As a 'Linux Registered User'



My info:
http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript ... ser=378978

A tip from Sandy:

"Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
* network.http.pipelining
* network.http.proxy.pipelining
* network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.
If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages 2-3 times faster now."

I've found this great site:
www.outofservice.com/starwars/
... where you can work out you starwars twins.

Here's my results/twins:
My Star Wars Twins

I've dug out and dusted down my old laptop, with a slighly damaged screen - that's okay i only need it for OS installation.

Fedora Core 2 won't go on it, as there's only 16Meg of RAM, so I'm going to have a go with Slackware 10.0 which I got on the cover of Linux Fomat magazine. The usual problems with mastering a new OS but I think I've got it installed now. I don't need any graphical packages, so I went though Advanced Setup and removed
everything with 'x' in the name. I added Apache, PHP and MySQL - my prefered Webserver/Scripting/DB combo and I have my machine ready. TCL also for any shell scripting.

The Task
To switch the central heating system in my house on and off remotely.
So I need to figure out how to actually switch a relay (serial connection?)
Then an interface... PHP seems the obvious choice, but it won't talk to devices, so I'll glue the PHP script to the serial device with a TCL script or two.
As I'm not always at browser and I get GPRS for free with my mobile phone provider, I hope to us the (Not yet dead) WML language which my Nokia 6310i supports. WAP is lightweight and will do for a few on off switches.

Serial switches->TCL->PHP->WML

....watch this space.