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Intelligent Baby Gate Alarm

With a close call involving my youngest daughter, a walker, and a baby gate left open at the top of a full flight of stairs I figured a swift, reliable, and more importantly a high-tech solution was required. I chose to design a purpose-built sensor system to alert house occupants of the gate being left open for more than 30 seconds. With 6 people and frequent visitors in the house, the gate has been left open countless times. Read more

Bastion Cycle, Nanaimo for bicycle parts, service, and sales

Submitted by ve7mjc on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 13:08

I needed to repair some problems with a Velo Sport mountain bike before it was road-worthy. Read more

OpenVz based servers are LAMP only

Submitted by ve7mjc on Sun, 12/06/2009 - 09:21

A long battle has come to an end. My recent struggles with my Centos DDS-200 server at Rackforce (http://www.rackforce.com) have made me take the plunge, leave Rackforce and search for better value. My experience with Xensource and VMware led me to believe Rackforce's Dedicated Dynamic Server (DDS) products were also "virtualized" as they are often referred to as a Virtual Private Server (VPS). Instead, the DDS product is based on Openvz, the opensource project behind Parallels Virtuozzo. Read more

Install Subversion on CentOS

Submitted by ve7mjc on Fri, 11/20/2009 - 22:08

centos vps

I was having a problem installing Subversion on my CentOS server. yum is unable to install subversion, complaining about a dependency to perl(URI) which cannot be met. It looks like cPanel has enforced a perl* exclusion among others, thereby prevending an automatic dependency install of perl-URI. Read more

Digi-Key, the Fallen

Submitted by ve7mjc on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 13:59

At one time, Digi-Key (http://www.digikey.com) was the electronic component vendor by which all others could be judged. Their same-day shipping, next day delivery was both consistent and impressive. I have personally relied on Digi-Key since 2002 but in the last year or so I have watched some dramatic changes that I feel I should pass on as it is in my opinion they cannot be relied upon any longer. Read more

BlackBerry Storm 9530 Black Screen

Submitted by ve7mjc on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 16:55

My wife's BlackBerry Storm (9530) smart phone screen went black at some point. There was no known drops or immersions to explain it. An in-house repair consisting of a a trimmed and strategically placed business card got us working while we recovered from h1n1 before we could go visit a cell phone shop. Read more

ElmScan 5 USB BUS Error on 2005 Chevrolet Blazer Solved

Submitted by ve7mjc on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 01:18

My father brought over his 2005 Chevrolet Blazer with a check engine light lit. I have an ElmScan 5 USB I purchased from scantool.net. The thought of viewing and graphing data in real-time from a vehicle under test was appealing but the reality is the supplied software is crippled and the alternative is to shell out an additional $100+ for capable software. Alas, the included software will read an MIL code and clear the light. This device has a bug which does not communicate (easily) with the 2005 Chevrolet Blazer. I have discovered a workaround. Read more

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