Prescienta

Video Server Up And Running

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:34:57 +0000

The old laptop is now equipped with a 3TB external drive. The drive contains all our media files; these are then streamed wirelessly to any PC in the house. One odd quirk was that the PS3 is very poor at buffering video, so the PS3 is now wired. This is a gigantic pain in the ass, considering that the Apple TV box streams HD video over the freakin’ internet with no problems.

We are currently busy on the next release, so updates will slow down.

Progress Report

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:49:19 +0000

Beacons on a string

Housekeeper now checks multiple devices

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:45:54 +0000

Phew

Adjusted for time zone

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:57:59 +0000

Made a little progress. The tooltip is larger, has padding, is hidden when you start and I removed the magnification when you hover on a beacon.

Added metadata to Beacons

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:43:45 +0000

Beacons can now have a message included. I think the beacons are still too small.

Sentinel Now Serves Beacons via JSON

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:08:19 +0000

Small code change today. Now the beacon list is created as a JSON array. This allows a little more flexibility when rendering the timeline.

WPF Slider

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:11:08 +0000

Does not have a “Tracking complete” event. This means, that if you want to update a value that is stored on a server for instance, which could be slow, then you have to either : subclass the slider, or kick off a timer that stores the value on the server “some time after the value changed”.

Another reason to ditch WPF and Silverlight altogether.

It also works as a NAS

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:25:01 +0000

Ubuntu keeps surprising me. Since the laptop keyboard is broken (some keys are not working), I was using an external keyboard which made it all a little cumbersome. To allow me to work from my primary laptop, I installed a SSH server and ran Putty on my windows box.

From my new remote shell, I installed samba, and shared a local directory as well as Mette’s external USB drive. Tomorrow, we will attach a much larger drive and use the laptop as a file server for all our media (Mette is an avid photographer, and she shoots in RAW format only).

Altered Theme

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:36:39 +0000

The Chunk theme from automattic.com needed to be altered to not allow comments on pages. It’s a simple theme, so that didn’t take long either. Just remove the comments_template a couple of places

Web Server Installed

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:02:55 +0000

I wanted a low power web server, and started looking at mini-itx servers, NAS’s, mac mini’s and so on, but then I remembered that my wife had an old macbook sitting in the attic somewhere. To give it some added oomph I bought a 64GB SSD drive. A few hours later, Ubuntu, complete with LAMP and wordpress got online.

I must say that Ubuntu is very impressive. I am already in love. I decided to abandon following the directions and just let Ubuntu do its thing, and 30 minutes later, the macbook came to life. Although the keyboard is broken (some keys no longer work), the box is great for my needs and as far as I can tell, everything relevant works.