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03 Jul 2005
(post in dutch)
Peter Forret
because eloquence is, like, whatever
Peter Forretbecause eloquence is, like, whatever
There is something weird: after the audio-only iPods came the iPods with images, but there are no iPods for videos (yet). However, we already have video podcasts, but there are to my knowledge hardly any picture podcasts? Why did we skip that medium? The hardware is there, the content is there.
Barry (played by Jack Black): Rob, top five musical crimes perpetuated by Stevie Wonder in the ’80s and ’90s. Go. Sub-question: is it in fact unfair to criticize a formerly great artist for his latter-day sins, is it better to burn out or fade away?
(from imdb.com)
The following script I made in order to convert the forward DNS records in a /var/named/db.[domain] file into the correct format for a reverse DNS db.[subnet prefix] file.
``
#!/bin/sh
(…)
DNSROOT=/var/named
PREFIX=$1
DOMAIN=$2
shift 2
DNSPRE=$DNSROOT/db.$PREFIX
DNSDOM=$DNSROOT/db.$DOMAIN
echo “; save this in $DNSPRE”
(
if [ -f $DNSDOM ] ; then
cat $DNSDOM
| grep $PREFIX
| grep -w “A”
| sed “s/$PREFIX.*//g”
| gawk “BEGIN {OFS = “t” ;} {print $4,”IN”,”PTR”,$1 “.$DOMAIN.”,”;; FROM basename $DNSDOM” }”
fi</p>
if [ -f $DNSPRE ] ; then
cat $DNSPRE
| grep -w "PTR"
| gawk "BEGIN {OFS = "t" ;} {print $1,$2,$3,$4,";; FROM `basename $DNSPRE` "; }"
fi )
| sort -n
| uniq --check-chars=3
``
I have just created a tool to help solve the Sudoku puzzles: the forret.com Sudoku Helper. I’ve added it to my Forret tools directory.
While checking for the latests versions of Mixmeister software, the excellent audio tool for crafting MP3 mixes, (they’re at release 6.0 now), I also noticed they just released Propaganda, a Windows software for creating p0dcasts. They’ve built it on the Mixmeister engine: accurate automatic detection of BPM (tempo) and downtime (1st beat of a measure), flawless time-stretching (speeding a song up or down without changing the pitch) and manipulation through a timeline based editor.
Excellent posts in the Music Thing Blog about the way some of the famous sounds of everyday life were created:
If this is true, it could change the landscape for podcasting significantly: Apple is jumping on the podcast wagon:
I just spent a wonderful five days on a tango course in Italy. Life at the Abano Ritz (Abano Terme, near Venice) is quite enjoyable, and the teachers Marisa & Oliver and Birkit & Muzaffer were excellent.
