Linux, Code and other things

I thought it was a bit awkward to have a rant post on the main page, so I'll post something else today. I have moved away from Ubuntu by the way, I am now a happy user of Debian 2.6. Everything just...

One of the users on a vBulletin-powered board of mine has asked me if it was possible to embed TEDtalks in the posts. After some extensive googling I couldn't find anything. So when I had some time to spare on a little fun project, I've returned to the question. TED don't publish any sort of API to enable other websites publish TED's content, with an exception of WordPress.com and only in their hosted solution. This got me into thinking that some sort of a semi-private API must exist. So after a deal of poking around, the API was found and has made it into a small plugin for my vBulletin board. There's no reason not to share it with the rest.

It's quite common to have unreadable characters in your mp3 play list, especially when the files came from Windows and the names are not in latin character set (like cyrillic). To address this issue,...

Somehow it happened that I'm looking after the SVN server in my company. Every now and again something happens to one or two repositories, but you never know which ones exactly. Unless developers complain. So to save me going through every repository, I've finally settled on this command...