adamblog » indolence http://blog.amyl.org.uk software frustrations, political ranting, general whinging, course language, half-arsed attempt at blogging Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:02:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Firefox Extensions http://blog.amyl.org.uk/2010/01/firefox-extensions/ http://blog.amyl.org.uk/2010/01/firefox-extensions/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:39:15 +0000 adam http://blog.amyl.org.uk/?p=70 Thought this might double up as a note of the firefox extensions I currently have installed — I’ve tried getting this to script, but, the source file isn’t something I’m over-familiar with, and getting fields to match-up ain’t happening, due to my crapness.

Anyhow, I would appear to have these firefox extensions installed:

A few of those don’t have links I can identify from the URI.

Want some code that vaguely does this for you?

#!/bin/sh
#
# ffexts:
# list firefox extensions: names and URIs for download/homepage
#
# Copyright (c) 2010 Adam McGreggor. Some rights reserved.
# Email: <adam@amyl.org.uk> Web: <http://blog.amyl.org.uk>
#
# $Id: ffexts 119 2010-01-10 00:38:04Z adam $
#

set -e

MOZDIR=~/.mozilla/firefox
PROFDIR=`ls -lha ${MOZDIR} | grep default | awk '{print $NF}'`
FILE=extensions.rdf
INFILE=${MOZDIR}/${PROFDIR}/${FILE}
OF=~/tmp/ffexts
OUTFILE=~/pseudohome/nas-docs/firefox-extensions-$(date '+%Y%m%d')

# check for existing outfile, as we'll be
# appending; if so, zap it
if [ -e ${OUTFILE} ]; then
rm ${OUTFILE}
fi

# grab the interesting bits from the RDF file
for K in name homepageURL
do
# nice fix-up, eh?
grep "NS1:${K}" ${INFILE} | sed -e "s/NS1:${K}=//" \
-e 's/"//g' -e 's/>//' \
-e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sort | uniq > ${OF}-${K}
# using wc here is entirely optional ;)
wc -l ${OF}-${K}
# append
cat ${OF}-${K} >> ${OUTFILE}
done

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hah.

thoughts, dear reader?

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]]> http://blog.amyl.org.uk/2008/08/cos-im-not-always-angry-a/feed/ 0 Dell Order Checking: via cron http://blog.amyl.org.uk/2008/07/dell-order-checking-via-cron/ http://blog.amyl.org.uk/2008/07/dell-order-checking-via-cron/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:33:14 +0000 adam http://tanqueray.amyl.org.uk/~adam/blog/?p=8 Ok. So let’s start off with a fairly obvious statement. I’m indolent. And I can write scripts. This is a dangerous, nay, perilous pairing…

So, with this existing laptop really getting on my nerves, and the lack of email coming from Dell regarding the new ‘un I ordered, I thought I’d tidy up some diff-scripts used $ELSEWHERE, and re-appropriate for quick-and-dirty order-tracking.

Fairly simple: fetch a web-page, in this case the order page (which is accesssible with the order number & email address used for the order), compare it with an existing copy (should it exist), and mail specified addresses when/if there are changes. Do this whenever (@hourly works fine for me), and forget about website visiting.

Bingo.

So, erm, just in case anyone else wants it (yes, the licensing blurb is probably about the same length as the code itself, i dunno why I bother, but maybe someone’s got some hints/tips/comments…), ‘dell-order-status‘ (it’s a tidied up version of the one I’m actually using, so i may need a nudge to update the web-version if I change the one in use)

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