Hole-n-Wall https://www.ku7m.net Stuff that I like, stuff I hate and all that is in between…. Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:43:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.7 And then there was another one….. https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317036 Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:39:12 +0000 https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317036 It has been months since I was awarded a patient, so I was happy to get the note another was awarded this week. (I say this very tongue in cheek, since I am always surprised) This one goes back about six years ago, when I was building a new way to route Amazon retail website customer requests to the correct backend fleet. I think this was four teams ago in my Amazon timeline, which has gotten pretty long in my 15 year tenure.

Patient title: Group-Based Treatment of Network Addresses

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And yes, another one…. https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317032 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:26:53 +0000 https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317032 I’m getting teased at work for having so many patents right now, another one was awarded this week.

Network Health Data Aggregation Service

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Quote that rang true…. https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317028 Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:22:04 +0000 https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317028 Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain

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Another piece of the puzzle… https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317024 Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:20:34 +0000 https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317024 Amazon has this thing where when you submit a patient application and it is filed (so all the internal reviews are complete), you get a clear puzzle piece. Then down the road if the patient office accepts and issues the patient, you get a second puzzle piece with the patient number on it and this one is blue.

I finally got my first blue puzzle piece a couple years ago, I just got another one at the end of 2020. Given that I’m still working from home, I didn’t ‘pickup’ the blue puzzle piece until a couple weeks ago. (I had to go into the office to get something from my desk) But I did take a couple minutes to add the new piece to my ‘puzzle wall’. I know people that have so many of these that it fills their office windows.

I also just got e-mail this morning that another one of the batch I submitted several years ago was issued.

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Cleaning up… https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317017 Fri, 25 Dec 2020 06:35:41 +0000 https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317017 I took the last two weeks of the year off, I only had to spend about 5 hours on Monday generating a report. (sigh)

Tonight I’m making cinnamon rolls for breakfast tomorrow, the only time I get to have them is when I make them myself. (dairy problem) So while waiting for them to bake, I have been cleaning out folders in gmail. I came across this link I sent myself and had to share. Well worth the 5 minutes to read it.

Thank you Mr. Adams….

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Another Patient Issued, Round 2…. https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317014 Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:04:21 +0000 https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317014 It is odd how the process works, the two patients which were issued back in July 2019 were apart five which were filed at the same time. You tend to file them in batches when they all come out of a new project development. I got notified another from that batch just got issued, 18 months later….

Patient 3: Visualization of Network Health Information

The next time I stop by the office (which I’ve seen twice in the last ten months), I’ll grab a picture of the cool blue puzzle pieces awards you get at Amazon when a patient is award. You get a clear puzzle piece when filing a patient.

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Cornbread Road is Back! https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317011 Thu, 27 Aug 2020 02:41:27 +0000 https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317011 This is a great audio / short story about ham radio, which is produced/written by Jeff-KE9V. If you have never listen to it, I highly recommend downloading it. Jeff took is down for a a couple years, I was super lucky that I had saved a copy before it went off line.

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Another Patent Issued…. https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317008 Sat, 20 Jul 2019 20:02:26 +0000 https://www.ku7m.net/?p=317008 So I started writing this post months ago, for some reason never published it and have since had a second patent issued. What is odd/weird, the second patent was ‘filed’ at least a year before the first. I know a lot of people feel patents are out dated and this is doubly true for software patents, but the 10 year old in me reading books about Thomas Edison still feels it is cool.

Patent1: Filtering Network Health Information Based on Customer Impact

Patent2: Group-Based Treatment of Network Addresses

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Icom ID-5100 Fan Replacement (or Noise Fans Suck)….. https://www.ku7m.net/?p=316993 Sat, 21 Jul 2018 06:22:59 +0000 https://www.ku7m.net/?p=316993 Last week a discussion was started among some ham radio friends about replacing the fan on a particular Kenwood mobile radio. While I don’t have that particular radio, I do have the Icom ID-5100, which I like very much except for one annoying thing. The stock fan is REALLY LOUD.  So I spent less than five minutes finding a good Google article posted by G6NHU about his efforts replacing the fan on his 5100.  He even posted a YouTube video with the before and after impact of the fan change.

I decided to order the fan G6NHU recommended and one of the brand that my friend had recommended from his Kenwood replacement. (The Icom has a slightly different size, but it was easy to find it on Amazon). I ended up trying both and the Noctua was quieter, as in virtually silent. I had to put a flash light directly on the blades to confirm it was working, because I couldn’t hear it. The other fan G6NHU recommend was also much quieter than the stock, but this was a situation where you got what you paid for.

Here are some pictures of the actual surgery. The toughest part for me was getting the fan screws out initially. They were put in with some sort of loctite and I couldn’t budge three of them initially. But 30 seconds under the heat gun and I was able to remove them. Then it was just a matter of cutting the special connector from the stock fan and soldering it on the new fan.

Here is a snap when I got the fan off initially.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next up is a snap of the inside, it was pretty easy getting the bottom cover off and just un-plugging the stock fan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the initial test, to make sure everything was working before re-assembling.

Should note the super quiet fan is a three wire type, the yellow wire provides RPM data back to PC motherboards. Since I didn’t need it, I just cut it off when I was sure it was working.

Here is a picture of everything put back together. The fan is a desert dirt brown, which clashes pretty bad with the all black of the ID-5100 case. But the body of the radio lives under my desk and I don’t tend to care to much about colors. (Function over form)

 

 

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Seaside Hamfest and WWARA Talk…. https://www.ku7m.net/?p=316982 Sun, 03 Jun 2018 04:25:42 +0000 https://www.ku7m.net/?p=316982 Attended the Seaside hamfest this weekend. I am pretty sure that I attended my first one 30 years ago or really close to it. I enjoy seeing people and hanging out, but there is little at the hamfest that actually interests me. I bought my normal bag of adapters and misc. connectors and then tried to wonder around the main flea market area. Since I’m still not doing great with the leg thing, I ended up going back to the room to rest after an hour.

My main reason for coming this year was to give a talk on the WWARA and repeater coordination. The idea was to hold a short membership meeting during the talk (which I managed todo in less than two minutes) and then give a talk about what repeater coordination actually is and some of the things the WWARA does for regular hams. The room was nearly filled and people were asking questions, so I’m going to call it a success. Here is a link to the talk.

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