Archive for the ‘Notes’ Category

Installing miniDLNA on Ubuntu PowerPC

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone maintaining packages for the excellent MiniDLNA media server for Debian or Ubuntu. The instructions provided here should work for both Intel and PPC builds (maybe others?) of Ubuntu and Debian Linux.

Run this command to get the pre-req packages needed to build MiniDLNA:

sudo apt-get install libexif-dev libjpeg62-dev libid3tag0-dev libflac-dev libvorbis-dev [...]

Boston via cameraphone – Friday Feb. 26

Boston via cameraphone – Thursday Feb. 25

MixRiot.com Music Ripper

Here’s a lazy liner that I cooked up to rip music from MixRiot.com – simply replace the URL variable with the page that contains the music and it will dump the music using wget with an MP3 extension!
url=”http://www.mixriot.com/category/essential-mix/browse-show/broadcasts/bbc/radio-1/2009″; IFS=$’\n’;title=();id=();for i in `GET $url | grep FlashVars | egrep -o “mixriot.com%2Faudio%2Fplay%2F[0-9]{4}” | cut -b 30-`; do [...]

ERAU Nukes My E-Mail Account, Says “Too Bad”

4 years, over 100 grand, and endless repetition “you must use your e-mail account”, then after graduating and 6 months later, they delete it. I was too busy in the midst of relocating my life halfway across the country, never mind accepting a new job the education helped to provide, and now my account [...]

FaceBook – Set Your Username!

If you haven’t already, head on over to FaceBook and set your username, so you can get (ugh) MySpace style pages – for example my FaceBook page is now http://www.thefacebook.com/andrewpeng
Also, apparently since I am old school, I keep logging in to http://erau.thefacebook.com.
Yep.

SERO 500 + Palm Pre, part II

In my previous post, I discussed somehow squirreling a Palm Pre onto my excellent SERO 500 plan.
As promised, I went to a local Sprint store and asked one of their sales agents if I could activate a non-contractual Palm Pre (purchased at the full retail price) on the SERO 500 plan. The agent was very [...]

Prevent spoofing sessions with public-key encryption

More updates working on implementing a mod_rewrite\Apache implementation of mod_secdownload – just finished coding in a public key encryption verification for the script, basically the same method as implemented in mod_secdownload. Whew, I’m pooped, goin’ to sleep.

Secure, fast, low-resource file delivery

Here’s the problem. I have a handful of files between 500MB-800MB that I need to host up on my website. I need to get these files to people that belong to a certain vBulletin community, and only people of that vBulletin community. Furthermore, the people of that community aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer, [...]

Fears of swine flu worse than swine flu itself

Why is everyone absolutely going nuts. Each day, 2700 people die of malaria, but it doesn’t make national news. To date, less than 30 people have died of swine flu, oh, sorry, H1N1, and out of that 30  or so, only one has died in the US, and it wasn’t a US citizen to begin [...]