Cool that parted worked out for you. Had it worked for me the Thanksgiving weekend would have been more relaxing.
I honestly wasn't in the mood to futz with it as I was upgrading to Panther, all I really wanted to do was make life easy for the backup.
In the end I tar'd up what I wanted to save and tried to cp the 20G tar file to my windows box (oops I just admitted I have one of those;-) after 3 failures (and 2 random hard resets on the windows machine) I ended up splitting the file into 512M chunks and pushing it to the Windows box at the same time.
After all this I know the following:
1) something is wrong with my windows machine.
2) I should have split up the drive when I got the PowerBook last December.
he will be leading the 'effort to improve the Linux desktop experience via kernel development.
No, I didn't RTFA, too many beers too close to the holidays, but doesn't this sound a lot like what we always chastize MS for, integrating the UI (IE, Explorer...) with the core of the OS?
The version of parted that is on the Gentoo live CD claims to have hfs support.
I tried it and it did not work, I read someplce that Apple changed something to do with the on disk format somewhat recently... It didn't damage the data, it just quit after a while. I didn't feel like mucking with it any longer so I just backed up and wiped the drive.
Let this be a lesson to you all, when the label says wash in cold water, make sure you only use cold water or things might shrink A LOT.
Who the hell am I kidding,/. readers don't do laundry.;-)
I have to say that was a quality case mod.
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Actually the book does stress heavily the reasons behind registering your bots and getting an OK from the site owner/responsible party and generally behaving like a decent human.
I agree with you to some extent, but if I am grabbing a dozen freely available pages from a site and storing the information for my own use (not selling it or publishing it), no foul. Otherwise they could go after people who print/write down/copy-paste the info under the same act.
PS: Thanks for showing me that, now my head hurts.;-)
PSS: My example doesn't fit into their definition of Liability or Injury per SEC. 3 as it's not made public. (I am not a lawyer, YMMV)
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Hack 24 Painless RSS with Template::Extract
It's actually a good read. They try to stay away from regex parsing as it tends to be fragile. They do cover it in one of the hacks though.
Most of the hacks have to do with using various methods to walk the doc tree to look for what you want like a certain cell in a table (think header with names) then jumping up one to get that row then grabbing the next row to get your data cells.
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Think of datamining, prime example:
You want to track your rank on www.alexa.com and the ranking of some of your key competitors. You build a spider that goes out each night and scrapes the info you want and stores it localy. now you have history on your and you competitiors ranking over time.
This way you can see that when your traffic is down so is your competitor or maybe when yours is down theirs is up...
This also happens to be one of the examples in the book.
I think your point is a bad comparisson to the parent. I'm not saying your point is invalid, just not in this context.
The parent says that if the attacks on the RBL sites (very recent) wasn't worth investigating then an attack on SCO should not be worth investigating.
Your examples are 60-70 years apart, not within a few months of each other.
Or in other words, If it's not worth our time to look into a DDoS of some people who are trying to slow down the influx of spam, we probably shouldn't be interrested in who ran a DDoS against SCO.
Maybe it's possible that many people voted for the Mac even though they do not own one? I know I have seen many people here and in person that would be happy to own an Apple if the perceived* cost wasn't so high.
On the other hand, I can easily see a hand full of zealots inflating the numbers.
*perceived because most people only look at the initial cost and don't factor in the fact that there are many people using 5+ year old Macs on a daily basis.
What you are seeing is a combination of lazy advertisers and a missing "feature" in google ad words.
Google does not require you to flag adult rated ad words keywords as adult, I think they should and respect your safe search settings. Although the default safe search settings would not filter this anyway. Most other PPC ad sites require you to flag adult links as adult for that very reason.
Advertisers can be very specific with their keywords, many aren't.
Some optimization experts will tell you to target outside your market. The thinking is if someone is searching for foo and bar shows up and they happen to be interested in bar, you have a better chance at a conversion because they aren't looking at 10 other sites with bar.
I have one small clarification. Google will stop accepting advertising for these companies, I saw no mention of them dropping anything from the index.
Unless I missed something.
One could be interpreted as a form of censorship the other is in line with the "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason" signs you see posted in many physical establishments.
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Cool that parted worked out for you. Had it worked for me the Thanksgiving weekend would have been more relaxing.
;-) after 3 failures (and 2 random hard resets on the windows machine) I ended up splitting the file into 512M chunks and pushing it to the Windows box at the same time.
;-)
I honestly wasn't in the mood to futz with it as I was upgrading to Panther, all I really wanted to do was make life easy for the backup.
In the end I tar'd up what I wanted to save and tried to cp the 20G tar file to my windows box (oops I just admitted I have one of those
After all this I know the following:
1) something is wrong with my windows machine.
2) I should have split up the drive when I got the PowerBook last December.
3) I currently own my last Windows desktop
OK, so I went to RTFA.
/. :-)
Please mod my former post into the gutter, I will pick it up in the morning.
Damnit, this should be a lesson to you all, don't base your opinions on what get's posted on
he will be leading the 'effort to improve the Linux desktop experience via kernel development.
No, I didn't RTFA, too many beers too close to the holidays, but doesn't this sound a lot like what we always chastize MS for, integrating the UI (IE, Explorer...) with the core of the OS?
I guess I should go RTFA now.
Oops, I dropped a +, it is HFS+.
There is also a static build of the patched parted in the newsgroup post link above, but it just SegFaulted with the Gentoo live cd.
The version of parted that is on the Gentoo live CD claims to have hfs support.
I tried it and it did not work, I read someplce that Apple changed something to do with the on disk format somewhat recently... It didn't damage the data, it just quit after a while. I didn't feel like mucking with it any longer so I just backed up and wiped the drive.
links:
Gentoo
Gentoo PPC FAQ mentions using parted
parted patches
newsgroup post from the above patch author
Not that I condone the behavior, but it took approximately 15 seconds* for me to find a torrent for the unlimited version.
*wall clock timings YMMV
Let this be a lesson to you all, when the label says wash in cold water, make sure you only use cold water or things might shrink A LOT.
/. readers don't do laundry. ;-)
Who the hell am I kidding,
I have to say that was a quality case mod.
Actually the book does stress heavily the reasons behind registering your bots and getting an OK from the site owner/responsible party and generally behaving like a decent human.
;-)
I agree with you to some extent, but if I am grabbing a dozen freely available pages from a site and storing the information for my own use (not selling it or publishing it), no foul. Otherwise they could go after people who print/write down/copy-paste the info under the same act.
PS: Thanks for showing me that, now my head hurts.
PSS: My example doesn't fit into their definition of Liability or Injury per SEC. 3 as it's not made public. (I am not a lawyer, YMMV)
Hack 24 Painless RSS with Template::Extract
It's actually a good read. They try to stay away from regex parsing as it tends to be fragile. They do cover it in one of the hacks though.
Most of the hacks have to do with using various methods to walk the doc tree to look for what you want like a certain cell in a table (think header with names) then jumping up one to get that row then grabbing the next row to get your data cells.
Think of datamining, prime example:
You want to track your rank on www.alexa.com and the ranking of some of your key competitors. You build a spider that goes out each night and scrapes the info you want and stores it localy. now you have history on your and you competitiors ranking over time.
This way you can see that when your traffic is down so is your competitor or maybe when yours is down theirs is up...
This also happens to be one of the examples in the book.
Depends on what you need to do.
If all you need is Windows functionality in Linux and Win98 will do, look into Win4Lin.
I have used and it worked well for my needs at the time, easily native speeds if not better (probably due to I/O being better).
Matt- Nice point, best I can do without mod points.
:-)
PS: Thanks for Meteo
I think your point is a bad comparisson to the parent. I'm not saying your point is invalid, just not in this context.
The parent says that if the attacks on the RBL sites (very recent) wasn't worth investigating then an attack on SCO should not be worth investigating.
Your examples are 60-70 years apart, not within a few months of each other.
Or in other words, If it's not worth our time to look into a DDoS of some people who are trying to slow down the influx of spam, we probably shouldn't be interrested in who ran a DDoS against SCO.
Nope, not jealous... They landed at the airport right next to my office, Santa Monica.
It's a pretty safe bet that our office AP is in that list, most likely as an Informational SSID.
Had they gone down the 405 instead of PCH, mine might be in there, but then again I don't broadcast it.
Somehow I don't think they can crack them that quickly, can they? Don't they need a decent sampling of packets?
Either way, mine would fall into the Hackerish category.
Personally I would prefer that one to
shell=progman.exe
It actually still works in XP, you just have to hack the registry to get there of course you can always Start->run->progman
Start->Settings->Control Panel
;-)
Display
Appearance Tab
Windows and Buttons drop down list
Windows Classic style
Welcome to 1998
Actually it's a stupid gap in admins and developers.
You see Register Globals has been OFF by default since 4.2.0 which was released 22-Apr-2002.
But yes it is a mess.
OK, You got me... I'd blame it on lack of coffee, but if I'm having that problem at 2p then I should just give it up altogether. ;-)
While I completely agree with you.
Maybe it's possible that many people voted for the Mac even though they do not own one? I know I have seen many people here and in person that would be happy to own an Apple if the perceived* cost wasn't so high.
On the other hand, I can easily see a hand full of zealots inflating the numbers.
*perceived because most people only look at the initial cost and don't factor in the fact that there are many people using 5+ year old Macs on a daily basis.
Or run the update from the CLI.
OK, I'm confused. You either want one of those for xmas or that's the way you feel before/during/after the xmas season.
Funny though.
You seem to have both missed the point and hit it on the head in the same post.
The book is not about developing games marketed towards women, but more about developing games that don't drive them away.
What you are seeing is a combination of lazy advertisers and a missing "feature" in google ad words.
Google does not require you to flag adult rated ad words keywords as adult, I think they should and respect your safe search settings. Although the default safe search settings would not filter this anyway. Most other PPC ad sites require you to flag adult links as adult for that very reason.
Advertisers can be very specific with their keywords, many aren't.
Some optimization experts will tell you to target outside your market. The thinking is if someone is searching for foo and bar shows up and they happen to be interested in bar, you have a better chance at a conversion because they aren't looking at 10 other sites with bar.
I agree with you pretty much across the board.
I have one small clarification. Google will stop accepting advertising for these companies, I saw no mention of them dropping anything from the index.
Unless I missed something.
One could be interpreted as a form of censorship the other is in line with the "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason" signs you see posted in many physical establishments.