Kayak Bytes Finished up the bow and stern yesterday and the chines late last night. Tonight I’ll knock it all apart and finish up sanding a few rough spots before I start gluing it together. Hannah was disappointed to hear that I’d have to take it all apart again before I glue it. Just a [...]
Apache2 SSL and Subversion in Debian Debian Sarge comes with an apache2 package. I thought I’d give this a go to get it working with a self signed SSL certificate. However, I had little idea of what I was doing. Eventually I worked it out – and it’s easy: Handy howto on setting up Apache2, [...]
www.soundbombs.info Soundbombs are New-Media-Accessories. Each one a lowtech object for interactive transmission. An integrated soundmodul makes it possible to record any given sound and then activate it through a motiondetector. Interesting looking project. A couple of us at work have been contemplating how to make sound throwies but this could be fun too.
How-To: IR Remote Control your Computer – Engadget For today’s how-to we spent some time rummaging around in our parts box to build a serial IR remote interface for our PC. We took a few pieces from various designs to come up our own, built specifically to work with WinLirc or LIRC; it can transmit [...]
Subscribe in Google Reader To use, drag the URL to your bookmark toolbar. When you find a blog you’d like to subscribe to, hit the bookmark and it’ll take you to Google Reader and offer to subscribe to the feed (if Google can find one). Google Reader’s new search can find the rss feed when [...]
Is it me or does Sourceforge just suck lately? In the last 3 months it seems that half the time I’ve wanted to download something hosted by them I cannot connect. I’ve tried from home, both my web servers, and work and the connection times out from all locations. [update:] Now that I’ve complained about [...]