[thelist] Friday Fun - Random New Media Company Generator

[David Bindel]

> http://adactio.com/extras/newmediagenerator/

Some of the funnier ones I got:

	ThirstyFoot
	 Restoring competitive skills.

People lose their competitive skills all the time...

	KnowledgeSquirrel 
	 Synergising competitive services.

Uhh... How can competing services work together?

	NewHead
	 Solving high-impact solutions.

Now that's an interesting concept: solving a solution!

I owe a tip for this, so here goes.

<tip subject="PHP partial file read function" author="David Bindel">
Reads $read bytes of file $filename starting at the offset byte $begin:

<?php
function readPartFile($filename, $begin, $read) {
    $ifstream = fopen($filename, 'r');
    if ($ifstream)
        if (fseek($ifstream, $begin) == 0)
            $string .= fread($ifstream, $read);
    fclose ($fd);
    return $string;
}

readPartFile('file.txt', 10000, 10000); // <--- example call to function

/*
 * opens file "file.txt",
 * starts reading at the 10000th byte,
 * reads 10000 bytes from the file.
 */
?>
</tip>

HTH,
David

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