I won’t even try to pretend I’m not a huge geek here… I’ve run public NTP servers for ages, and been somewhat intrigued ever since a dedicated server ended up misclassified as being in Brazil and got an enormous volume … Continue reading
While the blogs aren’t updated very often, at some point they stopped working an just displayed a 502 error. If I’m being honest, I have not idea what happened. The old setup was incredibly convoluted: a CDN in front of … Continue reading
This week we are in Ocean City, Maryland, and picked up some donuts from a popular local place, The Fractured Prune. Their donut box is extraordinarily bizarre: We had a discussion (including abundant use of “WTF”) about this, including why … Continue reading
After some aimless browsing, I somehow came to be reading about the Jim Creek VLF facility in Washington State, used for communications with (or, more accurately, communications to) submarines. Even with miles and miles of wire antennas in the air, … Continue reading
A neighbor gave me an old snowblower she didn’t need, a green 22″ Murray 5HP model. A label on the back identifies it as model number G2250030. I’ve been trying to fix it up and get it running on the … Continue reading
I now have an IT-managed Mac at work, which means that I had to cede a little control and allow weird stuff I don’t understand to run on it. I was disturbed today to find a root-owned process, repmgr, using … Continue reading
Someone on the repeater-builder mailing list mentioned that they were looking to get rid of a bunch of manuals for old radio equipment by WR Communications, Ltd., a defunct two-way radio company from Canada. (See their Industry Canada listing here.) … Continue reading
I want to do more posts here that are quick roundups of interesting things I’ve read, rather than rambling commentary. DPDK, the Data Plane Development Kit, permits a userspace application in Linux or BSD to bypass the kernel and directly … Continue reading
Last week, I had to have my car towed into the shop—and then from there to the dealership. (It felt sort of like when someone is taken by ambulance to a local hospital and then taken by medical helicopter to … Continue reading
A friend of mine recently pinged me with a problem he’s having. I wanted to share the problem and its solution, both because I hope it will help him and maybe others, and because my initial attempts at the problem … Continue reading