I love aviation and love software defined radios so building an ADS-B receiver and plotter was high on the lists of to-do. In Standish Michigan there are not a lot of fly overs so I wanted to be sure to capture those that happened. Haven seen now a few A-10’s on low pass it only fueled that desire :) I use yaourt for my AUR package management, but whatever tool you use should be capable. ...
I was asked by SingleHop to write a blog post about being a geek. I imagine they found my name through the URL which is hard to ignore when looking for geeks. Especially those of the Schmidt type. I cannot vouch for their products or services, but I appreciate the opportunity to write something I am passionate about. Without further ado What makes you a geek? There is the age-old question of geek vs. nerd. In my mind a geek is less of a thing and more of a lifestyle and way of thinking. I am a geek because I get excited about things most would not. I am a geek because my entire life I have felt like a sponge for knowledge. I am a geek because my wife has an album on Facebook of me on a phone/laptop/tablet reading RSS feeds or working. I also have a computer museum, wear ThinkGeek shirts, and do Superman poses around the globe. What other evidence does one need!? ...
If you glance around my computer museum (I mean office) you will see the following mobile devices: WebOS Maemo Android PalmOS Blackberry (no 10 devices yet) WinCE (don’t ask) And up until a few years ago many an iOS device scattered around. Part of my job is learning what the latest and greatest is capable of and implementing for my customers. It was after helping one of them recently that I realized my iOS knowledge was becoming a little dated and as such I found myself in the Schiphol Airport paying way too much for a Retina iPad Mini 32GiB. ...
Contents 0.1 News 0.2 Music 0.3 Moving Images 0.4 Tech News 0.5 Dumbest Things of the Year 0.6 Extra Sauce: <li> <a href="#Share_this"><span class="toc_number toc_depth_1">1</span> Share this:</a> </li> I skipped 2012 for some reason. I think I was just super busy, but then again I am more busy now. No standout moments in 2012 so nothing lost. Events ...
I have run the hotel/apartment room server off a BeagleBoard-XM for a few months now. I had no case for it, so I was a little worried to have an exposed computing platform hanging out there while the cleaning team and visitors were around. This put me on a search for a ARM-based platform that was small, silent, and could run Arch Linux. Up till this point I had used the Beagleboard with Ubuntu due to the ease of install. Yes it is capable of running Arch, but it isn’t a seamless process. Additionally, being ARM v7 it was not able to run Plex which is my media streaming platform of choice for the ouya ...