Not really ready yet...just fooling around...

Symptom: iPod is blinking "Do Not Disconnect" even after you've umounted the filesystem.

To create a podcast using php, I added a few things to the feedcreator.class created by

I have a partition formated vfat on my laptop so that I can access it from both Linux and Windows. I store my iTunes music there, so some of the directories have UTF8 characters.



You can do this with rdist, but I prefer the rsync method.

You wish to backup a directory on machine A by making a copy on machine B. (In our case, machine B is a netapp, so we get further backup for free).

I've wasted enough time with these seemingly simple tasks to warrant a quick post. The problem is that you've created keys, put the relevant files all over the place, but nothing seems to be working.
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ipaddress to hostname without a single shred of error checking. This code will take an ipaddress as an argument and return the hostname associated with it using gethostbyaddr. It should have more error checking and a lot of other stuff, but this is just to show the base code. Cut and paste away. [includecode#../code/gethostbyaddr.c]


Note: this is super old, use puppet instead these days...


Script: update_machine update_file
We use this simple script (no error checking as usual) to update our machine configuration.
We keep the configuration files in cvs and download them to a new machine.



