Category Archives: Software

List of programmes I re-install after a linux OS new install

Mercurial – repositories (install through Synaptic) glc – see this post vlc – repositories Audacity – repositories Gnome do – repositories pyRenamer – repositories Unison – repositories BUT make sure you install the same version on both computers you’re syncing … Continue reading

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glc is not the greater london council any more

Aah those were the days, the height of Thatcherism and Red Ken still ruling a socialist London (she put a stop to that of course) Story here Anyway, I digress, glc (https://github.com/nullkey/glc/ [Updated 2012 because of move]) is actually a … Continue reading

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Great Perl Script for GPX files and OpenStreetMap

Two of my favourite things: free and open software that people work on and share with us all and the map that everyone can contribute to have been bought together by Thomas Fischer. He has written and published a Perl … Continue reading

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