- I'm an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science student [still] going to Brigham Young University. This blog is just a place where I can spill out my thoughts, projects and experiences. I hope you like what you see and please feel free to comment. Thanks for visiting!
Category Archives: Project
How To: Transmission-CLI and RSS
I really like Transmission-CLI for torrents, however it is lacking many features I used with uTorrent. One of them is downloading torrents automatically from an RSS feed. My reason for this is that I love Top Gear. But I don’t have BBC America (or a TV) so my only alternative is downloading it. But I don’t want to have to manually find the latest episode and then wait for it to download. This is a short how-to to get a simple RSS system set up using transmission-cli.
Prerequisites:
- transmission-cli set up and running on your computer (on debian systems it’s as simple as “apt-get install transmission-cli”)
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Tagged flexget, rss, script, server, showRSS, torrent, transmission-cli
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Invalid Torrent Created With transmission-cli
I’m posting this mainly because I had a really hard time finding the solution. Hopefully someone in the same boat can find this solution helpful.
I usually use uTorrent to create torrents, however since I switched to my sheevaplug and installed transmission I’ve had to learn how to manage my torrents with a very limited cli. I did learn how to create a torrent:
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Tagged filename, invalid torrent, missing character, transmission-cli
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Carputer II
A lot has happened since I last posted about my carputer so I’ll try to be complete and short.
After installing the computer underneath the passenger seat, I didn’t do much with it. I had the mindset that everything would have to be complete before I could start using my carputer but I soon realized that’s not necessarily true.
While I was in this carputer limbo, I did cut down my subwoofer box and attach the amp to the back of it and install it in my trunk.
Return of the Bloge
I just wanted to announce to all my readers that my blog is back up. Julie, you now know.
It was an arduous process made all the more arduous because I didn’t know what was wrong with Mr. S (the new name for my Sheeva Plug server that hosts this blog). In the end, I just had to re-flash the linux kernel onto the NAND.
All’s well that ends well I suppose. I am glad to have Mr. S back though. I didn’t know how much I needed him until he left me.
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Windows Live Writer, lighttpd, and WordPress xmlrpc.php
I love Windows Live Writer. I use it now for all my blog editing. Recently though, after setting up my new SheevaPlug as my server and using lighttpd instead of apache as my webserver I found that I can’t use it. I got the following error trying to add my blog to my new install of WLW:
An error occurred while attempting to connect to your blog:
Invalid Server Response – The response to the blogger.getUsersBlogs method received from the blog server was invalid:
Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server
You must correct this error before proceeding.