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 | If the backslash is used to start escape sequences in Lisp, the compiler will remove it and replace it with whatever \u (for example) represents (which may be nothing). Try escaping each backslash with a backslash i.e. [code=lisp] (load "c:\\users\\documents\\john\\schoolwork\\cs\\3600\\project3.lisp") [/code] If this fixes the problem it is likely this … |
 | [QUOTE=aniseed;303162] 5. Watching cartoons: It is always good to laugh and keep away from depression. It's only when you start deriving hidden meanings from cartoons, could you be certain of need of external assistance. [/QUOTE] Ah, I see you have seen the dark side as well. I started thinking the … |
 | Hello everyone. A few months ago I got a cheap new mobile phone with video recording. I'd just heard about Youtube at the time. So, the obvious came to mind (video myself playing a tune on the guitar and post it :p ). What resulted from this became an object … |
 | Hi everyone. My apologies if this has already been said but....having come to this thread late I'm too lazy to read all 52 pages. I have read enough to get the gist of it, honest :) . So, what you believe does not affect what the truth is (unless you …  |
| | Hi people. The idea of this game is to make people guess the answers to rather obscure questions, like.... Which of these two has the larger data capacity? (a) My CD collection (b) The hard disk on my laptop Steven.  |
| | Hi. In my house we have an IPv6 capable router, for which the owner of has kindly given me the password for the settings page. It is a Linksys DD-WRT wireless device with Linux installed. When you enable IPv6 support it gives you the option to enter a Radvd configuration … |
| | Hi. I was at work in my call centre today when a colleage asked me to have a look at a customer issue. We support BT broadband customers, but we're not BT (they just pay us to do it). So, this guy is saying he's getting slow web page loading … |
 | Read it and....errr....:cry: (weep)....is that what you American guys say somtimes? Steven.  |
| | Re: what is wsiwyg WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get. A WYSIWIG web page editor is an application where you can build a web page a bit like you would build a page on a word processor or desktop publishing app. You place the various items (i.e. text, links, images) … |
| | Of course, you could try to build a game that doesn't use any high - res graphics. Ever heard of ZZT? That's what I'd do if I wanted to build a game for a hobby. Why? Because I'm too lazy to even try to learn all that 3D programming bumf … |
| | It must be possible to get a dropdown menu by right clicking the install file. This is most likely the way to solve the problem. Steven. |
| | Hi. I've got this issue on my Vista laptop that's been there since I got the thing about six months ago. The system clock falls behind the actual time at a silly rate, which can be up to several minutes in a session but varies sporadically. Then every so often …  |
| | Hi. I've got a Packard Bell laptop that is specified as having 1 GB of RAM. However, looking in the Windows system information and the BIOS both show it as having 896 MB. Does anyone know how I would go about determining whether the missing RAM is being used for … |
| | Hi guys and girls. Has anyone else heard the new Radiohead album In Rainbows? The gimmick is, you can choose what yoy want to pay for it on their website. Steven.  |
| | Re: Hi everyone Hello. Hopefully your MP3 player will have come with a USB lead and a CD with driver software on it. Assuming you're using Windows, insert the driver CD and install the driver on it for the connection. Then plug in the player and you should get a "New hardware found" … |
 | It's more a case of where we'll draw the line. I'd just refuse to give a sample if it came to that. Same with identity cards or having to tell the government the moment I move house. In any case, the real solution in the UK is not having a …  |
| | Hello. I started learning Perl some time in 2006 and found it very suitable for the development of a web based application. I was impressed by the way you can get so much done in just a few lines of code. To be fair, I haven't done much work with … |
| | Hi people. Just thought I would warn about a little issue I had with my Vista system last night. I tried to install [URL="http://www.colinux.org"]colinux[/URL] and the system crashed to a blue screen. When I tried to start it again normally it suffered some kind of kernel mode exception, did a … |
 | Re: call centers!!! Firstly, I work on a BT Business technical desk in Bristol. I must say Serunsun, there is nothing more satisfying than getting a residential customer come through to you and politely transfering them through to India, then having a little chuckle about it :) . Also, I think corporations are … |
| | Radiohead - "OK Computer" Sigur Ros - "Takk" Flaming Lips - "1983 - 1988 collection" Nirvana - "In Utero" Mars Volta - "Deloused in the Comatorium" Just some that I like. I don't tend to rank music in terms of "greatness" usually. Steven. |
| | Hello and welcome to the community. Having briefly checked out your forum it seems that you have to register to view the content. If new visitors can't see what is being discussed they won't be enticed to get involved. You need to allow guests (i.e. anonymous users) to view the …  |
| | You could use the wget Unix utility in combination with Perl to do this. Even if you don't have a Windows port of it you could use this: [url]http://pages.interlog.com/~tcharron/wgetwin.html[/url]. Just call it with system and it will put the content of a web page in a file on your machine. … |
| | Hi. I wrote a simple test web server script in Perl a few months ago. Did I read any HTTP specification documents before starting to find out what I'd need to parse? Hell no, I just listened on port 80 and reverse engineered the protocol from there :) ! Well, … |
| | Re: Windows vs Mac I think there is another option to consider here. Perhaps it would benefit some people to ditch the OS concept and run software on the "bare metal". You'd have to write the stuff first of course, but to someone as masochistic as me that sounds like a nice idea :) … |
| | Hi everyone. Could anyone tell me how I can enable non - admin users to run programs installed by the admin user? I installed Opera 9.1 as an admin, but I'm not sure how to allow other users to access it. Any advice appriciated. Steven. |
 | May I take this opportunity to point out a few other treats from "over the pond" to our American members? OK, great.... 1. Phoenix Nights: It's difficult to make Oldham famous, but Peter Kay managed it. 2. Peep Show: It's like a first person shooter, but with no guns and … |
 | Surely you're not the oldest member at the moment, but perhaps you will be soon. I mean when Daniweb becomes a teenage hangout zone like Myspace and all the IT pros who know what they're talking about drop it like a hot potato :p . Then Dani will be left … |
| | Re: Science question In fact, what you just said makes them seem pretty related. State changes in materials usually do occur as a result in temperature change and it is usually a progressive transition that can occur over a range of temperatures. Steven. |
 | Re: Physics Game The strength of a classical gravitational field is measured in N kg ^ -1 (Newtons per kilogram). On the surface of the earth this is measured to be about 9.8 N kg ^ -1. Apologies if this has already been said in the thread, but I'm in an internet cafe … |
| | [QUOTE=cscgal;298382]I agree with Ancient Dragon. Where would we be without Earth? No, seriously, where would we be? Would we be on Mars? Would we be Martians instead of Earthlings?[/QUOTE] None of us would have been born, so we would be nowhere. Which raises an interesting question [code] Does it feel …  |
| | If the IP addresses of the sites are dynamic (which sounds a bit freaky :!: ) but their names stay the same, you could use URL referer blocking. This will only work if people are reaching your site by clicking links on the other sites. Referers are fairly easily faked, … |
| | Hello everyone. I informed Google of my forum website URL via the standard method recently. Within about five days, it started finding search terms inside my forum when given "Mushy-pea [search terms]". Nice one Google, I thought :) . However, when you click links that go from Google directly to … |
| | Hello everyone. I will soon be releasing an early version of my open source bulletin board system, PerlBB. Can you guess how I thought the name up :p ? I'm not going to say whats special about it here, but there will be plenty of promotion on my homepage when … |
| | Hello everyone. I recently "migrated" my 8 year old computer from Windows 98 to NetBSD 3.1. The installation went fine and the machine is able to connect to the internet through a local router :) . However, I still have a couple of questions to ask: 1. When you run …  |
| | To expand on what masijade said (which is correct): .pm files are library files. This means they contain subroutines that many programs may find useful. They can be used in a program as follows [code=perl] require image_verify.pm [/code] as an example. Your program will then be able to call subroutines … |
| | Hello again. I browse through the code snippits section every so often, so I'm aware it's got an impressive collection of language catagories. However, something I think would benefit this section is the inclusion of a Haskell catagory. I've started learning this language recently (when I get time), so I …  |
| | Hello everyone. We were introduced to a nifty little tool in my job today (I'm in broadband tech support). It's called Go To Assist and it lets you "share" a customers desktop to help solve their problems remotely. I came up with tyhe idea of trying to do a reciprocal … |
| | Hello everyone. Does anyone know if there is a way to start a child process from within a script, then capture the child's standard output and exit code? From looking at the docs it seems that [code=perl] $status = system("command"); [/code] lets you capture the exit code but not STDOUT. … |
| | Hello everyone. I added an ethernet adapter card to a computer of mine yesterday and the keyboard stopped working. I've checked the connection and it's fine. The keyboard appears to be disabled at BIOS level because I can't get into setup by pressing DEL during the boot process. Windows still … |
| | Say your data is in a variable called $page. You can use the split function to split on the first line break only and then only apply your data processing code to the text that appears after that. Take a look at this: [code=perl] @stuff = split(/\\n/, $page, 2); [/code] …  |
| | Hello everyone. After 15 months without a job I have been offered a trial run in a......flour mill (water wheel included, but they don't use it). If I get the job I'll as close as matters be "Living off the land", something that has become somewhat rare in my country. …  |
| | Hi Avik. What you require is a program that replaces each instance of \n with \n\n. This could easily be done in Perl, but is so simple it would be neater to use sed. Seeing as you said a Unix script would be OK I'll assume you've got sed on … |
| | Re: Job Hunting? Try to get some voluntary work for a while. It is usually easier to get then paid work and can look pretty good on your CV. I worked in Oxfam bookshops voluntarily several times over the last few years and I think it helped me get my current job in … |
| | Hello everyone. I have been using the Haskell compiler GHC 6.6 a bit recently to test some simple programs (for learning purposes). In it's default mode it produces three output files for a given source file: a .exe, a .o and a .hi. The .exe is quite big and I … |
| | I read an article in Computer Shopper once (that mag where 70% of the pages were adverts) about one of the staff writers trying to install NT 4.0 on their home PC. This was in the days when NT 4.0 was the "only serious OS available for PCs". He was … |
| | Hi. DLL files are dynamically linked to a program. If you want to statically link functions to your program they will probably go in a .lib or .obj file, or in your programs' own .exe file. I believe that linking either static or dynamic libraries is a job for your … |
| | Hi. When you say a column of numbers I'm thinking you mean one number per line. If I was doing this problem I would try this: 1. Split the column into it's component rows using the split function. 2. Do a foreach loop to perform each necessary operation per column. … |
| | [QUOTE=Puckdropper;315037]If you're really worried about cached pages like that, you can add a custom header that says the page expired sometime in the past. (1969 would be a good year.)[/QUOTE] Just as a side note (seeing as you seem to have solved the OP's problem), setting an expiry date for … |
 | Re: I hate Firefox! Try putting semicolons at the end of each statement. Also, check whether you are using any IE specific extensions in your code. Hope this helps. Steven. |
| | Hello everyone. You might or might not have heard of these poeple, namely the Bulletin (of the Atomic Scientists): [url]http://www.thebulletin.org/minutes-to-midnight/[/url] Their publications monitor how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction at our own hands and, (presumably to scare the hell out of us :p ) maintain a symbolic clock that … |
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