So the 5star diner I was looking forward to having…
October 27th, 2012So the 5star diner I was looking forward to having breakfast at isn’t open this early. Had to hike back to the hotel for a generic one. :-(
So the 5star diner I was looking forward to having breakfast at isn’t open this early. Had to hike back to the hotel for a generic one. :-(
W7RNK-B is back on the air and connected to the outside world.
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1) D-Star repeater is back on the air. (sort of) Had to rebuild the whole box because I maxed out the writes on the CF card I was using. I spent a little time researching how to prevent this from again or at least how to slow it down. Only big thing left to-do is compile and install ircDDBGateway, but I can do that at work tomorrow.
2) Removed three garage cans of pine needles from the backyard. I can't believe how thick they were in some places. Really sad part, I don't have a single pine tree on my property.
3) My MacbookPro now has a SSD drive and the original drive is moved to the DVD slot. (I've not used the DVD for anything since buying the MBP) For the record, it does make a huge difference!
4) Replaced the outside light that I broke tearing down the deck this summer. I was getting a little worried about it with all the rain last week and this weekend. While the wires were not exactly exposed, it was still pretty open. Now I have a nice motion sensor light back there.
5) Started the huge task of cleaning up the garage. I have about 5 months of just dumping stuff to clear out. Managed to clear out enough of a path to get from one side to the other. Still need another half day to finish. Right now several other projects are blocked until I can finish cleaning it up. (installing wife's b-day present (new stereo for her truck, with iPhone docking), replacing the garage door spring that snapped two weeks ago and finally finishing the fog lights on the FJ)
Not much will probably happen this week and next weekend I'm heading down to Oregon for the Rickreal hamfest. Maybe I'll eventually get back to the NW-MESH project, I'd really like to put all the pieces together, so I can install the Bullet on the tower the next semi-nice day we have. The window of time for 'nice days' is closing pretty quickly!
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It isn’t raining people, why is traffic so bad?
Look what decided to come out and play! http://t.co/QgCqmZsp
I know this is going to sound very weird, but I'm actually looking forward to it raining this weekend. We have had such a wonderful indian summer this year, that I've felt it necessary to spend very possible moment getting stuff done outside. (For those fellow NW people, attached is the definition of an 'indian summer'. I know, this might be a new experience for you. :-)
In short I have been held hostage by the yard work, deck work and antenna work for the last two months. I know that I'll never actually completely finish any of these things, but there is some deep need to try when the end of August shows up here in Seattle. Typically we are looking at nine straight months of rain, but this year threw us a curve ball.
This weekend I'm looking forward to catching my breath, getting some 'inside' projects done and finally finishing the RaspberryPi APRS Digi project that started so many months ago.
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So after the very cool ham radio mesh workshop yesterday, I came home to a very sick Mac. My MBP was acting weird all day and when I got home, it actually failed to boot. Lots of recovery effort, but eventually I just flatten it and restored.
The new hidden boot partition made the whole process fairly simple. Was able to reformat, reinstall the OS and restore via my Time Machine instance in about three hours. So far the only 'problem' is my iTunes install, I didn't backup that folder (since it is so large and there is a copy on my iPhone). But now I have to 'restore' from my iPhone and that is kind of tricky.
I'm still happy I got a Bullet and 54G talking MESH. I'll start working on the CAT6 cable to mount the Bullet on the top of the tower.
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