Olgath

Never been much a Mac fan. They've always felt "clunky" to me. Although, if I had to choose between a Mac and a default Windows system, I'd go with Mac any day. Linux for the win! :thumbsup:

I have a method written in perl, not java, but the concept is the same. It really all boils down to the parsing and how much detail you intend to pull out. Also, whenever RS changes the way their page is formatted, you will have to updated your parsing, since it may or may not hold. The current regular expression I use has held up pretty good. I had to modify it recently to include line breaks: $content =~ /$_.*?\>(\d{2}|Not Ranked)\;

Agreed. Nested tables load too slowly, and make your entire site "jump around" while loading. Using CSS will solve this, and also give you a "template" you can use for other pages that will share the same design. You are missing a doc-type declaration, which mean browsers will render your pages in quirks mode, rather that standards mode, so don't expect your site to look correct across all browsers, or across browser version upgrades. Validate your html: http://validator.w3.org/. 4.01 strict is fine, XHTML 1.0 is better.

GIMP is open-source, not freeware. The learning curve on GIMP is rather steep, especially since the UI is putrid.

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I doubt it will change much. Security with windows will always be an issue. The operating system model hasn't change in years(especially for MS) and, so far, Vista isn't turning out to be anything more than Windows next bloated security nightmare. But it comes with solitare....out of the box!

Currently Ubuntu Linux, or any variation thereof(xubuntu, etc). Windows isn't bad, but things like WGA(Windows Genuine Advantage) make me want to kill Microsoft sometimes.

Type at again at your command line and you should see if the event was scheduled: C:\Documents and Settings\sollw2>at 21:30 echo hello Added a new job with job ID = 1 C:\Documents and Settings\sollw2>at Status ID Day Time Command Line ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Today 9:30 PM echo hello C:\Documents and Settings\sollw2>

You might also want to throw a -f flag in the shutdown command as well. On ocassion, some programs will hang and prompt a "program not responding" box that will block until it is cleared, preventing the shutdown from completing.

The MSVJM(Microsoft virtual java machine) was microsoft own implementation of the java virtual machine. However, it's a seriously deprecated version of the JVM, A few years ago, Sun Java sued microsoft in an anti-trust case. Sun Java won, so now all new version of windows come with Sun Java installed by default. As far as which one works better is simply a matter of the persons computer that runs it. Older computers will probably have better luck running the microsoft version, while newer computers would benefit from running the latest stable Sun Java version. Java is compiled into bytecode, which is then tranlated into machine code at runtime, via JIT compilation. The .NET framework uses the same JIT compiler concept. With JIT, the entire code isn't translated at the start of the program, it is tralated from byte code->machine code right before the specified code needs to be used, hence the "just in time" aspect.

You coulde also try DSL(damn small linux). 50 meg version fits on a pen drive.

I've been using numerous java versions with Windows XP/Ubuntu/Mandrake and Firefox 1.0.3-1.5.0.4 over the past two years or so, and I have yet to find a combination of the above that didn't work.

YOu can always try the GIMP. It's free, so you don't have anything to lose, except the time to try it out.

I wrote a perl module for accessing stats, if you decide to go that route. RuneStats Edit New link :)

What do you mean by "freezes"? Does the whole java applet freezes, or does it just not get past the "Loading updates" portion.

If you are a Linux user, you may have already noticed that sound effects may be working for you in firefox, but the music may not be. I had this problem too in ubuntu linux. Here is how I got it to work: 1) Install latest Sun Java. I had blackdown java and it didn't work. I uninstalled it and installed Sun Java. In your ~/.mozilla/plugins directory, make a symlink to the java plugin: ln -s /usr/lib/j2re1.5-sun/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so . Adjust the command to the proper directory were the libjavaplugin is installed. 2) Install a midi synthesizer. I chose timidity. If you choose timidity, you will have to download .pat files for it. Do a web search for "freepats". After you get it all set up, verify that you can play a midi file(download one from somewhere and type in the console: timidity file.mid. If you hear sound, it works! 3) Install the mozplugger plugin. You may or may not have to compile it from source. I got mine from the ubuntu repositories. After it is installed, close Firefox and delete your ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat file. It will be restored after you start Firefox again. For Ubuntu users, before you restart firefox, if you have upgraded firefox from the 1.0.8 version provided by Ubuntu, to the latest version, you must re-symlink your firefox plugins: cd /opt/firefox/plugins/ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/* . After that, you should have a fully working Runescape, complete with sound effects and midi music!

Copied straight from the runescape page: I wrote a greasemonkey script to replace the bgsound elements with embed elements, and could play a streaming file from another website, but it was very very slow.

I use the Gimp for making pictures, and LazySnap for taking screenshots.

It's both, actually. The java code is geared more towards IE(heck, even the javascript code in the browser is designed for IE). Even if the java did work correctly, firefox won't play the bgsound element, unless they added it in newer versions, which would be weird.

Do you mean pics like in sigs or just taking screenshots?

It's already been tried before. Sadly it doesn't work.

You can't. Jagex uses the bgsound element which is not part of the html standard. Supposedly they are supposed to fix this issue this month. All you can do is wait and hope it works, or switch back to IE or the official client.

Despite the fact that no one replied(I know there are some perl junkies out there), I've gone ahead and continued with the module. Right now, I have a fully working module for retrieving base stats. If anyone wants it let me know and I'll link you.

What browser are you using, or are you using the RS client?

For all you perl coders, the runescape perl module on cpan for the high scores is outdated. I've created my own. So far, I have a bare bones working model. If anyone is interested in such a thing, I'll continue to work on it. If not, I'll leave it as is. #!/usr/bin/perl use RuneStats; %stats = RuneStats->new('Olgath'); if($stats{'Success'}) { print $stats{'Attack'}; #Users attack stat. } else { print "Unable to contact high scores table."; }