test please delete

[NickFitz]

Ah crud

I've been testing out an XSLT stylesheet that, among other things, makes HTTP requests to Yahoo!'s GeoPlanet API.

Unfortunately I absent-mindedly created a deep recursive descent which started hammering away, fetching ludicrous numbers of documents.

Yahoo!'s servers have now blocked my API key for an hour or two

indeed

[zeitghost]

Evening all

Have I missed anything apart from Nick downloading the web?

[zeitghost]

And miss this? Shirley not?

El HeliCraig

got
a
00
152,200

!!!
!!!

Merely for completeness or something

[zeitghost]

eeekkkkk

I was premature........

El Brillo

got
a
00
152,300

!!!
!!!

Merely for completeness or something

[zeitghost]

tell me about it

El 5*

got
a
00
152,400

!!!
!!!

Merely for completeness or something

[zeitghost]

Apparently not...

El NickFitz

got
a
PALI
152,251

!!!
!!!

Merely for completeness or something

[zeitghost]

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Indeed.

They can never understand the true beauty of the EQUIVALENCE statement in FORTRAN.

It's so sad.

[zeitghost]

Your first was a 28800?

Blimey.

I sort of stole a Hayes 28800 from work when I was a permie. The different sites distributed email by dialling each up every hour until someone came up with a better plan. That meant a bunch of spare modems, including a couple of state-of-the-art Hayes Optima Smartmodems. Before they could be redeployed, they both went missing one night and I 'found' one at home.

It flew.

It meant I could realistically download software instead of paying the Public Domain Software Library to post it to me on floppy disk.

That Hayes 28800 was my third personal modem.

The first I used in work was for dial-up between the CP/M network we had and ICL mainframes; I was cheerfully writing Range COBOL on an ME29 with my CP/M micro running terminal emulation over a 1200 bps connection.

What I cannot remember though, is the speed we could get using acoustic couplers at college. I recall it was awful, but not how awful.

I lied.

The first modems I bought were a pair of 300 baud with acoustic couplers.

Never ever used them.

[zeitghost]

Return to Real Time....

So...

Byeee

[NickFitz]

Evening all

Have I missed anything apart from Nick downloading the web?

It wasn't all of the web!

Just 99.9% of it