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Perl-Users Digest Fri, 28 Oct 2005 Volume: 10 Number: 8581
Today's topics:
How to turn $6 to $16000 in few days of web crawling <dontreply@reply.com>
FAQ 3.8 Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl? <comdog@pair.com>
Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ <davids@webmaster.com>
Re: Unintuitive expression evaluation <tassilo.von.parseval@rwth-aachen.de>
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:25:55 +1000
From: "Master" <dontreply@reply.com>
Subject: How to turn $6 to $16000 in few days of web crawling
Message-Id: <4361c7d4$1$27956$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>
It Will Work. If you do as I have done! Just Do It! follow the 4 steps.
$6.00 to $15,000.00 in 30 days!
Steps: Follow the Logic, Just Do it and It will work. $$$ in 4 easy steps.
1. Set Up a Free Paypal Account. 2. Send $1.00 to six Email Accounts from
your Paypal Account 3. Delete email address #1 and add your email address as
#6. Move all others #2-#6 up one number 4. Copy and Post this entire Letter
to Newsgroups, Messages Boards etc.
Copy this exactly for you guidance to completing steps 1-4. You are in
Business for yourself and you are Creating an E-mail List Company TURN $6
INTO $15,000 IN ONLY 30 DAYS...HERES HOW!
PAYPAL VERIFIES THAT THIS $6 INVESTMENT SCHEME IS 100% LEGAL AND IS A BIG
HIT THIS YEAR SEE THEIR NOTE BELOW OR ASK THEM DIRECTLY... THIS SCHEME MIGHT
TAKE 15-30 MINUTES AND JUST $6, BUT IT IS 100% WORTH IT TO MAKE THOUSANDS SO
QUICKLY. THIS IS NOT ANOTHER SCAM THAT TAKES LOTS OF YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY;
THIS IS A NO RISK INVESTMENT THAT WILL MAKE YOU THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS VERY
EASILY AND QUICKLY.
>From PayPal:
"Dear Member, it has come to our attention that there is a paypal scheme
floating around at the moment you may have heard or seen the $6 scheme. You
may have even taken part in it well we have been asked a lot of questions
about this scheme the answer is yes it does work and yes it is safe to use
providing you follow the rules it is legal and has made a big hit on the
internet this year. If you would like to take part in this scheme or would
like a bit more information then please see the attached file that was
kindly donated to us. Thank you for using PayPal!"
TURN $6 INTO $15,000 IN ONLY 30 DAYS...HERES HOW! This is a Money Scheme and
Not, I repeat. This is Not a Scam!!!
You have most likely seen or heard about this project on TV programs such as
20/20 and Oprah, or you may have read about it in the Wall Street Journal.
If not, here it is below - revealed to you in step-by-step detail. This
program is by no means new. It has been in existence in many forms for at
least a decade. But in the early days, it required a lot more time and
effort, as well as an investment of a few hundred dollars. However thanks to
PayPal and the Internet, the investment is now virtually ZERO! And what's
more, the entire process is FASTER, EASIER, and MORE LUCRATIVE than it has
EVER been! Below is the email sent to me:
How to Turn $6 into $15,000 in 30 Days with PayPal I WAS SHOCKED WHEN I SAW
HOW MUCH MONEY CAME FLOODING INTO MY PAYPAL ACCOUNT I turned $6 into $14,706
within the first 30 days of operating the business plan that I am about to
reveal to you free of charge. If you decide to take action on the following
instructions, I will GUARANTEE that you will enjoy a similar return! STILL
NEED PROOF? Here are just 3 testimonials from the countless individuals who
decided to invest nothing more than $6 and half an hour of their time to
participate in this program:
"What an amazing plan! I followed your instructions just 3 weeks ago, and
although I haven't made 15 grand yet, I'm already up to $9,135. I'm
absolutely gob smacked." -Pam Whittemore , Ohio
"Well, what can I say?... THANK YOU SO MUCH! I sent 40 e-mail's out like you
said and then I just forgot about the whole thing. To be honest, I didn't
really think anything would come of it. But when I checked my paypal account
a week later, there was over $5,000 in After 30 days I now have over $11,000
to spend! I can't thank you enough!"-Juan Tovar, NY,NY
"I was shocked when I saw how much money came flooding into my paypal
account. Within 3 weeks my account balance has ballooned to $12,449. At
first I thought there had been some sort of error with my account!" -Richard
Barrie , Boulder,CO
The only things you will need are: An email address. A Business PayPal
account with at least $6 deposited in it, and just 15 to 30 minutes of your
time. This program takes just half an hour to set up. After that, there is
absolutely no work whatsoever to do on your part. You have absolutely
NOTHING to lose, and there is NO LIMIT to the amount of income you can
generate from this one single business program.
Let's get started, just follow the instructions exactly as set out below and
then prepare yourself for a HUGE influx of cash over the next 30 days!
Here's what you need to do. . .
REQUIREMENTS
#1) an email address #2) a Premier or Business PayPal account
(It's simple and free to get a Premier or Business account, if you need help
doing it just email me.)
Now follow the steps: 1-4
________________________________________
Follow these easy steps EXACTLY and just watch what happens
STEP #1 - Setting up your FREE PayPal Account
It's extremely safe and very easy to set up a FREE PayPal account! Copy and
paste this to the address bar https://www.paypal.com (notice the secure
"https" within the link)
Be sure to sign up for a free PREMIER or BUSINESS account (and not just a
PERSONAL account) otherwise you won't be able to receive credit card
payments from other people.
STEP #2 - Sending PayPal money "It is an undeniable law of the universe that
we must first give in order to receive."
Now all you have to do is send $1.00 by way of PayPal to each of the six
email addresses listed below. After setting up your free paypal account and
confirming or verifying YOUR ACCOUNT AND putting (six Dollars) $6.00 into
your Paypal Account use the Account tab on Paypal to send $1.00 to each of
the Names on the List then move the top one and place yours in the #6 spot
on the list of names #1-#6. Remember your name becomes #6.
Make sure the subject of the payment says... *PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR EMAIL
LIST* (this keeps the program 100% legal.. so please don't forget!)
Note: (If you do not see the full email address for the 6 members, just hit
reply to this email and they will show up.)
(Just in case you still haven't opened your PayPal account yet, use this
link to open one in your name), https://www.paypal.com
#1) professor@punkass.com
#2) loki123@seznam.cz
#3) bald@inbox.lv
#4) fredwdjr@yahoo.com
#5) maintenanceman69@aol.com
#6) glpratt@optusnet.com.au
Remember, all of this is ABSOLUTELY LEGAL! You are creating a service! A
Business. An Email List Service Business
If you have any doubts, please refer to Title 18 Sec. 1302 & 1241 of the
United States Postal laws.
STEP #3 - Adding Your Email Address
After you send your six $1.00 payments, it's your turn to add your email
address to the list!
Take the #1) email off the list that you see above, move the other addresses
up one (6 becomes 5 & 5 becomes 4, 4 becomes 3, 3 becomes 2, 2 becomes 1,
your email becomes #6) put YOUR email address (the one used in your PayPal
account) as #6) on the list.
**MAKE SURE THE EMAIL YOU SUPPLY IS EXACTLY AS IT APPEARS IN YOUR PAYPAL
ACCOUNT.**
STEP #4 - Copy Message to 200 Newgroups, message boards,etc.. The Pure Joy
of Receiving PayPal Money!
________________________________________
You are now ready to post your copy of this message, to at least 200
newsgroups, message boards, etc. (I think there are close to 32,000 groups)
All you need is 200, but remember, the more you post, the more money you
make - as well as everyone else on the list! In this situation your job is
to let as many people see this letter as possible. So they will make you and
me rich!!!! You can even start posting the moment your email is confirmed.
Payments will still appear in your PayPal account even while your bank
account is being confirmed.
HOW TO POST TO NEWSGROUPS & MESSAGE BOARDS
Step #1) You do not need to re-type this entire letter to do your own
posting. Simply put your CURSOR at the beginning of this letter and drag
your CURSOR to the bottom of this document, and select 'copy' from the edit
menu. This will copy the entire letter into your computer's temporary
memory.
Step #2) Open a blank 'Notepad' file and place your cursor at the top of the
blank page. From the 'Edit' menu select 'Paste'. This will paste a copy of
the letter into notepad so that you can add your email to the list. Or copy
to a Word Document. and Place in the email upon completion.
Step #3) Save your new Notepad file as a .txt file. If you want to do your
postings in different sittings, you'll always have this file to go back to.
Step #4) Use Netscape or Internet Explorer and try searching for various
newsgroups, on-line forums, message boards, bulletin boards, chat sites,
discussions, discussion groups, online communities, etc. EXAMPLE: go to any
search engine like yahoo.com, google.com, altavista.com, excite.com - then
search with subjects like? millionaire message board? or money making
message board? or opportunity message board? or money making discussions? or
business bulletin board? or money making forum? etc. You will find thousands
& thousands of message boards. Click them one by one then you will find the
option to post a new message.
Step #5) Visit these message boards and post this article as a new message
by highlighting the text of this letter and selecting 'Paste' from the
'Edit' menu. Fill in the Subject, this will be the header that everyone sees
as they scroll thru the list of postings in a particular group, click the
post message button. You're done with your first one!
Congratulations! THAT'S IT!! All you have to do is jump to different
newsgroups and post away. After you get the hang of it, it will take about
30 seconds for each newsgroup!
REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS AND/OR MESSAGE BOARDS YOU POST IN, THE MORE
MONEY YOU WILL MAKE!! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200**
That's it! You will begin receiving money within days!
**JUST MAKE SURE THE EMAIL YOU SUPPLY IS EXACTLY AS IT APPEARS ON PAYPAL.**
Explanation of why it works so well:
$$$$$ NOW THE WHY PART: Out of 200 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a
very low example). So then I Made $5.00 with my email at #6 on the letter.
Now, each of the 5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200
postings, each with my email at #5 and only 5 persons respond to each of the
original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each make 200
MINIMUM posts with my email at #4 and only 5 replies each, I will bring in
an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and post the
MINIMUM 200 with my email at #3 and only receive 5 replies each, I will make
an additional $625.00! OK, now here is the fun part, each of those 625
persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my email at #2 and they only receive
5 replies that just made me $3,125.00!!! Those 3,125 persons will all
deliver this message to 200 newsgroups with my email at #1 and if still 5
persons per 200 newsgroups react I will receive $15,625.00! With an original
investment of only $6.00! AMAZING!! When your email is no longer on the
list, you just take latest posting in the newsgroups, and send out another
$6.00 to emails on the list, putting your email at number 6 again. And start
posting again.
The thing to remember is, thousands of people all over the world are joining
the internet and reading these articles everyday, JUST LIKE YOU are now!!
So can you afford $6?? And see if it really works?? I think so? People have
said, what if the plan is played out and no one sends you the money? So what
are the chances of that happening when there are tons of new honest users
and new honest people who are joining the internet and newsgroups everyday
and are willing to give it a try? Estimates are at 20,000 to 50,000 new
users everyday, with thousands of those joining the actual Internet.
Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and this will work. This really isn't
another one of those crazy scams! As long as people follow through with
sending out $6.00, it works!
With warm wishes, bless you and your loved ones, https://www.paypal.com
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:03:01 +0000 (UTC)
From: PerlFAQ Server <comdog@pair.com>
Subject: FAQ 3.8 Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
Message-Id: <djs7tk$t21$1@reader2.panix.com>
This message is one of several periodic postings to comp.lang.perl.misc
intended to make it easier for perl programmers to find answers to
common questions. The core of this message represents an excerpt
from the documentation provided with Perl.
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3.8: Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
Perltidy is a Perl script which indents and reformats Perl scripts to
make them easier to read by trying to follow the rules of the perlstyle.
If you write Perl scripts, or spend much time reading them, you will
probably find it useful. It is available at
http://perltidy.sourceforge.net
Of course, if you simply follow the guidelines in perlstyle, you
shouldn't need to reformat. The habit of formatting your code as you
write it will help prevent bugs. Your editor can and should help you
with this. The perl-mode or newer cperl-mode for emacs can provide
remarkable amounts of help with most (but not all) code, and even less
programmable editors can provide significant assistance. Tom
Christiansen and many other VI users swear by the following settings in
vi and its clones:
set ai sw=4
map! ^O {^M}^[O^T
Put that in your .exrc file (replacing the caret characters with control
characters) and away you go. In insert mode, ^T is for indenting, ^D is
for undenting, and ^O is for blockdenting-- as it were. A more complete
example, with comments, can be found at
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/toms.exrc.gz
The a2ps http://www-inf.enst.fr/%7Edemaille/a2ps/black+white.ps.gz does
lots of things related to generating nicely printed output of documents,
as does enscript at http://people.ssh.fi/mtr/genscript/ .
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:41:28 -0700
From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ
Message-Id: <djrvk8$mb5$1@nntp.webmaster.com>
"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:qHd8f.6518$BZ5.2214@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
>>> There's a huge difference to the non-techy consumer. One of the
>>> buggest reasons Linux has had a reputation of being harder to use
>>> than Windows was the fact that Linux had to be installed, while
>>> Windows just booted up.
>> Is that really true? I mean, I remember distributions of Linux that you
>> could just stick in the CD, boot from CD, and you were up in minutes.
>> Installing was as simple as pushing the 'install to hard drive' button.
[snip]
> But picture that, when this was less true, you wanted to buy a machine
> with the newest-whizbang graphics card or disk controller. For Windows,
> the manufacturer would make sure the proper drivers are installed and
> configured. For Linux, you the consumer had to find a driver, install it,
> configure it (the phrase "drive geometry" sticks in my head) and deal with
> the lack of useful feedback if anything goes wrong.
[snip]
That's a really good point.
DS
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:01:14 +0200
From: "Tassilo v. Parseval" <tassilo.von.parseval@rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: Unintuitive expression evaluation
Message-Id: <3sdt5dFnl2h4U1@news.dfncis.de>
Also sprach A. Sinan Unur:
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@deathstar.prodigy.com> wrote in
> news:mNa8f.3023$Y61.1523@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com:
>
>> I am reading a log file which has 32 bit unsigned values, and need to
>> take the difference between them. If the difference is negative I
>> assume that the data counter has rolled over, and I want to add 231 to
>> get the correct value. For readability I wanted to put the value in a
>> variable so it would be obvious what was happening.
>>
>> So I wrote:
>> $Roll32 = (1 << 32); # the way I would for a C macro
>> but the value was (after I did some looking) one! Then I wrote:
>> $Roll32 = 1 << 32; # in case the parens were a issue
>> bit it was still one, so I wrote:
>> $Roll32 = ( 4 * (1 << 30) ); # which works (4G)
>>
>> This is the first time perl has failed to do int=>double conversion
>> when expected (by me).
>
> The only thing that failed in this case is you.
>
>> Just a note in case someone else is ever doing
>> similar, perl on Linux 32 bit, v5.6.1, v5.8.0, v5.8.5 builds.
>
> You mean "just in case someone else refuses to read the documentation"?
>
> perldoc perlop:
>
> Shift Operators
> ...
> Either way, the implementation isn't going to generate results larger
> than the size of the integer type Perl was built with (32 bits or 64
> bits).
>
> The result of overflowing the range of the integers is undefined
> because it is undefined also in C. In other words, using 32-bit
> integers, "1 << 32" is undefined. Shifting by a negative number
> of bits is also undefined.
>
> How hard is it to read this, and understand it?
Considering that
$Roll32 = ( 4 * (1 << 30) );
gives the expected result, these paragraphs may be a tad difficult to
understand, particularly for people with a C-background.
Replacing a two-bit shift with a multiplication by four works because
perl internally upgrades (as needed) the scalar from holding a plain
integer to holding a double when doing the multiplication.
I think the left-shift operator could be made smarter so that it always
works up to 2**64 - 1, even on 32bit machines.
Tassilo
--
use bigint;
$n=71423350343770280161397026330337371139054411854220053437565440;
$m=-8,;;$_=$n&(0xff)<<$m,,$_>>=$m,,print+chr,,while(($m+=8)<=200);
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