Sean’s Obsessions

There are those that are going to embrace Voice-Data convergence, and those that are wasting time and money.
I’ve always thought along these lines, but my recent trip to see a large call centre in action reinforced it.
It’s difficult to gather my thoughts on this issue and explain, so start here:
The End of The Middle - […]

Spent the past week in Indianapolis and Atlanta meeting with a vendor and our parent organization. It took over 8 hours to get between the two sites because of delays and transfers. Simply absurd. I was gone almost 5 whole days, and only two were productive, the rest were wasted with travel.
Airport […]

I’ve known about WWW::Mechanize for a while, but never really bothered to look into it. I figured that between LWP::UserAgent and HTML::TokeParser, there was nothing I couldn’t do.
So, I find myself flipping through Spidering Hacks, and I see they have some examples using it. Interested, I read further…
Normally, when scraping a web page, […]

Upgraded my RH9 box to Fedora core 1 tonight with Yum. The only reboot was after the install finished, ie I didn’t even reboot to start the install. Very simple.
1 Install the Yum
RPM
2 Edit /etc/yum.conf:

[core]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - core
baseurl=http://www.muug.mb.ca/mirror/redhat/fedora/linux/core/1/$basearch/os/
[updates]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - updates
baseurl=http://www.muug.mb.ca/mirror/redhat/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/$basearch/
[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - […]