Ik verzamel locatiegegevens van zoveel mogelijk draadloze netwerken, anderen verzamelen locatiegegevens en foto's van zoveel mogelijk ADSL centrales in Nederland. Erg leuke site.
2007-06-29 (#)
Following Wimbledon on the BBC I noticed the signs with www.wimbledon.org on the courts. Some neat work on live scores on that website: wimbledon live scores in flash 9 and wimbledon live scores for other browsers. Mighty impressive work there by IBM: the page is up-to-the-second with the current scores, and a few thousand hits per second more or less isn't going to be a problem. And with other browsers they mean all other browsers: it even gives a good view in lynx.
2007-06-28 (#)
Niels woont tegenwoordig in mijn geboortestad Dordrecht en gaat met een team meedoen aan de Abenteuer Rallye Dresden - Breslau 2007. Via de website van 4x4 Team Drechtsteden is hun voortgang te volgen. Ik ben benieuwd.
2007-04-18 (#)
I did something really scary: I tried a graphic mailclient, Thunderbird. Yes, I am a big fan of mutt but I kept having attacheritis (promising someone an attachment in an e-mail and forgetting it) and I lost the overview of my imap folders which I think should happen less with a client like Thunderbird. I wanted pgp-signed mail to work correctly so I set up the enigmail pgp plugin to sign and crypt e-mail. Mutt still rocks because it is so configurable and powerful. Cleaning out an mbox from a mailinglist with one 'D~r >3w' command (delete all mail received more than 3 weeks ago) is still faster than clicking around. The good thing about using imaps everywhere is that accessing the same mailbox with multiple clients is no problem at all. I had to set up an imaps server at home but that wasn't very difficult either.
2007-03-07 (#)
Sometimes you run into a very oooh, shiny! subject when looking for something else. I visited David Taylor's pages looking for his writeup of FreeBSD NTP server with an external GPS mainly to 'compare notes' with my own FreeBSD ntpd PPS setup (PPS slave) writeup. No surprises there, but one click led to the other, when I found out that David Taylor is also interested in receiving weather information and dove into that. He has a nice overview of his experiments in weather satellite receiving and decoding and I found out about EUMETCast data where you can receive weather satellite images via a satellite dish. Which uses a 'data' PID on a transponder, which is implemented as multicast data streams. Several personal interests for me and work-related stuff comes together in this. It's good to know this exists, but I won't be running out to buy a satellite weather map receiver now.
2007-02-28 (#)
Lore Sjöberg wrote a nice bit for Wired online: How to Heat Up Geek Reality TV where he describes tv show concepts that would actually appeal to the techies and trekkies/trekkers in the audience. Funny stuff!
2007-02-23 (#)
Coolness: Graffiti Research Lab: L.A.S.E.R. Tag where G.R.L. projected graffiti on a big building in Rotterdam.
2007-01-09 (#)
The series The Secret Life of Machines has been posted to google video: The Secret Life of Machines. Fun to watch, really british.
2006-12-31 (#)
"Paid" wardriving does exist, when you gather data that has value to for example cell phone companies: NYC Taxicabs to Test Cell Signal Strength an AP news item about Ericsson installing small receivers in taxicabs in New York to do measurements of cell phone signal strength. I have been thinking about this, if you gather enough data about radio signals and other location-dependent measurements in one go maybe it could be commercially viable to just drive (or let a unit be driven) around the country. I can imagine radio and television reception data (especially with the change to digital services) is also interesting.
2006-12-12 (#)
Ik volg de laatste dagen het nieuws over de omschakeling van analoge tv zenders in Nederland naar digitale (DVB-T). Veel informatie hierover op Radio en TV Zenders in Nederland. Het aparte aan de overschakeling was dat de frequenties voor het standaard DVB-T pakket (publieke omroepen) pas beschikbaar kwamen toen de analoge zenders uitgeschakeld waren. Er zijn (buiten de Randstad) geen extra frequenties beschikbaar omdat alles aan buurlanden grenst. Ik had eigenlijk na de omschakeling nog wat berichtgeving verwacht over problemen met de beschikbaarheid maar tot nog toe geen woord in de media.
2006-11-17 (#)
I found a webcomic due to a link in alt.sysadmin.recovery and after reading the linked comic I started at number 1 and read the entire archive.. so it's now added to the list of comics to follow. Questionable Content is not so questionable but a nice comic to follow.
2006-08-25 (#)
I played with Google Earth and it's fun and has lots of options. And lots of stuff you can play with, so after some websearches and looking at some samples I added google-earth links in Camp Wireless so you can lookup a campsite in Google Earth when it has a waypoint.
2006-07-27 (#)
Another really great site I found... Mike Brown UK transmitter information and gallery. I started with a link in a newsgroup to pictures of the Emley Moor television tower collapse. Mike Brown has collected a great deal of information and pictures about the history, current state and future of television transmission in the united kingdom.
2006-07-19 (#)
Found on bash.org: Another great quote about voip. There is alsoThat's why I love VoIP. You don't get people phoning up to complain that the network is down.from Peter Corlett.
2006-07-16 (#)
De fritz!box fon is gearriveerd en geconfigureerd. De (web) user-interface is helemaal in die Deutsche sprache dus soms moet ik diep nadenken over de bijpassende telefonie-term (ook in de telefonie is er voor alles een duits woord). Het doel, telefonie die hetzelfde werkt als we gewend zijn (dus zonder speciale toetsen en diep nadenken over wat er op dat moment de beste keuze is) en toch in voorkomende gevallen gebruik maakt van de goedkopere VOIP dienst. Heel mooi is dat de fritz!box keurig terugschakelt naar 'Festnetz' als VOIP niet werkt/reageert. Op het display van de siemens gigaset is keurig te zien welke uitgaande dienst gebruikt wordt.
2006-07-12 (#)
Interresante assoicaties bij nu.nl in artikel McDonald's haalt omstreden urinoirs weg als je de foto rechts met Mick Jagger bekijkt... schermgrijp.
2006-05-02 (#)
Found a cool article: Tracking Plane Flight on Internet where Todd Underwood writes about tracking the routing changes as a plane with Connexion by Boeing Internet access flies across the Atlantic ocean.
2006-04-25 (#)
The latest in wheelchairs which takes into account that wheelchair users do want to get off the paved road: an All-Terrain Wheelchair built by the Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing IITB and Otto Bock HealthCare and the Tank Chair which does indeed look like a one person tank.
Via Wired blog Gear Factor.
2006-03-27 (#)
Last week, I watched the movie Real Genius again. A real 80s movie, with a young Val Kilmer and a lot of fun. According to Mirjam (who knows stuff like this) the science in the movie isn't completely wrong and the power levels named are consistent with the developments in those years. Anyway, reading US to test missile-killing airborne laser in The Register points at 'Real Genius', with phrases like solid state lasers and main chemical laser weapon. I hope that somewhere deep in the (probably top secret) designs for the Airborne Laser (ABL) is a reference to that movie.
2006-03-14 (#)
Pacman found in crop circle... Great stuff people do, and I think google maps and satellite image will make make it increase. Found via Google Sightseeing which is a great site anyway. Visit it! Tell them I sent you.
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