This is a simple way to get Shoutcast restarted (tested in Ubuntu 8.04) if the inbound stream is lost. You need Lynx installed for this to work, there might be better ways of achieving the same result though. To install Lynx: $ sudo apt-get install lynx Put in file shoutcast_supervisor.sh in /usr/bin: #!/bin/bash ONLINE=$(lynx -dump […]
Another ”wee” tip. I had a hard time doing this right… Put emacs in the EDITOR shell variable: $ EDITOR=emacs $ export EDITOR and add the following to your ~/.emacs: (set ‘temporary-file-directory ”/tmp”) Now, edit the crontab file via: $ crontab -e Edit and save the file, and you should get a response from crontab: […]
The Autocompleter.Local in the Script.aculo.us Prototype-addon is quite nice. It can be used to get type-ahead into a field if you have a local JavaScript Array. I wanted to extend the functionality to have it behave as a Combobox, which is like a Select with a text input field. Here is how I did it, […]