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Raspberry Pi Phillings
February-16, 2013 by: Phil Shapiro
From: Phil Shapiro ------------------------------------------------------ Hi chugalug community, I'm embarking on a project called Raspberry Pi Phillings to create a useful bootable Raspberry Pi memory card that I'll be selling for $20 within the next month or so. Some of the proceeds will go to families facing financial distress in Takoma Park, Maryland, the city where I work. I cannot stomach seeing more evictions. I don't have money to give these families, but I have the entrepreneurial tools, energy and skills to raise funds to relieve some of their financial stress. I could use some help from anyone who likes to make explanatory screencasts, writers, actors, musicians, cartoonists, videographers and Python programmers. Kindly contact me off-list if you're interested in having some involvement. No specific commitment of time is needed. phil -- Phil Shapiro, pshapiro@his.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens thru gentleness."
OT we discussed this before:All French Nuclear Reactors Deemed Unsafe
November-18, 2011 by: Rod-Lists
From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ I thought few of you would want to see it. "A new study by a French government agency, commissioned in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, found that all French nuclear power plants do not offer adequate safety when it comes to flooding, earthquakes, power outages, failure of the cooling systems and operational management of accidents. While there is no need for immediate shutdown, the agency presses for the problems to be fixed quickly. France gets about 80% of its power from nuclear energy and is a major exporter of nuclear technology." http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/17/us-france-nuclear-tests-idUSTRE7AG0HQ20111117
Energy Star or comparable
October-22, 2011 by: Steve Hollingsworth
From: Steve Hollingsworth ------------------------------------------------------ I'm volunteering some support for http://mountaincenters.org that is currently running servers about a dozen years old that are now unsurprisingly starting to have serious reliability problems. This is an outfit seriously strapped for money but it is also committed to be as green as possible. My finger-in-the-wind assessment is that Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers would be a decent match for specs and are available in acceptable configurations for
[OT] Reuses for slide projectors?
July-19, 2011 by: William Wade
From: William Wade ------------------------------------------------------ I have access to a few nice "newer" slide projectors (carrousel style) and wondering if anyone has any ideas on reusing these. Perhaps controlling them from Linux to do something cool? Google did not have any great ideas right off. I couldn't come up with anything more than an energy hog hand shadow show. Nice lenses, bulbs, remote controller. Ideas?
Security Camera DVR-*n*x
June-28, 2011 by: Chad Smith
From: Chad Smith ------------------------------------------------------ So one of the places I work got a security camera recently, and it's good for seeing who is coming in and out, but as of right now, it's just a live feed, there's no capture device. The facilities guy, who is a certified electricity knows very little about electronics. So he bought a DVD burner= . Which, you know, has huge drawbacks. So he decided he was going to get a hard drive for it. Which, when I heard that, I assumed he was getting a capture device to go with it. I even told him where to find a great deal a 2TB eSATA / USB drive. Which he ordered. And then asked me where to plug it up. Argh. So I told him he needed a DVR. He ordered another DVD burner. It said it records to DVD=B1R.... somehow that was the same thing as a DVR to him. Double Argh. So... I basically need to show him exactly what to get. I've found severa= l security camera DVRs online, but the vast majority of them come with their own cameras, which we don't need, and don't want to have to replace the existing one with. My question is, is it better to just plop down the $130 - $170 for a readymade solution, or use a PC, to keep it on topic, I am more than open t= o Linux based suggestions, as long as there is an ISO I can download and burn to install on the yet-to-exist system. I'd actually prefer Linux to Window= s if there was some sort of "Security Camer DVR-nux" distro that "just works"= . :) Requirements: It needs to work with an external hard drive (how would it not?) The captured video needs to be viewable on any computer, (Win/Mac/*n*x), so I can just unplug the USB drive from the capture box and stick it in a Windows PC and show it to whoever. The hardware / software cost needs to be under $90 to make it more appealing than a ready-made DVR. So if it can run on older existing hardware, that would be awesome. It would be awesome if I could access that drive from our internal network. but that's not a must-have I'm not sure what connection the video feed is actually using, but the box that plugs into our TV monitor spits out RCA cables. I don't think there is any audio, so that's not a requirement. Thanks! - Chad W Smith "I like a man who's middle name is W." - President George W. Bush - Februar= y 10, 2003 bit.ly/gwb-dubya
My Proposed bitcoin rig...
June-27, 2011 by: Phil Sieg
From: Phil Sieg ------------------------------------------------------ For what it is worth,I ordered some stuff last night to build my "miner" Using an old "agp" AMD board that has 5 PCI slots. Ordered PCI extender = cables, and PCI to PCIE adapters. Looking at 5 ATI HD 5830's (maybe best = bang for the buck). I am building a custom "open air case" similar = to:http://www.highspeedpc.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=3DCTGY&Category=
Cloud Computing (was Corporate BS generator)
March-03, 2011 by: Dan Lyke
From: Dan Lyke ------------------------------------------------------ On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 17:35:55 -0500 Jonathan Calloway wrote: > I think it needs to be updated. . . . I didn't see the word CLOUD! This morning I helped a neighbor set up Flowplayer on Wordpress. One of the things she was excited about using was Encoding.com Encoding.com provides two services: You upload your file to it (or run a service on your computer that uploads new files from a directory, or give it FTP information), and it converts that file to the formats you specify, and then gives you a URL to it. I'm not sure I totally get the whole business model, but it somehow conflates some scripts wrapped around ffmpeg (quite similar to http://www.petalumaopen.com/en/Video