I have used 1-wire temperature sensors (DS18S20) around my house for a few years now. Just recently the home made serial port adapter stopped working and I thought I'd look into replacing it with Arduino. There was already 1-wire library and dallas… more »

Mozilla reviewed Reset Kiosk plugin and requested minor changes which have been implemented in this new version. I had 2 'loose' variables which could potentially cause conflicts with other plugins if they also had the same problem, and used same variab… more »

I went and installed a new machine to control the lobby touchscreen. On the previous installation a few years ago I had to heavily patch kernel modules to support this touchscreen. Now it works almost out of the box. X.Org X Server 1.7.6, kernel 2.6.32… more »

Here's what the Audio & Video part of the house looks like now (click to enlarge) There are 3 places in the house where we listen to music, theatre room, living room and sauna. Living room has it's own equipment. Theatre equipment handles t… more »

It still works ;). Did some extra watchdog scripts to catch any possible errors that may happen. Now if VDR gets hung without internal watchdog catching it and if process doesn't die it is detected by a watchdog which tries to periodically access svdrp.… more »

It works! It works! No major problems since the new setup was implemented. The boot time for the ubuntu box is now reasonable, I removed all unnecessary bullcrap from init. One interesting point is that my NFS shares (music, movies) has to be mounted… more »

AirStars arrived today - Now this is getting a bit more complicated. I have now a server linux box (gentoo) running necessary software for it to serve as pxe boot server (dhcp, tftp, nfs). This same server also has 2 DVB-T cards (AirStar2) and runs V… more »