Re: [ql-users] OFF TOPIC - Welsh Humour

2005-04-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
hitchies wrote: Re: - Called shut up, ewe! Well, it did have Anthony Hopkins in it Darren. Sorry Darren that was the Glasgow version, and it was called 'shut up ewes' which is Glaswegian for 'please, be quiet.' :o) Good try though - welcome back. Cheers, Norman. -- Internal Virus Database is

Re: [ql-users] OFF TOPIC - Welsh Humour

2005-04-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
Roy wood wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The following are just some of the titles planned for release this year: I love them all - if they were computer related they would be in my column. They were send by a Computer Programmer/ Oracle DBA - does that count ? We

Re: [ql-users] ATTN: Roy Wood re my Subscription

2005-03-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
Roy wood wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Roy, did you get my request to renew QL Toady 'in the usual fashion' - I sent it to sales*qbranch. Cheers, Norman. I did and a receipt is on it's way Thanks - receipt has been received. :o) Cheers, Norman. -- No virus found

Re: [ql-users] foo

2005-02-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
FUBAR = F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition. FOOBAR is a 'soundalike' used by programmers as an in-joke. Foo() and Bar() are the programmers example functions which seem to have stuck around for a long time now. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [ql-users] Fred Toussi

2005-02-18 Thread Norman Dunbar
James Hunkins wrote: Actually just poorly written Java apps and/or with poorly designed Java development environments. I would presume that since he used to write QL code that he knows how to efficiently use Java too. It makes a big difference if you understand and apply good practices in

Re: [ql-users] Fred Toussi

2005-02-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
The bit that puzzles me is the fact that it is written in Java, but described as 'fast' and named 'Hypersonic'. Must be a different Java to the one I've been used to. All Java applications are s...l...o...w ! :o) Cheers, Norman. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG

[ql-users] ProForma Filter

2005-02-15 Thread Norman Dunbar
I was reading the archives and noticed that Rich Mellor was after a copy of my BlackHole device driver - the one which 'does nothing' as someone succinctly put it - and I was wondering if he (Rich) had managed to get hold of a copy of the source. Cheers, Norm. -- No virus found in this

Re: [ql-users] ProForma Filter

2005-02-15 Thread Norman Dunbar
Phoebus Dokos wrote: One thing I can say about BlackHole is that it is extremely useful for debugging or for silencing output especially with c68 compiled programs (the ones with standard output ;-) ) Actually it is my belief that it should be part of the OS (as a nul device like most OSes

Re: [ql-users] ProForma Filter

2005-02-15 Thread Norman Dunbar
Marcel Kilgus wrote: Phoebus Dokos wrote: Actually it is my belief that it should be part of the OS (as a nul device like most OSes have) Erm, what's wrong with SMSQ/E's NUL device? Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

[ql-users] Testing testing 123 - am I working again ?

2005-02-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Greetings Earthlings. I'm testing to see if I can once again receive mailings from this list. I've been off list for over a year and I'm trying again. Here's hoping Cheers, Norman. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database:

Re: [ql-users] Testing testing 123 - am I working again ?

2005-02-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Norman Dunbar wrote: Greetings Earthlings. I'm testing to see if I can once again receive mailings from this list. I've been off list for over a year and I'm trying again. Here's hoping Cheers, Norman. Yippee It finally works ! (I suppose it's considered 'strange' to reply to one's

Re: [ql-users] Testing testing 123 - am I working again ?

2005-02-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Phoebus Dokos wrote: Ffibys (Long story... ask Dilwyn) :-) Hmmm. Dilwyn has replied to this email - I can see it in the web archives (that was quick) but I don't have it in my email cleint yet. This means that this reply, is really going to confuse things. :o) Cheers, Norman. -- No virus found

Re: [ql-users] Testing testing 123 - am I working again ?

2005-02-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Norman Dunbar wrote: Phoebus Dokos wrote: Ffibys (Long story... ask Dilwyn) :-) Hmmm. Dilwyn has replied to this email - I can see it in the web archives (that was quick) but I don't have it in my email cleint yet. This means that this reply, is really going to confuse things. :o) Cheers, Norman

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