mikecathey.com
Some of my favorite OpenSource/Linux sites:
HOWTOs and documentation that I'm working on...
Linux related stuff
Everyone should write a slashdot headline parser...

One day at work while I was bored about a year ago
I wrote a perl script a while ago to parse ultramode.txt (from /.).
This has since been replaced with an RSS feed.
The existing code was adapted from some I found on the net, which uses XML::RSS.
Slashdot Headlines
  • Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Released
  • Spammers Attack Apple's Ping Social Network
  • Texas Opens Inquiry Into Google Search Rankings
  • Australia Adopts EU's Geographical Indicator System For Wine
  • Craigslist Removes Its Controversial Adult Section
  • Google Wave To Live On As 'Wave In a Box'
  • NASA Preps Closest-Ever Sun Mission
  • Software (and Appropriate Input Device) For a Toddler?
  • Brazil Considering Legalizing File Sharing
  • Game Publishers Using Stealth P2P Clients
  • 2010 May Be the First Year YouTube Turns a Profit
  • Winnie-the-Pooh Parodied In Wookie-the-Chew
  • VISA Pulls Plug On ePassporte, Porn Webmasters
  • New and Old Experiments Combine To Help the Search For Life On Mars
  • NVIDIA Announces New Line of Fermi-Based Mobile Chips

    • I will post more linux related information and code here as time permits.

    last updated 06/26/2001.
    | home
    Glad you stopped by from 38.107.191.101.