Dapper Drake is about to cross the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Hawaii. But we have mercy with the poor lad and will not let him paddle all the way, but instead take him aboard our sailing vessel Cirrus, which is one of the raceboats in the Pacific Cup, the "Fun race to Hawaii", starting on Monday, July 3rd.
In fact, we have made a nest for Dapper on our nav station, right below the short wave radio, radar, barometer, wind meter, satellite phone and other goodies, as you can see in the attached picture. We will feed him with data from the race, and let him quak us back some race performance news, hopefully good ones for us and bad for the competition! The software Cirrugator uses the locally installed Apache webserver, with PHP5, gd library, jpgraphs library extended with a Mercartor projection class (to allow plotting of charts useful for navigation), and sqlite as database for all the race information. All programmed using Quanta. This replaces a previous EXCEL installation for the same purposes, which got a bit unwieldy with the many races to cover.
During the race we will be posting daily from the boat directly to our blogsite http://cirrusblog.blogspot.com. The posting is done by email sent from the boat via shortwave radio. You are invited to join us in cyberspace as a virtual crewmember !
Aloha, Ulli
(Navigator on Cirrus)
P.S. I am not aware of anyone having ever used Linux - let alone Kubuntu Dapper - for offshore race purposes. Much needed software seems to be missing on Linux. Or am I wrong?
In fact, we have made a nest for Dapper on our nav station, right below the short wave radio, radar, barometer, wind meter, satellite phone and other goodies, as you can see in the attached picture. We will feed him with data from the race, and let him quak us back some race performance news, hopefully good ones for us and bad for the competition! The software Cirrugator uses the locally installed Apache webserver, with PHP5, gd library, jpgraphs library extended with a Mercartor projection class (to allow plotting of charts useful for navigation), and sqlite as database for all the race information. All programmed using Quanta. This replaces a previous EXCEL installation for the same purposes, which got a bit unwieldy with the many races to cover.
During the race we will be posting daily from the boat directly to our blogsite http://cirrusblog.blogspot.com. The posting is done by email sent from the boat via shortwave radio. You are invited to join us in cyberspace as a virtual crewmember !
Aloha, Ulli
(Navigator on Cirrus)
P.S. I am not aware of anyone having ever used Linux - let alone Kubuntu Dapper - for offshore race purposes. Much needed software seems to be missing on Linux. Or am I wrong?
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It seems that you are pioneer. Kudos and good luck!
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