Archive for December, 2006
Comments(1)December 18, 2006
Maybe Microsoft is changing…
Jon Udell announced that he’s going to Microsoft. What more can I say? I really like what Udell has to say. He’s always got an intelligent, well-thought perspective on things. So I’m extremely surprised when he heads to Microsoft…how did Google miss him? The nice thing about John’s “reporter position” is that by nature he’s “independent.” I fully expect that he’ll continue to speak, write, and act in the same manner, but now that he’s with Microsoft, can I trust him? Yeah, probably so, and I hope that those with which he’s found affinity will continue to gain power within the machine.
December 15, 2006
links for 2006-12-16
Handling tar and EOF error
I lost the URL of the page where I discovered this tip, but nevertheless, I had a corrupt *.tgz archive. When I tried to extract the contents, I kept getting this error:
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
I found that when I extracted the contents using
gunzip < corrupt_tar.tgz | tar xvf -
I still received the errors, but I was able to read more of the archive then when I used
tar xvfz corrupt_tar.tgz
December 12, 2006
links for 2006-12-13
Updating Your iTunes RSS Feed
I recently had to update the iTunes RSS feed for New Covenant Church. I found this entry in the Podcast technical specification to be very helpful.
<itunes:new-feed-url>
This tag allows you to change the URL where the podcast feed is located. It is added at the level. The feed format is:
<itunes:new-feed-url>http://addr.com/example.rss</itunes:new-feed-url>
After adding the tag to your old feed, you should maintain the old feed for 48 hours before retiring it. At that point, iTunes will have updated the directory with the new feed URL. For more information, please see the “Changing Your Feed URL” section above.
