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Maximum length of the textual representation of an IPv6 address? I want to store the data returned by $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] in PHP into a DB field, pretty simple task, really. The problem is that I can't find any proper information about the maximum length of the textual representation of an IPv6 address, which is... Started by Gilles on Friday, October 03, 2008, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): I believe it would be: 8 * 4 + 7 = 39 8 groups of 4 digits with 7 ':'... . So that's 39 characters max. Answered my own question: IPv6 addresses are normally written as eight groups of four hexadecimal digits, where each group is separated by a colon (:) .

Generating textual representation of directory contents I'm looking for a script to generate the graphical-ish textual representations of directory structures that you see around. Something that I can run like this: james@computer:/.../basedir$ listdir . basedir |-firstsubdir | |-file | `-subsubdir | |-file... Started by eegg on Monday, December 28, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Type tree /? (windows) or man tree for the.... Http://malektips.com/xp%5Fdos%5F0040.html http://www.centerkey.com/tree/ tree (on Windows as well as Linux - might require a apt-get install tree or similar on Linux) . Use tree command under Windows and Linux.

What is a good 64bit hash function in Java for textual strings? I'm looking for a hash function that: Hashes textual strings well (e.g. few collisions) Is written in Java, and widely used Bonus: works on several fields (instead of me concatenating them and applying the hash on the concatenated string) Bonus: Has a... Started by ripper234 on Monday, November 02, 2009, 6 posts by 6 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): I'm not aware of a function but here's an idea that might... . It is inefficient for hashing longer text, or text containing non-alphabetic characters . DISCLAIMER: This solution is applicable if you wish to efficiently hash individual natural language words .

Are textual fields ever allowed in fact tables? Are there any cases where I can have a textual field such as a description in a fact table? I currently have a fact table of meeting events (grain: row per meeting) with a number of dimensions such as date, client, location etc. I need to put the meeting... Started by NabilS on Thursday, June 25, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Product .... I have done this many times where I have a structure of a primary key, a combination of foreign keys and a string column to denote a name . What you are describing sounds like a dimension derived from other dimensions rather than a fact table .

Textual analysis of large documents I have a project where I need to compare multi-chapter documents to a second document to determine their similarity. The issue is I have no idea how to go about doing this, what approaches exist or if their are any libraries available. My first question... Started by jptacek on Sunday, July 12, 2009, 6 posts by 6 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): "what is similar" we can't tell you that, this is a statement of a fundamental requirement... . Try one of these to help you measure the number of differences (and hence how similar they are) . Diff tools used by all source control systems do almost exactly this .

How do I get textual contents from BLOB in Oracle SQL I am trying to see from an SQL console what is inside an Oracle BLOB. I know it contains a somewhat large body of text and I want to just see the text, but the following query only indicates that there is a BLOB in that field: select BLOB_FIELD from TABLE... Started by Roland Tepp on Wednesday, May 06, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): The following query will let you see the first 32167 characters (at most) of the text inside... . First of all, you may want to store text in CLOB/NCLOB columns instead of BLOB, which is designed for binary data (your query would work with a CLOB, by the way) .

How do I convert a HTML table to a fixed font textual table? I have an application in Perl that reads in HTML based mark up and converts it to a textual output. One of the things I have encountered is the need to easily convert a HTML table to a fixed font output. <table border="1"> <tr><td>Hello... Started by Tim K on Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): I don't know if any of them can handle.... If available, I would use an external program like lynx , links or w3m . In combination with something like HTML::TreeBuilder it should be pretty easy . I've used Text::Table with great success. Lynx is your friend.

Drawing arrows on an HTML page to visualize semantic links between textual spans I have an HTML page with some textual spans marked up something like this ... <span id="T2" class="Protein">p50</span> ... <span id="T3" class="Protein">p65</span> ... <span id="T34" ids="T2 T3" class="Positive_regulation">... Started by Kaarel on Monday, February 16, 2009, 9 posts by 9 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): It uses a canvas tag for each individual.... Have a look at this WireIt Demo. From the looks of it you don't need these arrows to have any particular mathematical form, you just need them to go between elements . You have a couple options: svg or canvas.

Making a 2-player web-based textual game I'm making a simple web-based, turn-based game and am trying to determine what modules exist out there to help me on this task. Here's the web app I'm looking to build: User visits the homepage, clicks on a "play game" link This takes the user to a "game... Started by RexE on Sunday, March 01, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): If you're not going to have huge numbers of concurrent users... . It works great for IM, but was designed for use by other types of systems as well and there's already a set of bindings for Python since it has become so popular . Try the Jabber protocol ...

Getting a textual overview of a system's LVM configuration We are making extensive use of the logical volume manager (LVM) on our Debian servers. But I find it hard to get a good overview on which partitions (LVM as well as native) I have mounted where, from which LV (logical volume) from which VG (volume group... Started by Signum on Friday, June 19, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): I might actually look into that myself, the next time I have my weekly day-of-scripting ;-) GNU Parted can give you most of the information you need with parted -l... . Would be a pretty cool thing to script though. No, I don't think such a script exists.