Saturday, August 12, 2023

VIM editor

 i saw the news this week that the lead developer for VIM passed away.


I use VIM from time to time. i dont use it everyday, but i use it maybe 2 or 3 times a month(sometimes a bit more).

there are some places that VIM is the best solution. i will give you one example: if you telnet into your local router to change and play with the firmware, VIM or a fork of VIM, is usally there to use.

  It is light weight and fast. not many bells and whistles. but who needs fancy stuff when your editing files????


stay happy use VIM and enjoy a true piece of history and a living program that is still being developed.

Wow i found an tricle in the news paper from 2004 about me talking about skywarn

 

 that is a long time ago. i was at a skywarn training event and had someone from the news paper interview me and a few others about skywarn and the following is what was printer from that

 

 https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2004/08/10/skywarn-spotters-flesh-out-warnings/

Sunday, June 11, 2023

something new to try fendica

Playing with and checking out a social media service called frendica.

We shall see how well it works

Sunday, June 4, 2023

New old computer hardware.

I have aquired several older computers. 
  I know I will have fun getting these to be workable and useable.

old computer (p4-pD) update.

I have a computer that started life as a p4. It then was updated by me to a pentium D 945. It was the biggest meanest and most powerful CPU the chipset would handle.
  I also upgraded the memory to 4 Gb the max the system will handle.

  The hard drive is a Seagate SATA 7200 rpm 200Gb. From what I can tell it is a 2003 - 2004 vintage hard drive. It is starting to have mechanical issues. So it shall be replaced by a solid state drive.

  As far as OS, it started life as a XP machine. When I got it, I added Linux mint, followed by xubuntu, Lubuntu, and then Ubuntu studio. Linux distros for the most part have dropped support for x86 and i686 processors. So it now has become a 32 bit Debian 11 machine.

So for now this machine will live for many more years.

hmm, some blog post are not showing

I just realized that some of my blog post's are not showing up.

Not sure why.

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Aredn net router setup

I just got the Arden router setup. And I have been playing around with the Arden Network for the hammesh hsmm. High speed multimedia mesh networking. And now I am looking to set some tunnels up, we have the old ham national stuff running with some Linksys routers. And so we're looking at getting some tunnel set up for the Arden Network. On the hmnm mesh Network there's also a ham based sip phone network, that other mesh Network routers that are connected to the tunnels can use throughout the world.

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

web server online.

Got my webserver online

http://kd4wov.ddns.net/

Wow, that is my old page reposted on a raspberry pi

my gopher server is on line


Here is the address.

gopher://kd4wov.ddns.net:70

Oh man I love the web. So many things and so little time to play.

Saturday, January 2, 2021

Ahhh using gopher web space

Here we are. Using gopher space, checking out all of the places in gopher space. Boy the internet is so much fun when you don't have to deal with advertising and lots and lots of graphics. Go for web the way the internet was supposed to be.

Sunday, September 20, 2020

small text write ups for the website.

Here is a request that I will send out to the email lists later.
  Is there anyone who is interested in writing a few text for the website www.147120.org 
  What I am thinking about are a few catagories:
 new ham info, 
basic repeater ops, 
basic simplex ops, 
how to troubleshoot antennas, radios, or related issues.
What can you paticipate in as a ham to help the community,
What is an elmer,

These are just a few that I have thought about.

147.120 MHz repeater conversation 9-19-20

I find it amazing the repeater can be very quiet all day. You cal,l no one answers, then you send an email that you will be on the repeater at a certain time. Then they come out of the woodwork. 
  That is why I love the 147.120 repeater, you just never know who is listening. 

Sunday, September 13, 2020

Raspberry pi loaded with server and gopher

I have reloaded my raspberrypi. I loaded apache2 and pygopher.

  So far the localhost address works. Gopher://localhost:70 works for the gopher space. So far it is really works well. Once I get it on the net I will publish the address here.

I  have not played yet with apache2. That will be a new adventure, because I have done web pages, but not on an apache server. Anyone have suggestions.

Monday, September 7, 2020

wow, I did get a few files us on the web

I have now got a few files up on a gopherspace.

Look me up on gopher://eyeblea.ch/1/electron/
If you don't know what that is,,, look it up.

Sunday, September 6, 2020

finalzone.dns.net wow there are still BBS's that are on the internet

As I have been browsing through the gopher sphere I have found a BBS. The name of the BBS is finalzone.ddns.net . This seems to be a typical VBS quite a few things in here and it looks like there's still a active group of users amazing what you can dig up when you look outside of the regular mayhem of all of the HTML and all of the smoke and mirrors of the internet.

got gopher working on my phone and tablet

Ok, I got gopher working on the lynx browser on both my tablet (kindle fire hd8 7th gen), and my google pixel4. 

  Wow this is the internet that is blazing fast, huge amounts of info, and no ads every place. This is almost as great as the onion/tor web. It opens up huge possiblity of what the "web" could and should be!

lynx browser

Anyone else using lynx?? What a great browser and no java, pictures, or malware!!!!

 The internet like it was intended!!!!!

wow, gopher holes on the internet

Okay so I have ran into the internet protocol called Gopher. {Space} an oh how I long for the days of uncluttered websites, and no advertising flashing all around.

  Wow, I am going to have to work on getting up a gopher hole of my own.

Stay tuned, you might hear me shout out my gopher hole!!!
  Oh, wait..... That is a website that uses the gopher protocol.

Friday, September 4, 2020

retired my Pentium III 800 MHz computer that was my EchoLink VOIp box

Well I have retired my Pentium 3 that was my voiceover IP machine for echolink. The other day there was a power fluctuation that caused some files to get corrupted on the hard drive. So I figured today was a good day to go ahead and retire the old machine it's been running for I'm going to say that that machine's been running somewhere between 13 and 15 years as my echo link machine. So I have replaced it, with a core 2 duo 4 gigahertz processor. With 4 gigs of RAM and running Windows 10. I actually had fun playing with Windows 10 because the Windows firewall has a lot of things turned on by default that I had to turn off. So as far as that goes it should be fairly locked down and is running echolink and hopefully in the next couple of weeks I will go ahead and wire the vertex VXR 7000U into the place where the radio is now. And that will put me back on as a repeater which is what I had up for quite a while. Well now the only thing that is left is wiring up the vertex repeater and the repeater will be back on the air it's been a long time since I've had the repeater on the air been running UHF simplex for several years. And that's all been on UHF actually moved to UHF about 16 17 years ago. Before that my echo link repeater was on 1.2 gigs for quite a while and I had a 1.2 gig mobile and several handhelds that I used around the neighborhood and that worked really well on 1.2 gigs not much range because 1.2 gigs losses are very high for feedline. So we did run that for I don't know probably 3 or 4 years maybe 5 years on 1.2 gigs previous to that it was on UHF on 70 cm ham band. So it was on UHF since going back to the mid 1990s, and it's been on various frequencies over the years when I was in Tampa and out in Springfield Missouri and a few other places. Have always enjoyed it then on UHF because there is not as much co-adjacent channel stations to deal with. so we had fun with echolink on UHF over the years, and the predecessors to echolink that we have used which was I link and also a program before that that was called iPhone and that software is what we started with originally before we got involved into iLink. And so as far as echo link goes it's been pretty straightforward I've had very very little problems with hardware and software and I've had very little problems with radios that being said the issue that most people have is trying to put a ham radio in place where a heavy duty repeater or a high-powered mobile that was cut back power wise would suffice. So anyway this is just a brief introduction and explanation of what we have done and now we're on UHF but also we've been having a little bit of an experiment with things from time to time I do hook up a radio that is set for a.m. mode on the repeater frequency and sometimes even played with a single side band. So we have done some experimentation and we do occasionally from time to time so if you do listen locally and you do hear my repeater on 440-050 just remember it's either simplex or it's an offset of 5 megahertz positive anyway if you hear it chime in let me know 73s d e from KD 4WOV

Saturday, August 8, 2020

ahhh another test

Okay so it has been quite a while since I've used this blog site. I have decided to give it a try and see if I can get back into the habit of posting blogs again. {Space} {space} so we will see how it goes and as we go along we'll see if we can get more blogs put up.

Sunday, December 1, 2019

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Friday, January 29, 2016

Cartoon Illustrates Why Schools Stopped Teaching Cursive http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/cartoon-illustrates-why-schools-stopped-teaching-cursive
Cattle drive draws focus to Florida's cowboy history http://www.orlandosentinel.com/os-ap-great-florida-cattle-drive-cowboy-history-20160129-story.html

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

224.820 Repeater

JC, David, and I went to sugarloaf mountain to help Tony KR4Q raise his Antenna on the repeater.  Wayne KJ4AN is the technical guru who helps Tony with the repeater.

Monday, July 1, 2013

NSA Insider Reveals EU/U.S. Collusion to Silence Free Press

NSA Insider Reveals EU/U.S. Collusion to Silence Free Press:
(AJC) – The Guardian released another shocking NSA scoop on Saturday, revealing collusion and mass harvesting of personal communications among the United States and at least six European Union countries — only to delete it from their website hours after publication.

How and Why to Teach Your Kids to Code

How and Why to Teach Your Kids to Code:
How and Why to Teach Your Kids to Code
Whether or not your child grows up to be the next Zuckerberg, programming is a highly useful skill for him or her to learn. It teaches vital problem-solving, creativity, and communication skills. Plus, it can be downright fun for you both. Here are some of the best tried-and-true apps for teaching kids of all ages how to code.
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Death of 19 firefighters in Arizona begs the question: Why do we keep putting out forest fires in the first place?

Death of 19 firefighters in Arizona begs the question: Why do we keep putting out forest fires in the first place?:
(NaturalNews) – Long before humans ever arrived on the scene, forest fires burned themselves out naturally. The forests re-grew and the cycle repeated: fire and rebirth, fire and rebirth. Over and over again for millions of years.
This was never a problem until humans came along and decided to build expensive homes and commercial buildings in forested areas that eventually catch on fire. These “fire zones” would, of course, burn up sooner or later, but people wanted to live there, so they bought fire insurance and built their homes anyway.
The inevitable cycle of fire eventually arrived. Forests catch on fire from lightning or some other cause, but the only reason the fire spreads is because the forests are full of fuel in the form of fallen branches, shrubs and other combustible material. So the fires burn fiercely, as they have always done throughout the history of the planet, “cleaning out” the underbrush and giving many plants and trees a fresh start.
But this is not acceptable to the people who built their homes in the fire zones. They scream, “Put out those fires! I’ve got to protect my home!” It’s not an unreasonable reaction in the immediate term.
So they send other people’s sons and daughters — smoke jumpers and firefighters — into the jaws of death to battle the blaze and try to extinguish it. As you might guess, sooner or later some of these firefighters end up being killed by the fires.
19 firefighters dead in Arizona
That’s what’s happened yesterday in Arizona19 firefighters were killed fighting a forest fire. And what were they killed fighting for? Homes. Homes that never should have been built in fire zones in the first place. Homes that were built in areas that have burned a thousand times over and over again throughout history and will burn again.
It’s time we seriously revisited this question: Is it worth losing lives just to protect property from a fire that history already showed would be inevitable?
Here’s an even better question: How does putting out these fires do anything in the long run? If the forest doesn’t burn up its fuel today, it’s just going to have more fuel tomorrow, meaning that future fires will be even more fierce and more deadly for the forest ecosystem.
I’ve looked into this issue quite a lot, and I’m convinced that putting out forest fires is bad policy. It causes more harm than good over the long haul, turning frequent small fires that “clean out” underbrush into monstrous, deadly fires that kill entire forests and destroy communities. And as I’ve seen in central Texas, immediately after a huge fire destroys someone’s home, they take the insurance money and rebuild in the exact same spot that will burn again in another fifty years or so! Why is it so difficult for people to see these patterns?
Putting out most forest fires is irrational and harmful
The truth is that forests are supposed to burn from time to time, and putting them out is an irrational, illogical human intervention that needlessly puts lives at risk for no justifiable reason. It also harms the forest.
This is the honest answer on the issue of forest fires: people should not build homes in forest fire zones unless they are willing to see them burn. I realize it’s not politically correct to suggest that people should be responsible for their own actions and decisions, but denying the reality of this won’t make you any safer. The truth is that all forests will eventually burn, and if you build a home or a business in ANY forest, your home or business will eventually burn.
Furthermore, I happen to think it’s morally wrong to ask other people to put their lives at risk to extinguish these fires. We should let them burn and focus on evacuation and rebuilding.
And yes, this even applies if, as people will say, “someone set this fire.”
How forest fires really work
So let me explain the physics of how forest fires really work. If you SET a fire in a forest, you are responsible for the immediate area that you set fire to, but not the other 50,000 acres (or whatever) that burned up because the forest was ready to burn from any ignition source, including lightning. When a forest is ready to burn — i.e. it has enough fuel to spread the fire — it’s going to burn and spread no matter what the ignition source. It is irrational to blame one person for a small fire in the forest when it is the property of the forest itself that causes the fire to spread.
I’m always amused when some news program says, “A small campfire spread to become a 50,000-acre blaze.” Oh really? I very much doubt that one match can set fire to 50,000 acres unless the forest itself lends a huge helping hand in spreading the fire. No one can force 50,000 acres to burn unless it wants to burn.
Quick quiz: Why do most camp fires NOT cause forest fires? Because most forests are not yet ready to burn. (They don’t have enough fuel, or they have too much moisture.) When a forest isn’t ready to burn, you can run around throwing flares everywhere and they will all just fizzle out. Why? Because the recipe for fire just isn’t there.
Fires require THREE things to spread: Fuel, heat and oxygen. The atmosphere provides the oxygen and the forest provides the fuel. “Starting” a fire means applying high heat to a very small area until combustion is achieved. From there, the fire only spreads when the forest itself provides sufficient fuel to keep the heat replicating and spreading.
Thus it is irrational to blame one person for a 50,000-acre forest fire. No person can run around applying heat to 50,000 acres. It is the forest itself that provides the means of spreading the fire, and once the fire burns out, that forest is “non-combustible” for many decades to come!
Setting more frequent forest fires helps prevent really destructive, large forest fires
In fact, the best way to prevent forest fires is to start forest fires and let the forests burn out so that they aren’t combustible. This is precisely why firefighters set fires to burn out selected areas and create “firewall” that can no longer combust.
Yes, this is the origin of the term “firewall,” for all the network engineers out there. You actually set a fire and burn down an entire wall of trees in order to PREVENT a much larger fire from spreading even further.
By the way, I’m not saying you should run out and throw matches everywhere. This kind of “prescribed burning” strategy is best left to your local fire marshal. If you actually try to start forest fires without knowing what you’re doing, you could end up getting people killed, so don’t try it. (Prescribed burns take place in very specific weather and wind conditions in order to keep the fires well controlled.)
Overall, don’t buy into the myth that we need to risk the lives of thousands of brave firefighters every year putting out forest fires. The truth is that most forests would be better off if we would let them burn. And we humans would be better off if we stopped building homes in forested areas that are sooner or later going to catch fire due to the simple fact that forests produce fuel, and fuel eventually burns.
There, I said it. Now let the bashing begin, as I have uttered the truth about forest fires, meaning I will be viciously attacked by ignorant sheeple who believe everything they’re told on TV news. “Forest fires are BAD! Put them all out! Hurry!”
Source: Natural News

How I Taught Myself to Code in Eight Weeks

How I Taught Myself to Code in Eight Weeks:

How I Taught Myself to Code in Eight Weeks

To a lot of non-developers, learning to code seems like an impossibly daunting task. However, thanks to a number of great resources that have recently been put online for free— teaching yourself to code has never been easier. I started learning to code earlier this year and can say from experience that learning enough to build your own prototype is not as hard as it seems. In fact, if you want to have a functioning prototype within two months without taking a day off work, it’s completely doable.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Sunday, October 28, 2012

IRC update 10-28-12

Well now i am exploring another thing to try with my blackberry bold. trying to get an IRC client to work on it. I have trillian so it does all of the normal stuff like yahoo, twitter, facebook, myspace, jabber, and others but no IRC chat.

I am using webcat.freenode.net for now, but want a true native IRC client. Any how i will update as we work on that.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Easy Peasy Linux

i am thinking about reinstall of easy peasy for my acer aspire one ZG5.
  I have it installed and have been running it for a few years now, but i want to reinstall. so another project for the list of things to do.

Friday, August 24, 2012

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Something to ponder! World views.

As i sit and look at my world view, both religious and secular. i have trouble defining what my views are.
 Republicans and Democrats make me sick. they seem to have the same end results: Removing freedoms and personal wealth and property. although they both  use different rhetoric the out come seems to be the same. my voters card is listed as NPA No Party Affiliation!

My views in ways are extreme conservative. For example:
  Balanced-budget fiscal conservative, fiscal responsibility, avoiding deficit spending like the plague, promoting balanced budget is of paramount importance, Free market, Tariffs on imported good to keep them on equal footing to domestic goods,

  Against abortion (legalized killing of babies), against euthanasia,

  Keeping government out of the Churches (does not mean freedom from religion in government, but a freedom of the exercise of religion),

  Pro Gun (everyone should by law be required to own, carry, and know how to use properly), Open Carry of guns, against gun control (take guns away from citizens, makes them a target for criminals and bad governments),
 
  Against special rights (racial status) for groups whose ideas/religion are not a race, Against sharia law, against foreign influence on the government, enforcement of our constitutional laws,

  The right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, 

  Limited Federal government (with Sovereign states as put forth in the Constitution), strong state government, Congress who makes our laws, a judicial branch that is a constitutional watch dog, executive branch that executes that laws made by congress, less government intervention in the lives of citizens, Back to the way our government was before the civil war, being constitutional and of the people!

Sunday, January 15, 2012

ka4qxp and his FT707

Hello everyone,
Kirk came by the shop after work and brought along his Ft-707. Seems like it had some RX problems. As Kirk walked thru the alignment procedures, it seemed to come to life. Now that he has gone thru the rig, i am waiting to hear if it is running great now.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

shortwave radio

How many of you have been bitten by the bug of shortwave radio?
You know listening to stations from far away countries tell of the news from their land and giving us a chance to listen to them describe their culture and history. I have been listening to shortwave since i was 8. i can remember hours of listening to exciting stories of far away and the news hours to a day or so before you see it in the local news papers. I thought this was great to be able to hear what was going on before the local gov controlled media would discuss it. Even in the 80's and 90's it was the same way.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Florida is among several states now holding what are called ‘no refusal’ checkpoints!!!

If this is not illegal for them by force, against your will, to take a blood sample then what is it? why are we allowing the constitution to be destroyed, by these anti-American and unconstitutional politicians that do not even follow the same laws that they pass?????? Wake up people!!! How long before they take control of all of the churches that have accepted the 501.c3 that makes them a corporation and not a church according to the irs?? Don't think i am correct? then let me ask you this when a church decides to volunteer to apply and receive a 501.c3 status why does it dictate them to have trustees? And business meeting so many times a year?  Under a 501.C3 you are considered a tax exempt corp, and no longer fall under the same protection as a autonomous church body. 


back to the story. Have the american people given up all sense of what freedom is? Remember our founding fathers started a constitutional republic NOT a democracy!!!! look thru the writings of our founding fathers and you will see they despised democracy and socialism (and today they would stand against the other -isms (globalism, communism, marxism, fascism, and socialism)).


Where is the outcry fro the people???? have we been chemically neutered by our food?

  Florida is among several states now holding what are called ‘no refusal’ checkpoints!!!

http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/story.aspx?storyid=165079&catid=250

Are you doing your part to keep personal and religious freedoms.

Are you doing your part to keep personal and religious freedoms.

by Tom Tishken on Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 9:45pm

We are coming to a crucial time in our country. We are loosing our personal freedoms and our religious freedoms that men like Dr John Clake, Obadiah Homles, John Leland, John Marshal, Patrick Henry, Shubal Stearns, and others that i don't have space to mention believed from God's Word that these were given to man by God, and were un-seperateable from man.

These men have stood up, suffered and gave their life to bring this country to a point where it would allow personal and religious freedoms. Freedoms that are given by God, protected by the constitution. These Baptist Preachers who were beaten, had all that they owned stolen by the magistrates, and imprisoned. Why did these things happen to them? They happened because the state-Church did not allow freedom.

As we trace our Baptistic history, we find that the Baptistic people have not persecuted those who differed from them both secular and religiously. These Baptistic people have been severely persecuted and put to death by those who believed that there should not be any freedom to worship.

We are now seeing the special rights groups trumping the rights of all others. The hate crimes bills will not take us back to a time when Baptist People are beaten and imprisoned for preaching God's Word. What will come next? Will they push to have Baptist people executed because they preach God's Word and preach against sin? If you don't think that they will, just look back at the "catholic church"(and all the harlots of Rome(the protestant groups)), how has it treated Baptist people thru the ages? It has aflicked them with every evil it can imagine. Also the islamic "faith" through their history has offered death to all those who do not convert. These actions are totally against what God has written in His Word.

Why do they execute those who do not believe and worship like them? It is called replacement theology. Replacement theology is where these groups believe they are the "new Israel". Just as God told Israel to wipe out the people when they came into the promised land, they are (in their mind) supposed to wipe out and one who does not worship like them. They totally missed why God told the Children of Israel to wipe these people out. They make of themselves Priest, and separate the Church leadership from the laity(church body). the Bible does not teach separation from the preacher and the Church members.

Look at our history here in America, How can we as Americans allow our freedoms to slip through our fingers? Because we have stop teaching our kids that sin is sin, and there are certain things that are wrong and certain things are right. I feel sorry for our brave solders who fight with all their might to keep us free, and have politicians slap them in the face and take away the freedoms that they have fought for.

A friend once said, "to be politically correct is to be morally wrong". In this day of political correctness we have forsaken God's law. Political correctness should be labeled "situation ethnics" and should have a warning sticker that says, "straight from the communist manifesto". PC has done so much harm to logic and justice. PC even changes as the need of the special rights groups changes and what focus are they trying to achieve. How can a special rights group who comprises less than 5% at most(more likely 1 to 2%) be given a higher status and protection than those of minority races? It is called situation ethnics or Political correctness, and these are a curse to any nation who follows their satanic teaching.

Now ask yourself, Have I stood up and made my voice known? When it comes to elections have you done your part to vote? Have you talked to your kids and friends about God? Have you discussed what is right and wrong? Can you take the Bible and show someone where sin is wrong? Do you have enough back bone to stand up against sin and things that are wrong.

Tom Tishken