I’ve been interested in having small weather station for my house - so I know exactly what the weather at my house would be. At first, the big turnoff was the cost of the pre-packaged solutions, which are an uneconomical “all-or-nothing” approach. After digging into it a bit more, I found something cool - I found 1-Wire weather stations. Read More...

Tags: Sensors, Linux, Computing, Home

I’ve recently moved to a new home; one of the consequences is the shift of utilities such as power, gas, water, and the topic of this post: phone. Being a Linux using geek, I’ve long been aware of Asterisk, but never really looked into it until lately. What I found was fun, useful, and economical. Read More...

Tags: VoIP, Linux

I’ve been using virtualization on Linux for the better part of a decade now. I’ve tried about everything available too - VMware, Xen, KVM, UML, VirtuaBox, and more. I’ve got some preferences, and I’ve learned that a lot of the decision process depends on how you’re going to be using it. Read More...

Tags: Linux, Virtualization

Given the many cloud-sync services available, I wanted something I could sync over the cloud, but be secure - not “secure” if you decide to trust the service provider, but “secure” as in “good luck, NSA.” Read More...

Tags: Computing, Macintosh