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Submission + - PLplot notes its 10,000th commit (sourceforge.net)

Submitted by iliketrash on Thursday June 04, 2009 @05:25PM

iliketrash writes: From the PLplot development team is the announcement of their 10,000th commit: PLplot is a cross-platform software package for creating scientific plots that has been in continuous development since its inception 17 years ago. On May 23, 2009 the PLplot developers quietly celebrated our ten thousandth commit since our initial software repository was populated back in May 1992. This longevity puts PLplot in some select company amongst open-source software projects. We may even be unique within this group because all PLplot development has been done by volunteers in their spare time. The enthusiasm for PLplot development continues; we have averaged more than 100 commits per month over the last year which is double our 17-year average, and we are looking forward to the celebration of our next ten thousand commits!

Submission + - Remote home monitoring

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iliketrash

on Sunday July 06, 2008 @09:28PM

iliketrash writes: "I plan to be away from my home for a few weeks in the near future (address not included) and would like to provide a bit of in-home monitoring while I'm away. Presumably I will continue to continue to use it after I return. I would like to be able to perform monitoring from a remote web browser with no special features (Internet cafe or a laptop). I can dedicate an old laptop (OS X, FWIW) to the in-home task. Note that the laptop can run Apache (since Apple provides it with every computer). I would like one or two low-frame-rate cameras or, better, motion-activated cameras. Also, I have an aging air conditioning (cooling) system and given that the daily high temperatures in my area of the U.S. can easily reach 110 degrees Fahrenheit, I would like to be able to monitor indoor temperature. There is a secondary situation where I would like to be able to monitor a particular aspect of part of the AC unit which could be accomplished by a video camera if it responded to heat i.e. infrared. (I understand that IR response is common in some video cameras). I have a home WiFi net that could be useful for connecting to the local computer. Of course, I would like it to be cheap. Are there any inexpensive sensors of these types, preferably WiFi enabled, that can be read by a remote web browser?"

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