• Lessig export
• Freelance work
• Clean apt
• CC editing
• Website Reorg
  • Redesign
  • new backend
  • org domains, admin
  • Dev schedule/todos
  • G-Forge
  • redo jukebox
• ETCON reg
• Work catchup
• Treoblog

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

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