Updates, updates everywhere. I pushed a bunch of updates to FreeLinuxBox.org, my Blog, LinuxPlanet Casts and Blogs, LinuxForChristians, TLLTS Planet and the Lincware forums. Everything looks ok right now, but please let me know if you see anything strange happening (or not happening as the case may be). Thanks and you may now return to your previously scheduled rss feed.
Sep 15
It’s been a long time since I posted about BashPodder and this is great news. BashPodder seems to show up in the most unlikely of places. Today I got a letter from John C. pointing me to a post on how he uses BashPodder *on* his iPod Touch. I think this is absolutely brilliant. Make sure to head on over to his site to read the details!
Sep 02
Just thought it was worth a mention that BashPodder and LinuxPlanet happen to go together particularly well. Just grab a copy of BashPodder and in your bp.conf file put the rss feed for LinuxPlanet Casts (http://www.linuxplanet.org/casts/?feed=rss2) and you’re ready to rumble. You will get all the great podcasts who post to LinuxPlanet and because they are there, you’ll have a convenient place to catch all their show notes and notices too!
Jan 19
I mentioned previously that I was thinking of adding some new functionality to my BashPodder pages. I wanted something to help me keep track of information and new user contrib scripts there instead of me manually taking care of it all. The best solution I could think of was a forum. Then, I got thinking that I might just e able to use that forum to help me manage multiple software projects. A good idea was forming when Dann started to demand that I set everything up that way. Enough procrastination, he insisted. He wanted to jump right in and be the first to post HIS BashPodder modifications. I couldn’t go fast enough. If you know Dann like I know Dann, you realize you just don’t tell him no or “bad things may happen”.
I conceded and set everything up for Dann. The results can be found at http://lincgeek.org/lincware.
Seriously though, I set up a nice forum for a few projects that I work on regularly. You will be able to find information there for BashPodder, OSM, Rackspace and TivoGrab as well as others. Please wander over there and register if you use any of those projects. It will be a lot easier to keep things straight this way, not to mention being able to easily share information with not only me, but eachother as well.
Jan 17
I have long been pondering what to do with my BashPodder website. It really needs an overhaul in the worst way. I could use some suggestions from those of you who have any interest 
My thoughts are to possibly change it’s site into a forum type thing for people to post their changes/modifications. That will keep me from having to keep track of them manually anyway. Procrastination keeps getting in my way though. What do you think?
Dec 05
A new version of PodSync (uses BashPodder) is out and available for download. This new version is for OS2008 on the Nokia N800/N810. It’s pretty slick. And, if you, like me, are still running OS2007, you can find the older versions off of PodSync’s Home Pages.
Oct 14
Wouter Houweling created a piece of software called PodSync, which, at it’s core uses BashPodder. I installed it this morning, and as long as you already have wget installed, it runs fantastic. If you have an N800, here’s your podcatcher. I am assuming that this will work fine with the Nokia 770 as well, however, that has not been tested yet. Have at it folks!
Jun 30
Just got a nice notice from Dimitri at SourceTrunk, the podcast that he reviewed BashPodder. So, I had to head over there and check out a few shows. I have to say that not only is the BashPodder review flattering, but the rest of the material I listened to is well presented, very well informed very friendly and quite interesting. They play some good music as well. Make sure to add them into yout bp.conf file like I just did, or just pick up the new default file off the website – it’s in there too.
Listen to the review Here.
Jun 18
You asked for it, you got it! The BashPodder site is now back online in it’s new location. Tell everyone 
I hope to have some time someday soon to do some reorganization to the site and maybe even BashPodder itself. Any ideas or suggestions, make sure and shoot them my way!
May 15
It has been a whirlwind of activity since the last time I have had the time to write anything. As I mentioned previously, I have moved to Downingtown, PA. Or, should I say, I am moving there.
Sice I had to start work last monday, I moved down that weekend with just a carload of things to gt me going. More like camping on carpet, really, than actually *living* there. I muddled my way through my first week while getting accustomed to things like riding the regional rail system in Philly, and, of course, getting completely turned around and lost on several occasions.
I had a rude awakening the first night here as the blowup bed I had brought to get me through the move turned into a puddle around 4am. The worst part is I was so busy, it took me two days to find a replacement. I bought a cot, figuring that it would not deflate, and it was up off the floor a little since after moving boxes around it’s dificult to get off the floor the next AM. Well, it turns out that I was wrong about the deflating part. The cot I bought had a weight limit of 325lbs and the very first time I sat on it the middle leg bent upwards to greet me – and no, I am not anywhere near 325 So, I ran that back to the store and ran to Walmart where I found a normal cot which has been working perfectly fine.
The next series of problems was getting internet access. I decided on Comcast, simply because that meant on e bill for th time being instead of two. In order to get it, though, my wife had to drive down here from Easton because the installer would come if someone over 18 was not here, and there were no installation timeslots after I was out of work for the day. The install was scheduled for thursday morning and my wife came out and let the installer in, who promptly informed her that the modem he brought was bad. He took off and brought back two more, one of which he hooked only to the cable and then called the install good, and left. By the time I got home and hooked my computer to the modem to test it, it was almost 9pm and, you guessed it, it didn’t work. I called tech support and told them the modem was broken. It had no activity lights and refused to hand out any dhcp leases. The tech woman I was talking to on the phone, of course, disagreed. After a heated 40 minute arguement, she told me she couldn’t help me anymore and I needed to call Apple tech support to get my problem resolved (yes, really). I jumped into the car and ran to Walmart and picked up a cable modem, brought it back, plugged it in and got my dhcp lease. I then called Comcast back to just get the mac address added into my account so I couldd get my mail. I spoke with a different woman this time who promptly told me that the modem I just bought was already attached to someone elses account and she could not proceed further until resolving that issue. Of course they would not call the other person up at after 10pm, so I would have to wait until the next day. I was slightly irritated and demanded the supervisor, who assured me that he would take care of the problem and call me back the next day. Well, the next day came and went at work with no call, so I called Comcast back while I was on the train ride home. Speaking to a new person I explained the situation and the new guy said he’d look into the prob and call me back within a half hour. An hour later when I was home I called and spoke to another new person and explained the situation again. She said she didn’t think she could help because the mac address was still on the other account. I told her I really needed this fixed and I thought that Comcast had horrible customer service and, for some reason, she took pitty upon me and asked me to hold while she walked to another department. So, I listened to some elevator music for about 15 minutes and then she came back on and said I was all fixed. Sure enough, I was. I have no idea why any of the other boobs couldn’t get their act straight, but this lady hooked me right up! I didn’t even have time to use my newfound connectivity because I was right out of the new place back to Easton to move more stuff.
Now Comcast will not let me host my own servers (for public consumption), so I am going to have to move things around a little bit (hence the new blog and location). This also means moving things like BashPodder around too. After many years of faithful service I want to say a public goodbye to linc.homeunix.org’s web content. But most of it will end up here. Just keep checking back.
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