July 2009
7 posts
Great kernel information →
Colin’s been on a tear lately, posting some really excellent information about Linux - power savings, kernel debugging, and comments on some recent benchmarks.
June 2009
10 posts
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The (Siren) Song of the Laser →
Great post about the enabling power that tools can have.
Last week while visiting NYC Resistor, Bre (or Adam) told me that once you start making things with the laser cutter and 3d printer, it changes your whole outlook about what’s possible and how to make things. All I did was watch the printer operate and see the parts that had been cut with the laser, and it’s already having a...
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NYC Resistor Visit
As part of our week messing around in NYC, Susan and I decided to drop in at NYC Resistor to check it out and meet some fellow makers/hackers. There was some public event scheduled for Wednesday evening, so we dropped in early, and met a bunch of very busy and very friendly hackers, including Bre Pettis, Adam Mayer, Zach Smith, Rose White, and others that fell into my usual black hole for names.
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The Linux Box
As promised, here’s the first article I’ve written for the Huntsville Amateur Radio Club (HARC) newsletter.
Welcome to the first article in a series about the Linux operating system and, more specifically, the amateur radio software applications available for Linux. I’m Steve Conklin, AI4QR, and I’ve been using Linux and developing applications on it for over ten years.
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Preparedness and amateur radio
We’re very lucky in Madison County and in the entire state of Alabama to have a capable group of radio amateurs who are involved with the emergency and disaster response planning at both state and county levels. We train and work with these agencies, and have a good working relationship with those agencies. Post-Katrina, radio amateurs from Alabama provided valuable service for months in the...
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Practical arts
I’m part of an artist’s cooperative - The Flying Monkey Arts Center. Susan and I share a space there - her stitch lounge and my fledgling electronics space, Antitronics, which my brother and I are starting. More on Antitronics in later posts.
We’re trying to get a handle on utility bills at the monkey. It’s safe to postulate that a large part of the consumption is air...
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Ubuntu and NGOs
Service to others is valuable. I’m not sure whether there’s more value to those served or to those performing the service. I’ve seen this in many settings - Service to the American Red Cross, Service providing emergency and disaster communications, and as a board member serving non-profit organizations.
A lot of people understand that part of the open source model is to help...
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New Monthly piece on Linux and Amateur Radio
I’ve committed to write a monthly article for our amateur radio club newsletter on Linux and amateur radio. I’ll be posting them here also. The first one is an introduction to how to run linux from a live CD or to install it.
I’d like to expand this so that I’m writing more often here, and then consolidating those pices for the newsletter, and also take the chance to get...
Ubuntu Amateur Radio Team
While in Barcelona for the Canonical all-hands, I met several fellow amateur radio operators. I know that there are a lot of amateurs who use Ubuntu, but there wasn’t a gathering place for us to discuss common issues. While at UDS I created a team on Launchpad, located here.
I was caught by surprise when membership grew to more than 20 in four days, but the massiveness of the Ubuntu...
Returning from Ubuntu Developer Summit
I’ve returned from UDS a good bit more motivated to try to keep up with this blog. After discovering gwibber at UDS and meeting a giant bunch of people in person, There’s a lot to talk about. I’m going to try to post it here in pieces, so it doesn’t all get lost in one or two big posts.
There were lots of great discussions about the the nuts and bolts of the upcoming...