Japan Disaster - Impact on Electronics Industry

http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/semiconductors-article-display/9454800888/articles/solid-state-technology/semiconductors/industry-news/business-news/2011/3/japan-update__list.html

Two million reasons to be cheerful - Twitter - Stephen Fry

http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/11/30/two-million-reasons-to-be-cheerful/single-page/

Pushnote

http://pushnote.com/faq

QI - Quite Interesting

http://qi.com/>http://qi.com/

Dragora - Linux Distro with Simplicity in mind

http://www.dragora.org/

Similar idea to Linux From Scratch?

gNS gNewSense Linux Distro endorsed by GNU / FSF

http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/Download

OpenVibe BCI library

http://openvibe.inria.fr/

Sprouter - startup companies social network

http://sprouter.com/

Emotiv Mindset EEG headset

http://www.emotiv.com/

Tan Le Australia

Instructables DIY CNC

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-CNC/

Howtoons

http://www.howtoons.com/

Productive Procrastination

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/03/make-volume-25-the-art-of-productive-procrastination.html

Beat Impulse Buying

http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/10/12/10-simple-ways-to-beat-impulse-buying/

http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008/01/30-easy-ways-to-save-money-and-no-you.html

Xilinx 7-series FPGA's - 28nm

http://www.xilinx.com/technology/roadmap/7-series-fpgas.htm#textlink

Dryden and Vos - The Learning Revolution

http://www.thelearningweb.net/
Gordon Dryden, Jeannette Vos

The Beat Goes On - TV for Baby Boomers

http://www.thebeatgoeson.co.nz/wawcs0138744/tn-home.html

High Power Lasers DragonLasers

http://www.dragonlasers.com/

IronSpeed - looks interesting - dB to Web tool

http://www.ironspeed.com/products/Overview.Web-Database-Publishing.aspx?c=CP02

You Are Not Your Brain

Jeffrey M Schwartz on OCD and how to treat it
http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-Your-Brain/dp/1583334262

Tcl Style Guide and Engineering Manual site

ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/doc/

Career Coaching - Kaye Avery

http://www.career-coach.co.nz/career_coaching.htm

INTP: Me?

http://intp.mbti.human-types.com/

Alan Perlis' Epigrams

http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html

Grafica Obscura

http://www.graficaobscura.com/index.html#future

It's Not Software - Steve Yegge

http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/its-not-software

Effective Emacs -- Steve Yegge

http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs

http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs

Tcl/Tk 8.6b1 on SourceForge

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/8.6b1/

Starter Tcl

http://wiki.tcl.tk/2644

Some Tcl Debugging tricks and tips

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Tcl_Programming/Debugging

Tcl 8.6 - Tcl Developer Exchange

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/

QuickLisp by Mr Beane (Zach)

http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/

NZ Guitar Association

http://www.nzguitar.com/

Were represented at the Bikes, BBQ and Blues event http://www.bikesbbqblues.co.nz/ on Sunday. Some very good playing.

The Gunsmiths, Hammond Gamble...

Spy on yourself and see how much you're not getting done...

Four to five hours during an 8-hour day is in the top percentile! Yow!
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/022411-network-monitoring.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2011-02-25

Google OnePass launched

http://www.google.com/landing/onepass/

LD_LIBRARY_PATH bad? David Barr / Xah Lee

http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/_/ldpath.html

Original article seems to have disappeared without trace?

zsh - last shell you'll ever need?

http://friedcpu.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/zsh-the-last-shell-youll-ever-need/

Oh yeah? What about scsh? ;-)

Slide presentation on Linux ARM porting

http://www.slideshare.net/champ_yen/linux-porting-1330569
http://champyen.blogspot.com/2009/04/linux-porting-for-new-arm-platform.html
Seems good @ initial glance - though a few typos are apparent already.

See slide 27 for references to other resources.

Diagrams are nice.

http://www.champyen.blogspot.com

Aspergers' Resource

http://withyoueverystepoftheway.com/

PDF (Tables) to Text more

pdftotext (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.00)

pdftk - useful tool for manipulating PDF documents

PDFBox

There are a number of PDF-to-Excel things available commercially ... one (Nitro) has a demo online but limits filesize input to 10MB :(

devmem2.c

http://www.lartmaker.nl/lartware/port/devmem2.c

devmem2.c, access device registers from userspace Linux

Builds in target machine (or can be cross-compiled)

Run it without params for usage information.

Addresses are Physical.

Prefix with 0x for hex addresses.

This can be wrapped in a script to give multiple register values read out.

Extracting text from PDF file with PDFBox ExtractText command

http://pdfbox.apache.org/commandlineutilities/ExtractText.html

Needs some installation (assuming PDFbox isn't installed already e.g. by your Linux distribution):

SVN pdfbox trunk

apt-get install maven2

mvn clean install

On successful building it, use it like:

usage: java -jar pdfbox-app-x.y.z.jar org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText [OPTIONS] [Text file]

e.g.:

rbarraud@thinky:~/Desktop/tools/PDFBox/trunk/app/target$ java -jar pdfbox-app-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar ExtractText -html /home/rbarraud/Desktop/Reference/pdfs/IMX25RM.pdf /tmp/MX25RM.html

I want to grab tables out of PDF processor reference manuals to make tools for browsing machine state by register names etc.

Perhaps it's time I tried something more effective than this?...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3744t2Vj4Q

State of Scripting Languages (2007) Larry Wall

http://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html

Scripting Languages comparison Rigaux

http://rigaux.org/language-study/scripting-language/

Debugging Rules -- Dave Agans

http://www.debuggingrules.com

iproute2 replacing ifconfig etc (net-tools) ?

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/iproute2

Turning on bash's globstar ...

magilla@think:~/Desktop$ shopt -s globstar
magilla@think:~/Desktop$ shopt globstar
globstar        on 

Helps with recursive grep - you can then use

# grep -inH "find_this_expr" **/*.[CcHh]

or similar to recurse into all subdirs.

Making Great Decisions - Google Talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA0ZGe-OLK4&feature=channel

Epistemological Engineering Blog

Weird and Intriguing
http://epistemologicalengineering.blogspot.com/

Readability - Away with clutter!

https://www.readability.com/

Turns out DeMorgan was a funny guy...

http://www.todayinsci.com/D/DeMorgan_Augustus/DeMorganAugustus-Quotations.htm

Google page to strip webpages to text only

http://google.com/gwt/n

Alfred North Whitehead quotes

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead

Linux (p)threads programming tutorial

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialPosixThreads.html

GNU C Library manual roadmap

http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Roadmap-to-the-Manual.html#Roadmap-to-the-Manual

Grand Tour: Wouldn't it be Luvverly....?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour

Oliver Sacks - Hallucinations and what they tell us about the brain

http://www.ted.com/talks/oliver_sacks_what_hallucination_reveals_about_our_minds.html
(TED talk)

Oshkosh!!

http://principialabs.com/oshkosh-the-spirit-of-aviation/

Informative Slides: Debugging Linux Applications (Codefidence)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3009706/Debugging-Linux-Applications#

Text to Regexp tool

http://www.txt2re.com/

Packet-Flight

https://github.com/aristus/packet-flight/tree/master/packet_flight

Produces animation from a tcpdump

You Silly, Twisted Boy...

Mobius Bagel! :)
http://www.georgehart.com/bagel/bagel.html

Animated Map of Auckland Transport

http://sciblogs.co.nz/seeing-data/

Dave's Search Page

http://daverabbitz.ath.cx/~pp/cmd.html

Based on Russ Cox' original

http://swtch.com/

Exquisitely Ugly Web page (functional? dunno...)

http://www.motorcyclesport.co.nz/

Perhaps we can improve it @ some stage?

Linux Desktop Testing Project LDTP at freedesktop.org

http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/

Does Other People's Wellbeing Affect Yours?

http://gmj.gallup.com/content/145436/Wellbeing-Home-Front.aspx?utm_source=email&utm_medium=11JAN-B&utm_content=morelink&utm_campaign=newsletter

User Stories (Agile)

http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/userstories.html

Managing Software Development by Feature (Agile)

http://www.agile-process.org/byfeature.html

Why Impatient Java Developers Should Learn SmallTalk

http://www.dafydd.net/archive/2010/why-smalltalk-isnt-just-another-language/

CL Common LISP Wikibook

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Common_Lisp

ABCL Armed Bear Common LISP -- LISP with Java - Main Web Page

http://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/

ABCL

http://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/

ABCL Armed Bear Common LISP -- LISP with Java

http://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/doc/abcl-user.html

Successful LISP -- Finding your way around with apropos

http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/chapter10.html

Common Lisp Implementation Issues

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Common_Lisp/Implementation_Issues

Alan Kay OOPSLA '97 Keynote - "Play it Grand!"

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2950949730059754521#

LTK

http://www.peter-herth.de/ltk/

Practical Parsing of Binary Files (in CL with nice macrology)

http://gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-parsing-binary-files.html

Axiom Scientific Programming

http://www.axiom-developer.org/

YAML Ain't Markup Language

http://www.yaml.org/

Serialization for human-friendliness

Practical Common Lisp (Seibel) -> Clojure

http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2008/09/16/pcl-clojure.html

QuickLisp by Mr Beane (Zach)

http://www.quicklisp.org/

PlanetLisp

http://planet.lisp.org/

Leiningen (for Clojure) - Ant alternative / replacement

https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen

SLIME and Swank setup for Clojure

http://bc.tech.coop/blog/081023.html

Why Study Programming Language Design? -- Friedman

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dfried/dfried/mex.pdf

GNU MIX Development Kit (MDK)

http://www.gnu.org/software/mdk/

A Scheme Bookshelf -- Ortega

http://programming-musings.org/2007/01/31/a-scheme-bookshelf/

Crow Box! Josh Klein

http://www.crowboxunleashed.com/

Can we fix it?...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/7839988/Can-we-fix-it-is-the-right-question-to-ask.html

Paying Attention (New Atlantis)

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-multitasking

Merry Christmas...

http://xkcd.com/838/

:)

"I Can't Sleep"... any of this sound familiar?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p6O0VdUGe0&NR=1

ERD Tutorial online

http://www.getahead-direct.com/gwentrel.htm

Google Wave - Not Dead? - Apache Wave

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave

Cocotron

http://www.cocotron.org/

GnuStep Appkit Cocoa APIs NextStep

http://www.gnustep.org/