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Letter to Senator Gard, and Representative Richardson
Dear Senator Gard, I previously wrote you regarding the Herald Times in Bloomington, IN and their publishing of the License To Carry a Handgun database on their website. I expressed how this issue causes serious privacy concerns for law-abiding cit...
New Workspace
On Halloween I ran down to IKEA with a friend. He was in search of a bookcase, and I was at least passively interested in a new desk. The one I had was a glass and steel corner desk that I got for around $100 several years ago. Once I got into ...
FreeBSD vs Linux – One Geeks Opinion.
To a lot of people the choice of which Linux distribution is as religious as the emacs vs vi argument. Debian vs RedHat vs Suse etc. etc. etc. At least a handful of us jump ship completely and prefer to run systems from the BSD camp. FreeBSD, O...
Icom Service
I’ve got to give these guys credit. I sent my IC-746pro in for service. I expected it to be a simple diode replacement to fix the meter problems I was having. It turns out the Power Amplifier was shot. The service technician replaced th...
Netbook – Aspire One 751h
Over the weekend I acquired a new netbook. The Acer Aspire One 751h. It has an 11.6″ screen that does 1366×768 resolution. The keyboard is a good 95% full size with all the keys in the right places. The Wifi is an Atheros card so i...
HR 2160 — A Sample Letter To Your Congressman
Dear Congressman: As a voter in your district and as one of the nearly 700,000 licensees across the nation, I ask for your support of H.R. 2160, the “Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Enhancement Act of 2009.” H.R. 2160 instructs the Secr...
