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Test after move

All relocated and imported. Now does posting work?

Engines for metaphilter++

Django looks quite decent. Python (not PHP – good), built in basic admin, built in basic user accounts, and the template system is directly applicable to metaphilter. I’ll give it a try using sqlite 3.

Planet Planet Planet

Planet Planet Planet Mushrooms Mushrooms!

Automatic PC fan control

Use a Atmel ATTINY26 as a serial port based fan controller for a PC. Tracy’s machine is very noisy but has built in sensors for the CPU and case temperature. Use a PC app to do closed loop control on the temperature.

Infinite Power!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo_ooooooooooooooooooooooooo_!

Ratchet & Clank

Woo. All done. Reasonable length, very linear, and a bit…easy. Solution to the big bad: empty 200 blaster rounds for stage 1. Re-stock using the PDA. Empty 200 rounds for stage 2.

Wireless temperature cluster

For measuring the vertical temperature gradient cheaply at different stations across about a heactare of land. A heactare is 10000 m^2 or about 100×100 metres. You could use a set of 1-wire temperature sensors in a local cluster.

Power off on power button

Squishy, the Linux box, runs MythTV. It’s a bit tricky to turn off so it would be nice to have it turn off on pressing the power button. Turns out Ubuntu has everything there by default provided by acpi, acpid, and acpi-support.

Playing with ndiswrapper

Very impressed so far. Purchased a Dick Smith XH8227 802.11g USB network adapter as they were on closeout for a reasonable price. There are efforts to get a driver going natively using the prism54.

MonkeyFilter downtime

My web host took down my account due to a WordPress administration script taking up all of the CPU. For some reason four copies of the wp-admin/categories.php script were spinning pushing the load average above 20.