July 2004 Archives
July 27, 2004 3:55 AM
Escape!
You'd think that webmasters would
realize after a period of time that it is not a good idea to put
exclamation points (!) in file names. I don't want to mention the
site involved (a fan site for one of my favorite actors), but I
would imagine that the webmaster of a site that has been in
existence since 1998 would have learned that by now. I
thought that putting quotes around the URL would take care
of any special characters when I tried to download a video clip
from this site using wget in OS X's Terminal application. No dice;
it still needed to be escaped with a backslash. Next time
I'll be prepared--the URL character encoding for "!" is "%21".
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July 27, 2004 3:37 AM
No Gnus is...no news
OK, here I am, a good little Vim
advocate, and, after myriad bad experiences with Pan, what do I end
up using for a newsreader? Gnus.
Yes, in my desperate attempt to find a stable, free newsreader that
works with Giganews, it has come to that. So far, it is working as
well as can be expected (it's a miracle that it is working at all),
but I don't understand why it takes 5 keystrokes just to
mark a group read (shift-m control-c c). :-\
Update: OK, now I realize it just takes 2 keystrokes to mark a group read (shift-c). -----