 So where did the Transport Ticketing Authority have the programming for the Mymyki.com.au done?
In Australia, you might think, as we don’t want people’s financial details to be going offshore, particularly with a project being paid for the Victorian Government.
Well you be wrong, try Bangalore. Say hello to “aloknathlight”
10th November 2009, Perl Beginners Mailing List
Hi,
I think I can post the issue related to ‘mechanize’ here.
I am using www::mechanize to login and logout to a particular page.
When I submit the credential(i.e username and password) and try to
view the content, I don’t see anything.
When I view the source, I see it has jscript code in it. Is the
problem because www::mechanize doesn’t supports jscript ?
Is there any work around for the above issue or can Iuse some other
module ?
Fyi, my objective is to test the website for 100 or more logins.
Please find the snippet of my script and the source for the page.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
“Fyi, my objective is to test the website for 100 or more logins”. The user base of the Myki system is supposed to be 1 million people, and he only wants to scale the website for 100 logons? And before you ask, how do we know it’s the MyMyki system?
(Click here to continue reading Trainee Myki programmer – “test the website for 100 or more logins”)
 IT WAS CRAP.
Ok, so that’s a tad harsh, but it is overpriced for what it is.
The things that went well:
- it’s responsive. More responsive than any other PDA I’ve used to date.
- the web browser was better than anything else I’ve used on a PDA.
- the camera was a) basic and b) fast.
- it’s slim, and I like that.
The things which sucked:
- battery life, a day at best.
To explain, the iPhone was being used as a BlackBerry replacement, so I needed to read email, take calls and use the web browser.
And one day in, my emails were lost due to a Mobile Mail application crash. Not happy Jan.
- the cost of the thing!
$1000 for the 32GB iPhone. No protective case included.
- what’s this “you have to download the iTune application onto your desktop PC, so you can download a app to the phone” requirement?
No real need for it, unless Apple are trying to craw more personal data from us.
Would I buy one?
Yes, but I would want
- the price to dropped to $600
- improved the battery life
- jail-broken so I can install what I want.
At the current price, the iPhone is too rich for my tastes.
I was wondering what the government meant when they said “high speed scanners”. Well, I visited Jolimont station to have a look myself.
No such thing as a high-speed scanner. What they’ve done is add lots of normal scanners.
 
So assuming 500 people get off the train at Jolimont station station to watch the Cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, how long will it take them to leave the platform?
At a “touch off” time of 2 seconds, that’s 1000 seconds, divided by the number of scanners (8), equalling 2 minutes.
In comparison to 0 minutes under the Metcard system. The Metcard system didn’t have “touch off” at most stations, including Jolimont.
Now the assumption I’m making is that the 2 second touch off time won’t change increase when 16 people (8 gates per platform at Jolimont) all try to touch off. Normally a system will slow down when an increasing load is applied to it.
In my last post, Bec summed it up well:
For the amount of money they have wasted on the Myki system (by the way, Myki is an Incan word for shit), they could have achieved all of the following:
- Tram conductors for the next 60 years.
- Every station staffed for the next 50 years.
- Concrete sleepers through the entire electrified network.
- A single signalling system through the entire metropolitan network (currently there are seven)
- Had enough spare change to roll out an extra six new trains.
Up at sparrow’s fart on Friday, caught the 5.23am Werribee train, and got off at Aircraft Railway Station.
All for a photo walk.
I expected more of Aircraft from Google Earth, but it was one horse ‘burb.
Who’s Number One?
Seen in a Real Estate agents’ window. The lass in the photo has the wrong finger extended.
(Click here to continue reading Aircraft Railway Station Laverton – humph!)
(I’ve been busy working on SOE upgrades. Normal posting will resume shortly.)
credit: Kevin Remde. It’s a screen shot from his Windows Media Centre
 Don’t you just hate it when, after you’ve spent quite a few hours on doing something, some smarty pipes up a suggestion which meant you’ve just lost those hours.
So it was with a 150+ page PDF to Microsoft Word conversion. Finished it, and to be honest, it was fairly crappy as the Word document has complex tables like this:
which is hard to capture when you go from PDF –> Word. And after 80 pages, my care factor was starting to get low.
The smarty suggested PDF to Word. PDF to Word is a website where you upload your PDF, and your converted Word document is mailed back to you. My 156 page document was converted in minutes.
Grrrrrrrrrr
Ok, the downsides, or faults if you like, in the converted document?
- the header and footers were not converted.
- heading styles were not created.
But for FREE, it is a great utility.
If it’s free, how do they make money? They sell PDF software, such as Nitro PDF Professional, which is about a 1/5 the price of Adobe Acrobat Professional.
 Had this error while trying to update a Windows 2000 SP4 test box. As it’s a test box, it has the bare minimum installed.
Microsoft’s solution?
- clean the Internet Explorer cache
- Delete some files in the WindowsUpdate directory
- Delete some DLL’s.
None of those worked.
The actual solution which worked for me? Install Internet Explorer 6.
Other things I could have tried? Autopatcher, which I wrote about here. Except that Autopatcher no longer supports Windows 2000. 
Or apply the patches one by one, after running an MBSA scan? Maybe.
IE6? Well I did say it was a test box.
How to Install GPMC on Server 2008, 2008 R2, and Windows 7 (via RSAT)
Can You See Me – Open Port Check Tool
Is a free utility for remotely verifying a port is open or closed. It will be useful for users who wish to check to see if a server is running or a firewall or ISP is blocking certain ports.
Setting up a Windows 7 Media Center
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Windows XP only has one active power scheme for the entire computer and that scheme is based on the current or previously logged on user—that is to say Windows XP power schemes are only user-based. This means the power scheme can change as each user logs on. Also, it means that last logged on user’s power settings are the settings that remain once the user logs off. And yes, each user has its own power configuration; however, the entire operating system only has one active power scheme.
PHP and IE8 Web Slices
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) shipped with a new feature for web users called Web Slices. … Essentially it lets you add enhanced links to your favorite bar that allow you to preview snippets of content from websites that you frequently visit without having to open up the page. It’s really useful to do little tasks like check on your web based Inbox, check the weather in cities you live or visit, traffic status, stock tickers, headlines, sports, the list goes on and on and you can check the IE add-on gallery for more examples of useful web slices and for inspiration.
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To customize a default user profile or a mandatory user profile, you must first customize the default user profile. Then, the default user profile can be copied to the appropriate shared folder to make that user profile either the default user profile or a mandatory user profile.
In the news the other day, there were some photos of Jennifer Hawkins, and I got to thinking how we measure beauty.
And I wish I knew. There would be a dollar in knowing the formula for sure. Googling around, I found this quote from Helen Razer, which might explain why Jen does nothing for me:
If you’d ever met Jen, which I did briefly during Melbourne’s Spring Racing Carnival, you would only be happy that the dear lamb has something so extraordinary to offer. The woman seems unable to make a sentence. Seriously. This is not sour grapes but the truth. Her grasp on object and verb was so poor that my producer that day, an habitual sycophant when it came to celebrities, said “$^@$ me. What the @#@1 did she say? We can’t put her on the radio. People will cry.”
Helen has confirmed what I suspected. Beautiful to look at, but only slightly more conversation than the average milking cow.
The picture on the right? Found it on the motivatedphotos.com website. Just goes to show; beauty does come in all shapes and sizes, and can be found anywhere.
 With v0.8, I added the feature “don’t create the same attachment, in the same attachment folder, if it already exists.”
And I added a bug. The bug would crash LNME when this happened:
- Find duplicate attachment file name
- Extract the new attachment to the %temp% directory.
It would crash if the “new” attachment was corrupted. And here’s the irony, the old section of code had a trap for exactly this sort of behaviour. When I coded the new section, I forgot to put in the error trapping.
Doh!
Like I said for v0.8, the next version (v0.91 maybe) will use a list table, which is a better way of detecting duplicate files/attachments across directories.
Other changes for the future:
- Export task entries
- Export to Outlook
(unlikely to happen until Microsoft publishes the PST file format)
- Rich Text Export(?)
An example of an Rich Text object is a picture which has been pasted into the message body.
- Appointments & Meetings are missing the body of the meeting/attachment.
- Tasks
You may download LNME v0.9 here.
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So where did the Transport Ticketing Authority have the programming for the Mymyki.com.au done?
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