Tomtom POI's from openstreetmap

Long time no post, I know ;-) But now I'm back again :-p

As an owner of a Tomtom via 120, I wanted to update the POI's, but I didn't want to pay for just updating the Points-of-Interest. As I'm participating in openstreetmap.org, I've decided ...

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Split mbox into single files

Just had an issue with a mailbox on a server, and it seemed pretty OK checking it with vim. I tried to remove the newest 1-2 messages, but that didn't help either.
As there were quite a few messages in it, i wanted to isolate the culprit; split the ...

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Extract kernel config from vmlinuz

Hola!

I just wanted to check the configuration of a kernel for a pre-built system. But because I just had the plain kernel image (/boot/vmlinuz) and I was too lazy to boot it up, I had to find another way to get the configuration.
Luckily in the kernel sources ...

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sort files before compressing

Was just looking for quick and easy way to sort the files, which should be compressed/archived using tar and bzip/gz/xz etc. As another guy already figured out before I did, it's rather important in which order the files are stored in an archive. I don't ...

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Cheat at draw something using bash

Hi folks,
Couldn't resist and had some fun with 'draw something' for Android. Now some people tend to draw very very bad.. (..including me..), which makes it almost impossible to guess their drawings. To fix this issue, I was looking out for an easy way to figure out what ...

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Raid0 Recovery Scenario - Part 1

Situation

Well, just got 2 harddisks in for recovery. The PC manufacturer apparently decided to have 2 harddisks in a RAID0, but now since one of the harddisks failed, there was no way to simply get the data back. As you might know, RAID0 sucks! If you only have one ...

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