Re: regular expression negate a word (not character)

2008-01-26 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Summercool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>], who wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > so for example, it will grep for > > winter tire > tire > retire > tired > > but will not grep for > > snow tire > snow tire > some snowtires This does n

Re: Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

2007-07-11 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Martin Gregorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>], who wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ilya Zakharevich wrote: > > My point is that attributing something to SH due to it appearing in > > ABHoT is like attributing it to you sin

Re: Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

2007-07-11 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Martin Gregorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>], who wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Its in "A Short History of Time". Sorry I can't quote chapter or page, > >> but a friend borrowed my copy and lent me Dawkins "Climbing Mount > >> Improbable" befo

Re: Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

2007-07-10 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Martin Gregorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>], who wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> If Stephen Hawking is right, the shape of the universe > >> is such that there isn't any time "before" the big bang > >> at all. It's like asking what's north of the

Re: Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

2007-07-10 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>], who wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ilya Zakharevich wrote: > > In pedantic mode: negative timestamps make sense with Big Bang as the > > epoch as well. (AFAIU, the current way of thinki

Re: Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

2007-07-05 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to James Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>], who wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 5 Jul, 02:53, greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > James Harris wrote: > > > With that the time would range to +/- 9000 > > > quintillion years (18 digits) > > > > Use t