Sean’s Mental Walkabout

• TortoiseHg
  There finally looks to be a tortoise version for this. Make hg a lot easier to introduce to windows folks.
  (tags: development mercurial opensource windows scm hg tortoise)

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• SQLite CVSTrac
  Handy reference for SQLite time functions
  (tags: database programming reference sqlite time)
• IBM Puts Data Centre in OpenSim - SLOG
  More 3D Datacenter commentary
  (tags: opensim virtualworlds 3d-datacenter)
• Pranksters invade Starbucks with desktop computers - Engadget
  So much more fun thing to connect to the internet than an iPhone
  (tags: funny prank computer)

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• CLI Back-End and Front-End - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
  Interesting, gcc target for IL code (i.e. what runs on Mono)
  (tags: opensource cli mono)

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• Report: Sony Paid Warners’ $400 Million For Blu-ray Move : Dealerscope
  Apparently this is the way you “win” a format war.
  (tags: hddvd hdtv)

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• Virtual Worlds News: IBM Launches 3-D Data Center in OpenSim
  look ma… press!
  (tags: opensim ibm virtualworlds)

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• 3 things HD DVD coulda, shoulda done to be a contenda
  Pretty good analysis
  (tags: dvd hddvd)

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• [GUG] Fire tutorial
  How to make fire textures in GIMP
  (tags: tutorial gimp)
• Kevin Kelly — The Technium
  (tags: business economics internet free marketing web technology copyright)
• Backgroundrb
  very useful module for doing long running or time based tasks in rails
  (tags: background rubyonrails backgroundrb programming ruby rails development)

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The house monitoring project has made a little bit of progress, as I’ve now got data being collected into a rails app using backgroundrb, and can get that data back out into very pretty graphs with gruff.  (I also looked a little bit a sparklines, but that’s specifically for graphs without labels.)
 

We’re running above target temp as it’s the weekend, so the wood stove is on.  As is the furnace fan to spread the heat through the house.  I’m overloading the values for heat on an fan on to be either the bottom of the graph or a specific small value.  I need to sort out a better way to put that into the graph, which may require some hacking on gruff itself.

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• TaskFreak! web based task manager / todo list written in PHP
  pretty reasonably web todo list
  (tags: opensource programming web2.0 tools development todo productivity)

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I definitely don’t have this anywhere near I like it, but I did manage to just dump out a bunch of info from my thermostat and turn off the fan with this script:

I need some nicer symbolic constants for state setting, and pull together a rails site just to keep track of thermostat data over the course of the day.  All this code is going on my newly registered rubyforge project.

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