Today I am releasing py-openzwave, which is a python wrapper around the open-zwave project. The wrapper allows you to control a z-wave network from python. This wrapper is still a work in progress,...

Open-zwave is a great project, it provides a software interface to z-wave networks. Z-wave is a popular home automation protocol. With more and more devices coming I was interested in adding z-wave...

This little blog post is about Greengoose, a new start-up. Greengoose is making sensors which track your real life. You can for example attach a sensor to your toothbrush, to count how many times you...

Microsoft Exchange extends the default Active Directory schema with some additional attributes, also known as custom attributes. These extra free fields are very handy, we use them for example for...

Last weekend I received a nice little package from the UK. It was the BugLogic logic analyzer from Robomotic. I quickly unpacked it and found this logic analyzer inside: 629

By default hibernation is disabled on Windows 2008 server machines. However, a file called "hiberfil.sys" (equally sized to the amount of memory in the machine) is created in the root of the system...