Episode #102: Size Does Matter

Hal is not ashamed to admit it:So there I was once again reviewing Ed’s highly useful Linux Intrusion Discovery Cheat Sheet and I was reminded of this little gem:find / -size +10000k -printThe plus sign (“+”) before the 10000k means “greater than”, so … [...]

4046 VCO Final Breadboard Proto

So this weekend marked the last screwing around (breadboarded, at least) with the VCO design for WTPA2. I knew that I could get the frequency range I needed out of a 4046 based VCO with a current sink in place of a frequency setting resistor but I was a little worried about temperature drift and [...] [...]

Searching for Topics

As regular readers have no doubt noticed by now, posting on the blog has been slow lately. I’ve been trying to come back up to speed, but so far, that’s been mainly in the form of bad math posts. I’d like to get back to the good stuff. Unfortuna… [...]

"Pomp and Circumstance"

    Well the madness has ended for another year and this time the show was truly bigger and better than ever! The MuchMusic Video Awards 2010 left very little in terms of things we haven’t tried and ultimately accomplished… [...]

Receiving weather satellite pictures in New Zealand – Part 2

You may want to read part 1 of this story about receiving weather satellite pictures if you haven’t already. Now I will describe how I made a much neater QFH antenna to receive the satellite signals. My wooden one worked fine but it was not waterproof or particularly pretty or accurately made. So I decided [...] [...]