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This is a small experiment to use my cycling gps device with the navit application on my Acer Aspire One as a car navigation system. The system was composed of the following elements: GPS device Acer Aspire one running Ubuntu linux gpsd navit Navit GPS Required software Step 1. Install all packages required to build navit from ubuntu repositories: apt-get install build-essential pkg-config automake libglib2.0-dev libtool libxmu-dev libfribidi-dev gettext zlib1g-dev cvs gpsd gpsd-clients libgps-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgtk2....

One of the many functionalities of my phone which I do not use is the ability to record to a file. This file is saved in the phone and can then be played. For the first time I needed this functionality to here are the steps to get an usable mp3 file out of it. download the file to the computer using the bluetooth method install an amr decoder apt-get install amrwb amrnb decode the file to raw data amrnb-decoder Recording....

I was a bit sceptic about how easy is to use an usb barcode reader (Motorola Symbol LS1203) but it was a pleasant surprise. Just plugged the reader in the usb port and was detected as a input device: black kernel: [ 2273.692061] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 black kernel: [ 2273.909811] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice black kernel: [ 2273....

I’m using openoffice base in order to extract various data from a postgresql database to a oocalc file to make charts. This can vary from work related to blogosferic charts. I am using the sdbc postgresql driver and not the jdbc alternative. Since by default ubuntu intrepid ibex does not install the “base” package I tried to do a simple apt-get install openoffice.org-base to my horror this tries to bring a lot of gcj dependencies even if I had already installed a sun sdk....

Port knocking sample client-server Last updated: 18-jan-2005 This update contains the following improvements: * configuration of the server is now located in a separate file Example configuration file for the server: #$Id: knockd.cfg,v 2.0 2005/01/18 11:57:19 len Exp $ #knockd configuration file [main] #the file to monitor file=/var/log/all.log #the pattern to watch for, note that you must have the #"ts", "from" and "port" groups (see python "re" module for more documentation) pattern=(?...