14 month ago
Simon Willison : How we use IRC at Last.fm - How we use IRC at Last.fm. With IRCCat, an elegant Java IRC bot that accepts Twitter-like messages to a network port (generally sent using netcat) and directs them to a user or channel.
deusx : How we use IRC at Last.fm | Richard Jones, Esq. - "Using netcat, you can easily send events to irc from shell scripts: $ echo “Something just happened” | nc -q0 somemachine 12345 That will send to the default channel only (first in the config file). You can direct messages to specific comb
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19 month ago
deusx : Netcat Tar Pipe - "So you have gigs of data to transfer between two machines over ethernet. A nice quick and dirty method is to use netcat and tar. This is by no means secure, but if you haven't got the time or desire to setup NFS, FTPd, Samba. Or wait hours for
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42 month ago
deusx : Roll your own servers with Netcat - Lifehacker - "Unix command-line utility netcat gets called the "network swiss army knife" with good reason."
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