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Mar 2010 05

Clearing Out Postfix Deferred Mail Queue0

Posted In Perl By Tony Virelli

I had a bit of a situation with my Postfix Mail Queue. Mail stopped sending and the queue built up. When I did a mailq I found a lot of double-bounce@domain.com emails in my queue. I knew it would take forever for those to clear and get the good mail flowing again.
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Dec 2009 17

Setting Your Clock From Google0

Posted In Perl By John Hass

It’s time for another episode of, why the hell would you want to do that, I am your host John Hass.  On Today’s show we are going to teach you how to set the time from Google’s web server.

So the first question is why, my answer is why not.  The web is full of useless things, lets add one more.  Once again using Linux and Perl, you must be root to set the time.
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Dec 2009 16

Sweet Google TTS0

Posted In Perl By John Hass

Google now has a text to speech service that allows you to type in a URL and some text and it will give you an mp3!  It works fairly well, so I decided to use my Swiss Army knife (Perl) and write a script that will make it easy to get mp3’s
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Dec 2009 16

Using Perl To Get Free MP3s!0

Posted In Perl By John Hass

In this article I am going to code up a program that will actually download music from free.napster.com and give you the 32k mp3 file contained within.  So without further ado, let the Free mp3’s reign.

Using libwww, swftools, and some trickery we can easily download mp3’s from free.napster.com.  I am using Linux, but all the requirements for this application should work in Windows.

I am calling my application getTunes.pl for reference. The full source will be attached to this Blog posting.
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