I keep all of my movies on a home NAS and don’t even remember the last time I used an actual disc to watch a movie. I currently use MakeMKV (runs in Linux beautifully) to dump the films to my organized folder structure. However, the file names it produces are usually not what I’m looking for – things like title00.mkv. … Read more →
Month: December 2014
Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Python, Firefox, Selenium, and Webdriver – Headless Edition
I have a few browser automation tasks set up to run using cron on my home NAS (Ubuntu / Linux Mint 17), but ran into trouble with Selenium’s webdriver throwing exceptions due to my NAS being headless. There is a very simple workaround for this problem – create a bash/shell script that you will call from cron, give it the… Read more →
Sending E-Mail or SMS/Text Messages Using GMail and Python
Thought I would share some Python code that I use when I want an alert via text message. I originally used this in conjunction with a script to parse a web-page every minute and let me know when a particular Bitcoin miner was available. Yes, they sold out that fast! This is also terrific for IT-type alerts. On my Ubuntu… Read more →