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    Septic Tank monitoring

    Yes, beelzerob and I are talking about systems with a separate dosing chamber containing a pump to send the liquid effluent into the drainfield periodically. Generally there are two reasons to use this type of design: (1) the topography of your lot makes it impossible to put the drainfield...
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    Septic Tank monitoring

    This is slightly off topic but I recommend you consider putting an effluent filter at the outlet of your septic tank before the effluent goes into the pump chamber. One of the main causes of septic system failure is solids getting into the lines in your drainfield -- especially with an LPD...
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    Help Building an APC home automation driver for APC Smart UPS SC1500

    Have you looked at Apcupsd for hints?. "Apcupsd can be used for power mangement and controlling most of APC's UPS models on Unix and Windows machines. Apcupsd works with most of APC's Smart-UPS models as well as most simple signalling models such a Back-UPS, and BackUPS-Office." (from their...
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    Looking for an affordable but good safe ...

    Mustangcoupe, you are correct that the DoD safes require multiple turns but once you open them a few times, it gets to be routine: turn left and stop the 4th time you hit "x," turn right and stop the 3rd time you hit "y," turn left and stop the 2nd time you hit "z," then turn right past "0"...
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    Looking for an affordable but good safe ...

    I don't have any information on the SafeSentry CSW3460 but, if you don't need the safe immediately, can suggest an inexpensive alternative. The Government has at least two ways of selling its surplus personal property: 1) The Defense Reutilization & Marketing Service...
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    Grocery Inventory - For 'Shop at Home' Ordering

    Look here for one UPC database: http://www.upcdatabase.com/ It is a free service, is updated regularly (monthly) and users can enter new items to the database. The database currently has over 1,000,000 entries. The website provides a web-based lookup service or you can download the whole...
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    Clipsal / Square D

    Yes, look here: http://ecatalog.squared.com/pubs/Power%20M.../1200CT0701.pdf Page 43 and 44.
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    Special Brultech ECM-1220.H offer to cocoontech members.

    They charged my credit card the sme day and mine arrived today. The package was sent from St. Catharines, Ontario, CA by XPRESSPOST, had a USPS tracking number and required a signature for delivery. According to USPS "Track & Confirm," it took 5 days in the Canadian/US postal system to get...
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    Special Brultech ECM-1220.H offer to cocoontech members.

    Ordered mine last Friday. Looking forward to installing it as soon as it arrives. Will post details.
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    Distributed UPS power status notification

    Have you looked at the APC UPS Daemon? From their webpage: "Apcupsd can be used for power mangement and controlling most of APC's UPS models on Unix and Windows machines. Apcupsd works with most of APC's Smart-UPS models as well as most simple signalling models such a Back-UPS, and...
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    Ethernet Rack Mounts

    You and also buy steel or aluminum rack rails and "roll your own." http://www.middleatlantic.com/rackac/rail/rail.htm
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    Presentation about home automation and smart appliances

    Here are a couple of places to look: 1) http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl...ticleId=9003752 - A somewhat dated (2006) article describong "Microsoft Home, the software vendor's techno-fueled vision of domestic accoutrements of the future." 2)...
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    c-bus in the u.s.?

    Please consider this a squeak.
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    c-bus in the u.s.?

    I am a satisfied Clipsal customer. I enrolled in the Clipsal training course at their Florida design center last year and then bought enough components to do a prototype installation. The 3-day course was very informative and helpful and I managed to get the prototype working with no problems...
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    M1XEP, SMTP and Mac OS X

    You can configure your Gmail account so you bypass the web interface and use their POP/SMTP servers to receive and send mail, respectively. I have used the Gmail POP/SMTP servers with Eudora but haven't tried it with the M1XEP. Log into your Gmail account, go to settings and then select the...
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