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{ Monthly Archives } March 2010

Rakefile to download “El Quijote” audiobook

In the previous post I presented a Ruby script to download and rename “El Quijote” audiobook from a site which was far from user friendly (remember there were 126 badly named, badly ID3-tagged MP3 files to download). There was still something not solved by the script: the ID3 tags of the MP3 files. id3lib, a [...]

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Setting up an Alcatel X060 / X060s 3G USB modem on a 64-bit Windows 7

Someone I know bought a brand new PC with a 64-bit Windows 7. Unfortunately, plugging in the Alcatel X060s USB modem didn’t work. After unsuccessfully trying a lot of drivers from the Internet, here is the only one providing a patch that works: Alcatel X060 Driver for Windows 7 (32 & 64 bits). Update(April 14th, [...]

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Setting up Trac on Dreamhost

Warning: This worked for me on Trac 0.11.1 hosted at Dreamhost as of March 2010 but I take no responsibilities. Use this information at your own risk. Trac is a very popular open source system to manage software development projects, but it can also be very useful for other management tasks. Installing Trac on Dreamhost [...]

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Ruby script to download “El Quijote” audiobook

Don Quixote (Don Quijote), probably the most famous Spanish text of all times, is available for free as an audiobook (in Spanish), thanks to a cultural project from the Government of Aragón (Spain). Unfortunately, someone decided that the best distribution method was to provide the users with 126 links (one MP3 file for each chapter). [...]

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