In a strange turn of events, I have been invited to be on a live satellite/Internet feed with a group called the Dishnuts. It's a generally techie/geeky experience with a couple of great ham radio operators who also happen to be blind. KB7QLT and KB7NLA will be the hosts and I will act as the humble guest for one evening of madcap mayhem. And if everything goes well, they might even invite me back sometime. So if you have a C-band/Ku-band satellite dish or an Internet connection and happen to be doing nothing else at 1:00am CDT (0600Z)Â on Thursday morning, 8/27/2009, jump onto the feed and have a listen. There's also an IRC chat room where you can interact with the hosts and guests. What could be more fun? Check out the Dishnuts web site for all the details.
73 de Russ, K5TUX
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Here is the second and final installment of the special OSCON update for Linux in the HAM Shack. In this episode I examine the second half of my trip to San Jose, California, and the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. I talk about sessions I attended dealing with subjects as diverse as patents and legal issues, processor speed, cloud computing, users as Open Source advocates and, yes, evening programming in Klingon. I also take a trip through The Tech Museum of Innovation, an institution run entirely using Open Source. So sit back and enjoy this special report from OSCON and as always, thanks for being a loyal listener to the program.
Linux in the HAM Shack #020 has arrived. This one ran a little bit long so it's been cut into two parts. The second part will wind up being the first half of Episode #022. For this show, we brought in a friend of the show to help us with a discussion of Linux Mint and several amateur radio topics. Thanks to Bill, KA9WKA, for sitting in with us. The amateur radio portion of the discussion is being pushed over to the next show, so be on the lookout for that in a couple of weeks. This time we answer feedback, talk with the live participants in the chatroom and give all the ins and outs of Linux Mint on various platforms, from laptops to desktops to netbooks.