Mister_X

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by Mister_X 6y ago
Put together a team, design it, make some renderings and run a Crowd Funding Op, I'd consider contributing.
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by Mister_X 6y ago
Sorry OP, got distracted reading the great comments. If someone really wants to have communications ability beyond land lines and cell phones, which often Fail under emergency conditions, then for some people I recommend spending the time a
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by Mister_X 6y ago
Here in N. California 2 Meters is king, and we have local and linked repeaters, but mostly they are quiet save for the weekly nets, and I'm fine with that. Since we reside in a rural and coastal/mountainous County, what usually ha
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by Mister_X 6y ago
Correct. But Not afraid, I've already seen it happen. Thanks for clarifying.
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by Mister_X 6y ago
Sorry I misunderstood. Yes, those who have Ham radios and don't know the protocols will cause interference because they don't understand how emergency communications occur. It's a strict protocol called a "Net", use
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by Mister_X 6y ago
I assume you mean Digital Modes? And it's not the same, because anyone can "read" the digital message with the same codec, encription can't be, unless one has the key.
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by Mister_X 6y ago
Oh look... another amateur radio Snob. I'm sure you'll also want to belittle me because I'm a lowely Tech, thats usually how commenters like you follow up.
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by Mister_X 6y ago
There are plenty of Hams willing to help them, but this subset of people feel they don't "need" to practice, they can't grok the consequences of their inaction. I've had many discussions with these type of folks, an
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by Mister_X 6y ago
I live in a remote area where Ham radio is still a vital communication protocol during power outages and such, but lately groups of non Hams (preppers, and such) have decided that buying those cheap FRS radios will serve them during an emer
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by Mister_X 6y ago
Q: "And if you were not licensed how would they even identify you or track you down?" A: Ham radio uses a frequency band plan that everyone agrees to adhere to, so if someone shows up on those frequencies who doesn't belong,
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by Mister_X 6y ago
I used older laptops for years, but Laptops take too much desk space, plus, I already have monitors and don't want an aditional screen tied to a laptop.
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by Mister_X 6y ago
Mr. Nobody here... I tried using my RasPi3 as a stand alone box for a few days, but it was too feeble. It's not an SBC, but I'm currently running a Chuwi LarkBox Pro for the last 2 weeks. Chuwi LarkBox Pro Stats: Intel Celeron J41
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by Mister_X 6y ago
"I can keep going... during WWII we put Japanese Americans in camps." Good reminder, but don't stop there, it wasn't only those of Japanese decent, to a much lesser extent it encompassed other ethnic groups, this should
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by Mister_X 6y ago
Yup, I have a mobi scribe, I'm an electrician and use it for whole projects, keeping notes, and the ability to draw diagrams, make free hand notes, draw pictures, etc., is fantastic. It feels similar to paper, and the stylus hasn'
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by Mister_X 6y ago
For the last 30 years I've lived all along the Mendocino coast, and every time one of the towns I lived in had a vote to underground the utilities, the NIMBY's killed it because it would cause much disruption, yet when the power w
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by Mister_X 6y ago
Hmm, I was selling and installing a lot of Cell Phones in Silicon Valley in 1983 (C-Tell Cellular, Santa Clara), and we had an office in Sacramento that was doing even better than I was sales wise. To characterize the nearly ten years of ce
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by Mister_X 6y ago
Thank you so much for that long Laugh! Oh, and uh... can you give me a hand, I really want to attend DEF Con 28 virtually, but I'm having a bit of a problem logging in with this .EXE file on my Linux box.
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by Mister_X 7y ago
Oh yeah, toxic as can be. About 25 years ago I was on a local plant identification hike along the Mendocino coast of California, the leader pointed at some and asked if anyone knew what it was. It looked like Dill to me, not knowing about w
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by Mister_X 7y ago
Sorry, wasn't trying to rewrite history, just making the point that those places were changed by an infusion of willfully ignorant people who drastically lowered the signal to noise ratio. I started on usenet in '85, and saw the d
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by Mister_X 7y ago
It's a different time, the net world changed forever after AOL got the "masses" on-line. slashdot, kuro5hin, usenet, a few other choice places, all either gone, or polluted by willfully ignorant voices. Or outright mean spiri
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by Mister_X 7y ago
Circa 1984 or so in Silicon Valley, I was a member of ModemCycle. To be a member one had to own a computer and a motorbike. It was a small group of very diverse folks, really a fun time while it lasted. The monthly Paul Revere rides were th
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by Mister_X 7y ago
SWEET!
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by Mister_X 7y ago
Life long Porphyria sufferer here, a hallmark symptom is Insomnia. I've lived on 6 or less hours of sleep all my life, the only time I sleep longer is during a bad porphyria "attack", then it's like 19 hours at a time, b
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by Mister_X 8y ago
How about a record? Galactic Zoo Dossier by Arthur Brown's, Kingdom Come. This LP was released in 1971,and I believe it was nominated for a Hugo Award.
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by Mister_X 8y ago
My father was a designer on the HMB, and "Clementine", the huge Claw that was used to grasp the sunken Russian Golf Class sub and lift it into the Moon Pool of the HMB, through it's secret retractable floor. Of course, that a
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by Mister_X 8y ago
So did John Lennon. Apparently oracle's can't really predict the future, eh?
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Yes, Transmission is the most stable client I've ever used (Win or Linux), but like so may others, don't run out of disk space, or you're in for a major hassle rebuilding your index.
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Yes, I very much agree with your assessment of the word Hacker in that place, around that time, I was there from '64-'92. Previous to the negative connotations of the now common usage regarding Hacking computers, I took my first H
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Does anyone else hear that ECHO?
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by Mister_X 8y ago
Hmm, I've only had two email addy's over the last 30+ years, pretty sure the first one was 1986 or '87 when I opened an account at portal.net, in Cupertino, not too many private isp's back then. I got it to keep up with

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