Friday, October 09, 2009

Hand compass

Silva Ranger 515 CL without luminous bezel
Silva Trekker 420
Silva Guide 426 Graphite
Silva Huntsman 423
Suunto MC-2 luminous bezel and markings
Suunto MCA
Suunto MCB
Brunton Mirrored
Brunton 8099 Pro
Brunton 15TDCL

Thumb compass

Marine hand bearing compass
Suunto KB-14
Suunto KB-20
Plastimo IRIS 50

Backcoutry Essentials

Thursday, October 08, 2009

Mini Linux, embedded tools, and free virtual machines

ttylinux 8MB ISO
Tiny Core Linux 10MB Busybox, Tiny X, Fltk, flwm, download firefox 3.5
GNU/Fiwix 20MB -> 60MB
SliTaz GNU/Linux LiveCD 30MB image -> 100MB system, BusyBox, Openbox, firefox 3.0, network problem in VirtualBox
ByzanineOS 32MB CD-ROM BusyBox, Metacity
Damn Small Linux DSL USB flash 50MB Fluxbox, freeze in VirtualBox, Firefox 2.0 in VMWare
TinyMe Linux
Puppy Linux 100MB X.Org or Xvesa, JWM, Seamonkey, network problem in VirtualBox and VMWare

ReactOS based on the design of Windows XP/2003
Syllable Desktop AmigaOS like
Haiku BeOS

Comparison of netbook oriented Linux distributions

OpenWRT
PUD xPUD Chinese

BusyBox The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
Zile (Zile Is Lossy Emacs) lightweight Emacs clone

KDrive TinyX Xvesa freedesktop.org Xserver X.Org Server
Openbox
JWM

Dropbear SSH server and client (OpenSSH)

uClibc A C library for embedded Linux (GNU C Library)
diet libc
Red Hat newlib C library intended for use on embedded systems

uClibc++

Disk image: Virtualization: .vmdk for VMware, .vhd for Xen and Microsoft Hyper-V, .vdi for Oracle VirtualBox,
VirtualBox native VDI images, OVF image, can also use VHD and VMDK
VMWare Player, EasyVMX! creating VMDK image, can also use VHD, run vhd under vmware, not working?
VMWare Server
QEMU KQEMU accelerator
XenServer linux host only

*How To Run Ubuntu in Windows 7 with VMware Player VMPlayer, run as administrator and use iso image
*WMware: Supported Guest Operating Systems - Linux (Debian, Fedora Desktop, openSUSE, Ubuntu)

bagvapp Virtual Appliance Repository, SliTaz cooking, TinyMe, localized PUD, Hiweed (Ubuntu)
-Some VMWare images CentOS, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Ubuntu
VMware Appliances
TuxDistro torrents sorted virtual machines
OVF Open Virtualization Format Appliances
VirtualBoxImages
VirtualBox Images DSL, Haiku, Moblin, PuppyLinux, ReactOS, SliTaz, Syllable, TinyCore

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

10 easy ways to play with Linux without leaving Windows

Moba LiveCD
Portable Ubuntu
VirtualBox and VirtualboxImages.com
VMWare Player (VMPlayer) and Appliances Marketplace
KDE for Windows
Fedora LiveUSB Creator and UNetBootIn
Lili

Hack a Day: How to crack a Master lock

Monday, October 05, 2009

3D

Wired Explains: How 3-D Television Works

3D display
3D television LCD shutter glasses
3-D film

The Illustrated 3D Movie List
Stereoscopy.com

AMC Cupertino ticket price
Ticket Pricing:
Adult: $11.00 - After 4:00 pm
Matinee: $9.00 - Before 3:55 pm
Child: $8.00 - Age 2 - 12
A.M.Cinema: $6.00 Everyday 7 days a week for shows before noon
RealD 3D Experience: $4
IMAX Experience: $5
IMAX 3D Experience: $6

RealD Cinema, RealD, Circular polarization $3
IMAX 3D linear polarization $4
Dolby 3D Digital Cinema, location, CineLux Plaza Theatres Campbell $2
XPAND Cinema World Map
MasterImage 3D circular polarized

Stereoscopy Stereo camera Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D W1
Autostereoscopy Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D V1

Nvidia 3D Vision Requirements

Minimum system requirements
  • Microsoft® Windows® Vista 32/64-bit or Windows 7 32/64-bit
  • Intel® Core™2 Duo or AMD Athlon™ X2 CPU or higher
  • 1GB of system memory. (2GB is recommended)
  • 100 MB free disk space

NVIDIA 3D Vision-Ready displays devices

NVIDIA GeForce Desktop GPUs

 

GeForce 200/100 Series

GeForce 9 Series

GeForce 8 Series

3D Gaming GeForce GTX 295

GeForce GTX 285

GeForce GTX 280

GeForce GTX 275

GeForce GTX 260

GeForce GTS 250

GeForce GTS 240


GeForce GT 140
GeForce 9800 GX2

GeForce 9800 GTX+

GeForce 9800 GTX

GeForce 9800 GT

GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 8800 Ultra

GeForce 8800 GTX

GeForce 8800 GTS

GeForce 8800 GT
3D Applications (Cooliris) GeForce GTX 295

GeForce GTX 285

GeForce GTX 280

GeForce GTX 275

GeForce GTX 260

GeForce GTS 250

GeForce GTS 240

GeForce GT 140
GeForce 9800 GX2

GeForce 9800 GTX+

GeForce 9800 GTX

GeForce 9800 GT

GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 8800 Ultra

GeForce 8800 GTX

GeForce 8800 GTS

GeForce 8800 GT
3D Pictures All GeForce 200/100 Series All GeForce 9 Series All GeForce 8 Series
3D Movies All GeForce 200/100 Series All GeForce 9 Series All GeForce 8 Series

NVIDIA 3D Vision for Quadro

Learn more about NVIDIA® Quadro® professional graphics boards including support for Quad Buffered OpenGL applications

Friday, October 02, 2009

Wallet

Big Skinny the world's thinnest, smallest, and lightest wallets Sport Big Skinny $10
ALL-ETT The World's Thinnest Wallet The World's Thinnest Inside I.D. Wallet $19.95
Civilian Lab Clip Kevlar lossless wallet $22
Koyono Slim Wallets Slimmy Jimi
Ragged edge gear Sailcloth Bifold ID Wallet, aramid and carbon fiber $35
Stewart/Stand Stainless Steel Wallets