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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
This Saturday if it does not rain I am going to go biking I have spent far to much time this week on computers. Not only my work time, but my home time was spent on the computers. If it rains, which it looks like it is according to the forecast, I will do some[…]
OK I figured out what to do with the new computer when it comes. I am going to let it stay a windows box. I will then get the data off of the gateway laptop, which is about 2 years old and windows starts to take a dive at that time. I will then convert[…]
Well the eMac has come and I have setup it up. It did a great job of getting all my files off of the iBook, even the setting and program files came over. So I went ahead and deleted all the music and photos off of the iBook to save some hard disk room on[…]
I am now having it copy my files over to the new computer. This could take a bit of time, it will be faster then if I tried it over the network, but still might take time, I have about 15Gb of data on the iBook. When I finish I will probably take the music[…]
Well I pulled an all nighter to get some work done that needed to get done. John is designing a database for use with a program I am working on, I was there to answer any (the few he had) about the variables in the program, and I looked for some ODBC drivers for C++.[…]
So I should have it soon. I went over board on it, and got over night shipping so I should have it tomorrow. This assumes fedex does not fsck up again. The last 2 things I ordered from apple that were shipped fedex, were not delivered correctly. The first one, was not delivered till a[…]
It is done, all the mail and all the contacts are now in evolution. The mail is moved. The only thing left on the windows box is quicken stuff, and games (which I don’t play many of.) The question now is when the other intel comes in should I let it stay windows (since it[…]
Ok so this is going on too long, but the good news is that all the email is now off of lookout. And most of it has been moved from the imap account onto my new Linux box. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get the contacts out of outlook,[…]
Well lookout, is not letting me finish moving my mail. I has stoped copying my email to my imap server. I guess it might have figured out that I am not going to use lookout, and you know how MS, is, lock the user out of leaving if posable. Well I will get my email[…]
I am moving my mail from the old lookout program to evolution. I could not get any method of converting the mail to work, so now I am using my imap server I have access to, to put the mail on it, and copy it down to the evolution program. It will be worth it[…]
Well I started the net install at 1:30am, and it did not finish till 11:30 am. I took out my DSL speed for 10 hours. Well at lest I slept for most of the install. But it got done, and it looks ok, I just have to configure the interface to my personal settings, so[…]
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[…]
