I couldn't install Dropbox properly. My search on the Internet about the problem suggests that for certain installs, some libraries need to be updated.
Anyway, I installed an owncloud client, and I just need a username, password for access to your owncloud server. Regards, Obet On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 02:40:07 +0000 Danny Ching <dlcco...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's the right idea. So that any new file is automatically updated. > > Tell us as soon as your Dropbox is up. I'll mirror it on my end. > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:51 PM Roberto Verzola <rverz...@gn.apc.org> > wrote: > > > Hi pluggers! > > > > I've installed dropbox on Linux. I get responses when I type dropbox > > help, dropbox status, etc. It also says it is NOT running. > > > > When I run dropbox start, it say run "dropbox start -i" to install > > the daemon. I thought this would install dropboxd in memory. > > > > But "dropbox start -i" tells me to download the "Dropbox proprietary > > daemon", and then does a huge file transfer, without telling me > > what is really happening, only a horizontal bar that shows % > > progress (not actual size). And since it took minutes for it to > > reach 1%, I thought these were unusually huge files, for software I > > thought I already installed. So I canceled the transfer. > > > > Any advice? > > > > For context, the solution I am working on (Danny Ching, pls tell me > > if I'm on the right track), is to save the Luzon load curve jpeg > > that I can now properly generate (thanks to people here who helped > > out!), to a directory which will be mirrored on Dropbox, and which > > will then be shared with others interested in mirroring it on their > > servers. > > > > Let me know also if this is a good solution or if there's a simpler > > one. > > > > Here's another problem I already solved but it's an ugly klutz. NGCP > > makes available the daily power supply status of Luzon (also Visayas > > and Mindanao) at the url ngcp.ph/power_status.asp. > > > > I get an html file and buried within it is the information I want > > (Luzon MW capacity for the day). > > > > I'm looking for a more resilient and simpler way. if any, than the > > Python code below. It's a klutz, I know. The slightest change could > > break it. I tried Beautiful Soup but I can't seem to install it > > properly due to dependency problems that couldn't be resolved. > > > > Greetings to all, > > > > Obet > > > > Extracting Luzon MW capacity from the html file returned by > > ngcp.ph/power_status.asp: > > > > > > from HTMLParser import HTMLParser > > > > class HeadingParser(HTMLParser): > > > > inHeading = False > > prevdata = 'xxx' > > done = False > > capacity = [] > > > > def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs): > > if tag == 'td' or tag=='p': > > self.inHeading = True > > > > def handle_data(self, data): > > if self.inHeading: > > ''' > > if not data.strip().isdigit(): print '\n'+ > > data , else: print ', '+data.strip() , > > ''' > > if not self.done: > > self.capacity.append(data.strip()) if 'System Peak' in data: > > self.done = True > > def handle_endtag(self, tag): > > if tag == 'td' or tag=='p': > > self.inHeading = False > > > > > > def daysupply_asof(): > > hParser = HeadingParser() > > f = open('ngcp.dat') > > html = f.read() > > f.close() > > hParser.feed(html) > > when = hParser.capacity[1].replace(',',' ').replace(')', > > '').split() > > return ' '.join([when[7], when[5], when[6], when[3], > > when[2]]), hParser.capacity[3] > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph