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As a member of CERT, a FEMA program to increase community resilience in disasters whose future is currently uncertain, I found myself in need of some high quality maps of town which would show the names of every street in the town where I live. This eventually led me to QGIS, a geodata visualization package which allows the user to create their own programmatic styles for map elements which can produce any kind of map. Here I wanted fairly simple flat maps, with very high readability.

I wanted to have a nicer view of nvidia GPU statistics, so I made this script. I realize this is overwrought compared to just stuffing the output into a couple of arrays, but I had the code lying around to munge into this. FWIW Text::CSV is now a wrapper around Text::CSV_XS, so this is now considered to be the best and fastest way to parse CSV, which would matter if you had to do a lot of it.

This is a WIP mod collection for a (re-re-)replay with high Quality of Life, that is to say, minimum boredom which is not self-inflicted*.

Some of these mods are not working correctly! The goal of the next revision is to fix that. This set of mods requires all of the DLC. For some of the mods where it matters, there are alternate versions that don't require all of it. For some, there are not. You can always just not install those parts.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and specifically the provisions located at 17 USC 512, set forth the steps an online service provider such as The Hyperlogos must follow in the event of copyright infringement on their servers.

Faced with the desire for a GPS-navigating fixed wing drone, I came upon PatrikE's fork of MultiWii 2.4. I forked it some more, to produce a version with SD card logging. The result is attached to this node.

The fuel injection system on the classic 6.9 and 7.3 liter International-Navistar engine used in diesel fords from the 70s to the early nineties is relatively simple, but some confusion still remains about how it functions. The major components of the system are the lift pump, filter head and filter, fuel injection pump, fuel injectors, return system, selector valve, and the fuel tanks.

I don't make a very good Mexican, but I do make a very good Guacamole. In side-by-side tests with other peoples' guac, mine tends to disappear first. In the interest of making more delicious food available to all, I will here attempt to distribute this knowledge to you.

I have two LCDs and Ubuntu, and I want to use compositing so I can use Compiz. Xinerama still doesn't work with Composite outside of Xgl, which was deprecated some years ago. I want to play full screen games but they don't properly span monitors in many cases, even if that's what I wanted. What is needed then is a way to easily toggle the second monitor. I found it in the Ubuntu forums archive in the form of Disper.

As I now own a Magellan Maestro 4050, which unlike my 4250 has bluetooth and a headphone jack, I decided to upgrade the software. After hunting around a little I found Miopocket 4.0, a complete shell replacement for WinCE 4.x through 6.x GPS devices including smartphones with touch. It implements an iPhone-like interface and provides dozens of utilities, apps, and games.

I have often heard from a broad variety of pundits about how Linux is not a mature, enterprise-class Unix. All discussion over how "Linux is a kernel" aside, today I have encountered the first piece of evidence that suggests to me that this is true. It seems that no Linux distribution has a simple "repair permissions" tool. This was a standard feature of package managers of UNIX systems before Linux was even dreamt of, for example in Solaris.