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On scripts and cronjobs.... I now have the web-scraping script that I posted in my previous phlog entry running as a cron job, but it took a little doing and I learned some new things. 1. I had to add a path to the beginning of the script, right after the #!/bin/bash The line is: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin 2. Another thing I did (I'm not sure if this was required now, because I made a number of changes) was add a line at the top of my crontab, so that it would execute the script using bash rather than sh. So I'm told anyways. That line is: SHELL=/bin/bash 3. Someone, somewhere on the internet also mentioned that cron *may* not play well with scripts with an extension, so I changed the script name from lxer.sh to lxersh My Thoughts on HPCs, Operating Systems, etc. In a response to my previous comments on the HP Jornada, Jynx over at the Raspberry Pi of Death mentioned that he never connected with Windows CE. I get that. Some OS's feel better than others. I really liked the hardware and design of the HPC devices. The OS was never much of a draw. I didn't mind the plain old Windows design. I like simplicity. But Windows CE always seemed clunky ... every response was a little delayed and the whole experience seemed .... I can't think of a word better than 'cheap'. Oddly, a snappy response is one of the things I liked the most about two much-maligned OS's: Windows 3.1 and BlackBerry OS 7.1 (the final, polished versions are actually very responsive). If I like something, I tend to stick with it. I used Windows 3.1 until 2002. Yet I wasn't the dinosaur of my workplace. One of the secretaries refused to give up her Wordperfect for DOS (she knew all the keyboard shortcuts) and forced the IT guys to install it for her until she retired in 2008. I'm sure it drove them crazy to set her up for printing. As for OS design, I liked webOS the most. The gestures and the material design (before Duarte made up the word) just made sense. When you use it, it feels so natural. On my laptops, I've always liked the simplest designs. Today, I run a customized version of LXDE, designed to look like Gnome 2. I suppose sometime I'll have to switch to LXQT or XFCE, but I hope that LXDE is retained through one more version of Debian.