Author Archives: Administrator
Debian ate my Webserver
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
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
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
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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Adventure in RSS
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the default RSS feed generator in Mambo doesn't support HTML. Madness! Anyway having upgraded to RSSXT I now have lovely RSS feeds. I'm trying hard not think about the chocolate-teapotishness of an RSS … Continue reading
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I’m Embarrassed
Once for doing the stupid test. Twice for the result. Damn.
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Scripting is hard
I would like to quote for you now the opening lines of Microsoft’s Scripting Concepts and Technologies for System Administration. This is a book about scripting for system administrators. If you are like many system administrators, you might be wondering … Continue reading
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Flying Spaghetti Monster
Some things deserve to be linked to. Flying Spaghetti Monster creates universe
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New Bashpodder Package
This version of bashpodder is deprecated. If you want something with this functionality go to peapodpy.org. I've cleaned up and re-structured the script to make it easier to read and maintain. Bashpodder is also now smart enough to detect your … Continue reading
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To Use The Internet You Must Be At Least This Smart
So I keep seeing this particularly amusing advert cropping up on a lot of the geekier websites that I read. I would hold that the advert itself is a pretty reliable IQ test. It can safely be asuumed that those … Continue reading
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