Yes I know, again a post about what is on the way. Finding the time to work on posts has been pretty tough lately. But there are a few projects that I am currently working on guides for, including VPN setup, xbox media center, samba server shares, and others. Read for some more ---

Slashdot, my and most likely your favorite website, is celebrating 10 years of keeping us all from actually working while at work. There is lots to partake in if you are so inclined such as sponsored parties, interviews, biographical posts, and so on. Hit the jump for some good reading.

I have been pretty busy lately and fortunately some of the work was related to projects that I have had on the back burner now for a while. Moving and thus relocating the network and all the machines took a lot more time than I expected, but things are back in flux. Read on for some site changes on the way, stories in the works, and some projects that I am working on.

So most of us with a LAN setup have run into this situation. We wish to connect to our LAN remotely while at work or at the coffee shop. Our firewall is setup and ready for NAT on our desired ports and our internal computers/servers on the LAN have the appropriate services running. But our ISP gives us our IP dynamically so it may stay the same for a month or maybe a couple, or maybe it will only stay at the current address for another day. Well let's figure out how we can find our IP in the sea of addresses when far from the comforts of the LAN.

Like the M4A conversion script from earlier, this one converts to mp3 (if you are wondering why mp3 rather than ogg please refer to that post). So with that business taken care of, we will see here how I like to convert my WMA files to MP3 as well as cleaning up the names a bit.

I used to rip a lot of my cd collection using iTunes on a powerbook in college in the m4a format. I can play them on most of my other machines using mplayer, but some of my older machines (which only have mpg123 and the like) could not. So for convenience sake I decided to convert these selections all to mp3.

[PLEASE make sure you are using this script for LEGAL purposes and that images are downloadable as per permission of the site maintainer/owner/copyright holder. I claim no legal responsibility for the use of the following information.]

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS--- Something I am working on for grabbing images from a website. Right now I haven't formulated a script yet, but I have successfully done most of what I would like to achieve with this particular project. Grab images from a site by extension using wget from a parsed input file created from the page of interest.

My dirty walk-through to setting up an external modem in Linux using wvdial to dial into an ISP connection. I had some trouble finding a single place with a good write-up for doing such a task when I was setting up a Linux box for someone that had previously been using Windows and a little OS X. Finding dialing info, modem configuration, or slight troubleshooting, alone wasn't too difficult, but finding them in one place in a concise manner was. So I have attempted to compile what I have found, my tweaks and adjustments, and other hints that enabled me to setup a Linux box to use a dial up connection via external modem.

Content for the site on the way...
PROJECTS GALORE!

read on for more--