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After fighting my way through various undocumented features and weird bugs of Google Earth, I've managed to generate a .kml file which connects my vacation photos with the location logged by the GPS receiver at the time. Which is quite cool, as I tend to forget where exactly I took a photo...
Via lynard_: How to make a kylflow
While bigbluefox, cheetah_spotty, fuchsi, Jaryic, nachtfuchs and tanidareal are on their eastcoast roadtrip (have a lot of fun, folks!), I remembered that I logged the GPS data of the trip of Kayjay, lynard_ and me through some Western US states in January and that I hadn't managed to convert the data before to something Google Earth would understand. So I wrote some filter and conversion scripts this weekend (turned out that GE didn't like some bogus data logged. Not gpsdrive's fault, it just dumps everything from the GPS receiver to a file...)
Via Patrick of Werbeblogger:
It is not very polite to ignore "no passing" signs. It is not very polite to pass a vehicle that's just 1 mph slower than yourself on a two-lane autobahn. It is not very polite to block the left lane just because the vehicle on the middle lane, which is passing a truck on the right lane, is 2 mph slower than yourself. It is outright rude to throw burning cigarettes and garbage out of the window. And it is fucking dangerous to sway over two lanes in a construction area just because you are distracted by a porn magazin.
Two engineers at the customer's site:
For the last two days I was on a customer site... They had reported some very strange performance issues while testing varous server hardware. System becoming "unresponsive" after only 2000 TCP connects on a connection rate test, latency increasing by 400% periodically for short amounts of time on load tests.
I spent the last couple of days at Mephit Mini Con at the Freusburg near Siegen. We've been there before with Eurofurence a couple of years ago and the castle is still as good as I remembered it. For MMC, it was a huge leap in quality. Tasty food, competent and friendly youth hostel staff, neat rooms and excellent technical infrastructure. What a difference to the previous location at the Loreley!