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Being A Butterfly
August 8th, 2010, 4 Comments
Well, I’m back in Kansas after a bit over a week in New York for Debconf. I didn’t have time to write much, so I’ll probably be posting about it a few times. I already wrote about the trip to New York, and now will say just a bit about the time there and trip [...]
Daniel Schorr
July 23rd, 2010, No Comments
For many years now, I’ve admired Daniel Schorr’s reporting on NPR. I could instantly recognize his voice, and perhaps to the irritation of Terah, whenever I heard him on the radio, I’d turn it up and ask that we be quiet for a couple minutes so I could listen. The thing about Dan is that [...]
KD0MJT
July 17th, 2010, 2 Comments
Wow — tonight was thrilling. It’s hard to explain why, but it’s pretty exciting to have a radio setup that is all wrong in so many ways work well enough for me to sit in my kitchen in Kansas and talk to someone in Indianapolis using only two-way HF radios. I recently passed my technician [...]
Radios
July 10th, 2010, 7 Comments
Those of you that follow me on twitter or identi.ca know that I’ve been working on my amateur radio license. This started a few weeks ago when Jacob got excited about radios, and must have infected me too. I’ve been studying and learning a bit. I had called a local ham (amateur radio operator) I [...]
Hardware/Machine Reporting Tools
June 4th, 2010, 9 Comments
We have a tool at work, Kaseya, for our Windows machines. It handles updates, but also can report back information gathered from them: OS version, patches installed, time since last checkin, last user logged in, user most frequently logged in, plus details about hardware: RAM, disk size, serial number, etc. I’m looking for a tool [...]
Free-Range Kids: A Parental Rant
May 24th, 2010, 4 Comments
There’s a lot of unreasonable panic out there these days. Parents that don’t want to let their kids even walk to the mailbox because of an irrational fear of abduction. (Children are more likely to die falling out of bed than be abducted, and before anyone panics, that’s also exceptionally rare.) A woman that let [...]
Bicycling Update
May 13th, 2010, 14 Comments
I’ve been bicycling to work for awhile now. It’s become pretty much routine for dry days. I can reliably ride the 10 miles to work in less than an hour, even with heavy winds. My biggest enemy right now: rain. My first few miles are on gravel and sand roads, which aren’t maintained to the [...]
Some More Gopher Data
April 29th, 2010, No Comments
Yesterday, I invited you to download a piece of Internet history. Today I have unearthed a bit more data to add to it. There is a new torrent with 1.5GB more data (3GB uncompressed). This includes the FTP site from boombox.micro.umn.edu/pub/gopher, which was a large collection of Gopher client and server software. Also included was [...]
Moral obligations of Free Software authors?
April 19th, 2010, 45 Comments
I’ve got a bit of a problem. I enjoy writing software. I often write software to solve some sort of problem that I’ve had. Usually virtually any code I write winds up in my git repositories, on the theory that it might be useful to someone else. Some of the code that I think might [...]
Begin questioning my sanity… NOW
April 5th, 2010, 7 Comments
It’s been a long and wet winter here. We live down a dirt/sand/gravel road, and when it rains, it’s difficult to get a car down the road due to mud. And impossible to get a bicycle down it. As a result, I’ve only been able to ride my bicycle to work once since November, and [...]
