Help

2013-07-25 Thread tyler
I'm a bit new to python and I'm trying to create a simple program which adds words and definitions to a list, and then calls them forward when asked to. --- choice = 0 words = [] entry = 0 definition = 0 escape = 0 f

Re: Help

2013-07-26 Thread tyler
Thank you everybody who replied. The problem is fixed now and the program is running correctly. I will also try to use your suggestions in the future to make sure I don't make the same mistake. Thanks again :). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

fcntl() and packing structs with unions.

2006-09-04 Thread tyler
I'm having some trouble building a proper argument for an ioctl call. The operation I'm working with is TUNSETIFF _IOW('T', 202, int) which takes a struct ifreq as the arg. Could someone familiar with the struct (usually defined in net/if.h) tell me how the heck to encode it using the struct/array

python extension modules within packages not loading

2006-09-06 Thread tyler
ions directory before launching the interpreter and it then it works perfectly fine. Of course I shouldn't have to set my cwd to the site-extensions directory before using my extension module.. How do I fix this? What have I done wrong? Help very much appreciated, thanks. Tyler -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

wxPython and how to return text entry to main program?

2007-04-19 Thread Tyler
Hello All: I am currently working on a project to create an FEM model for school. I was thinking about using wxPython to gather the 12 input variables from the user, then, after pressing the "Run" button, the GUI would close, and the 12 input variables would then be available for the rest of the p

Re: wxPython and how to return text entry to main program?

2007-04-19 Thread Tyler
Hi Mike: I actually just picked up the wxPython in Action book the other day and my main class is a hack of his "realworld_print.py" program, with some added bells and whistles. I will try to post on the wxPython mailing list and let them have a go at it. Cheers, tyler

Re: wxPython and how to return text entry to main program?

2007-04-19 Thread Tyler
Thanks everyone for your help! Cheers, t. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

vtkStructuredGrid usage question in MayaVi

2007-04-23 Thread Tyler
hanks, Tyler -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: vtkStructuredGrid usage question in MayaVi

2007-04-23 Thread Tyler
lookup_table="default")) Tyler -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Reading Fortran Data

2007-01-21 Thread Tyler
Hello All: After trying to find an open source alternative to Matlab (or IDL), I am currently getting acquainted with Python and, in particular SciPy, NumPy, and Matplotlib. While I await the delivery of Travis Oliphant's NumPy manual, I have a quick question (hopefully) regarding how to read in F

Re: Reading Fortran Data

2007-01-21 Thread Tyler
Wow! Thanks for the help everyone. I will look into each of your comments in more detail in the morning, but I'll mention a few things I guess. The first is, the list-directed output was not necesarily my choice as some of the code is also used by my supervisor (and her colleagues) and I had to ke

f2py and Fortran90 gfortran_filename error

2007-02-27 Thread Tyler
Hello All: Since my last post I have attempted to use the f2py program which comes with numpy. I am able to create a .so file fine; however, when I import it into Python, I receive the following message: >>> import matsolve2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? ImportError

Re: f2py and Fortran90 gfortran_filename error

2007-02-28 Thread Tyler
On Feb 28, 12:40 am, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tyler wrote: > > Hello All: > > > Since my last post I have attempted to use the f2py program which > > comes with numpy. > > It's better to ask these questions on numpy-discussion, instead.

Parse each line by character location

2008-11-04 Thread Tyler
Hello All: I hope this is the right place to ask, but I am trying to come up with a way to parse each line of a file. Unfortunately, the file is neither comma, nor tab, nor space delimited. Rather, the character locations imply what field it is. For example: The first ten characters would be the

Re: Parse each line by character location

2008-11-04 Thread Tyler
Wow! Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Cheers, t. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Parse each line by character location

2008-11-05 Thread Tyler
>         So you have a classic (especially for COBOL and older FORTRAN) fixed > field record layout, no? Exactly, I believe COBOL. It is a daily reconciliation with an exchange and our system's orders. One of the problems of dealing with these old legacy systems that never seem to go away >

Specifying an API for a straeming parser

2009-12-04 Thread tyler
uot;iterloads" notion, for a tree-generator and I came up with nothing. Any suggestions on how to accomplish iterloads, or perhaps a suggestion for a more sensible syntax for incrementally parsing objects from the stream and passing them up into Python? Cheers, -R. Tyler Ballance -

Re: When to use mechanize and Windmill library during WebScraping ?

2009-12-11 Thread tyler
crapy too: http://scrapy.org Cheers, -R. Tyler Ballance -- Jabber: rty...@jabber.org GitHub: http://github.com/rtyler Twitter: http://twitter.com/agentdero Blog: http://unethicalblogger.com pgpBd1omxDfvT.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://mail.python

code review

2012-06-28 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello all: I was curious if someone wouldn't mind poking at some code. I have an idea for a game I want to write (and if this works I want to use this as a framework for another project), but I'd like to make sure I'm doing things correctly/there's not a better way to do things. My concern is I

Re: code review

2012-06-29 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 6/29/2012 2:14 AM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: The project page is at: http://code.google.com/p/pymud Any information is greatly appreciated. Do you mean No, I mean http://code.google.com/p/pymud -- Take care, Ty http://tds-solutions.net The aspen project: a barebones light-weight mud engin

Re: code review

2012-06-29 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 6/29/2012 1:31 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:58:15 -0700, alex23 wrote: On Jun 29, 12:57 pm, "Littlefield, Tyler" wrote: I was curious if someone wouldn't mind poking at some code. The project page is at:http://code.google.com/p/pymud Any in

Re: code review

2012-06-29 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
I am no expert but from what have picked up so far from x import is frowned upon in most cases also this section in main strikes me as a bit odd and convoluted w = world() serv = server(client) w.server = serv serv.world = w I think you are cross referencing classes & would be better to investi

Re: code review

2012-07-03 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 7/3/2012 10:55 PM, Simon Cropper wrote: Some questions to Tyler Littlefield, who started this thread. Q1 -- Did you get any constructive feedback on your code? I did get some, which I appreciated. someone mentioned using PyLint. From reading, I found it was really really pedantic, so I

modeling complex data with sqlalchemy

2012-08-25 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello all: I had a quick question. In my game, I have an is-a setup, where all objects contain data like an id for sqlalchemy, a name, a description and a list of contents. In order to add functionality to an object, you add components. So for example, a player would have the Player and Living c

Re: VPS For Python

2012-08-26 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 8/26/2012 1:41 AM, coldfire wrote: I will really appreciate if someone type the address of any of the following for use with python 1>Webhost 2>Shell Account 3>VPS I love Linode, it's amazing and you get decent resources for a decent price. If you sign up, I'd really appreciate it if you u

Re: modeling complex data with sqlalchemy

2012-08-26 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
? I could have: id, name, component_id and then SA could use the name as the table's name, and the id as the id of the component in the other table. How would I set this up with SA? Is it a good idea to go this route? On 8/25/2012 5:53 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:47

using uwsgi to get flask going

2012-09-19 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello all: This is my first shot with UWSGI and Python on Nginx, and I'm getting kind of confused. My uwsgi init script looks like: #!/bin/sh #/etc/init.d/uwsgi ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: uwsgi # Required-Start: $all # Required-Stop: $all # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 ### E

request for another code review

2012-09-22 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello all: I've gotten a bit farther into my python mud, and wanted to request another code review for style and the like. Mainly I'm concerned about player.py, world.py and components and other ways to handle what I'm trying to do. I didn't run pychecker just yet, so there are probably a ton o

Re: List Problem

2012-09-23 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/23/2012 3:44 PM, jimbo1qaz wrote: On Sunday, September 23, 2012 2:31:48 PM UTC-7, jimbo1qaz wrote: I have a nested list. Whenever I make a copy of the list, changes in one affect the other, even when I use list(orig) or even copy the sublists one by one. I have to manually copy each cell

keeping information about players around

2012-09-23 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
ytHello all: I've asked for a couple code reviews lately on a mud I've been working on, to kind of help me with ideas and a better design. I have yet another design question. In my mud, zones are basically objects that manage a collection of rooms; For example, a town would be it's own zone. I

Re: request for another code review

2012-09-24 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/23/2012 9:48 PM, alex23 wrote: On Sep 23, 6:14 am, "Littlefield, Tyler" wrote: I've gotten a bit farther into my python mud, and wanted to request another code review for style and the like. Are you familiar with codereview.stackexchange.com ? I actually wasn't, th

Re: request for another code review

2012-09-24 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/23/2012 9:48 PM, alex23 wrote: On Sep 23, 6:14 am, "Littlefield, Tyler" wrote: I've gotten a bit farther into my python mud, and wanted to request another code review for style and the like. Are you familiar with codereview.stackexchange.com ? I actually wasn't, th

Re: keeping information about players around

2012-09-24 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/24/2012 3:14 PM, Dwight Hutto wrote: I have yet another design question. In my mud, zones are basically objects that manage a collection of rooms; For example, a town would be it's own zone. It holds information like maxRooms, the list of rooms as well as some other data like player owners a

Re: For Counter Variable

2012-09-24 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/24/2012 6:25 PM, Dwight Hutto wrote: To highlight the vast gulf between what you think you are and what you actually produce. I produce working code, and if it works, then I don't just think...I know. Working code != good code. Just an observation. Also, I've noticed a vast differences be

Re: Who's laughing at my responses, and who's not?

2012-09-24 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/24/2012 10:43 PM, Dwight Hutto wrote: It sounds pretentious, but over the past several days, I've been slammed on every post almost. All because of an argument over me not posting a little context in a conversation, that seemed short and chatty. I was just wondering, if it's just them, or i

Re: new-style class or old-style class?

2012-09-25 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/25/2012 8:44 AM, Jayden wrote: In learning Python, I found there are two types of classes? Which one are widely used in new Python code? Is the new-style much better than old-style? Thanks!! Perhaps this is useful: http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html It's 3.3 I think. -- Ta

google api and oauth2

2012-09-25 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello all: I've been trying to figure out the oauth2client part of google's api, and I am really confused. It shows a flow, and even with the client flow, you need a redirect uri. This isn't important because I just want to get both an access and refresh token. Has anyone had any experience wi

Re: google api and oauth2

2012-09-25 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
ble. Still not to hard to get at, but it's not right there either. On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Littlefield, Tyler mailto:ty...@tysdomain.com>> wrote: Hello all: I've been trying to figure out the oauth2client part of google's api, and I am really confused

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/26/2012 2:11 AM, Dwight Hutto wrote: Well, we can all use american as a standard, or maybe you'd prefer to borrow my Latin for Idiots handbook. But then again google has a Universal Communicator going, so, does it matter? Never in the field of human discussion has there been so much reason

teventlet: a light-weight method for handling events

2012-09-27 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello all: This was my first PyPi project to create. I'd like some feedback as to whether or not something like this is even moderately useful, and what I could do better with it. The blog article that details some of this is: http://tds-solutions.net/blog/?p=137 And the PyPi page: http://pypi.

Re: test

2012-09-27 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/27/2012 3:36 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:28 PM, ForeverYoung wrote: Please ignore this post. I am testing to see if I can post successfully. Is there a reason you can't wait until you have something to say / ask to see if it works? You're spamming a large number

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/27/2012 9:05 PM, Jason Friedman wrote: Fair enough, but it's the M in the LAMP stack I object to. I'd much rather have P. +1 I know this isn't the list for database discussions, but I've never gotten a decent answer. I don't know much about either, so I'm kind of curious why postgresql

Re: Stop feeding the trolls (Was: which a is used?)

2012-09-27 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/27/2012 10:50 PM, Dwight Hutto wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Dwight Hutto wrote: [ lots of screed that demonstrates that Dwight hasn't grokked the hacker culture ] Don't hack, but could very well if necessary. You coul

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/27/2012 10:37 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Greg Donald wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Wayne Werner wrote: the only advice I can give on that is just learn to use both. I find there's little to lose in having experience with both. Most every good

Re: Python source code easy to hack?

2012-09-28 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/28/2012 9:19 AM, stu...@molden.no wrote: kl. 16:38:10 UTC+2 fredag 28. september 2012 skrev Jerry Hill følgende: This is true, but both java and .net are also relatively easy to decompile. Neither of them are very "obfuscated". In general though, why does it matter? Paranoia among man

design question:game skill system

2012-10-02 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello all: I'm looking at a skill/perk system, where the player builds up his char by using perk points to add abilities. Each perk is under a category, and generally costs go up as you increase the perk. So I'm trying to figure something out; first, I'd really like the cost calculation and all

Re: design question:game skill system

2012-10-03 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
I just wanted to say thanks to all the people that provided input, both aonand off list. It gave me a good direction to head in. Thanks again. On 10/2/2012 2:34 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: Hello all: I'm looking at a skill/perk system,

final question: logging to stdout and updating files

2012-10-03 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
pHello all: I've seen frameworks like django reload files when it detects that they've been changed; how hard would it be to make my engine reload files that it detects were changed? I'm also curious how hard it would be to build in some error recovery. For example right now when an exception

keeping twisted and wxPython in sync

2012-02-07 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello all: I have a couple questions. First, is there a way to know if connectTCP failed? I am writing a client with Twisted and would like to be able to notify the user if they couldn't connect. Second, I set the protocol on my factory after a connection has been made. So when I send my user a

Dynamic URL shortening

2011-06-14 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello all: I started working on a project with someone else quite recently, and he has a request. The project requires an URL shortener, and he would like it to be dynamic for both users and developers. Apparently some applications on the mac allow for the user to input some data on a URL shor

parsing packets

2011-07-10 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello all: I'm working on a server that will need to parse packets sent from a client, and construct it's own packets. The setup is something like this: the first two bytes is the type of the packet. So, lets say we have a packet set to connect. There are two types of connect packet: a auth pac

Looking for open-source Python projects to help out with

2011-09-06 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello: I've got a bit of time on my hands, so I'm curious what sorts of projects there are that people needs help with. I'd like to choose something that doesn't have a ton of red tape, but is stable, which is why I ask here instead of just Googling open source projects. My main interests lie

Re: How to structure packages

2011-09-07 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/7/2011 9:56 AM, bclark76 wrote: I'm learning python, and was playing with structuring packages. Basically I want to have a package called mypackage that defines a number of classes and functions. so I create: mypackage __init__.py myfunc.py MyClass.py my __init__.py is b

Re: Absolutely Insane Problem with Gmail

2011-03-05 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>ourEmail = ' myemaila...@gmail.com' >ourEmail = ' q...@xxx.com' You redefine this twice. You also don't define a variable down lower. ># to_address = ourEmail, > from_address = ourEmail, > to_address = emailText, I could be wrong, but emailText isn't defined. Perhaps a better var

Re: having both dynamic and static variables

2011-03-05 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
> It's worth having some syntax for constants. I'd suggest >using "let": >let PI = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751 in to many languages, let is just a setter. why not just const pye = 3.14... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How Translate This PHP

2011-03-06 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>How do I translate this PHP code? >if($ok){ >echo "returnValue=1"; >}else{ >echo "returnValue=0"; >} print("return value = "+str(ok)); -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What do you use with Python for GUI programming and why?

2011-03-10 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Is there a push to one toolkit or the other? TKInter from what I understand comes with Python already. There is also PYGui and WXPython; it really depends on what you want and what you like the best. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pyserial

2011-03-20 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>The windows msi install fails saying there is no python install found >in the registry. Is there a workaround for this? Can I edit the >registry and manually enter the information? I've came to realize that the 64-bit version of python does not work with 32-bit modules in terms of the installer

Re: Writing to a file

2011-03-25 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>with open(test_absname, 'w') as test: what's the difference in that and test = ...? I can see why you mentioned the os.path for cross-platform, but I don't understand why someone would use with over =. On 3/25/2011 7:11 PM, eryksun () wrote: On Friday, March 25, 2011 11:07:19 AM UTC-4, jy

using python to post data to a form

2011-04-03 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello: I have some data that needs to be fed through a html form to get validated and processed and the like. How can I use python to send data through that form, given a specific url? the form says it uses post, but I"m not really sure what the difference is. would it just be: http://mysite.c

Re: using python to post data to a form

2011-04-04 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>Sending POST data can be done as follows (I'm changing bar=foo to Thanks for this, and the links. On 4/4/2011 12:24 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: Hello: I have some data that needs to be fed through a html form to get valid

Re: Sending pictures using sockets

2011-04-06 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 4/6/2011 4:58 PM, craf wrote: >Hello. > >I'm testing the sockets in Python and I've seen the way in which >works to send string. My question is if anyone knows where >can find some information on how to send pictures through >Sockets. I use Python 2.7 and have read the information regarding >S

Re: fighting game made with python

2011-04-07 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>yep, if somebody moves one more thing. there's going to be a fight... bitch in your own thread, please? We've already heard you complain plenty, no need to take it to other threads too. On 4/7/2011 9:10 AM, harrismh777 wrote: neil harper wrote: is there any fighting games(street fighter,

Re: fighting game made with python

2011-04-07 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>Python would b ea bad choice for most of any fighting game, but >could see use as a configuration or internal scripting engine. Python's objects are rather large, which sort of makes for some slow work. Maybe a configuration setup, but Lua and Angelscript are better suited to high-end games whe

Re: Egos, heartlessness, and limitations

2011-04-13 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
RR: I do have to ask, before I feed the troll, where the hell is your spellchecker? And you were talking about people being lazy? The irony is killing me. Now, you've been told you can fork Idol if you so choose, and you've been told to write up information on how you want to replace TKInter

Re: Egos, heartlessness, and limitations

2011-04-13 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>We all have jobs James, and we still find the time to help others out Whose we? Can you point me to a thread within the last 6 months where you actually -helped- someone? >I think he has evolved into a complete jerk (if you ask me) 1) We didn't ask you. 2) If he's been under this rock of his an

Re: Egos, heartlessness, and limitations

2011-04-15 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>And who pissed in Guido's punch bowl anyway? Why is he such an elitist >now? Why can he not come over once and a while and rub shoulders with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMEe7JqBgvg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: De-tupleizing a list

2011-04-25 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>What is the most Pythonic way to loop through the list returning a >list like this?: here's how I'd do it: >>> i [(1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), (3, 'c')] >>> for item in i: ... a+=list(item) ... ... >>> a [1, 'a', 2, 'b', 3, 'c'] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

obviscating python code for distribution

2011-05-15 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello all: I have been considering writing a couple of programs in Python, but I don't want to distribute the code along with them. So I'm curious of a couple things. First, does there exist a cross-platform library for playing audio files, whose license I would not be violating if I do this?

Re: obviscating python code for distribution

2011-05-15 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
I'm putting lots of work into this. I would rather not have some script kiddy dig through it, yank out chunks and do whatever he wants. I just want to distribute the program as-is, not distribute it and leave it open to being hacked. On 5/15/2011 9:29 PM, Ben Finney wrote: "Littlefi

Re: obviscating python code for distribution

2011-05-15 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello: Thanks all for your information and ideas. I like the idea of open source; I have a fairly large (or large, by my standards anyway) project that I am working on that is open source. Here's kind of what I want to prevent. I want to write a multi-player online game; everyone will essentu

Re: obviscating python code for distribution

2011-05-15 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>Write your "game" for the "web". >Write is as a SaaS (Software as a Service) - even if it's free and open source. I understood you loud and clear. And that makes a lot of assumptions on my game and the design. I don't really care to host this over the web. I want a centralized server that woul

Re: obviscating python code for distribution

2011-05-15 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello: I wanted to make the client in python, and the server possibly, though I'm not really sure on that. I was not worried about the code for the server being stolen, as much as I was worried about people tinkering with the client code for added advantages. Most of the logic can be handled b

Re: obviscating python code for distribution

2011-05-16 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>Funny you should mention this "now" I don't go around parading the info, until I have to. >Yes I agree Flash is not very accessible (never has been). >Web Standards web apps and such however are quite >accessible! If I was making a browser-based game, yes. As I'm not though... Anyway, thanks to

Re: FW: help please

2011-05-17 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Not to be pedantic or anything, and I may not be able to help regardless, but it looks like your space key is fixed, and I don't really care to pick through and try to play hangman with your message. On 5/17/2011 3:43 AM, hamed azarkeshb wrote: From: hamed3...@hotmail.com To: webmas...@python

Re: FW: help please

2011-05-17 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>I can't remember exactly in which release 'perfect English skills' were >added to Python runtime requirements, could you please refresh my memory? the one that requires people use the space key and check over their messages before they hit the enter key. Not so bad a request, I don't think. I a

Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.2.1 rc 1

2011-05-17 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>For an extensive list of changes and features in the 3.2 line, see >http://docs.python.org/3.2/whatsnew/3.2.html Might I presume that clicking the link would show the required changes? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: obviscating python code for distribution

2011-05-18 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
>might be secure as long as attackers cannot, say: You forgot UFOs. Anyway, again, thanks to everyone for the advice, this is good reading. Incidentally, I don't know to much about security. I know about rate limiting and dos attacks, as well as some others, but I think there's a lot more that

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Tim Tyler
Alan Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:14:45 GMT, Roedy Green > >I try to explain Java each day both on my website on the plaintext > >only newsgroups. It is so much easier to get my point across in HTML. > > > >Program listings are much more readable on my websi

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-09 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:19:29 +, Roedy Green wrote: > > Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>WHat the hell has that got to do with HTML email? Sending photos > >>is an example of what attachments are for. > > >

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-09 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > The technial problems have been solved for over a decade. NeXT shipped > systems that used text/richtext, which has none of the problems that > HTML has. The problems are *social* - you've got to arrange for > people t

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-09 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Read my essay. > > http://mindprod.com/projects.html/mailreadernewsreader.html > > > > I talk around those problems. > > Actually, you present a design that forces a solution

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-09 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > Read my essay. > http://mindprod.com/projects.html/mailreadernewsreader.html FYI, this bit: ``Like ICQ, someone cannot send you mail without your prior permission. They can't send you mail because they don't have

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-09 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > Roedy Green wrote: > > Just how long do you want to stall evolution? Do you imagine people > > 200 years from now will be still be using pure ASCII text unable to > > find a solution to JavaScript viruses (turn off JS

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-09 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:56:50 -0400, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >>Show us *examples*! Do you create a style sheet for every site you > >>visit that overrides there

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-09 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:41:38 -0400, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>If you've got a browser with a better solution, what's the browser, > >>and what's the solution?

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-12 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > Tim Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > >> Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > &

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-14 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > Tim Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > >> The technial problems have been solved for over a decade.

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-16 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > Uh - when microsoft produced dos 1.0, or whatever it was, I was sitting > at my Sun 360 workstation (with 4M of RAM, later upgraded to 8M), > running SunOS 3.8 or thereabouts. > > And a mean game of tetris it pla

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-16 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > I'm aware of talk that Dell is selling Linux PCs at Walmart for less than > the same hardware plus Windows. Talk is cheap -- I'm not aware of anyone > who has actually seen these Linux PCs. I'd love to know either

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-17 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Richard Gration <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:51:16 +0000, Tim Tyler wrote: > > Acorn computers. Manufacturers of the best computer I ever owned. > > I'm willing to bet that was an Arc ... ? I never used on

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-17 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Jeroen Wenting wrote or quoted: > "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > "Jeroen Wenting" writes: [Microsoft] > >> no, they got their by clever marketing [snip] > > > > What you call "clever marketing" the DOJ calls "monopolistic > > practices". The

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-17 Thread Tim Tyler
Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: [Microsoft] > Part of their behavior really escape me. The whole thing about browser > wars confuses me. Web browsers represent a zero billion dollar a year > market. Why would you risk anything to own it? Power. Minshare. Controlling the pla

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-17 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > MS has held BACK computer evolution by tying their OS so heavily to > the Pentium architecture. The chip architecture has nowhere near > enough registers. MS refused to believe the Internet was more than a > passing f

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-18 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > Tim Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Are there any examples of HTML email causing security problems - outside > > of Microsoft's software? > > There was a pr

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-18 Thread Tim Tyler
In comp.lang.java.programmer Ross Bamford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > Roedy, I would just _love_ to see the response from the industry when you > tell them they should dump their whole mail infrastructure, and switch > over to a whole new system (new protocols, new security holes, n

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-18 Thread Tim Tyler
Gordon Burditt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > Before worrying about the possible bugs in the implementations, > worry about security issues present in the *DESIGN*. Email ought > to be usable to carry out a conversation *SAFELY* with some person out > to get you. Thus features like this

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-22 Thread Tim Tyler
Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > Wrong. The only obligation Microsoft has is to their shareholders. > That obligation has nothing to do with computing - it's to make a > profit. It's MS's habit of doing things in pursuit of profit that, > while short of force, are borderline fraud

3d Transformation

2005-11-29 Thread Tyler Eaves
Got a 3d algorithmns question. Algorithmn will be implemented in python, so a library would be great if it works on windows. Basically my function would be defined as such. Problem is one of coordinate transformation. Give a 3d vector, which reprents the +z axis in the source coordinate syst

looking for programmer

2005-03-23 Thread Peter Tyler
Hi There, I'm looking for someone to write some wx/python code on a small job, but want to avoid a spam invasion. I was thinking of setting up a temp yahoo account for people to respond to. Is this the right way of going about this, or is there somewhere else I should be looking? Thanks

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