Posted in Engineering by: sean
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27 Feb
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 [...]
Posted in Personal by: sean
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27 Feb
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 security is [...]
Posted in Linux/Unix/OpenSource by: sean
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15 Feb
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, [...]
Posted in Linux/Unix/OpenSource by: sean
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08 Feb
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 [...]