Faster techniques for grabbing lines of a file and doing text manipulation and arithmetic via shell (or other) scripting? [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2008 - 20 answers

My site's cron tasks eat up a lot of bandwidth. Can I change the paths from http to local? Or can I move the tasks to my home server? [more inside]
posted on Apr 5, 2008 - 18 answers

Stumped with RPy, need help badly! [more inside]
posted on Feb 25, 2008 - 4 answers

Paging Linux geeks -- please teach me the inner mysteries of cron and scripting. Simple questions follow. [more inside]
posted on Feb 21, 2007 - 11 answers

How can I automate printing a complete website to PDF?

I need to be able to show what the site looked like on any given date. The site is a sales tool and therefore requires user input on every page, so simply spidering the site is not adequate.

Because the site requires user input all over the place, I'd somehow need to supply the tool with data so it could be fully automated.

Are there tools out there that could do this?

Note: It doesn't necessarily have to be output to PDF, just something manageable and static.
posted on Mar 29, 2006 - 8 answers

So I have a big conference coming up and we’re considering giving each attendee a usb-drive with all the presentations on. The problem is that if I don’t find a way to automate the copying of files I have to do it manually by myself! (+)
posted on Feb 16, 2005 - 19 answers

Excel formula question. Using Excel as an employee scheduler and need to help trying to create a formula for tracking.
posted on Feb 1, 2005 - 4 answers

Ok, so I have a php script that updates a txt file on my server with data pulled from an rss feed on Scrobbler. I have it set to refresh the feed when a user accesses a page on my site, and the local txt file is stale. There's (obviously) a noticeable lag accessing this page when the feed is being refreshed. My question: Is there a way to call the refresh script such that it would be its own process, independent of my pagebuilding script.
posted on Jan 18, 2005 - 6 answers

I am looking for a simple script (perl,php,whatever) or even binary utility that can programatically render graphical images in this manner: take XYZ font (true-type/postscript/whatever) and render an image with the text ABC.

Does such a thing exist?
posted on Nov 12, 2004 - 13 answers

What are some computer languages for describing/generating graphics?
posted on Sep 10, 2004 - 35 answers

Microsoft Script Debugger - Has anyone actually gotten this thing to work properly? I've got some JavaScript (that I didn't write) that is completely bisbehaving in IE (although it produces no errors...it works fine in FireFox, so my usual line of attack doesn't work). I've used the View | Script Debugger | Break at Next Statement and then refreshed the page. It opens the debugger app but doesn't open any source files and it most certainly doesn't break. Has anyone seen this behavior and overcome it?
posted on Aug 10, 2004 - 4 answers