Category Archives: Bash scripting

Adventures with the My Book World Edition (Whitelight) NAS harddrive

Posted on 2012-03-30 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Recently, I’ve been obsessing about the network here at home, now we have our own connection to the Internet and router (in the last flat, we shared this via an Ethernet cable that came from our neighbour’s flat). I wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Time lapse how to (Linux)

Posted on 2011-09-12 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

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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Capture Batch Script updated

Posted on 2011-05-10 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Looking back the other day at this post, I remembered that it had somehow stopped working on the eeepc. I suspected this had something to do with vlc and was always bothered anyway about using such a big, fully-featured programme … Continue reading →

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Compile New GPSBabel from source

Posted on 2011-02-18 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

A new version of GPSBabel – version 1.4.2 came out but it’s not yet in the Ubuntu repositories and there are no binaries on the GPSBabel site. I’m here to tell you that installing from the source worked pretty painlessly … 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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