Michal Čihař - Archive for 7/2006

Mirrored own articles

I finally made local copy of my articles which I made for Linux software server. They were sitting for long time on my disk to be published somewhere under my website, but till now I didn't manage to do that.

You can find original article listing on Linux software and it's mirror is at my server: http://cihar.com/publications/linuxsoft/.

As a special bonus you get there file which is missing in articles on Linux software :-).

Troubles of being private rail company

Most of railways in Czechia are operated by Czech Railways. However there are few places where private companies exists such as Railways Desná. When you need to use only one of them, everything works fine, but travelling with both looks sometimes like a big trouble.

You have no problems when starting on private one, they sell you ticket for whatever you need. But Czech Railways only tell you, that there is private railway and you need another ticket. They don't bother to tell that you can buy the ticket by them. So you travel with Czech Railways, switch to private with no time for buying another ticket because Czech Railways are allways delayed and now you have to pay penalty because you don't have your ticket. Funny, isn't it?

Yet another crazy USB toy

When I today first saw this, I really liked that. I saw various useless USB toys, but this one is the best of them. And it even works fine from Linux!

I'm talking about USB Misille Launcher. You can control it using keyboard or even combine it with webcam and use motion together with small script to automatically aim it (no auto fire yet :-)).

Back from holidays

After more than week ignoring computers I'm back online. It's horrible to see those hundreds of unread mails, but I promise I will manage them soon, just be patient :-).

Anyway vacation was great, we had nice wheather and Jeseníky is wonderful place. Yesterday we were lucky that we're on correct side of mountains. otherwise we would be in the middle of floods.

And once more I got impression that travelling with Czech Railways is horrible experience. First train had outage and we went with replacement bus. I rued those few who took their bike with them. Next train was of course full of people, nowhere to sit, but it was only three hours way…