Monthly Archives February 2006

Hey, now I can listen to Derrick flying his helicopter AND know which direction he is from my position!
Not wanting to spend money on one of these I started…
The Coat Hangar Directional Antenna Project

I bought an ICOM-W32A ham radio, ‘TheAnvil’ provided some BNC connectors, and the closet had a coat hangar.

steps:

bend the triangle portion [...]

I was Deceived

…by the California Milk Processor Board.

Automated Smileys get the Annoyance Award
Smileys used to be cool. You could be creative. You could give them eyebrows so they would like like this:

¦:-) or this |;-)
Now, thanks to the wonderful world of automation we get uggly yellow faced critters following horizontal lines:
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This caused me to use smileys without noses so that [...]

Why use FreeBSD

Compiling everything from source
Check entire system for vulnerabilities with one command: portaudit
Upgrade all ports with one command: portupgrade -a
You can still get a command prompt to respond with a CPU load of 4.00
it doesn’t crash.
Runaway processes auto reniced
Zombie processes die
Routing faster than consumer hardware routers
730 day uptime means you recently rebooted
Jailed servers in [...]