Category: Geeking
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Moonrise
My time-lapse camera in the attic is still working, though I resorted to adding an auto reboot once a week, because the Raspberry Pi is not acting too stable. And even then, sometimes it hangs. I blame the power supply. Because it’s always the power supply, right? Anyway watching the sun’s track northward as spring…
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Here’s a nickle kid, get yourself a better TTY
You know you’ve been doing this too long when nothing in an article like this is new to you. The first TTY I ever saw and (maybe) used was a TI, like this one. The librarian at my junior high borrowed it and used it to connect into Lexis-Nexis or something. But the funny thing…
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IPv6 in Mont-la-ville!
When I got my Raspberry Pi up and running, I reactivated my AICCU tunnel to Sixxs.net. But then I remembered that two years ago when I last touched IPv6, Swisscom was running a beta test to do IPv6 in the home. So today I went looking to see if the test still existed and if…
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Live from Mont-la-ville
The last few days I’ve been working on a new home hacking project. The eventual plan is to create a panoramic time-lapse of sunrise as seen from my house each morning. We’ve got a wonderful view, and recording some of those beautiful morning colors as the sun comes up over the Alps should make them…
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How to get started blogging
The first step is to think of a really good name. Like Apertura! Then have your hubbie set up your blog. Then write stuff!
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Qz for Mobile Phones
I love Quartz. however, I find that the best time/place for me to read it is on the train during my commute. And Quartz’s overly clever and overly dynamic website hates my phone’s browser. So I made Mobile Quartz to help me read it. The front page has the current top articles from Quartz. Click…
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Making a time-lapse in Debian
Make a script like this called “save”. Make it executable. #!/bin/sh ct=0 if [ -f “ct” ]; then ct=`cat ct` fi ct=`expr $ct + 1` mv snap.jpg snap-$ct.jpg echo $ct > ct Run “uvccapture -x648 -y480 -c./save -t20” to take a photo every 20 seconds. Then you can use a script like this to continually…
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What I want: a Chrome plugin to report spelling errors
Here’s what I want to do: See an error on a web page Select it and right click In the popup, choose “report a spelling error”. Have a box come up with three fields and a pair of ok/cancel buttons. The three fields are “change from”, “change to”, and Twitter id. The “change from” and…