Monthly Archives: October 2005

Debian ate my Webserver

Posted on October 24, 2005 by Administrator

I’ve been meaning to upgrade to apache2 for a while now. So I set about doing it yesterday as it was the only legacy app I had left on the debian testing box I run this blog from. The wordpress … Continue reading →

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Making a Minimalist Bittorrent Client

Posted on October 17, 2005 by Administrator

I spent the weekend sorting out bittorrent support in Peapod so that it wasn't quite such a mess. Previously I had hacked a version of btdownloadheadless.py so that it would exit when the download completed. I was then shelling out … Continue reading →

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A Pythonic Podcatcher

Posted on October 12, 2005 by Administrator

A friend and I have been hacking on a replacement for bashpodder. It's taken a while but it's now very usable. Any thoughts greatly appreciated. I present Peapod

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Playing Movies on the iAudio X5

Posted on October 9, 2005 by Administrator

I am enraptured by my new Cowan iAudio X5. It plays both flac and ogg vorbis and appears to my linux box as a standard USB storage device. Given this level of openness I’m willing to forgive it for running … Continue reading →

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