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Notepad++

silliam — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:44:09 +0000

If you don’t know about Notepad++ you are missing out.Â It is amazing.Â I don’t know what else there is to say except that it is amazing.

Gentoo Mirror

silliam — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:07:58 +0000

I just set up a full source gentoo mirror at mirror.silliam.com. I don’t know if gentoo would want my mirror added to their official pool since it is on shared hosting, so I haven’t submitted a bug report yet. However, I am going to use my mirror, and anyone else is free to use it. I have the bandwidth capped at 5TB, which works out to be about 15Mbit, I think. Anyways, my mirror syncs every four hours, starting at midnight PST using this command:

rsync --avHS --delete-excluded ftp.ussg.iu.edu::gentoo-distfiles /home/silliam/mirror.silliam.com/gentoo/

It then emails me the results of the command, hence the verbose flag (I like to see what files changed).

I am happy to mirror files for anybody, I have much more bandwidth than I could ever use. One of these days, I am going to build a nice python or php framework for mirroring files.

bClock Prototype

silliam — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:24:35 +0000

I finally finished version 1.0 of my binary clock. All of the info about it, including a schematic and pictures, is on the bClock page. I really like it, and I want to get some kits and have a few boards etched. If I get enough feedback (maybe 5 people interested) then I will make the order. Just leave a comment if you’re interested! Thanks!

Essential Software for Windows

silliam — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:43:34 +0000

I decided to make a list of my favorite free software. It will be an ongoing project at my ESW page. The ESW page will also have more up-to-date information and reviews about the utilities.

Defragmenter – JkDefrag

Archive Manager – 7zip

Ripzilla is alive!

silliam — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:55:43 +0000

My Nakamichi Mj-5 and 14 bay SCSI tower is now alive and kicking as a 40 CD ripping machine! After many weeks of waiting and watching on eBay and a small effort on the part of my machinist friend, I have all of the components necessary for a CD ripping beast. Check out Ripzilla for my scripts, pictures of the project, and much more info.Â It is amazing how well the Nakamichi Mj-5 works in linux.

Copy Handler is Awesome

silliam — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:50:14 +0000

Copy Handler is an awesome replacement for the default Windows file copy handler. It gives you total control over the copy process. The best part is that it allows you to pause your copy operations! I just got my new Samba server set up and then I had to copy 100GB’s of data from different directories to the new server. Originally I started all of the copies with the standard windows file copy handler, but it managed to crash after about 2 hours of copying. I then searched the web for a drop in replacement with shell integration and stumbled across Copy Handler. My copy is now done and I am impressed. Copy Handler survived 100GB’s and a reboot in the middle. After tonight, I am never going back to the standard Windows Copy Handler.