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[link] 2005-11-20T15:31:28 Rescuing old data on 5.25" disks: I borrowed a 5.25" disk drive from someone at work to get the data off my very old disks. I put it in an empty computer along with a cdrom drive and booted the debian/bbc cd. trivial-net-setup found the ethernet card. I made a no-password ssh key (ssh-keyget -t dsa) and appended it to another host's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 so I didn't have to type a password everytime I ssh to the other host. Then, I simply inserted each disk and ran this: These disks are from around 1985-1994, and about 4 of 16 failed to read. On a linux box, I mounted the images with the loop device and copied their files to my filesystem. Some of the interesting files are in gwbasic's compressed form. I probably need to fire up actual gwbasic and use http://www.geocities.com/KindlyRat/BASICtoTEXT.html to get clean versions, unless I can find a decompiler.
cat /dev/fd1 | ssh drewp@otherhost "cat > disk"date +%s
[link] 2005-11-26T01:37:54 More mapping with python: http://bigasterisk.com/gis has a new picture I made with my pyrex port of the TMRS map-drawing code. I changed to agg (using the aggdraw interface) which makes tiny lines and text look great, compared to what pygame could do. The goal is actually to make a drawing where each point is colored by how long it takes to drive from there to San Mateo county.
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