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Welcome to SifWiki
Having had various website incarnations over the years, I've found that every-time I do the inevitable re-design I ended up pruning content because I couldn't be bothered to reformat it. This Wiki will hopefully become a central repository for documentation that I create as I do various Geeky and pointless things with Linux, Home Automation, Electronics and random other subjects.Everything here is provided as-is and totally without warranty that the information is Sane, Sensible or Safe. If you're not sure about fiddling with your mains voltage appliances or compiling your kernel from scratch, the information herein is probably a bit too rough and ready for you - I tend to assume a fairly high level of knowledge and skip over various basic aspects of what I do. That said, I hope the following is of use or at least inspires someone to do something funky. Have fun.
Home Automation (HA)
- Linux Controlled Central Heating - Basic central heating control switches seem to be over 50quid even with only basic on/off settings and very limited temperature based controlling. I decided to control mine via a cheap Linux box and some basic serial controlled relay boards.
- Temperature Acquisition - How to get temperature data from DS1820's into your Linux machine.
- Serial Relay Control - Controlling external relays from Linux using PHP.
- External Sensors in Linux - Sensing the state of external inputs using a Serial IO box and PHP scripts under Linux.
- Doorbell Monitoring - Sensing when your doorbell is rang using a Serial IO box, wireless doorbell and some PHP under Linux.
Nokia N80 Related
- Nokia N80 Vs Sony Ericsson S700i - Review of the Nokia N80 comparing it mainly to the Sony Ericsson S700i
- Apple iSync and the N80 - iSync didn't used to support the Nokia N80 out-of-the-box, these are manual instructions to make it work.
- Nokia N80 Hints and Tips - The Nokia N80 Hints page provides hints and tips to get the best from the N80.
- TomTom Navigator 6 on Symbian S60v3 - HowTo put TomTom Navigator 6 on the N80, E61 and Symbian S60v3 (9.1) devices.
Nokia N95 Related
- Apple iSync and the N95 - iSync doesn't currently support the Nokia N95, here's how to make it work.
Gentoo Linux Related
- Booting Gentoo on OldWorld Macs - How to get Gentoo LiveCDs to boot on OldWorld Apple Mac and clone computers.
- iMac xorg.conf - A Simple xorg.conf for an Apple iMac "Snow","Flower power" and perhaps even "DV" model.
- Gentoo LVS - Building a Linux Virtual Server based Load Balancer to balance connections to an Apache webserver.
- Showing Your Current Playing iTunes Track On The Web - A Bit of scripting to let you show the currently playing track in iTunes on a web page.
- Linux Software RAID on Macs - Autodetecting software raid partitions does not work on Macs, here's how to get round it.
General Linux / Other
- NTLM Authentication against Apache - Using mod_ntlm to authenticate users against Apache in a Windows 20003 Active Directory Domain
- RRDTool Monitoring - RRDTool can monitor everything from Bandwidth to the Temperature, here's how to monitor IPTables firewall traffic using simple bash scripts rather than more complex SNMP or Perl scripts which most other tutorials show.
- Spot a Fake SanDisk - There's a number of "Cheap" SanDisk memory cards on eBay, unfortunately many are fake, this should help you spot counterfeit Memory Cards.
- Buffalo WHR-54GS Serial Port Conversion - I don't know how to do it, but I'm going to try, this will document my progress (or lack there-of).
- VMWare Workstation 6 on Fedora Core 9 - Running VMWare Workstation 6 on Fedora Core 9 with its 2.6.25 kernel
Links
- Visit my main website for more information.
- Flickr Photos to view my photo album on Flickr.
