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 [...]
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Posted 28 February 2006
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I was Deceived
…by the California Milk Processor Board.
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Posted 22 February 2006
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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:
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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 [...]
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Posted 09 February 2006
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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 [...]
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Posted 06 February 2006
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