroom and I'll service you
I know this is dummy, just never saw an example of this.
I want to use the special argument matching.
A code like this:
def adder(**varargs):
sum=varargs[varargs.keys()[0]]
for next in varargs.keys()[1:]:
sum=sum+varargs[next]
return sum
print adder(
Learning Python wrote:
A code like this:
def adder(**varargs):
sum=varargs[varargs.keys()[0]]
for next in varargs.keys()[1:]:
sum=sum+varargs[next]
return sum
print adder( first,second,'third')
How to pass arguments to a functions that use dictionary
thanks, got it.
I want to test the **name option for argument matching.
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Mike Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another advantage is that evewry internet-enabled computer today already
comes with an HTML renderer (AKA browser)
No, they don't. Minimalist Unix distributions don't include a browser
by default. I know the BSD's don't, and suspect that gentoo Linux
Thanks for all the responses and animated discussion,
which is still the best way to learn something new.
Most of the time it is not that you want to do something
in a certain way , it rather is one cannot think of a
better , faster more efficient way .
Nx
--
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another advantage is that evewry internet-enabled computer today already
comes with an HTML renderer (AKA browser)
No, they don't. Minimalist Unix distributions don't include a browser
by default. I know the BSD's don't, and suspect that gentoo Linux
Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another advantage is that evewry internet-enabled computer today
already comes with an HTML renderer (AKA browser)
No, they don't. Minimalist Unix distributions don't include a browser
by default. I know the
HTML is designed to degrade gracefully (never mind that most web
authors and many browser developers don't seem to comprehend this), so
you don't really need a subset html to get the safety features you
want. All you need to do is disable the appropriate features in the
HTML renderer in your news
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
... and generally these web based message boards (i.e. forums I
assume you mean) have none of the useful tools that Usenet offers and
are much, much slower.
[snip]
Arrgh, I *emphatically* *hate* Web-based-(almost
So says Chris from his webmail account...
On 8/25/05, Chris Head [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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... and generally these web based message boards (i.e. forums I
assume you mean) have none of the useful tools that
Chris Head wrote:
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Why can't we use the Web for what it was meant for: viewing
hypertext pages? Why must we turn it into a wrapper around every
application imaginable?
Because the Lord High PoohBah (Bill) has so decreed. He has
replaced General bullMoose.
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