Lonely Lion

This will make my life a little easier:

The Driver

http://jdmcox.com/

Cool. It makes it easy to overlay GPS information over top of satellite photos.

I’ve written about Twisted before, but didn’t really understand how to use it. I still don’t “really” know how to use it, but I did finally have a “a-ha” moment with it. I think my problem in the past wasn’t so much Twisted, as my experience with Object Oriented Programming. I really didn’t understand inheritance, now that I’ve been through a few classes, I understand it better.

I just did the first couple of exercises in the Twisted getting started doc, and I’m really impressed so far. It’s a neat idea, and one that I think I’ll end up using in my day to day sysadmin work for remote tasks. I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but I declare Twisted to be pretty cool.

I had no idea this existed, http://www.imdb.com/interfaces.html

Despite the snippy tone, this guy points in the right direction for installing cron as a service in Cygwin.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2001-09/msg00054.php

cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D # does the trick.

Cygwin, for me, makes Windows much more bearable. Thanks snippy man.

I’ve been having a hard time finding good documentation for the Call of Duty Server I recently set up. This seems like the best jumping off point:

http://www.codadmin.com/nuke/index.php

Hacking the Earthmate:
http://www.hamhud.net/ka9mva/earthmate.htm
The ZODIAC Specification:
http://www.hamhud.net/ka9mva/zodiac.pdf
Using the Earthmate as an NTP source:
nordlie/ntp-gps/”>http://blizzard.rwic.und.edu/nordlie/ntp-gps/