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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)
- Current Cost Electricity Monitor - Using Python to parse the XML data from a Current Cost electricity monitor via Serial/USB and then displaying with munin.
- Serial Relay Control - Controlling external relays and reading opto-isolated inputs back with this Quasar electronics kit using Linux and some Python script. I'm planning on using this device for a number of things; monitoring of a doorbell to get remote notifications when it's rung and possibly central heating boiler control.
Mac OS X
- Leopard on Gigabyte EP45T-UD3LR F1 - Installing iPC / Mac OS X on the Gigabyte GA-EP45T-UD3LR F1, P45, ICH10 chipset with DDR3.
iPhone 3G, 3GS
- iPhone 3GS iBEC and IBSS Extraction - How to safely save a copy of your iBEC and iBSS from your iPhone 3GS running 3.0 on MacOSX
- iPhone 3G 3GS USB Cigarette Lighter Socket Charger - How to modify a normal Car Cigarette Lighter Socket USB Charger to charge an iPhone 3G sing only 2 resistors and some simple soldering.
Nokia S60v3 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.
- Apple iSync and the N95 - iSync didn't support the Nokia N95, these were instructions 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 (non-x86) Macs, here's how to get round it.
Voip / Asterisk / Cisco IP Phone
- Cisco 7960G IP Phone on Asterisk - Configuring a Cisco 7960G IP Phone for use with Asterisk, SIP firmware P0S3-08-11-00.
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, lightweight, fast 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, updated to include both MiniSD and MicroSD 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
- gmpy Python Module Install - Had a problem with missing gmp-devel on attempting `easy_install gmpy`, how to fix.
- ZTE MF627 on Fedora Core 11 - How to get the ZTE MF627 3G/HSDPA dongle working with FC11 and 3pay from three mobile.
Links
- Visit my main website for more information on me, John Baxendale.
- Flickr Photos to view my photo album on Flickr.
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