September 19th, 2009
I’m still sick, I should have stayed home at least one more day last week. Instead I’m dragging out the ick through the weekend now. I managed to get some extra sleep this morning, hopefully that will help and I’m not popping the sudafed. Two good things have happen out of being sick.
1. I’ve got a good start on Dan Brown’s new book, Lost Symbol. I know it is mass market and everybody in the world is reading it right now, but damn is it a good story.
2. I am completely caught up on my RSS feed reading. That hasn’t happen in a long time actually. One great nugget I came across was this most amazing home theater a guy built in Australia.
Now I’m hoping to spend a while in the garage, wiring up my new rotator. If the weather plays nice, I’ll take off half a day next week and try to get it installed.
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September 18th, 2009
Left work early today-I’m still fighting this head cold that won’t go away. The nap in front of the tv didn’t seem to help much.Time 4 drugs
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September 16th, 2009
I ordered Rosie and myself new monitors on Monday and they showed up today. I only got us 24″ models, since neither of our macs can drive anything bigger. They were really super cheap, $169 with our discounts and they really look nice. With this purchase, I am finally able to retire the last CRT monitor in the house. I have had one attached to the servers in the closet for a long time now, I didn’t think it was big deal since it is turned off 99% of the time and I only ever need to see text on it. But with today’s upgrades and round of shuffles, it is now gone.
I also order myself a replace WRT54G router, which showed up yesterday. I purchased one of the originals a long time ago, specific to hack it for radio stuff, but never got around to the hacking. Basically I took a look a the amount of effort it was going to take to-do what I wanted and decided it wasn’t worth it. Well this weekend a the APRS Summer Gathering, someone showed off a cool distribution he built. Basically he took the OpenWRT package and added all the ham radio bits for making it work with packet radio. Then layered on top a really cool web based configuration to allow mere mortals to configure everything.
So this means the old WRT54G, which got put into service as a real router a while ago, needs to be replaced. (It will be modified to gain serial ports this weekend) So I ordered up one of the 54gL models and it will get Tomato added soon and put into service.
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September 12th, 2009
#APRS gathering done for another year. Fewer and fewer people, more a chance to see friends. Want to install OpenWrt and packet stuff now.
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September 12th, 2009
Feeling bad for #wa7nwp at the #APRS gathering. He is playing laptop tag with the projector.
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September 12th, 2009
Making pancakes for the family before taking off for summer gathering of local #APRS group
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September 10th, 2009
Decided I’m going to the APRS Gathering this Saturday, but only to hear #wa7nwp talk and n7ipb….
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September 10th, 2009
Walking to jimmyjohns for lunch. Maybe not the most healthy of spots, but at least I’m getting outside for a while.
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September 8th, 2009
Getting lunch. No breakfast and TPS report day = lunch early
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September 7th, 2009
@wa7nwp what is AXUDP?
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