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(...) I hate replying to myself, but I realize that I pasted the wrong answer into my initial response now, and totally missed the boat on my response to David. Ooops. :) This should do it: $string =~ s/(\t\t+| +|\r\r+|\n\n+|\f\f+)...&,1,1)/eg; Yes, (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I haven't read "Cryptonomicon", so I don't know what type of book it is. One book I loved though, was "Jurassic Park". It's better than the movie, it's bigger, and has a different ending. --Tobias (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Um, well, I dunno if "GifBuilder" for Mac is a commercial program... But since I haven't done it myself, then I guess it's OK. BTW, how is Unisys going to track me down anyway? --Tobias (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Ahh, but what happens if you have a carriage return followed by a space? The second method eliminates the space and leaves the carriage return, which isn't what he asked for. He wanted a way to replace multiple instances of similar whitespace (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't think that's safe. Unisys' behavior on this point has been erratic. (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: GIF licensing
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Hello, one additionally point: IMHO is the use of the GIF algorithms in non-commercial programs for free. -- Greetings, Carsten Schmitz "Kevin Loch" <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:G35CE8.Jwx@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Strip surplus white space with Perl
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(...) First, if you want to trim any leading and trailing whitespace, this'll do it: $foo =~ s/^\s+//; $foo =~ s/\s+$//; Then, if you need to preserve the first whitespace character and throw out the rest: $foo =~ s/(\s)\s+/$1/g; Or, if spaces (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Goofy non-Lego request
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Hi You could try: www.192.com - this is like directory enquiries (or if you can get to the UK operator, dial 192 for the phone directory enquiries. www.eyp.co.uk - if you know the company name Mike (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.uk.en, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Actually, I think a simpler way is: $string =~ s/(\s)\s+/$1/g; The 'g' option at the end of the regexp will actually just do the replace everywhere in the string that it can, with no real need to loop... Ain't TMTOWTDI great? :) DaveE (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) What about something like while ($string =~ s/(\s\s+)/substr($&,1,1)/e) {} ? That should replace all whitespace ([ \t\n\r\f]) that's repeated one or more times (that's the first part of the expression) with the first character matching in that (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Strip surplus white space with Perl
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Hi, I'm looking into a quick and simple way to strip off all surplus white space from a string with Perl. If two consecutive characters are <SPACE> and <RET>, for example, it doesn't matter to me which one is preserved and which one is chopped off. (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, there's always the other Neal Stephenson stuff, if you haven't read it. And especially if you like Cryptonomicon, I highly recommend the books he's written with his uncle under the pen name "Stephen Bury". ("Cobweb" and "Interface"). (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi, I've recently read Neal Stephenson's novel "Cryptonomicon", which I found very entertaining. Are there anybody can think of any other books that I may enjoy? I'm not really into science fiction or fantasy. Fredrik (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you want to find a phone number for a person/business, try (URL) the UK the opposite search (numbers -> addresses) is not available to the general public. Chris (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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As part of a project I've undertaken at my job, I have to track down one of our clients in London. I'm in Pennsylvania; if the client were US-domestic, I'd know how to do Net phonesearches or even how to dial information. Is there a basic "directory (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.uk.en, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: GIF licensing
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(...) Unisys holds a patent on the LZW compression algorythm. Common GIF implementations use this. There are implementations (like libungif) that use no compression and can be used freely. If you use software that creates a GIF, and uses LZW (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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I've heard about the GIF licensing fees and all that, but I've never been told the answers to my questions, so I hope you can help me. Actually, there's only one question: Am I breaking the law when I make GIF images? --Tobias (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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"Mike Stanley" <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote in message news:G32Hp1.191@lugnet.com... (...) Yep. I think the problem is that Microsoft software is (generally) easy to install, so people who aren't really qualified end up doing installs of inportant (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I normally shy away from one or two day seminar things but someone just handed me a flyer on a 2-day seminar/class on Windows NT security and I'm wondering if anyone here has ever had any experience with classes or seminars from this company? Its (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Cable Modem, Day 1: Elation and Nausea
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(...) NO (...) I don't know if this applies to your particular cable modem setup but watch out for this one. (URL) your personal firewall set to pass the GRE packets (IP protocol type 47) used by PPTP? You also need to open tcp port 1723 for the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Cracking up.. replying to my own replies to my own messages.. Upgraded VPC to 3.0, which under VPN no longer uses the W95's manually set IP address, so there's no routing issue... worse, my router registers absolutely NO packets returning from the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Cable Modem, Day 1: Elation and Nausea
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Cracking up.. replying to my own messages.. VPN is installed, but there are several routing issues where it doesn't get past my personal firewall, or they do but reply packets can't be routed back at W95. Ugh. (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ack, you got me started again... CURSE MICROSOFT! So, today I get approval for the VPN at work. The software says it only works with W98. I at least have W95 and they reassure me I'm ok. Well... I get the VPN installer. It tells me I need (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) At least here with AT&T cable you're not allowed to. They supposedly portscan your systems to make sure. I know many people who have a tunnel/VPN set up to and from work to get around this, though... Chris (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Cable Modem, Day 1: Elation and Nausea
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(...) [snip] (...) And what if I just want to be able to access my home machine remotely? To do some direct file transfer, or whatever. Steve (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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off-topic.geek replying to my own message... Uh. There was a little "Help" link on the www.rr.com page. That helped. Got the darn smtp address. Now I can finally mail my "Auczilla" bids, the true purpose of having a cable modem. (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah. The scuttlebutt is that they (RoadRunner) consider a personal firewall to be a violation of their Terms Of Use--if "they" understand the issue beyond being scared of it. LinkSys personal routers are *right out*. This is all rumor, (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) We've had the same problems here in Champaign-Urbana (Illinois) with DSL delivery. McLeod put in two fiber rings around the twin cities over a year ago, but still haven't made *DSL available to the public despite promises to have it ready by (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Wow. After 6 months of DSL he** (Covad/Bell Atlantic) that failed to deliver even a copper wire, I got a sales call from Road Runner, and was up and running (ha ha) on a cable modem within 3 business days. AMAZINGLY, Covad's stock crashed by 55% (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I wasn't getting excited about it. I was bemoaning the fact that Netscape doesn't give you the choice as to whether to use strict or relaxed threads. It certainly can be more pleasant reading a thread which is broken by a broken newsreader (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:39EAF46F.3B54@m...ing.com... (...) Shouldn't really make a difference. I have a user here with both OE and Outlook 98 and they both stay out of each other's way. If you are talking about (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Don't get too excited about this. Forte (Free) Agent does the same thing. I suspect it's a common custom on newsreaders. I think the longest-running thread on LUGNET has the subject "test". On lugnet.off-topic.test, of course. Steve (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Helllllllppppp!
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Hmmm, I was able to log in but I havn't gotten any new mail since friday, which is highly unlikely. I just sent my self 2 test messages, an out going, and an incoming, to see if it is working.... I already got the one I sent to my yahoo account. But (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The problem is that Outlook 98 and Outlook Express seem to use some joint configuration wrto e-mail. The result is that I have been unable to configure OE to send the e-mail itself. I think the problem may be that both applications are MAPI. (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:39EA3952.70C134...ing.com... (...) Outlook Express forces you to use Outlook 98 for sending email? Something weird in your config then, as OE is a full email and newsreader program and (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Just noticed a way in which Netscape Communicator 4.75 is screwed up. It determines threads solely by subject (unless I'm missing a configuration option, I remember WinVN had several options for how to handle threading which gave you a choice as to (...) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Happy Keyboard
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I've done that, too, except I just used the 1x1 cylinder. Alan (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Noncompliant software (was: Re: Incorrect group posting)
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(...) Firewalled, I think...And when I tried using Netscape to use this SMTP server, I couldn't eeven sendd out... (...) Yeep, but not outside our collection of servers for telnet, other than that, I don't think so. (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Happy Keyboard
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The keyboard of my laptop computer just begged to be "Legofied" See the end result at (URL) the full progression at (URL) well, Andreas Stabno (URL) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek) !
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(...) Are you able to change your SMTP server, or are you forced by a firewall to use that one? Also, are you able to use telnet or ssh? (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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