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Video with Comcast Cable Modem

Paul Westbrook | 11 October, 2006 23:08

Out of curiosity, I wanted to see what would happen if I plugged our TV into our cable line.  We don't get our television through cable, since we have DIRECTV, but we do use a Comcast cable modem.  I was really interested to see if any HD channels were accessible this way.

When I connected the cable, and had the TV scan for channels, over 100 channels were found.  Many of these were HD channels.  Here are some of the interesting things that I noticed:

  • The Over-The-Air SD and HD channels were present.
  • Many of the basic channels were also available
  • Many cable HD channels were available (ESPN HD)
  • All FM radio stations were present in Audio only channels
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"Real" iPod auto integration

Paul Westbrook | 11 October, 2006 22:39

A while ago I mentioned some features that every iPod dock should have.  The iPod integration that the 2007 Audi S8 will have is pretty amazing.  The iPod gets placed into a tray, and the tray get inserted into the dash.  And the iPod menus appear on the navigation screen.

[via Gizmodo, Autoblog]

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Another fix for caltrain rss script

Paul Westbrook | 11 October, 2006 21:32

Today I noticed a problem in the rss feed generated by the script that I wrote.  An invalid character (character code 0x93) was included in the feed.  The problem was that the page stated that the character set was iso-8859-1, even though there are characters in the cp1250 character set.

Here is the updated script. I also had to apply the patch described on this page that allows the RSS module handle multiple byte characters

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Paul Westbrook | 11 October, 2006 18:47

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originally uploaded by Paul's Time Sink.
(From the Mountain View station) It would be nice if Caltrain updated their website with these status updates, when they happen. This would allow passengers to plan, and not wait outside.

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converting html to wiki

Paul Westbrook | 11 October, 2006 00:03

I am used to writing html documents, but now it seems that everything is done with wikis.  So I needed to figure out how to convert html documents to use wiki markup.

The HTML::WikiConverter perl module makes this conversion very easy.  This simple program outputs text with wiki tags from an html file: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
 
use HTML::WikiConverter;
my $wc = new HTML::WikiConverter( dialect => 'MoinMoin' );
 
# Or fetch it from a file
print $wc->html2wiki( file => "file.html" );
 

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