Sometimes you see something that just…you HAVE to have it. Especially if it scratches an itch regarding the interest of the week: RTTY and Teletypes. Earlier this year, I came across the Dovetron MPC-1000R(ish) Mark II and thought it looked so bad ass that I had to have it. It would add a RTTY cross display to my setup as well as maybe add some features? Anyway it came packed well, so lets dig into this thing and see what a nightm..fun time we’ll have with it.
Continue reading “Diving into the Dovetron MPC-1000R Mark II RTTY Terminal Unit”Like MA BELL…I got the ill communication!
So I guess this will be my first test of my Junknet > Mastodon integration. Hopefully it works!
Life has certainly been interesting lately, at least in the social media realm. With Twitter potentially circling the drain, I have set up an account on Mastodon as a backup. While the performance is a little lacking yet, which I totally expect from the likely-unprecedented number of Twitter orphans looking for a new home, I’m really impressed with it so far.
Continue reading “Like MA BELL…I got the ill communication!”Another Patch Night, another Long “it broke” night
It seems every couple weeks when I schedule some downtime to do updates and go over things, almost 50% of the time I get stuck on something where a patch or update breaks something, and often in some crazy way. With virtualization, there’s an easy fix: snapshots. But what happens when you test something, looks good, and delete the snapshots? Oops.
Continue reading “Another Patch Night, another Long “it broke” night”Health Update
Just wanted to put up a quick post; after seeing a couple docs for follow-ups so far, while I have to have more tests done yet, things seem to be OK and no cause for concern. Whew!
Since my last update I’ve improved a ton, to the point that I’m more or less back to normal, save for the bruising and weird leg yet.