<code>

dig _ldap._tcp.search.domain

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This is handy if you’re trying to figure out what the directory server for exchange is if you’re configuring entourage on the mac.

The news that American southerners are the most likely to question whether President Obama is actually a native-born citizen got a lot of attention last Friday, when a Research2000 survey on that question was released by DailyKos. Eleven percent of all Americans apparently do not believe Obama was born in the United States, but 23% of southerners (compared to roughly 5% of people from the other regions of the country) share that belief. I thought it would be interesting to see what various trend-culling tools might add to this picture.

A look at Google Trends is certainly illuminating. The top ten states where people are searching on the phrase "Obama birth certificate" are:
1. Louisiana
2. Mississippi
3. Colorado
4. Oklahoma
5. Alabama
6. Tennessee
7. Arkansas
8. Missouri
9. South Carolina
10. North Carolina

Geez people… And to think two states on this list are places I’ve considered living or have lived previously…

Get it together America!

First up:

Find & replace filenames

This finds file that match Somethinghtml.html and renames to Something.html (HTTP Track users will recognize these two examples as fixes to common naming problems when scraping a site.) Note you can change the mask of files searched by changing the find mask at the end of the line.

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perl -p -i -e ’s/(.*)html\.html/\1.html/g;’ `find ./ -name ‘*.html’`

</code>

Then Find & Replace text inside of files:

This finds things that have been incorrectly prefixed with dev.mistcat.com and removes that prefix so that this 2112.js file can load from a remote domain correctly.  Note you can change the find mask at the beginning to restrict or un-restrict your searched files for text replacement.

<code>

find . -name ‘*.html’ | perl -pi -e ’s/http:\/\/dev\.mistcat\.com\/(www\.dwin1\.com\/2112\.js)/http:\/\/\
1/g;’

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