For fun, here's the Perl that does the update (pan right to get the whole effect!):
${PERL} -i -p -e 'BEGIN{$/ = undef; $list = ""; opendir( CDDBDIR,"$ENV{\"HOME\"}/.cddb" ); @files = grep !/^\.\.?$/, readdir( CDDBDIR ); close( CDDBDIR ); for my $f ( @files ) { open( CDDBFILE, "<$ENV{\"HOME\"}/.cddb/$f" ); while( $x = <CDDBFILE> ) { if ( $x =~ m/.*DTITLE=(.*?)\n.*/ ) { push @titles, "$1"; last; }}}} $list = join( "<br/>\n", sort @titles ) . "<br/><br/>\n" . ($#titles + 1) . " CDs in the jukebox.<br/>\n"; s|(<!-- start list -->).*(<!-- end list -->)|$1${list}$2|s;' ~/public_html/music/index.html
Yes, I know, the last in there is unnecessary, or I
should undef $/ after I've built the list.
Modified snorq to add a few more pages. TheRegister isn't quite working yet, though.
After some fiddling about with the online ordering system (and then with the phone support) at Scan, I finally managed to place an order for a rather tasty DVD player with surround sound processor and speakers in one of their Today Only specials. Impulse shopping, even if it did take me the best part of 24 hours to get my order registered properly with them...
 the sound processor |
 the DVD player |
The following are a selection of the choice comments from some Java stuff I'm hacking on lately. Click on 'em for a pop-up explanation.
Vector vrEntityType = new Vector(); // Java blows goats, AGAIN.Tooled around with the GPS maptoy some more. The MapQuest maps don't line up either, although they do come close enough to be infuriating. I'm thinking of modifying my alignment function to make a stab at alignment, then do a comparison on the overlapped regions to see how good a fit it is.
TextField txDocumentRef = new TextField( 16 ); // MAGIC (see database)
while ( m.isVisible()) { // GROSS.
// NB this will throw back to the caller if it borks.
// XXX FATAL?
// Trying to do this right, so it doesn't need a parent window. Who
// at JavaSoft comes up with this crap?
filename = filename + "0"; // zero padding. I miss sprintf.
// LA LA LA SING ALONG WITH ME
// These should really be (a) in a separate class (b) provided by
// Java (c) faster
// This is kinda disgusting
// XXX MORE SILLYWALKING
You know, by this point you'd think I'd just go and buy some mapping software. But that's no fun.
Hacked at PPTP a little to see if I could get a tunnel to work set up. Then discovered that it wasn't working under Windows, so no fun there.
Hacked snorq again to get around Debian's wonderful packaging requirements. pngtopnm is out in a package of its own, and anytopnm doesn't understand PNG files. What LOSERS.
Abandoned MapBlast in favour of the trickier-to-deal-with MapQuest, and eventually turned out a module to pull exactly the same stuff as MapBlast was giving me. MapQuest maps seem to line up a little better, though. Modified it further to produce transparent maps, since I've never been able to get the raise() method of Canvas to do anything other than tell me I'm not dealing with a window. Is it just me, or are these methods completely broken?
Sometime around eight o'clock, the whole net appeared to go down the toilet. Looks like it might be problems at BBN, but then again I'm not a network engineer, so...