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Here is an installation and setup guide.  Actually it has some good information about installing source packages using build-essential and checkinstall so it has a wider range of use than just Newznab.

Newznab on Ubuntu 11.10

Here is a link to the official documentation:

Newznab Documentation

This is a link to a page containing torrent files to get the backfill nzb's

Newznab nzb imports

And also a page describing how to import nzb's without bloating the database

How to backfill newznab safely without bloating your database

Here is various information on the Raspberry Pi.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=753416

And while not directly related to the Raspberry Pi, I will need to look at Perl IPC in order to migrate the router switching program over.

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlipc.html
http://search.cpan.org/~andya/IPC-ShareLite-0.17/lib/IPC/ShareLite.pm

I need to take a deeper look at Selenium to see if it can be used to automate pulling web metrics.

http://seleniumhq.org/
https://github.com/aivaturi/Selenium-Remote-Driver
http://search.cpan.org/~mattp/Test-WWW-Selenium-1.34/lib/WWW/Selenium.pm

On occasion, after navigating (in explorer) to a folder on the network containing images or video then navigate back out of the folder, and attempt to delete the folder, the following occurs

"The action can't be completed because the file is open in Windows Explorer. Close the file and try again."

"Thumbs.db" ... etc

Numerous solutions have been discussed, however, for my purposes, simply disabling the use of thumbs.db has been the best.  Here's how it is done:

· Click the Start orb
· Enter gpedit.msc in the search box and hit Enter.
· Expand User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Windows Components.
· Click on Windows Explorer.
· Right-click the entry "Turn off the caching of thumbnails in hidden thumbs.db files" and choose Edit.
· Enable the setting.

dd if=/dev/random of=/device/path bs=512 count=1024