Gophercore

Posted by gabe in gopher, linux on March 28th, 2009

gopher://gopher.signalnine.net/
Should work in Firefox, or apt-get yourself a real commandline client if you’re on a Debian system. And yes, that is in fact a Twitter-to-gopher gateway I wrote. Also, this blog is being re-published as a phlog. Apparently Veronica is still around! I got my server added to the index seed list, I’m listed as the 136th gopher server still on the internet.

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Spam Poetry OTD

Posted by gabe in spam on March 20th, 2009

This one reminds me of E2 poetry.

While you are ill, your neighbor takes medicine.

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VLC streaming webcam server

Posted by gabe in linux, webcam on March 14th, 2009

I recently had occasion to create a streaming server to serve a video and audio feed, for use as a baby monitor. So, I decided to re-purpose my aging Eee 701 that’s become next to useless because the LCD is failing. However, it makes a perfect compact low-power headless Linux server. I bought a cheap-ass webcam.

Getting the webcam to recognize under Intrepid was a little bit of a pain, but the gspca drivers will compile under the 2.6.27-11 kernel if you apply this patch.

So, after making sure you have both vlc and v4l-config installed, here’s the VLC command you’ll need:

cvlc v4l:// :v4l-vdev="/dev/video0" :v4l2-adev="/dev/audio" :v4l-norm=1 :v4l-chroma=UYVY :v4l-height=640 :v4l-width=480  --sout "#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=800,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=64,channels=1,audio-sync,vfilter=deinterlace}:duplicate{dst=std{access=mmsh,mux=mp4,dst=192.168.0.24:1755}}"

Replace 192.168.0.24:1755 with your server’s IP and preferred port. This is serving MMS, you can replace mmsh with http or whatever your preferred protocol is. You can also change vcodec and vb, the video codec and bitrate respectively. h.264 is very efficient, but somewhat processor-intensive, but remarkably, my Eee 701 with a 600mhz Celeron handles it just fine.

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Toodledo Bash Script

Posted by gabe in code on March 11th, 2009

So, I’ve been playing with Toodledo recently. It’s a pretty impressive web-based todo system with pretty much all the functionality you could ask for. However, I don’t really like the Ruby command line client, so I wrote my own in Bash. It requires that you have a local MTA in order to function properly. I recommend ssmpt if you don’t need a full-featured MTA.
Downloadable here: http://signalnine.net/toodledo

Licence: GPL v2.
Install instructions:

  1. Download the script, put it in a directory that’s in your path. (i.e., ~/bin/ or /usr/bin/)
  2. Edit the script, replace from variable with your email and to with your toodledo secret email address which you can find here.
  3. Make the toodledo script executable.
  4. Follow the Toodledo email format, which the script reminds you of on execution.

That’s it. Have fun.

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