IP Mutton: a clean, ad-free IP checker
Why I built a fast, private, ad-free IP page with a clean JSON API.
About me
I have had this website in one form or another since 1995 when the World Wide Web was still in its infancy. This blog is mainly used to post random tidbits about my projects and travels. Enjoy!
My given name spelled in various languages
सुमित Сумит – 苏 密 特 – ﺱﻮﻤﻴﺗ – Σουμιτ – 쑤미트
Recent posts
блог на русском языке
Всем привет и добро пожаловать в мой блог на русском языке. Я пишу это для практики. Я начал изучать русский язык год назад. Люди часто спрашивают меня - поч...
DIY Level 2 EV Charger Build
How I built my own EV charger using off-the-shelf components.
How I Tamed My Swimming Pool
One of the joys of living is Florida is having a swimming pool in the backyard. All that sunshine, warm weather is perfect for water activities. Or so I thou...
Home Automation Philosophy
In order to build a reliable and long-lasting system, I try to follow these rules:
My Pool Control Panel
This blog post describes my PLC-based pool controller panel. It is a complete replacement of the existing electrical panel. I built this as a learning-exp...
Using PLC for Home Automation
This post is not meant to teach you what a PLC is. If you are unfamiliar with it, I suggest you make a quick read of the following before returning to th...
Evolution of the Home Server
Ever since broadband became available (around 1998), I have always run a general purpose Linux home server. I have used it as a router, a file server and to ...
OpenSIPS #3: Basic Accounting
With any phone system, you want to log the calls and certain details related to each call. You may do this to perform billing or generate reports of some kin...
OpenSIPS #2: Connecting to PSTN
Note: updated for OpenSIPS 2.2 (long term support) on May 10th, 2017.
OpenSIPS #1: A Basic Script
Note: updated for OpenSIPS 2.2 (long term support) on May 10th, 2017.
Windows vs. Linux
One of the great philosophical wars of our times - Windows vs. Linux
Describing Video
A brief write-up of various parameters used for describing video formats.
My Green Initiative
The steps I have taken to reduce my energy consumption and environmental footprint
Zzz..
A windows DLL to capture Idle Time and put computer to sleep
TV Viewer
A simple windows program for watching TV with a tuner
Tiger Mapping and Routing Server
An open-source map-drawing engine written in C, uses TIGER street data
StereoLights.class
A Java applet for simulate graphic EQ of a stereo.
Split Window using Win32 API
Sample code to show how split windows are programmed using Win32 API in C.
Quick Phone
My first win32 application written in C. A simple phonebook.
PingMaster
An application for monitoring server availability.
OB-1
A multicast IM tool
Network Utilities
Super-tiny programs for traceroute, mailcheck, DNS loookup
Network Spy 2.0
A network capture and protocol analysis program for Windows.
Internet Maniac
A collection of network utilities including ping, traceroute, whois, DNS and scanner
MailCheck
A tiny utility to periodically check your email inbox for new messages
ListCD
An audio CD player for Windows
Image Processing II
Assignments for Digital Image Processing (CAP 5400) class at USF. Includes smoothing techniques, histogram equialization, high-pass and low-pass filters, edg...
Image Processing I
Assignments for Digital Image Processing (CIS 4930) class at USF. Includes filters, histograms, smoothing, edge thinning and linking and volume visualization.
ImageButton Applet
A Java applet for simulate a button with icon animation and sound.
idletime.dll
A Windows DLL to monitor how long the keyboard and mouse have not been touched.
PHP/MySQL Guestbook
A simple, accessible and XHTML compliant guestbook script.
Computer Graphics
Class project for Introduction to Computer Graphics class at USF. An implementation of basic 2D and 3D operation primitives in C.
Fileseeker
Scan for Windows shares on your local and remote networks.
Computational Geometry
Class project for Computational Geometry class at USF.
Carnet v1.4
A fancy phone book programmed in Visual Basic 4.0
The Tricorder Project
It has always been my dream to have an universal sensing device much like what is seen in the Star Trek world. It is essentially a high-tech swiss-army knif...
Progress
Progress Report
Mobilerobot
Mobile Robot
Home Controller
Description of my home Linux server used for internet access, file/print serving, media server, phones etc.
My Home Automation Setup
Updates of construction of my car PC
Home Automation (Sensor Data)
List of my personal projects including home Linux server, structured wiring, astronomy etc.
Experiments with Electronics
My dabblings with electronics bagan at a very young age. I started building circuits by taking plans from magazines when I was in sixth grade. Needless t...
Space: the final frontier
My fascination with space and astronomy
12 06 2002
Minimal Linux System
Favorite Quotes
List of my favorite quotes
Favorite Movies
List of my favorite movies
Favorite links
Links of my favorite sites and friends
Favorite Engineering
Feats of engineering which amaze me
How to build a scalable, caching, resizing image server
Building the next big thing on the web? It is never a good idea to serve your static files, i.e. style sheets, javascripts and images, from your main applic...
Low Power Media Center
Until now I have needed two devices for my server needs at home. One to serve as a general purpose router, phone, web and file server (Dell PowerEdge SC420) ...
Recording of my desktop
Here is a recording of my desktop running Ubuntu. Notice how much cooler it is than yours (if you run Windows) :). Apart from eye-candy, the UI is extremely ...
Coat Hanger Antenna
I decided to build a coat-hanger antenna last weekend. It required 6 coat hangers, one long block of wood, screws/washers and a balun (UHF/VHF converter). Th...
The Beauty of Fiber Optics
After much waiting, Verizon finally decided to lay down fiber optic cables in my neighborhood. Last night, the final connection was made when my FiOS service...
Structured Wiring
Installation of ethernet and coax infrastructure in my house
Zoom 5001 PCI Cable Modem
Zoom 5001 is a DOCSIS compliant internal cable modem which is not in production any more. There hasn’t been a replacement product. It appears as though peopl...
A New Guestbook
Check out my new PHP/MySQL Guestbook script. It is fairly simple and took just a few hours to program. My next task is to migrate all my old entries into the...
I have given Cable TV the Boot!
Out of boredom, I decided to hook up a piece of wire to act as an antenna for my upstairs TV. And behold, I was receiving all local High Definition channels ...
Gumstix/Audiostix2 interface to LCD
Gumstix is a very neat, hobbyist-friendly embedded computer which runs Linux. It is about the size of a stick of gum (hence the name) and has a strong commun...
.Net on Linux (Fedora Core 2)
Introduction
New CarPC Video Posted
Demo of a computer I built for my car in the early 2000’s. It ran on a Single Board Computer (SBC) running at 233MHz. I created a tiny embedded distribut...
New server: Dell PowerEdge SC420
On January 28, I received my new server from Dell. Here are the main features of this machine:
Trip to Argentina
It has been a while since I posted anything on this website. A lot of things have happened since the last entry including a trip to Argentina and the MobileC...
Trip to the zoo
Spent the morning at Lowry Park Zoo. The weather was in the 70s and there were very few people at the zoo. It was the perfect outing.
Death of an iPod
What better to do in a leap year and in a leap day than to take apart an iPod. My friend Bernie graciously donated this device for the sake of science and th...
Malfunction Junction Photos
Took a drive down to the infamous malfunction junction to take pictures of the construction work. This repair will fix the major traffic bottleneck at the ju...
TMRS v0.0.1 Released
Actual screenshot from working prototype
Sun’n’Fun 2002
Or you could call it ‘too much sun’ n fun! The City of Lakeland hosts this annual event where people from all over the country fly in. There are air-shows, e...
Review of Canon D30 Digital SLR
I have finally obtained a digital SLR camera after much thought. It is a canon D30 and it appears to offer some impressive possibilities. I have already tak...