Day 6 of the 2024 Old Computer Challenge
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Well, the CrowdStrike thing impacted work a little today, but not
so much the challenge - score 1 for Old Computers!
I got emailed a 9.8MB image today and spent much of my time trying
to figure out how to open it. It takes too much memory to show it
in flpicsee and ImageMagick has 12MB of dependencies so won't load
either. All the image shrinking websites require JS, apart from one
that I found that seemed to go down after my first try with it
(sorry whoever runs that site). This one has me stumped. I'll have
to wait until Sunday to view it.
I tweaked my RSS/Atom scripts so that I could view today's xkcd and
Randall was quick off the mark with today's - normally it's up in
the evening or so, but he managed to get something on the
CrowdStrike thing out by afternoon! Anyway, my new processor for
Xidel is the following:
```
#!/bin/sh
tohtml() {
sh ./feed-to-html.sh "xml/$(basename "$1")" > "html/$(basename "$1"
.xml).html"
}
fsize() {
ls -l "$1" | awk '{print $5}'
}
getlbd() {
xidel "$1" --extract '(
if (//*:lastBuildDate != "")
then inner-html(//*:lastBuildDate)
else if (//*:channel/*:pubDate)
then inner-html(//*:channel/*:pubDate)
else inner-html(//*:feed/*:updated)
)'
}
gettitle() {
xidel "$1" --extract '(
if (//*:channel != "")
then inner-html(//*:channel/*:title)
else inner-html(//*:feed/*:title)
)'
}
echo "">index.html
echo "Feeds
$(date)Feeds $(date)
">>index.html
for i in $(ls -1 xml/*); do
echo "$i"
wcl="$(wc -l "$i"|awk '{print $1}')"
echo $wcl
if (test "$wcl" -gt 1 || test "$(fsize "$i")" -gt 10 ) && test
"$wcl" -lt 25000; then
tohtml "$i"
echo "- $(gettitle
"$i") ($(getlbd "$i"))
">>index.html
fi
done
echo "
">>index.html
```
It's still a bodge (even bodgier now), but it works better this
way.
It's been very hot today, especially in a south-facing room, so not
that pleasant to use an old computer that's kicking out a lot of
heat. Fortunately, it's cooling off now.