Securitron Doom/Linux Blog.

  I have put up a very cool new Flash game.

This is a British production from the UK tribe and well worth a play!

johnjohnrace.html

Go here to play this game. Very fast download on ADSL, Modem users can right-click on the files and download the file to the hard drive.

I have also concantenated all of my downloads scripts into one big script, this makes it faster to find what you want since if you can have all of the downloads links on one page, you can click on edit=>find on the menu in IE5.0 to find what you need very quickly. And since I coded it from scratch, it is very effective.
¶ 5/19/2004 08:56:00 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  I am still using Xandros Debian Linux and dicovering many new goodies every day, such as Xkill and Xedit. These two programs are very useful in the Linux environment in the very rare cases that you need Xkill to kill an application. probably better to use kill -9 [app name].

But, horses for courses I guess. I am writing a Guest Book application for Tripod.com using the CGI.pm Perl Module and TripodDate.pm. This will be for those who want a Guest Book for their Tripod website. Here is something I found recently: Google Yahoo style. This is a blast from the old days of the '90s when I used Yahoo instead of the superiour Google. But, not that there is anything wrong with the directory style of web searching for drilling down through groups of related topics to find what you want. A very good way to spend your spare time I guess.

On to PERL now and I am very happy with my viewblog CGI application. It shows the time and date as well as more information about the file than you really ever wanted to know. I could even echo the file permissions to the browser, but I have a distinct feeling I will not be implementing that on a public website. No need to use all the parameters of stat() than are really necessary.

But at least I had CGI.pm to work with, decoding a query string with base PERL is a nightmare, having this Perl module makes it much more fun to get the values.

For example:

http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/viewblog.cgi?Form%20Value=2003-12-09.shtml Becomes:

2003-12-09.shtml

It really is that simple!

---

#!/usr/bin/perl



=head1 Script::Information.



This script developed on Debian GNU Linux.

I hope you enjoy using it as much

as I enjoyed coding it!

See the bottom of the script for more

information and copyright info.



=cut



require CGI;

require TripodDate;



	# Configuring the script here.



package Config::Blog;

	our $query = new CGI;

	our $html_page = $query->param('Form_Element');

	our $folder = "foo";

	our $archive = "foofighters.htm";



package Tripod::Date;

	our $CGI = new TripodDate;

	our $DAY = $CGI->currentDay();

	our $MONTH = $CGI->currentMonth();

	our $YEAR = $CGI->currentYear();

	our $sec;

	our $min;

	our $hour;

	($sec,$min,$hour) = (localtime(time))[0,1,2,3,4,5,6];

		if ($sec < 10) { $sec = "0$sec"; }

		if ($min < 10) { $min = "0$min"; }

		if ($hour < 10) { $hour = "0$hour"; }

	my $time = "$hour:$min:$sec";

---

This sample code will take the form value from the form Select element named "Form_Element" and feeds it into the $html_page variable as plain text with any URL encoding stripped out. Then you can echo it to the web, save it to a file or save it to a file and echo that to the web!

And here is another good link Life-Ruining Browser Hijackers. This shows how easy it is to exploit the weaknesses in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows XP Professional. About time they made a real browser available to the masses, one that has inbuilt pop-up blocking and Image blocking for faster browsing. Oh, wait, there is one out there A real browser. Much better than Internet Explorer. Mine comes with Japanese and Chinese text support by default. Windows 2000 and '98 do not. Asian language support is something I expect when I get those spam E-Mails from Korea ;)

In other news, I have finished TNT MAP32 "Carribean" in UV mode all in one run. This was not easy, but at least they provided an escape route whenever you walk through a room and about 15 monsters come out after you. Some of the levels in this game are crap compared to Plutonia and Doom2 Hell on Earth, I only like MAP32, MAP12 and MAP13. I cannot understand why MAP32 was not in PSX Final Doom as one of the secret levels, it has an incredible gameplay flow, with monsters coming at you from all directions and the ending fight against the Cyberdemon with the Rocket Launcher is awesome!

There are great possibilities for monster infighting here. A few Mancubi and Hellknights together with Revenants make it very exciting fun dodging fire from all sides. There is plenty of space to dodge rockets and fireballs so this level gets my thumbs up!
¶ 5/18/2004 12:41:00 PM 0 Comments Links to this post