Re: [plug] [OT] $100 laptop project (OLPC) - Has the Philippines signed up yet?

2007-01-07 Thread Jerome Gotangco
On 1/8/07, Junn Flores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does our government even care about signing up with this? Or has it? Or is it just too expensive for us? But then again, I think the payment could even be done in a span of years. Rwanda (Africa) even signed up recently. Shocking isn't it? Pard

[plug] [OT] $100 laptop project (OLPC) - Has the Philippines signed up yet?

2007-01-07 Thread Junn Flores
OLPC Project - What has already happened? http://laptop.org/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6224183.stm Does our government even care about signing up with this? Or has it? Or is it just too expensive for us? But then again, I think the payment could even be done in a span of years.

Re: [plug] persistent queue

2007-01-07 Thread Orlando Andico
Obet, MySQL will fall apart when you do that. In my former employer we were using MySQL as a queue for SMS messages, and there would be weird interactions and table lockups. Granted our application message traffic was huge, but it's something you have to be aware of. If you want to use a databas

[plug] persistent queue

2007-01-07 Thread Roberto Verzola
What are the ways of implementing a persistent queue in python? (up to say, a million items queued...). I am currently implementing it as a MySQL table (overkill ba?). Since, I can easily work with sql tables from python, it was easy enough to implement. The methods I need are: queue.join()

Re: [plug] Question for the group...

2007-01-07 Thread Orlando Andico
that's not pretty. ever wonder how a nose could get brown from kissing ass? On 1/6/07, John Peter Loh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Brown nosing" is the pretty version On 1/6/07, JM Ibanez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > renlux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think, another thing to do is to m

Re: [plug] help: SMS service

2007-01-07 Thread Orlando Andico
On 1/6/07, Roger Filomeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: limited. You can only send up to 3 times on the same number until chikka will require the reciever to reply back (with charge). However you can automate the registration of new user to to chikka that you can use again to send more text. Maybe i

Re: [plug] Question for the group...

2007-01-07 Thread Rage Callao
On 1/6/07, JM Ibanez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: renlux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think, another thing to do is to make sipsip (what's this in > english) to the government and politicians like what Microsoft and > others have been doing. The closest idiomatic expressions are "kissing ass"

Re: [plug] mysql question

2007-01-07 Thread rexonf
On 1/7/07, Roberto Verzola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2007 6:04 am, Roberto Verzola wrote: > > Now that is wierd I mean the nearly equal running time. I took out all the print statements (but with the mysql statement still wrapped in python) and got the results below:

Re: [plug] mysql question

2007-01-07 Thread Roberto Verzola
> Save result into a new (to be created) table: > create table tablename as select (your select statement, unmodified). Thanks, Johann. After searching, I got a solution in two lines: create table table1 like table2 insert table1 select Yours does it in just one line.