Morse of Course

 Posted on May 25, 2025  |  3 minutes  |  543 words  |  KJ6DRH

My wife impulse bought some cheap radio kits and its finally time to do something with them. A couple of nights ago I spent a few, surprisingly stress free, hours putting together a wireless transmitter and reciever. These were from a kit bought on facebook by my wife. My daughters are GirlScouts and as such my wife follows a couple of GirlScout groups on Facebook keeping an eye out for things just like this. [Read More]

Learning to Code Again

 Posted on May 10, 2025  |  3 minutes  |  449 words  |  KJ6DRH

I’ve never been much of a programmer. I learned some basic DOS shell scripting in the stone age because you basically had to back then. If I’d been 5-10 years older I would have had to learn BASIC to get by, and I’d likely be a bit better for it. I took C++, COBOL, and Visual Basic at the community college about five stints at college, two majors, and 15 or so years ago. [Read More]

More Wine Please

 Posted on April 30, 2025  |  3 minutes  |  603 words  |  KJ6DRH

As I mentioned in the last post I’m making extensive use of Wine and its gamer sibling Proton to run games and software on my kids laptops, and honestly even more so my own laptop. I though I’d go into detail on how and why I’m doing that. For most Linux users Wine is nothing new, its basically an essential tool whenever you’ve got to run an application that is only available for Windows. [Read More]

Why I bought my 5 year old a business class laptop.

 Posted on April 25, 2025  |  4 minutes  |  742 words  |  KJ6DRH

Things are scary right now (2025), Donald Trump has repeatedly stated a desire to gut the Federal Department of Education, leaving us with whatever can be provided on a state by state basis. But, instead of sitting around and seeing whats going to happen to our kids education, my wife and I both decided that getting a couple of laptops we can use as teaching aids isn’t the worlds worst idea right now. [Read More]