What the heck is ASCII character 11 (vertical tab) typically used for?
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tommyrot - Oct 07, 2005 10:02:00 am PDT #4824 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Tom Scola - Oct 07, 2005 10:06:11 am PDT #4825 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Like most of the control characters, it had a purpose when ASCII was used for mechanical teletype machines, but it's pretty much useless now.
tommyrot - Oct 07, 2005 10:12:43 am PDT #4826 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Like most of the control characters, it had a purpose when ASCII was used for mechanical teletype machines, but it's pretty much useless now.
That's what I would have guessed.... except our client somehow got a lot of them in the memofields of a database we're working on.
Which brings me to my next question. I need an XSL file to be applied to data being exported to XML (in Access) that will get rid of stupid characters like that (Excel errors on ASCI 11). I'm sure I can RTFM and figure it out, but if anyone knows off the top of their heads how to do this....
eta: needs to work with any arbitrary XML document, as the XML depends on what fields the user selects and which query is used (out of a dozen).
Tom Scola - Oct 07, 2005 10:24:45 am PDT #4827 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
According to the XML specification, the only control characters that are allowed in XML documents are carriage return (13), linefeed (10) and horizontal tab (9).
tommyrot - Oct 07, 2005 10:26:44 am PDT #4828 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Thanks, Tom, that helps.
Jessica - Oct 07, 2005 10:45:37 am PDT #4829 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
HBO is actively poisoning the BitTorrent downloads of the new show Rome. In addition to an older tactic of offering bogus downloads that never complete, HBO is now obstructing the downloads offered by other people. BitTorrent downloads are peer-to-peer, but the peers are introduced to each other by a tracker ("you're looking for Rome Season 1 Episode 2, talk to 127.0.0.1"). HBO runs peers that tell the tracker they have all the chunks of the show, but then send garbage data when a downloader requests a chunk. The downloading client can detect that it's garbage and will try another peer for the chunk, but the end result is that it takes much much longer to download shows.
tommyrot - Oct 07, 2005 11:49:58 am PDT #4830 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oooh. My boss said that it's the client's fault their data is screwey, so they have to fix it. So, not my problem.
The downloading client can detect that it's garbage and will try another peer for the chunk, but the end result is that it takes much much longer to download shows.
And so the arms race begins....
amych - Oct 07, 2005 11:51:43 am PDT #4831 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
the end result is that it takes much much longer to download shows
Great. The big corps are DDOSing now. I'd like a sane world, please?
§ ita § - Oct 07, 2005 11:53:43 am PDT #4832 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's their stuff. I find it shortsighted, but sane enough.
Jessica - Oct 07, 2005 11:54:59 am PDT #4833 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have to say, that does explain a LOT. Like why my Rome downloads have been taking so long. t /part of the problem
I just got off the phone with Apple, and dude, SO NICE to talk to a tech support person who actually LISTENS to me when I tell them everything I've tried, instead of cutting me off and going down the official list of things to say. He let me explain what I'd tried, said "Okay, well you've done everything we can suggest over the phone." And then we talked about taking it to the Apple Store vs just mailing it to the repair people. Quite possibly the most pleasant tech support call I've ever had.