Google Maps in C#

I like to scrounge around at yard sales and pick up little bits of tech for pennies on a dollar. Given a large number of yard sales and the fact that i was not born around here and haven't a clue where XYZ street is - i have been playing around with Google maps.

You know the drill scan in the classifieds - cut and paste the address into a Google and and save the resultant map in my maps- print and take it along. The kewlest part is to send the location to the Garmin and then use it to find places.

The shortcoming of all this is the map itself - it is designed to be used online - i need a way to letter or number the markers on the map so i can see which marker goes with which address. i found this code - now i have to get the home computer online so i can use it from a Hot Spot - or find a "free" place on the web to host it. Any ideas?

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/custom-controls/LatLaysFlat-Part3.aspx

Sun rocks-n-rolls a datacenter in a box...

Seems everybody (Sun, Microsoft, Google)  is putting a lot of servers in a shipping container and just stack and plug in in Lego fashion to get a data center.  Cheaper than building an expensive building, I guess. Lets talk about commodity data centers....LOL

Sun took one of their containers to a earthquake testing facility and subjected it to the same shaking as the Northridge earthquake.  Having been dead center on top of the epicenter, I can attest that it was quite an experience - I wish my apartment fared as well...

check out the video

Anyone have a spare container they want to get rid of??? Also about a 1000 motherboards???

I especially like the single voltage power supply and battery that Google uses...

RGB 7 segment display hack

Markus  hacked  a  7  segment display with some SMD RGB LEDs - the outcome is quite impressive.... <read more>

whatididwas

EBAY Warning!!! eBay killed my machine

I was surfing eBay with google chrome, and suddenly was presented with the red malware screen saying that if you continued you could harm you computer.  I dutifully aborted quite a few times. But there was a particularly tasty price on a pair of blue tooth headphones, so i said to myself, "Self what harm could there be?  I have the latest software both Norton and a mall ware checker", so I clicked.  Got a "Aw Snap" couldn't load the page and forgot about it.

Until I went to boot my machine this morning - it was complaining that there was no operating system and that it couldn't find NTLDR.  I freaked, yelled, screamed, pulled out my hair, and in general made a complete fool of myself.   I felt like I deserved it.  The computer had run perfectly for a year or more.  Thankfully i had a second computer sitting right next to the now dead one, and googled some suggestions. However non of them worked and I had to dig out the software recovery disks and restore the system loosing all the pictures, music, Arduino code, and other stuff I wont miss until I need them again.  Plus the fact that it took 5 hours to get the machine back to square one.

I know it was MalWare, because the MBR and boot software was missing, but all the partitions information, and the recovery partition was still there - just the system partition was "bad"

Oh well - stay away from eBay until they figure out how to mitigate this problem. It seems to not actually be eBay itself, but one of the third party software toolkit websites that help out eBay listings, pictures and stuff.  I feel real sorry for the people trying to make a few bucks.  Not all that sorry, but a little.

Favorite Software

===== note to self - put in links ==== in the mean time use google

Windows XP - for my main desktop - still my favorite
Ubuntu Desktop - in a bunch of vmware virtual machines
Vmware - lets me test lots of stuff
Drop Box - dead easy way to transfer stuff around among machines and vms
Search Everything - Lets me find things in a multi terabyte storage space
keypass - In my dropbox so i can keep track of logins
ccleaner - helps keep detritus from laying around -
notepad++ - general text and source editing
synergy - shares one keyboard and mouse across many machines
google chrome - almost my favorite web browser
Firefox / Thunderbird - favorite web and mail clients
portable apps - lots of little things that don't need to be installed - just the thing for a thumbdrive - or a new vm
Winamp - listen to music - shoutcast radio mostly
VideoLAN - Will play just about everything and what it can't I use Mediaplayer clasic
truecrypt - for all my portable drives - just in case they get lost
nomp - to get the stuff from newsgroups
quickpar- to make sure I got it from the newsgroups
winrar - to unpack stuff from the newsgroups
eraser - to get rid of stuff from the newsgroups

The nack