Well, I took the plunge this week. One project I was possibly going to wind up working on involved the Unity game engine, which is available on two desktop platforms; Windows and MacOS X. Being that I’m an absolute 1000% fan of Microsoft!!! (yeah, sarcasm got lost in the text there)… I’ve never used MacOS [...]
Blogospheric Refraction
The life and times of Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)Are you on IPv6?
Say no to internet censorship in AU
Browsing Posts published in March, 2011
It was entertainment night at the Senior Citizens Centre. Claude the hypnotist explained: “I’m here to put you into a trance; I intend to hypnotize each and every member of the audience.” The excitement was almost electric as Claude withdrew a beautiful antique pocket watch from his coat. “I want you each to keep your [...]
Quake highlights threat to internet links: Damage to fibre-optic cables from the Japan earthquake highlights the vulnerability of Australia’s international communication links, one expert says. Meanwhile HF propagation has been steadily improving with the extra solar activity. I think this is a good year to be improving that HF station on the bicycle.
Well, one thing I’ll need to investigate… I’ve been battling a slightly broken bzip2 which when compressing some files, would cause the whole machine to lock up. Environment is µClibc-0.9.31 based, using gcc-4.5.2. Everything compiled with the CFLAGS: “-Os -pipe -mips1 -Wa,-mfix-loongson2f-nop”. The latter flag is really for Loongson 2F but I find it helpful [...]
Well, it seems I might have µClibc stages going again, at least for little endian initially, then I might fire up one of the SGI boxes and see about a big-endian version. For a long while, Gentoo/MIPS support for this lightweight C library was all but missing ever since an ABI change broke the µClibc [...]
For a little bit I’ve been struggling with poor performance on my bicycle mobile station. It was an intermittent fault. Sometimes it’d work great, other days the FT-290R II would complain bitterly about a SWR issue, and receive performance would be abysmal. But then I’d set off anyway, get a block away, and the problems [...]
This is a question raised on an earlier post of mine. It’s an interesting comparison between radios and mobile phones. And some are of the belief that all you do with a radio, is talk on it, or that mobile phones can completely replace radios. Rather than respond there, I’ve decided there’s enough content there [...]
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