Category Archives: Tutorial
Yet Another Wifi Radio
I find MightyOhm’s WiFi radio project really inspirational. It uses an Asus WL-520gu router, Arduino and a usb audio adapter to create a very low power consumption WiFi radio. It also makes use of small, yet powerful, open source software … Continue reading
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Tagged lcd, lcdproc, smartie
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Direct ATA to ATA Calling With The PAP2T-NA
As mentioned in my previous post, I have not abandoned plain old telephone service. It is very well engineered and integrates well with 911 service. There are, however, advantages to the flexibility of adding voip to your choices. My preferred … Continue reading
Enable Sure Electronics Driver in LCDproc
I purchased an LCDSmartie usb lcd display board from ebay to use with LCDproc and was relieved to find instructions for downloading LCDproc from cvs and enabling the driver here: http://lodge.glasgownet.com/2009/12/22/suresmartie-lcdproc/ See the above link for step by step instructions. … Continue reading
Ubuntu Manual Project
Kudos to the Ubuntu Manual Project team. Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 is a great introduction (refresher) to the newest version of Ubuntu. It has been translated to many languages and has been released with a creative commons license so … Continue reading
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Tweaking Karmic on emachines D620
My Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) install on an emachines D620 yielded default video at 1024×768 with the Vesa driver. The notebook is capable of 1280×800 and the open source Radeon driver has been improving support for the RS690M (ATI 1200 … Continue reading
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Tagged d620, emachines, rs690m, xorg
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PXE Boot With Tomato
In an effort to consolidate some of the machines at home I have switched from using a 386 based pc with IPCop as the main router to using Tomato Firmware on the Linksys WRT54G(L) wireless router. The Tomato firmware is … Continue reading
Your Pictures in XScreensaver
It isn’t obvious how to get XScreensaver to use the image directory of your choice in many distributions. Distort, Flipscreen3d, GLSlideshow, MirrorBlob, Slidescreen and perhaps others can be controlled by using your favourite editor and creating a file in your … Continue reading
Denying Outbound Calls with Trixbox (formerly Asterisk@Home)
I am not trying to be mean (BOFH), there are sometimes good reasons for blocking outgoing calls. Especially when you are paying the phone bill. When I worked for a hotel the telecom consultants had a long list of dialing … Continue reading
