Category Archives: Software

A new category for filtering ‘rogue’ trackpoints?

Having just downloaded our GPSs for this period, I was playing around with looking at the GPX tracks in Qgis and something struck me. What you can see here is that some trackpoints are clearly ‘wrong’ or ‘inaccurate’ or just … Continue reading

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ECT for laptop

TVT Packet Filter Miniport / Ethernet card problem solved by shutting down the laptop badly. A strange thing happened to my Lenovo Thinkpad T61p recently that I never really got to the bottom of and has subsequently cured itself. Last … Continue reading

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Time lapse how to (Linux)

This, I hope, is the definitive version of the time-lapse how to. Having had earlier cracks at it, I think this one represents the refined source. Here’s the how to. 1. A capture script #!/bin/bash cd $HOME/captures D1=`date +%Y-%m-%d` D2=`date … Continue reading

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Psychogeophysics Summit Suffolk Day 2

I continued with the webcam documentary of our days, this time remembering to take out a fully charged eeepc. First off was a trip to Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich which is reputedly haunted. You can see the herringbone pattern parquet … Continue reading

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Psychogeophysics Summit Day 1

As you can see, there’s not a lot of this timelapse as I made the mistake of working on the eeepc before we went out and running down the battery. It was a pity, because this was the day we … Continue reading

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