CNN.com has a map of the places that were targeted by these perpetrators, with each place’s history and the ongoing events.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/27/india.attacks/index.html#cnnSTCOther1
Here’s a second post in the Most Wired series posts. Forbes reports the 30 Most Wired Airports in the world, based on three criteria: the passenger traffic in 2007, the breadth and cost of wi-fi access in the airport and availability of facilities such as seating, electrical outlets and wired access.
A Google Map of airport rankings is available here.
Tiny Geo Coder is an easy, simple to use geocoding website. All that is required is an address and a click to retrieve the location’s geographical coordinates (lat, lng) along with a google static map with the location marked on it.
The site also mentions about a geocoding API with no authentication. Its pretty simple,
http://tinygeocoder.com/create-api.php?q=Fairfax,VA and you get the result,
38.851531,-77.298167
Surprisingly, its Atlanta. This is the result of a survey by Forbes.com for the Most Wired Cities in America for the year 2008. It is mentioned that their calculations were based on three factors – the percentage of Internet users with high-speed access, the number of service providers within the city and availability of public wi-fi hotspots.
Although Atlanta tops the list in the number of users with high-speed net and service providers, its Portland, Oregon that is equipped with the most public wireless hotspots.
Here’s a google map put together from results of the survey.
The “Archive Manager” that is built into Ubuntu (Ubuntu is the only Linux distro that I have tried so far) to handle archive formats has no native support for the .rar format.
Try opening a .rar file with the Archive Manager and you are presented with an error.
Fixing this problem requires installation of an unarchiver for .rar files. This is readily available in the repositories in two packages – unrar and unrar-free. The unrar package is from RARLAB and the unrar-free is from Gna! which is the free software version of the non-free unrar utility.
Fire up the terminal and issue the command
sudo apt-get install unrar-free
Once the package is installed, Archive Manager should now be able to extract files with the .rar extension.
