Picture I took yesterday morning in the back garden.
no solar power
2008-03-25 (#)
Today is one of those if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes days. I have seen snow, hail and sun in the last thirty minutes and rain will probably happen too soon. The webcam shows interesting cloud views and the temperatures at home are dropping due to the snow on the roof.
2008-02-17 (#)
I had some time for work on the wardriving box. I fixed the powerbutton problem by switching to Linux kernel 2.6.24.2. Linux 2.6 has specific support for the geode processor which include acpi support. With 2.6 I get a good power-button event when I press it and on a shutdown with powerdown the alix system is powered down completely (power led goes out). I also worked on the case, making holes for the antenna connectors. I managed to make the right holes and modify the I/O shield without making the wrong holes or get damaged myself. My teacher in metalwork years ago would probably think I'm still bad at it but with a drill and a metal file the modifications got done, including filing the flange of the N-connector to make it fit in the case. Pictures of the results,
Results of the metalwork.
Antenna connectors in place and the I/O shield modified to allow for the big N-connector.I'm also learning about Linux 2.6: without a keyboard there is not a lot of entropy for /dev/random.
Board installed in the case.
2008-01-29 (#)
A fellow wardriver asked for a picture of the new wardriving box which is still awaiting serious hardware work, but the software is mostly up and running.
The wardriving box with notes about the different parts
2007-12-31 (#)
We recently hung up some bird food in the back garden (way out of reach of the cats!) and it is funny to see little birds visit in the morning and the afternoon. This morning I took time to set up the camera and await interesting results. The wait (and cold) was worth it:Bluetit in the garden feeding (looks a lot better in full-size)
2007-11-25 (#)
Caught the cat who lives across from the back of our house on camera recently: Achterbuurkat 1 foto Achterbuurkat 2.
2007-11-07 (#)
It is a coming and going of birds in our garden at the moment (resulting in a lot of comments from the cats).Photographing them is hard as they move around a lot.Sparrow in our backyard
2007-10-08 (#)
Een interresant maar zeer goed gevuld weekend gehad: vrijdag, zaterdag en zondag was het ligfietsers herfsttreffen. Maar zaterdag mocht ik ook een presentatie over VoIP (Voice over IP) houden bij de open dag van de HCC PCgg samen met de HCC afdeling Apeldoorn. Dus: vrijdagmiddag vrij (fietsend naar huis nog de laatste dingen op mijn werk afgehandeld). Met andere ligfietsers uit Utrecht naar de camping gefietst. Zaterdag in de vroegte opgestaan, met de fiets naar station Hilversum, nog even naar de juiste weg gezocht in Hilversum en vervolgens een minuut te laat om nog in te laden in de geplande trein. Met de trein naar Apeldoorn (mijn Nazca Pioneer met de trein meenemen gaat trouwens prima al is'ie wat lang voor de fietsruimte in een IC-3 treinstel). Daarna in Apeldoorn naar de lokatie aan de rand van Apeldoorn gefietst. Wat zo snel ging dat ik nog net op tijd was voor het begin van de hele dag. Mijn presentatie was 's middags en daar zat maar liefst een hele echte bezoeker, dus Eddie heeft snel nog wat extra bezoekers opgetrommeld. De presentatie ging redelijk, ik moet nogsteeds het nodige verbeteren aan de presentatietechniek.. daarna weer terug, waarbij ik nu de weg iets beter kende. De overgang tussen HCC bijeenkomst overdag en de ligfietsers was opvallend. Bij de HCC heeft iedereen het natuurlijk over computers en software, bij de ligfietsers gaan de gesprekken over het knutselen aan ligfietsen, mooie tochten en de prijzen van ligfietsen. Een heel verschil in onderwerp, maar aan beide kanten wel een vergelijkbare passie voor het onderwerp. Zondag met een aantal ligfietsers rustig teruggereden naar Utrecht en daarna eigenlijk weinig meer gedaan behalve een beetje in huis rondhangen en een goed boek lezen. Update: Mijn foto's van het herfsttreffen staan nu ook on-line.
2007-08-13 (#)
I watched the Perseid meteor shower and tried to take pictures. Not much luck on the picture taking, I set up the camera wrong and the lens fogged up. One picture has a meteor trail: one version of the picture (crop/scale) second version of the picture (scale). The meteor trail is in the bottom right.
2007-07-10 (#)
Picture of the updated wardriving setup: laptop in the bag, external antenna and gps receiver on top .. the new setup is scoring a lot more networks.
2007-06-12 (#)
Some pictures from the feeding of the blackbirds in our garden:andBlackbird with food on our lawnchair, ready to deliver it to the nest
all gardenlife now has a set gardenlife.Blackbird in the entrance to the nest
2007-05-26 (#)
I got a picture of the blackbird after a lot of waiting with the camera standby.
Blackbird with food
2007-05-06 (#)
Birds are very active in our back yard. First I saw blackbirds active and thought they might be building a nest. Indeed they were, but when they found out people walk really close to that nest they abandoned it again.Today I saw sparrows on chimneys all trying to defend their territory.
Blackbird nest hidden in our gardenI don't have to travel very far to try nature photography!
Sparrow on a nearby chimney
2007-05-02 (#)
I decided to try a flickr-account so I can upload and share pictures easily, so I can use my own pictures.idefix.net for well-balanced collections and flickr for 'putting a picture on-line'. Now an attempt to use a flickr picture on my page:Koos van den Hout: flickr page
Security cameras in Utrecht seem to be connected together via wireless network
2007-01-24 (#)
I took some pictures today of the remains of the collapsed towercrane. The site was guarded (although the guard decided to stay out of my pictures). It will be quite a project to remove the wreckage when investigations are done. In the last picture you indeed look right into the (empty at the time of the collapse) classroom.
2006-09-23 (#)
It seems the after summer warmth is confusing the pigeons: today we took a picture of a pigeon nest near our house with 2 young birds in it.
2006-07-20 (#)
Pictures in and around the building I work. Comments are in Dutch, but most are about the former use of the room.
2006-07-12 (#)
Interresante assoicaties bij nu.nl in artikel McDonald's haalt omstreden urinoirs weg als je de foto rechts met Mick Jagger bekijkt... schermgrijp.
2006-04-29 (#)
New cat pictures: Tender the garden tiger, Tender the garden tiger action shot, Tender the garden tiger sneaking around and Moppie enjoying the morning sun.
2006-02-27 (#)
Neem eens een boompje mee.. (verplaatsing bomen in de Uithof wegens aanleg busbaan)
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