Made a minor tweak to my .bashrc after browsing dotfiles.org for some ideas. One neat trick I gleaned was detecting when the exit code of the last command ($?) was non-zero and altering the prompt. This will be useful for...

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Here’s how to make a proxy for streaming mp3s. It transcodes on-the-fly to 64kpbs MP3 using lame. When transcoding is finished, it calls the ./posthandler.sh script, which can either just delete the file, or potentially archive it so you don’t...

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