RicaVision SideShow Remote Arrived

For all 4 of you that have ever read anything on this site you’ll know I am a bit of a Distributed A/V : SmartHome freak and part of that quest is creating a remote control system with an extremely high WAF(Wife Acceptance Factor). I thought I had that set with my Phillips Pronto and room based content switcher but then Microsoft introduced SideShow and the first devices started appearing in glass cages at tradeshows.

Devices with color screens, Media Player control and easy navigation.

Latest GSpace doesn’t really require GMail.. (GMail as an anonymous File Relay)

This is probably very obvious but I was installing the latest version of Gmail Space today - 0.5.1 - ( a FireFox extension for accessing GMail as a filestore in the browser, get it here: http://www.rjonna.com/ext/gspace.php ) and came across some interesting and most likely unintended functionality.
You can use your own arbitrary email address as […]

Webmin Virtual Host Manager

Update
Now requires the perl module YAML. Why? I moved to a new host and the Storable data was not byte compatible. YAML is a nice way to represent data structures in a portable, parsable and human readable way. It was a 4 line change and it made my life easier. It’ll make your easier […]