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Convert from pdf to ppng

Make sure sips (scriptable image processing system) is installed - usually by default. Only wiorks on first page of pdf Replace png with jpeg to use that format

sips -s format png your_pdf_file.pdf --out your_png_file.png

IC-7300 digital modes/FT8 setup

WSJT-X Radio tab

Serial Port: /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART
Baud Rate: 115200
Data Bits: Eight
Stop Bits: Two
Handshake: None

Brisbane Police Helicopter

What is the helicopter's registration?

VH-NVK typically on squawk code 0042

What model is the helicopter?

It is a Eurocopter BO-105.

Color codes for TFT screens with software to convert 24 bit color codes to 16bit one and viceversa

Timezone list

The 'Converted timestamp' column shows the time for Unix timestamp 1616239800 (Mar 20 2021 11:30:00 UTC/GMT).

Daylight Saving Times (DST)

To convert from normal/standard time to daylight saving time add 1 hour ( or +3600 seconds ). For example: Eastern Standard Time = GMT-5, add 1 hour: Eastern Daylight Time = GMT-4

Region (time zone)	Converted timestamp 1616239800	Relative to UTC/GMT	Date in DST	Offset In seconds
Africa

awesome-himawari8

This is a collection of a bunch of implementations of himawari8 live earth desktop in many languages.

The weather satellite Himawari8 posts its view of earth in every ten minutes. Therefore it is often used by the community to build live earth desktop scripts on. It is intersting to see how every implement the script in their favorite language. Also by comparing these scripts, similarities and differences between language can be found.

Among the list not only are there languages normally used for such task like Python and Ruby, but also Java, Haskel, Go, C#, Javascript(CoffesSript) and even Matlab.

Python

title

	#!/usr/bin/python
	from imgurpython import ImgurClient
	client_id = 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID'
	client_secret = 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET'

	from PIL import Image
	from creds import *
	import PIL
	from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
	from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate, Paragraph, Image, Spacer, PageBreak

	Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
	MsgBox ConvertToKey(WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId"))

	Function ConvertToKey(Key)
	Const KeyOffset = 52
	i = 28
	Chars = "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789"
	Do
	Cur = 0
	x = 14

	//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~//
	// Bit manipulation macros //
	//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~//

	//Extract bytes from integers, floats & doubles
	#define Lo(param) ((char *)&param)[0] //0x000y
	#define Hi(param) ((char *)&param)[1] //0x00y0
	#define Higher(param) ((char *)&param)[2] //0x0y00
	#define Highest(param) ((char *)&param)[3] //0xy000