My Wikis
Technical Interests
Energy Efficient Home
Tax Credit
- Weather strip for kitchen-to-garage door
- Attic insulation for garage
- Attic insulation for main house
- Windows
- Patio door
Other
- Infrared thermography
- Geothermal Heat Pumps, Solar Energy, Wind Energy and Fuel Cells
Gift Registry
John 2009
- Circular saw
- Light hiking boot, water resistant
- Black & Decker TLD100 Thermal Leak Detector
Jayden 2009
- Toys R Us Wish List, search for last name "zhuge".
How-To
VoIP Home Phone System
Requirements
Must-have:
- High voice quality
- Receive incoming PSTN calls
- Receive Skype calls
- Make local, long-distance, and international PSTN calls
- Make Skype calls
- Support POTS telephone handsets
- Suport softphones
- Support SIP phones
- Simultaneous outgoing calls
- Support quick dialing
Optional:
- Simultaneous incoming calls
- Support Skype phones
- Telephony applications
Minimize Hard Drive Access in Linux
Useful Links
noatime
Mount hard drives with "noatime" option.
syslogd
Don't run the daemon
ntpd and others
Edit ntp.conf to comment out lines about statistics
MLDonkey Browser Integration
http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/TipsAndTricks
Laptop Karaoke Setup
Hardware
- Mixer: Yamaha MG82CX
- Laptop: Dell Inspiron, Pentium M, 2G Memory
- Sound card: Creative Lab "Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit External"
Software
- Winamp
- plugin: http://www.autokdj.com/
- plugin: pacemaker
- http://www.karafun.com/
- Sogua KK
- 麦客疯
- 爱唱久久
- 酷我音乐盒
- 卡拉蜂
- k8唱歌软件
Helpful Links
SOCKS Proxy Server in China
- 219.134.64.251:1080
Home Theater PC
Requirements
- Play 1080p HD videos
- Youtube, Hulu, Boxee, XBMC
- Tudou, PPLive, SopCast, etc.
Choices
- Asus Eee Box EB1501
- Acer Aspire Revo AR3610, bought 4G, 500GB (French keyboard) version from Linke Computer in Canada
- Zotac MAG
- ASRock 330
- Dell Zino HD
Other Information
My Wikis
Technical Interests
Energy Efficient Home
Tax Credit
- Weather strip for kitchen-to-garage door
- Attic insulation for garage
- Attic insulation for main house
- Windows
- Patio door
Other
- Infrared thermography
- Geothermal Heat Pumps, Solar Energy, Wind Energy and Fuel Cells
Gift Registry
John 2009
- Circular saw
- Light hiking boot, water resistant
- Black & Decker TLD100 Thermal Leak Detector
Jayden 2009
- Toys R Us Wish List, search for last name "zhuge".
How-To
VoIP Home Phone System
Requirements
Must-have:
- High voice quality
- Receive incoming PSTN calls
- Receive Skype calls
- Make local, long-distance, and international PSTN calls
- Make Skype calls
- Support POTS telephone handsets
- Suport softphones
- Support SIP phones
- Simultaneous outgoing calls
- Support quick dialing
Optional:
- Simultaneous incoming calls
- Support Skype phones
- Telephony applications
Minimize Hard Drive Access in Linux
Useful Links
noatime
Mount hard drives with "noatime" option.
syslogd
Don't run the daemon
ntpd and others
Edit ntp.conf to comment out lines about statistics
MLDonkey Browser Integration
http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/TipsAndTricks
Laptop Karaoke Setup
Hardware
- Mixer: Yamaha MG82CX
- Laptop: Dell Inspiron, Pentium M, 2G Memory
- Sound card: Creative Lab "Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit External"
Software
- Winamp
- plugin: http://www.autokdj.com/
- plugin: pacemaker
- http://www.karafun.com/
- Sogua KK
- 麦客疯
- 爱唱久久
- 酷我音乐盒
- 卡拉蜂
- k8唱歌软件
Helpful Links
SOCKS Proxy Server in China
- 219.134.64.251:1080
Home Theater PC
Requirements
- Play 1080p HD videos
- Youtube, Hulu, Boxee, XBMC
- Tudou, PPLive, SopCast, etc.
Choices
- Asus Eee Box EB1501
- Acer Aspire Revo AR3610, bought 4G, 500GB (French keyboard) version from Linke Computer in Canada
- Zotac MAG
- ASRock 330
- Dell Zino HD