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Posted 02-18-2011 at 03:09 AM by peonuser
Updated 02-20-2011 at 01:00 PM by peonuser

Replaced dovecot with courier and my private email server seems to work better than before.

Still have to address some problems with sql-ledger, but I have some notes as to what to do.

Ubuntu is beginning to upset me again. I went to "connect to server" and there were no options. There were before I upgraded. Why was that not included as part of the upgrade. I am tired of fixing mickey mouse stuff on ubuntu. Oh that's right Mark Shuttleworth is a mac user....
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A blurb for today.

Posted 02-16-2011 at 09:16 AM by peonuser

Still using my Chumby like a touchpad. It did not come with an external battery. I bought a non-working rc car at Goodwill for a couple of bucks. I can use the parts for other things, but it had an 8 AA cell battery compartment. With a little surgery and a few electronics, I can make a nice compact external battery holder that I can attach to the back of the unit. Original article:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Cheap-touchpad/

Speaking of instructables, I would like to thank...
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More toys from old computers.

Posted 02-09-2011 at 08:32 AM by peonuser
Updated 02-09-2011 at 05:50 PM by peonuser

So glad to get my mythtv (home made DVR) server back up and in use. Still have some tweaks to do. Do not have any of the commercial video providers, but do have over the air tv. Lucky enough to have over 50 stations where I live. Lot of them are in Spanish or a host of oriental languages. Sometimes I will just turn off the sound and pretend to lip read what is said on movies I have seen enough times. Have more fun capturing snapshots for using in cartoons than saving any video.
Pardon the...
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Make it last.

Posted 02-07-2011 at 08:24 AM by peonuser

Don't throw away that old router yet (especially if it has dd-wrt or the like). The reason why I say that it allows you to set up an intranet (private network). Why would you need such a thing. Say you want to set up several computers, but did not want the network traffic to hit your internet network and slow it down. For example a gaming network. We are now using an intranet for the home automation network. The real world does not need to see or have access to what we are up to either.
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SB time.

Posted 02-05-2011 at 10:27 PM by peonuser
Updated 02-05-2011 at 10:30 PM by peonuser

My brother wants me to come over and watch the super bowl with him. He says he has something super for me. He sometimes has ulterior motives. Why do I feel like a mouse about to try to get the cheese from a trap? I do want to watch it on his new bigggg tv.

Took a spare p3 and built a web server to use with the web browserized Insignia Infocast (aka the Chumby). I nicknamed it the Poor-man's Ipad. Found some code that allows for an on screen keyboard for pages that are accessed....
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