[NCLUG] NCLUG Digest, Vol 284, Issue 1

[Kyle Haefner]

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:
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> Today's Topics:
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>   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
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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:
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>   http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/jafo_20101025_224922
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> 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.
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> 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>
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> 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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