World: r3wp

I wonder how the corgies feel about it?

So, is it true that the PM of NZ is XG?

Yeksoon. Happy New Chinesse Year.

We just love acronyms in this day and time don't we? ;-)

I was following the conversation up until XG. No idea who or what 
XG is.

Athiest.

so are Brian and I athiests for not knowing what XG means, or is 
the PM of NZ an athiest?

X-istential G-it?

I wouldn't worry too much what XG stands for .. we know that Reichart 
is a little dysgraphic at times.

So it *could* be GX?

could be asking if she wears XS size clothese for all I know :)

true

Who is the PM of NZ?

Still AM here...

heh

Dumb question that I've asked before: How do I tell Rebol/View what 
my browser is?

So far I've been able to cheat just by creating a symlink called 
'netscape' to my firefox executable, but it would be nice to just 
use the currently open firefox session

windows or linux?

Linux

didn't Jamie post some code that shows how to use an existing Firefox 
session?

... scrolling back ... yes indeed. Must be the brain shrinkage ;-)

Brian: browser for  Rebol/View >1.2.1 set-browser-path "path/to/firebird 
-url "

for Rebol/View 1.21 (may not work on linux): append clear netscan/def-browser 
"path/to/firebird -url "

First earthquake seafloor images back from SOC marine geologists 
in the Indian Ocean
http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/soc_home2.php?pagetype=news3&idx=223


The collision has forced up spectacular large thrust ridges up to 
1500 m high, higher than Ben Nevis. These unstable blocks have collapsed 
in places, producing large landslides several kilometres across that 
have scarred the seafloor.

Has anyone made a utility to download a complete web site?

that's not a very friendly thing to do.

and if you hit a website that is cgi based...you will be downloading 
from an infinite space.

Having said that, I think Bo has written a utility to spider a website

Do you have a link?

try the library ..

Don't find it there.  Oh well, I've got to log off and get some sleep. 
 I'll look better tomorrow.  Thanks, Graham.

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?color=yes&script=webcrawler.r

Carl's also written a links checker -- this may be easy to adapt 
to what you want by limiting it to internal URLs 

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=site-check.r

But as Graham says, if you run anything like this, be social. Many 
sites have banned things like HTTtrack (a website downloader) simply 
because they don't pace their requests.

Carl's link checker goes infinite if there's a "../" link anywhere 
in the website...

I have a patch for that ../  bug in carls link checker

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wops, was cleaning the keyboard..sorry 8)

Can someone give me a succinct definition of the term 'meta'? -- 
for example, in the context that it is used in an HTML document to 
provide additional information on the content...

You mean, what is the meaning in English? The html definition for 
META was not useful ?

I believe the term 'meta" is usually used as a short form of Metadata. 
Metadata is data which descrbes the data.


Eg A  value of 1000 is data, its metadata includes -  type is integer; 
it has 4 digits, it is positive.

Hope this is of some help

Here's a definition from http://biology.usgs.gov/nbs/meta/metadata.htm
:


-- Metadata describe the content, quality, condition, and other characteristics 
of data. Metadata help a person to locate and understand data.

Yep, that's how I understand it.

In the context of UNIX, we talk about meta characters. That's characters 
with special meaning to the shell. Examples are *, ?, [ and ].
I agree with the metadata definition above.

And then we have the Metabaron! Ah yes! :-) But then we're in the 
comics context of Moebius and Jodorowsky.

hello everybody!

I'd like to store data in a block as follow:
[
	12 [name "John" phone "123"]
	14 [name "Carl"]
	bb [name "Bob" phone "222"]
]

is there a rapid way to get the index:
[12 14 bb]

would it be better to keep an index?
[
	[12 14 bb]
	[
		12 [name "John" phone "123"]
		14 [name "Carl"]
		bb [name "Bob" phone "222"]
	]
]

any better idea on how to better store data, welcome!
thx 8)

'extract
extract your-data 2 
returns a block with [12 14 bb]

What do you need the index for?  with a structure like that you can 
do the following...

data: [
	12 [name "John" phone "123"]
	14 [name "Carl"]
	bb [name "Bob" phone "222"]
]
data/12 ; == [name "John" phone "123"]
data/12/name ; == "John"

record: 12
data/:record ; == [name "John" phone "123"]

Vincent, Thank you, I wasn't aware of the 'extract function and  
never used forskip till now. Now I wonder if it takes more resources 
to update the index or use the extract when I need the index.

Ammon, I need to peek a random record 8)

Ah, I see what you are trying to accomplish now. ;-)

in your case, a cheap (resource-wise) extract is:

index: make bloc! (length? data) / 2
foreach [value pad][insert tail index value]

bloc! == block!