Intro
My additions are in the installation section. I was installing SHFS on Fedora Core 2 so I thought it might serve someone to have a little explanation of how to get it running quickly. The default installation instructions aren’t perfect if you’re installing on FC2.

I really like a good map. A GPS + Laptop is great, but nothing works like a piece of paper when the batteries go dead or your laptop falls into the lake. Unfortunately, finding high quality topo maps for free is a chore.<!–more–>
When I first started searching for topo maps all I was able to [...]

I was working on some code to process some GPS track logs and I wanted to be able to accurately calculate the distance between 2 points in the log. I did some searches, but there were no obvious solutions written in PHP. However, I did run across Chris Veness’ version in javascript. I worked through [...]

About 7 days after I brought it home I was checking my email with the computer on my lap when I heard a loud PING! cry out from behind the case. It certainly didn’t sound like a good noise, and the grinding that followed was even worse…