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Re: TCG digest 424

Posted by Brent Ducharme on 1999-03-16

---tcg@xxxx.xx.xx wrote:
>
> Contents:
> Re: Sorting Hashes in Perl (Agus Supriadhie <agus@xxxx.xxx.xx>)
> Re: TCG digest 423 ("William Karabelas" <billyk@xxxxx.xxx>)
> Happy 99 Worm  (Amino-X <cc@ncssa.net>)
> digest quoting, subject line (Peter Palfrader
<ppalfrad@xxxx.xxx.xx.xx>)
> subject lines, digest quoting (Peter Palfrader
<ppalfrad@xxxx.xxx.xx.xx>)
> Re: Sorting Hashes in Perl (Frank Hale <frankhale@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx>)
> Re: TCG digest 423 (Frank Hale <frankhale@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx>)
> Re: Bitmap Programming - working code ("Ali Bhai"
<mashah@xxxxx.xxx.xx>)
> RE: TCG digest 421 ("Stier, Robert" <Robert.Stier@xxxxxx.xxx>)
> RE: TCG digest 419 ("Stier, Robert" <Robert.Stier@xxxxxx.xxx>)
> RE: TCG digest 419 ("Adam Debus" <tauvix@xxxxx.xx.xxx>)
> Free Software (was TCG digest 419) (Frank Hale
<frankhale@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx>)
> Re: TCG digest 423 (Andrew James Mann <rhad@xxx.xxx.xxx>)
> VB Event Question (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Iv=E1n_Vega_Rivera?=
<hemac@xxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xx>)
> Re: TCG digest 423 (Frank Hale <frankhale@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx>)
> determining the size of a scalar in Perl (Frank Hale
<frankhale@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx>)
> RE: Linux stuff (Matthew Pratt <mattpratt@xxxxx.xxx>)
> OS WAR III (Weasel <palfrader@xxxxxxx.xxx>)
> Re: flamage (Matthew Pratt <mattpratt@xxxxx.xxx>)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:12:35 +0700
> From: Agus Supriadhie <agus@xxxx.xxx.xx>
> Subject: Re: Sorting Hashes in Perl
> 
Sebrin Worte:
    I would like to know if i can biuld a mud or any other Mu* on telnet?
Thanks,
Sebrin Carom



> Frank Hale wrote:
> > I have a hash that I insert data in based on a index. The index is
just
> > a number incremented by 1 each time a new element is added. Does
anyone
> > know how to sort a hash based on an index? Besides using the
Tie::IxHash
> > module?
> > 
> > Reason is that my webhost doesn't have the Tie::IxHash module
loaded on
> > there servers. Anyway it works great with that module, I but can't
use
> > it.
> 
> Ever try sort() function ?
> Sorry one liner...
> 
> -= Agus =-
> Http://bosen.cjb.net
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:48:07 -0500
> From: "William Karabelas" <billyk@xxxxx.xxx>
> Subject: Re: TCG digest 423
> 
> nicely put...................that's what Bill Gates has been aiming
to do
> for almost 30 years.....Be able to put a computer in every home and
allow
> any person to use one.....not just geeks like myself.....
> 
> 
> 
> ----------
> > From: tcg@xxxx.xx.xx
> > To: billyk@xxxxx.xxx
> > Subject: TCG digest 423
> > Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 9:01 PM
> > 
> > Contents:
> > Re: TCG digest 422 (Jimi345@xxx.xxx)
> > Re: Computer users (Matthew Pratt <mattpratt@xxxxx.xxx>)
> > 
> >
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> > 
> > Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 00:22:37 EST
> > From: Jimi345@xxx.xxx
> > Subject: Re: TCG digest 422
> > 
> >     I'm a newcomer to this whole guild thing, but i noticed a lot of
> arguments of
> > Linux and Unix, vs. Microsoft.  What the programmer tends to
forget about
> > computers and software, is that it's designed for people like my
mother,
> who
> > know nothing, (I mean nothing) about computers.  My mom has
trouble using
> > Microsoft Word 97, because she can't get things like the cursor to
go
> where
> > she wants.  This is an example of what normal, and i use that term
> loosely,
> > people want to do with computers.  Maybe that's an extreme
example, but
> you
> > get the point.  All that GUI stuff makes a computer look
entertaining and
> > easy.  You get me?
> > 
> > Slickj
> > 
> > ------------------------------
> > 
> > Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 02:30:05 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Matthew Pratt <mattpratt@xxxxx.xxx>
> > Subject: Re: Computer users
> > 
> > 
> > ---Jimi345@xxx.xxx wrote:
> > >
> > >   I'm a newcomer to this whole guild thing, but i 
> > 
> > Since your new, I will point out that it is good practice to change
> > the subject of your reply from the digest number to something
related
> > to your post. No big deal tho.
> > 
> > noticed a lot of arguments of
> > > Linux and Unix, vs. Microsoft.  What the programmer tends to
forget
> > about
> > > computers and software, is that it's designed for people like my
> > mother, who
> > > know nothing, (I mean nothing) about computers.  My mom has
trouble
> > using
> > > Microsoft Word 97, because she can't get things like the cursor to
> > go where
> > > she wants.  This is an example of what normal, and i use that term
> > loosely,
> > > people want to do with computers.  Maybe that's an extreme
example,
> > but you
> > > get the point.  All that GUI stuff makes a computer look
> > entertaining and
> > > easy.  You get me?
> > 
> > Thats all well and good, but keep in mind that this place is more
for
> > the power user (or aspiring power user), not the normal Joe Sixpack.
> > Here we _want_ to know how things work, and dont want to be
restriced
> > to just pointing and clicking.
> > 
> > Now if we were being employed to write user friendly software it
would
> > be a different story, but we are here to explore the limits of our
> > computers and understand the underlying technology, mainly for
> > personal interest (homework not included). And the best way to do
this
> > in my personal opinion is to have the source code, and so linux fits
> > the bill perfectly (no pun intented).
> > 
> > Perhaps if you wanted entertainment you should have bought a
Nintendo
> > or Playstation, or if thats not your style, you could surf right on
> > out and back over to yahoo, where you can point 'n' click your
little
> > heart out. In the mean time, those of us who are serious will be
> > playing around with our 'nix boxes and our command lines and
creating
> > software that we can use (and not worrying about petty little "This
> > program has performed an illegal operation!" dialog boxes).
> > 
> > Now after all that ranting its ironic that I have been working on a
> > little app for myself called GTKRemotePPPLoad that has a GUI. Those
> > intersted can find it on my home page (screen shot there too ;-):
> > 
> > http://members.xoom.com/mattpratt/
> > 
> > 
> > ==
> > Matty 
> > 
> > email - mattpratt@xxxxx.xxx
> > "Learn the console, become 1 with it, it is 0."
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> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------
> > > > ************************
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:25:13 -0600
> From: Amino-X <cc@ncssa.net>
> Subject: Happy 99 Worm 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
>      Please don't read this as an "Urgent Virus Warning", that is
> certainly not my intent.  I mention this here simply because the
Happy99
> E-mail worm got loose in our clubs list-server yesterday, and resulted
> in the poor individual responsible being flamed.
> 
>      Please understand that this is not a virus, it's a fairly
harmless
> (albeit annoying) little "worm" that does nothing more than replicate
> and attach it's-self to any E-mail you send out.  It cannot infect
your
> system unless it is executed, and simply deleting the E-mail before it
> is run is sufficient to kill it before hand.
> 
>      The biggest problem with this worm is that the sender usually
> doesn't know he/she has it on his/her system until someone tells
them "I
> got this from you".   Current "Virus Scanners" cannot yet detect it,
so
> when scanned it shows up as a clean program.
> 
>      Again, I only mention this here because it has been through our
> listserver, and if it should appear here, let you know in advance what
> to look for.
> 
>      If you would like more information on the Happy New Year 99
> computer worm, please visit 
http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/ska.htm
> .
> 
>      If you have been infected by the Happy 99 computer worm and would
> like instructions on how to remove it, please visit
>  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/3652/SKA.HTM .
> 
> Thank You.
> 
> 
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