VNC tunneling

To tunnel local port 5901 to the 1st port for VNC sessions on the host you are sshing into:

ssh -L5901:localhost:5901 <hostname>

For viewing this, xvnc4viewer is closest approach to RealVNC ...

xvnc4viewer localhost:5901

(enter password and you should be in)

BP Oil Spill Protest art

BP Oil Spill Art

DSP Guide Stephen Smith

http://www.dspguide.com/

A great book - can be browsed etc. online

Emacs VHDL mode reg exp switch for error lines in compilation

VHDL | Options | Compiler | Untick "Use Local Error Regexp"

NB: The 'Options' is hidden @ the bottom of the Options submenu if the display is too short

$US149 logic analyser 'Logic'

http://www.saleae.com/home/

Doulos VHDL Designer's Guide

http://www.doulos.com/knowhow/vhdl_designers_guide/

Very Useful indeed

Swapping Caps Lock and Control (Left) keys in X Window

Temporarily, from the shell commandline:

xmodmap -e "remove lock = Caps_Lock"
xmodmap -e "remove control = Control_L"
xmodmap -e "add control = Caps_Lock"
xmodmap -e "add lock = Control_L"


Permanantly, in (Debian) xorg.conf:

Add the Section:

Section "InputDevice"
Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
EndSection

(You'll need to restart X for this to take effect)

Resigned Today

I am free (-falling) ... resigned today and will be trying to figure out what I can usefully do next.

Engineering TV

http://engineeringtv.com/

some really neat stuff on here.

Sapwood FEA analysis for wood and nails

http://www.engr.colostate.edu/NEESWood/sapwood.shtml

From Colorado State U.
Cartman need not apply...

Earthquake-resistant wooden buildings up to 6 stories?

http://engineeringtv.com/blogs/educational-videos/archive/2008/10/01/the-neeswood-project.aspx

Caveat: The audio volume for the speech portions of this video is waaayy too low... I had my laptop on the verge of feedback listening to it... if you turn up the speech, WARNING! the ads will be VERY LOUD!

Nanophotonics and slow light CMOS devices

http://engineeringtv.com/blogs/educational-videos/archive/2008/11/01/micro-and-nano-photonics.aspx

Freescale ARM Cortex A8 netbooks and ref design

http://engineeringtv.com/blogs/etv/archive/2010/02/23/smartbooks-powered-by-freescale.aspx

TeachDesign: Making Ideas Real

http://www.good.is/post/teachdesign-making-ideas-real

(at Good)

Rock Printer

http://rockprinter.com/

The Third Place

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

Cupcake CNC MakerBot

http://wiki.makerbot.com/cupcake

Open Source -- grab the files and make one :)

JavaScript Motion Detection

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/mjpg-streamer/index.php?title=Main_Page

Could This be the Answer? - 1Password

http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password

If so, I think I forgot the question...

...along with my password (again ... :( )

The problem with using multiple machines and/or browsers, like I do, is that if you once forget one of your many (different, right? ;-) ) passwords for online services, you start to chase your tail trying to re-synchronize the remembered passwords in the browser cookies and/or other magic.