The problem: small upload at home (ADSL, 80kb/s), big FLAC files on HDD, serve them via www so a remote client can play them realtime – solution: on-demand mp3 streaming, which automatically converts FLAC file streams to MP3 data.

So if a client wants a FLAC file from the webserver, it returns the file in MP3 format. The client must handle that MP3 data is coming under the FLAC extension (ffmpeg or vlc does this, I use them as clients).

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I wanted a script to automatically watch for new emails, get the sender, subject and attachments from them, move the attachments to a directory and insert sender/subject info into a MySQL database.

I needed a solution for extracing mail files from big UNIX-style mailbox files, then parse them and extract attachments separately.

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Indie mix this time.

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Moving Miki’s distance meter telescope from Tibi’s yard to the Museum of Military History, and inspecting Tibi’s dissassembled car.