plowjockey

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by plowjockey 2y ago
I don't know where the USF monies go but it certainly isn't here. I suspect the likes of AT&T and Google get the lion's share and then through sleight of hand it somehow funds build outs of fiber in large metro areas. If
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by plowjockey 2y ago
Nice memory. That book was included with the Coco2 I bought in late '83. Part of the lack of fun I had was not having a dedicated TV to use with it--I had to share with the siblings--and it was a black and white console. Still I lea
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by plowjockey 2y ago
I've been familiar with the Sperry logo for about 50 years, but only because dad had bought a New Holland combine in late 1969 that sported the Sperry New Holland logo. It wasn't until more recent times that I learned the company
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by plowjockey 2y ago
Trivial examples of Gtk+ apps seem to be legion but to find a decent tutorial that works its way through a moderately complex and usable app seem to be scarce. In particular I haven't found a decent example of using the GTKBuilder cla
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by plowjockey 2y ago
Much different than the self study route I chose back in the early '80s. 41 years ago next month I worked up enough courage to call one of the local radio amateurs and scheduling the Novice license exam with him which he was glad to d
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by plowjockey 2y ago
That is kind of what I thought, that the local stores had various titles hanging on the wall but since none of it interested me at the time I ignored it and so it's not seared into my memory.
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by plowjockey 2y ago
Many of my older fellow radio amateurs will disagree, but Wayne Green is truly missed these days. Reading his editorials from 73 Amateur Radio Today decades later show that he had an insight into events and people that rankled many, partic
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by plowjockey 2y ago
Did the restrictions on third party software and such apply to franchise stores? I know that the local franchise stores in this rural area carried electronics from other manufacturers but don't recall anything about software or periphe
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by plowjockey 2y ago
Several projects I'm interested in have gone to Discourse. I don't mind the Web interface but the infantile notifications I receive and the nonsense the application sticks into a thread are annoying at best and add nothing to the
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by plowjockey 2y ago
I am just the opposite. I started using Git not long after it gained traction outside of the kernel project. Of course, it was primarily geared toward working in the terminal then. Some years later I had switched to Emacs and gave Magit
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by plowjockey 2y ago
I also heard "Mississippi's Finest Junk" as well. To be fair, I found the MFJ items I had to be able to the job. It was never best of breed but was always serviceable.
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by plowjockey 2y ago
The first MFJ product I bought was a 941-C Versa Tuner circa 1984 or so. A few years later I tried to load my 80m dipole as a Marconi antenna with 100 Watts. With only about 35 feet of vertical feedline that didn't work so well. In
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by plowjockey 2y ago
It didn't take long to get acquainted with them as the company would send a complimentary catalog to new licensees and to those who upgraded their license class. At least that was the case years back.
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by plowjockey 2y ago
Mostly digital. For an extra $25 per anum one can still get the print QST mailed as it always was but for the regular membership dues QST is digital only. However, the membership dues also include digital access to National Contest Journa
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by plowjockey 2y ago
As is half of any of the retailers' catalogs. I'd like to see DXE acquire the Hy-Gain and Ameritron lines if possible. I've not followed this closely to know if Martin wanted to sell everything as a single unit or had enterta
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by plowjockey 2y ago
"Best regards" As I understand it, '73' comes from the landline Morse/news wire reporting tradition.
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by plowjockey 2y ago
Actually, comparing the price to the quality/functionality, MFJ stuff is usually priced at a premium versus the kit or one-man-shop devices that they copied. Pricing also seldom changed in response to lower demand (thinking of the ven
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by plowjockey 2y ago
Better than Hughsnet which was the only option for a long time other than cellular.
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by plowjockey 2y ago
$90/month for 25/2.5 Mbps here. I honestly never thought we'd see that kind of speed. In late 2015 it went from 512 kbps to 10/1 Mbps on a new system. Four years later (2019) they upgraded it to the present speed with
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by plowjockey 2y ago
I read much on zsh, but I seem to be too invested in Bash to change. Is there are good migration guide for someone with a moderately complex ~./bashrc and a lot of aliases in ~/.bash_aliases? I seem to recall doing an Arch instal
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by plowjockey 2y ago
Apparently the Corgi on this place didn't get the memo! Generally he just stops and does his thing whatever direction he's going and wherever he happens to be. No, he's not obedience trained or any such thing.
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by plowjockey 2y ago
They are very curious. As they can't just pick something up to examine it, they do the next thing which is to sniff it and then taste it. At that point it's on a one way trip down the gullet! Other times they try to eat things t
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by plowjockey 2y ago
I probably didn't state that all that well. If I had really wanted one I'm sure I would have been provided one. It's equally quite possible that since they had to be obtained from a veterinarian that it never occurred to me
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by plowjockey 2y ago
I wonder if this occurs more with small animal vets--"pet vets"? I know of a number of large animal vets that retired and enjoyed many years of retirement. Perhaps being in the large animal practice where decisions are made on ec
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by plowjockey 2y ago
I admit that I've never noticed that. They seem to lay whatever direction seems comfortable. In winter time the will lay east-west to catch the most warmth and will often roll on their side to really catch some rays.
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by plowjockey 2y ago
While we had vets put magnets down cows over the years, my parents were too frugal to let me have one! There are two primary ways steel gets into the feed supply. A silage chopper can pick it up and cut it into fine bits or a hay baler pic
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by plowjockey 3y ago
Thanks for the memory jog. There is fiber optic running along the line from Marysville to Beatrice so that may have been a consideration for railbanking the line.
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by plowjockey 3y ago
I recall this being very contentious when the rail banking act was enacted back in the '80s. At that time the right of way that became the Katy Trail in Missouri was in dispute but the adjacent land owners lost. More recently and clos
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by plowjockey 3y ago
There were a number of regular season games on Thursday night carried exclusively by Amazon Prime. I watched them through my Roku devices and the quality was not great but then there can be up to three TVs streaming through their respectiv
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by plowjockey 3y ago
Many years ago attending the first company technical seminar that one was taped to the door. Sometime in the late '80s the local daily began carrying the Far Side and the very first one had Popeye on the witness stand saying, "I y

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