http://www.bigbrown.com Sat, 10 May 2008 13:17:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My latest project is a front end for PowerDVD. It creates a browsable database of all your videos, with descriptions, running time and more, plus a poster image. It has the ability to skip forward and backwards and saves your current spot when you press stop. http://www.bigbrown.com/index.php/2008/05/10/powerdvd-front-end-project/ [photopress:apwhlper.jpg,full,pp_image]This is my latest project. It is a program for generating and storing passwords for websites. Nothing is encrypted so you need to run it from a secure location, such as a TrueCrypt volume. http://www.bigbrown.com/index.php/2007/04/07/password-helper/ I think I finally tracked down the source of the variable corruption mentioned in an earlier post. When the monitor program uploads the data, I am using the fork command which makes a duplicate copy of the running program, one of the programs continues running, the other one calls the ... http://www.bigbrown.com/index.php/2007/01/25/source-of-corruption/ Today I got the database tables created and the scripts in place to get the uploaded data into those tables. So now all the infrastructure is in place. I still have some minor fabrication to do and need to make the door switch more permanent. But beyond that, the rest ... http://www.bigbrown.com/index.php/2007/01/24/in-the-home-stretch/ It has dried up enough that I think we can leave the doggy door open. I modified the door monitor program to ignore false motion readings. So the raw log file should be more readable and it should be obvious when the dog went outside or inside. I reset the log ... http://www.bigbrown.com/index.php/2007/01/23/beginning-real-testing/ I was able to track down the short circuit and repair it. Took longer than I would have liked but not as long as I feared. So, everything is now in place for testing. Which I am now doing. You can read all the raw sensor data here, http://www.junkphone.com/all.txt Right now, ... http://www.bigbrown.com/index.php/2007/01/21/up-and-running/ I went to test the new sensor with it all hooked up only to discover that somehow there is a short circuit somewhere in the heat shrink tubing. Which means I am going to have to rewire everything before I can do any real testing. Yay! http://www.bigbrown.com/index.php/2007/01/20/short-circuit/ After exchanging half a dozen emails with my host provider, they admitted to blocking my ip address but would not say why. All they would do was unblock my ip and whitelist it so it would not happen again. So I am still not clear on what I was doing ... http://www.bigbrown.com/index.php/2007/01/20/unblocked/ Wasn't able to do any testing last night because for some reason my webhost keeps blocking my IP address. Not sure what is causing it yet. It might have something to do with my upload script being called from the C program, although that doesn't make alot of sense. Or ... http://www.bigbrown.com/index.php/2007/01/19/blocked/ The ardunio was slightly damaged in a tragic cleaning accident. Took several hours to get it functioning again. Which did not leave very much time for anything else. I did however make some progress on tracking down the variable corruption. I still do not know what the root cause is, ... http://www.bigbrown.com/index.php/2007/01/17/minor-setback/