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The life and times of Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

Browsing Posts published in November, 2010

32-bit Gentoo/MIPS stages for both big and little endian systems are now available for MIPS-I, MIPS-III and MIPS-IV.  For now I’ve got these on my devspace, but I hope to get some of them out to mirrors as soon as possible.  I’d appreciate any feedback on this release. http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter/mips/sgi/stages/ — Big-endian systems http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter/mips/cobalt/stages/ — Little-endian [...]

One thing I do enjoy is bicycle mobile operation… that is, operating the radio whilst traveling on the bicycle. One significant barrier to this is battery life however. So far I’ve stuck with 13.8V 9Ah gel cell batteries. These are far from ideal, but are pretty good for the price. They are lighter and cheaper [...]