Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-06 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you ever noticed a google resultset entry that didn't have a cache link? I don't know if it is something that a publisher can set programatically or if it is a business arrangement. Pages are cached by default. To get removed you have to

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-06 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Andrew M. Langmead wrote: On Aug 5, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote: I meant it in the sense of the Google cache, where you have an alternative in case the main one goes down, but the main link is prominent and obviously the one to follow. Have you ever noticed a google

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-06 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:34 PM -0400 8/5/04, Aaron Sherman wrote: On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:38:50PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: This is a very, *very* good thing. It had a link to my blog on it -- a blog which lives on my server, which is in a closet in my daughter's bedroom, behind a DSL line with a 256kbit

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-06 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 04.08.05 19:31 -0400 ) Uri Guttman: at least we should have meeting info and directions, talk subjects, a who's who page of members, job stuff?, boston perl things (what??), etc. maybe some of those things go on the main web site- don't need to duplicate lists. wiki is better for putting

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-06 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 6, 2004, at 6:14 AM, Ted Zlatanov wrote: You misunderstand. If registration is required, a crawler will fail anyway, Unless the crawler is itself registered. If I wrote a crawler, I'd keep a database of usernames and passwords for this

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-06 Thread Uri Guttman
TZ == Ted Zlatanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You misunderstand. If registration is required, a crawler will fail anyway, Unless the crawler is itself registered. If I wrote a crawler, I'd keep a database of usernames and passwords for this purpose. TZ That's not a typical

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-06 Thread Ron Newman
That's not a typical web crawler, and obviously not what I meant. Such databases already exist (e.g. bugmenot) but using them to rip a page is definitely abusive. Not abusive at all. It's a public service. Think Google, not rip-off. Go to news.google.com and you will see many results that

[Boston.pm] possibly off-topic: html, metadata, and a perl script???

2004-08-06 Thread Greg London
OK, so this is off topic in context, but the solution may be a perl script, so it may be on-topic in solution... I have some short stories, excerpts, poems that I want to put under a CreativeCommons (CC) license, CC-BY-NC. When you select a CC license, they give you an excerpt of metadata to put

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-06 Thread Gyepi SAM
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:43:20AM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: JS why not just run it up the flagpole and see who salutes! i won't touch that with a 10 foot flagpole! A 3 foot flagczech might be easier to manage, I'd say. -Gyepi ___ Boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-06 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not a typical web crawler, and obviously not what I meant. Such databases already exist (e.g. bugmenot) but using them to rip a page is definitely abusive. Not abusive at all. It's a public service. It's abusive to the content provider who

Re: [Boston.pm] possibly off-topic: html, metadata, and a perl script???

2004-08-06 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 04.08.06 11:11 -0400 ) Greg London: I usually use OpenOffice to create my html. hmm ... Do I need a perl script that takes my html and inserts the metadata into it? Or can I do it in OO? just use a text editor [vim, notepad, the emacs operating system, whatever] and cut and paste. I