[nlug] Re: get robots.txt

2009-11-11 Thread Jason Orendorff
Or if you happen to be using Python ...for some reason they have a standard module that will not only load the file for you, it'll parse it and answer questions about what it says you can fetch. http://docs.python.org/library/robotparser.html import robotparser rp =

[nlug] Re: Topics/Presentations for tomorrow's NLUG meeting?

2009-04-13 Thread Jason Orendorff
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: Has anyone offered to do a presentation at tomorrow's NLUG meeting? If not, anyone got any ideas for presentations or discussions? I could present about how dynamic programming languages (Perl, Python, Ruby,

[nlug] Re: Topics/Presentations for tomorrow's NLUG meeting?

2009-04-13 Thread Jason Orendorff
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:48 PM, crash...@gmail.com wrote: I cannot speak for anyone else. However, that sounds like a good presentation. If only I could make the meeting. Since no one else has put anything on the web site, do you want to change the info and present at 6:00pm tomorrow?

[nlug] Re: You just have to love math...

2008-11-19 Thread Jason Orendorff
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Jack Coats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should have seen it run a big balanced sort using the tape rives! Those algorithms live on in Knuth. He claims they're still relevant, something about memory access locality. I suspect that's pretty much nonsense, but