This post is really just a record of what I've done to get to the point of graphing and displaying the weather info from my weather station. The weather stations reciever and display panel is hooked up via USB to the mediacentre, my MythTV box that never gets turned off.... Continue reading

Hazzah!!! It works. So the key thing here is in this post: http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/backuppc-21/nfs-mount-for-backup-storage-73200/ And here is the key paragrah: === Hard links only work within the same filesystem because they are just additional names pointing to the same inode. The cpool and pc directories must live under the same mount... Continue reading

I hurt my back lifting cement mix for the garden wall into the trailer, so I've taken the day, seen the oseteopath and bought "Linux Journal" for a bit of dead tree reading on the couch. While flicking through it I came across mention of backuppc http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/index.html as a good... Continue reading

OK, so the plan is rsync. The execution, unknown. I get the feeling when I start these things I really need to get it right first time, however, given I am still trying to understand how the Thecus N4200 does things, I guess I should just get over that issue... Continue reading

OK, so if I can't get anything else done I now have a NAS for home. For way too long family photos have resided on a single spindle, and yes, while some of the photos have been burnt to CD or DVD, many are, in fact, I'd say that many... Continue reading

The perl script I'm going to use to read the weather stations data logger ( reciever ), uses the Device::USB module. To get to the point of installing this module on a "clean" system somethings need to be installed. To build the required binaries, we'll need to install the build-essential... Continue reading

Having finally got my weather station home, I ended up googling around to find out what, if anything was out there that would allow me to hook up the receiver via USB to a linux computer to start capturing all the data. It was good to see that it wasn't... Continue reading

As I said in my blog reboot entry, this is where I'm going to cover things I'm doing personally rather than dedicated to Padre, the Perl IDE. I'm still a perlwannabe at heart, so the blog names still fits. :) The story of the weather station starts many, many years... Continue reading

I orginally created a blog account on vox to support the role of Release Manager, which I have still, with Padre, the Perl Progamming IDE. I chose vox for the simple reason that it was driven by Perl. After the closure of Vox though I had to find an outlet... Continue reading