Re: [Hampshire] Multiple Wifi access points acting as one.

2011-09-12 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:20:39 +0100, james.dut...@gmail.com said: > Also, it leaves the client to decide which AP to use. Which piece of equipment do you believe is best placed to decide upon the quality of the signal the client is receiving? > It is much better for the central device to decide w

Re: [Hampshire] Multiple Wifi access points acting as one.

2011-09-12 Thread Ian Grody
You can get AP's that cleverly talk to one another and adjust themselves to their environment. I have seen them in other equipment too, Firetide being the one I remember most. They are really designed for large setups, hospitals, campus, large venues in fields or what not with hundreds of client

Re: [Hampshire] natty - 2 weird things

2011-09-12 Thread Leo
On 11/09/11 16:46, Rob Malpass wrote: 2) Far more serious - I'm making changes to the network configuration (I want a static ip address and its default is dhcp) using network connections on the system menu and either 2a) It's disregarding the changes I make i.e. I change the ip address, then I

[Hampshire] More free bits

2011-09-12 Thread Paul Tansom
A smaller list this time. If anyone is interested in 10 removable HD caddies let me know. They are ATA66 capable and, as per usual, fit into a 5.25" bay. a couple of them have the lock broken (when the key turned the barrel turned with it and snapped), but the bit that holds the drive will still fi

Re: [Hampshire] Multiple Wifi access points acting as one.

2011-09-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 12 September 2011 19:56, Bob Dunlop wrote: > Hi, > >> Meru networks make it so that you can roam about from AP to AP without >> the client PC having to do anything. > > Looks like someone selling snake oil to me. > > Doubt if it's needed even in an industrial environment if your sysadmin > know

Re: [Hampshire] Multiple Wifi access points acting as one.

2011-09-12 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, > Meru networks make it so that you can roam about from AP to AP without > the client PC having to do anything. Looks like someone selling snake oil to me. Doubt if it's needed even in an industrial environment if your sysadmin knows what he's doing. Definitely overkill for the domestic env

Re: [Hampshire] Multiple Wifi access points acting as one.

2011-09-12 Thread Alan Pope
On 12 September 2011 17:49, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > The trouble with multiple APs is that you either have to name each one > a different name, and have the client attach to each one as they move, > or purchase an expensive solution like Meru networks. > Or name them the same? I have had 3

[Hampshire] Multiple Wifi access points acting as one.

2011-09-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, Is there any open source software to have features similar to: http://www.lever.co.uk/meru_wireless_networks.html?gclid=CPiX-cCRmKsCFW4KtAodRgGmwg Meru networks make it so that you can roam about from AP to AP without the client PC having to do anything. I have a friend who has a very large h

Re: [Hampshire] natty - 2 weird things

2011-09-12 Thread Rob Malpass
> -Original Message- > From: hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:hampshire- > boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Alan Pope > Sent: 12 September 2011 12:00 > To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] natty - 2 weird things > > On 11 September 2011 16:46,

Re: [Hampshire] natty - 2 weird things

2011-09-12 Thread Alan Pope
On 11 September 2011 16:46, Rob Malpass wrote: > 1) For some reason, the top bar (whatever it's called - the one with > Accessories Places System etc) changes from the usual brownish background to > greyish before my very eyes - and I promise I have not setup a different > theme! > Known bug. ht

Re: [Hampshire] natty - 2 weird things

2011-09-12 Thread Rob Malpass
> -Original Message- > From: hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:hampshire- > boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Ian Grody > Sent: 12 September 2011 02:06 > To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] natty - 2 weird things [snip] > > > > > Cheers > > > >

Re: [Hampshire] extracting phrases from a file.

2011-09-12 Thread Jeremy Hooks
Just lurking and I saw this. A simple technique might be to insert a new line before each href then use grep and cut. e.g. open it in vim and do: :%s/href=/^Mhref=/gc :%s/HREF=/^Mhref=/gc (where ^M is ctrl+v followed by the return key) Then grep href filename.html|cut -d '"' -f 2 and option

Re: [Hampshire] extracting phrases from a file.

2011-09-12 Thread Vic
> You can probably do this quite easily in perl. You can. > Are there any nice short programs to do this? Something like this? #! /usr/bin/perl my $fname = $ARGV[0]; die "need a filename" unless defined ($fname); open INFILE, "<$fname" or die "Can't open $fname for reading"; while () {

Re: [Hampshire] extracting phrases from a file.

2011-09-12 Thread Alan Pope
On 12 September 2011 10:54, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >> lynx -dump --hiddenlinks=ignore foo.html >> >> Will dump it to stdout in plain text form with URLs removed. >> > > Sorry, I was not very clear. > I wish to keep the "some url" bits, and get rid of all the "some junk" bits. > I.e. I wish t

Re: [Hampshire] extracting phrases from a file.

2011-09-12 Thread Bob Dunlop
On Mon, Sep 12 at 10:17, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Hi. > > I have a large file that contains snips of http pages. > Each line is like this: > some junk. > > I want extract the "some url" bits. I.e. Remove the href. > You can probably do this quite easily in perl. > Are there any nice

Re: [Hampshire] extracting phrases from a file.

2011-09-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 12 September 2011 10:37, Alan Pope wrote: > On 12 September 2011 10:17, James Courtier-Dutton > wrote: >> I want extract the "some url" bits. I.e. Remove the href. >> You can probably do this quite easily in perl. >> Are there any nice short programs to do this? >> Is it easier to do in some o

Re: [Hampshire] extracting phrases from a file.

2011-09-12 Thread Alan Pope
On 12 September 2011 10:17, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > I want extract the "some url" bits. I.e. Remove the href. > You can probably do this quite easily in perl. > Are there any nice short programs to do this? > Is it easier to do in some other language? > lynx -dump --hiddenlinks=ignore foo.

Re: [Hampshire] extracting phrases from a file.

2011-09-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, I forgot to mention, my starting document is not a valid http document so probably will not load into a web browser. Which what you have said still work? I need this to be run as a cron job, so use of a web browser is probably not the best solution. On 12 September 2011 10:21, Benjie Gillam

Re: [Hampshire] extracting phrases from a file.

2011-09-12 Thread Benjie Gillam
Or, alternatively, open it into a decent web browser and type this into the JavaScript console: var as = document.getElementsByTagName('a'); var hrefs=[]; for (var i = 0, l = as.length; i Hi. > > I have a large file that contains snips of http pages. > Each line is like this: > some junk...

[Hampshire] non-functioning key

2011-09-12 Thread Owain Clarke
Morning. I wonder if anyone could give me any ideas for what might be the cause of a non-functioning key, the escape key on my netbook. xev gives no output at all. There doesn't seem to be anything physically wrong. I've managed to remap the poor neglected altgr key, so I still have a funct

[Hampshire] extracting phrases from a file.

2011-09-12 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi. I have a large file that contains snips of http pages. Each line is like this: some junk. I want extract the "some url" bits. I.e. Remove the href. You can probably do this quite easily in perl. Are there any nice short programs to do this? Is it easier to do in some other language?