Erics Site

Before i was talking about blogging more and more. I think my blogs are going to be based on what i am learning and playing with. So the theme for tonight is putting up more data on my website. I am wanting to upload more content to my websites and really make them a great place for information. We will see how its going to go.

so i have gotten the bug to become more active with my ham radio stuff. i would love to put some money into an aprs rig to put into the truck and would love to have one for the house for messaging and just to play with. I really want to get my ke5yot domain up and running but first i need to get the website for the ham club up and running first.

Well i just got behind. Between school and everything else going on i have fallen behind in my blogging my thoughts and in my project 365. I am going to try and jump start both by just posting on here whenever i think about it and getting a picture everyday, even if that picture is just a wall or the dog or me or something stupid. I just don’t always see something interesting everyday, or every week for that matter. Data structures and programming languages are both kicking my ass and the busy work from Networks 1 is starting to make me frustrated because i cant stand doing busy work. Im sitting in class number 1 of the day, and between this class and my next class i get to sit in on a presentation by a Professor job canidate trying to get hired at this university so it should be a pretty interesting presentation. We shall see.

So i have the machine up and running now. It sees both the sata drives that i have in that machine, and it is running an ftp server. The OS? puppy linux. Yes the smallest and usb based linux distro is what is running the biggest computer in my house. Its old hardware though and i was tired of fighting it, so i am going to be using my mac book pro as a jump off point to that machine. I will download everything i want to put on those storage drives onto the mac, then ftp it over to the big box. Only thing i am worrying about is when i get these drives full and i can finally upgrade to better hardware, i just hope i am able to find a solution where i can not lose the data off these drives. One more thing i want to do, get a usb to dvi adapter for my macbook pro so i can use both my 22″ monitors with it. More later.

So i have a desktop that i built about 4 years ago. It has been a great machine that i have tried alot of operating systems with. I have been having trouble lately though getting an os to load on it and be stable. I have tried the newest ubuntu, fedora, fedora 10, freebsd, freenas, windows xp, windows server 2003 and none of them are stable. Between app crashes, it losing my drives and everything else i have come to the point where i think i am going to let it sit for a couple of days before messing with it again. I wish i had the money to be able to get a new motherboard, cpu, and ram for it. Everything else is definitly usable with the new parts. I just need to replace those and then i will be good to go again. oh well. Im another computer down and we will see how long this is going to be.

054/365 Snow, originally uploaded by Eric KE5YOT.

it did in fact snow. I snowed pretty good off and on for most of the afternoon, i think total we got about 2 inches. The ground was so warm though that it only really stuck to roofs and grass. It was beautiful to watch and i really wish it would have snowed more, but i cant control it so oh well.

Man for the 4th or 5th time this year they are talking about it snowing here. This is crazy and i love it. I hope it snows like hell tomorrow. I saw some great snow still on the ground in dallas two weekends ago, maybe itll stick around here tomorrow. Anyway we shall see. I need to refocus on school as my grades and stance in classes is suffering heavily. So more posts on that coming up.

053/365 HT, originally uploaded by Eric KE5YOT.

My first ham radio was a hand held. The local repeater was about a quater mile from my apartment at 300 feet so it was great. I could work it whenever i wanted. There weren’t many people on that repeater, but now i have a mobile in my truck that i also tot into my house, so i can work the local network of repeaters around the Houston area. I really enjoy the hobby, and the people i meet in this hobby.