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Wednesday, September 08 2010 @ 04:25 PM CDT

Network/Wireless Printing Turned Up

Thursday, June 05 2008 @ 05:32 AM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 350

I've been happily using an Unslung (to disk) NSLU2 for almost a year now. The NAS has a 120GB plugged into the Disk2 port. Having fully integrated my new MacBook Pro into my life, I wanted to leverage portability w/ wireless printing. Plugging my hp970Cse into Disk1 port and installing the cups ipkg worked perfectly, with only minimal pain.

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New Mac Book Pro

Monday, November 05 2007 @ 09:24 PM CST
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 331

I just took delivery on my new 15in. Mac Book Pro, WOW! It came w/ Tiger installed and am about ready to install Lepoard that came in the package. One of my first impressions is that this Safari really renders fast! This is really a neat box. I'm looking forward to learning how to take advantage of it...

Developing.....

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WRT54GL

Tuesday, September 11 2007 @ 03:54 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
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Over the past few months, I been toying with a WRT54GL. Even with it's vanilla firmware, I preferred it's interface and functionality over my Netgear WGT624. Then I tried: dd-WRT, Coova, Tomato and finally OpenWRT/X-Wrt. OpenWRT/X-Wrt is where it is at as far as I'm concerned. Even though I'm running only Whiterussian-0.9, (Kamikazie/X-Wrt does not seem to be fully cooked yet), having virtually everything in the router available via a clean browser interface is great on top of rock solid performance.

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Update on RoR App

Friday, October 13 2006 @ 06:55 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
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I've been able to steal a little time away from winterizing the farm to improve the Insulin Dependent Management Capture app I'm writing as a venue to learn some Rails. It works so well that I have abandoned my spreadsheet app and plotting, for the new Rails app.

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Ruby on Rails

Monday, August 21 2006 @ 02:54 AM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
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Yesterday, I learned some of the fundamentals of Ruby. Today, built my first RoR web app. Not pretty to look at but, fully functional logic and view. Actually I had very little to do with it except set up the database. Pretty easy to see what all the excitement over RoR is about.

Now comes the hard part: Pretty views and more sophisticated controllers. Using the beast and fine tuning the schema will help outline the work ahead.

It's a simple app that provides a facility to input events in the management of an insulin dependent diabetic regime. For now I'm calling it: Insulin Dependent Metrics or IDM. Pretty dull name. Being web accessible, I can use it at the various computers around the farm and on the road for that matter. I am particularly interested in making up to date personal diabetic metrics available to my diabetic care giver.

I plan on iterating towards facility for report generation with a selection of table and graphical representations of the data.

Developing .....

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Update: More Workstation Tweaks

Monday, June 26 2006 @ 05:28 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 284

Turned up Opera 9 on the FreeBSD HotBox. For me, far moh betta than Firefox..

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Update: Workstation Config

Thursday, June 22 2006 @ 08:27 AM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 314

The last few days, I've made several changes to the workstation config, with three resulting in having to re-install :^).

Most issues are flushed out and now happy to just enjoy my FreeBSD/amd64 box.

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Drumroll: ........ Ta Da!

Sunday, June 18 2006 @ 03:29 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
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It's done. Microsoft is outta here ... toast ... no more Microsoft !!

Yesterday I nuked the instance of XP, running on my Athlon 64 box, and turned up an i386 FreeBSD 6.1 install.

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Workstation Problems

Tuesday, May 23 2006 @ 04:59 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
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I took a little time to play with Wikies on the FreeBSD box and ran into frustrating problems with crashes and 'internal compiler errors'. I have a brand new install of 6.1 on the box and figured that there may be issues w/ the OS. Begin the WitchHunt:

Moved back to 6.0 and loaded the system down, crash! Hmmm, checked the lists and sure 'nuf, no issues.

Built a MEMTEST86-3.2 disk and started checking my RAM modules. I'm using 100ns 128mB sticks on the old Abit 440-BX6. Since the CPU is only a 450mHz PII, I decided to test the sticks one at a time in the first bank (of 4), in hopes of cashing in on finding an error sooner. Welp, no joy. Two days later, all ram tested just fine.

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WikkaWiki

Sunday, April 30 2006 @ 02:52 PM CDT
Contributed by: w7net
Views: 335

While browsing around, I ran into WikkaWiki, a fork off the WakkaWiki code. Wow, really simple, at least on the surface. The goals set by the development group: flexible, standards-compliant and lightweight are appealing to me and I need to learn something about Wiki engines. Zo, I turned up the latest stable release 1.1.6.1, on my FreeBSD box....

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