So, for a little project I'm cooking up I needed a couple of USB Ethernet interfaces. There's no shortage of ebay sellers of these so I grabbed a couple from the first UK seller I found, with them arriving promptly the next day ( Read more... )

Once again freenode saw in the new year with its traditional collection of organised chaos in #freenode-newyears.

Out of curiosity following a comment made in the channel I decided to pour my logs of the event into rrdtool to produce a couple of graphs showing how the channel evolved, from a handful of staff to a peak of 420 users, over the 42 ( Read more... )

(to the old LJ refrain 'I really ought to update this more often')

Had a pretty fun weekend, all things considered.

On Friday night I was able to set up my new radio - a Tait 2020 VHF FM rig. Along with a mains power supply for it and a 2m J-Pole antenna - constructed from 300Ω twinlead - in the loft, this gives us a permanent setup which should ( Read more... )

On data this time ( Read more... )

Back at work after a 10-day holiday, which consisted of:

Oggcamp
This nice little 'unconference' saw it's second running, this time in Liverpool ( Read more... )

This weekend was a fun, and very refreshing one ( Read more... )

Yesterday I spend some time delving into sync.
( This is long, and probably boring )

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As if playing with radios or computers on their own weren't geeky enough activities, I've just finished rigging up an interface to allow one of my computers to tune my radio.

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