Slight downtime there as i migrated servers. Should be sweet now.
Liberated Melody LIVE 03/07
Wahoo! The very first ever live show for my radio station! Guess what I am the DJ! This is quite an epic event really the primier show for my radio station that I’ve been working on for weeks now.
Righto enough of me saying how great it’s going to be here’s the line up (or what I hope the general flow of the night will be like. First up I’m going to play some dubstep/dance music from various artists (creative commons and non) we are going to play a mixture of it then once we get sick of this and into a more happier mood we are going to switch (slowly) to a more upbeat(or downbeat) rock music. Which will set the tone put for the rest of the night as a merry cheery night with lots of singing.
Now listening to that now I know that you all want to come to the party that I’m streaming but that is invitation only but you can get the next best thing! Listen to the live show!!! Anyone can come online and have a listen (heck I want you too) you can even come into the chatroom during the show and talk to me and others listening to the show and after the show when the non-live playlist takes over you can talk to others listening too. Ok now pop yourself over too http://radio.jonys.info to read more infomation about liberated melody but since I’m nice I will put the show info here too.
So here’s the details:
What: Liberated Melody LIVE show
When: Saterday 3 July 0900-(1000 or 1100) GMT+0
Who: Dj Jb mixing up some sounds for him and some mates.
Why: Because we can and want to have a good time.
How: Simply click the listen link on the navigation page @ http://radio.jonys.info ( NOTE: when it’s not live it plays a playlist of Creative Commons music obtained from jamendo.com , if you want more infomation about non-live check out the non-live link on the navigation bar). Also check out the irc chatroom (click the ‘chatroom’ link on the navigation bar @ http://radio.jonys.info ) to chat to people about the station and to chat during the live show( NOTE: My nickname in the chatroom is ‘jony123′ feel free to talk to me but note if I don’t reply I’m either away, busy, at school or sleeping)
Hope to see you in the chatroom sometime or atleast I hope to see you there during the show.
Lastly know that basicly I am just streaming up a party so it’s going to be really unpredictable so come with a open mind really to listen to possibly everything and anything. XD
witch Linux
Posted 11 Jun 2010 — by Jonathon Hill
Category crunchbang, linux
Category crunchbang, linux
Meet witch Linux. Witch Ignites, Thunderously Casting Hexes! She is currently an Arch based GNU/Linux distribution with the intent of being elegant, while also nimble, free of bloat, and otherwise quite minimal. Standard features include: your choice of tiling window management (scrotwm/dwm), text-based irc client (irssi), web browser (links2), file manager / text editor (MidnightCommander), and drop-down tabbing terminal emulator (tilda)… just to name a few! (Source wiki http://witch.jonys.info/wiki)
Me and the witch’s history
Internet Radio Station
After looking for something to do recently I though I may as well try to get an internet radio station to work. With an earlier attempt at this providing some information I decided to look for a guide on the internet that uses icecast2 for the streaming. And something like mpd with an easy interface for controlling what music is playing.
Downtime
Posted 22 Mar 2010 — by Jonathon Hill
Category Uncategorized
Category Uncategorized
Yep had some major downtime as I was transitioning the server from ubuntu based to debian based. Just had mysql issues. All it well now.
crunchbang10-cont
Posted 21 Mar 2010 — by Jonathon Hill
Category crunchbang, linux, statler
Category crunchbang, linux, statler
(Continued on from here http://www.jonys.info/2010/03/crunchbang10-is-out/)
(Also see the bottom of this entry for pictures)
After getting more time to play with Crunchbang 10 I decided to run through the installer process in my Virtualbox session. I fired it up and choose the “Text Install” option first off. The first thing that hit me was that this is pretty much exactly like the Debian installer. There a few changes here and there but it looks mostly the same (I could be wrong). The install was quite simple didn’t take to long either.
Now I decided to check out the ‘Text Expert’. I was actually caught off guard here as I didn’t expect it to be as involved as it was. Lots of options. However I quickly found out that the default options were actually what i needed. However it still took considerably longer to install compared to the “Text Install” but as i said it was also considerably more involved.
After rebooting and going through the boot squence I was pleased when it didn’t take very long to boot up. Both versions of installing took up roughly 1.6GB of space disk space. I can’t remember the amount Crunchbang 9.04 took but I am pretty sure it was more than 1.6GB.
Crunchbang10 is out!
Posted 20 Mar 2010 — by Jonathon Hill
Category crunchbang, linux, statler
Category crunchbang, linux, statler
Finally Crunchbang10 is out (I refer to it as #!10). I was just casually reading the updates on identi.ca saw the link to the iso’s made me very happy. I quickly started downloading the I686 and AMD64 versions of both the openbox and Xfce types to my server. I then downloaded the openbox I686 version and burned it to a CD (I’m offering the ISOs to download here http://data.jonys.info/crunchbang/ the directory contains the md5sums to OR you can download them off the official website for Crunchbang here http://crunchbanglinux.org/downloads/statler/alpha-01/).
(See the bottom of this post for screen-shots)
Using putty to proxy.
Do you often find yourself on an insecure connection or in an restrictive network? Do you worry about who could be watching(or what). Or do you need a connection to your server were only port 80 and 443 are allowed out. I found myself in a situation which had both. It took me awhile to search the net and find a solution so i thought i would share it here.
You will need.
- Putty. (Either the Windows version or Linux version. If you are using the windows version I suggest the portable version http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/putty_portable)
- An SSH server.
- A browser. (I suggest Firefox Portable. http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable)
# Warning – I take no responsibility to what you do with the knowledge I’m about to present.
Crunchbang 10
Posted 16 Mar 2010 — by Jonathon Hill
Category linux
Category linux
Crunchbang 10 (Codename Statler).
This is honestly one of the things I have been looking forward to for ages. Crunchbang based on Debian Squeeze. Finally I got my wish. I beleave this is going to be huge for Crunchabang and I and many others see this as a step forward.
Here is an image of found of the setup. Looks good. ( When it comes out I will host it here and make a blog post about it )
Follow the conversation at http://identi.ca/group/statler
Pymail
PyMail
(A seperate blog for PyMail as been made at http://pymail.jonys.info
Recently i wished to write some sort of script in python. I thought about it over a day and decided a python script that could read an email. Then depending on its contents send the email back with something in it. I goggled and read lots then came up with the current script. Read on for more….