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Spidering Hacks -- Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, Spidering Hacks provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll get a crash course in spidering concepts, tools, and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far). You'll collect media files and data from databases, and you'll learn how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it for use in other applications, and even build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into your own content. Sample Hacks are available online.

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This is one of the best books I've laid my hands on. It is small but the quality and level of technical details in many tips are just too good. Most notable are the tips on backing up, ssh and various other hacks with perl, shell scripts, apache etc. Any system administrator with about 1-2 years of experience would definitely appreciate most of the cool hacks in this book. Great work by the author.
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Java Home Media Option
JavaHMO "implements a media server for the Home Media Option from TiVo� and adds new innovative features beyond the existing functionality provided by TiVo's implementation."

Contributed by: Rael Dornfest
[12/11/03 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack]

Web Mindshare Calculator Revisited
Web Mindshare Calculator, adapted for Spidering Hacks. He concludes: "recombinant growth. We're so fixated on Google nowadays, we tend overlook the possibility of yoking multiple services together. It was easy to do that four years ago, and it's just as easy today."

Contributed by: Rael Dornfest
[12/10/03 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack]

Remgina.DLL
Remoting into XP Pro.

Contributed by: Unknown User
[12/10/03 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack]

Chrooted SSH Server for Linux
Create a restricted area for remote users to login via ssh.

Contributed by: Unknown User
[12/06/03 | Discuss (3) | Link to this hack]

Useing unsupported fonts on Win98(i.e. Thai, Hindi, etc.)
Now you can type in any language in Word.

Contributed by: Unknown User
[12/04/03 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack]

Does Google really drops the "common words"?
When there are common words like from, to, on,� in your search text google says those words were not included in the search? Does that mean those words won't affect the final search results?

Contributed by: Senthoorkumaran Punniamoorthy
[12/04/03 | Discuss (2) | Link to this hack]

Hack Internet Explorer
This hack allows you to change the title of Internet Explorer.

Contributed by: Unknown User
[12/04/03 | Discuss (2) | Link to this hack]

Viewing launch.com musicvideos under *nix with mplayer
launch.com uses an integrated musicvideo playback system designed for Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player. This hack describes a method for playing this content under any *nix using mplayer.

Contributed by: Michael Clement
[11/29/03 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack]

simple "nsping"
there's no need to install a separate utility to run "nsping", you have "dig" already ...

Contributed by: jose nazario
[11/16/03 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack]

Hack topic suggestion: DVD region initialization problem
Manually re-set the region counter in the iMac DVD player.

Contributed by: Unknown User
[11/13/03 | Discuss (2) | Link to this hack]

Google feed generator
Generate an RSS feed from new Google search results.

Contributed by: Gary Burd
[11/10/03 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack]

chapter 6 email
spam tip and how to avoid worms too.

Contributed by: Unknown User
[11/09/03 | Discuss (1) | Link to this hack]

roomba
suggestion for new hacks subject

Contributed by: Unknown User
[11/04/03 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack]

email templates for snappermail 1.8.4 (palm os)
Simple way to increase size of the buffer for email signatures so they can be used as templates for frequently sent emails

Contributed by: Unknown User
[10/31/03 | Discuss (0) | Link to this hack]

Making PDF man Manuals from the command line
There's a new feature in Panther that allows you to turn postscript files into PDFs at the command line, and it works great with man files.

Contributed by: Tom Bridge
[10/31/03 | Discuss (2) | Link to this hack]

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