It turns out the hard drive has some bad blocks on it, so I need to first format the file systems myself out side of the installer, since the installer does not have the option to check for bad blocks, that generated some errors on the beginning of the install. So I just started the[…]
Well today is the day I blast my old Gateway laptop and put a *nix on it. I have finally decided on Linux, Red Hat Fedora Core. Why Red Hat? Well the reason is that I just don’t have the time to have fun with slackware Linux or *BSD, so I went with something that[…]
While scanning all my pictures I came across this one. It is of my childhood pet Mocha. I got him when I was 4 or 5 and he died when I was 23 or 24. He lived to be 19 years old. and I should correct myself, it did not seam that he was my[…]
I finished scanning all of my pictures (well I think all of them) and the final total for the total number of pictures that I have saved from the past is 91. They are now all on my iPhoto album. I am now going to really have to find a good way to back them[…]
OK I got a scanner today (got it for $40 at best buy, I had some certificates from them from their “rewards program” cost $10 to get it, and I got $40 from it ]hay it payed for itself] So I went to best buy today and picked up a scanner priced at $80) Now[…]
ell I really wanted to take pictures of the boats at Point State Park, I was going to go down today, but things just came up so I could not get to do that, I wanted to do it yesterday, but I was busy helping some friends move and by the time I got on[…]
Well to start things off, when I got home at 11:30 last night and drove into the Church to park my car, I found a couple of underage kids drinking. Well when I came in they panicked, one jumped in the their car, the other when I asked if I could help them, just said[…]
Today before I went to the ball field to help out with the Bush campaign I tried to see if I could go down to the point of point state park, it was closed. So I passed on and went to the park and helped out with the campaign. Well after we finished I went[…]
Alot of people have requested that I kill the frames on my page. So many so that I have gone ahead and removed the frames. I hope that people are happy with the new look of the site, I have moved the navigation bar from the left frame to a table on the right side[…]
ConGeek.com is now up. You can now go to www.ConGeek.com for conservative Geek news, I am still looking for some contribitures for it, but any one can submite a story and I will check the submitions once and a while to see if there is anything good in them and if there is I will[…]
As a response to the liberal bias over at Slashdot, A friend of mine and I are working on a new web site we call ConGeek, I plan on getting it is own domain tonight. I have registered the URL ConGeek.com for the site (that is now 3 domain names that I own) and I[…]
I have started a new web site that is just in its infancy, it is Geeks For Life. The main thing there right now is the Comunity forum. If you are pro-life and a computer geek go on there and register, maybe we can get a large geek group of pro-lifers together and get some[…]
John Hogg who is spending time in Russia is now doing a bit of blogging on my web site, you can find it at www.mikeoconnor.net/John Good luck on the blogging John. I look forward to seeing more entries from you.
Well this weekend I went out to visit my friend Trish. This is the second time I have visited her. She was a bit distracted this weekend since her grandfather is going to go into surgery on Monday, but I still had fun visiting her. She is a great person and I really like her.[…]
I find this odd, I am not use to my internet being so slow, I am dialing into a modem pool to get some of my files off of the work computer, and it seams to be taking a long time. I have been on for 18 minutes, and this for me normally would take[…]
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,[…]
Years ago I use to have a radio shack police scanner, but since most places have gone to digital/trunced system, it no longer worked. So today while I was at Ham Radio Outlet, I deceded to get one that they had as a open box deal. It is a Uniden BCD436HP. It is a nice[…]
(Originally posted this over on my ham radio only site https://kb3hcg.radio) Well I found a good reason to have both 2m and 70cm calling freqs progreammed into ones mobile radio when traveling. I always knew the value of 2m National calling Freq, I found out that having the 70cm National calling freq also is also[…]
At around 8:30pm a fire broke out in the apartment below the one I live in. Good news is the damage appently is only in that apartment, the rest of the apartments have been deamed livable, so at 10:30pm we were able to return to our homes. My poor cat was scared by all the[…]
I been getting so many scam calls lately it was once a week, then 2 times a week then once a day, today I got 5. I am so tired of it I just want to block all phone calls. I have found that if I put my phone in do not disturb, I can[…]
