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Category : Geekdom

Needed a new Battery for my HT radio

Categories: Geekdom, Ham Radio
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Published on: July 8, 2010

Well I needed a new Battery for my VX-5. I went into a Batteries+ plus store and find that they are now $104, to much if you ask me. So I decided to be cheap… I built a new Battery see the pics below As you can see from the radio display it is getting[…]

It still gives me a rush

Categories: Geekdom, Technology
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Published on: November 22, 2006

This still gives me a rush. What is it, it is where I give a first run test of some code I wrote. When I run it for the first time, and the code I wrote runs as I had planned on as I wrote it. It gives me such a rush when I see[…]

The New Dr. Who shows

Categories: Geekdom
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Published on: June 10, 2006

I have held off blogging about the new Dr. Who shows for a bit, but I am now ready to put something up about it here. At first (and for a few eposoides) I like it but I did not think it was really worth of the name Dr. Who, it was good, but it[…]

I think I might have found an answers to my eMac freezing

Categories: Geekdom, Technology
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Published on: June 4, 2006

I was determined to see if I could get my eMac to a semi-stable point tonight. It would freeze on everything, I tried to copy my files off of it, for safe keeping, but it would freeze on that. It would freeze on updates, it would freeze on anything that involved anything on it. Well[…]

Googles Calender system, PDA, and ranting

Categories: Geekdom, Technology
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Published on: May 21, 2006

Well it has been well over a month since Google made their Calender system live. I have put off look at it for a bit, in the hopes that when I looked at it I would be able to get a system that would allow me to sync it with my palm pilot. Well it[…]

WPLUG today

Categories: Geekdom, WPLUG
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Published on: April 29, 2006

Today at WPLUG we had Bob Good from VMWare give a talk on VMWARE. It was an ok talk, but the coolest part was that Sean from http://www.smallbutdisorganized.com/ also was there. It was pritty cool to meet a fellow blogger from the area. What would have made it even cooller would have been if Rob[…]

Here it is almost 11 and I am just finishing up here

Categories: Church, Geekdom
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Published on: March 18, 2006

Well this has been a bit of a long day. I have setup 4 Linux computers, one was to replace the churches older file server, the only one only had 1.6Gb of disk space, and we were down to the last 2Mb, the new one has 160Gb of disk space on the partition that is[…]

One major problem with Linux

Categories: Geekdom, Technology
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Published on: March 18, 2006

I love Linux, don’t get me wrong, but it does have one problem. This problem is this, if you want to install a program, you may find that you have to install more libs then you care to. Take today, I am working on getting a computer up and running for my church so we[…]

Chapters

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Published on: March 6, 2006

OK, as I promised here is a post that has some real content in it, and for me this is also some big news, probably the biggest news I have shared on my blog since I started it up in July of 2004. Back then I had been work here in CASOS group of ISRI[…]

The iPod was filled to 100%

Categories: Geekdom
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Published on: February 26, 2006

Well today my 40Gb iPod got the final mp3 that filled it to 100% capasity. So I had to start to cut down on what is uploaded to my iPod, so I set it up to not upload any file that is not check. I went in and unchecked a bunch of the podcasts. I[…]

What to do with 2 domains I have

Categories: Geekdom, Web Site
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Published on: February 3, 2006

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[…]

My 40Gb iPod down to its last 6Gb

Categories: Geekdom, Technology
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Published on: February 1, 2006

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[…]

IE 7, or firefox rip off

Categories: Geekdom, News, Technology
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Published on: January 31, 2006

CNet has some screen shot of the new IE 7 beta I looked at it, and to me it looks alot like firefox.

What is the future of pictures?

Categories: Geekdom, Technology
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Published on: January 25, 2006

I was just watching a random slide show on my Mac from my iPhotos library. I have pictures from a digital camera from 2001 to present. I also have some older pictures that I have scanned in, that date back as late as 1993, I still have not scanned them all in. All in all[…]

A geek out of control, trying to force one method of mailing list replies

Categories: Geekdom
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Published on: January 16, 2006

I was a member of a mailing list called wpascanner on yahoo groups. The guy that is the moderator of it decided that he wanted all replies to be “bottom posting” I informed him that it is a bad idea to force issues like that, he responded basically “Subject not open to debate” talk about[…]

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