What a busy day… today and yesterday
July 29, 2010 1:57 pmNot much of a blogger
July 23, 2010 5:29 pmBack on the Trail of helping Portland
December 29, 2009 12:27 pmNow that others have stepped in to address the mayor issue Portland has…
I am now volunteering for Mary Volm to be a publicly financed candidate for Portland city council. She is the only woman who is running for office this term and is simply brilliant. I like the fact that she is an artist and understands what it is like to sacrifice for your work. She also knows the city inside and out by working 20 years for the city.
If you could please visit Mary’s website and support her.
One thing for sure… 2010 is going to be interesting!
The flight and fight of time
November 30, 2009 1:44 amUp late washing windows
November 19, 2009 10:34 amPretty good week… so far
November 18, 2009 1:25 amPariah
November 8, 2009 9:32 pmChilling with some SOM
12:12 amEmergency Ordinances on the Consent Agenda
October 28, 2009 12:08 pmCracking a NUT with code
November 18, 2008 9:48 pmI got the gear that I lent to Amanda’s campaign back and am getting it set up for a project that me and a few friends are doing. Today was mainly getting the PowerCom KIN-1500AP UPS up and running. I ended up having to write some code to get the shutdown working properly.
See:
#! /usr/bin/perl
# little script that will wait till batteries are almost dead to power down # if power comes back before then then NUT is restarted
# min battery level to start shutdown $min_battery_level = 80;
# seconds to wait between poll of UPS status $poll_interval = 10;
$upsc_bin = "/bin/upsc"; $logger_bin = "/usr/bin/logger"; $upsname = "black@localhost";
$ups_status = &get_ups_status(); $ups_battery_level = &get_ups_battery_level();
`$logger_bin -t $0 "called by NUT"`;
`$logger_bin -t $0 "UPS_STATUS is $ups_status"`;
`$logger_bin -t $0 "UPS_BATTRY is at $ups_battery_level"`;
while ( &get_ups_battery_level() > $min_battery_level ) {
### The UPS is back on line and we can exit
if ( &get_ups_status() eq 'good' ) {
`$logger_bin -t $0 "UPS_STATUS is good."`;
`$logger_bin -t $0 "Restarting NUT and exiting $0"`;
`/etc/init.d/nut restart`;
exit 1;
}
else {
foreach ( `$upsc_bin $upsname` ) {
if ($_ =~ m/ups\.status/) {
`$logger_bin -t $0 "$_"`;
$ups_battery_level = &get_ups_battery_level();
`$logger_bin -t $0 "battery.charge: $ups_battery_level"`;
sleep $poll_interval;
}
}
}
}
# If we get to this point the battery is really low and we need to shutdownp `$logger_bin -t $0 "battery.charge is below $min_battery_level"`; `$logger_bin -t $0 "Shutting system down"`;
`/sbin/shutdown -h -P now`;
########################################
sub get_ups_battery_level() {
foreach ( `$upsc_bin $upsname` ) {
if ($_ =~ m/battery\.charge/) {
$charge = $_;
$charge =~ s/(.*)(\:\ )(.*)/$3/ ;
chomp ($charge);
}
}
return $charge;
} #End of sub get_ups_battery_level()
sub get_ups_status() {
foreach ( `$upsc_bin $upsname` ) {
if ($_ =~ m/ups\.status/) {
if ( $_ =~ m/OL/ ) {
$status = "good";
}
else {
$status = "bad";
}
}
}
return $status;
} #End of sub get_ups_status()
The CNC machine is working great. I am still learning the intricacies of CAM and gcode… well that and waiting for the variable speed controller and mill ends to arrive. I emailed the city to find out the process for selection on the CRC. This week they are reviewing the applications and the beginning of December is when they will interview. Jonathan over at Bikeportland.org posted a very telling story of why I feel that Citizen oversight of the police service is necessary:
PSU Cycling Club president Reuben Vyn and Officer Pryce. (Photos: Peter Welte, Story: BikePortland.org)
