I think the military dentist have a bounty out for wisdom teeth. I was at my first assignment for two weeks when the dentist said they had to come out because they might present a problem in the future. (Yes, they took all four out at once, but I managed to get 48 hours quarters!)
You are not limited to one house code for the entire house...I have all my motion sensors on 'A', everything downstairs on 'D', the Master Bedroom is 'C', the other bedrooms are on 'B', and the outside lights and pool area are on 'O'. I use Mister House as the home automation system. I have palm pads about the house, set to the proper code for that area.
I decided to run all the wire myself...I tapped into the cable and phone system on the outside of the house and ran it into a closet. From this closet, I ran 1 Cat5e, 1 Cat5, and 2 RG6 cables to each room. I figured that the Cat5 would be for phones and the Cat5e would be for the Lan. The Lan lines are connected into a 24 position patch panel, then wired to the switch. The Cat5 is run to a punch down block. I already have three phone lines active in the house, so you can plug into any one of the numbers. I'm wishing that I had run a second Cat5e to each room. For video, I put the cable box, DVD player, sat dish, and vcr on modulators and fed that back into the basic cable line (filter strips off channels 68 - 106) to run out to all the rooms. Want to watch a DVD in the kids room? Turn to Channel 92. Cable box to watch a scrambled channel? 94. For all unscrambled channels, just turn to it. Extra RG6 is to feed more signals back into the video run (maybe another VCR in a room on a modulator.)
What I learned from doing all this:
1 - All the information you need is on the web. Just look for it.
2 - I'm not a carpenter. I really screwed up the drywall.
3 - It really isn't mentally difficult, but can get physically difficult.
4 - Next house will already have all the wires run:-)
After buying an average of 8 CDs a month since 1988, I have over 1100 CDs. After spending months ripping to MP3, I have 70+ GB sitting on SCSI drives (I put each album in it's own folder with an Artist (year) - Album Name format to make it easy to select a directory in Winamp).
I'm now trying to get MisterHouse to read that many playlist:-)
I've just started a non-profit company that refurbishes old (anything from a 486 and above) computers and puts them into the homes of dis-advantaged teenages in the San Antonio area. My biggest worry is getting a valid (legal) copy of windows to put on the box.
Don't EVEN bother to say "put a FREE OS on the box." I want kids to dig into the box. Most won't even know where to start with a non-windows system!
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I think the military dentist have a bounty out for wisdom teeth. I was at my first assignment for two weeks when the dentist said they had to come out because they might present a problem in the future. (Yes, they took all four out at once, but I managed to get 48 hours quarters!)
You are not limited to one house code for the entire house...I have all my motion sensors on 'A', everything downstairs on 'D', the Master Bedroom is 'C', the other bedrooms are on 'B', and the outside lights and pool area are on 'O'. I use Mister House as the home automation system. I have palm pads about the house, set to the proper code for that area. I decided to run all the wire myself...I tapped into the cable and phone system on the outside of the house and ran it into a closet. From this closet, I ran 1 Cat5e, 1 Cat5, and 2 RG6 cables to each room. I figured that the Cat5 would be for phones and the Cat5e would be for the Lan. The Lan lines are connected into a 24 position patch panel, then wired to the switch. The Cat5 is run to a punch down block. I already have three phone lines active in the house, so you can plug into any one of the numbers. I'm wishing that I had run a second Cat5e to each room. For video, I put the cable box, DVD player, sat dish, and vcr on modulators and fed that back into the basic cable line (filter strips off channels 68 - 106) to run out to all the rooms. Want to watch a DVD in the kids room? Turn to Channel 92. Cable box to watch a scrambled channel? 94. For all unscrambled channels, just turn to it. Extra RG6 is to feed more signals back into the video run (maybe another VCR in a room on a modulator.) What I learned from doing all this: 1 - All the information you need is on the web. Just look for it. 2 - I'm not a carpenter. I really screwed up the drywall. 3 - It really isn't mentally difficult, but can get physically difficult. 4 - Next house will already have all the wires run :-)
After buying an average of 8 CDs a month since 1988, I have over 1100 CDs. After spending months ripping to MP3, I have 70+ GB sitting on SCSI drives (I put each album in it's own folder with an Artist (year) - Album Name format to make it easy to select a directory in Winamp).
:-)
I'm now trying to get MisterHouse to read that many playlist
I've just started a non-profit company that refurbishes old (anything from a 486 and above) computers and puts them into the homes of dis-advantaged teenages in the San Antonio area. My biggest worry is getting a valid (legal) copy of windows to put on the box.
Don't EVEN bother to say "put a FREE OS on the box." I want kids to dig into the box. Most won't even know where to start with a non-windows system!