Well verizon still has not gotten my DSL connect it been 23 days now, well over the 2 weeks promised. So I decided to call Comcast (the local cable company) and see how much it would be to get cable internet. They said that they could have it in tomorrow, and that they have a[…]
So I called in. I got connected to some one, that then talked to some one in “engineering” (what ever that means) But I was told that I should have my DSL service up and running on Tuesday. Let’s see if Verizon can keep this date. Right now I am doing a evil thing, I[…]
Well it is the 17th and I still have not had my DSL since the 29. I just called tech support today again, and the poor tech was getting confused by what the computer was telling here. It was saying 3 things that were not in agreement, on was saying it was complete and active,[…]
Ug!! That is what I been saying all night! Verizon said it would only take 2 weeks from the time the phone service was moved to my new place for them to get the DSL going. Well I still do not have DSL, I called the tech support number, and they still do not have[…]
Well according to Verizon’s web site, I should have my DSL tomorrow after 6pm. I kind of wish it was on today, I was a home since I felt awful today, I don’t know what I have, but I have had it for about 16 days, that is assuming it is the same thing, I[…]
I would make it much nicer, when I have to consitrate on the windows box at home, it is right there right next to the linux box, no moving of the head. Here at work the way things are setup since the windows box is a laptop it can not site just as nice next[…]
Well today I was “in the zone” as they would say. I was working on a paper I had to do for class. I have my windows and Linux box set up to share 1 keyboard and mouse over my local network. And while working on the paper, I forgot that the keyboard and mouse[…]
It has finally finished the bad block scan of the hard drive on the gateway laptop the finally total of usable space is 2713940 usable blocks out of 29302528 blocks. Next for the shear masochistic fun of it, I am going to install Linux on it, and do a stress test of it, and see[…]
Why do I spend so much time on Slashdot? It is fun at times, but for the most part it’s sophomoric for the most part. I should start trying to wean my self of Slashdot. It is in my best interest. But for some reason I always go back to it, it is like it[…]
In the age of blogging, their searches have returned some interesting stuff. Just today I was looking at a list of were people come from when they come to my web site. And one was from a search on google for banning Russian IP address. For some reason I was the 8th hit. It saw[…]
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 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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
