dws's Journaldws's use Perl JournalBit-scraping Car Talk- January 31, 2005 One of the high points of the weekend used to be listening to Car Talk while driving. My travel pattern has changed since moving, and I almost always miss the show now. I had rigged up an FM-radio to audio-in connection to let me capture .wav files to burn to CD, but this never seemed to work out quite right, and that was back before I had a USB MP3 player. Car Talk keeps the most recent show available as a RealAudio feed. Bits. Hm... Hypothetically, then, and with the help of a co-worker...http://use.perl.org/~dws/journal/22950?from=rss A Sloooow Install- January 7, 2005 Installing and configuring Linux is something I do infrequently enough to forget a lot of little details, like "This is going to be a headless system. How do I not start X" (Answer: Edit etcinittab and change runlevel to 3) and "What are all of these strange processes listening on sockets, and how to I shut them downoff" Moving bits off to a backup server before repartitioning (to make a proper home partition this time) took longer than expected, largely because we discovered that the switch..http://use.perl.org/~dws/journal/22607?from=rss |