Category: Cool things

OpenStreetMap Christmas

December 23, 2008 - Cool things , Internet , Openstreetmap , Web - by admin - No Comments

One day to go before Christmas, and the UK government have made an astounding contribution to the OpenStreetMap project. It will shortly be announced that through collaboration with the Department for Transport, Traveline, and OpenStreetMap, most of the NaPTAN and NPTG datasets will be offered to OpenStreetMap as a one […]

It’s HAMMER Time

October 11, 2008 - Cool things , Linux - by admin - No Comments

A year ago Matthew Dillon went into some detail about the new HAMMER filesystem. It’s now reaching stability, and will hopefully be sent forth in the upcoming v2.0 release of DragonflyBSD. All the interesting bits can be discovered here and here. A few features to note, though, are… 1 Exabyte […]

An Idea

July 15, 2008 - Computers , Cool things , Geek , Internet , Linux , Openstreetmap , Twitter , Web - by admin - 2 Comments

It’s probably already been covered, but my 30 seconds of Google-Fu hasn’t turned anything up so bear with me… Take one OpenMoko phone,Â a geolocation service like Fire Eagle, an online celltower database such as CellDB, and some code to use those lovely d-bus bindings, and you could have a […]

NDSRepair on Linux

July 4, 2008 - Cool things , Linux , Novell - by admin - No Comments

Migrated to OES on Linux, and missing out on that menu driven dsrepair fun? Fret no more, as DSRmenu will nicely wrap up the CLI version of ndsrepair, and put it into a nice menu driven system for you.

New toy

April 15, 2008 - Cars , Cool things - by admin - No Comments

I’m so easy to please 🙂 Dad surprised me today with a new toy in the garage, a 1Kw portable generator. Ideal for transporting to friends houses and sheds for working on stuff.