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Red Squirrel

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Updated forum to latest phpbb version on dev test and live, everything synced up. Got rid of some errors I was having. That place is probably going to stay dead but I just wanted to finish that project.

Still a bunch of stuff to tweak but getting there. Once everything is good I'll send mass email to all the users, and see what happens from there.

Then it will be time to move to a new project. Probably home automation stuff. Been wanting to design a more modular solution than the hard wired/hard coded stuff I got now. Probably make it Ethernet/POE based.
 

Charmonium

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Zwave modules work really well but you need a good hub.

I have an old Samsung hub but it can be extremely slow. For example, when I walk into the basement, it can take up to 20 or 30 seconds for the light to come on.

That's not something that happens every time, certainly. Most of the time it comes on either immediately or within 5 to 10 seconds.
 

Red Squirrel

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Converted my home automation server to SSL, valid certs and all. Been slowly doing that to all my boxes. Browsers are getting annoying with giving warnings on forms, even for local sites and I hate dealing with SSL warnings, so went all the way. It's nice to see things being more "clean". No warnings etc.

The biggest nice change has been my dev server, everything is SSLed now. The warnings on forms was getting irritating to deal with. I use an internal sub domain that is valid online, so I can do cert validation that way. There's a cron job that just fetches the cert from the web server and puts it on all my local servers.
 
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Lifer
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Hand-sliced andouille sausage and yellow onion

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IronWing

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Crunching taxes now. Back in the summer, for various reasons, my finances and taxes became a lot more complicated than in normal years. I set up a spreadsheet to estimate taxes so I could do some planning for the remainder of the year. My estimate from August was $1.31 off from the correct value. Woot!

Edit: when I punch an HSA excess contribution removal (payroll screw-up) into my August spreadsheet, the error narrows to $0.07 or zero when rounded. Double woot!
 
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