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  How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) Xantipius <rt5@bk.ru> - 2012-08-13 03:18 -0700
    Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-13 10:52 +0000
    Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-08-13 21:45 +1000
    Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-13 13:40 +0100
      Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) Xantipius <rt5@bk.ru> - 2012-08-13 16:00 -0700
        Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-14 09:52 +1000
        Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-14 01:34 +0100
          Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-14 03:00 +0000
            Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-14 12:38 +0100
              Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-14 12:44 +0000
                Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-08-15 13:31 +1000
                  Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-15 13:43 +1000
              [OT] Posting under ones full name (was: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-14 23:12 +0200
                Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name (was: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-15 07:46 +1000
                  Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name (was: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-14 23:55 +0000
                    Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name (was: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-15 11:44 +1000
                      Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name (was: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-15 03:43 +0000
                        Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name (was: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-15 14:07 +1000
                  Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-15 04:06 +0200
                    Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-15 13:16 +1000
                      Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-15 13:54 +0200
                    Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-15 13:18 +1000
                      Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-08-15 13:56 +1000
                        Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-15 14:10 +1000
                      Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-15 13:59 +0000
                        Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2012-08-15 22:01 -0700
                          Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-16 20:45 +0000
                            Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-08-17 01:07 -0400
                        Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name Alex Strickland <sscc@mweb.co.za> - 2012-08-16 23:01 +0200
                    Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-08-15 01:28 -0600
                    Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-15 17:41 +1000
                      Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-15 09:37 +0000
                Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name (was: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)) Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-08-14 18:16 -0400
          [OT] A short Usenet primer (was: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP)) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-14 22:47 +0200
    Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) PythonAB <python@rgbaz.eu> - 2012-08-13 15:42 +0200
    Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2012-08-13 07:03 -0700
      Re: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP) Xantipius <rt5@bk.ru> - 2012-08-13 16:07 -0700

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#27090 — Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name

Chris Angelico wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> I have my surname in my From address, but I tend to sign my posts
>>> "ChrisA" (no relation, btw, to DaveA, though our surnames are
>>> similar). That's generally been sufficient for distinguishing
>>> purposes, though if anyone wants a truly unique handle for me,
>>> "Rosuav" is more effective than my real name.
>>
>> For one to read your signature, one has to download and read your entire
>> posting first.
> 
> And my signature has less information than the headers. So you're not
> deprived of anything.

With NNTP and IMAP4 it is possible to retrieve only the message header.  
Therefore, messages are easier to filter by message header than by message 
body.  So the former is done, to keep one's input stream's S/N high.

>>> Though I'm now not so sure about your name, PointedEars. Are you a
>>> Vulcan or an elf?
>> That is a stupid question.
> 
> Of course, my bad. The difference is obvious, I should have known
> which without asking.

<http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>

-- 
F'up2 PointedEars

Please do not Cc: me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.

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#27072 — Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
<PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
> Please use `[...]' or `[…]' to indicate omission instead.  I could have
> written `politeness...' myself.

Incidentally, how _do_ the square brackets help? Can a reader know
that you put square-bracketed dots and that I didn't omit a lengthy
quoted string? Perhaps you said "Please use `m4-style quotes rather
than matching ASCII quotes' or `something else' to indicate omission
instead".

ChrisA

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#27076 — Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name

Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
> <PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
> > Please use `[...]' or `[…]' to indicate omission instead. I could
> > have written `politeness...' myself.
>
> Incidentally, how _do_ the square brackets help?

They are a long-standing convention for marking an editorial addition or
clarification.

    Square brackets – also called simply brackets (US) – are mainly used
    to enclose explanatory or missing material usually added by someone
    other than the original author, especially in quoted text.

    <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Square_brackets_.5B_.5D>

-- 
 \       “What I resent is that the range of your vision should be the |
  `\                                 limit of my action.” —Henry James |
_o__)                                                                  |
Ben Finney

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#27078 — Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
>> <PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
>> > Please use `[...]' or `[…]' to indicate omission instead. I could
>> > have written `politeness...' myself.
>>
>> Incidentally, how _do_ the square brackets help?
>
> They are a long-standing convention for marking an editorial addition or
> clarification.
>
>     Square brackets – also called simply brackets (US) – are mainly used
>     to enclose explanatory or missing material usually added by someone
>     other than the original author, especially in quoted text.
>
>     <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Square_brackets_.5B_.5D>

Right, as is often done with dangling pronouns. "[Square brackets] are
a long-standing convention..." would be a valid way of quoting your
above statement. What I mean is that putting brackets around the
ellipsis adds nothing, and certainly doesn't eliminate ambiguity; the
only advantage is that [...] cannot be confused for a written-in
pause.

ChrisA

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#27095 — Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name

On 2012-08-15, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
><PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
>> Please use `[...]' or `[?]' to indicate omission instead.  I could have
>> written `politeness...' myself.
>
> Incidentally, how _do_ the square brackets help?

Because that's the standard method for denoting text that was inserted
by an editor and not written by the original author.

> Can a reader know that you put square-bracketed dots and that I
> didn't omit a lengthy quoted string?

Generally, yes.  That's the convention for Usenet and mailing lists.

> Perhaps you said "Please use `m4-style quotes rather than matching
> ASCII quotes' or `something else' to indicate omission instead".

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! As President I have
                                  at               to go vacuum my coin
                              gmail.com            collection!

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#27139 — Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name

On 2012-08-15 at 13:59:53 +0000,
Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> On 2012-08-15, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Perhaps you said "Please use `m4-style quotes rather than matching
> > ASCII quotes' or `something else' to indicate omission instead".

When I've got these antlers on I am dictating and when I take them off I
am not dictating.

-- 
Dan (who doesn't mind whether you use my last name or not)

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#27199 — Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name

On 2012-08-16, Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> wrote:
> On 2012-08-15 at 13:59:53 +0000,
> Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2012-08-15, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > Perhaps you said "Please use `m4-style quotes rather than matching
>> > ASCII quotes' or `something else' to indicate omission instead".
>
> When I've got these antlers on I am dictating and when I take them off I
> am not dictating.

Well done!

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! Do you like "TENDER
                                  at               VITTLES"?
                              gmail.com            

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#27221 — Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name

On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:45:08 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards
<invalid@invalid.invalid> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> On 2012-08-16, Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> wrote:
> > On 2012-08-15 at 13:59:53 +0000,
> > Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2012-08-15, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> > Perhaps you said "Please use `m4-style quotes rather than matching
> >> > ASCII quotes' or `something else' to indicate omission instead".
> >
> > When I've got these antlers on I am dictating and when I take them off I
> > am not dictating.
> 
> Well done!

	Guess the antlers are off then, if we're serving venison...
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
        wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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#27200 — Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name

On 2012/08/16 07:01 AM, Dan Sommers wrote:

> When I've got these antlers on I am dictating and when I take them off I
> am not dictating.

Very good.

-- 
Regards
Alex

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#27082 — Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
> <PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
>> Please use `[...]' or `[…]' to indicate omission instead.  I could have
>> written `politeness...' myself.
>
> Incidentally, how _do_ the square brackets help?

The square brackets clarify that the ellipsis was not part of the
original quotation but was added at some later point.

> Can a reader know
> that you put square-bracketed dots and that I didn't omit a lengthy
> quoted string?

Irrelevant.  Why would an author adhering to common principles of
style ever use square-bracketed dots in a statement that he authored
himself?  And if instead your quotation had been of Thomas also
quoting a third party, then it would not be important whether you or
Thomas had added the omission -- the main point is that it wasn't
there originally.

Be that as it may, the MLA no longer requires square brackets around
an ellipsis of omission, so at least from a scholarly standpoint
you're off the hook.

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#27083 — Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> Irrelevant.  Why would an author adhering to common principles of
> style ever use square-bracketed dots in a statement that he authored
> himself?

You mean exactly the way he did in the post you quoted me as quoting?

ChrisA

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#27086 — Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name

On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:41:20 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Irrelevant.  Why would an author adhering to common principles of style
>> ever use square-bracketed dots in a statement that he authored himself?
> 
> You mean exactly the way he did in the post you quoted me as quoting?

That's the usual problem with markup. How do you distinguish markup used 
as markup from the same characters used as text?

English has a bunch of ad-hoc rules like sticking things in quotation 
marks, square brackets or angle brackets, but no systematic way of 
escaping markup in general. There's no standard way to distinguish my 
writing [...] deliberately (as here) from an editor trimming it, except 
from context, and that is notoriously ambiguous.

"Godel, Escher and Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter discusses this sort of 
quoting, meta-quoting, etc. in detail. A good read if you want your brain 
stretched to the point it starts leaking out of your ears.



-- 
Steven

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#27064 — Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name (was: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP))

On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:46:31 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:


> 
> Though I'm now not so sure about your name, PointedEars. Are you a
> Vulcan or an elf?
>
	Maybe he's a Chihuahua <G>

	{says the Imperial Vargr}
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
        wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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#27058 — [OT] A short Usenet primer (was: How to uncompress a VOB file? (Win XP))

Mark Lawrence wrote:

> On 14/08/2012 00:00, Xantipius wrote:
>> On Aug 13, 3:40 pm, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On 13/08/2012 11:18, Xantipius wrote:
>>>> subj
>>>
>>> Either
>>>
>>> a) write some code and when and if it fails give us a small code snippet
>>> that demonstates the problem with the complete traceback.
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> b) state how much you are willing to pay for someone here to come up
>>> with a solution for you.
>>
>> Mark, in regard your last remark:
>> it's just a recreation for me. Nothing more in it.
>> I like to put some weird and useless problems before myself.
> 
> Is it […] normal practice to communicate with yourself via a public
> mailing list/news group?

No, it is not.  However, I would not expect too much from a Google Groups 
user who posts under pseudonym without a reasonable message body.  Probably 
they are not even aware that they are on Usenet, thinking that they are 
posting to a Web forum instead.

> When did you seek my permission to call me by my forename?

AIUI, in English (which is not my native language), it is customary that 
peers call themselves by their first names (in other languages, too).  This 
does not necessarily indicate familiarity.  We are all peers on/in this 
mailing list/newsgroup working on different aspects of the same problem: 
learning how to write good Python programs.

So you should not be surprised to be called and referred to by your first 
name or nick name.  In fact, on Usenet it is usually considered an 
appreciation of the person so addressed *not* to use their last name.  If 
you are called by someone by your last name only, you probably did that 
someone very wrong (or encountered a hypersensitive entity, or you are being 
trolled; depends).

However, communication that really only concerns two people should be 
limited to private e-mail (which is what the mandatory address header fields 
are for).  (I think this one should be public, for other newbies.)

HTH.  And trim your quotes to the relevant minimum, please.

-- 
PointedEars

Please do not Cc: me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.

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#26988

On 13 aug 2012, at 14:40, Mark Lawrence wrote:

> On 13/08/2012 11:18, Xantipius wrote:
>> subj
>> 
> 
> Either
> 
> a) write some code and when and if it fails give us a small code snippet that demonstates the problem with the complete traceback.
> 
> or
> 
> b) state how much you are willing to pay for someone here to come up with a solution for you.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers.
> 
> Mark Lawrence.
> 

or... go out and buy the DVD it's ripped from... ;)

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#26989

Have a look at PyMedia.

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#27006

On Aug 13, 5:03 pm, Miki Tebeka <miki.teb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have a look at PyMedia.

Miki, I've just downloaded this. Thanks.

A quote from their website:
============================================
Video file as pictures
Save your video clip into the set of BMP pictures and enjoy your
favourite snapshot.
Get your video back after you have it as pictures
=====================================================

This is exactly what I was looking for.

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