2007-08-30 (#)
Ik had weer eens tijd/zin om met Asterisk te spelen. Sinds een tijdje is de fritz!box een 5012 en die wilde weer geen dtmf doorgeven via xs4all-voip naar Asterisk. Toen maar even telnet aangezet met #96*7* en daarna in /var/flash/voip.cfg voor de xs4all instellingen de regel infodtmfnotsupported = no; gewijzigd in infodtmfnotsupported = yes;. Nu kon ik weer wel in m'n eigen menus kiezen!
2007-08-30 (#)
A company in the US, Solis Energy, is producing solar-panel power systems especially geared towards running wireless networking in hard-to-reach places. Sounds like a turn-key version of some of the functionality in my project sundial for a self-powered weather station. Sources: Computerworld Australia: Power Wi-Fi using the sun, says startup Slashdot: Solar Powered Wifi.
2007-08-29 (#)
Weird tidbit in the home server: disk /dev/hdc, a WDC WD3200AAJB will not go to standby mode on the timer. With hdparm -S 59 /dev/hdc no standby mode happens, while I am sure nothing accesses the drive (unmounting all partitions and stopping smartmontools). When I force it to standby with hdparm -y /dev/hdc it will stay in standby mode until the partition is accessed again.
2007-08-29 (#)
Wardriving results 20 - 28 August: 4231 new networks with GPS locations. A visit to Amersfoort by bike set a new record for new networks found in one trip: 2495 new networks in one go.
2007-08-28 (#)
After hearing the very catchy Country Boy (City Boy Remix) on the Alaska Podshow 163 and on Adam Curry's Daily Source Code 631 I had to find that mix. Party Ben has this and other funny mixes available on the Party Ben - Stuff to have page.
2007-08-27 (#)
In browsing the transmission gallery UK broadcast transmission sites I remembered a tv tower we saw in our UK holiday in 2004 (Dutch report). After a lot of searching and pondering what the correct name was I found out that the transmission site we camped near in Dartmoor is named North Hessary Tor which is near the town of Princetown. The site has radio transmitters to serve a large area in the southwest of England and .. a 12.5W TV relay only serving Princetown and the Dartmoor prison.
2007-08-27 (#)
I really enjoy The Alaska PodShow Podcast. I visited Alaska myself in 2002 and really enjoyed it over there, which makes the alaska podshow a joy to listen to. Recognizable stuff, and things I would like to see on a next visit to Alaska (although I already saw both highways..). I'd like to go back some day (preferably when the US treats visiting tourists less like suspects) because Alaska is beautiful to visit.
2007-08-20 (#)
Ik verzamel locatiegegevens van zoveel mogelijk draadloze netwerken, anderen verzamelen locatiegegevens en foto's van zoveel mogelijk ADSL centrales in Nederland. Erg leuke site.
2007-08-20 (#)
Wardriving results 9 - 19 August: 2803 new networks with GPS locations. Some detours through the city with scores both from the new setup and from visiting areas I haven't visited in a while.
2007-08-14 (#)
I have taken over as maintainer of the perl Geo::METAR module for parsing METAR (Aviation routine weather report) data. Although METAR is supposed to be a strict format I find lots and lots of regional variations, newer versions, things that should not be used anymore and other things making parsing hard. I'm now using the 24-hour metar files from the National Weather Service Internet Weather Source and I use those to stresstest the METAR-parser, looking up things that make it fail completely and fixing those.
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.
2007-08-10 (#)
Gezien in de kismet logs: Found new network "martin en margo" gevolgd door Found new network "naast martin en margo".
2007-08-09 (#)
Wardriving results 5 July - 8 August: 4623 new networks with gps locations. Before our holiday I did some tours to up my scores and test the new antenna, including a visit to Lunetten and Leidsche Rijn (parts of Utrecht).
2007-08-06 (#)
Windows XP update sees Windows Explorer as a security risk with a screenshot of the actual error message. To help protect you computer, Windows has closed this program. Name: Windows Explorer Publisher: Microsoft Corporation.
2007-08-04 (#)
At home, in the garden, with barbecue weather I notice an ad-hoc network in the wireless networks lists with ssid AMD_IBSS and regularly changing channel and mac address. Anybody got any idea what this is? In other wireless at home news: the neighbourhood has no unsecured wireless networks left, and WEP is a minority.
2007-08-04 (#)
Back from vacation! We rented recumbent bikes and biked around the Netherlands for three weeks, camping and visiting some friends. The weather cooperated mostly, just some minor rainy days and a few rainshowers.