[Canada meetup?]

Me and a few ppl in IRC have been talking about doing a meetup in Ontario. Was wondering how many people would be interested. May also do a lan party.

[Dialing a VPN Connection as a locked down machine?]

I know the admin well i dont think he can he could loose his job our school board is paranoid ...

[Dialing a VPN Connection as a locked down machine?]

Well I'm on a school network right its locked down.

I could get into the Admin account but like any good hacker I am lazy.

I'm locked out of control panel, display properties everything is there a way to create/dial a VPN connection with a a locked down computer?

[August Desktops]

Windows:

Linux:

Made that one BTW :P

[Problem with RSS Alarm under Linux]

?

... I used to code off the wiki your saying use a different one?

[Problem with RSS Alarm under Linux]

Right now I'm getting this error when it attempts to get the rss feeds.

not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 0, byte 0 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm line 187

PS

I am running a Athlon 64 X2 @ 2.4Ghz and a GB of ram with opensuse 10.2 with xgl enabled i dont think it could be too taxing :P

[Problem with RSS Alarm under Linux]

So I got it working now but the voice is sounding kind of laggy, and Its only reading one of the headlines instead of all of them anyone know why it would do this, any code you need to see please tell me.

Thanks

[RSS Alarm being blocked by firewall]

I assum thats an error in the coding but i dont know anything a bout perl.

heres my copy.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# rss2html - converts an RSS file to HTML

# It take one argument, either a file on the local system,

# or an HTTP URL like http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf

# by Jonathan Eisenzopf. v1.0 19990901

# Copyright (c) 1999 Jupitermedia Corp. All Rights Reserved.

# See http://www.webreference.com/perl for more information

#

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

# (at your option) any later version.



# INCLUDES

use strict;

use XML::RSS;

use LWP::Simple;



# Declare variables

my $content;

my $file;



# MAIN

# check for command-line argument

die "Usage: rss2html.pl (<RSS file> | <URL>)n" unless @ARGV == 1;



# get the command-line argument

my $arg = shift;



# create new instance of XML::RSS

my $rss = new XML::RSS;



# argument is a URL

if ($arg=~ /http:/i) {

    $content = get($arg);

    die "Could not retrieve $arg" unless $content;

    # parse the RSS content

    $rss->parse($content);



# argument is a file

} else {

    $file = $arg;

    die "File "$file" does't exist.n" unless -e $file;

    # parse the RSS file

    $rss->parsefile($file);

}



# print the HTML channel

&print_html($rss);



# SUBROUTINES

sub print_html {

    my $rss = shift;

    print <<HTML;

HTML



    # print the channel items

    my $i = 0;

    foreach my $item (@{$rss->{'items'}})

    {

      next unless defined($item->{'title'});

      print "$item->{'title'}... ... ... ... ...n";

      if($i==4){

         last;   

      }

       $i = $i + 1;

    }



    # if there's a copyright element

    if ($rss->{'channel'}->{'copyright'}) {

   print <<HTML;

<p><sub>$rss->{'channel'}->{'copyright'}</sub></p>

HTML

    }



    print <<HTML;

HTML

}

[Need doc2pdf.exe]

It doesn't seem they make the doc2pdf.exe from the rssnewspaper anymore could someone help me out? That would be great thanks.

[RSS Alarm being blocked by firewall]

Hey its not getting the RSS feeds i had it working before but for some reason after ive reinstalled it isnt any idea what i need to unblock from the firewall?