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...
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- 2002 5
2022
DIY Level 2 EV Charger Build
How I built my own EV charger using off-the-shelf components.
2020
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...
2016
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...
2015
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.
2014
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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...
2009
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) ...
2008
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...
2007
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 ...
2006
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...
2005
.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:
2004
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
2003
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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...