Blogospheric Refraction

The life and times of Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

Browsing Posts published in October, 2010

I stumbled upon this looking up information on magnetic receiving loops.  Content is below, with my comments added. 1. When you look at a full moon and wonder how much antenna gain you would need. 2. When a friend gets a ride from you and remarks that you have a lot of CBs in your [...]

The title says it all.  I’m currently in the marketplace looking for employment in the Brisbane area.  I’ve gained quite a bit of experience in the embedded systems area programming various microcontrollers (mostly ARM-based).  I also have a lot of experience with writing software for larger systems too. If you are looking for someone keen [...]

Hi all, I’m in the process of registering for LCA2011… since it’s in my home town, I figure I may as well show up. This will be the first LCA that I’ve attended, last one I was looking at going to was the one in Sydney a few years back … however at the time [...]

Hi all, This year I will be activating the Robertson Scout Den as part of this year’s JOTA. I’ll be working as a one-man band at least on the Saturday, working under my personal callsign of VK4MSL. Bands planned are: 80m 40m 20m 2m I can also do 15m, 10m, 6m and 70cm and may [...]

Hi all, The O32 stage builds for little-endian MIPS systems are now complete, and you will find the stages on my devspace for now at http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter/mips/cobalt/stages/.  There you will find stages for: MIPS-I: Suitable for all little-endian MIPS hardware MIPS-III: Best for Loongson-based hardware MIPS-IV: Best for Cobalt Qube2 and RaQ2… Possibly the earlier Qube/RaQ [...]

Hi all… It’s been a long time since I took over the maintenance of svxlink in Gentoo, and to be frank, I’ve done basically nothing with it because for the most part, it worked. Much development has gone on upstream, however no newer releases have been made, the only way to get the latest stuff [...]