Monday, February 28, 2011

Frangipani Grove, Part 2

Posted on Monday, February 28, 2011 by littlemapper
Baby pie scootering through The Frangipani Grove...

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Frangipani Grove

Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2011 by littlemapper
Frangipani flowers. Singapore Botanic Gardens, urban refuge...

Friday, February 25, 2011

Graffiti

Posted on Friday, February 25, 2011 by littlemapper
Graffiti on the Bedok Reservoir floating boardwalk...

MalFreeMap postal code search on Gpsmap 62s

Posted on Friday, February 25, 2011 by littlemapper
Hit the Find button. Click By Address. Leave the house number field blank, proceed with Done. Key in the postal code in the street address field. Hit Done on the soft keyboard. Viola. Okay, okay, you knew that alrea...

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Gpsmap 62s backlight settings

Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 by littlemapper
I've found that it's easier to have the backlight set to "on always" in the main menu and to rely on the backlight level screen to turn it on or off. This is quicker since backlight level adjustment is accessed by a short press of the power button while the backlight duration configuration item is buried in a subme...

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Lovely aren't they?

Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2011 by littlemapper
My mum planted these for us. They are sitting next to the window. Gorgeous...

Not again!?

Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2011 by littlemapper
I like Apple products. But sometimes ownership can be a pain. This is the second time we've been hit by the vertical pixel wide strip of stuck pixels. I hope the next screen replacement fixes the issue. Contrast this with my 7 yr old Dell Inspiron 8600 with the 1920*1200 pixel screen. Beaten up, but still soldering on flawless...

16hrs and still going...

Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2011 by littlemapper
Here's a picture of the Gpsmap 62s after 16 hrs on a set of Imedion 2400's. Good enough for a trip to KL and back with plenty of juice to spare....

Monday, February 7, 2011

GPSMAP 62s

Posted on Monday, February 07, 2011 by littlemapper
The new toy :-). Brimming with old world charm... When was the last time you saw an RF device with an external antenna? My kids thought it was a walkie-talkie. A Gilsson active antenna and Garmin bike mount came in the same package. Figured that the Gilsson would be a potentially useful gadget to have under heavy tree cover. This was one reason why I chose the 62s over the Oregon 450. Now to take it to the great outdoo...

Ubuntu 10.10 and RawTherapee

Posted on Monday, February 07, 2011 by littlemapper
Installed Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit into my old Dell Inspiron 8600 over the Chinese New Year weekend. Took a while to work out the BCM4306/2 wireless driver (bc43legacy) because of a bug in the firmware installer package. Anyway, I now have a working installation of Maverick on a 27GB ext-4 partition on my little 120GB hard disk. Turns out that http://www.rawtherapee.com/releases_head/linux/ does not offer a 32-bit build for RawTherapee and that the Maverick package doesn't like EOS 550D raw files... So that left me with no choice but to compile the...

Why do they all have to be 16-by-9?

Posted on Monday, February 07, 2011 by littlemapper
Why is it that all new laptops and computer displays come in 16:9 aspect ratio? Laptops aren't just for watching movies. I miss the old 1920x1200 or even the 1600x1200 displays. 16:9 aspect ratio screens just aren't great for the rest of us who work with documents, spreadsheets and CAE tools. Here's hoping that the industry will come to its senses and end the infatuation with "full HD" screens. We need more vertical pixe...
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