September 2003 - Glasgow-haskell-users

COOPERATION
by SADKO INTERNATIONAL COMPANY 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

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WINNING NOTIFICATION !
by marcwilliams＠zwallet.com 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

ELGORDO DE LAPRIMITIVA C/GUZMAN EL BUENO,137 MADRID - ESPA�A TELE/ FAX:+34 916 470 023 E-mail: lottocommission(a)whipmail.com FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, REF: LP/26510460037/03 BATCH: 24/00319/IPD RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION FINAL NOTICE We are pleased to inform you of the release today, 23rd September 2003,of the ELGORDO SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY/INTER-NATIONAL PROGRAMS held on the 14th September,2003. Your name attached to ticket number 025 11464992-750 with serial number 2113-05 drew the lucky number 3-18-19-30-32-39, which consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category. You are therefore been approve for the lump sum pay out of �uros 1,547,000.87 (One Million Five Hundred and Fourty Seven Thousand Eighty Seven Cents .) in cash credit to the file REF: LP/26510460037/03. This is from a total prize of �uros 26,299,000.00 share among the seventeen (17) International winners in this category. CONGRATULATION! Your fund is now deposited with a Security Company EURO CREDIT COMMISION. Due to the mixed up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award a top secret from the public notice until your claim as been processed and your prize money remitted to your account as this is a part of our Security protocol to avoid double claiming award or unwarranted taking advantage of this program by participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 names from Australia, USA, Europe, Asia ,New Zealand, Middle-East and South-North America .As part of our international promotions program, which we conducted once in a year. We hope with a part of your prize, you will take part in our end of the year high stake �uros 300 Million International Lottery. To being your claim, please contact the issuing authority, your prize claim agent, Mr. Barry Hanson, (Foreign Service Manager) for processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice. Tel: +34 -639 280 825 .Email:marcwilliams@zwallet.com, Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later until than the 23rd September, 2003. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. Note: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every of your correspondence with your agent. Furthermore, should there be any address do inform your claims agent as soon as possible. Please remember to ask for your prize claim certificate. Congratulation again from all member of our staff and thank you for being part of our promotion program. Best regards, MARIA JOSE SANCHEZ.

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SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY WINNER
by GLOBALNET PROMO LOTTERY 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT. REF NO: EGS/1977384210/03. BATCH NO:21/0009/1PH Date:22-septmber..,2003. ATTN: RE:AWARD NOTIFICATION FINAL NOTICE WE are pleased to inform you of the release of the results of the GLOBAL NET SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY /INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM held on the 13th of Septmber.,2003. Your name attached to ticket number 076-2346745630-013 with Serial number 0193-64 drew the lucky numbers 3-7-24-30-34-35 which consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of US$415,810.00 (FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TEN US DOLLARS ONLY ) in cash credited to file REF NO:EGS/1977384210/03.This is from a total cash prize of US$7,068,770.00 (SEVEN MILLION, SIXTY EIGHT THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY US DOLLARS ONLY) shared among the seventeen international winners in this category. CONGRATULATIONS!!! Your fund is now deposited with our correspondence bank insured to your name.Due to mixed up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your nominated account as this is a part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of this program by participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 names from Africa,Asia, Australia, New zealand, Europe and North America as part of our international promotions program which we conduct once every year. We hope that with a part of your prize , you will take part in our end of year HIGHSTAKE US$50 Million International lottery. To begin your lottery claim please contact your claims agent, Foreign Operations DR. DANIL ANDERSON (Operations Manager) FIRST ATLANTIC OFFSHORE BANK. MADRID,SPAIN. On Tel:0034679230166 E.mail: joseferre29(a)netscape.net for processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice. Remember all prize money must be claimed not later than 30 of september.,2003. After this date all funds will be returned to the MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y HACIENDA as unclaimed. NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers including your (CONTACT TELEPHONE NUMBER) ,in every correspondence with us or your agent.Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once again from all members of our staff and thank you for being a part of our promotions program. Best regards, JOSE FERRE (VICE PRESIDENT)

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RE: Haddock interface file for standard libraries
by Simon Marlow 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

> I have another short question concerning the build process: Is there > any easy way to generate a Haddock interface file for the standard > libraries? I'd like my own documentation to contain links to standard > data types and functions, but processing the library sources directly > turned out to be difficult because of pre-processor use etc. A GHC distribution comes with the appropriate .haddock files - take a look in eg. /usr/share/ghc-6.0.1/html/*/*.haddock. Cheers, Simon

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Haddock interface file for standard libraries
by Peter Simons 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

I have another short question concerning the build process: Is there any easy way to generate a Haddock interface file for the standard libraries? I'd like my own documentation to contain links to standard data types and functions, but processing the library sources directly turned out to be difficult because of pre-processor use etc. Peter

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DONATION FOR THE LORD.
by Mrs.Serena Jones 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

From: Mrs Serena Jones PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO USED IT FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD. I am the above named person from Kuwait. I am married to Dr. Harry Jones who worked with Kuwait embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year 2000. We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his death we were both born again Christians.Since his death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against.When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of$8.6Million (Eight Million six hundred thousand U.S. Dollars) with one finance/security company in Amsterderm Holland. Presently, this money is still with the Security Company. Recently, my Doctor told me that I would not last for the next three months due to cancer problem. Though what disturbs me most is my stroke sickness. Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to church or better still a christian individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct here in. I want a church that will use this fund to fund churches, orphanages and widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained. The Bible made us to understand that Blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this decision because I dont have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are not Christians and I dont want my husbands hard earned money to be misused by unbelievers. I dont want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly manner. Hence the reason for taking this bold decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace. I dont need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health because of the presence of my husbands relatives around me always. I dont want them to know about this development. With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Finance/Security Company in Amsterderm Holland. I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the original- beneficiary of this fund. I want you and the church to always pray for me because the lord is my shephard. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian. Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life. Any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing for a chuch or christian individual for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein. Hoping to hearing from you. N.B-PLEASE I WILL ADVICE YOU TO GIVE THE LAWYER IN CHARGE A CALL IN HOLLAND IMMEDIATELY, HE DOES EVERYTHING ON MY BEHALF AND HE'S VERY UNDERSTANDING AND I BELIEVE HE WILL LEAD YOU TO YOUR SUCCESS IN JESUS NAME, THE LAWYER'S NUMBER IS 00-31-620-668-086. Remain blessed in the name of the Lord. Yours in Christ, Mrs Serena Jones

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None
by Arunkumar S Jadhav 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

> HOpenGL consists of two packages: OpenGL and GLUT, and the latter implies > the former, so > > ghc -package GLUT --make Hello.hs Nope :( says GLUT is unknown package. > > should work. To see which packages are installed, you can use > > ghc-pkg -l And surprizingly this gives the result rts, base, haskell98, network, haskell-src, readline, unix, lang, concurrent, posix, util, data, text, net, hssource which means neither HOpenGL, nor GLUT comes preinstalled in ghc-6.0.1 :(. Any solutions ?? Arun Kumar S Jadhav, MTech 1st Year, KReSIT, IIT-Bombay Bombay ------------------------------------ Never negotiate out of fear Never fear to negotiate

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RE: segfault with heap profiling.
by Simon Marlow 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

> I've been getting a segfault whenever I try to run my program with > +RTS -hc (having compiled with profiling enabled). Any idea > what might > cause this, or how I might track it down? I am using ghc > 6.0.1, and see > this problem on both linux (debian testing) and macos X. On > macos X the > crash log looks like it's crashing in heapCensusChain. > > My program uses ForeignPtrs quite a bit, so my only (rather > weak) theory is > that perhaps the profiler is trying to look at the contents of my > ForeignPtrs? Unlikely. Any chance you could package up a test case that we can repeat here? > In a sort of related question, is there any way I can make > the heap size > decrease? In my test case, the memory usage peaks pretty > early, and then it > keeps running for another few hours. It would be nice if it > could shrink > the heap again to release swap. GHC doesn't currently release any memory back to the OS. It would be possible to do the easy thing, which is to just release a megablock (1Mb chunk) when it becomes unused, but you'd probably want some logic to prevent thrashing (repeatedly freeing and re-acquiring the same chunk). A better idea would be to use madvise() to reclaim the swap associated with dead memory, without actually freeing it back to the OS. > And actually, even though according to > +RTS -Sstderr my live memory usage drops, the heap size (as > seen by top) > keeps going up (a megabyte every second or so) until the process gets > killed because it's eaten up all the swap and memory. :( I > suspect the > problem may be in the allocation I'm doing via ForeignPtrs, > but I'm not > sure how to track anything down without profiling working. Almost certainly this is caused by malloc() allocation. As far as I'm aware, GHC keeps good track of memory that it has allocated itself. Cheers, Simon

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RE: Installing _all_ documentation?
by Simon Marlow 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

> Simon Marlow writes: > > > The same technique works for Happy, Haddock & Alex, except that > > some of these (I forget which) didn't have the doc directory > > included in the standard build, so you had to go into eg. happy/doc > > and say 'make install-docs' explicitly. > > Adding "SGMLDocWays := html" to each projects respective "mk/build.mk" > file builds the documentation just fine. Thanks for the help! > > One more nit, though: "make install-docs" won't do anything in the > "haddock" and "happy" projects! For "alex", it works fine, but > installs the documentation to "${datadir}/html" whereas GHC installs > it documentation into "${datadir}/ghc-6.3/html", which seems to be > slightly inconsistent. Thanks; I've now fixed all these problems. Cheers, Simon

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RE: Installing _all_ documentation?
by Simon Marlow 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

> Ian Lynagh writes: > > > echo "SGMLDocWays := html dvi ps" >> mk/build.mk > > This works great! Is there any chance I can "extend" this technique so > that it will include the documentation of, say happy, haddock, and > alex as well? The same technique works for Happy, Haddock & Alex, except that some of these (I forget which) didn't have the doc directory included in the standard build, so you had to go into eg. happy/doc and say 'make install-docs' explicitly. Cheers, Simon

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