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Monday 30 March 2009

Handbrake

HandBrake

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows

Friday 20 March 2009

Using Open Office/Excel to convert a unix epoch time_t value to a date and time

Use this formula. The 10/24 is the offset from UTC. In this case, for Brisbane, Australia which is 10 hrs ahead.
=(((D2/60)/60)/24)+DATE(1970;1;1)+(10/24)
http://spreadsheetpage.com/index.php/tip/converting_unix_timestamps/
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/

Monday 16 March 2009

Qwt - Qt Widgets for Technical Applications

5.1.1

The Qwt library contains GUI Components and utility classes which are primarily useful for programs with a technical background. Beside a 2D plot widget it provides scales, sliders, dials, compasses, thermometers, wheels and knobs to control or display values, arrays, or ranges of type double.

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Friday 13 March 2009

USB temperature logger

EL-USB-LITE - USB DATA LOGGER TEMPERATURE -LITE


Product Code: EL-USB-LITE
instrument and sensor.com is Australian owned and operated
Availability: Available now, will ship within 48 business hours.
instrument and sensor.com is Australian owned and operated
Price: AU $99.00 + GST


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EL-USB-LITE - Product Information (Tell a Friend)

https://www.instrumentchoice.com.au/store/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=203

EL-USB-LITE - USB Temperature Logger

-10 to +50°C (+14 to +122°F) Measurement Range
1 Month Battery Life
2 Settable Alarm Thresholds
Red/Green Alarm Status Indication via Button
  
The EL-USB-LITE is a low cost USB temperature data logger with a measurement range of -10 to +50°C (+14 to +122°F) and a fixed sample rate of 30 minutes. The data logger can store over 4,000 readings and is supplied with a coin-cell battery, which provides approximately 1 months usage. By pressing the button a red/green LED indicates whether a preset alarm level has been breached.
 
The data logger is configured, and data downloaded, by plugging the EL-USB-LITE into a PC's USB port and running the supplied control software under Windows 98. 2000 or XP. The downloaded data can be graphed, printed and exported to other applications.

Download Data Sheet

Monday 9 March 2009

Comprehensive C Archive Network

List of all CCAN modules:

Note that two downloads are offered: the first includes with all the other ccan modules this module uses, the second is a standalone download.

Or you can just download the tarball of everything including CCAN tools (142K).

Name Summary / Link to details Download
alignof ALIGNOF() macro to determine alignment of a type. 3K / 2K
alloc memory allocator routines 11K / 10K
antithread Accelerated Native Technology Implementation of "threads" 82K / 45K
array_size routine for safely deriving the size of a visible array. 3K / 3K
build_assert routines for build-time assertions 2K / 2K
check_type routines for compile time type checking 4K / 3K
container_of routine for upcasting 5K / 3K
crc routines for crc of bytes 11K / 11K
crcsync routines to use crc for an rsync-like protocol. 15K / 6K
endian endian conversion macros for simple types 3K / 3K
grab_file file helper routines 30K / 3K
hash routines for hashing bytes 13K / 13K
list double linked list routines 7K / 4K
md4 MD4 Message Digest Algorithm (RFC1320). 8K / 4K
noerr routines for cleaning up without blatting errno 3K / 3K
read_write_all read_all and write_all routines. 3K / 3K
str string helper routines 3K / 3K
str_talloc string helper routines which use talloc 29K / 3K
talloc tree allocator routines 27K / 24K
tap Test Anything Protocol 11K / 11K
typesafe_cb macros for safe callbacks. 4K / 4K

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