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Heyu is an excellent package for managing the X-10 CM11A serial interface (and some others, as well). I use it at home for automatically turning on and off lights. My home servers run Gentoo Linux, which gives a great amount of control over what packages are installed on your system and how these packages are compiled.
Unfortunately, heyu is not in the official Portage (Gentoo’s package manager) tree. So, here is an ebuild that can be placed in an overlay. It is a tar file, compressed with bz2. Download it to your machine and type tar xvjf heyu.tar.bz2
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Without being able to show actual graphics from the data I’m working on, due to confidentiality with my employer, this post is a note on a good technique I’ve found that could be helpful to others in the portfolio management space
I’m finding PivotGraphs a powerful tool to visualize and communicate portfolio interactions. One example would be how different vehicles in a manufacturer’s portfolio interact with each other. Through proper aggregation, it provides insigths that a traditional segmentation will miss.
Here is how a PivotChart looks like, linking to an IBM research article on the topic:
PivotCharts are not related to Excel PivotTables at all
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I’ve been actively setting up the site for the new service company I’m starting: 8020world.com, so posting here on my personal site has been scarce.
During the setup of the fulfillment portion of the new site, I found good instructions on valibuk.net that saved me some time, as they match exactly my setup: Rails, Capistrano, Mongrel and Apache (with SSL) on Gentoo. Thanks!
We’ll see how much I’ll be able to maintain the two sites, or if this one will fold into the corporate blog