Then a friend from work has 3 pc’s for sale at his website.
Month: September 2003
Yesterday was the time to install the next build of Firebird as it was nagging me that I was 4 weeks old. So I downloaded the nightly build and was pleasantly suprised to see that my Pop3 webadmin interface no longer prompts me for a username and password for every item on the page, ditto for my adsl router. Very pleased! The tabbrowser extension needed to be updated as it kept complaining and I also upgraded linky too.
Unixgirl details New lows in pop-ups where a message appears telling you that you have a virus if you go to http://www.ownbox.com/treasure . I’ve deliberately not linked the url. I can just see this being used by spyware authors and phonedialers
I had the need to change a directory listing of all files on a server from a name such as f:\directory\fred.doc to DIRECTORY/FRED.DOC ie to remove the f:, swap \ to / and uppercase all the files. Using SED I was able to do all of those using repeated substitutions like the following, sed “s/f:\\i/i/;s/\\/\//g;s/a/A/g;s/b/B/g;s/c/C/g;s/d/D/g;s/e/E/g;…s/y/Y/g;s/z/Z/g” . Thats a really powerful utility and very complicated. I’m sure there is an easier way to UPCASE the characters but I didn’t have the time to discover it. For those of you curious as to why I need to do this, its because I’m creating a cpio of some data on nt, and copying it to unix. If I uncpio’d the data on a unixbox, the backslashes acting as directorys would just be treated as a normal file character.
The 3 Column version output of Firda’s Firdamatic is up.
Mark has a page about shortening urls but with a domain like absoblogginlutely.net its likely to increase the length of the resulting url!
Mark has a page about shortening urls but with a domain like absoblogginlutely.net its likely to increase the length of the resulting url!
Fired up Miranda (Instant Messenger software) and got a message from Microsoft saying I needed aRequired Messenger Upgrade but when you click on this, it doesn’t have any information about third party clients.
The power company tells you that you are using too much power.