Alles was schnuckelig.eu ist...

I'm currently working on a project where I create a dump file from a data structure using Storable to do the actual dump. This file needs to be exchanged afterwards.

I already thought about an email attachment or uploading the file via FTP, but then I remembered the WebDAV enabled server at my fingertips. Yes, that's the sort of challenge I want to face.

As I've already written in a previous post, it's quite simple to connect from a Perl to Exchange (in german). Unfortunately you get into trouble if you have some special character in the folder names, e.g. german umlaute. Luckily Holger found a solution for this special character in IMAP folder problem.

I recently found interesting entries in the log that got my attention. I seemed to be a search engine, but I never heard the name: Cuil

The search form is stripped down and clean. I checked out the about page and got a very good impression.

Even the first test searches went very well and I even found some information at the first strike that took my hours at Google with the very same keywords.

I recently had the problem that I wanted to call a URL from a shell script and thought that wget might do the job.

The site requires authentication so I thought of using my Firefox cookie for this. Bad luck, Firefox 3 now uses sqlite to store their cookies so I can't use the cookie file directly *sigh*

After some extended search on the net I found several options:

• Read the cookie from Firefox manually and add it via the --header options of wget.

 wget --cookies=off \
 --header "Cookie: Name=cookie_text; \

Barack Obama ist also jetzt auch unter die Blogger gegangen. Ob er wohl eher der Typ A-Blogger oder Z-Blogger ist?

Naja, in seinem Blog sind auf jeden Fall schon mal 5 Beiträge. Nicht schlecht für nur einen Tag. Ergo: wohl eher einer mit A-Blogger Ambitionen.

I have to admit that I'm a candiate for the Useless use of cat award sometimes.

I tend to use something like for line in $(cat file); do echo $line; done;. Yes, shame on me, but I promise improvement.

So the better way to to this at least in bash scripting is:

    while read line; do 
        echo $line
    done < file

For zsh there are further alternatives...

I own a Meizu M6 for quite a while and I'm very happy with this iPod alternative. Anyway I had the problem that Rhytmbox didn't recognise it as a music player directly.

Some search on the net revealed that I simply have to create a new file on my device and that's it.

What you have to do is the following:

• create .is_audio_player in the root of your M6
• change the file's content to the following

  audio_folders=MUSIC/

• Restart Rhytmbox and you'll find your M6 in the device section

For a script I made recently to manage contacts to my LDAP server on the command line, I needed a package to easily output a prompt to the terminal.

The requirement is to be able to output things very easily and giving a default value that will be returned. After checking out some packages at CPAN, I decided to go for Term::Prompt. It offer a very convenient interface, basic checks for the returned value and works as I like it to.

From time to time you stumble upon the problem of character encodings. You get a file in encoding A, but prefer it in encoding B.

If you have a Unix shell at your fingertips (or at least something similar) you can use the iconv tool to do the job for you.

Converting an UTF-8 file to ISO-8859-1 will be as simple as this:

    iconv --from-code=UTF-8 --to-code=ISO-8859-1 utf8-encoded.txt > iso-encoded.txt

Endlich ist sie da, die Collector's Edition von Blade Runner. Viele Jahre habe ich darauf gewartet endlich wieder die Kinoversion mit den Voice-over-Komentaren zu sehen.

Blade Runner - Ultimate Collectors Edition (5 DVDs im Steelbook)

Es gab viele Diskussionen darüber ob die notwendig sind oder vielleicht auch nicht. Ist der Director's Cut besser oder nicht und so weiter und so fort.

Finally. Yesterday we released a major update of the Zero RRD Framework at SourceForge.

You'll find the latest version in the Zero RRD Subversion Repository of course, but there's a snapshot available in the Download Section.

Simply download and extract the tar.gz archives for zerod and zero-agent in your /opt folder and follow the manual in the doc folder.

As LYCOS Europe decided to discontinue it's business I needed a new home for my server and still need for my domains.

The first step is done. A new server is setup and most of the services were migrated to the new server. This was mainly done in the background by changing DNS, setup services and so on, but the visible part has begun by migrating this site.