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Monday, 26 December 2005 20:55 |
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It's Christmas, and I'm out in the middle of nowhere (actually, I'm staying at my boss's cabin near Mabel Lake). There's no broadband. There's no cellular coverage. For someone like me, it's a technological wasteland. My only link to the outside world is a dial-up phone line that can get 31.2kbps if I hold my mouth just right. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 26 December 2005 20:55 |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:09 |
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As I recently blogged, I've set up a Bell ExpressVu receiver to receive NASA TV. Soon after installing the system, I ran in to a TV 'scheduling' issue with the rest of the family (who aren't nearly as interested in watching images of astronauts brushing their teeth in zero-g). Instead of moving the entire setup to a second television set, I decided to move the receiver to my server room, and build a distribution system to distribute the channel to all of the televisions in the house. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:09 |
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Sunday, 31 July 2005 14:22 |
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I am a great advocate of Nasa TV. Unfortunately, it's not available through any conventional means up here in Canada. I did some research and discovered that the Nasa TV signal is available in the Dish Networks satellite signal, even if you're not a subscriber. This is a Free To Air signal. This isn't stealing satellite service or anything like that. This is a legal way to receive the Nasa TV signal for us up here in Canada. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 31 July 2005 14:22 |
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Friday, 22 April 2005 19:07 |
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I have an old Apple blue G4 sitting under my bench gathering dust. I played with OS X on it for a while, but as most of my friends would testify, I'm a bit of a Linux nut. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Fedora Project was supporting the PPC architecture in the Core 4 release. I'm playing with Core 4 Test 2 at the moment, and it's quite stable. There's a few issues around the macintosh-only areas that I'm still having problems with, such as video drivers, and the apparent lack of support for the on-board PCMCIA slot (designed to hold a WiFi card). Some of the GUI tools don't work as expected, such as the auto partition option during install, and the GUI for Up2date. Despite these shortcomings (after all, it's still only test2), I think that a Fedora-based Mac will make a permanent home on my bench. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 22 April 2005 19:07 |
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Saturday, 03 April 2004 15:56 |
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I just received a new piece of hardware from one of my many forays into Ebay. It's a HP4951A protocol analyzer from Hewlett Packard. It appears to be just the piece of hardware I need for all of the serial communications hacking I do with my antique computers. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 03 April 2004 15:56 |
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