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A verbose command for downloading the top 3 videos from youtube:

wget http://www.youtube.com/ -O - 2> /dev/null | grep "<a href" | sed 's/.*<a href/<a href/' |cut -f2 -d'"' | grep "popular" | cut -f1 -d'&' | head -n 3 | sed 's/^/http:\/\/youtube.com/' | xargs -i clive {} \;

For the web server, here are the contents of a config file that must be added to /etc/xinetd.d/ 
(The name of the file doesn't matter):

service www
{
    port           = 80
    protocol       = tcp
    wait           = no
    user           = root
    server         = /home/dan/uaelug/httpd/httpd
}

And here's the example web server in bash script (for educational use only).

#! /bin/bash

docroot="/home/dan/uaelug/httpd"

# First line holds the HTTP request
read request

# Keep swallowing lines until you get a blank one
# Note: HTTP lines are terminated with CR LF, and CR='\r'
while read line; do
  test "$line" == $'\r' && break
done

# Trim the request string and log it
url=${request#GET }
url=${url% HTTP/*}
echo $url >> /home/dan/uaelug/httpd/log.txt

# Serve the request if the file exists, otherwise 404
if [ -f "${docroot}/${url}" ]; then
echo -e "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r
\r"
cat ${docroot}/${url}
echo -e "\r"

else
echo -e "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found\r
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r
\r"
cat ${docroot}/404.html
echo -e "\r"

fi

Reference: http://www.debian-administration.org/ar … ell_script

I was expecting to make it, but now it totally depends on whether my Dad will actually bother to take a nap.

Hey guys, I hoped i could make it, but no chance.
I have "Otitis externa" [1] and am almost deaf on my left ear.

I hope you will get well soon. That's a punishment for not answering my call

Hi Dan,
That's all what we need. You can start by basics and then some examples.
Thanks.

Hi Imthi,
Would you like to do the Apache session? Alex will not present MySQL Replication

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otitis_externa

Sorry, but I hope you will a have a great and interesting meeting!

Regards,
Alex

Oh, and I might be a bit late getting to the meeting (up to 1hour).  Not sure about the time, but I'll be there.

The votes are for:
Shell Scripting
MySQL Replication

noussh wrote:

by hacking i meant this definition.
1. a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information.

Thank you for your explanation ... I'm glad I still understand some English despite what some people think!

Please do not imply that I think you are stupid.

And I claimed that he probably meant kernel hacking in all likeliness.

Note that 'probably' and 'in all likeliness' do not mean 'for absolute certainty.'

by hacking i meant this definition.
1. a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information.

Thank you for your explanation ... I'm glad I still understand some English despite what some people think!

dan_r wrote:

At least that's what Eric Raymond likes to say.

True.
And - sorry to say - he's a fool.

I'm going to quote you again and say 'what gives you the right to say that?'

I'm kidding, though. Everyone has their own opinions, like I think Stallman's awesome for the FSF, GPL and GNU, but I think he's a bit of a cad when he insists that it should be 'guh-noo slash linux' instead of just 'linux.'

ESR's alright, I found his Halloween documents a good read, especially #4 where he drafts a whole script of Torvalds as Robin Hood because Microsoft referred to him as such. You can read it here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween4.html

And recently he's been working to combat internet censorship in Iran, and has devised a set of instructions and a proxy configuration file for Squid specifically to allow the Iranian public unrestricted internet access. It's even specific to Iranian IP addresses, excluding those of government.

So what's not to like?

At least that's what Eric Raymond likes to say.

True.
And - sorry to say - he's a fool.

The proper definition of hacker is as following

At least that's what Eric Raymond likes to say.