http://blog.petrasoft.net/phil In the beginning was the Word... [John 1:1] Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:46:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About a year ago I wrote a blog entry about an Open Automation Controller. I have been fiddling around with one for over a year now and it's starting to come together. I called it OpenDAX and created a website at http://www.opendax.org/ I have a pretty extensive blog there ... http://blog.petrasoft.net/phil/?p=17 I have been trying to decide on a good way to build an automation controller. Primarily I'm trying to decide on the overall architecture. The controller will be written for Linux. I'll try to keep it portable but it'll be written for Linux. There are ... http://blog.petrasoft.net/phil/?p=15 I've had my new 15" 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo Mac Book Pro now for a couple of days. I really do love the thing. It only took a couple of hours to get it out of the box and get all of my iTunes, Mail, iPhoto, Documents ... http://blog.petrasoft.net/phil/?p=13 I am writing this down so that I can remember how to do this next time. If you find it helpful and it saves you some time then I am glad to help. The first thing to do is to install the build-essential package. This installs gcc, make, gdb ... http://blog.petrasoft.net/phil/?p=11 Dear Instrument Rated Pilot, I really do appreciate the time, effort and money that you put in to earning that instrument rating.  I really do, and I will probably do the same some day when I get some of these other things in my life out of the way.  I'm sure ... http://blog.petrasoft.net/phil/?p=10 Today (for some unknown reason) I decided to take a look at Micro$oft's Vista page and see what all the hoopla is on this perpetual marketing drive known as Windows. It seems that they have copied a lot of the Mac OS X Tiger features. What are known as Widgets ... http://blog.petrasoft.net/phil/?p=9 It seems that some 'scientist' has 'discovered' a way to turn water into H2 and O2 and then burn it in an engine (thereby converting it back into water) to make power. This is bunk!! I don't care what process you use, or what 'discovery' you make. It doesn't matter ... http://blog.petrasoft.net/phil/?p=8 I just installed this blogging software (Wordpress) onto my web server. I have never really used a 'blog before but I decided to give it a try. I suspect that I'll spend a lot of time on these pages commenting on the days events. I'm sure that I'll do ... http://blog.petrasoft.net/phil/?p=7 Less than 24 hours after I flew off the test hours on my RV-7, Shannon and I climbed in it and flew to Littlefield to see my family. We sat in the terminal at West Houston Airport for a couple of hours waiting for the ceiling to lift. ... http://blog.petrasoft.net/phil/?p=5