The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Nuvi 360 Linux tips and tricks

matt | December 25, 2007

I found this page which was really handy in telling one where to put things.
This page has some useful POI stuff.

IMPORTANT: It doesn't seem to like an eject, do an:
umount /media/gps
then just disconnect it. Do not do an eject. It seems to corrupt the file system.
Note: My stuff is mounted in /media/gps. Yours may be [...]

I love my geek wife.

matt | December 24, 2007

Garmin nuvi 360
Completely badass.
- 2GB internal storage (comes loaded with about 1.5GB of stuff, mostly the map data and such)
- Comes with maps for all of USA and Canada.
- Reads you turn by turn directions, including street names.
- The antenna is really well designed. My handheld unit would barely get a signal on the dash [...]

Really good use of perspective

matt | December 21, 2007

3 different perspectives of small town events. Kind of sad. Hat tip to .

Review of some RPG PDF's

matt | December 21, 2007

I am up at this absurd hour because we are performing maintenance on one of the servers (clean out all the dust bunnies). I'm the remote tech support. Of course, while I can do the prep and shut things down, I'm kind of idle until the crew is finished cleaning. So, I blog…
This is going [...]

Snow

matt | December 15, 2007

Apparently, we are supposed to get 18 inches of snow between 8AM and 8PM Sunday.
I blame . I think the FSM reads his “I like snow because I'm a Canadian and have snowshoes to get around and plenty of firewood and whiskey to keep me warm” blog and touches the weather with His Noodly appendage. [...]

On games..

matt | December 6, 2007

I think I've said this before, but I'm really liking PDFs of games. Download PDF, save places, print a copy, and annotate as I like. Then I don't feel bad about writing in the book. I can also make compilations of tables and charts, stick pages in a nice binder, etc.
I grabbed a copy of [...]

More random bits

matt | December 5, 2007

- The Wii output looks significantly better when shown in 480p via component cable. The Mii's are less jaggy.
- Hmmm.. There is Manhunt 2 for the Wii. I wonder if they use the motion control in interesting fashions.
- A Grand Theft Auto game for the Wii would be interesting – it knows you are holding [...]

I'm glad that such fine people are watching after my welfare

matt | December 4, 2007

Shrine of the Mall Ninja
Hat tip to .

Probably the best RKBA article I've read in awhile

matt | December 2, 2007

The Liberal Case for Gun Ownership

Realignment

matt | December 2, 2007

Recently, I've been working in a very focused way on microarmor stuff. While fun, I've not been doing much else which, as it turns out, is almost as bad as not doing anything. So, I'm going to be doing a bit of juggling of my hobbies – a little bit of this, a little bit [...]