Frost over pakila

Frozen trees

Delete delete delete delete please delete please delete the word sed.

There are times when I just should use perl.

Minimal remote webserver test.

Using sh and telnet magic.

Workmate of mine had to resort to perl. I was sure it could be done with just a sh-script. I was right. What a beauty. Copy & Paste below or go to pastebin.

#!/bin/sh
timeout=10
tracefile=telnettrace
HOST=$1

telnet_commands() {
 tout=${timeout}
 echo open $1 80

 sleep 1

 while [ "$tout" -ge 0 ]
 do
  if tail -1 $tracefile 2>/dev/null | grep "character" > /dev/null
  then
   echo "HEAD / HTTP/1.0\n"
   tout=-15
   continue
  else
   sleep 1
   tout=$[$tout-1]
  fi
 done
 tout=${timeout}
 while [ "$tout" -ge 0 ]
 do
  if tail -1 $tracefile 2>/dev/null | grep  "^$" > /dev/null
  then
   tout=-15
   continue
  else
   sleep 1
   tout=$[$tout-1]
  fi
 done
}

telnet_commands $HOST | telnet |tee $tracefile

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Maemo Diablo released!

Go get it while its hot.

[Edit] Apparently you need change distribution to chinook on repositories if you want to install your old applications. Personally I'm going to wait. See internettablettalk for more detail.

[Edit 2] See http://wiki.maemo.org/Upgrading_tablet_OS if you're like me and forget allways the appropriate flasher flags.

Radiohead (post industrial?) remix

Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

Greasbag Jamboree imminent

Bring em on!

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