Leo takes a dive; awesome respect for him.
A day in the life of New York City, in miniature.
This is pretty cool, another request to do an interview. And this time by adminextra.com and this time I decided to do it via youtube. So enjoy!
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Here is a tutorial how to create topographic maps that can be viewed on your android powered device. Street navigation software is plentiful for the Android platform but topographic navigation software is between scarce and nonexistent. After searching Google, forums and the Android Marketplace I finally found a single program capable of accepting maps in the WGS84 format used by all Garmin maps. This program is called OruxMaps and has received almost no attention even though it is over a year old. There are multiple advantages of being able to use a Garmin topo map on your Android device with a GPS sensor: No long downloads from the Internet, no data connection required, an abundance of highly detailed maps up to 1:24000 scale or better, etc. Until Garmin releases an Android version of their software this is the next best thing.
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A week of tweets
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The blog has been moved from one dedicated server to another! If you read this it means you are now reading the blog on the new dedicated server.
Establishing an encrypted connection to your online server is very smart. Especially if you are doing administrative tasks. This article does not prevent users from abusing the sshd service running on your linux box, but by changing the default port you prevent scripts from attacking on it.
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Another week of tweets. Be prepared, they’re quite a few!
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Some time ago a friend on IRC suggested to remove the clutter from the frontpage of my blog, to draw more attention to the content. I agreed and have been thinking about it for a while. Today I opened up Things.app and saw the item still pending and decided to get my sharpie and paper out. And give it a try.
