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I’m selling Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers Book

Hi there, I’d like to announce here that I’m offering to sell Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers : A Guide to Developing Internet Agents with Php/cURL for a heavily discounted price to Malaysian. The book is new and it is still in its original packaging from Powells.com, the reason for selling it is there’s a confusion during the ordering process that I received two books of the same title, so I’m selling it.

The book is interesting because it detailed on how to build efficient and stealthy web robots to manage your daily tasks, data mining and website monitoring. There are also 3 chapters in this book which deals with bots designed for crawling other protocol than web (ftp, nntp, emails)

This book is a must have if you’re interested to learn about how to build and deploy webrobots which is still considered a black art even today.

Details
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My price : RM85 (USD27) – inclusive post cost
Pay to : Maybank,CIMB, Paypal
Delivery : by PosLaju
Condition: New (you can smell the ink + original package)

Please contact me if you’re interested.

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How to activate Debian GNU Linux Etch GUI Installer

Some of my friends aren’t aware that the latest Debian relese (Etch – 4.0) includes an optional GUI installer. This option can be activated at the CDROM boot prompt by entering ‘installgui’ option.

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While the GUI installer is not particularly impressive when compared with modern GNU/Linux distributions, it is nice to know that the Debian team has taken such effort to code one. For the time being, the new Debian gui Installer only available on x86 platform as is still marked as an experimental feature.

[tags]debian,opensource,open source, linux, livecd, installer, ubuntu, etch[/tags]

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WordPress 2.2 was finally released

After being delayed for almost a month, WordPress 2.2 was finally released on 15 May 2007. Please refer to my previous WordPress 2.2 post for my personal thoughts about it.

The next WordPress release will be on September 2007, unless if they discovered a critical bug which needs to addressed immediately.

Please read the official release announcement from the official WordPress blog for further information.

[tags]open source, opensource,wordpress,blog,blogging[/tags]

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How to open Office 2007 OpenXML in OpenOffice.org

As you probably know, the latest release of Microsoft Office 2007 uses OpenXML as its default document format. While it is similar to OpenDocument (ODF), it is not currently supported by OpenOffice (in contrast to previous *.doc MS Office binary format).

Workaround for OpenXML files
The first alternative is to download Novell’s version of OpenOffice.org and install Novell OpenXML translator add-ins which enables OpenOffice to open Microsoft’s OpenXML files.

Another alternative is to use docx2doc service to convert OpenXML files to the previous Office 2000 doc format. The service costs USD2 per conversion, and you only need to pay upon successful conversion.

The final and most obvious alternative is to use (or ask somebody with) Office 2007 for converting OpenXML files back to the old Microsoft Office format (*.doc, *.ppt, etc), or use odf-converter add-ins for Microsoft Office to convert OpenXML files.

These are method currently known to me for opening OpenXML in GNU/Linux operating system, please suggest other alternative if you know one.

p/s : Hang on tight, the official OpenOffice.org project may implement OpenXML support in future release, until then, you may want to tell people to avoid sending you document files in OpenXML format.

Credit to Najmi for mentioning some of the solutions

[tags]openoffice,openxml,openoffice.org,microsoft office,docx,office 2007,microsoft[/tags]

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Cancer treatment Donation for Qistina Hayani

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Nur Qistina Hayani is suffering from liver cancer ( hepatoblastoma ). What can a 6 months baby knows about this disease. She is right now going through the Chemotherapy process. The costs for Chemotherapy and Surgery will takes around RM 100,000 (USD 29,500) . She looks very healthy from the outside and for sure she does not understands what she is going through! We need your help to donate to us so we can help Qistina to live happily as any other childrens!

Donations
Donation can be made to

Maybank Account ( Malaysia ):-
Nazrol Hafiz Nazlan
Account Number : 154017298056

International donation is also accepted, please refer to http://www.qistina.org/donate for further details.

[tags]donation,donate,cancer appeal,cancer,child,treatment[/tags]

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How to install Ubuntu Studio (7.04) Ardour Theme

Ubuntu Studio was finally out and you can see its screenshot from Howtoforge’s : Installing Ubuntu Studio 7.04 – Linux For The Creative. Ubuntu Studio features the new Ardour 2 dark theme which seems slick and stylish when combined with the applications available in the distribution.


However you don’t need to go through the hassle of obtaining Ubuntu Studio just to get its theme as Andi Darmawan has written an easy to follow guide to Install Ubuntu Studio Theme in your standard Feisty Fawn installation.

What is Ubuntu Studio ?
Ubuntu Studio (7.04) is a newly released Multimedia oriented GNU/Linux distribution based on the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. It is targeted for audio,video and graphic professionals or enthusiasts. The Ubuntu Studio DVD iso (about 870MB) is available for download from the project’s official website which includes Multimedia content creation softwares along with specially compiled low-latency kernel suitable for audio/video editing tasks.

[tags]ubuntu,linux,debian,feisty fawn,gnome, theme,themes[/tags]