The Innovation Lover

Last week I received the gift book sent out by Google to Google Summer of Code students.

“Beautiful Code”

and more.

Finally I own a mastercard. Google gave us Mastercard to fill payments.

These days seems happier since I received a couple of mails from SLYNUX users. Its glad to know that, still some people use SLYNUX as their regular desktop. SLYNUX has outdated with time due to lack of updation. I regret about it. I’m always urged my many motivations to release SLYNUX 3.0. But truely speaking, this hectic life doesn’t give enough time to work on it. I promise, someday it will be back with same sort of innovation and userfriendliness with better stability.

Today I got a mail from some unknown nicknamed E3Po saying that he/she has setup a fast torrent for slynux 2.0. The old torrent was damn slow [ almost dead ]. The new torrent rocks. He told that in 16 hours after torrent setup stats are like this :

Torrent file downloads: 30, Peers: 7, seeders: 10, leechers: 17

I just tried the torrent and found that its really fast enough as direct download

Here is the link : http://www.demonoid.com/files/download/HTTP/1480059/36064962

Thank you, E3pO.

I happened to see a one-liner shell script to setup a websever pointing to the current directory while surfing. Just think of it. How much powerful is the GNU/Linux bash environment ??

Awesome !

while [ $? -eq 0 ];do nc -vlp 8080 -c'(r=read;e=echo;
$r a b c;z=$r;while [ ${#z} -gt 2 ];do $r z;done;
f=`$e $b|sed 's/[^a-z0-9_.-]//gi'`;h="HTTP/1.0";
o="$h 200 OK\r\n";c="Content";
if [ -z $f ];then($e $o;ls|(while $r n;
do if [ -f "$n" ];
then $e "`ls -gh $n`";
fi;done););elif [ -f $f ];
then $e "$o$c-Type: `file -ib $f`\n$c-Length: `stat -c%s $f`";
$e;cat $f;else $e -e "$h 404 Not Found\n\n404\n";fi)';done

Being a free software enthusiast, it was shame for myself keeping music files in a proprietary format like mp3. During some chat conversation with Shyam I recalled the thought. I never went for a second thought. Wrote a bash script and converted all my music files to ogg vorbis format :). Now I’m free.

Free as in Freedom

Ogg Vorbis is a free and open source replacement for mp3 music format. More than the freedom thought, I have found some more benefit. After conversion from mp3 to ogg, I freed some more disk space. ( 1.5 Gigs to 1.2 Gigs )

find base_dir_path -type f -name "*.mp3" > list ;
while read each_file;
     dir2ogg "$each_file";
     rm "$each_file" ;
 done < list ;