Jan-Piet Mens

curl and wget are excellent tools for grabbing the source of a web page or a resource there-on, but if you just want the page's plain text without any HTML or other formatting, I recommend lynx which runs on a mulitude of platforms.

lynx -dump http://example.com dumps the formatted output of the specified URL and includes a list of links contained at that URL in the dump.

O3 magazine is a monthly journal published exclusively in PDF.

The focus of O3 is on the use of Free and Open Source software in Enterprise Data Networking environments

The premiere issue is quite interesting; get issue #1 and be alerted to new issues via the subscription feed

I was sent a small CSV file which I viewed (right-click, view) within Lotus Notes 6.5.4. Since the value in the last column of the last row was missing, I contacted the sender and informed him about it. After fighting it out for a bit, he conviced me the file was complete. I then detached the file, looked at it with less and, lo and behold, there was nothing missing. A Notes bug?

I've decided to cut down a bit on telecommunication costs and have ordered an Arcor ISDN with a telephony flatrate and ADSL package, the latter with 6 Megabit downstream including flat rate. So, even though I'll have a six-fold bandwidth on Internet connectivity, I'll be saving money.

I don't use sendmail any more on my servers, preferring to use Exim. When I did last use sendmail, I also did mail routing via LDAP, and I wish I'd had access to the Sys Admin article Routing and Alias Management with OpenLDAP and Sendmail at the time. Worth a look.

This is the kind of "software" patch I love:

A gamer fed up with his new Xbox 360 crashing every 20 minutes has fixed the problem by raising the power supply off the ground with some string.

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