Distance between two latitude/longitudes

Posted on September 11, 2020. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Usually, the great circle distance is used to find the distance between two points on the Earth’s surface. This method is only an approximation (with errors being less than 0.5% according to Wikipedia) because the Earth is not a perfect sphere. Vincenty solutions of geodesics on the ellipsoid demonstrates superior approximations (errors less than 1mm), […]

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Blender addons

Posted on January 20, 2019. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

Interesting add-ons for Blender: Animation Nodes Nodes! For animating! Tutorial series for Blender 2.78 Tutorial series for Blender 2.80 Beta BlenderKit (included with Blender) A free online database of materials, brushes and 3D models which you can search, download, upload and rate via our add-on directly in Blender. fast carve by jayanam Hardsurface utility Blender […]

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Using GitHub for free Javascript and CSS hosting

Posted on October 17, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

rawgit.com When you request certain types of files (like JavaScript, CSS, or HTML) from raw.githubusercontent.com or gist.githubusercontent.com, GitHub serves them with a Content-Type header set to text/plain. As a result, most modern browsers won’t actually interpret these files as JavaScript, CSS, or HTML and will instead just display them as text. RawGit acts as a […]

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Downloads for all Firefox releases

Posted on September 4, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

here

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Time synchronization between Ubuntu and VirtualBox

Posted on August 8, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

rem VirtualBox: How to sync host and guest time? rem https://superuser.com/questions/463106/virtualbox-how-to-sync-host-and-guest-time rem all times in ms REM ALL THE %VM% STUFF IS UNTESTED REM ALL THE %VM% STUFF IS UNTESTED REM ALL THE %VM% STUFF IS UNTESTED set VM=”Ubuntu 16.04.2″ REM ALL THE %VM% STUFF IS UNTESTED REM ALL THE %VM% STUFF IS UNTESTED REM […]

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Interesting Perl modules

Posted on April 30, 2016. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Somewhere to keep track of modules I might want to use in the future: Const::Fast Facility for creating read-only scalars, arrays, and hashes Leon Timmermans (LEONT) Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Starter A minimal Dist::Zilla plugin bundle Dan Book (DBOOK) Import::Into Import packages into other packages Graham Knop (HAARG) Syntax::Construct Identify which non-feature constructs are used in the code E […]

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Installing Swift on Ubuntu

Posted on April 12, 2016. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

Downloads for recent Ubuntus (14.04 LTS and 15.10 at the time of writing) are available from the Swift homepage as compressed tar archives. Installation goes as follows (untested): # download, then… tar xfz swift-2.2-RELEASE-ubuntu14.04.tar.gz ~ ln -s ~/swift-2.2-RELEASE-ubuntu14.04/usr/ ~ export PATH=~/usr/bin:”$PATH” # better in .bashrc

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Bash scripting links

Posted on May 15, 2015. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

Better Bash Scripting in 15 Minutes Greg’s Wiki specifically BashGuide and BashFAQ

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*nix VirtualBox installation

Posted on February 2, 2015. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

NOTE The debian stuff is wrong. Select “debian graphical environment”, “Xfce” and “standard utilities” in dselect. Installing the OS Copy & paste has to be enabled in VirtualBox Manager (General > Advanced > Shared Clipboard = Bidirectional) Install (Ubuntu Server) as cleanly as possible. In particular, do not select any packages to install. Remove CD/DVD […]

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Eclipse Plugins

Posted on September 19, 2014. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

AnyEdit Tools adds several new tools to the context menu of text-based Eclipse editors, to output consoles, to Eclipse main menu and editor toolbar. Adds many whitespace handlers: delete trailing whitspace, convert tabs to spaces etc. Counterclockwise for Clojure support Infinitest is a Continuous Testing plugin for Eclipse and IntelliJ. Each time a change is […]

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