October 2009
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fldigi presentation at HARC meeting
On November 6th I’ll be helping Dave Freese, W1HKJ make a presentation about fldigi to the Huntsville Amateur Radio Club. Fldigi is an amazing open-source cross platform application for communicating using sound card digital modes on amateur radio.
Dave is really knowledgeable about the encoding and error correction used for the various modes, and I learned a lot by helping him with a...
Baghdad Burning - two years+ →
Two years and a day since we last heard from River. I wonder how many other people still think about her now and then like I do.
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reverting from PPA packages in Ubuntu
PPAs on Launchpad are an amazing way to get the latest crack builds, which is useful if you track or contribute to an upstream project, or test new code to see if it resolves a problem. That’s what I’ve been doing this week - I installed the latest Xorg crack on top of a karmic beta install.
If you visit that last link, you’ll find a description of how to install and use a...