Not really apropos of this list, but does anyone know where one can still get a new laptop with Windows XP pre-installed as opposed to Vista? It's for someone at work who's asking. Thanks, Kevin
On 6 Jan, Kevin McGregor wrote:
Not really apropos of this list, but does anyone know where one can still get a new laptop with Windows XP pre-installed as opposed to Vista? It's for someone at work who's asking.
I can get in some name brand ones with both Vista and XP, usually Vista preloaded with an XP downgrade license, but sometimes they come with XP preloaded. This is mainly in vendors' business lines so the prices are a tad more expensive than mainstream home laptops. I can also get some tier 2 brands (MSI, etc) which have offerings that include no OS at all, to which I can add whatever XP OEM OS you want, for the appropriate price of course. Lastly, I can get build-to-order notebooks where you pick all the parts and your OS, however the prices aren't as dirt cheap as what you see in the stores. If you want some prices, email me. Trevor @ Tecnopolis
The last Toshiba laptop I bought at work came with a free down-grade to XP. -Montana On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Kevin McGregor <kmcgregor@shaw.ca> wrote:
Not really apropos of this list, but does anyone know where one can still get a new laptop with Windows XP pre-installed as opposed to Vista? It's for someone at work who's asking.
Thanks, Kevin
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Problem: to automatically fill form fields in a web page based on changing criteria. I am sure this problem crops up in a number of areas. In my case, I place buy and sell orders (different variations) for stocks on my broker's web page. By the time I enter all the info and go through one or two confirmatory screens, the price has often changed and the order cannot be executed. I would like to have a script that would offer me a choice of trading account and stock to select. It would then calculate how many shares I could afford from the given account, and enter the info into the web page and subsequent pages, perhaps stopping before the very final confirmation. Ideally, I would like visual confirmation of what has happened. It appears that the broker's web page (https) contains Java script forms. Possible Solutions: 1) Use Applescript to control the Safari web browser on my Mac. Applescript can call a bash shell (or vice versa) to allow programmed control. 2) A perl script using "mech" (WWW::Mechanize). 3) A script which calls curl. 4) other? I am unfamiliar with these technologies, and I have only a vague idea about how they would work. Does anyone have suggestions on these or other approaches? Dan Martin GP Hospital Practitioner Computer Scientist ummar143@shaw.ca (204) 831-1746 until Jan 21: (204) 219-6685 answering machine always on
On 11 Jan, Dan Martin wrote:
I am sure this problem crops up in a number of areas. In my case, I place buy and sell orders (different variations) for stocks on my broker's web page. By the time I enter all the info and go through one or two confirmatory screens, the price has often changed and the order cannot be executed.
2) A perl script using "mech" (WWW::Mechanize).
I use WWW::Mechanize for a lot of things, including a lot of ebay scraping. I tried setting it up for my broker to get options quotes and build graphs but my broker uses js waaaay too much and WWW::Mechanize doesn't support js (well). So I'd say use mech, but not if you can't do anything on your broker site with js turned off.
Hi Dan, I've done this in C# using 'WatiN' <http://watin.sourceforge.net> and also in Python using 'pywinauto' <http://pywinauto.openqa.org> and PAMIE < http://sourceforge.net/projects/pamie>. The WatiN page also references a project for ruby called Watir <http://wtr.rubyforge.org> but I have not used it. I haven't done this kind of thing from a Mac. Watir works on Mac, but like I said, I have not tried it. That would be my first approach if I were working from a Mac. One thing which helps alot is a Firefox plugin called 'Firebug' < http://www.getfirebug.com>. It can help you quickly navigae javascript and identify elements of interest in page source. (There's also a devloper toolbar for IE which fills a similar need, but I haven't seen anything for Safari...) Happy hacking! -Loren On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Dan Martin <ummar143@shaw.ca> wrote:
Problem: to automatically fill form fields in a web page based on changing criteria.
I am sure this problem crops up in a number of areas. In my case, I place buy and sell orders (different variations) for stocks on my broker's web page. By the time I enter all the info and go through one or two confirmatory screens, the price has often changed and the order cannot be executed.
I would like to have a script that would offer me a choice of trading account and stock to select. It would then calculate how many shares I could afford from the given account, and enter the info into the web page and subsequent pages, perhaps stopping before the very final confirmation. Ideally, I would like visual confirmation of what has happened.
It appears that the broker's web page (https) contains Java script forms.
Possible Solutions: 1) Use Applescript to control the Safari web browser on my Mac. Applescript can call a bash shell (or vice versa) to allow programmed control. 2) A perl script using "mech" (WWW::Mechanize). 3) A script which calls curl. 4) other?
I am unfamiliar with these technologies, and I have only a vague idea about how they would work.
Does anyone have suggestions on these or other approaches?
Dan Martin GP Hospital Practitioner Computer Scientist ummar143@shaw.ca (204) 831-1746 until Jan 21: (204) 219-6685 answering machine always on
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Trevor Cordes