Bits and pieces of John Dalton from all over your internet. - tagged with howto

Covington's DSLR Astrophotography Procedures

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:40:00 -0600

"This is a page of brief notes about camera settings, workflow, and practices that I have found most successful."

Some detailed tips on using a Canon EOS DSLR for astrophotography.

Walkthrough: A MongoDB Map/Reduce Job

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:35:00 -0600

Walk through a real-world example of a map/reduce job we’re using at Fiesta.

Git - Fast Version Control System

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:28:00 -0600

Git quick start for Subversion users

lego ornaments

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:58:00 -0600

This page has model files, instruction guides and part lists for building a number of different Lego Christmas ornaments.

DIY Book Scanning | A forum dedicated to book scanning, open source, DIY digitization.

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:40:00 -0500

Do-It-Yourself Book Scanning is using cheap, compact cameras and Free software to scan books quickly and efficiently.

Point a camera at a book and take pictures of each page. You might build a special rig to do it. Process those pictures with our free programs. Enjoy reading on the device of your choice.

Gentoo Linux Documentation -- How to get meaningful backtraces in Gentoo

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:58:00 -0500

Mount/access Files Residing on Xen Virtual Machines

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:46:00 -0500

Great example showing how to access the filesystem[s] on a xen disk image, or any other disk image which represents a drive containing partitions.

Command-line Fu < The best UNIX commands on the web

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:52:00 -0500

Tim found this - kinda like delicious or digg for *nix one-liners.

How To Configure Web Access To Subversion Repositories Using Apache | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:30:00 -0600