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Tuesday, 29 June 2010

Setting the core file location in Linux

$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
core
$ ls /var/crash/

root# echo "/var/crash/core.%s.%e.%p" > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

Monday, 28 June 2010

Re: Clojure

http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/clojure/Getting_Started_with_Idea_and_La_Clojure

http://gregslepak.posterous.com/clojures-n00b-attraction-problem

Clojure

http://gregslepak.posterous.com/clojures-n00b-attraction-problem

Saturday, 29 May 2010

Saving the FBI Radio stream to mp3 on Linux (Ubuntu Lucid)

crontab
0 18  * * mon-fri  /home/tohare/fbi.sh >> /home/tohare/mimms.log 2>&1
30 20  * * mon-fri  /home/tohare/convert_fbi.sh >> /home/tohare/mimms.log 2>&1

save the stream (fbi.sh)
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/mimms -v -t 120 mms://wm9.streaming.telstra.com/UCS-wh_fbi0live1  /home/tohare/web-music/fbi-radio-sunsets-`date +%F`.asf > /home/tohare/mimms.log 2>&1


convert to mp3 (convert_fbi.sh)
#!/bin/bash
cd /home/tohare/web-music
/usr/bin/ffmpeg  -i /home/tohare/web-music/fbi-radio-sunsets-`date +%F`.asf /home/tohare/web-music/fbi-radio-sunsets-`date +%F`.mp3 >> /home/tohare/mimms.log 2>&1
/usr/bin/mp3info -t "fbi-radio-sunsets-`date +%F`" -a "FBI Radio" -g "Dance" -y "`date +%Y`" /home/tohare/web-music/fbi-radio-sunsets-`date +%F`.mp3 >> /home/tohare/mimms.log 2>&1
/usr/bin/mp3splt -s /home/tohare/web-music/fbi-radio-sunsets-`date +%F`.mp3 -d fbi-radio-sunsets-`date +%F`  >> /home/tohare/mimms.log 2>&1

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