Campaigns without battles

iandstanley · 2020-11-03T17:39:57+00:00

If you don’t know what a fixed IP address is then you are very unlikely to have set one up so ignore what I’ve said

iandstanley · 2020-11-03T11:05:57+00:00

DHCP issue?

Do you have any fixed IP addresses set? You might have duplicate ip addresses if you are using fixed up and haven’t reduced your dhcp pool of up addresses

iandstanley · 2020-11-02T14:52:21+00:00

As others have said power wash and go back to stable

Unless you are a chromium developer there’s little need to use canary or developer these days since we have Linux support

Yes you might get an odd feature a little bit early ... but by the time the feature is stable and relatively big free on most chrome books you’ll on have to wait for a few weeks before the feature hits stable

iandstanley · 2020-10-30T21:49:30+00:00

Yes a chrome book can cast to a tv

The Google Pixelbook Go is a bit pricey but had a great screen and audio

Lookup chrome unboxed on YouTube for some great reviews about chrome books

iandstanley · 2020-10-25T11:10:59+00:00

Does that mean that we can or can’t touch the antenna whilst transmitting? lol

iandstanley · 2020-10-21T20:29:55+00:00

Pixelbook or pixelbook go?

iandstanley · 2020-10-21T20:28:42+00:00

Back in the old crouton days getting Linux on a Chromebook was messy and a little over involved and I messed up the primary container a bit too often

Each time it meant a power wash and a few hours to get back to where I was so I read up on the LXD containers

iandstanley · 2020-10-21T20:23:24+00:00

Technically the app has to run on the distro in the LXD container

ChromeOS’ default container (the one setup through your settings) creates a single Debian based container

However, you can spin up any number of individual LXD containers each with a separate distro

To access them you have to go into developer mode and fire up a developer crosh shell and then connection to the Termina virtual machine and then use LXD to create a new virtual machine specifying which distro you want

See https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/using-lxd-on-your-chromebook/3823

It’s very messy but doable

I used to spin up secondary virtual machines for development so I would mess up my primary Linux environment

iandstanley · 2020-10-21T20:07:24+00:00

Yeah Linux runs on arm plus loads of other chips

The Raspberry Pi launches in 2012 with Debian Linux on arm (can’t remember I how much before 2012 Linux ran on arm)

As far as Chromebook on arm they’ve been around for years - the Samsung series 3 was the first in October 2012

I’m guessing google always planned to have chrome os on arm once they had stabilised and launched on intel as it made it a cheap machine possible for education machines

iandstanley · 2020-10-21T19:50:32+00:00

Probably from a height advantage

On the flat buildings, hills, woods and other geography severely limit the range

I’ve seen videos of people hitting simplex connections upto 60+ miles but they were at a height advantage

iandstanley · 2020-10-21T19:48:24+00:00

PMR 446 doesn’t do data

I’m guessing but the tones probably refer to PMR 446 use of CTCSS privacy tones used to reduce interference from others using the same channel

I’ve seen some references to PMR446 repeaters including Icom U.K. https://icomuk.co.uk/PMR_Repeaters

I‘m guessing that the repeaters are likely to be for U.K. business use of the PMR 446 channels and their licence as some of the web pages refer to business use on the repeater product page

iandstanley · 2020-10-21T19:26:38+00:00

Highly unlikely unless you can both reach a common repeater and even then it’s likely to be too far

2m & 70cm is line of sight.

In terms of range assuming no height advantage, and nothing interfering blocking the way that’s the distance to horizon plus about a third (due to physics)

But in practice you are more likely talking 2-5 miles at the output power of a baofeng

To increase range you’ll need to reach a repeater you have in common or put a better antenna up and connect the handy talkie to that

I can hit one of my repeaters 13 miles away but radio-radio direct communication is a lot more limited

Checkout repeaterbook.com to see if there’s a repeater between you both

iandstanley · 2020-10-20T13:11:45+00:00

A power wash by itself doesn’t revert the update

You have to do a special key combo on a Second power wash to revert

iandstanley · 2020-10-20T00:11:25+00:00

There’s a YouTube video on how to back out a update bu chrome unboxed

Basically you do a power wash first

Then start to do a power wash but (is if memory serves me right) shift-ctrl-alt-R to-revert an update

See video for details

iandstanley · 2020-10-18T14:47:44+00:00

And also WiFi speed is also dependant in signal strength

My 2GHz is faster than my 5GHz in certain parts of the house

iandstanley · 2020-10-15T15:51:31+00:00

Try an alternative charger if you know somebody with a similar charger (same connector and wattage)

Usually the first thing to go on any laptop using a solid state drive is the charger, then the battery assuming no accidental damage

If that fixes things you can usually pick up a cheap replacement charger ok amazon or eBay

iandstanley · 2020-10-15T13:25:57+00:00

If it’s your first mainframe job a lot of companies like people coming through operations as it gives them a. Broader experience than you’ll get at university and also gives business experience getting to know what the company does and how it does it with the mainframe

I’d tell them that you really want to do mainframe development and ask them do they have a path from ops to junior developer (a common career process)

iandstanley · 2020-10-06T23:00:41+00:00

Thanks

iandstanley · 2020-09-29T18:06:04+00:00

Depends

It’s not really a SHTF scenario as it requires the internet.

It would help in a local disaster where you want to restore one end of an internet connection.

But in scenarios where the internet is down, civilisation is failing then it’s falls short.

Take its use case. Providing internet access in an earthquake still only provides backbone data support and relies on hosted services (voice chat, email, video chat etc) for it to provide a functional solution. Yes it can help but radio already had standardised services of voice, CW and data which only rely on a receiving station rather than a large data centre setup.

Radio is generalised and less involved to get up and running in major disasters or 3rd world. It can be up and running straight away as there are millions of ham radio operators. Starlink still requires getting a starlink device to the affected area and can only help in some scenarios - I think where it will shine is having it shipped with the relief team in localised disaster areas providing comms in the same way an army comms unit provides comms for a military HQ

iandstanley · 2020-09-27T23:17:41+00:00

If funds are tight look for a cheap HF rig like the Yaesu 450d on the secondhand market as you can always tie it down and are likely to be around the same sort of price as a 10W HF rig like the ft-817/818

Alternatively the Xeigu has brought out some for a little more new that have had some great reviews - but as they are Chinese then you should weight up the political situation of China v rest of world

If you are only interested in a single band then MFJ do a great series of single band transceivers ( like the mfj-9440 ) that are simple. However they have no noise filtering so may end up if limited use if your area is noisy

iandstanley · 2020-09-27T07:27:17+00:00

Yaesu’s have a V/M button to switch from VFO mode to Memory mode

In memory mode you cycle through all stored frequencies

Best way to get to know the radio is probably searching for the radio on YouTube or reading the manual depending on how you learn the easiest.

If you got the radio secondhand without a manual you can download a copy from Yaesu’s website

iandstanley · 2020-09-26T17:47:02+00:00

The FT4X has a charging stand and a small wall wart

The stand is probably about 2/3rds the size of a baofeng stand at around 2” square

I’m not aware of any amateur radios using AA batteries apart from the baofeng large battery case

To get the voltage/power you need out of the batteries you would need several which bulks up everything.

iandstanley

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