Re: OT : DVD

2001-01-15 Thread mallum

Yes its the DVD version. At the front of the shop, think they were about 15
quid each.

On the subject of games, anyone see the 'bits' special on C4 the weekend about 
violent games - its was pretty good for 'bits' ? 

mallum

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 04:22:39PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
 * mallum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
  I've seen this in electronics botique on Oxford Street.
  
 
 as in the DVD version to be run on a DVD player? as for it being bad gameplay
 i don't really care i just want it for historic sake - if i wanted gameplay
 i'd play NetHack, phear me and my B,Fp,+3 BDSM ;-)
 

 
 -- 
 Greg McCarroll  http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
 



Re: (OT-ish) whois microsoft.com

2001-01-18 Thread mallum

Netscape has;

NETSCAPE.COM.SHOULD-DUMP.AOL-AND-REHIRE.JWZ.BUT.CHECK-OUT.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG

mallum

On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:12:19PM -, Robert Shiels wrote:
  
 SLASHDOT.ORG.SUCKS.COMPARED.TO.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG
 
 jimphillips has one on Microsoft too.
 
 MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NO.MATCH.FOR.THE.UEBER-GEEKS.AT.JIMPHILLIPS.ORG
 
 Hmmm
 
 /Robert
 
 



Free T-Shirts

2001-02-01 Thread mallum

It seems that Foyles on Tottenham Crt Rd are giving away free orielly shirts.
I got a Perl and a Linux one just by asking ( there are loads on some
orielly display in there ) and not even purchasing anything.

mallum
http://10.am/Development/Perl



Re: Free T-Shirts

2001-02-01 Thread mallum

on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:48:14PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
 
 
 hurrah for the mayhem of foyles!
 

Its always fun when you get served by the crazy russian girl in there who
always will ask you some bizzare visual studio question, when you inform her
you use Linux and not Windows she then tells you Linux is no good because it
dosn't support DCOM. hm

mallum



Re: Scraping news feeds?

2001-03-09 Thread mallum



I run http://10.am and do this on a largish scale.

For aggregating RSS feeds I use RSSLite [1] rather than XML::RSS. RSSLite
avoids using expat and is a little naughty in parsing XML that would make
expat barf ( Alot of RSS feeds unfortunatly contain bad XML ).

For actual scaping of sites I basically use meaty regexps or HTML::Parser.

10.am also supplys feeds [2] in RSS if you want to use them.

I hope to Open Source 10.am in the near future when I sort out some
contractual obligations.

mallum

[1] http://industrial-linux.org/RSSLite/
[2] http://10.am/docs/feeds.htm (eg http://10.am/Development/Perl-rss )

on Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:36:56PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
 
 What's the best way to scrape a variety of news headlines from various
 sites? Sort of a moreover for the intranet...
 
 
 -- 
 Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
 Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star   http://www.deep-purple.com
   Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire
   -
 



Re: Wavelan

2001-04-03 Thread mallum

Yes it DOES work.

I run an Orinocco in an ELSA pcmcia-isa card ( about 35 quid ) on my gateway
at home. Just make sure you use the latest pcmcia stuff and run the cards in
'Ad-Hoc' mode. Theres no need for bridging either, Linux seems to happily 
ferry packets from wired to wireless ( and vise versa) with justa bit of 
subnetting.

mallum

on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:24:32AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
 Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  my current plan of attack is probably 2 lucent/orinoco wavelan 128/RC4
  cards .. one in the laptop .. one in the border router machine on an ISA
  adaptor .. one guy I spoke to reckoned it would work .. another reckoned
  I was an idjut (well we knew _that_ already ..) and you had to have a
  'access point' not just two wavelan cards .. dunno which to believe as
  half the access points just have a wavelan card in them anyway ... I do
  know that they are piss expensive over here .. might wait till I go to
  the states ... 
 
 Should work between the two cards, just make sure you have some
 crossover aether between the two...
 
 -- 
 Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
 Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star   http://www.deep-purple.com
 Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy