Speed of light...

Let's see - today's the 25'th. It was on the 19th that Goggle said they'd review this spam blog. I'm not impressed with either their spam checking tools or their speed.. Get one or the other right...

Spam Blog

I'll all for stamping out spam of all sorts and I have great respect for the daunting task Google and Blogger.com have to deal with - but gosh guys - if you flag a simple little blog like this one as a spam blog, your tools need tweaking.

More memory...

My home XP-Pro 'workstation' started with 256 MB back in 2003. A couple years later I spent another $95 to add 512 MB. That 768 MB worked fine until a couple months ago when I moved my Linux server from a dedicated box to a VMWare virtual system on the XP box. A bit of fine tuning on the memory allocation mimized the swapping of the XP applications but it was easy to tell both systems were on the edge of useful with the limited resources. Last Friday I picked up a brand new 1 GB stick of memory from my favorite neighborhood computer store ComputerStop and installed it this morning. XP is much happier now...

PS. DDR 2700 with a 333 MHz clock rate - how's that for smoking speed in 2008?

Bill

Morse Code - the original digital mode

Good stuff on the code:

• Learn CW Online - This website features include High score rankings, Discussion forum, Text to CW and a KOCH based CW learning course.
• FISTS - the International Morse Preservation Society
  
• Straight Key Century Club - Straight Key Corse Code Operators
• CW Blasphemy - doing CW without knowing CW.... A group dedicated to the infamously unpopular use of software to decode and transmit Morse code (CW) on amateur radio.
• Morse Runner download the free application! A contest simulator
• CW Skimmer - Multi-channel CW decoder and analyzer
• MRP40 - MRP40 Morse Code Decoder & Sender (Looks very nice but a bit pricey at 49e)
• Pocket Digi
• fldigi
• gMFSK
• N1MM transmits CW but has no decoding
• Writelog has a CW decoder
• CWget and CWtype - the visual display of the incoming on CWget and the macros for CWtype look like nifty features to be checked out. Windows programs!
• WinWarbler of the DXLab suite has CW functionality.. Of special interest to me is its ability to send using external modems such as the KAM
• Hundreds of hours of W1AW code practice in MP3 format are available from www.pcpractice.com/CW
  

XLPC with Ubuntu

The One Laptop is of minimal use with it's SUGAR OS. Ubuntu will make it a real tool... Maybe Sunday I'll get Ubuntu installed on my new 4 GB SDHC card ($30 + tax from Costco today) hopefully the SDHC will work with the XO...

References

• Ubuntu Mobile
• Ubuntu On OLPC XO by laptop.org
• Ian's story of installing Ubuntu on XO
• Ubuntu Netbook Remix - made for the little PC's
• Free Like GNU did it
• Another experience doing it...
• Installing using a disk image...

Now to check on the SDHC SD issue. (SD at 4 GB or larger are now SDHC...)

• Good SD Card issues and discussion
• http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=176.0

Amateur Radio Licensing

I read about this no nonsense General class license study guide at the AJ4IJ Hame Radio Internets blog.


I have to get the Wiki back online - this would make more sense there then on a blog posting. At least the wiki should have the overall summary.

Remote Radio Operation

Another blog page being used as a scratch pad for a project being worked on.

http://mmhamsoft.amateur-radio.ca/extras/using_waveLink.htm

ham radio deluxe.