So I came across a Quicktime video today that I really wanted to use the audio track from. However, I came to find out that getting the audio track from a .mov isn't an easy task if you do not have Quicktime Pro.

If you do have Quicktime Pro... then you can simply just export the audio track. However, without it you can't... and here is how I got around the issue:

Check out the latest version of rb-parseconfig, a Ruby library that allows you to easily work with standard *nix style config files!

Release Name: 0.4.2

Notes:

This update is a bugfix only release.

The latest version of rb-parseconfig-0.4.2 fixes two significant bugs in the way config values are parsed. It is recommended to upgrade to the latest release due to the potential for inconsistent results in previous versions.

Changes:

Thu Feb 28, 2008 - v0.4.2

There have been a few release updates for some of the projects I work on:

pLsearch - Version 0.1.9
- No longer require Getopt::Long.
- Check file type, and skip opening of binary files. (Currently a bit buggy as it considers empty files as binary).
- Cleaned up options just a tad.

The issue arises on a 64bit VMWare guest, using the e1000 NIC that on a soft reboot you are unable to obtain a DHCP Lease and PXE boot.

The following fixes the issue in the virtual machines .vmx file:

Thank you, come again.

Interesting issue this week. Using the exif methods to read WINXP data returns unexpected results unless both exif and mbstring are compiled statically.

The exif_read_data function with WINXP data from a Jpeg image only returns a single character for each item in the array. Digging around on bugs.php.net came up with several instances of the bug over the last 5 years. Please reference the following bug reports:

Bug #31980
Bug #23105

Again, in a mild attempt to refresh things in my head that have been replaced with others... I found the following Networking primer from Novell:

http://www.novell.com/info/primer/primer.html

Who doesn't love the OSI model?

Found this whilst looking for a PERL refresher:

Mad Mongers' PERL Refresher

Enjoy!

Ran into an issue with Subversion kicking back with the following error:

I found the fix from this Dev::Blog site. As described there, the fix is to revert the directory, and then update the tree.

Ok.... so, here I am trying to mirror just a sub-directory of a website. No big deal right... just use the '--no-parent' option to wget (keeps it from mirroring anything above the specified URL). Well... over and over and over I could not figure out why the -np option didn't work.

This is what I was doing:

No matter what I did... wget would mirror 'http://www.example.com' and everything under it. The fix??? You need the trailing slash at the end: