Ug, the hard drive on my Linux box seems to be having some major problems, Bad sectors and all. So what I am trying to do, is since it only is happening on the /home partion, and that partion is 100Gb large and I only have 30Gb of data on it, and the problem seems[…]
Well this was funny today. First before I get into what I found funny, I will admit I am 1 of the 5 non-football fans in Pittsburgh, yes there are about 5 of us in the city, please please don’t hunt us down and kill us ;-). Also I have a friend that lives in[…]
I have 2 domains that I am not using right now and wondering from my friends what should I do with them. The first is congeek.com and the other is geeksforlife.org Right now their is nothing up there, I want to do something with them, so I ask my friends what should I do with[…]
I have been taged by Small But Disorganized so I guess I should anser it [b]Four Jobs I’ve Had[/b] 1. Computer Programmer (CMU and current) 2. Computer Operator (CMU) 3. Undergrad Teaching Assistance (at Pitt) 4. Software installer (for my old high school, well it was installing Windows 95 on some computers so not really[…]
OUCH!!! First that is what I have to say about the game OUCH!!!!! I was at the game tonight, you can see the pictures I took tonight here. The Pens start out strong and end the first period 2 to 0. In the second Ottawa gets a penalty, and is short handed, this is where[…]
In my last post, I talked about using Virtual Class Inheritance, and was thinking about how to cast it. well I have come up with from books and talking with others to try this: [code] // See http://blog.mikeoconnor.net/?postid=874 // for the class defs grandchild* Base2grandchild(Base *ptr) { grandchild *toBeReturned; try { toBeReturned = dynamic_cast(ptr); return[…]
I am going to post some evil now, I will cover more on it later. But a program I am working on has gotten to a point to where I ended up needing to do something like [code] class Base { public: int value }; class child1 : public Base { }; class child2 :[…]
The BBC is running an article about an idiot who is suing Apple computers over the dangers of the iPod. He claims there are not adequate warnings on the device about the dangers of hearing loss on it. I guess if he wins we will see yet another stupid warning label, maybe it should read[…]
I was holding off on talking about this one, I wanted to make sure it got published first, but for wplug‘s news letter The Open Pitt I have started a small monthy artical, called “Links of the Month” The link I gave above is from the Jan issue of the Open Pitt, I have another[…]
As most people probably have heard that Cindy Sheehan was arrested yesterday for a T-Shirt she unveiled just before before The State of the Union Address from President Bush. There are a range of opinions of this on both sides, I will list 5 blogs (blog sites not news sites, this will give you an[…]
Ever seen a burger with 100 patties on it I saw this the other day, and I felt like I wanted to visit the bathroom to expel my lunch from my mouth.
Well with all the Podcasts I am subscribed to I took my iPod that had only 13Gb of songs on it, to being filled to 34Gb of data. Maybe I should limit the number of PodCasts I copy to it, I probaby will not really worry about it till I get down to my last[…]
I am not going to give a review of it, most people probably decided if they were going to like it or not before it (and I bet it was along party lines too), and I am sure by noon tomorrow we all will be sick of the reviews of it(news, blogs, and the political[…]
CNet has some screen shot of the new IE 7 beta I looked at it, and to me it looks alot like firefox.
Breitbart/AP is reporting that Alito is now a Supreme Court judge. I first saw this over at Free Republic and then over at Michelle Malkin’s blog.
I saw an video recently on youtube where someone was complaining that hobbies have been ruined in recent years, he made his argument. I personally reject his argument. His argument is that influincers on either on Youtube or tiktoc have made it where people feel they have to spend a lot of money to get[…]
A while back my dad was going to get rid of his old telescope as the cover on it would not come off. I had help from a friend to get it off, but it does come off now. All that was missing at that point was an eye piece for it, and I found[…]
I was talking to a ham friend of mine about the new domain I have and said I am thinking of doing a website on the domain along with the email. And he said since it will be a ham radio website, I have to do it in 90’s style since a lot of personal[…]
Today I found out about the .radio TLD. I also found out that while it normally 200+EUR ham radio operators are given a discounted price of 25EUR (about 30USD) a year, and I thought it would be nice to have my call sign as a domain. so I registered kb3hcg.radio right now I have it[…]
I fiannly got the attena tuner today, and have set it up. Now here are some pics of my setup. First here is my setup where I sit to operate the radio. You can see the ham computer I have setup, the ham radio and the tuner, and my late mothers old shortwave radio (a[…]
While my FT-891 works great with my ATAS-120A Antenna on my car. But I been unable to get a good attena working for my FT-710, I been tring to use 2 ham sticks setup in a dipol setup, but I can not get the SWR under 5:1, so I kind of given up, so I[…]
Back on Nov 24th I went out to the DE Ham Radio Outlet, to get a Yaesu FT-710 feild. While I was out there I also picked up a FT-891 for my car, since I recently got my general upgread for my ham license. I have not had a chance to play with the FT-710[…]
The other day I went down to a local home depot to pick up some stuff to build a small attena mast for my balcony. One of the items I needed was a block of wood for the base. When I went to the wood section the guy there was helping another customer cut some[…]
Back on Oct 11, I took the test to upgread my ham licnense from Tech to general, yesterday I got the email from the FCC that my license in the database has been updated. Also last week I decided to join the ARRL. Over the years I have heard of 3 things that the ARRL[…]
Tonight I setup my 40m attena to tune around the 20m band of the ammature radio band, while I did not key up (still have yet to make any contacts on my new privileges that passing my general exam granted me) I did enjoy tuning around. It took me some time to get my attenas[…]
