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 get up. Well if it is tomorrow it probably will be later since the new computer should come tomorrow and I will probably take some time to set it up.
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 from Austria, and I would like to visist with her when she is in. This way I don’t have to make sure I get into work hyper early in the morrning, I can get up at my normal time (or maybe later) and still have time to spend with my sister. This weekend I really hope we can go to the Renasaunce Festival out in Ohiopile, my whole family always enjoy it.
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 Last name, and your email address, just make sure you put anti-spam text into your address. And good luck.
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 “could not resolve host ftp.mikeoconnor.net”. And I kept losing contact with the server. I just need to find a way to keep two copies of my web site in sync, a local copy and a remote copy (the copy you are looking at.) If any one knows of a good program for keeping files for a web site on Linux in sync I would love to hear about it, just leave a comment and point me to it, and I will take a look at it. Right now I can use Midnight commander to read and write my files over ftp, but it is not emacs, and I am a big fan of emacs for any time of editing be it C++ programming or HTML or PHP (well for when I learn PHP)
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 windows when I am at work, I have some software for my Palm Pilot when I am on the go, and when I am at home I got some software for posting to my blog off of my Linux box, where I will do most of my web site stuff. I am finally getting the Linux box setup to a point where it works well for me and will do things that I need it to do. It is nice to be back into Linux once again.
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 I changed the name this is no longer true but if you search for Michael P. OConnor I am in the top 3.
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 of late. I will have to move in Dec since I just don’t have the room in this place. I have had to go vertical to keep things out of the way. One of my closets is so full that it is dangerous if you open the closets. But Dec is 3 and a half months away, and this condition is just going to get worse.
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 you will see a bunch of people in there just saying the same thing “ya I run Linux”, “it is the greatest”, or “look at me I am 37337”. I bet if you were to do a nmap of their hosts you would find many of them are on XP. And don’t even think of asking for help in there, you will probably get something like “oh, you need help with that, that is so simple, I banish you from this room”. I remember back in 97 when I first stated Linux I went into #Linux on the undernet, because I could not get Linux on the internet. I went in at 10pm and got help there, some guy who went by the handle of iostream (I still love that handle) spent 6 hours in there as he gave me advice, and I would reboot to Linux try, fail then reboot into windows and give him what happened, well at 4 I finally got Linux to connect to the internet and got into the room and let him know that it was working, you will NEVER see that now. Don’t get me wrong I still love Linux as an OS, but I just don’t like where the community is going, or where it is now.
I went for a nice short bike ride today, I did about an hour of up hill riding, I did some insane hills. I like the hill rides, the reason I love hill rides, is because once you get to the top of a very steep hill you get to come down it again. After the bike ride I went on down to the Walnut St. art festival, I got there at the very end so there was not much there for me to see.
Today I tried to get more room in my apartment, I moved a few things around and took down a few things, and put some things away. Like I don’t watch my DVD’s that much any more, so I took the TV down and put it out of the way, if I want to watch a DVD I can do it on the eMac. I have to find a place to put some of this stuff until I can get more room, I am probably going to move in Dec when my lease is up. I am going to see if I can get a place that the living room is the same size as my current place, and has a separate bed room. I just think there has got to be a better way to get this place arranged to free up more room. If there is such a way I will find it, or will keep trying until I move out of this apartment.
I was asked if I had an RSS feed, well at first I did not know what that was, when I put up this site, so I removed the link (good thing I did not remove the files for it) the RSS feed link is back and for those who are intersted in it, here is the link http://www.mikeoconnor.net/blog/rss.php?ver=2
I just added this site to a web ring, so lets see if it generates a few visites now I have to find a place to put the following link to the blog web ring
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I love Linux, from the first day I have used Linux it was how I though a computer should work. But for me I don’t seam to fit into what a classical Linux user should be. Nor do I seem to be what I see other Geeks as. I have slowly but surly (and not my own will, but by what feels like force from them) been cutting my ties from the “geek” and “Linux” community. I just don’t seem to fit in, in those communities. I have pretty much found only one community I truly feel that I fit into, and that community is my church. I would love to find some geek community that I could fit into, but I have found that 90% of geeks out there fall under this stereotype
1) Atheist, maybe if they are soft agnostic
2) Liberal
3) Anti-social
4) Have a superiority complex
And I don’t think I fall into any of those categories. Oh well, on with the next day.
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[…]
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With summer coming buy, and me still on my diet, I came up with a snack, I have always enjoyed popsicals, so what I am doing now, is I am taking those water enhancers that say they have 0 calories and use that as the flavor for my popsicals, and I have some popsical makers.[…]
For my friends I did a video to show my friends how I have my apartment setup, because I did some changes to the living room and the bedroom. Here is the video
Posting a new updated before and after picture. First one was taken in 2021, the second picture Just this last weekend.
