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rebuilding bikelist.org archives
Most blog readers probably know that I host/run bikelist.org, phred.org, and many of the bicycle-related mailing lists associated with them such as Internet-BOB, Framebuilders, and Touring. Many years ago I wrote a crude system for searching the archives...
Posted 04 March 2008 04:45 PM by AlexWetmore | 8 comment(s)
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Virtualizing the servers
Currently phred.org/bikelist.org are run off of two servers, one running FreeBSD and one running Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003. We also have a file server for our house, so that is 3 computers powered on 24x7. The total power consumption for all three...
Posted 18 September 2007 06:23 PM by AlexWetmore | 4 comment(s)
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Bulk CD Ripping -- Part Two: FLAC images to MP3 files
Part one of this series showed how I ripped a large pile of CDs into FLAC image files. The FLAC image files are playable, but most of our hardware wants MP3 files and I'd prefer one file per track instead of one file per album. The FLAC image files also...
Posted 20 December 2006 01:25 AM by AlexWetmore | 6 comment(s)
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Bulk CD Ripping -- Part One: CDs to FLAC Images
This is going to be a multipart blog series on ripping CDs. I'll start be describing the goals that lead me to this solution: Use a hardware changer to rip the CDs so that I don't need to sit there and feed the computer each disk one at a time. Use ripping...
Posted 20 December 2006 12:55 AM by AlexWetmore | 26 comment(s)
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Mac followup
The last article that I wrote about using the Mac has created a lot of emails and discussions in my inbox. I received a lot of helpful hints too. Here are a few things that I learned: 1) In the Keyboard control panel you can make Tab switch between all...
Posted 27 January 2006 03:27 AM by AlexWetmore | with no comments
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So I've been using a Mac a lot...
Why I have a Mac A friend gave me a long term loan on a Mac Mini in early December. At about the same time our home PC had a few minor hardware issues, so I temporarily switched our home computer over to a Mac. It is a "high end" Mac Mini with 1gb of...
Posted 25 January 2006 03:30 PM by AlexWetmore | 1 comment(s)
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The costs of running home servers
Frequently, especially after I have a hardware issue (read http://blogs.phred.org/blogs/alex_wetmore/archive/2005/11/19/69.aspx ) I am asked by members of bikelist.org about donations and what it costs me to run the servers. Donations I'll start by talking...
Posted 21 November 2005 06:26 PM by AlexWetmore | with no comments
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Reviving the blog, and an introduction
An introduction to this blog and who I am.
Posted 06 November 2005 03:41 PM by AlexWetmore | with no comments
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