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Between slashdot, MAKE magazine, my coworkers, and the boy, I just wish I didn’t need to sleep.

1st official release of my home automation software: cloverleaf

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

I had some time to kill this evening while waiting on a flight and decided that I may as well show the world my terrible code. Introducing cloverleaf version 0.3 aka “gort”. Rather than go down the long list of Continue reading 1st official release of my home automation software: cloverleaf→

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Open source home automation, now with *ruby*

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Brandon — 1 Comment ↓

I started some work on a new project over the weekend. I had been fiddling with misterhouse for a bit, gotten a few things to work, joined the mailing list, asked a few questions, tried to answer a few, and Continue reading Open source home automation, now with *ruby*→

Posted in Projects | Tagged cloveleaf, home automation | 1 Reply

$49 Cubieboard is a raspberry pi competitor.

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

The $49 Cubieboard is a slightly more expensive, but better suited for duty as an HTPC option to the raspberry pi. It even has an IR receiver built in. Specifications below. 1G ARM cortex-A8 processor, NEON, VFPv3, 512KB L2 cache Continue reading $49 Cubieboard is a raspberry pi competitor.→

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twitter <--> wordpress

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Brandon — 1 Comment ↓

I remembered that I had a twitter account when I got some more follow requests the other day. I set up tweetie on my devices, and sent off some tweets to make sure all was well. You can follow me Continue reading twitter <--> wordpress→

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dacrib.net migration

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

I migrated dacrib.net from a shared hosting instance provided by a friend at hostrocket, to a xen instance on linode.com today. So far so good. Things left to do: 1. set up a cron for offsite backups to somewhere else Continue reading dacrib.net migration→

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HeatSync Mini-Client 2500

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Brandon — 11 Comments ↓

HeatSync Mini-Client 2500. This is it folks. This is the case that  we have been waiting for to build the HTPC of the next five years. There are no negatives here. It is completely fanless (read silent), yet can handle Continue reading HeatSync Mini-Client 2500→

Posted in Home, Projects | Tagged HTPC mythtv xbmc | 11 Replies

ZFS in practice – installation under ubuntu

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

1. vim /etc/apt/source.list.d/zfs-fuse.list add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/brcha/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/brcha/ubuntu intrepid main 2. update sudo apt-get update 3. install it sudo apt-get install zfs-fuse 4. Enjoy

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ZFS in practice – verifying transparent compression –

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Brandon — 1 Comment ↓

I had read about the transparent compression that zfs offers. I wanted to verify it so I did, and sent my results off. As we all know no experiment is valid unless verifiable. I wanted be sure that the transparent Continue reading ZFS in practice – verifying transparent compression –→

Posted in Linux, OS X, Projects, Work | 1 Reply

Stateless Linux How To:

Posted on June 8, 2008 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

Stateless Linux sounds like a great idea for those of us that have many systems with similar configurations to manage. If you have never heard of the idea RTFM. I have stateless linux almost working here at my house. Here Continue reading Stateless Linux How To:→

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Who needs an ipkvm?

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

I figured out how to remotely power cycle the two poweredge 850’s I have remotely. I used dells ipmitool rpms and a little help from the internet. 1. Install the rpms 2. load the needed modules modprobe ipmi_si modprobe ipmi_devintf Continue reading Who needs an ipkvm?→

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