I run a DNS server that I and a lot of my friends use. The problem with it being “free” and being between friends is sometimes people forget to tell you if they have switched DNS serving arrangements or just haven’t kept the registration. I wrote a quick and dirty script, thanks to the whois …
Previously on my blog: In my TiVo2Podcast stuff I automated the process of putting chapters around commercials, but had to call out to a small C++ app I wrote to put the chapters in using libmp4v2. A few weeks ago I was looking at some ruby gems for a project I was working on and …
(It’s been awhile since I’ve done a technical post, so I may do that on the next few.) Through some craziness we haven’t figured out, a user at work managed to get over *pinky to mouth* one million items in their Deleted Items folder in Outlook which is hooked up to our Exchange server. This …
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I’ve made a few updates since my last release a few weeks ago. I thought I’d toss an updated version out there. What’s new in this version: Duration is no longer hard-coded to 32:00 and actually reflects the duration of the show The script will attempt to find the TiVo via Bonjour/mDNS/ZeroConf/DNS-SD/whatever unless passed a …
Previously on “You can imagine where it goes from here”: We released a script to download stuff from the tivo, and then made some improvements to it. After two years of saying I was going to fully automate the process of downloading and transcoding shows for my iPhone, I finally got off my ass and …
Previously I put out an early version of my ruby based command line oriented tivo download script. I’ve had a patch from MARK NOTARUS to make the menu have some more options and I’m using Console::ProgressBar from facets now. It works well enough for my needs, but let me know if you hit any roadblocks. …
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I’ve been working on a command-line oriented TiVo2Go downloader so I can automate getting items off my tivo, or at least do it when I’m on the road via ssh (and then kick off that other script…) I’ve written a quick and dirty TiVo library, and a sample script called TiVo2Disk which uses the library. …
I’ve whipped up a quick ruby script that wraps ffmpeg to turn anything ffmpeg understand into something suitable for watching on an iPhone. It’ll work for a normal iPod too, probably, but I’ve got it fully keyed to the resolution of the iPhone. Download it and check it out. (Fear my non-twitter content!)
I love that jwz ported XScreenSaver to OS X at about the same time I moved to OS X for my laptop. I got to keep all the screen savers I use and have used over the past decade or so. Especially some of the cooler GL based ones. (Its also nice that someone ported …