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Here's what I've done :
I got some fonts from regular Windows installation from %windir%\Fonts\ such as arial*.ttf, etc to a folder which I've made : /usr/share/fonts/TrueType
So far so good, you can download the same fonts from HERE
I've done the following commands :

su -c "cp -v /usr/share/fonts/TrueType/arial.ttf ~<b>your-username</b>/.mplayer/subfont.ttf" <br>
echo "subfont-encoding='ISO8859-8'" >> ~/.mplayer/config<br>
echo "font='/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/arial.ttf'" >> ~/.mplayer/config<br>
<b>finally : </b><br>
mplayer -sub "/path/to/subtitle" -fs /path/to/*.avi<br>

Enjoy your movies :)

We got a very popular local site which is like myspace, you can meet friends, send messages via the website, etc.
Though, the popular usage of this site around here (in Israel) is basically to meet girls in the same age (there are lots of them in this site, and ~probably 70% of Israeli young generation use this website). <br> As you already figured out, I hope, our main goal, as males, in this world are to meet females, but can a bit sophistication help?

I didn't register the above site, and in-fact held myself against registration to sites like these, but I couldn't resist, and found myself, like my friends, wasting time and searching girls in this website. But I always thought (always == 2 minutes), can I make this automatic? If so? Maybe I should waste a bit of time just to do this as a challenge ?

So, I've used the website search functions and searched for the following : (I'm 19 years old BTW) 17-19 Girls old, Without a boy-friend, holds a valid picture in this web, that live near me --> It found 9000 Girls(!!) but, it only printed maximum of 25 users per page and only 7 pages of search. It took me some time, but after investigating a bit I've found out that I can make the server print whatever number I want of girls per page with a little modification of the POST method [the problem was that he checked the first parameter, but the second post, was never confirmed], so I've edited that field to 3000, and saved 2 of these pages.

Using Bash, I've done the following script to get only their site ID :<br>

#!/bin/bash -x
usage()
{
                                echo USAGE : enter $0 filename output-file;
                                exit 1
}
(($# == 2)) || usage;
echo Executing;
cat $1 | grep tid= | cut -d "=" -f 1,2 | cut -d '"' -f 3 | sort | uniq > $2;

So I now got 2 files of IDs, combined them into 1 file, and the next thing would be, filtering which one of them is blond or not? I've built the following script:

#!/bin/bash
usage ()
{
                                echo Enter $0 word-to-be-filtered-on list-of-tids
}

if [ "$#" != "2" ]; then
                                usage
                                exit 1
fi

for i in $(cat $2); do
                                wget --load-cookies=/home/zuki/.mozilla/firefox/some-junk-string.default/cookies.txt http://site-name/Profile.asp?MemberID=$i -O tmp/$i.out; #path-to-cookie-file-is-hardcoded
                                cat tmp/$i.out | grep "$1" && echo $i >> list.out;
done
echo Succeded! Run ./SendMessage list.out Subject Message
exit 0;

I've entered to the site first with firefox in order that the cookie will be saved and my user would be authenticated, afterwards I used the firefox authentication at the wget command with the --load-cookies parameter, because users which are not logged in cannot view people's private album/profile in this specific website.

as you can already tell, the next step would be to send to every hmmm... blond? girl, that matches the above statistics, a generic message with the sentence : "Hi" on subject and "What's up" on the message body.<br>
I've investigated a bit, how the send message works, and built the following script that allows me, authenticated, send inline messages in the site to specific user :

#!/bin/bash -x
usage ()
{
                                echo Enter $0 list-of-tids Subject Message
}
if [ "$#" != "3" ]; then
                                usage
                                exit 1
fi
for i in $(cat $1); do
                                echo Sending msg to $i
                                wget --load-cookies=/home/zuki/.mozilla/firefox/some-strng.default/cookies.txt http://website-addr/send.asp--post-data="mail.asp&Rec=%5P%D$iSEP%5D&subject=$2&content=$3" -O out\\$i.out.message;
done
exit 0;

so I'm posting to all the blond girls, age 17-19, from my area, the message : "Hi, what's up?"

Can you find another way to use knowledge better? :)

P.S : It was only done for fun, I can actually get girls ( I hope ) when I go out (I do, I swear :) ), but this was done for only as a technology challenge to meet up with girls.
No harm was done by publishing this, I've changed the parameters of necessary information to do the same.

So... a while ago I've started to download Slackware 12.0 DVD Iso, which became my worst downloading nightmare, ever.
I've downloaded the Slackware 12.0 torrent and waited for it to finish, after 2 weeks or so, it was something like 98% done! but then, someone hard-shutdown my computer, and most of the pieces were wrong and it tried to download 95% of the 98% pieces. It took me another 2 weeks, but I'm done! md5sum for the ISO showed a good ISO and I was actually quite happy :)
So... I wanted to format my dual boot winxp-slackware11.0 computer, but I havn't used the XP for like 1 year, so I thought I might drop by to check how's the XP going.
When I've entered the windows XP I've found out I had a password to enter XP, so I've tried all the password I use in many variation un-till the user got locked.
I've restarted to Slackware 11.0 and searched for solutions on the internet, and found out there's a linux-based live-cd that re-write the SAM (Security Accounts Manager) but it was too late, cause it doesn't know how to handle a locked users.
I had in-fact to reinsert win-xp installation CD to repair the locking and so that's what I've done, after that I re-used the linux-based live-cd to override the SAM's current password, and WALLA, I got in.

But then I've found out there's nothing important like I thought while I was looking at the computer from the linux Terminal, but had to make sure, and I've restarted again to re-install the Windows XP (this time with only 35 GB unlike 60 the other time).
Done that... was a charm (NOT!) and then I've had time to the real installation, SLACKWARE 12.0!! , I was excited, at first I used the 2.6.21.5-SMP Kernel for the Installation, and it worked like a charm, finished the Installation and I was like... I got a strong feeling I will get a kernel panic on this one. So I was right, and I got a kernel-panic, for no-reason (Well... It said that VFS was not mounted, but actually there was not reason for it to happened [ I've also tried to log with appending some lines in lilo like : root=/dev/sda2 noinitrd... etc, nothing helped] ).
So I've re-installed using the normal 2.6.21.5 Kernel, and found out there's something even weirder in that installation : /sbin/ wasn't really mount, which means that the step from VFS to Real FS wasn't really made, and I'm not sure why I didn't get any kernel panic!
I've reinstalled using the 2.6.21.5-smp kernel, and done the same stuff I did in the first installation, thought this time I gave /opt more 5 gb, that's the only difference from the first installation, it worked!, why? I don't know.
Giving more 5 GB to /opt shouldn't have had any affect on the computer!!
That was totally weird, but I didn't stay their to ask my computer why it didn't work.. I've installed some necessary programs such as checkinstall, aMule, Azerus , configured my own box such as things on start-up scripts, ssh, customization of my DHCPCD script, and such and such stuff, compiled a newer kernel
I was done, and now I can be happy with my-self, I'm on my new Slackware 12.0.

Good bye, and enjoy the week :)

It's weird, I've always thought Google is using linux based OS, with typical-linux languages (try googling : Python and check the "GOOGLE IS LOOKING FOR PYTHONERS" AD). But I've entered Google which is actually my homepage and saw a link to a survey by Google to improve customer experience or so.
Here's a SS to the link that appeared at my homepage (check the address at the title bar as-well) : Screenshot 1

Here's the page that I got into to fill-up the survey : Screenshot 2
So was it by mistake? or will we see a new businesses between Microsoft (The aspx promoter) and Google (the linux promoter --> python,perl,php promoter).

As an Open Source guy, I got disappointed from Google, so did you?

It turns out that Google hired confirmit to make their survey. They are using Microsoft's ASPX and Google didn't think it will bother their image this support to the closed source by Microsoft.
Itzhak Avraham itz2000 [,AT.}gmail,com

Well.. After a successful installation of Windows on Linux (last week) with KVM (Kernel based Virtual Machine), I've find out the truth I knew before, It will work, but slow, hell slow. So I'm not using that Windows much, but would I even used it if it were hell fast? hell no!.
I currently got 512 MB Ram on this computer, so that's the problem I guess, I will post some screenshots but I don't think anyone actually matters :)
This week went fast, but it was very tough at work. It will get better next week when I have 1.5 days off since we got a holiday here in Israel named Shavout (which translates into English : "Weeks"==Shavout). It will be great I guess.

I've just seen this week episode of Lost (S3E21), was a good episode, worth watching in my opinion. ohh I almost forgot and will upload the screenshots now...
I've taken advantage of this uploading waste of time and opened a new folder on one of my websites named Linux which will include my sceenshots which I make from time to time (which makes me think, maybe I should have called it screenshots instead??). The path is : http://www.hd-dvd.co.il/linux and here's the screenshotted files
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2
Screenshot 3
Screenshot 4
Screenshot 5
Screenshot 6

Till next time, echo "GOOD-BYE" > /dev/null