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Open Government Data Project
This project seems to be something to watch. http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2009/06/the_open_data_catalogue.html http://opengovt.org.nz/
Gorgeous Javascript Vector Graphics e.g. Charts
Check out http://raphaeljs.com/ to see some beautiful charting. No flash required – just Javascript and a reasonably modern browser (IE 6+). The developer is hoping to have a range of standard charts available by November (fingers crossed) – see Plans for barcharts, scatterplots etc?.
Printing Scripts from Eclipse in Ubuntu
Printing scripts can be very useful – but not if the font size is enormous. Unfortunately, eclipse (3.4.1) under Ubuntu (Jaunty) had exactly this problem (see also http://www.coderanch.com/t/106543/IDEs-Version-Control-other-tools/Printing-eclipse). A solution I found was to shrink the font, print, and then restore the font. Given that I hardly ever want to print scripts (only when I’m [...]
Full-screen Warcraft under Wine
Dimitar Boichev shows how you can play games like Starcraft and Warcraft in full-screen under WINE in his Full Circle article (Better Game Speed With X). Here is what worked for me (minor changes from what Dimitar did): sudo gedit /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config Change: allowed_users=console to allowed_users=anybody Then save and quit. Applications>Wine>Configure Wine select the game you [...]
Using Xsane without going Insane
Xsane works well enough once you figure out the interface. Whatever you do, don’t accidentally mess the colour settings up . Here is a tentative set of instructions for mass scanning of photos my mother put together using Xsane on Intrepid. I’ll expand upon them later from a machine with a scanner on it: Applications>Graphics>X-Sane [...]
Converting OGV screencast to AVI using WinFF
WinFF provides a GUI for converting OGV format videos into AVI. OGV is the format gtk-recordmydesktop produces its screencasts. I used 1000 as the Video Bitrate, 60 as the Frame Rate, and 800×600 as the Video Size.