I've been working on a piece of open source software to assist people who have aphasia (speech difficulties), and it is now sufficiently functional to be worth mentioning. It's still very rough aroun…

I wanted to be able to load a whole bunch of gpx traces and see which one was where on the map. I've got a basic version working thought it's a bit rough around the edges. The code is available for y…

getting supybot to announce new bugzilla bugs - I've just put here the key non-obvious things that tripped me up when trying to set this up. All done on Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS Install supybot and the supyb…

I have a vision. A vision that puts you in control of your in car computing experience. There are many superb appliances and embedded devices available for your in-car enjoyment, such as the sat navs,…

I couldn't find anything exactly matching this on the net when I was figuring it out, so here's what I did. This is working against a remote svn (subversion) server, but applies even without one. On t…

Challenge of the day was to fit as many photos as possible on a single flash card to stick in a digital photo frame. Here's how it's done. The frame from Philips goes by the memorable name of 9FF2M4 ,…

This weekend, I finally got the tv-out working under linux (Ubuntu 7.10 aka gusty gibbon) on my laptop. Here's what was involved, including some of the (time consuming) red herrings involved in gettin…

Business model #1! "Turning capital into code" I believe there is a viable business to be had running a software company in a novel fashion. Each project to create a new or improved piece of open sour…

I've had my first ever patch to an open source project accepted! Yay! (Fanfare please... no? anyone? oh well.) Ok it's a one word change to a piece of documentation, but hey it's still something. The …

http://starfighter.nongnu.org/ Whilst looking for backup packages on ubuntu via synaptic by searching for the word "tar", I stumbled across the package "starfighter". So I installed it. Then ran it. …

me and partimage I recently reorganised the partitions on my laptop, with the help of some invaluable OSS tools. The laptop was split into OS partitions, with a data and swap partition at the end, but…