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

As far as I can figure we flip over out of the curent Unix time epoch at:

%s = 2147483647 = Tue 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07
%s = 2147483648 = Fri 13 Dec 1901 20:45:52


If any of my current Linux boxes are still running then, are still on 32 bits dates and are still doing anything useful 34 years from now,
I'll be DAMN proud of them and won't give a stuff that the time has gone loopy! ;o)

We could always set them back to 1938 then ;o)

I've got one thing to say...

aotea:/var/mail/spam(61M@) [18691 msgs/6259 new]-(date-received)----------(end)-
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18669 N - Apr 03 Goldie Dorsey ( 39) steely WANT TO BE A STUD LIKE THE OLD
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18673 N - Dec 25 Daniel Burks ( 43) Alfred.buehrmann Zyprexa.a Vicodin.n
18674 N - Dec 25 Percy Ramos ( 42) cnoatia attesbation ck xjki
18675 N - Dec 25 Cornell Santiag ( 31) You will see real reesultz right away
18676 N - Dec 26 Aurelia Schafer ( 34) You have an Overdue Balance
18677 N - Dec 25 Bessie Kane ( 10) blast your boo, rock hard in 60 secon
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18679 N - Dec 25 Myrtice Mellage ( 22) Fwd: Myrtice
18680 N - Dec 25 Luella Sykes ( 46) centpnnial doldruns qq dmwb tb mdw
18681 N - Dec 26 Spencer Fox ( 73) Italian-crafted Rolex - only $65 - $1
18682 N - Dec 25 Ann L. Pierce ( 10) No Pills Or Capsules
18683 N - Dec 25 Frances B. Hoyt ( 12) Please your lover better
18684 N - Dec 25 Marshall Whitta ( 67) Teens deflowered for 50k spending cas
18685 N - Mar 28 Cornelia ( 25) The summer of 2003...get ready now
18686 N - Dec 25 Courtney Palino ( 22) Fwd: Courtney
18687 N - Dec 25 Gideon ( 10) amag Get VIAGRA at $3 per dose. Best
18688 N - Dec 25 Neddie ( 10) cho Energize your sex life right NOW.
18689 N - Dec 25 Gallagher Franc ( 41) Re: XVZCEFYO, yesterday you were
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18691 N - Dec 25 Cynthia Bryson ( 21) Ikissed her ruby lips


That's a LOT of spam!!! :o)
(I haven't had a chance to clear the "spam" account where most of our spam gets directed since I left to go home to NZ on the 18th of July... and there's that many in there now!

John's OpenVMS Webpage

Hmmm... this looks cool too Geeklog - The Ultimate Weblog System (*shrug* about the security issues)
It's the software that Ralu is using on her site...

And today, to brave of the cold I...

Discovered how to change the colour scheme in playmp3list (YUCK! I hate the Ocean one that it is set to in Debian!!!)

Found out how to define a custom icon for my homepage which overrides the default site icon...

Found The Kewpie Doll Massacre in the GreyMatter Photo Gallery :o)

Hmmm GreyMatter, you don't think I might have been searching for my own blog software do you ???

Oh and I thought about joining the kiwi blogs too...

Here are some Javascript bits I came up with the other day...

They won't work in Intranet Exploder, but they'll work with Ye Grande Ole Oprey, Nutscrape, Mozilly and Firebird... :o)

• Google Search
• Hotbot Search
• Blog This
• Validate CSS
• Validate HTML
• Check Links
• Backflip it