Tag: debian
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Scrapy on Debian 6
Debian 6 comes with Scrapy 0.8 as downloadable packages on apt. Here a quick howto to get this spider works on Debian 6. sudo apt-get install python-scrapy cd mkdir mydir cd mydir scrapy-ctl startproject anime export SCRAPY_SETTINGS_MODULE=anime.settings export PYTHONPATH=/home/YOURHOMEHERE/mydir If you’ve already a bot but you, to run your spider thanks to point 6 and […]
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Raspberry pi as network torrent downloader with Transmission
I wrote an article about transforming Raspberry Pi into a NAS to share files on a local network with an external usb storage: see technical details there, for brevity here just suppose you’ve a Raspberry PI on local network with a USB drive attached. Since Raspberry PI has limited resources, my choice go to Transmission daemon. […]
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Turn Raspberry into a small NAS with samba
I got a Raspberry Pi Model B. It’s cheap and I want to do some experiments for fun. Experiment #1: I have a 1T external HDD (FAT) and I want to turn Raspberry into a very basic NAS. I used: 1 External USB HDD (with external power supply) 1 ethernet cable CAT. 5 (10/100) or […]
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Howto extract tracks from mkv and avi
This howto requires: mplayer mkvtoolnix your Linux box 😉 Audio from Avi files (es. Xvid + MP3): mplayer -dumpaudio “mymovie.avi” -dumpfile mymovie_audio_track.mp3 Tracks from Matroska MKV file: List all tracks: mkvmerge -i mymovie.mkv File ‘mymovie.mkv’: container: Matroska Track ID 1: video (V_MS/VFW/FOURCC, XVID) Track ID 2: audio (A_VORBIS) Track ID 3: audio (A_VORBIS) Track ID […]