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Sunday, October 12 2008 @ 12:12 AM CEST

PLoP Boot Manager

Saturday, October 11 2008 @ 07:22 PM CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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The most interesting thing about PLoP Boot Manager is that it can do usb boot on machines without support for usb boot in their bios. Yes, you read that correctly - even old machines can now do usb boots. How? Well, you can boot PLoP from a cd or the internal hard drive, and then you boot a usb connected hard drive (or memory stick) from PLoP. Very impressive.

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Bifrost - open source print solution for "follow-me" printout

Wednesday, October 08 2008 @ 09:41 PM CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Bifrost is a printout management solution with a single central print spool and magnetic swipe card readers placed at each printer that sends the users printouts to that printer.

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OpenRemote

Friday, October 03 2008 @ 11:39 PM CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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OpenRemote is another software stack for home automation. It is mostly written in Java, and looks interesting. It is created by Marc Fleury, who also created JBoss.

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PicoLCD

Sunday, September 14 2008 @ 01:01 PM CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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The PicoLCD is an interesting device. Display, keys and IR receiver. It plugs into a usb port (ok, it is only full speed, but anyway) and there is Linux drivers and opensource SDK. I think they are supporting LCDproc so this will work with most opensource systems. More info here.

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Home automation: power usage monitoring

Tuesday, September 09 2008 @ 11:16 PM CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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House Electricity Usage Measured via Phidgets & Nokia 770 is an interesting project. I wonder how one could make this project work with an old electromechanical power meter.

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Z-Push

Tuesday, September 09 2008 @ 10:09 PM CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Z-push is an implementation of the ActiveSync protocol, which is used 'over-the-air' for multi platform ActiveSync devices, including Windows Mobile, Ericsson and Nokia phones. With Z-push any groupware can be connected and synced with these devices. More about Z-push on Wikipedia. Cool!

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Contiki 2.2.1 released

Saturday, September 06 2008 @ 11:44 PM CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Contiki version 2.2.1 has been released. Contiki is an operating system designed for wireless deeply embedded systems that have memory on the order of a few kilobytes and a power consumption on the order of a few milliwatt. Within these severe resource constraints, Contiki provides a low-power multi-hop TCP/IP stack, a command-line interface, a flash-based file system, and loadable modules. Release 2.2.1 improves network performance, reduces power consumption, and fixes a number of bugs from previous releases.
(first seen on OSnews)

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Minerva

Friday, September 05 2008 @ 10:50 PM CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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Minerva is a complete, easy to use, home automation suite. With Minerva you can: switch on your lights from anywhere, using a mobile phone or PC; email your video; check your security CCTV footage; control your central heating and much more.

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OpenChange

Thursday, August 28 2008 @ 09:34 PM CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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OpenChange aims to provide a portable Open Source implementation of Microsoft Exchange Server and Exchange protocols. Two different aspects:

libmapi - will provide interoperability with Exchange protocols (see MAPI on Wikipedia)
OpenChange server - will provide a transparent replacement to Microsoft Exchange Server with native Exchange protocols support and direct communication with Microsoft Outlook.

Very cool!

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OpenPandora

Thursday, August 28 2008 @ 01:47 AM CEST
Contributed by: tingo
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You heard bout the GP2X before. Now there is a new kid in town - the Pandora, a hand-held Linux console. Read more at OpenPandora.org. And check out what wikipedia knows about Pandora.

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