http://biobug.org Projects, notes, etc by Will O'Brien Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:26:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I posted the goggle mod, my web server started crawling. After I took a look, I found that the box had been swapping. (This wasn't a big surprise)  I've been running on a dedicated virtual machine at slicehost.net with only 256MB of ram. One way to improve things is ... http://biobug.org/index.php/2009/07/03/virtual-server-performance/ Before my last ski trip I wanted a helmet-cam. I bought an Oregon Scientific ATC3K digital video camera, but the mount was just too bulky for a helmet rig. It's great for mounting on a kayak or mountain bike, but totally unsuitable for a real helmet mount. (It's just too ... http://biobug.org/index.php/2009/05/19/add-a-3rd-eye-atc3k-to-goggle-cam-mod/ After realizing that I'd been lazy about it, I upgraded my hosting machine last night before I went to sleep. I managed to make Apache2 angry. You won't like it angry, cause it won't even give you a 404. Back to our regularly scheduled program. http://biobug.org/index.php/2009/04/08/oops/ If you have a netflow capable router, you can gather information about traffic that's passing through your netflow collector. Here are a few notes about getting it to work on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 machine - some of the code has gotten a little crusty, but with some ... http://biobug.org/index.php/2009/04/03/collecting-netflow-on-rhel5-with-flow-tools/ Just thought I'd throw in a view of the server that's running things at home now. It's  a poweredge 2650 - you can get them dirt cheap despite having dual 2.8ghz cpus, 2GB of ram and onboard remote access. This one once served the military - they removed all the ... http://biobug.org/index.php/2009/04/01/new-old-server-for-the-house/ The eye-fi is pretty sweet. However, the built in client connects to the eye-fi manager, which hands off your data to the eye-fi servers. In order to keep my data home, I had to cut out the manager. Using the afore mentioned python script to act as an agent on ... http://biobug.org/index.php/2009/03/14/hacking-the-eye-fi-to-keep-your-data-home/ I can't count how many times I've forgotten to download pictures at home, then wanted to access the data that was firmly locked away on my camera at home on the following days. Enter the Eye-Fi: a SD memory card that contains a wireless chip-set and an on-board client ... http://biobug.org/index.php/2009/03/13/eye-fi-handy-for-the-lazy-geek/ Most ZIF sockets aren't exactly cheap, but TQFP sockets are in the range of insanely stupid pricing. I'm pondering a TQFP programmer that I can pop the chips into, but most of these little guys are $150 or so. I asked Bunnie, one of the more hardware savvy people I've ... http://biobug.org/index.php/2009/03/12/what-is-the-deal-with-tqfp-zif-sockets/ I used to sport a pretty decent Tenma soldering station, but it moved on and I've been settling for lesser irons since. I finally upped my game a bit with a new dual purpose soldering station: the Aoyue 968 SMD rework station. Ian put together a pretty decent review of ... http://biobug.org/index.php/2009/03/12/new-horse-er-soldering-iron/ I've been waiting patiently for a freakin Android phone on Sprint. After waiting and waiting, I ordered in iPhone. The App store is proven, the dev kit is easy to get, and even Stanford put out tutorials on programming for it. Sorry sprint. (Thanks for raising your fee and letting ... http://biobug.org/index.php/2009/01/21/wheres-freakin-android-screw-it-gimme-an-iphone/