Monthly Archives: April 2013

Bad Driving – Mercedes 1

I finally have had an opportunity to process my dashcam videos for this week and here’s one from Tuesday.

Mercedes drivers have a bad rep and this guy isn’t helping by first jumping 5 cars in the queue in front of him (including me), forcing cars going the other way to stop, and then jumping the red light at the roadworks.

The clock on this footage was one hour behind (it was actually 16:11, not 15:11)

It should be noted that I caught up with him about five minutes down the road where he got caught behind another queue of traffic. Moral of the story, don’t jump the queue. It’s not smart, it’s not cool, and just proves you are more of a dick than you already are…

MinutePhysics Maths Trolling (Adding Past Infinity) – YouTube

via MinutePhysics Maths Trolling (Adding Past Infinity) – YouTube.

 

The original video:

 

Snippet: Chromium Snapshot Download (Cygwin) (Updated 3rd April)

A snippet to download and run the latest build of the Chromium browser. Meant for Cygwin/Windows but can be adapted if needed.

If you need to use a proxy, set your http_proxy and https_proxy variables before using this.

Now updated to kill running Chrome/Chromium processes before running the installer (in case of locking issues). Also created a Bitbucket repo here for this script

if [ -f ./mini_installer.exe ]; then
  echo "WARNING: Previous script run did not clean up"
  rm ./mini_installer.exe
fi

if [ ! -f prev ]; then
  echo "No previous build logged"
  echo "-1" >prev
fi

if [[ `wget -q http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Win/LAST_CHANGE -O-` == `cat prev` ]]; then
  echo "No build change (`wget -q http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Win/LAST_CHANGE -O-` = `cat prev`)"
  exit 1
else
  echo "New build (previous: `cat prev`, new: `wget -q http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Win/LAST_CHANGE -O-`)"
fi
echo Downloading http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/`wget -q http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Win/LAST_CHANGE -O-`/mini_installer.exe
wget http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Win/`wget -q http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Win/LAST_CHANGE -O-`/mini_installer.exe

if [[ `ps -W | grep chrome | wc -l` != 0 ]]; then
  echo "`ps -W | grep chrome | wc -l` Chrome Processes Running. Attempting to Kill"
  for a in `ps -W | grep chrome | awk '{ print $1}'`
    do
      echo Killing PID $a
      /bin/kill -f $a #This is the cygwin kill, not the bash kill
    done
else
  echo "No Chrome Processes Running"
fiecho "Running installer"
chmod +x ./mini_installer.exe
./mini_installer.exe
echo Done
wget -q http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Win/LAST_CHANGE -O prev
echo "New build recorded (`cat prev`)"
rm ./mini_installer.exe