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Changing all directory paths in Microsoft IIS/Active Directory using perl and WIN32::OLE

May 26th, 2009 mrochford No comments

I was put in charge of a filer migration from a old netapp f810 to a new netapp 3040 cluster. One of the systems we have that used the netapp backend was a web cluster running MS Windows 2003. When it was first built it was using a cifs shares by system name (ie: \\f810..tld\customer-home). This is great if you never changed filers but a poor idea on our part. In theory you could have just changed the record to point at the new filer, but that was a temporary fix. We wanted to change the path completely to a arbitrary name like “web”. This will allow us to change it to any back end device no matter what it is. I like to do things programmaticly so below are the two scripts I used to get the job done. You will need to modify these script to fit your needs (ie: Paths).

Bulk IIS path change script: Link

Bulk Active Directory change script: Link

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Making your own ringtones for your Iphone (mp3 to m4r)

May 26th, 2009 mrochford No comments

I have done much searching on the internet on how to convert mp3 files to Itunes m4r files. I really dont like using Itunes if I dont have to so I thought I would write something that will use my unix box.

This perl script will convert most mp3s to m4r.

I used 4 applications that can be installed on any GNU based system.

  • mp3info – An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor
  • mp3splt – Mp3Splt-project is a utility to split mp3 and ogg files selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding.
  • Mplayer
  • Faac – FAAC is an open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC encoder, it is licensed under the LGPL license.

or if you are running debian/ubuntu:

apt-get install mp3info mp3splt mplayer faac

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Categories: IPhone, Linux, Perl, Programming Tags: