Editors note: In my last post you can see that I received my General class license, and can now transmit on the bands listed in this article. However, this article was written prior to testing for my general class license, and future posts recognize that. I messed up the order …

Praise God! Just took the General class license test for HAM radio and passed! I guess I'm going to travel a little deeper down the "rabbit hole" of HAM radio!

Actually, I've rather been enjoying the digital modes, and I look forward to trying some more of them out, now …

In my collection of stuff, I happen to have a really old piece of radio equipment. According to the data-plate, it is a SG-44 Signal Generator made by Winslow Tele-Tronics, INC. I tried looking up the company, and the best that I …

In my latest foray into the world of HAM radio, I've decided to try out the numerous digital modes. I've been having no luck when it comes to talking to people on the radio for several reasons, and so I thought I should try doing something else. The real hang …

Sometimes, I realize that I'm not very bright. The rest of the time, I'm not very bright, but I just don't realize it.

Recently, I ran into a snag with my Nextcloud server. I wanted to update it, but it failed and brought me to a blank white screen with …

In the continuing effort of learning by doing, running my own servers has been a real eye opener. Today I learned something new. WordPress cron is not really cron.

Even a self hosted WordPress instance still needs things to happen at a certain time, or interval. So the programmers of …

Praise God! I've finally completed the CompTIA Infrastructure Pathway!

The other day I received my results from the CompTIA Cloud+ Beta test, and while I barely passed, it was a passing score, so that means I've now completed the entire infrastructure pathway and have no more to complete! Now I …

It's been interesting getting back into Android development again, and in particular, working with the newer phones. My wife and I got a matching pair of Ulefone Armor 7s, and yet they had surprisingly different results when trying to install a new custom ROM. In particular, it was interesting working …

My brother, The Libre Hacker, is now running his own Gemini server. For those unfamiliar with Gemini, it is a protocol used for non-web browsing. Or, from the Wikipedia article:

The Gemini protocol is an application layer protocol for distributed hypertext information systems that provides …

Every time I log into my Nextcloud server as the administrator, the overview tab shows me a warning about memcache. It also provides a link where you can read about it and learn what to do about this warning. One key thing that I noted was that it is not …