Category Archives: Linux

A Python script to get a list of placenames from latitude and longitude

Posted on 2011-01-27 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Here’s a handy adaptation from Nicolas Laurance’s geoname.py script which takes a lat long and returns a list of place names and their code derived from the geonames database. #!/usr/bin/env python #-*- coding:utf-8 -*- # based on geoname.py by Nicolas … Continue reading →

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Hmm, not so sure about last post

Posted on 2011-01-20 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Already come a cropper, hoist by my own petard, etc etc I put a warning in my code that its a hack and I’ve already seen its limitation. Basically, I really need to re-write it getting to grips with the … Continue reading →

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Learning Emacs in Brazil

Posted on 2010-11-29 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

I’m here in Brazil at the arte.mov festival which is probably the best festival I’ve ever been to in terms of hospitality. We were in Belo Horizonte last week and now we’re in São Paulo with a fantastic group of … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 2010-11-02 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

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

Posted on 2010-11-02 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

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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