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Adding a road to OpenStreetMap

Nov 1st, 2008 by Joshua Scotton
Adding a road to OpenStreetMap

This is a short HOWTO for adding a road to the OpenStreetMap project using the BGT-31.

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New Free Font

Oct 21st, 2008 by Joshua Scotton
New Free Font

A new handwriting font called rufscript has been released by Hiran Venugopalan under the GNU GPL version 3 + Font Exception.

A link to the Hiran’s blog is here and UbuntuGeek.com has installation instructions for Intrepid and Hardy here.

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Work and Play

Jan 29th, 2008 by Joshua Scotton

I finally finished off my M366 assignment today and submitted it via the OU’s ever helpful eTMA. Boy did I miss the online submissions when I was doing my math courses last year.

This means that I have a tiny bit more free time to spend on other stuff, like pimping this blog with a shiny new Ubuntu badge that you can see to your right (courtesy of crunchbang.org)

Also I can start reading the course books for my two new courses starting February, M362 and M257.

Luckily both course make use of Java and Netbeans, which I have used before, so the learning curve will be smoother than with M366 (for which I had to learn NetLogo in about 2 days to finish off an assignment)

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Installing Adobe 8 in Ubuntu Gutsy

Dec 17th, 2007 by Joshua Scotton

UbuntuGeek have a nice guide on how to update Adobe Reader to version 8 in Gutsy.

Find it here

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Gnome-Do and the Avant Window Navigator

Dec 12th, 2007 by Joshua Scotton
Gnome-Do and the Avant Window Navigator

Came across a great alternative to Quicksilver on the Mac and Launchy for Windows for Ubuntu.

I had been using Katapult (which is for kde) a while back but this had been causing problems with the development code for compiz-fusion so I stopped using it and relied on the Alt+F2 shortcut.

However Gnome finally has it’s own version … Gnome-Do!

Download instructions here 

Also AWN is another mac-like panel for gnome (see the pic), take a look here

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Paintballing and hacking my PS3

Dec 11th, 2007 by Joshua Scotton

Had an interesting day paintballing just south of Manchester on Saturday.

It was very cold and very, very wet. A lot of the equipment freezed up and wouldn’t work and setting up the site took a long time. However we got a lot of paintball in once we got going.

Last night following a couple of guides (including this one) I installed Ubuntu Gutsy on my PS3.  It’s working fine and loads ok, but the graphics mode and the wifi aren’t correct yet.

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Cowon iAudio D2

Nov 9th, 2007 by Joshua Scotton

Just got a new Cowon iAudio D2 to replace my old ipod and have been seeing how I can get it working on ubuntu linux.

On Ubuntu when the D2 is plugged in it acts like a normal usb memory stick.

Upgrading your firmware wipes the files on your D2 so you need to do this first if your firmware is not up to date
When the D2 starts up it shows the current version number on the splash screen

Firmware and Manual

You can get the firmware from here:

http://www.cowonglobal.com/zeroboard/zboard.php?id=C08&bmenu=download

and a pdf of the manual from here:

http://www.cowonglobal.com/zeroboard/zboard.php?id=C09&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&bmenu=download&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&bmenu=download&desc=asc&no=34&bmenu=download

Applications

A quick search for applications reveals the following flash app links (put them in the FLASH folder)

Nice game list here

http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?t=15110

apps here

http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?t=15780

more games

http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?t=15120

and yet more games

http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?t=16397

Transcoder for D2

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=404589

Follow instructions on the forums for transcoding tips

Next is investigating how to get music on easily…

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