Script to mirror FTP/HTTPS site

Peter requested a program to automated data downloading from GIS/BROAD/TGEN sites. Some of the sites use FTP and some use HTTPS. Generally wget can do it pretty well, but our current installation does not have ssl builtin, so I have to install new wget-1.10.1 and openssl-0.9.8. Other features they requried is to get updated when the mirrored site get updates (new file, size change etc). This needs some extra coding.

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ZT: 新手的提问

看了很多新手的提问,当然也稍微回答了一些,大部分的问题我一点提不起回答的兴趣,本来想说Google是个好老师,但是觉得容易造成新手的误会所以
作罢,但是越看越觉不爽,心里有些话不吐不快,正好今天看到一幅图片和一些文字,表达自己的意思最为合适,所以就放上来! 

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From Mambo to Joomla

There are some events on Mambo on September this year that Miro company has obvious intention to commercialize Mambo project and this made the core development angry. When all the communication failed, the core development decided to leave the current code base, and create a new project “Joomla“, based on the GPL Mambo 4.5.2.3. 

As a loyal supproter for open source community, I managed to move my personal site from “mambo” to “joomla”.   

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myGRID client Taverna-sync-ed

When the myGRID server is ready, the next step is to prepare the client for end users. One sad thing about Taverna is that the configuation files (by default) are edited locally. To use the new services from additional servers, users have to modify the “mygrid.properties” file manully. This apparently is not acceptable for normal bix people. 

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ZT: 以色列与上海中国

二战期间,纳粹德国迫害、并欲图灭绝犹太民族。逃出欧洲的犹太人痛苦地发现,畏惧于希特勒淫威之下的整个世界均冷酷地对他们关上了大门;唯有中国上海一扇
小门,尚敞开在那里。消息传出,短时间内,世界各地共五万犹太人逃来上海避难。上海当时浑然不知希特勒;上海只是个开放的、不设防城市而已;任何人来上海
都无须签证。 

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