I sat down to watch How It Ends on Netflix without having read any reviews or watching any trailers. I was in a bit of a frustrated mood and needed something to relax. The picture of…

Hardware Hacking the Motorola Radius R100 Repeater

Here’s an album of pics of me (KC3ASF) and /u/bondiblueos9 (N3WCC/AE) working on the repeater. (http://imgur.com/a/feKLz).   We used information from repeater builder and this index had good guides, as well as PDFs of the service manuals. Finding the actual…

Obstacle Avoidance – Team O’Neil Rally School

“Okay, go, give it gas, let’s go!” my instructor Chris Komar says to me, as we start driving down a hill towards a line of cones on a dirt road that’s just been turned into mud…

Getting Dogecoind to run on CentOS

I’m on vacation in a rural part of the country for Christmas. I’m able to use the internet through tethering on my phone, but it’s pretty slow. I’m also not able to use the phone and…

How To Actually Find A Job

Intro Since the economic recession in 2008, we’ve seen a serious decrease in the number of jobs available. Companies slashed budgets and had massive layouts, and instead of rehiring have found ways to keep things “more…

Building a website with no experience or budget

I build websites for a living. I mostly get paid to build websites for people. However there are a lot of people who either arent able to afford my services, or they’re interested more in my…

Why I Hate Apps

I absolutely loathe and detest the word “App”. Whenever anybody says it I die a little bit inside. It’s very similar to how I used to feel about the term “Web 2.0”. Apps are just the…

How To Handle A Server Hacking

I had an issue with one of my servers going down repeatedly. This is very bad news for someone like me who makes a living as a web developer. Hosting websites and keeping my pages up…

I’m Done Just Building Websites!

I don’t want to build websites anymore. There, I said it. I’m tired of putting time and effort and knowledge into making a pretty little storefront or a cute little portfolio. I’ve built too many websites…

Road Trip – LA to NY

On a train north out of Eastbourne, a grumpy-looking lady sits across from me gazing out the window, watching the landscape go past angrily, as if the world has wronged her in some way. The last…

Putting Together A Computer From Parts

When I was younger, one of my first forays into computer technology was building a desktop with my father. We did research and looked up all of the parts, figured out what we wanted to buy,…