Lets hope you dont Ken

This is my lunch break. Whew!
Thought I was only going to have to replace some shingles. After removing the old I've discovered a 4 by 8 piece of plywood that's rotted through.
So I'm tearing it all out. Now to find a friend with a pickup truck to haul some new wood from town.

Originally Posted by sepulchre

This is my lunch break. Whew!
Thought I was only going to have to replace some shingles. After removing the old I've discovered a 4 by 8 piece of plywood that's rotted through.
So I'm tearing it all out. Now to find a friend with a pickup truck to haul some new wood from town.

That's when doing a roof is a BUMMER... having to replace the foundation planks!

(Ugh... not only having to scrape possibly MULTIPLE layers (according to code around here, you can ONLY GO 3 layers deep, before you have to go ALL FRESH tile again) of rotted out shingles, & getting roofing tar ALL OVER YOU, lol... Which sux in & of itself!)



* LOL, once, around a 16 yrs. ago or so, my nephew (now a freshman comp. sci. major @ RIT) was only like 2-3 yrs. old, & climbed up on the ladder where I was redoing my Ma's roof!

(I got lucky though, in not having to replace planks though, thank goodness)

& I was JUST finishing off the "cap" part, & he climbed up the ladder (takes 'balls" imo, even for older folks) & he then said:

"Can I help Uncle Al?"

& I was like:

"Gord! Climb down off the ladder, right now man...!!!"

& he did...

(However, he got tar all over his hands & feet (from the ladder where I left it off of my gloves, can't avoid it))

... & I had NO idea he got covered in it!

All I heard from the inside was:

"AAAAAAA!!!"

(Massive yelling from my ma, because my nephew got roofing tar on her rug on the steps where you come into her home...)

APK

P.S.=> It was only a couple spots, which I cut out & glued in shavings of the rug from extra remnants we had from when it was put in, thank goodness... & the boy was ONLY trying to help, so he did not 'catch a beating' & all that! I thought it was funny, & something to share, about roofing!

The lesson? Don't let those with even "the best intentions" come up & help... they're almost GUARANTEED to get smeared in roofing tar, everytime! apk

As for MY day today? It is going to be an exercise in something called "recursion", & designing a function that can be continually "recalled" from a procedure (subroutine) in the program I've been working on to manage custom HOSTS files - for removal of repeat entries (normalization)...

These parts work, so far, perfectly though (2 for 3, 1 more to go above):

• Checking for new entries you may wish to make & either accepting them as new or rejecting them as repeats

• Scrubbing the file formats of other HOSTS files I import into it, into the format MINE uses (0.0.0.0.<singlespace>URL<cr+lf>), for imports into MINE (from theirs) for new entries (from HOSTS files others have made which do NOT use that most efficient format, & merging them) - which over 1.5 million entries processed is down to 15 seconds, in character mode (just under 2 minutes though, in GUI mode)

* Almost there... one last "out of index bounds" type err to overcome, & done... been working on it, on & off, for about 3 weeks now - if I didn't have other duties to discharge, it'd be done, but... this is life.

APK

P.S.=> Then, it's "polish it up enough for end-users" (no hardcoded file/folder locations, enable/disable buttons of other functions while certain ones run, etc. et al + more for aesthetics purposes) & off she goes!

POSSIBLY as a download to go with what I think is the best hosts file there is, the one I am building for folks, to protect they vs. today's online threats!

(I say "best" about mine, since mine is now largely currently composed (14mb in size) from HOSTS files that come from known & respected sources such as the hosts files of others (AND sites that specialize in security in this area, via their setting up "honey pot" websites to lure said bogus bots &/or hacker-cracker types to, so they can analyze said exploits!))... apk

Recursive iteration is the basis of all fractal generation programs. It's also employed in compression routines.

adds to longest thread

Originally Posted by sepulchre

Recursive iteration is the basis of all fractal generation programs. It's also employed in compression routines.

Yup, agreed, & the problem's NOT the recursion (no memory exhaustion, etc. over 1.5 million line entries thusfar @ least), @ this point... the recursive function's working, perfectly now in fact...

Now though? Well, it's an "out of bounds" array error!

This should be easy enough to cure, because of the controls I use... I keep the selected item visible, in listboxes I use (for now, during debug @ least, Until I no longer need it & then the GUI overhead of the app WILL go down, because I won't need it visible anymore)

(See - I use listboxes as "dynamic arrays"! A 'hack' no doubt, but one that does the job with a WEE bit of GUI overheads is all, & makes for far easier VISUAL debugging imo, as I can literally SEE where the function is, as it vectors thru/iterates thru the array/listboxes' items)

Listboxes: They function PRETTY MUCH just the same as a VB Dim/ReDim Preserve type thing for dynamic arrays (though Delphi has this as well, TRUE dynamic arrays, & since version 4.0 iirc? I still use listbox controls as dynamic arrays - since they're GREAT for visual debugs, for lack of a better expression & better than a ShowMessage or Application.Messagebox type affair (or even watch windows on a var, struct, etc.)).

It's going to work, it will just take time 'tracing'...




* Wish me luck, because it overcomes a LOT of hassles that Access gave me, for normalization (removal of dups) via SQL "SELECT DISTINCT" queries... which, upon exports? Left trailing spaces OR quotes around exported data!

That made the structure of the HOSTS file 'bloated' (especially the trailing space after IP(singlespace)URL(cr+lf) <- where Access exports left that trailing 'space' right after the enter keypress (cr+lf)).

Might not seem like much to '***** about' on my part, but, over 1.5million entries? That single-space Access leaves for instance, at the end of EACH LINE in my HOSTS file??

It adds up to bloat... bloat I don't need, nor does anyone (wasteful, inefficient, & imo? STUPID!) - it's literally the SAME reasoning I have for using 0.0.0.0 in a HOSTS file for blocking, vs. 127.0.0.1 - same function @ less cost in loadtime + memory occupancy... smarter, & MORE EFFICIENT, period (a better overall structure & ESPECIALLY over TONS of line item entries, which adds up in a hurry).

APK

Today ;
I design the sign of my new store.
That take a lot of brain's resource.

yesterday i was ill, today i'm still ill but not as ill as yesterday

Hope you feel better soon Ian