CMS-2000 Inverter

We have a CMS 2000 inverter, and thanks to Jinba's script posted on one of the solar forums, I've modified it to log the output.

Please find attached a copy of the source code. You will need perl and rrdtool for this to work. 

Realtek RTL8188SU on SheevaPlug

I've recently bought a SheevaPlug low power computer and a Realtek RTL8188SU Wireless N USB adapter.

The SheevaPlug is unlike regular PCs based on the i386, it is actually an ARM platform. With Ubuntu no longer supporting ARM platforms, I've decided to try to use Debian. After installing Debian, I soon realised that the Realtek isn't supported.

Rotating Backgrounds in Ubuntu

In Ubuntu 9.10, it includes a rotating cosmos background which automatically rotates through a collection of pictures from space. It also includes a number of really nice background. So I thought, wouldn't it be nice to have Ubuntu automatically rotate through all the background images...

Open Office 3.1 is out!

Data Recovery

Recently, I had to help a missionary in a remote area of Papua New Guinea retrieve data from their failed hard drive. Unfortunately, their backup wasn't so up to date, so they may loose up to a year's worth of culture and language acquisition data.

GhostPCL for Windows

As you may know, Artifax has released GhostPCL under GPL2 license. GhostPCL allows users to convert a PCL file to PDF or other formats. After searching the web, I couldn't find any executables for it. So decided to build it from source. The version I built was 1.54, the source is available from the Artifax website.

A Sad Week for America and the World

It is a historic moment for America and the world - the first black American to be sworn in as the president of the United States of America. Yet, this historic moment is overshadowed by one of the first act of the new president - overturning the ban to use American aid to fund the murder of innocent babies in the name of family planning and women choice.

Phone-driving

MIDI in Intrepid

Ubuntu now can play Midi files directly using the media player, and can even preview MIDIs by hovering the mouse over a MIDI file in Nautilus. This is done implemented using wildmidi.

Plumes and Arrows: Inside New Guinea

Plumes and ArrowsAuthor: Simpson, Colin
Publisher: Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1962

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