Hmmm... I'm quoted in China or should I say "taken out of context and *mis*-quoted in China!!!

(also here)

Which has been scraped from http://freshmeat.net/projects/fetchmail/?topic_id=28 at some stage...

Which *used* to have the Cooler URL http://freshmeat.net/p/fetchmail/

I hope all this work for SETI gets to be useful one day... seems like it ain't... how long should one keep going before giving up hope ?

Class of Jul 19 2000

There are times some people have expressed concerns over the security of running SETI, and
Sometimes I wish I could really be contributing to something useful!!!

(like do they really need supercomputers for DNA sequencing ? Is part of the job number crunching or pattern matching ? can't we help out too ?)

God I love Google!!!

Thinking about writing a script which when given a list of files (or just two files?) goes through and looks inside each one and stores what the value of each byte is, then compares this with the next file... so that I could make it tell me what they have in common - to make writing a magic file entry easier... like a multi-file diff by byte not by line...

I searched for: Google Search: xxd in perl (because xxd and od -c are my tools of choice for deconstructing files...) and I get this:

Voltarian [simple] Perl Golf (xxd )

:o)

Now the hard bit is done... ;o)

Discussing Title Case in Perl...

Sliding with Jim: Perl Tidbit for Title Case