Category: VAULT Links

Ever wanted to know the Latitude and Longitude or your home address? Need to know the coordinates to send artillery fire at that annoying next door neighbor? Geocode has a test site for their geo-location software. It lets you get the Lat & Lon of any US address. Useful stuff for graphical traceroutes.

While I have the RHCE, one of the more popular Linux certifications is the Linux Professional Institutes’s LPI. While not as “intense” as the RHCE, the LPI confers a core level of competency on Linux systems. A competency that is fairly distribution agnostic.

While in the process of looking up documentation models on the Internet; I ran into wikibooks.org. Wikibooks is an attempt to create an on line book repository the likes of wikipedia does for the encyclopedia. The array of books available for access it quite amazing, ranging from cookbooks to foreign language guides. Most of the books have a educational slant on them, but that is generally the kind of book I am looking for when searching for on line book content.

How does this tie into the LPI? Wikibooks has a complete (if unofficial) list of prep books for the LPI. Notice the LPI level 3 is still in preparation by the Linux Professional Institute.

In an semi related link, I have been reading up on Ade’s blog post proposing an on-line KDE course catalog of how to documents organized in a collegiate format. He calls his proposal UofKDE. Overall I think the idea is a great improvement over the current on line documentation organization (or lack of it.) Maybe this will start to put the design level of KDE’s documentation more on par with KDE development environment. I think its about time for a open source documentation revolution; particularly in the KDE world. And the innovations in that field will not be made with the same level of thinking got us to were we are now.

Government Liquidation is a one stop website for all your used government surplus needs. Need 10,000 feet of copper wire? How about a used floor scrubber? Need parts for you F-18? This is the place. You can search by product type or simply select a government/military installation in your area and find out what they are getting rid of. A buddy of mine buys old computers from them and rebuilds them to sell on ebay. Pretty cheep stuff.

Have not decided which CMS to replace Movable Type with. I have found a couple others (all PHP based) and figured I would post them. Here are b2evolution, blog:cms, and pLog. All of these CMSes (content management systems, i.e. blogging software) have support for mutliple blogs and plugins.

A useful location to demo CMS software (PHP and MySQL based) is Open Source CMS. They have a couple dozen working sites for you to test out; both as a blogger and as an admin. The sites are reset every hour.

linuxquestions.org is running their annual Users Choice Awards for various Linux related categories.  If you have not done so already, pick up a user account (must be a registered user to actually vote) and make your voice… errr… click heard.  Some of the more important categories (and the obvious, aka. my, picks) are Desktop Environment of the Year (KDE), IDE of the Year (KDevelop), Messaging App of the Year (Kopete), File Manager of the Year, (Konqueror), Web Development Editor of the Year (Quanta), and Distribution of the Year (Anything bug Fedora, because they really pissed me off.)

Passed out pictures and Google hacks.  Sounds like I had a good weekend.

• Funny Link: Drunk “day after” pics
• Useful Link: Alternative Use Google Searches

For anyone who likes reading political blogs: here is the third Annual Warblogger Awards.  The wards are presended by Right Wing News; but the list makes for some interesting reading. Is pretty good, whichever you political affiliation.

Its been a while but I finally updated and added pics to my image gallery.  One of my favorite additions is this picture (subtle but funny.)  I also added a new image gallery that consists of just desktop screen shot pictures. I love looking at some of my old desktop configurations and seeing which applications I used to use. You can see the gallery by clicking on the sidebar link under the VAULT STUFF category; or you can click here.

I have been desperately trying to find some good Jeep tutorial websites but unfortunately even Google seems to continually direct me towards part sellers.  Here are a couple of my most recent finds.

• http://www.jeepz.com/index.php — Not a lot of tutorials but the ones they have are well done.
• http://www.cjoffroad.com/AllTechnical.asp — Found a couple here. They sure like YJ and TJ parts though.

SMTM is a perl/Tk stock ticker and chart display application for tracking stocks.  The stock information is downloaded via Yahoo Finance.