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Sometimes apache will get stuck in an established state where you can't get a list of the connecting IP's from mod_status... not a good thing when you need to ban an abusive ip.
Route output to notify-send to show nice messages on the desktop, e.g. title and interpreter of the current radio stream
Alternative to the ping check if your firewall blocks ping. Uses curl to get the landing page silently, or fail with an error code. You can probably do this with wget as well.
It's the same like 'cp -p' if available. It's faster over networks than scp. If you have to copy gigs of data you could also use netcat and the tar -z option in conjunction -- on the receiving end do:
# nc -l 7000 | tar -xzvpf -
...and on the sending end do:
# tar -czf - * | nc otherhost 7000
Contrary to logic, typing calendar won't show a calendar, that's the job of cal.
Typing calendar will show some trivia related to the current date.
Tested against many Linux distros and FreeBSD.
This is probably overkill, but I have some issues when the directories have spaces in their names.
The
$ find . -type d -print0 | while read -d $'\0' dir; do xxx; done
loops over all the subdirectories in this place, ignoring the white spaces (to some extend).
$ cd "$dir"; echo " process $dir"; cd -;
goes to the directory and back. It also prints some info to check the progress.
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.ogg.mp3" -exec rename 's/.ogg.mp3/.mp3/' {} \;
renames the file within the current directory.
The whole should work with directories and file names that include white spaces.
The Piano Phase piece, by Steve Reich is a minimalist composition which is played on two pianos played at slightly different tempos, a task that's very difficult to accomplish by human players. The auditive effects produced by the cell displacement produce beautiful patterns.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Phase . My rendered version: https://ydor.org/SteveReich/piano_phase.mp3
Requires sox to be installed on the system.
There are multiple videos on youtube showing different approaches and experiences to this interpretation. There is also a synthesized version.
Even if Bash can behave as a powerful pianist, a simple threaded version leaves full room to several time glitches and even negative displacements, the same issues that human pianists experience when playing the piece. The older the computer, the better the chaos added to the result due to the CPU load. Apparently that's the reason Steve Reich composes pieces such as this.
Without further ado, please give a warm welcome to the Bash minimalist player on synthesized two-threaded pianos. Please turn off your cellphones.
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A shortcut to generate documentation with phpdoc. Defaults to HTML; optionally to PDF if third argument is given. Stores documentation in cwd under ./docs/. I forget the syntax to the output, -o, option, so this is easier.
