This election year 1) scares me and 2) saddens me. Why? You may ask. Simple this, the next for years may (if Peroutka or [to a lesser extent] Bush get elected) could help save many many lives of the unborn if a judge needs to be appointed. But if the pro-murder kerry gets in, we[…]
Finally the first partion of the hard drive on the gateway finished the bad block scan. It is now on the second of the 3. But they are much smaller when compared to the other one. Right now on the second partion it is on block 194038/262144 if it goes for another 11 days I[…]
Ok here is the final total, I have moved the video file for now but here is the total before the move of the file: 51839.16 Megabytes (Yes that is about 50Gb, I bet my hosting company loves me now) So for the next 2 days I will not have that video up to save[…]
Ok if you clicked on the link at slashdot to view the video please Click here, to see the post. I had turned off the Hotlink Protection for the slashdot stuff, but now I have turned it back on again. I don’t think it should affect people much now, since it is almost off the[…]
Ok I got into the office and checked the bandwidth used, and it now reads 14911.41 Megabytes (~14Gb) WOW!!! that is more then I ever though I could server from my web site. Well lets see if I get slasdoted off the net today? Well I am investigating if I can buy a bit more[…]
I just got something submitted to /. that links to a file here from /. So far this morning the bandwidth usage is up at 336 Mb used and the story was posted at 7:30am and here we are about 2 hours and 15 minutes later and the site is up, I don’t think /.[…]
I just did a couple of searches on google today, one was to see how many pages are linked to my site, it returned 68. Before it was only returning 33. And I did a search for just my name Michael P. O’Connor and found that it is the first real hit. So if some[…]
Ok I went into the server logs and looked at where people were coming to my site from. Some were coming in from google, but I would never though my site would show up on some of the searches that are being reported. I followed back to these searches and 2 of them were valid[…]
Well as posted the other day, where I and 2 of my coworkers dropped over to the Robotics institute to see what they were showing off. I have now converted the video taken there to a quick time movie. To view the video Please click on read more below
W00t it is no about 1/2 way done on the bad block scan (3028872/6801228) I am so happy it just might finish before the end of the month!!! It has been going since Sep 29!! That is one borked hard drive. The drive is toast but I am going to let this finish for the[…]
Since I am haveing trouble with spammers, spamming my blog, I have not 1) all posts with URL’s in them will have to be appoved by me first before they can appear on this site (I will aprove almost all non-spam ones) comments with out URL’s will be posted with out me having to appove[…]
I have decided to add a BB for ham radio and short wave radios, lets see if this one goes well. I will be letting some of my ham friends know about it. If you are a ham or intersted in ham radio or short wave radio listening then check it out at Ham and[…]
Went with some coworkers for a little bit. we got some video, will be posting it eather tonight or tomorrow, Keep an eye here for said video, it was ok. Now I would love to get to work on programming a robot. When I was at Pitt I did resurch into Power Aware Real Time[…]
Come on I wake up this morrning to find I got 39 spam posts to my blog. Ok, spammers you have done it, now all posts with links will be moderated, if I have to I will go to a full moderation system. Spam is hated and unwellcome here, and will not be allowed. So[…]
Oh man, I hate, let me repeat that *HATE* spamers, this morning I found at 9:25am I got 6 spam posts to my blog. Well I deleted said posts. Besides this blog has such low reader ship even if I did not delete them it was wasted effort, maybe I am wrong I would love[…]
To work on getting better in shape, along with getting back on the bike, I went and rejoined the gym I use to be a member of. Went down for the first welcome session that they give “new members” and instead of driving down, I used it as an excuse to ride my bike and[…]
I had a great time this last 4th of July. First I went out and tried to activate a pota, while I failed at it because I made only 4 contacts, and when it got to 100 degrees it was to hot for me to continue, and I had been at it for 2 hours[…]
Well today sony annouced that starting Jan of 2028 that they will end physical media for the playstation. My response is, well I don’t need to buy new games after Jan 2028. And given the rumors about the potental price tag of the PS6, it will save me a lot of money, as I will[…]
I have for over a decade missed riding my bike, this summer is the summer I am going to get back on the bike. I walked my bike down to the corner bike shop to get it tuned up, I really needs it as the last time I used it was back in 2014. I[…]
I been wanting to get a amature radio license plate for my car for a while now. Today after my annual eye exam I went down to the DMV and apply to get them, and have been told in about 4 to 5 weeks I should get them in the mail. It will be nice[…]
Last weekend I was feeling board so I decided to go along with my ham radio license, I would also buy a GMRS license. I got the equipment and set it up, I have one in the car, and one at my radio table here at home. I have a Btech in the car, I[…]
I got my General license in October, and a FT-710 back in December. I have been struggling on getting the setting right on the radio to so I could get a contact on HF. I have it hooked up to a LDG Z-100A tuner, and the Antanna is a Diamond HFV-5 pentaband antanna. But the[…]
As noted before when I first got my 3D printer I thought it would be used for some fun things but not as much use as I am using it for, it seems about 3 to 4 times a week I find another thing I can print with it to make things nicer in my[…]
Recently amazon decided to force an update on the Echo Auto, to the stupid Alexa+ I did not want it, months ago when they first tried it you could exit it. But last month they decided that they were going to force it and not let you exit or disable it. I refuse to use[…]
WEll today I found how bad the internet has made things. First I was tring to buy something at microcenter, tried to use samsung wallet. Well again it wanted me to open unlock the phone so it chould show me some random ad. I did that quickly and quickly closed the phone and tried again,[…]
