Perl refs:

• DevLearn: Perl Tutorial – clean basic ref
• PLEAC – always a life-saver
• Text::vCard
• Net::vCard
• Nokia Smart Messaging vCard perl script – should actually look at this code sometime
• O’Reilly Spidering Hacks (book)
• Cultured Perl: Tied variables
• Variable Scoping in Perl (shut up)
• Robert F’s Quick-n-Dirty Perl Tutorial
• CPAN FAQ
• perlnewmod – preparing a new module for distribution

I wanted to post up at list a little bit of xmas related stuff:

• History Channel: History of the Holidays
• Idaho Indymedia: A Christian Christmas
• History of Christmas
• The True History of Christmas

So hail to Marduk, Kronos, Saturn, Mithras, all long since forgotten…
And to the new gods… Media, Commerce, and Advertising.

Finally got around to working on that Sidekick address exporter. Finished with 6 minutes to spare. Merry Xmas.

• Sidekick Address Exporter (view source)

So, it’s GPL’d. I may eventually get back to it, there’s a lot left to do, and it’s quite fugly, but I’m sick of it at this point. Hopefully someone else will find this useful, as it’s the only way that I can justify the time spent on this. 🙂

(AFAIK, there’s nothing else that pulls out live data from your hiptop, so enjoy — alpha software, requires Perl, WWW::Mechanize, HTML:TokeParser, only tested on my Panther system. If there’s demand, I may get around to actually getting this in a more usable state, and/or throwing up a web version)

Posted a thread on the hiptop forums.

So here’s a little admission. I’ve never bothered to write OOP Perl before. Just never had the need. I still don’t, but maybe it’d be worth looking into.

• perl.com: Object-Oriented Perl
• Dev Shed: Object-Oriented Programming in Perl
• Object Oriented Perl – the book apparently, by Damien Conway

Ben Fry’s zipdecode zipcode visualizer is a great idea. What immediately comes to mind: highways, area codes/exchanges, store locations

• Opteron absolutely crushes Xeons in Java Servlet/JSP testing. Quite impressive numbers (also kicks but in ab, MySQL)
• Ace’s Hardware also has a Game Consoles: A Look Ahead and Timeline: 3DFX Revisited article. It’s like tech porn
• XML highlights for PHP 5

What should one do w/ 700GB of space? Well, for one thing, its not as much as it seems. Transferring over packed FCP files will take up at least 50+ of it, my previously encoded music, another 20GB or so. I’m tempted to FLAC the rest of my collection. FLAC encoded, about 5MB/min + LAME ~1.5MB/min, so, about 150min/GB, about 3 albums/GB, so at least 200GB+ for my albums… 3GB/mo in photos… Well, I’ll be ok as long as I don’t do much video I suppose. Great googly moggly… perhaps I should break out my copy of Where Is It?…

• HA Forums: 128kbps Extension Test – FINISHED
• FLAC – hey, squeezebox and phatbox hardware support
• Flac embedded cuesheet & replaygain – using metaflac
• Lameb – Lame Batch encoder; no, I don’t know if this is useful for anything
• musichtml.pl – Creates a webpage listing your albums with a subpage for each album.
• M.A.R.E.O. – Multiple Applications Runner for EAC and Others.
• Setting EAC compression options for Musepack (and FLAC)
• mareo > single file flac + .cue
• Music Metadata (ID3 and Vorbis/FLAC Comment) Tags
• mp3cue – by the author of EncSpot

It took quite a while to get a boot floppy to install the BIOS update for my MegaRAID 150-6 card. A combination of finding a working floppy, floppy drive, and a way to write a suitable DOS boot disk, and then get it to write the BIOS was quite an ordeal. I thought I had the problem licked with a FreeDOS boot disk and the updater on a CD-RW, but alas, it wouldn’t run. I finally got around this by finding a DR-DOS disk I had as part of a diagnostic disk that would just barely fit the update (and also run it properly).

The update did fix the 48-bit LBA addressing, so it’s now detecting everything correctly. So I’m currently using Knoppix to do a Debian install on the system. A 700+GB home folder is quite a sight.

• Installing Debian Software with the Advanced Package Tool – Getting information about packages – good ref
• Debian Package Tools – list of various tools

• Bootable CD w/ Nero
• FreeDOS – your best bet for dd’ing DOS boot disks in Linux
• Bart’s way to create bootable CD-Roms (for Windows/Dos)
• Net Express: Secret FTP – img files
• Boot disks – more dd writable images
• EtherBoot Project – software package for creating ROM images that can download code over an Ethernet network to be executed on an x86 computer
• Knoppix.net – site dedicated to Knoppix w/ forums, wiki, docs, etc.
• Knoppix gives bootable, one-disk Linux – good link-list

Walter Murch: An Interview with the Editor of “Cold Mountain” – Walter Murch talks about editig and a little on working w/ FCP. Looks like the workstation is set up so that he can still edit standing up