August 2009
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Lessons from Katrina
The article linked below is pretty horrific, and describes what is known about the choices that were made at a hospital in New Orleans after Katrina, including the decision to euthanize patients. There’s a lot to think about in the article, but for people involved in disater relief, emergency management, or other aspects of disaster planning, It’s important to note how the situation...
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Open Source amateur radio apps at the Huntsville...
Dave Freese, W1HKJ will be presenting a forum at the Huntsville Hamfest titled “Emergency Communications using HF Digital Modes”. Dave and a core group of contributors have been working for the last few years on a suite of open source applications for amateur radio. The fldigi application is the flagship of these.
Fldigi is a digital modem application which generates and decodes a...
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Presenting at Atlanta Linux Fest
I’ll be presenting a session at Atlanta Linux Fest titled “Debugging the Kernel”. This presentation originated with Colin King, another member of the Ubuntu kernel team. Colin’s blog has a wealth of debugging information.
The presentation is an overview of various methods used, as applied to increasing difficulty. What can you do when you have no video, no console, no...
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Amateur Radio in School
I’m presenting a forum at the Huntsville Hamfest about the ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology, and specifically about the amateur radio program under way at Bob Jones High School in Madison, AL. The forum is in Salon 5 at 10:00 Saturday morning
Two years ago, I started talking with teachers at BJHS about an amateur radio program. Over this summer break, eight teachers from the...