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Whia has been working like a champ and has been able to keep the rooms with 2 % humidity and 2f at the hottest. The pressure sensor on the main plenum didn’t work out at all, but pre and post manifold temperature sensors do fine.
Internet in a box worked great, but o had to turn in my data card, so I rooted my phone and I’m using WiFi tether on it. Works awesome.

Quick little bit of geekery. I bought a new(er) car and have finally decided to start putting all of the “wouldn’t this be neat” stuff into it since I’ll be rolling on this one for awhile. First piece of gear that went in today was a zoom portable, battery powered access point that accepts a USB 3G card. I don’t have a USB 3G card, but I do have an ExpressCard one. So add to that a SIIG USB to ExpressCard adapter and viola, instant internet. I wanted to really geek it up and build a linux box using a Sheeva plug and an atheros wifi card acting as an AP, but all of the gear was just under $110, so it didn’t make much since to cobble. If you see me on the highway, I’m broadcasting /dev/car as my ssid. Hop on and have fun!

prep for baby number 2 has pretty much drained away any free time that might have been dedicated to anything geek. Experience has taught me that now is the time to get all of the more essential things done, because once the 2am feedings start, everything else stops. WHIA is still working, but hasn’t had to do much as the weather has been really nice. V2 has made no progress at all since my last update and is most likely going to be on the back burner for a fair bit. Hopefully the vacation fairy will visit my house soon, but for now it’s looking like nose to the grindstone.

First up, not a whole lot of change going on with the nerd stuff.  The wife is having a harder time with this pregnancy, so I’m trying to pick up everything around the house that I can. Doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for being a giant dork, so pretty much all of the geek goodies are still on paper.   I did get a new toy this weekend though to replace my broken phone, a Sprint HTC Hero.  I love this phone. It integrates with all of the google services, has nice build quality, a great selection of software and is very hacker friendly. The google voice integration is great, but it does struggle a bit when it comes to notifications that come from google voice. You get the alert twice, once in the voice app and once in the phones SMS app. The app marketplace is very neat and I love the multitasking this thing does. I haven’t had any real slow down issues yet, but I have loaded taskkill just in case. The camera is one of the better cameras for a cell phone and the GPS receiver gets a signal in around 4 seconds. My only real beef with the Hero is that it could use about 500mah more battery. I haven’t run it dead yet, and I’ve been banging on it much harder then I will in real life, but that extra 30% would be nice. The SenseUI stuff that HTC has grafted onto Android is really slick, I can’t wait to buy one of these for my wife!

The iproute2 tools are default installed on most major linux distributions now, but few people know how to use them. Once you are familiar with them though, you will lament having to use ifconfig and route. Here is a quick chart on iproute2 replacement commands.