I am not going to blast the laptop for now, this way if there is anything I forgot to get off, I will not distroy it. I will not use the laptop for now, but if I don’t find a need to go to the laptop in the next 3 weeks I will then blasted[…]
I have typed in so many CD keys today, I wish that the software companys would find a better way to protect their software. Besides I do not think that these CD keys help. But I am almost finished setting up the CD stuff, next I have to install the stuff I downloaded to the[…]
Well the new computer came, I had to wipe it clean from all the preinstalled shit. Then now I am installing all the software that will make it useful. First I had to install VC++ 6.0 so for the days I want to work from home. I had to install all drivers for all the[…]
Well I went out to home depot to get the wood planks. But before I went my pastor suggested that I should go into the shelving secion and look first. So when I went in there I found some nice looking shelfs with an oak finish on it. Matchs my desks very nicly so I[…]
Well looks like the last of my computers will come tomorrow. So I will get to set that up in the morning, I will be heading out to my parents place, I am going to go over later at their request since they are driving back from Florida today, in fact I called them at[…]
It has been a while since I had been to a meeting of the ham club that I am a member of, it feels good to be back. The people here are generaly good people. You can see the clubs site. I will post more when I get home later today or tomorrow when I[…]
As of tomorrow I have a week off of work, but I will probably still do some work over my vacation since we have a major demo comming up again in September. The reason I am taking my vacation is not that I need a break, work is good, but my sister is in town[…]
I got a gmail account a while back, I don’t use it much right now, but right now I am sitting on 1 invite. Any of my readders want a gmail account, just leave a comment here, and the first to leave a comment here will get the gmail invite, just leave you First and[…]
I though I could mount my ftp site for my web site on my Linux box, I found a program called lufs. It promises to be able to mount file different systems as a file system on a Linux box. I tried it out, but I kept getting the following messages in my system logs[…]
I Just got a Blogging software for Linux to post to this blog. The Software is called BloGTK from http://blogtk.sourceforge.net/ It has all the features that I wanted in a software. It works on Linux it has spell checker and I can select the Category for my Posts. So now I have some software for[…]
Well If I can get a good hit on Google I am going to rename the blog to my correct full legal name. I don’t know how high I will get with my Full name on google but now people will be able to find my site when they search google for my name.
If you search of “Mike OConnor” my site is the first to get hit by google check it out http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=Mike+OConnor&btnG=Search I just wish I could get it listed under “Mike O’Connor” and “Michael O’Connor” and maybe “Michael P. O’Connor” But hay I got listed (and first to boot) under “Mike OConnor” Update: Sep 16, since[…]
Things are getting very crowed in my apartment I have been asking for the last 2 and a half years for some storage space in the storage lockers, that according to my lease I am entitled to. But as of yet I have not gotten it. Things in my apartment have gotten very crowed as[…]
I saw over at MacZilla infomation about pinging now lets see if I can get pinging going on here.
I wonder what ever happened to the Linux community. When I started to use Linux back in 97 there was a good community for it. If you had problems you could just go to any #Linux chat room and get help, or any usenet for Linux. Now if you go to a #Linux chat room[…]
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[…]
