Ever wondered what RSS stands for?
Take your pick.
RSS RDF Site Summary
RSS National News Agency (Nepal)
RSS Radar Signal Simulator
RSS Radar Support System
RSS Radial Shaft Seal
RSS Radiation Shielding Suit (gaming)
RSS Radio Security Service (UK)
RSS Radio Service Software
RSS Radio Sub System
RSS Radiodetermination Satellite System
RSS Rail Security Service
RSS Rail Surveillance Service (railroads)
RSS Range & Synchronization Subsystem
RSS Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (India; National Volunteer Corps)
RSS Ready Service Spare
RSS Ready Supply Store
RSS Real Stream System
RSS Really Simple Syndication
RSS Rec.sport.soccer (newsgroup)
RSS Recall Sensor/Store System
As I’m writing this I’m waiting for Half Life 2 one of the most eagerly awaited games of recent years to be unlocked. This is the first game I’ve ever had to register online before I can use it.
I know piracy is a problem but this is ridiculous, it had better be worth the wait.
This article from the beebs website sums up the problems nicely.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4019095.stm
What about the poor saps with no Internet access (hey Paul), how are they supposed to play?
I really like the Red Dwarf Quote Generator so I’ve created a little Perl script that grabs the quote from the BBCs website and outputs it to /etc/motd on my Linux box.
Here is the source code.
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Script to grab Red Dwarf quote from BBC's website
system("wget -O /tmp/source http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/reddwarf/factbox/index.shtml");
open ( DOCUMENT, "/tmp/source" );
while ( <DOCUMENT> ) {
$doc .= $_; }
close(DOCUMENT);
# Remove tags and other spurious characters
$_ = $doc;
s/\n/ /g;
s/\r/ /g;
s/<.*?>//g;
# Find the quote and set to MOTD
if (/"([\w:\W]*?)"/i) {
$quote = $1;
open ( MOTD, ">/etc/motd" );
print MOTD ("\n\n$quote\n\n");
close(MOTD); }
exit;
I’ve set it up so I get a random Red Dwarf quote everytime I login.
Events in the history of Microsoft from 1975 to the present.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/…
An un-official version would be nice.
Mozilla Firefox is now at version 1.0. With a healthy number of downloads since it was released it remains to be seen whether they’ll reach their goal of 10% market share by the end of 2005.
Good luck to them.
Interesting to see the Google based home page, this will no doubt fuel rumours of further Mozilla/Google collaborations.
You can get Firefox from here.
Nagios is an Open Source host, service and network monitoring program. A colleague is currently evaluating this at work.
When I first used this product it went by the name NetSaint. I assume some sort of legal/copyright problem has forced them to change it.
Anyway if you’re looking for a low cost yet powerful tool for monitoring network resources it’s just the ticket. Just allow plenty of time to get to grips with the documentation.
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