Garbage collection, in a very real sense
‘Tis the season to remove yourself from mailing lists if you’re subscribed from your work address. And there’s only so much good will to go round, until it’s completely soaked up by people asking lists with automated (un)subscription procedures to “unsubscibe” them, please, right now. It’s even harder to deal with those who ask thousands [...]
There’s currently no plan to switch off FM stations. In fact, many radio bosses have said oh, for heaven’s sake to the very idea. There is, astonishingly, less of a plan for radio switchover than there is desire among the general public for TV switchover. So that must be some sort of record for nothingness.
Seriously: [...]
I have a couple of on-login tasks doing various distributed office jobs for me: one brought in all the networked drives from machines in this and the other office; the other backed up my locally stored email to the office server. Because my work rarely spans offices I don’t pay much attention to the former; [...]
Following user requests, I’ve uploaded a new version of rmrip which takes a command-line argument specifying your configuration file:
./rmrip.py foo.conf
As the user himself implied, this has the added bonus of making it more crontab-friendly e.g. you can have a crontab entry saying:
0 2 * * 2 $HOME/rmrip/rmrip.py tuesday.conf
You can download rmrip as before from http://www.jpstacey.info/blog/files/code/rmrip.tgz. [...]
Happy new year, all. A short and relatively under-researched one to kick off 2007, as I’m suddenly very busy with multiple projects. Just to keep those Google fires burning….
I’m currently taking over a maintenance project from a co-worker. The architecture in question integrates our CMS with Raiser’s Edge, the charity-oriented system from Blackbaud for tracking [...]
It’s one of the worst-kept tech secrets in the world, but Real Audio streams can be downloaded using software such as mplayer and then converted to MP3 format with lame. Both of these are available in Ubuntu using the non-Ubuntu package manager Automatix. The possibility of doing this conversion implies that, although the BBC offer [...]
One of the last tasks that moving to my new machine involves is to stretch the Ubuntu desktop across both of my monitors. Our sysadmin had very kindly set it up to work with the monitor card integral to the motherboard, so in principle I only had to tweak the configuration for X, the standard [...]