• Blown Away on the Discovery Channel
• Greensburg, a series on the Green Planet channel (Leo DiCaprio) [initial episode aired on Discovery Channel, featuring John “the Sage” Janssen, my father-in-law, wearing McGuckins suspenders from Boulder)
• CBS Early Show
• NPR

And many others…

• Sharp Aquos 60C52U 52″ TV
• Asus U9SG laptop
• Sony Vaio SZ645P4
• Dell D430 laptop
• Jawbone 2 Bluetooth headset
• Nikon Coolpix S600 camera
• Canon Digital Rebel XSI Digital SLR
• Canon PowerShot 950 IS Digital Point and Shoot
• Etymotic ER6i earphones
• Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7 Noise-Cancelling Headphones
• IOGear Wireless Input pen GPEN200N
• IOGear USB display adapter GUC2015V
• Dell 3007WFP 30″ LCD monitors
• Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000
• NeatReceipts receipt/business card scanner
• TrendNet 4-Port USB KVM Switch Kit
• EVGA UV16 Plus USB-DVI/VGA display adapter (1680×1050 capable)
• Asus EN9600GT silent graphics card (fanless)
• Dell XPS 420 computer
• Joby GP2 GorillaPod (and GP1) flexible SLR tripod
• NetGear WNDR3300 dual-band wireless router
• Salter Glass Lithium Scale with Black finish
• Sony DR-BT50 Bluetooth Earphones
• Motorola DC800 Bluetooth broadcaster
• Eye-Fi 2GB wireless memory card
• zBoost dual-band cellular repeater YX200
• Sony MDR-NC50 noise-cancelling headphones
• Cuisinart CJK-17BC Cordless Electric Jug Kettle
• Belkin PureAV PF60 and UPS
• Sennheiser PXC300 noise-cancelling headphones
• Clear frequent traveller card

1. Download ISO for 8.04 Hardy Heron SERVER EDITION.
2. Use PowerISO (Nero, Roxio, ISORecorder, etc.) to burn CD.
3. Plug computer into network (needed for below step)
4. Boot to this CD, in install mode (IF you have Windows or remnants of Windows on the target HDD, be sure to boot CD as a LiveCD, in interactive mode, and run the partition editor GParted to delete the remnants of Windoze, which WILL stop the installer from working).
5. Select Automatic, Use Entire Disk in the options.
6. Configure to taste, include Apache, MySQL, etc., then install Server Edition.
7. Remove CD, boot, type in user name and password. you set above
8. Type: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop, type password when prompted.
9. When done, reboot into GUI (sudo shutdown -r now), login.
10. Apply updates when prompted. Reboot.
11. Go into Synaptic Package Manager. Install:
    • build-essential
    • libcurl4-openssl-dev
    • libgd2-noxpm-dev
    • libmysqlclient15-dev
12. Download radlib and wview. Put them in your home directory
13. Open a terminal window:

tar xvzf radlib-2.7.5.tar.gz
cd radlib-2.7.5
./configure --enable-mysql
make
sudo make install

tar xvzf wview-3.9.0.tar.gz
cd wview-3.9.0
./configure --enable-mysql --enable-station-ws2300 --enable-http
make
sudo make install-env

sudo cp examples/Debian/wview /etc/init.d
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/wview
cd /etc/rc.d/rc2.d
sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/wview S98view

sudo apt-get install tnftp

sudo /usr/local/bin/wviewconfig
sudo /usr/local/bin/wviewhtmlconfig

mysql -u root -p
[password]
CREATE DATABASE wviewDB;
GRANT ALL ON wviewDB.* TO wvwuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "wvwpasswd";

14. Reboot. Should be all

Let me know if there’s any errors above, or you’d like me to detail some of the substeps better.

Notes:

• No development tools (compilers, libraries, etc.) are included with the basic install of Ubuntu desktop or server
• I installed server and then a GUI above to get the priority mechanism of a server, with the user Interface of desktop, you could do the reverse, but this wasn’t right for me.
• Ubuntu is a Debian variant.
• I always use a MySQL database for my weather stations.
• I enable FTP for uploading the weather files. When you do this, if you want the root of your webserver to be the weather page, you’ll need to change the document root for the default website from “/var/www” to “/usr/local/var/wview/img”. Alternately, if you don’t need the two to be the same, put a soft link to /usr/local/var/wview/img into the /var/www directory. Whatever you do, if you use FTP, do not move the /usr/local/var/wview/img directory.

I was trying to setup a buddy’s old laptop to run Ubuntu and wviewweather, and having no luck because his CD-ROM drive was flaky. So i found this great utility (OK, google found it) that sets up a USB flash drive so that it will boot as if it were the CD-ROM. This is: UNetbootin. Tell it where to find the ISO, tell it where your flash is, and ta-dah! Great utility.

No, copying the files from the ISO onto blank USB memory stick doesn’t work, in case you were wondering…

To give a little more detail, wview now supports a very inexpensive weather station, the La Crosse 2310 (I bought it for $120 including shipping off eBay). This is great for those who want to participate in CWOP and can’t afford or don’t want to spend the money to get a $400+ Davis Vantage weather station, and have an old PC with a serial port lying around.

1. The Signup button on the MyFunambol beta server has been missing for the last three days (just came back), so I’ve been using ScheduleWorld.
2. ScheduleWorld and Blackberry Funambol fail to sychronize (lost connection). Admittedly, I have a lot of contacts (3000+), but this is ridiculous. I’ll try with myFunambol, but without the problem below solved, this is all a waste of my time.
3. Funambol Outlook Plug-in crashes every time I load it. I’m using Outlook 2007, with Funambol Outlook plug-in 6.5.8 on Windows Vista with SP1. The program runs fine until Options are selected (this happens automatically if you hit any button), at which point it promptly crashes. I’ve uninstalled this, as well as Office 2007, and even deleted registry entries related to Funambol, all to no avail. The program SIMPLY DOES NOT WORK. Ever. I can’t find anyone else experiencing this failure on the web, so I don’t know what to do next. Here’s some of the culprits I’ve investigated: 1) Removing registry entries, uninstalled programs and folders related to Outlook and Funambol, 2) Removed AVG antivirus, 3) Removed Google Desktop plug-in from Outlook. Other things not yet investigated: 1) Remove GD completely, 2) Remove Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0.

Unfortunately, if I can’t get this working, I’ll have to wait until I start at my next employer, because I’m not willing to pay for this kind of synchronization (or here).

компютри втора употреба
1. Upgrade your Blackberry to OS 4.5 and then run the JL_Cmder utility to perform a real factory reset. (I used the Beta OS 4.5.0.37)
2. Follow the regedit procedure in the documentation here to install a “blank” policy into a Blackberry.

I really enjoyed working at Seagate, and getting down and dirty with hard disks, and I wish all my colleagues the best (and beat out that there W company).

I’m moving (first day June 30) to a new company. It’s a small company with unique technology.