A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
This morning I was trying to print some maps in Kannada using Marble. Then to my surprise1 I found Philippines in English, which means there is no Kannada translation available. Then ran a simple query on Overpass to see the missing Kannada country names. The query prints the details in CSV format (separated...
For a while I have been using KDE Marble as my desktop map client. The project describes itself as “a virtual globe and world atlas — your swiss army knife for maps”. It can do a lot but I use it for my day today work like bookmarking areas, creating KML files etc....
One of the biggest challenge when you want to use ML in your project is training models using right data. It’ not super tough if you have enough data to build a model but most of the time when I want to quickly experiment, i don’t necessarily have the data for it, forget...
Table of Contents1 Standards2 Unicode CLDR and ICU projects3 Transliteration4 How to type Accents and Symbols5 Footnotes Wikipedia says Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus trans- + liter-) in predictable ways. For Kannada we usually use Latin letters to represent1...
Table of Contents1 System2 Install SQLite3 and Libreoffice Base3 Install UnixODBC4 Install SQLIte ODBC Driver5 Configure ODBC – Driver6 Configure databases to be used by ODBC – Data Source Name (DSN)7 Use your SQLite in Libreoffice Base7.1 Setup7.2 Create a Report8 Remember9 Footnotes I love SQLIte for its simplicity, portability and stability. Most...
Table of Contents1 Model- Zeroplus LAP Educator2 Software2.1 No Linux support yet3 Standard4 Protocol Analyzer Logic Analyzer is a good tool to have on your work bench. You read about my experiments with cheap knockoff last time. Now I have a Zeroplus LAP Educator1. It’s a 8 channel Logic Analyzer targeted at DIY...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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