Make 007 Jealous

Public/Private encryption is not a new thing, did you know you can use my favorite swiss army knife to send secret messages to your friends…. Scratch that, I don’t have any friends… Perl Makes this easy with a little module calls Crypt::RSA, yes RSA is under fire for security blah blah, I don’t care, it’s still secure, because Mr. S’s (yes it’s a dudes name) I can’t pronounce nor spell, I know it will be fairly decent, I am almost about sure Mr. S should be Dr. S, but that just sounds evil, so without further ado, public/private key encryption with perl.
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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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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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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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