I was asked to give a talk on HamWAN this morning at the Sky Valley ARC club. It was the first ‘official’ request I have gotten since putting my name down on the local ARRL speaker list. It was probably the third time I have talked about HamWAN, but the first planned on, I even had slides this time!
Last week I gave a quick introduction to the Mac OSX program called Buster (for accessing the DSTAR reflectors) and something called AMBEserver (Which leverages the NWDigitalRadio’s ThumbDV or PiDV products). Here is a PDF of the slides.
Several weeks ago a hot water line busted in the ceiling above my office/radio shack. While I caught it quickly enough to prevent any serious equipment damage, I pretty much ripped out about a 1/3 of the ceiling finding the leak and creating enough room to fix it. I called in the pro’s to re-do the dry wall on the ceiling and decided since I had already emptied the room, I might as well replace the carpet as well. So this weekend I have been ‘completely’ emptying the room and prepping the ceiling to paint it tomorrow.
This has of course meant the relocation of everything in my office to the family room. And a massive clean out has take place over the last two weeks as this process has occurred. Today I finally got down to emptying the closet and I have found some really interesting items.
Most of the stuff went straight into the garage, I think there has been at least three garage bags take out so far. I kept the USB modem and the SupraFaxModems for sentimental reason. I am now going through the ZIP drives before tossing them. I was amazed that my Windows 7 netbook was able to enumerate the drive and read all the ZIP disks so far. To me that is actually even amazing than the ZIP drive actually working, even though it is a prototype and has been sitting on a shelf for decades. Most of the disks have been blank, so I am thinking this isn’t the first time I have gone through them. Actually all but one of the disks has been blank.
Charlie Stross has a new Laundry book coming out this summer. Nightmare Stacks is taking another turn and being told from another characters point of view. (But he promises that Bob will be back in the follow up) iO9 has the details…
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