Randy Johnson's Web Blog

Note To Self...  I replaced the wlan card in my dell 1720 laptop...  It is non dell...   aw ne771  ASUS   http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=WLAN&p=3&s=111&os=24&hashedid=n/a   http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=Wireless_Console&p=3&s=110&os=24&hashedid=n/a

For the longest time I have always used wget to handle command line ftp downloads. For one particular download I was doing wget stopped working with wildcards.  Probably something to do with the server I was connecting to. I started researching and found a cool windows batch file to do this:   Windows server 2003 and Windows XP – How to script file download from FTP server   Here is the script from the example altered for my needs. @echo off echo user MyUserName> ftpcmd.dat echo MyPassword>> ftpcmd.dat echo bin>> ftpcmd.dat echo prompt>>ftpcmd.dat echo cd IDX>>ftpcmd.dat echo mget pics-*-2*.tar>> ftpcmd.dat echo quit>> ftpcmd.dat ftp -n -s:ftpcmd.dat SERVERNAME.COM del ftpcmd.dat

I thought it weird that Javascript didn't / doesn't really have an easy way to format Dates.  I ended up using the first link.   1.  http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/date-time-format   2.   http://jacwright.com/projects/javascript/date_format