bkil vs. programming

I've always adored open hardware and generally the concept of helping each other out. There's this project which gives you blueprints and recipes for living an environmentally responsible, though frugal life. Really makes you want to put down your keyboard and start agriculture work right away!  Open Source Ecology project at Wikipedia I'd need to review their current status, but generally, you can do cleanroom designs easily made of common household items. I'm not sure if they have the needed plans and documentation for such simple items under their umbrella, but a well structured collection of wiki links could also do the trick in these cases.

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." - Mahatma Gandhi on unit testing .

I was just reading through the binary dump of a computer's registry that I've been using, and I found some very nice strings, like oxvy. I know at least one person who knows what that means. ;) edit: A hint is that you should consider what trivial encryption/obfuscation schemes are wide spread.

I'm evaluating FreeGuide , an electronic program guide supporting XMLTV . I wrote a tool to grab the TV guide for a few days in advance. I schedule it to run on startup and twice an hour. I have to run it so often as my PC at home is only switched on for a few hours each day (either manually or via automated recording scheduler ). Note that polling would be unneeded after correctly implementing a universal power scheduler . Despite such frequent invocation, it only executes the core process if no update has happened in the last two days. It also splits the downloaded guide by days to lower processing in the update helper below and to make a possible future selective update easier. I made an update helper for FreeGuide which keeps track of the data which was imported to the viewer previously and initiated importing of only the new parts. One of my next projects will be to install and tweak teletext based XMLTV provider for Hungarian norms .

I'm not sure how they managed to finally set up naked domain redirection, or if it's a present from Google, but I sure am delighted! :) My cards contained only the naked domain you know...

Hosting problems again. Considering switching registrar, as this is beyond acceptable.

My web host is changing their terms of service and have sent me notice that on the 28th of November, they will stop hosting my service. They say that they have already informed my on the 26th of July about this issue, though I don't recall having read that. I'm still searching for alternatives. As a backup plan, I'm in the process of activating Google Apps services on the domain until a solution is found. Unfortunately, I'm not sure naked domain redirection would work in this phase. Also, my domain registrar has no online control panel, so I have to take the longer, manual route of adjustments.