Re: weather

2001-11-19 Thread Bkwyrm
We use this to turn on or not turn on our sprinklers at home via a serial i/o board: # test weather.com; if we find 'rain' or 'showers' in the forecast for today, # we exit. if (`/usr/local/scripts/GET http://www.weather.com/weather/local/92101|perl -pe 's/<.+?>//g;' |grep -B 1 "Feels Like"|head

Re: Way off topic...

2001-07-31 Thread Bkwyrm
Le Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 04:58:17PM -0500, Ryan Davis/Pamela Karr a dit le suivant: } Where did 'foo' and 'bar' come from? I was always under the impression that they came from the old military(?) acronym FUBAR, which stood for "f*cked up beyond all recognition", at least according to good ol'

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2001-07-12 Thread Bkwyrm
Especially to those of us who - yes, we do exist in the tech arena - are equipped with that second "X". Thank you Casey. - Forwarded message from Casey West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:07:18AM -0700, Ginntonnik wrote: : Damn, like a bunch of damn women, Fighting a