Author Archives: micolous

How to screw the auDA for fun and profit

Posted on Sunday, September 4, 2011 by micolous

Recently, the auDA (Australian Domain Administrator) updated their rules regarding the registration of names in *.au. Among them are some changes to the policies on domain monetisation. But in the end, these rules don’t matter at all — because of … Continue reading →

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28-hour day experiments notes

Posted on Monday, June 20, 2011 by micolous

I decided that I would experiment with a 28-hour day for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately it turned in to a week-and-a-half deal, as I had to fall off the wagon for some other commitments. I thought I’d write up … Continue reading →

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Belated announcement: tollgate source released

Posted on Monday, May 9, 2011 by micolous

Last weekend, tollgate’s source code was released. This is the project formerly known as portal2, which ran the captive portal system at StreetGeek and SAGAfest from January 2009 to September 2010. It’s a quota-managed captive portal system for Linux mainly … Continue reading →

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Vuzix Wrap 920 VGA on Linux

Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 by micolous

The Vuzix Wrap 920 are entry-level VR glasses. (Not to be confused with the 920VR, which has a USB interface that operates differently.) There is a VGA adapter available for them, however I notice that the buttons on the controller … Continue reading →

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Side-by-side video in gst-launcher

Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 by micolous

This little snippit takes video from two V4L2 sources (like webcams), and displays them side by side. The script in question is setup for 320×240 MJPEG, tweak the numbers and you get different resolution from your video sources. One important … Continue reading →

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