Naan Bread
Ingredients
1 package active dry yeast
2.25 cups bread flour
1 teaspoon salt
0.5 cup water
2 tablespoons melted butter
2 oz plain yogurt
Directions
Install water, melted butter, salt, and yogurt in bread machine pan. Add flour, and leave depression for yeast and install the yeast in the depression. Wait 15 minutes to allow pre-curing of liquid/flour mixture. Start bread machine [...]

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I haven’t been too active as of late…
My last posting was about reloading the OS… Now I’m becoming competant at last. I’ve done it 6 times!!! Apparently I took a lightning hit, so.
2 hard drives
2 PSU
1 CDRW
1 Motherboard
and hopefully this is the end of IT repair work. Solaris has self healing capability… perhaps it would [...]

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“bcd w2kpro”

Bart’s way to create bootable CD-Roms (for Windows/Dos)
My OS cd got a cat scratch on it, and would no longer boot, but at least I had made a complete copy of it on my network, so I wound’t have to go looking everytime I put some new hardware on.
I figured cool, I’ll just burn [...]

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Soil Water Monitoring Techniques
As garden season is upon us, I thought a good discussion of soil moisture sensing was in order.
Years ago, when I was designing radiation thermometers, ag was a potential market that few addressed. I’m guessing it was mostly an economic issue. The sensors of that era were spendy, and it was [...]

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qt510_101.pdf (application/pdf Object)
This is a slick unit, the QT510, and you can buy them from Digikey in low quantities for a song. I’ve often thought the Ipod wheel made a lot of sense, but the manufacturing complxities of fsr’s made it a challenge to replicate.
With QPROX technology, its going to be a lot easier, and [...]

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