On Saturday, had a bit of fun. I went to Dundrum, stood frozen in motion for 5 minutes - while people were walking by and wondering what was going on… Great fun.
There were more people involved, but it was quite difficult to film other people while standing still! When you watch the video, check out the look on the faces of the people walking past Check out the background of the vid as well, you should be able to spot other people standing still.
Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat, nfsstat and ifstat. Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features, more counters and flexibility. Dstat is handy for monitoring systems during performance tuning tests,
Use the accelerometer embedded in a ThinkPad to record your movements while monitoring your network connectivity. Use custom algorithms to extract footstep features from the recorded data, then automatically plot signal strengths on a floor-plan map to de
This short(’ish) - post is just to let you know of a little trip that I am about to embark on
with some friends.
The short version:
Myself and two friends are going to take a 27 year old Mercedes Benz
280CE all the way to The Gambia. Why? For fun - and also for charity, as
after we have arrived in Banjul in The Gambia, the car will be auctioned
off and all proceeds will be going to a local charity organisation.
This trip is also known as the Plymouth-Banjul challenge.
this line - added to your vmwares’s .vmx file, allows your Windows image to pick up on usb devices - woot Nokia E65 now connected to PC!
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usb.generic.skipSetConfig = “TRUE”
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The Google Maps API is great, but it doesn’t have an easy way to export data in GPX format. This bookmarklet is my attempt at a hack to get information out of Google Maps and into GPX, suitable for loading on a GPS.
Full-featured traffic analyzers for Linux systems such as ntop and vnstat are widely available, but sometimes you just want a simple program that gives you fast, basic information about the amount of traffic going in and out of the hosts on your network.
Standing next to your laptop to control the slides during a presentation is not cool. Nowadays everyone uses a presentation device or their laptop’s remote controller, but a presentation device can be expensive, few laptops come with a remote controller,
FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32MB on
Check out the background of the vid as well, you should be able to spot other people standing still.
