Re: [OT] Anyone want a Defender?
you still selling this Dave. If so Id definetly be interested. My ones completely bust. mallum on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:35:19PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > I've got bored with my Defender, so am selling it. Anyone interested? > > ObLondon.pm: defender beats watching buffy on the stupid-box any day of > the week. > > -- > David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ > > Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our "most advanced operating system >in the world" which we decided to release incomplete just for a laugh >
Re: Wavelan
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 > >
Re: Debian question ...
on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:43:28PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > is there an easy way of getting a list of all the packages which are > currently installed? I dislike dselect intensely, and the docs for > dpkg et al don't say anything useful. > > -- dpkg -l Useful page; http://www.spack.org/geek/apt-help.html mallum
Re: Scraping news feeds?
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: Free T-Shirts
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
Free T-Shirts
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: (OT-ish) whois microsoft.com
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 > >
(OT-ish) whois microsoft.com
Im pretty sure this is a new one. do a whois microsoft.com and see what you get. mallum http://10.am
Re: OT : DVD
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 : DVD
I've seen this in electronics botique on Oxford Street. You can also get the sequal to dragons lair (space something...?) and a some wierd hologram based game which I can nearly remember. Beware however, Some Playstation II magazine reviewed these and gave them either 1 or 0 out of 10. Im waiting for the firefox laser disc game to be on DVD. mallum On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 05:00:11PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > Did I hear correctly a rumour recently that you could currently on > in the near future get Dragons Lair on DVD. For those of you unfamiliar > with it Dragons Lair was a laser disk based game where you only had to > hit one or two buttons each scene. I can't see a reason it couldn't > be done on DVD somehow. > > While talking about it, i have a very very old memory of it being > the cover story in computer and video game annual or some such > > -- > Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net >
