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Home automation - MySensors

Monday, December 15 2014 @ 21:43 CET
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From the MySensors web site: "We've combined the Arduino platform with a small radio transceiver into a fun, flexible world of low cost wireless sensors.". That sounds really cool for home automation.

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Node-RED

Thursday, December 11 2014 @ 22:55 CET
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Node-RED is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.

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about collectd

Sunday, November 23 2014 @ 18:18 CET
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collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files.

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Internet Arcade

Monday, November 10 2014 @ 09:48 CET
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Internet Arcade from Internet Archive (of Wayback Machine fame) lets you play a lot of classic Arcade games in your browser. Currently there are over 1000 games there.

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Fuzix

Tuesday, November 04 2014 @ 12:44 CET
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From the announcement: "The goal of Fuzix is to provide a reasonably complete Systen 5 Unix experience without all the bloat. At this point in time the kernel needs about 40K, plus memory for user space." Github repository: FUZIX, announcement (Google+).

First seen on OSnews.

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openHAB

Monday, October 20 2014 @ 22:03 CEST
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openHAB - a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home.

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FreeIPA

Wednesday, October 08 2014 @ 19:41 CEST
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From Wikipedia: FreeIPA ... aims to provide an easily managed Identity, Policy and Audit (IPA) suite primarily targeted towards networks of Linux and Unix computers. FreeIPA can be compared to Novell's Identity Manager or Microsoft's Active Directory in that the goals and mechanisms used are similar.

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Easy2Boot

Sunday, October 05 2014 @ 21:43 CEST
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Easy2Boot (E2B) is just a FREE collection of grub4dos scripts which you add to a grub4dos-bootable USB drive. Each time you boot, the scripts automatically find the payload files (.ISO, .IMA, .BIN, .IMG, etc.) on the USB drive and dynamically generate the menus depending on the file extension.

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DriveDroid - boot PC from images stored on Android device

Sunday, October 05 2014 @ 21:19 CEST
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DriveDroid is an Android application that allows you to boot your PC from ISO/IMG files stored on your phone. This is ideal for trying Linux distributions or always having a rescue-system on the go... without the need to burn different CDs or USB pendrives. Nice! You need a rooted device. Google Play: DriveDroid.

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Android-x86

Monday, September 29 2014 @ 23:15 CEST
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In case you didn't know, you can get Android for the x86 platform: Android-x86. That might be useful.

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