Life on the bleeding edge 2 – get_iplayer

Features

  • Downloads MP4 streams from BBC iPlayer site with better quality than Flash player streams
  • Downloads Flash AAC/MP3 and WMA streams for radio programmes
  • Allow multiple programmes to be downloaded using a single command
  • Indexing of all available iPlayer programs
  • Caching of Index (default 4h)
  • Regex search on programme ...
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ebuild- v2’

After having quite a few problems when I did my bi-daily, i.e. every other day, build of emacs, I’ve reworked my script which makes it easier to use.

Source code

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Life on the bleeding edge 1 - emacs

This is part of a small series of postings about linux software being at the bleeding edge, i.e. the active development versions. And we kick off with emacs which went into development freeze on the 23rd December last year, and this is version 24.4.50.xx. This is ...

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Obnam conf files

To use obnam-fuse, you may have to amend your obnam.conf, as shown here -

[config]

repository = /media/boudiccas/backup/obnam-home2

root = /home/boudiccas/

client-name = london

#exclude = .mp2$, .part$, .rar$, .nfo$, .m4v$,
#    .tmp$, ~\.cache$

keep = 8h,14d,10w,12m

log = /home/boudiccas/logs/obnam.txt
log-level = info
log-keep = 7
log-max = 50 ...
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Obnam-fuse

After much experimenting I’ve been able to mount an obnam generation back to 20th July 2013, my oldest backup that I have. To do this you need to have python-fuse and fuse-plugin.py installed. It is quite possible that you already have ‘fuse-plugin.py’ installed as part of your ...

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