One of our cats, Schizoid, is very sick. It started two weeks ago when he stopped eating and drinking, and got in very bad shape before we got him to the vet. It happened very quickly. He knew he was skinny but he was acting normal so we didn’t …
Java is failing for me while running Ubuntu Hardy. This seems to be because java6 (and java5?) rely on some locking in the XCB library which is not allowed in the new XCB library shipped with hardy. This is fixed in java7, but until that is available as a 32-bit …
PowerNowD v1.00 is released out into the wild. This marks the last release of the software. If others want to take it further, they may do so with my blessing. But since the ‘ondemand’ kernel governor is now working pretty reliably, that seems to be the wave of the …
Well, it finally works. For a while, anyway. I built a simple train garden with a loop around the outside and a windy piece of track that went through the center of a very sparse town. I eventually used photoresistors, two bright white LEDs shining at them, and the basic …
The holidays went quite well here. Spent the first part visiting family, and having a great time, had to work part of the week, Saw Vince and Kristina on Friday, and then took a trip out to Deep Creek lake with some of my college friends and spent New Years …
Over the past several years I’ve tried started to write blogs three times now, and each time it’s lasted maybe a month or so and then stopped. Maybe this time will be different now that I have a more permanent server. deater.net is a great static web …
Karma is coming back to eat my dogmafood.
In 1998, I took a course at RPI called Introduction to Engineering Design. It’s the big engineering project course, where they take teams of engineering students of different types (chemical, mechanical, computer, electrical, etc..), give them a problem and a budget …
So the STAMP has a bad pin on it but I managed to solder it back together, so that works. After building another serial cable from scratch I was able to get the STAMP to work under Linux using the BStamp project. Using the STAMP and a RadioShack IR emitter …
Well, Katy wants a static front page, and wants her own blog. That wouldn’t be possible with WebFaction unless we upgraded our service. Except that as of a few days ago, Webfaction just upped their service for everyone, so now everyon has ‘unlimited’ applications (within disk space limits). This …
So I’ve decided to take on a somewhat more ambitious project than I probably should this Christmas season. Now that we have a house, I’m putting up a train garden again. Those who know me will know that I’ve done one off and on over the years …