[NCLUG] NCLUG Digest, Vol 284, Issue 1

[Quent Johnson]

It should display the latest suggestions about what to display.


On 12/28/10 12:26, Kyle Haefner wrote:
> Neat!
>
> My suggestions:
> Inside temp (maybe one-wire)
> Current phase of the moon
> Email inbox count
> Unique visitors to tummy.com
>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:00 PM, nclug-request at lists.nclug.org
> <nclug-request at lists.nclug.org>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> Today's Topics:
>>
>>    1. What should I have on my information display? (Sean Reifschneider)
>>    2. Re: What should I have on my information display?
>>       (Alan Silverstein)
>>    3. Re: What should I have on my information display? (Brian Wood)
>>    4. Re: What should I have on my information display? (Brian Wood)
>>
>>
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:30:41 -0700
>> From: Sean Reifschneider<jafo at tummy.com>
>> Subject: [NCLUG] What should I have on my information display?
>> To: nclug at nclug.org
>> Message-ID:<4D191391.4070105 at tummy.com>
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>> I'm looking for suggestions on more things to put on my information display
>> at home.  See the second picture here:
>>
>>    http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/jafo_20101025_224922
>>
>> I have almost half of it still available.
>>
>> My old one also would display if there was an alert from the Internet storm
>> center, but I removed that because every time there was one of those it was
>> always a non-event.  It also used to display caller-ID, but we no longer
>> have a land line.  I'll probably add some information about our home
>> network connection, so I can glance up to see if it's saturated or not.
>>
>> Any ideas on good things I can add to the display?  Particularly things
>> that I can get off the Internet rather than, say, having to install an
>> electronic power meter on the house.
>>
>> Of course, the software that I use to display this is all publicly
>> available if anyone else wants to reproduce it.  I will say that the Atom
>> 330 ION system I got to put there has a surprisingly loud fan, so going
>> with a newer Atom that has lower power use would probably be recommended.
>> The 330 system I got on a special around christmas for a really attractive
>> price though.
>>
>> Sean
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:45:18 -0700 (MST)
>> From: Alan Silverstein<ajs at frii.com>
>> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] What should I have on my information display?
>> To: nclug at lists.nclug.org
>> Message-ID:<20101227224518.406E91CC44 at io.frii.com>
>>
>> Fun toy.  What should it show?  Well that's an open-ended question, and
>> it depends on what interests you.  But one clue might be, which websites
>> do you often visit for status updates during each login session?
>>
>> Here are some of my favorites -- just ideas, not actual URLs, sorry.
>>
>> - S&P 500 weekly graph, a "pulse of the market"
>> - NoCo satellite and/or radar images
>> - movies currently playing (but TMI for your screen maybe)
>>
>> Let us know what you settle on.  :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alan Silverstein
>>
>>
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>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:11:03 -0700
>> From: Brian Wood<bwood at beww.org>
>> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] What should I have on my information display?
>> To: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group<nclug at lists.nclug.org>
>> Message-ID:<4D191D07.5000807 at beww.org>
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>> On 12/27/2010 03:30 PM, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
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>>> I'm looking for suggestions on more things to put on my information display
>>> at home.  See the second picture here:
>>>
>>>      http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/jafo_20101025_224922
>>>
>>> I have almost half of it still available.
>>>
>>> My old one also would display if there was an alert from the Internet storm
>>> center, but I removed that because every time there was one of those it was
>>> always a non-event.  It also used to display caller-ID, but we no longer
>>> have a land line.  I'll probably add some information about our home
>>> network connection, so I can glance up to see if it's saturated or not.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on good things I can add to the display?  Particularly things
>>> that I can get off the Internet rather than, say, having to install an
>>> electronic power meter on the house.
>>>
>>> Of course, the software that I use to display this is all publicly
>>> available if anyone else wants to reproduce it.  I will say that the Atom
>>> 330 ION system I got to put there has a surprisingly loud fan, so going
>>> with a newer Atom that has lower power use would probably be recommended.
>>> The 330 system I got on a special around christmas for a really attractive
>>> price though.
>>
>> Pretty cool.
>>
>> Who would have ever thought that "Weather Underground" would be
>> something useful, people of my generation read that phrase very differently.
>>
>> I suppose stock quotes are too obvious, and of limited usefulness.
>>
>> Just some ideas, off the top of my head:
>>
>> If it were me I'd think about a scrolling version of the /. RSS feed.
>>
>> The "Doomsday Clock", or the "National Debt Clock", both might be
>> interesting, though somewhat depressing.
>>
>> The video/stills from selected web cams, especially the highway cams
>> during bad weather, might be useful.
>>
>> Traffic alerts, for a route you take often.
>>
>> The Security Alert "Color"? Meaningless.
>>
>> You might mine Twitter for information, as suggested here:
>>
>> http://gigaom.com/collaboration/how-to-mine-twitter-for-information/
>>
>> It would be nice to see Twitter actually be useful for something.
>>
>>
>> Altitude would be of limited use, and if it changed significantly you
>> would probably have more important things on your mind.
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:24:27 -0700
>> From: Brian Wood<bwood at beww.org>
>> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] What should I have on my information display?
>> To: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group<nclug at lists.nclug.org>
>> Message-ID:<4D19202B.9070007 at beww.org>
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>> On 12/27/2010 03:30 PM, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
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>>> I'm looking for suggestions on more things to put on my information display
>>> at home.  See the second picture here:
>>>
>>>      http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/jafo_20101025_224922
>>>
>>> I have almost half of it still available.
>>
>> How about the Internet "Viral Threat Level"?
>>
>> As in this:
>>
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4548/
>>
>> Not sure what they are really doing, or of it actually works, but it
>> sounds interesting.
>>
>>
>>
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