pull ids from html forms using the command line

awk '/name=/{ for (i=0;i<NF;i++) if ( substr($i,0,5) == "name=")
print substr($i,7,length($i)-7)}' webformfile.html | uniq

mug talks April 8, 2008

Jorge - Banshee Alpha Hotness, music to your ears just pulled the latest code from source

new features
q adds to the play que
or drag and drop into the que
album art area
new look and feel
rhapsady supplies album art
music and video anything gstreamer supports it can play
uses last.fm

Rick - Gnome Do, launcher and beyond



Jim McQ - awk tricks/hacks
simple tasks all the time

awk options pattern action files

default action is print

ex. awk '{print substr($0,148,0)}' sometext.txt | sort | uniq -c | head -20 | sort -nr
awk 'substr($0,148,2) != " " && substr($0,148,2) != "VA" {print substr($0,148,0)}' sometext.txt | sort | uniq -c | head -20 | sort -nr

awk -F, '{print $24}'| head -20

Jay Wren - Boo as a Python-like language on Mono/.Net
missingmethod exists from ruby
optional parenthesis from ruby
block syntax from ruby and lambda from python
"as a duck" typing
can modify compiler to create domain specific languages

Aaron zenoss talk

Mark Ramm - TBD (Something cool/Pythonic)
google app engine + turbogears

Jim Glutting - scripting your system with PHP

rss feeds and blog reading

RSS is a great feature used web logs but most people don't know what it is or how it can make their lives easier.

It allows you to subscribe to sites you are interested in reading so that instead of visiting every site you like to read you can read it all from one place. Web browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Seamonkey, opera etc) and email clients(Thunderbird, outlook express etc) both support rss.

if you're interested in a more in depth explanation and instruction for certain programs check out the links below

http://rssexplained.blogspot.com/

Firefox:
http://www.as.ua.edu/etech/tutorials/web_tools/managing_web_feeds/firefox/howto.php

Internet Explorer
http://www.as.ua.edu/etech/tutorials/web_tools/managing_web_feeds/internet_explorer/howto.php

Thunderbird
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_RSS_Basics

Outlook Express (not tested)
http://clibra.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/howto-read-rss-feeds-in-outlook-express/

Ubuntu Gutsy is on its way

my blackburn design light issue OR a good customer service experience

I just wanted to note that I had an exceptional experience with the phone customer service for a http://www.blackburndesign.com product which had a small issue. They just earned future repeat business from me :), next time I'm looking for a bike light, pump, bike computer etc I'm going to check there first...oh yeah they also got this free positive review too :)

Roast

ingredients:

1 (3-4 lb.) Chuck Roast

2 medium sized onions, chopped

5 large mushrooms quartered

6 red potatoes, quartered

3 carrots

½ cup of balsamic vinegar

¼ cup flour

Thyme

¼ cup vodka

1 green apple

4-5 cloves garlic

Dried onion

Olive oil

Salt and pepper

Place chuck roast in dutch oven. Coat in olive oil, salt and pepper. Cover and place in oven for 10 minutes at 425. While it is cooking, put onions and garlic in a pan and brown. Cut up carrots and throw them in the pan as well.

Take out Dutch oven and place carrots in. Put back in the oven for 10 more minutes.

Take back out and add everything else, starting with the vinegar and flour, then the other veggies. Put back in oven and reduce heat to 375. Cook for approximately 2 hours.

*this is is a modified recipe of one found on the Internet a few years back...I don't remember where :-

my current 2 cents on the Microsoft - Novell deal

“We at Microsoft respect Novell's point of view on the patent issue, even while we respectfully take a different view. Novell is absolutely right in stating that it did not admit or acknowledge any patent problems as part of entering into the patent collaboration agreement. At Microsoft we undertook our own analysis of our patent portfolio and concluded that it was necessary and important to create a patent covenant for customers of these products. We are gratified that such a solution is now in place." http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/nov06/11-20Statement.mspx

It sounds a lot like while M$ may think some IP patents may be infringed upon they are likely infringing upon more patents Novell holds and do not want to end up on the loosing side of several patent lawsuits.

Hopefully this deal won't end up generating more lawsuits but rather generate a much more usable workplace. It'd be nice to be able to manage all the windows desktops from my Linux desktop and servers so I can make sure they are all getting properly backed-up, updated, current software installed and security settings in place. It would also be very beneficial to have the option to move some of our users to Linux desktops while using the same applications they currently do while enjoying the flexibility of the open source operating system.