Trac for fanctrl enabled

Posted by coldtobi | 5 Apr, 2009, 13:34

fanctrl now uses Trac for tracking defects (bugs), tasks and enhancement request. 

So feel free to file any bugs, wishes, patches etc...

Of course, you can still comment in this blog for 

http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/fanctrl/

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ScribeFire Inserts Zemanta Web Bug

Posted by coldtobi | 28 Mar, 2009, 20:20

I'm using the firefox extension "ScribeFire" for Firefox. It is a convenient blogging editor allowing me to prepare articles also when offline. But currently I'm a little pissed. 

By coincident, I checked the generated html source and found that the plugin inserts the  following "web bug" in each and every post:

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Vote For Earth and Dim the lights tonight

Posted by coldtobi | 28 Mar, 2009, 17:29

Global Warming, Climate Change and Preserving Energy are for sure one of most important topics for our and next generations.

At least if we care for the place we live in.

To underline the importance, the WWF announced a Earth Hour today: At 8:30 pm, turn off all lights that are not ultimatly needed for just one to express that you care.

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Controlling Thecus's fan

Posted by coldtobi | 7 Mar, 2009, 15:58

Some time ago, I wrote a C-program for controlling the Fan inside the Thecus N2100.
The reason for this is, that the current solutions found on the web are not suitable for me. As an example, it keeps the hard-drives awake.

As this program might be interested for other Thecus users too, I decided to release it to the public.

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Getting the (source-forge) git repository of fanctrl

Posted by coldtobi | 6 Mar, 2009, 06:04

To get a git-based source-forge project like fanctrl do:

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RapRep -- Self replicating machine

Posted by coldtobi | 22 Feb, 2009, 13:17

A friend pointed me to an interesting (hardware) project: RepRap.

To quote the website:

A universal constructor is a machine that can replicate itself and - in addition - make other industrial products. Such a machine would have a number of interesting characteristics, such as being subject to Darwinian evolution, increasing in number exponentially, and being extremely low-cost.

A rapid prototyper is a machine that can manufacture objects directly (usually, though not necessarily, in plastic) under the control of a computer.

The RepRap project is working towards creating a universal constructor by using rapid prototyping, and then giving the results away free under the GNU General Public Licence to allow other investigators to work on the same idea. We are trying to prove the hypothesis: Rapid prototyping and direct writing technologies are sufficiently versatile to allow them to be used to make a von Neumann Universal Constructor.

All good projects have a slogan, and the best have a slogan that reeks of hubris. RepRap is no exception. Our slogan is:

"Wealth without money..."

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Manually upgrading horde3 on debian

Posted by coldtobi | 19 Feb, 2009, 00:15 Debian is currently in freeze. (As finishing this, debian just released Lenny!) As a consequence many packages are quite outdated.

For example, the horde framework I use on my NAS is quite old and misses some features I'd like to have.

However, there are some pitfalls when using the debian version and trying to update with the upstream version, as the "debian way" stores some files at different locations, which is ok.
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