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Google Calendar Sync with Outlook

jeroencoenders — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:56:01 +0000

Nice tool, but a pity that they do not offer to sync multiple calendars:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-calendar-sync.html

Publication in Geotechniek

jeroencoenders — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:38:30 +0000

Some time ago I wrote an article for Geotechniek, which they now put online.

I have also put a link in my list of publications.

Disk load monitoring tool: iotop

jeroencoenders — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:14:21 +0000

iotop is a nice disk monitoring tool for Linux in case your hard disk is bugging you with high load and you want to find out what it is causing it (like mine).

http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/

OCR: Converting a scanned image to text on Linux

jeroencoenders — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:08:41 +0000

I found a nice script on this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=880471 which works really well.

#!/bin/sh
SCRIPT_NAME=`basename "$0" .sh`
TMP_DIR=${SCRIPT_NAME}-tmp
OUTPUT_FILE=${SCRIPT_NAME}-output.txt

mkdir $TMP_DIR
cp $@ $TMP_DIR
cd $TMP_DIR

pdftoppm -r 600 * ocrbook

for i in *.ppm
do
  BASE=`basename "$i" .ppm`
  convert "$i" "${BASE}.tif"
  tesseract "${BASE}.tif" "${BASE}" -l eng
  cat ${BASE}.txt | tee -a $OUTPUT_FILE
  echo "[pagebreak]" | tee -a $OUTPUT_FILE
  rm ${BASE}.*
done

mv $OUTPUT_FILE ..
rm *
cd ..
rmdir $TMP_DIR

Darth Vader

jeroencoenders — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:38:23 +0000

This commercial with a young Darth Vader is just too cool to not put on your blog:

Research Review 2012

jeroencoenders — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:45:58 +0000

Arup’s Research Review 2012 is out!

It contains articles about the various achievements made in research over the last year(s).

You can download it here:
http://www.arup.com/Publications/Research_review.aspx

Symposium : Ontwerpen van stadions is topsport!

jeroencoenders — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:48:31 +0000

Event where two of my colleagues are presenting:
Symposium : Ontwerpen van stadions is topsport!

Arup Design Yearbook 2011

jeroencoenders — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:11:14 +0000

Arup’s new Design Yearbook for 2011 is out.

Take a look at it here:
http://www.arup.com/homepage_design_yearbook_2011

Gmail and Thunderbird: New messages because of “Important” tag

jeroencoenders — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:06:15 +0000

If you, like me, use Thunderbird to read your Gmail account, and your e-mail keeps indicating new e-mail has arrived, because of the Gmail “Important” tag, you can turn it off by going into the Gmail settings, by logging into Gmail, select Settings > Labels, and turn off the Show in IMAP toggle.

That should solve the problem.

Ubuntu releases MD5 sums

jeroencoenders — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:06:39 +0000

The Ubuntu download page (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download) does not give a reference to the MD5 sums of the CD images to be downloaded. If you would like to check them after downloading, this is a bit inconvenient.

You can find them here for all releases:
http://releases.ubuntu.com