baris’s blog

rsync -r -h --partial --progress -e "ssh -p 442" user@otherhost:/files/i/want/* .

-h gives human-readable progress.

woot!

How to travel by train from London to Spain: Madrid, Barcelona, Seville…

» Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect

Includes links for free comic strip fonts, etc

The result!

I could play AlienBBC with Softsqueeze, but not in winamp or on my PDA. Turns out, it explicitly checks for squeezeboxen and streams only to them, but it’s circumvented by altering the .pm …

AlienBBC - mp3 streaming not working - Slim Devices : Community : Forums

blackcircles.com

Price i ncludes delivery to, and fitting at, a garage near you.

etyres.co.uk

Price includes mobile fitting. They do batteries too.

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics

Gliffy.com - Gliffy Online
A funky web-based Visioesque thing.

I use Memory-Map Pocket Navigator, since I have a Windows Mobile device (T-Mobile Vario II (aka HTC Hermes), connected to a bluetooth GPS, a GlobalSat BT-338).

However, most sites that offer GPS logs seem to tend to use Tracklogs. Memory map won’t open TRL, so here’s an easy way to convert them:

First, get GPSBabel. This is a nice, free, command-line utility that converts between different GPS formats, including TRL. (I did try GPSU before, and found it almost entirely counter-intuitive).

GPSBabel won’t export any memory-map specific files. However, it will export “GPX” format, which Memory Map understands. Invoke GPSBabel as follows:

C:\...\gps>gpsbabel-1.3.3\gpsbabel.exe -i dmtlog -f Peaks100_Day1.trl -o gpx -F Peaks100_Day1.gpx

(-i dmtlog specifies an input type of TRL.)

This gives me a GPX file called Peaks100_Day1.gpx, which I can import into Memory-Map using Overlay|Import.

However, that gives you a “track”, not a “route”. The difference between a route and a track, according to Memory-Map’s help, is as follows:

a “Route” is a sequence of connected “Waypoints” where you intend to go. A “Mark” is a waypoint that is not part of any route (marks and waypoints are really the same thing). A “Track” is where you have actually been, as recorded by the GPS.

The practical implication is that you have context menu options like “follow route” for routes - I don’t know how useful this is because I haven’t tried it (yet).

If you want to use the file as a route instead of as a track, use the following syntax instead:

C:\...\gps>gpsbabel-1.3.3\gpsbabel.exe -i dmtlog -f Peaks100_Day1.trl -x transform,rte=trk,del -o gpx -F Peaks100_Day1.2.gpx

The relevant flags are documented here.

(Alternatively, you could invoke the former command and “Convert to Route” in memory map, but this loses detail; the latter method preserves all waypoints).

Before you import a route for the first time, you may wish to change your default waypoint symbol to a ‘dot’ otherwise you’ll get zillions of annoying flag symbols on your map. To do this, create a “new mark”, in the properties for it, change the symbol and check “make default”.

I can then send this route to my device (when it’s attached) using Mobile Device|Export Data To Device.

Thanks, GPSBabel!

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Solid freeform fabrication: DIY, on the cheap, and made of pure sugar

Skate FAQs
Good descriptions of stops, backward skating, etc - think these are the same FAQs I learnt from 8-9 years ago!

Some a bit contrived, most good
bird

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[NEW] PIM Backup v1.9 [NEW] - xda-developers

Matchstick Rockets Video

Tech Anodyne: Forget Cygwin and VMware, run coLinux
I don’t know what rock I’ve been hiding under for the past two years but I had not heard of Cooperative Linux until a few weeks ago. Cooperative Linux is a recompilation of the Linux kernel as a Windows executable. All of the native posix commands get remapped to the Windows kernel. And it’s fast. It’s unbelievably fast. Once the kernel is running, it can run native Linux binaries. In other words, you can boot your Debian/Gentoo/*buntu/etc. distribution while in Windows without any binary recompilation a la VMWare or Virtual PC.

http://www.worldmapper.org
(via junkcharts)

Resistance is 4×4 futile

Brilliant website that I’d long forgotten about, including excellent fancy dress costumes & ideas, science stuff, pranks, inventions, exposés and other fascinating stuff.

TreeMaker

I love this Robert Webb mime sketch

Watch! As I take the key, that unlocks the door to my world of mime!

See! As I pick up the cube, that becomes the bar, that is the rope, which I pull against the wind that snaps onto the conveyor belt that leads to the shrinking room!

B3TA : FEATURES : PHALLIC LOGO AWARDS

Ned Batchelder: Hex words

Month Codes
Month Codes
Month Abbr
January F
February G
March H
April J
May K
June M
July N
August Q
September U
October V
November X
December Z

A Guide to the Win32 API

GPS splitter, simulator and logger. Serial port splitter. - Franson GpsGate

review

Handy Quick Reference cards

YAGCC Home page

Knobblies evaluated various different GPS mapping software.

Videogame Tropes - Television Tropes & Idioms

FlipClips : Flip Books made from Your Digital Video Clips!

Bill Bailey on the Theremin

I never knew the ‘oo whee oooo ooo ooooh!’s in the back of the chorus to ‘Good Vibrations’ were Theremin!

Browser.cache.memory.capacity

browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers

The London Journey Time Calculator

Eerily accurate.

DM’s Esoteric Programming Languages - Intelligent Design Sort

C++ FAQ LITE

Excellent C++ FAQs - v succinct !

Coding Horror: The Project Postmortem

instructables : Stencils with Islands

MedCosm Computer Generated Hologram (CGH) Kit

instructables : 3D-effect stencil

Hippity Hop Over a Log

Steven J. Murdoch :: Software Detection of Currency

try ruby! (in your browser)

Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern

For the M3100

ConnectionStrings.com