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Time Lapse Solar Panel Installation

Yazan: dp | 29 March 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Frugality, Projects

Very cool time lapse video showing an Ann Arbor mans solar panel installation. Many thousands of dollars were spent to get it all right; he expects a $0 electricity bill “soon”. via YouTube – Ann Arbor Michigan Solar Roof Installation.

How to Play Your XBOX on Your Computer Monitor (with Audio) on the Cheap!

Yazan: griffigr | 28 December 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Computers, Gaming, Projects

Image via Wikipedia Recently, while doing some design work in my little makeshift studio, I realized I was getting frustrated with a particularly stubborn piece of ActionScript. I needed to take a break, clear my head, and approach the problem with a bit of patience. So, off I went, desperately reaching for a little XBOX [...]

Baby Changing Table: Update

Yazan: dp | 04 February 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Projects

As an update on the , I’ve gotten new side-rails cut, and the center rail as well. Both have been cut from 1″x6″ white oak planks. I’ve sanded them down to nice and smooth; now I need to get a 1/8″ roundover bit for my router so I can clean up the edges. I need [...]

gms8994′s benchmark at master – GitHub

Yazan: dp | 11 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Projects, Servers

I’ve recently been posting my benchmark scripts to github. You can find them here: gms8994′s benchmark at master – GitHub. I’ve also started posting the results within the wiki, each page with the same name as the script. For example: comparing MySQL inserts with one set of values, or multiple sets of values.

Project: Baby Changing Table

Yazan: dp | 28 December 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Projects

Image via Wikipedia My newest project is a baby changing table. It will be made from mahogany (I think, not 100% sure on that yet), and will fit to the dresser that it was designed for. This will be a gift to my best friends’ new baby boy when he arrives sometime around February. I [...]

Tomboy and Mediawiki Sync

Yazan: dp | 18 December 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Projects

Tomboy is great. It’s a small app that accepts your input, and creates an In-app wiki. Sometimes, I’m on a machine with Tomboy; sometimes I’m not. But I’m almost always near an internet connection. So I wrote a script to synchronize between a MediaWiki installation, and Tomboy. It handles local and remote deletes, renames, edits, [...]