TuxRunner

I discovered a super cool podcast aggregator a few weeks ago, but hadn’t actually put any time into setting it up on my CentOS box at home.  Well, dove into it last night and I have to say (in my best Quicken Loans-speak) “simplicity is genius!”

This thing rocks.  It’s simple.  It does what it’s supposed to do.  It harnesses the power of Linux.  And it’s highly configurable.  Bashpodder is what I’ve been looking for in a podcatcher for a LONG time.  I listen to about 10-15 podcasts regularly, and really wanted to find a way to download them automatically after hours, and then just copy them to my MP3 player in the morning before I head out for work. (continue reading…)

Holy wow I’ve not visited this blog in quite a while.  Alright, I’ve had some time to settle in to my new digs at work and have been learning quite a lot (too much almost, I can’t keep all this in my brain.)  So I figured I’d start to put some fun stuff out here that I’ve been learning.  Maybe you’ll find some of it useful, maybe not.  Whatever.

Let’s take a look at what is commonly known as a “HERE Tag” in Bash scripting/command line. (continue reading…)

No, not Adam Deal… I learned from my Livonia teammates last week that the Unix team used to block off time on fridays sometimes to Drop Everything And Learn.  Well, since I have quite a lot to learn I’ve been dedicating a good portion of my monday and tuesdays as study time for Unix.  It’s been an excellent time to study though, it’s quiet out in the Rock Cottage lately.

I’ve been reading through a Bash scripting book for a few days now.  I already was familiar with quite a lot of what I’ve read so far, but what the book has been doing for me is filling in a lot of the finer details about bash that I’ve just never spent the time to read about.  It’s good though, I want to focus the same kind of intensity on this as I have in the past with VBScript and VMware ESX.