[wellylug] Please recommend a decent ISP. Not IHUG !

michael at diaspora.gen.nz michael at diaspora.gen.nz
Tue Apr 22 17:13:40 NZST 2003


>there is an external paradise usage checker .exe available, which you
>can start up whenever you like and know how much time/traffic you have
>left in seconds.

That seems too fancy for me; I'd do something like:

    #!/bin/sh
    username=michael.robinson
    password=XXXX
    lynx -auth=$username:$password -dump \
	"https://www.paradise.net.nz/cgi-bin/member/volume-detail" | 
	perl -pe '/Billing Period/ and $_ = <>, print, exit'

Free to a good home.  If it breaks, you get to keep both parts.  This is,
after all, a *Linux* mailing list.



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