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Looking for a way to bulk remove channels that I’ve delselected in my channel lineup at Schedules Direct, I happened upon this blog post. Seems to work great :)

For the impatient, the important bit is this:

The final installment of our coraid adventure and not really much to say other than this: it works! Hotplug support is working as of kernel 2.6.25-git11 and appears to function as it should.

Thanks go to Mark Lord, Marvell Corporation, EMC Corporation and Red Hat, Inc. for the coding magic.

Here is a quick script I whipped together to convert flac files to mp3. Its nothing fancy but it does the job. Doesnt require anything but flac and lame.

I was going to include a bunch of fancy id3 tag stuff but to be honest most of the id3 perl libraries out there arent that great to use. I may do something like that in the future though. Since I use quod libet which has a fantastic tagger built in, it isnt really an issue for me.

I am constantly forgetting this and having to look it up so here are the equations to convert each unit of measure to the other:

C = (5/9)(F-32)

F = (9/5)C+32

In the quest for nicer formatting of code, I installed the semGeSHiCodeFix wordpress plugin. Blocks of code should now look like this:

Neat, huh? You can get the plugin here

A handy little script to output all possible foreground and background ANSI colors to a terminal, complete with their codes for building nice looking terminal prompts.

Enjoy :-)
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Here’s a little script I whipped up in perl to sequentially load and erase all the tapes in an auto loader. Hopefully it is of some use to others.

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I recently converted from Arkeia (a horribly overpriced and buggy piece of software) to Bacula (a free, stable, higher performance alternative). At the same time I upgraded my backup server to Debian Etch and started having a problem where my tape library would alternatively show up as either /dev/sg0 or /dev/sg2 depending on what order things were powered up. Obviously that presents a problem if certain pieces of software expect your auto changer to located at a certain device node in /dev.

This can be fixed by making a custom udev rule…

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