Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Search engine queries

NameURLQuery
YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s
Yahoohttp://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%s
Wikipediahttp://wikipedia.com/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s%fulltext=Search
Weaterhttp://www.weather.com/weather/local/%s
Thesaurushttp://www.thesaurus.com/browse/%s
Netflixhttp://www.netflix.com/Search?v1=%s
Mapshttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=1&hl=en%geocode=&q=%s&ie=UTF8&z=12&iwloc=addr&om=1
MSNhttp://search.msn.comresults.aspx?q=%s
Live searchhttp://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=%s
IMDBhttp://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%s
Googlehttp://google.com/search?q=%s
Dictionaryhttp://www.dictionary.com/browse/%s
Amazon
http://amazon.com/gp/search/?keywords=%s&index=blended


%s - query

Saturday, March 21, 2009

How-to use md5filetools

Today I updated the article "How-to use md5filetools" on md5filetools homepage

Main topics:
- which scripts are needed for duplicate search
- how-to use md5fwalker.py and md5dupl.py
- examples for creation on md5 hash files repository
- how-to find duplicate in one folder, in few folders, in different carriers (USB HDDs, CDs, DVDs, etc)

Thanks a lot in advance for you contribution

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Elements for Compiz Fusion

Elements is a plugin for Compiz Fusion 0.7.4 which integrates all the features of the popular Snow, Autumn, Fireflies, and Stars plugins, plus an all new feature, Bubbles. Written from the ground-up with only open source software, Elements is designed to be free, fast, and fun. It's also fully customizable. You want flower petals falling in spring? Draw the petals and use them with the Autumn feature. Want to have toasters flying towards you at warp speed? Take a picture of your toaster and use it with the Stars feature. Feel really adventuresome? Take a look at the code and make it your own. Elements is completely free and released under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL).

Homepage





Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Небольшая заметка об управлении рисками

- необходимо составить список рисков
- опасность неправильности оценки рисков
- возможность появления риска
- затраты для проекта
- механизм для своевременного обнаружения материализовавшегося риска

Thursday, March 12, 2009

twitter.com: первые эксперименты

Вчера начал первые практические опыты с twitter.com. Мой аккаунт uandrey. Присоединяйтесь. :)

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Gizmo5 - Make free internet calls from your mobile phone and computer

OpenSky is a free service provided by Gizmo5 which allows any mobile phone, web browser or IP aware phone network (SIP, asterisk, etc) to communicate with Skype users. OpenSky supports sending text messages and voice calls.





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Monday, March 9, 2009

UrlExtract - Extract URLs from a web page

This is a very simple script to extract URLs from a web page.

Script

url-extract.sh:

#!/bin/sh

for URL
do
lynx -dump "$URL" | sed -n -e '/^References$/,$s/^ *[0-9]\+\. \+//p' | sed -e 's/ /%20/g'
done

Usage

Usage is straightforward:

url-extract.sh <url> ...

The combination with grep, xargs, and wget, to download only the URLs containined in a page that match a certain regular expression:
url-extract.sh <url> | grep  | xargs wget


UrlExtract homepage
José Fonseca's Tech blog (UrlExtract author)
jrfonseca, José Fonseca's utilitarian scripts

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Высказывания дня

Люди - рабы своих привычек, им нужно дать время, и они докажут, что любое благо заменимо.