Month: September 2004

Police driving

While surfing the web for driving tutorials, I came across an interesting site – PoliceDriving.com . This site has a very interesting Video section. It hosts a number of video clips which demonstrate what law enforcement officers are learning while their academy years and why you should never try to outdrive policemen. (Kind of makes me want to attend those driving classes).

Unfortunately, most of the videos are very compressed and sized down, but I could still enjoy them. Make sure you see a real-life video of a Mustang driver avoiding several Tactical Vehicle Interventions (TVIs) – it is marked as “Oklahoma Highway Patrol TVI Video”.

Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync

Mike Rubel has an excellent article that explains how to use rsync for making snapshot backups.

All the theory, examples, script listings, and references to other places are there. Great stuff!

Hazard started blogging

I’ve got some really cool news for you. Hazard started blogging. Last time he did it, he used plain text editor and his blog ended up with three posts. He also didn’t want anyone to see it except for a small list of trusted people.

This time, though, he looks serious about it. Check it out here. I’m adding this link to the side bar too.

P.S.: If you think that being lazy counts for an excuse for not starting a blog – not any more. :)

Picture of the day

Light

I decided that feeding you ugly pictures of dirt from my house for three days in a row will be too much. That lead me to an idea of photographing something outside of my house, which I did. Olga and I went for a short walk along the sea line, behind the Park Beach Hotel. It was pretty dark there, but I managed to get a few blurry snaps with ISO1600 setting.

By the way, today’s submission goes into 14th folder in a row and that is, of course, a two weeks mark in my project. Don’t worry, I am not going to stop here. I am just getting all warmed up. :)

ASCII Generator

The times of ASCII as a widely used text format are mostly gone by now. Web is all multimedia. Emails are pretty often HTMLed. Books are in MS Word format or some ebook crap. Documentation is PDFed. Some people do use ASCII (plain text), but they are getting less and less.

ASCII Generator is a lot of fun for those who still use ASCII. It converts a word or a phrase of your choice into a piece of plain text using one of many ASCII fonts. The results can be used on the web, or as a part of email signature.

NOTE: Don’t forget that you’ll need fixed/monospace font to replicate the results in most of the graphical programs. And even than you will most probably still have problems with tabs and spaces. Good luck.