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Ruby .txt to .html link script for Rapidshare

Dmitry Nedospasov — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:37:30 +0000

So you know what’s really annoying? How many downloaders people are trying to sell! I love DownThemAll for firefox, its a great plug-in that i highly recommend. Unfortunately you can’t just add a list of links. You have to have “clickable” links for it to work. Well that sucks, I guess you have to get one of those 20 dollar apps, right? WRONG! Ruby saves the day! I might make a gui for this script at some point but until then it works flawlessly in terminal.

Just add all the links you want to download to a text file and save it with .txt extension. Now run this script and input the .txt file as the parameter, i.e:

./txttohtml links.txt

Now you should find an html file in the same folder with the text file, the filename is the, but with an .html extension. Anyway, here’s the script:

#!/usr/bin/ruby # Dmitry Nedospasov # Text to HTML # This script converts a .txt file to an html file with each # line of the file as a link # # I wanted this so that i could use rapidshare with DTA # Script needs one argument, the .txt file require 'ftools' def parseargs(arguments, stdin) # puts arguments txtFile = arguments[0] if txtFile == nil puts 'Please enter a filename' elsif txtFile =~ /.txt$/ puts 'Checking the following file: ' + txtFile convertFromTxtToHtml(txtFile) else puts 'Please enter a file that ends with .txt' end end def convertFromTxtToHtml(txtFile) htmlFile = txtFile.sub(/.txt$/, " .html" ) puts 'Writing results to: ' + htmlFile myHtmlFile = File.new(htmlFile, " w+" ) myTxtFile = File.open(txtFile, " r" ) if File.zero?(myTxtFile) puts 'the .txt file is empty' elsif File.exist?(myTxtFile) myHtmlFile.puts(" " ) counter = 1 myTxtFile.readlines.each { |curLine| newLine = '' newLine += " #{counter}" newLine += ' - ' newLine += curLine newLine += '' myHtmlFile.puts(newLine) myHtmlFile.puts(" " ) counter += 1 } myHtmlFile.puts(" " ) else puts 'File not found' end end parseargs(ARGV, STDIN)

Now you can fire up firefox and open the html file and start dta, however the “cool” way to create the html files and launch firefox from terminal is, in Mac OS:

./txttohtml.rb *.txt && open -a Firefox *.html

And in linux:

./txttohtml.rb *.txt && firefox *.html

Have fun and here is the file for download

Ruby Batch Rename Script

Dmitry Nedospasov — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:26:03 +0000

So I’ve recently gotten into scripting in ruby and with a couple of scripts you really can save yourself a lot of tedious work in the future. Here’s one i wrote that does a batch rename of all files in a given folder and its subfolders. You can do either of the following:

Enter 3 parameters:

input directory
search string
replacement string

Or just enter 2 parameters in which case the search string will be removed from all files:

input directory
search string

Remember, to enter the parameters in that order, [].



#!/usr/bin/ruby

# Dmitry Nedospasov

# Batch Rename

# 2 parameters: batchrename.rb  

#  will be completely removed from all occurances

# 3 parameters: batrename.rb   

# all occurances of  will be replaced with



require 'ftools'

def parseargs(arguments, stdin)

# puts arguments

dir = arguments[0]

oldExt = arguments[1]

newExt = arguments[2]

puts dir

puts oldExt

puts newExt

if oldExt == nil or dir == nil

puts 'Please enter atleast the first 2 parameters: '

puts '   []'

else

convertFromTo(dir,oldExt,newExt)

end

end

def convertFromTo(dir, oldExt, newExt)

files = Dir.entries(dir)

files.each do |f|

next if f == '.' or f == '..'

fullPath = dir + '/' + f

# fullPath = fullPath.gsub(' ','\ ')

if File.directory?(fullPath)

puts 'Found directory: ' + fullPath

convertFromTo(fullPath, oldExt, newExt)

else

if newExt == nil

newName = fullPath.gsub(oldExt,'')

else

newName = fullPath.gsub(oldExt,newExt)

end

if fullPath != newName

puts fullPath + ' -> ' + newName

File.rename(fullPath,newName)

end

end

end

end

parseargs(ARGV, STDIN)

and what you should get is something like this



russo@guevara:~/Desktop$ ./batchrename.rb . stpuid stupid

.

stpuid

stupid

Found directory: ./stupidtypo

./stupidtypo/stpuidtypo1.txt -> ./stupidtypo/stupidtypo1.txt

./stupidtypo/stpuidtypo10.txt -> ./stupidtypo/stupidtypo10.txt

./stupidtypo/stpuidtypo2.txt -> ./stupidtypo/stupidtypo2.txt

./stupidtypo/stpuidtypo3.txt -> ./stupidtypo/stupidtypo3.txt

./stupidtypo/stpuidtypo4.txt -> ./stupidtypo/stupidtypo4.txt

./stupidtypo/stpuidtypo5.txt -> ./stupidtypo/stupidtypo5.txt

./stupidtypo/stpuidtypo6.txt -> ./stupidtypo/stupidtypo6.txt

./stupidtypo/stpuidtypo7.txt -> ./stupidtypo/stupidtypo7.txt

./stupidtypo/stpuidtypo8.txt -> ./stupidtypo/stupidtypo8.txt

./stupidtypo/stpuidtypo9.txt -> ./stupidtypo/stupidtypo9.txt

Enjoy!!! and here’s the file for download

Hackintosh Bonjour woes (avahi-daemon)

Dmitry Nedospasov — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:06:22 +0000

After hours of searching, compiling avahi-daemon myself, crying and sleepless nights it turns out if you are running Mac OS on non-apple hardware, and you have a mainboard with a Realtek r1000 series card (i.e. my ga-ep45-ds4) you should definitely use the RealtekR1000 driver if you want bonjour!

Although the hardware is detected by default, somehting isn’t supported and causes the broadcasts from avahi and Mac OS to be dropped. You will need XCode to build the sources, or look for pre-compiled ones on the net. More on my hackintosh later.

Mosaic Project

Dmitry Nedospasov — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:37:36 +0000

Hello everyone, and happy new year

Haven’t written in a really long time. Anyway, We recently did a project that generates Mosaics in C++. You can check out the results here. And a full write up should be up pretty soon with some detailed explanations and links to paper’s that will get you started on a similar project.

Restore from an unsupported Time Machine network volume from the Leopard DVD

Dmitry Nedospasov — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:05:15 +0000

So, I’ve been biting my nails the past week, that was ever since i decided that i want a bigger hard drive. And finally i can stop now, because i got my notebook back and i got time machine to do a “full” system restore, from an unsupported volume! I’m so relieved… and this means, that all of you that have NAS and File servers need no longer cry or worry, let me be yet another person to confirm that it can be done. And let me be the first to show you… how

My configuration

Just in case you were wondering what configuration i used, and continue to use for that matter Here it is:

Debian Etch
Self-compiled netatalk (for Leopard compatibility) here’s a good howto.
330GB Volume on Raid5 formatted ext3

So, if you have the first two you’re in business, but even if you don’t use netatalk. All you have to do is mount everything as described in “Mounting”.

Setting up the Harddrive

Now first things first, boot from your cd. To do that just press and hold the c-key immediately after powering on your computer. You should eventually be greeted by a language selection etc. After all of this you will be welcomed by the installer. We don’t need it at all. At the top you will see “Utilities”, where you will find among others Disk Utility, Terminal and Restore from a Time Machine Backup.You will probably want to start off, especially if its a new harddrive by checking out Disk Utility and creating any volumes you want to install your system. After you have them configured your pretty much ready to go.

Network and Jumbo Frames

So now you should connect make sure you are connect to your network. You can open up disk utility to check connectivity. If you need anything special, like setting up specific network settings, these can be done in terminal. I for example like to have jumbo frames, since all my gigabit devices support it. Open up Terminal from the utilities menu, and type.ifconfig en0 mtu 9000and you should be set.

Mounting the Volumes

Let me reitterate that I have not yet tested anything other than netatalk (afp), but this should for any network file sharing protocol. All you have to do is mount your Time Machine volume under /Volumes. The syntax for mounting an afp share ismount -t afp afp://username:password@hostname/ShareName /Volumes/ShareMountImportant here is to remember that the ShareName is a case-sensitive string. So make sure you type \ before a space, and to check for proper capitalization. Otherwise you get some mount errors, which occur because a volume wasn’t found with that name, since the actual name doesn’t match the one you typed. ShareMount is any string you want, it doesn’t matter what you call it. Same goes for spaces here. If you mount your afp volume just /Volumes (i.e. without ShareMount) you might see multiple TMBackups, as is the case with the images bellow. Still works, just shocking to see 2 of the same thing. Thats basically it, you’re almost done…

Restoring…

Before you close Terminal, make sure the share actually mounted properly, you can simply ls /Volumes and see if your mount is there. If you didn’t mount it at /Volumes/ShareMount your /Volumes folder might be litered with the contents of your afp volume, this shouldn’t cause any problems, just doesn’t look neat at first site. If everything seems to be there, then select “Restore from a Time Machine Backup” from Utilities. Click through the menu and you will come to a screen called “Select a Backup Source”, with your shares appearing properly and being recognized. Don’t ask me why there are two, probably because MacOS in general uses a lot of symlinks… Anyway, important thing is that it works. Select the first volume, and after selecting the you will come to a screen called “Select a Backup”, where you get to chose which backup you wish to use. Afterwards, the system will calculate if there is enough space and will afterwards let you restore. This will now take some time and it went up for me after about 25mins, so don’t hesitate to let it sit there for 2-3 hours. Afterwards, you will just need to reboot, and you’ll be back where you left off.

Hey, I’ve seen this before!

One thing some will notice, is that things like Mail and Itunes, will need to reconfigure themselves, i.e. reimport all your emails. Having said that, I’m still blown away by how well this went over, even if this is “unsupported”. Oh and for those of you wondering how to backup to an unsupported volume in the first place, well its simple. All you have to do is:defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1Hope this helps some people, feel free to leave a comment.

Moved

Dmitry Nedospasov — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:16:34 +0000

Well… it was some cloudy sad weather today, so i did what everyone else would do on such a day, namely moved my blog! This blog will stay up for a while, but will eventually dissapear (when my contract for the hosting runs out) so from now on you can check it out at http://nedos.net/blog.But you’re here already so I guess you knew all that! Anyway enjoy!Oh, and update your rss links

2 good Shoutcast streams

Dmitry Nedospasov — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:26:54 +0000

Although there are thousands of shoutcast stations some of the cooler ones are the ones with bigger names. 2 ones that I like because they feature some really cool deep house and tech house in the evenings are 2 Ibiza radio stations. Ibiza Global Radio and Ibiza Sonica. Anyway its a good answer to all the people who say theres no good music out there for free. BTW, both sites have some mixes up for download.

Here are the links to the .pls files, which you can open with winamp or iTunes among anothers, to tune in to the stream.

Ibiza Global Radio.

Ibiza Sonica.

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EFX 500 up for sale!

Dmitry Nedospasov — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:04:29 +0000

So i’m ebaying an EFX 500 so if anyone needs one they can find it here. I’m probably gonna use the money for something like gettings some KRK RP-5s so… help me out… plz

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Video reviews

Dmitry Nedospasov — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:48:45 +0000

So… after looking about the net I discovered that there aren’t that many reviews of many products that i own, especially dj equipment. Anyway I’ve decided I’m gonna try to do video reviews of equipment that i own. Hopefully they will turn out decent

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New Mixer: Ecler Nuo2

Dmitry Nedospasov — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 14:24:35 +0000

I finally got a new mixer!!! I bought the Ecler Nuo2 and I’m so happy. I can’t believe how much better music sounds just by changing the mixer! Before i had the Numark DM1050 which is, to put it simply, a POS

The Ecler Nuo2 sounds very good. Be it through my average stereo (next thing needing an upgrade) or even what is recorded on my computer. The Bass is noticeably deeper and the highs and mids clearer. This mixer also has a couple of nice features such as.

Hi, Mid, Bass Kill switches
Complete Channel Kill Switches
Very good headphone output
Very good display that shows accurate levels (as opposed to DM1050)
2 master outs
effects loop
Adjustable curve shape and sharpness
100-240V and easy access to the fuses
Standard PC powersupply cable

Those are definitely the most important features for me. I should also mention that it is a slim-fit mixer. I forgot the actual name for the formfactor. I was going to get something with more channels and more expensive but in the end decided this is a perfect mixer for me at the moment. Especially if i just hook an effects unit up to it… then it will last me a long time

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