The script is extremely easy to use and requires only that you have ImageMagick installed on your system.  In theory this script should also work on Mac OS X and if you have a bash interpreter for Windows, it should work on that platform as well.

I have detailed instructions in the man page included in the script simply by calling it with ‘–man’.  I am sure there could be improvements made to the script so I am always happy to hear back on these things.  Check out a sample result generated from the script.

This is a very basic script and in turn takes up little to no system resources.  It creates a ‘thumbs’ directory to store the thumbnails and the html file.  There’s no databases or anything of that sort.  Of course, it’s also limited to a static web page with nothing fancy.

The script can be fetched here:

tn script
md5sum: b808ec7b12b24bf09fec34787eea49ba
sha256: 1cf98aad1a37c558ea7166a05ca107ef258d704235e01090b775eb665a8b4c06

I can say now I finally have what I feel is an optimal solution.  I have my BBS running in multi-node under Linux without X11.  Enter TelnetBBS Server v0.5.  This is a Perl-based server that manages incoming connections and manages the BBS running through DOSBox.  Now, DOSBox without a doubt requires X, to get around this, since I run headless, I have been using nomachine’s nxserver.

My original set up had very high overhead on top of maintaining a second system.  This new set up minimalizes overhead by getting rid of that virtualization layer and replacing it with DOSBox.  Since there was nothing out there I could find that could manage something of this nature I decided to write it from scratch.  See the end of this post for a link to download.

TelnetBBS Server will host you telnet connections, allocate a node, and start-up DOSBox.  Through an included DOSBox configuration, the autoexec will fire up the appropriate node.  TelnetBBS Server is extremely configurable allowing mutliple BBS’ with multiple nodes each to be hosted from a single machine.  I’ve, in fact, have started getting my original BBS running through it which will be up and running shortly and have a new BBS, that I am still configuring.  My new BBS, Resurrection BBS can be found by telneting to ‘demandred.dyndns.org:3023′.  Right now the BBS is still being put together.

Currently this setup is running under Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS, with DOSBox 0.74 on an Athlon 64 3200+ system without issue.  I have both my BBS’ running with 4 nodes each and 1 local node each.  The system has 1GB of RAM and has no issue handling this along with all it’s other tasks.  This should work on any platform able to support DOSBox, including OS X, FreeBSD and Windows.

Included in the tarball and zip files below is documentation to configure everything.  However, I left out very detailed documentation.  I feel I did comment my code sufficiently so UTSL or you can resort to leaving messages on here.

telnetbbs-0.5.tar.gz

I believe this is a Lubriderm knock-off, available at all the Duane Reade locations here in Manhattan.  So I scan in the barcode.

I first did a basic search and it couldn’t locate it.

So then I did a different search that brought me to the UPC Database where it was revealed to me that my jug of hand lotion was indeed a dildo.

Sorry for the poor picture quality, easiest way at work is to take a picture of the site on the screen.  You can see the link for yourself here.  I am really curious what it says on the cashiers’ screens when the item is scanned.

A full gallery of Connor’s Birthday pictures can be found here.

For those of you who use Firefox I wanted to share this neat TopGear persona I came across.  I love the portrayal of Jeremy, James and Hammond as SouthPark characters.

In other news, the US version of TopGear airs on the History Channel on November 21st.  I hope it stands up to the UK version.  Also, for those interested, the UK series is on Netflix instant watch.  For those that don’t have NetFlix, this service is absolutely incredible and even after a very strict re-budgeting we managed to work it in.

How can I forget, here’s the link to the FireFox TopGear Persona.

I came across this chair sized for an infant girl while walking Carleigh around midnight…  Creepy.

This past weekend was a great weekend.  My really good friends Brendan and Holly finally sealed the deal on Friday October 8th.  We had a fantastic time at the wedding.  I have lots of pictures posted here.  It was also great seeing all our friends again and awesome that Chris and Carol were able to make it down to NJ for the wedding!

Check out the pictures of Connor trying to get in the middle of everything the night after the wedding.  Brendan, I hope your cats have recovered from his wraith.

Can’t wait to see everyone together again.  I hope it wasn’t the last time. 

Here’s Connor playing outside last week, he loves those golf clubs.

I also (finally) brewed my vanilla bourbon stout, just in time for, err.. spring.

I also have everything fixed up on the old VW GTI and it’s ready to sell.  I just need to take some spiffy pictures of it to put on Craiglist and it’s ready to go.

Now I just need to get the patio cleaned up, the furniture back out and the BBQ ready for another season!