RE: Introductory Message

[Tom Lawrence <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ste, Supervisor is Chris Howard, probably not changed much, I guess
you lef=
t 2-3 years ago, may have crossed paths then. I've been here 4, with a
plac=
ement year.
Its not changed much in terms of the ratio, its getting better but not
much=
difference..

I've ordered some X10 modules to play around with..  think if they don't
ar=
rive tomorrow I'll have to drop them a call and see where my gadgets are
at=
!
Will check out the Bye Bye Standby 2011 kit as well, cheers!

Regards
Tom



From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of S=
te Daniels
Sent: 02 February 2011 08:08
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Introductory Message



Hi Tom,

Looking at you makes me remember myself back in those days... I'm only 25
s=
o
not long ago!

I also went to Staffs and read Internet Technology there. Your FYP sounds a
little easy ;-) Who's your tutor? Is it still, pardon the phrase, a sausage
fest down there?

If your tight on your budget, the Bye Bye Standby 2011 range is at an
amazing price point about (=A36.50 per socket), get the Online Controller
f=
or
about =A350 and you can control it with UDP. I'm currently trying to find a
little time to write an xAP -> UDP interface for the thing, or just
write a
Generic Serial Device template for it in LinuxMCE.

Steve

On 31 January 2011 15:05, Tom Lawrence <tom@xxxxxxx<mailto:tom%4=
0tom-lawrence.co.uk>> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Just signed up to the mailing list and well this is my introductory
> message.
>
> I'm from the UK, (What is the general consensus here? UK? USA?) and
> currently a final year student at Staffordshire University, my final
year
> project is on open source firewalls but I'm thinking now I should have
do=
ne
> something related to HA.
>
> My setup at the moment consists of a WHS and mythTV with XBMC which
isn't
> very automated but being a student and moving house frequently I've
not
> really had the time/money/space etc. I have however ordered some X10
toys=
,
> although they have yet to arrive and also started to develop a system
to
> control them and various other things I have planned including
controllin=
g
> arduinos and gathering data from XBMC for example.. as well as being a
> client for the house/computers.. currently it also allows me to do
variou=
s
> tasks that normally require RDP'ing to my WHS.
>
> If anyone is interested I wrote a small little app to hide all the
metada=
ta
> in my TV and Films folder, keeps the folders looking tidy when you
naviga=
te
> to the shares. I'm happy to share if anyone wants it...
>
> Any who, that is a little about me.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
>

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