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I have been cleaning up my music collection, which I have ripped from CDs over the years, finally getting around to tagging them properly.

In my homelab, I’ve been using Longhorn as my primary Kubernetes storage solution.

A new tool to help you digitize your physical book library.

Recently, I migrated all my homelab Kubernetes storage to Longhorn.

I run a variety of systems including a couple which are running Debian stable.

Recently I was thinking about how my websites are handled and realised that they are extremely static and so using WordPress as the CMS was overkill.

Now that I have xLights being built fine within docker (see Automatic testing of xLights builds via Travis-CI/Docker/Github) the next step is to package up the application as an appimage binary so that it can easily be run on varied linux systems.

xLights is a free and open source program that enables you to design, create and play amazing lighting displays through the use of DMX controllers, E1.31 Ethernet controllers and more.

Details of building xLights for Linux

This is the seventh post in my series on how I setup my christmas lights Links to rest of series: Post 1 - The controllers Post 2 - The megatree Post 3 - Arches, candy canes, small spiral trees and large spiral tree Post 4 - Nativity Scene Post 5 - Window…

This is the sixth post in my series on how I setup my christmas lights Links to rest of series: Post 1 - The controllers Post 2 - The megatree Post 3 - Arches, candy canes, small spiral trees and large spiral tree Post 4 - Nativity Scene Post 5 - Windows,…

This is the fifth post in my series on how I setup my christmas lights Links to rest of series: Post 1 - The controllers Post 2 - The megatree Post 3 - Arches, candy canes, small spiral trees and large spiral tree Post 4 - Nativity Scene Post 5 - Windows,…

This is the fourth post in my series on how I setup my christmas lights Links to rest of series: Post 1 - The controllers Post 2 - The megatree Post 3 - Arches, candy canes, small spiral trees and large spiral tree Post 4 - Nativity Scene Post 5 - Windows,

This is the third post in my series on how I setup my christmas lights Links to rest of series: Post 1 - The controllers Post 2 - The megatree Post 3 - Arches, candy canes, small spiral trees and large spiral tree Post 4 - Nativity Scene Post 5 - Windows,…

This is the second post in my series on how I setup my christmas lights Links to rest of series: Post 1 - The controllers Post 2 - The megatree Post 3 - Arches, candy canes, small spiral trees and large spiral tree Post 4 - Nativity Scene Post 5 - Windows,

In the last few weeks I’ve had a number of people asking about how the light show is done so I thought it might be nice to document how my lights are setup during the day using photos.

All my sequences for this year are sitting at /lights/xLights-2016/ If you wish to use them on your own display you will probably need my xlights_rgbeffect.xml to import them properly.

Back in 1957 Professor Frank Debenham wrote a book about the history of the Debenham Family.

Each year I setup a display of Christmas lights in Narara.

Christmas Lights

The other day I was at Jaycar and saw that they are now selling small USB sticks that are arduino compatible.

I was driving past one of those led advertising signs sitting on the side of the road the other day and thought to myself ‘I can do that’ So I’ve hooked up 6 of the freetronics DMD modules (in a 2x3 layout) and got down to coding up a way to do it.

I am now the proud owner of an Asus Transformer tablet (not the prime) and so wanted to update mtpfs to work better with it.

I had a little while free and so ported a bunch of games I wrote for the Peggy2 to work with a pair of DMD’s In doing so the games now run at 32x32 and are controlled by a Wii nunchuck.

I recently got two Dot Matrix Displays from Freetronics - They are 32x16 LED panels that can be daisychained via SPI.

It has been a while since I first posted my version of bashpodder (a console-based podcaster in a single bash script) Since then a bunch of small fixes have been added to the script to better handle ‘odd’ rss feeds and also to clean up the output.

For a recent project I wanted to add music.

I’ve done a lot more work on the multi-game sketch for my Peggy2 - mostly to add functionality and fix up a few ‘issues’ See the original post here for more details on what is included Download it from here When compiled it uses 13808 bytes so there only a

Home Bouldering wall build

Legacy site for Central Coast Rockclimbing

Details on getting Linux working on a TE2100

Details on getting Linux working on a Vega tablet

Details on getting Linux working on an M200

Reqtool is a pure perl application that both handles email requests and provides a web interface to track, edit and resolve these email requests.

MP3 Server Box is a perl script that acts as a network interface to the rxaudio or a patched version of mpg123 player.

LCDproc is a small piece of software that displays real-time system information from your machine on a LCD and is available at http://lcdproc.org/

Gournal is a note-taking application written for usage on Tablet-PCs

My FVWM configuration

MyDSL extension for system rescue

MTPfs is a FUSE filesystem that supports reading and writing from any MTP device (as supported by libmtp)

MTPSync is used to syncronize files/music with a MTP device

I had such fun writing the simple ‘snake’ game for my peggy 2 that I wrote a bunch of other games for it as well.

As mentioned in the [intlink id=“13” type=“post”]Peggy 2 Snake[/intlink] post I wrote a bunch of small utility functions to display a string on the peggy 2.

For Christmas my wife gave me a peggy 2 and I finally got around to building it.

Okay - now that I have a box it is time to wire it all up.

The aim was to start with 10 outlets and build out from there.

Last Christmas was my first Christmas in my very own house (was renting before) and so I was able to put up more lights than before.

A few days ago I installed a new disk in my laptop to replace the existing small one.

I’ve had this blog sitting here blank for a fair while now and so I figured it is about time I did something with it.

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