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Anarchi-H
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haha, well spotted Highsider
Me thinks Victor made a booboo
Anarchi-H
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Join date is based on when you registered on liveforspeed.com
Anarchi-H
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I get the strangest feeling that it will end up going for a small mint.
Anarchi-H
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Quote from tristancliffe :...you have a hamster shagging a computer mouse as an avatar on a racing simulation forum?


lol; y'know, I reckon steve modded that mouse with a glory hole or something cos last time I checked, the intellimice didn't have a little hole for mister hamsters tool
Anarchi-H
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Quote from xapexcivicx :This forum looks more like RSC every update


YEAH, I SAID IT!

It does?
Anarchi-H
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Cool vid; Looks like a lot of fun

... but that dude with the chequered flag needs to slow down a bit. He'll get an RSI like that
Anarchi-H
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Quote from Bob Smith :The trouble is the people behind me were standing and the people infront were kneeling, so I kind had to lower myself enough so that the people behind me were visible. I'm actually 6ft.

Hahaha
There was me thinking you were a shorty
Anarchi-H
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lol, no... It was mint (except for having only stubs for pins) when I first 'converted' it.

Thats what it looks like after a year of jangling about in my pocket with my wallet, change & keys, not to mention having my boney arse sit on it several thousand times

The die is very delicate , and I couldn't find anything hard enough to coat it with that wouldn't make it look lame

I want an 800-1.2 socket 370 celly / P3 next cos they have this really cool blue die. I'm not sure which core it is, but I've a few dead ones somewhere; I'll see if I can find em
Anarchi-H
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Quote from Pootie ::O Maybe it would make a nice keychain or some shit :/ I have several,maybe I will make a clock

I made a keyring once.
In case you can't make it out, it was a 2100 athlon.
And before anyone starts crying, it was dead before I got my mits on it
Stealth forum updates?
Anarchi-H
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First we have the 'join' date being set to registration date (as confirmed hnyah http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=2784 )

Now I just spotted the online server thing, as shown in the attached image.

Is this new, or am I just going blind / dumb / ignorant / [insert yours here]?
Anarchi-H
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Quote :Do people think I look 20? Or older? I could get served for drinks from 16, although that's not really saying much in this day and age. (NB: I didn't have the beard back then)

I think you definitely look older than 20. When I saw you in the karting pics, the first thing that crossed my mind was 'He is much shorter than I'd imagined' and the second was 'I thought he was younger too'

P.S. No offence intended if you are sensitive about your height / age
Anarchi-H
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Quote from Forbin :BTW, if your avatar's any indication, I can see how people might think you're really young.

Ehehe, yeah... thats me about a week ago.
I've been told its the lack of fluff on my face that makes me look so young.
Anarchi-H
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Quote from Forbin :Slightly O/T:

How old do you think I look?

This question is open to everyone.

18/ 19, but if you are anything like me you are probably 29 or somewhere close

The average guess at my age from a stranger usually comes in at 14-15.
I can still get away with a kids ticket on the train if I really want to, but on the flip side I always have to bust out my 'gormless mug card' (driving licence) to get a pint :rolleyes:
Anarchi-H
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The all knowing death clock says I've got to crawl in my plywood box on Wednesday, December 25 2058.

It'd just be my luck if I got something decent for christmas that year too :rolleyes:
Anarchi-H
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10100...

Thats 20 for those that can't count in base 2. Shame on you :boing:
Anarchi-H
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Ok, I think I have (fairly reliably) come up with a solution.

Read the file as one big string.
Copy in to buffer and strip all alphanumeric characters. (/[\w*][\d*]/)
Now process the string line by line and count the occurence of each character (line by line basis)
Now reprocess the occurence data we just collected and count the amount of times the same character appears the same amount of times on each line. (i.e. how many lines have 10 semi-colons on etc)
Then sort the characters by the line count; ignoring it if it is a " or ' and going to the next most frequent
The character at the top would be your delimiter.

Limitations are that malformed csvs wont work if they have a lot of mismatched column counts, and it assumes that either " or ' is an encapsulator (or there isn't one).

My proofing code works on most data, although it still can be fooled, but unless you are specifically trying to trick it, it is fairly reliable.
My code is very PHP specific though. If you want to see it i'll post it, but I presume you are coding in something other than PHP.
Anarchi-H
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Hmm, appears I was wrong about th encapsulator being a sure fire thing at the end of the last line.

If any rows beforehand have more columns than the last row, the last row will have a separator as the last char, hence giving the wrong results.

It's actually quite a complex problem, which I don't think can be 100% reliably solved by a non-interactive algorithm.

It's definitely given me something to ponder on though
Anarchi-H
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Quote from Bawbag :You mean they're crazy Anarchi? :P

Hehe, pretty much everyone is crazy where I work; I think its the chemical fumes or something.

I was actually referring to the incredible amount of dumb things they can manage to say / do in an hour.
Anarchi-H
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Quote from the_angry_angel :Clever bastard Anarchi It kinda assumes that the encapsulator is 1 character though (what about CRLF's? or am I missing something obvious there)

Pabs, to be exact, I think the setting you need to pickup from the regional settings would be "list separator" (assuming you dont do it Anarchi's way).

Trim will ditch CRLFs since they are counted as whitespace at the beginning or end of a string.
Hadn't thought about multiple char encapsulators, but OpenOffice falls over on them, so I'm assuming they are either never, or rarely used.

The main problem I see with using regional settings is , it will work ok if the CSV is created in the same encoding as the OS is running, but what happens when your german pal sends you (in the uk) a csv file to try?
It'll likely fall over since it would assume a comma based on regional settings, but it would of course be a semi colon.
Anarchi-H
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I know what you mean JTbo; I've only met one girl that has ever been on the same page as me, and I let her slip by

I guess I'm looking in all the wrong places because nearly all of the (available) females I know seem to be a sandwich short of a picnic if you know what I mean
Anarchi-H
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<?php 
php
$file 
'test.csv';
$file file($file);
$encapsulator '';
$delimiter '';

if(
is_array($file))
{
    
$lastLine trim($file[count($file)-1]);
    
$encapsulator substr($lastLine, -11);
    echo 
"Encapsulator is {$encapsulator}<br />";
    
$delimPos strrpos(substr($lastLine0strlen($lastLine)-1), $encapsulator);
    
$delimiter substr($lastLine$delimPos-11);
    echo 
"Delimiter is {$delimiter}";
    
}
else
{
    echo 
'Error<br />';
    
print_r($file);
}


?>

To summarize, it reads the last line of the csv and strips whitespace from the beginning and end. Then assumes the last character to be an encapsulator.
Using the encapsulator, it scans backwards for the next encapsulator (the start of the last field), and uses the character before that as the delimiter.
Obviously, if there is only one column on the last line you wont get teh delimiter because you'll be at the start of the line, so you'd need to check for that and scan the next line up.

The reason you have to start from the end of the file is because you can't guaruntee the encapsulators will be present at the start of the file, but they are always present at the end.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure that should work for what you need, as long as you can translate it in to whatever language you use and add appropriate checks.
Anarchi-H
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Yeah, I think thats incognitos point.
If all of the aliases redirected you to the main url instead of acting as separate sites then that wouldn't happen.
Anarchi-H
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Hmmm, not sure which version of DirectX LFS is compiled against (although I think it is DX8).

*edit*

Bit of research turned up the Amigasport/Amigamerlin drivers for Voodoo3, which apparently support DX9... no guaruntees though.

http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/3dfx/voodoo3/winxp.htm
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Anarchi-H
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Seems I was wrong, although it was just a rough guess
Since you don't seem to mind extending to £540, how about this?
Asus A8N-E, nForce4 Ultra, Socket-939, ATX, S-ATA, GbLAN, Sound, PCI-Ex16
£64

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz Socket 939, 512KB, BOXED w/fan
£145

AKASA Powersupply ATX/EPS 12V 400W 120mm Fan, SATA, 24/20pin
£45

Sapphire Radeon X800XL 256MB GDDR3 PCI-Express,Tv-Out, DVI-I, Full-Retail
£189

Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2PRO DDR 1024MB Kit w/two matched 512MB 3200C2 PRO's DIM
£97


Total: £540

Or, you could have this GFX card (the X800GT as opposed to X800XL) and save £70 so the total would be £470

PowerColor Radeon X800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI-Express, Dual-DVI-I, Tv-Out, Retail £119

The money saved is from switching from TwinXXL to TwinXC2Pro. You really only need the uber tight timings of the TwinXXL if you are overclocking, and if you aren't planning to overclock it isn't worth the extra £40.

However, if you go for the X800XL, you shouldn't need to overclock because it should run most everything pretty sweet anyway.

All prices inclusive of VAT, and quoted from www.komplett.co.uk
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Anarchi-H
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Since there is no racerlist for S2 stats, you have to fetch the full server detail listing and scan each servers racer list for the names you are looking for. If you find them, they are online, if not then they are offline.
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