having fun with the new server
I’ve been having lots of fun with the new server — setting all kinds of automagically updating scripts and fun toys. I setup up automatic Bayesian-filter based learning of spam for all accounts on my box. See SpamAssassin Learning for more details.
I’ve also been loving gentoo’s ebuild system. I even managed to modify/create an ebuild for some software I wanted to install:
raop_play - a music file player for Apple Airport Express for Linux
Alas, now I am not bound to the Mac (or gasp, Windows) for streaming to my Airport Express.
So, now I have some music files (imported or bought from iTunes Music Store, stripped of DRM with Fairkeys, converted to mp3 with some scripts), served up over a mDNSresponding/ZeroConf iTunes Music Share, then I also serve them up over my own Shoutcast Streaming Radio Station (so I can listen anywhere), then I tune into it with my raop_play to stream it wirelessly to the Whole House Audio…. very nice.
Now, if only I could get that web front-end coded up in Ruby on Rails and served to a Nokia Wireless Handheld device (or my Siemens SX66 over wi-fi). Then I’d be set.
