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CORE Team bike ride

Went out biking with a couple other guys who work at Rackspace on Sunday. We rode the Mission Trail in San Antonio from near Concepción to Espada. Total of 19 miles and I’m not nearly as sore as I thought I’d be this morning.

For those not familiar with the Mission Trail, it is mostly a wide paved sidewalk with modest hills and a gentle slope. The scenery is interesting and there are few cars to fight. We saw a number of birds, including a Snowy Egret, Comerant, Cardinals, Red Tailed Hawk, and a Vulture circling over us.

AT Commands for EVDO Cards

Just bought another EVDO card off ebay cheap and went looking for the AT commands so I could find the ESN.  I’m hoping that this PC-5220 is a bit more reliable than the PC-5740 that I’m using now.  The 5220 at least has an antenna connection and that should work better than my soldered hack on the current card.

Some cards won’t require the trailing question mark. The signal strength varies from card to card also but 31 appears to be the max signal for any card. Some cards report integers 0-31 and other only report 0, 7, 15, 23, and 31. A strength of 7 or better should work but your speed and reliability will be affected.
Card’s ESN: (in hex) AT+GSN
+GSN: 60223620

Firmware: AT+GMR
+GMR: S/W VER: p12203v0 .

Signal Strength: AT+CSQ?
+CSQ: 21, 99

Server’s SID: AT+CSS?
+CSS: 2, B , 4182
Band Class: 0-unsupported, 1-800Mhz, 2-1900Mhz
Band: A-F System registered, Z not registered.
SID: Station ID (Tower?) Look up the SID here: http://www.mountainwireless.com/sid.htm
Login Info: AT$QCMIPGETP
Profile:0 Enabled
NAI:1112223333@vzw3g.com
Home Addr:0.0.0.0
Primary HA:255.255.255.255
Secondary HA:255.255.255.255
MN-AAA SPI:2
MN-HA SPI:300
Rev Tun:1
MN-AAA SS:Set
MN-HA SS:Set

Win Prizes by Using Blingo Search

Blingo Search

This looks legit, and might be worth a try. Get in early and you should have a better chance of winning.  If you don’t like the prize you can choose a visa gift card.

How Blingo works: 1. We pick a bunch of random winning times. 2. Search at the right time and you win. No registration required. 3. Then tell us where to send your prize.

DIY Live » DIY Archive » Electronics Tutorial

I know that starting out in Electronics can be intimidating. There is a lot that you have to understand in order to really get a grasp of electronics. Sure, you can find some schematics, and put them together, but without understanding what resistor to put with a LED, and why you pick that resistor for that LED, then you can’t really do much except for just copy other people’s designs. I decided to find a few links for everyone to go to that will help them understand circuits, and circuit design.

New Theme

I’m working on a new theme for all the LR2 sites. So far I’ve only converted the easy ones. I’ll tackle lr2.com later tonight and work on adapting some of our exisitng banner graphics to fit this theme.

For those curious, it’s based on WP-Andreas09.

BenchMark-0.9.5 – The Official Wine Wiki

BenchMark-0.9.5 – The Official Wine Wiki

Some interesting benchmark results of WINE vs XP. It’ll be interesting to come back in 6 months or a year and see what kind of progress the wine developers have made.

Here are some Benchmark results between Wine and Windows XP, Your mileage will vary depending on your Linux config, Wine version and Hardware.
I plan to do a follow up roughly each six months to see what are rate of progression is and post the results here with /- %’s.

Apple Logo Knitting Pattern

A couple attempts at an Apple Logo knittng pattern.

Large: 40 stitches by 60 rows. Apple Logo Knitting Pattern

Medium: 25 stirches by 40 rows. Apple Logo Knitting Pattern

It’s Raining!

It’s raining!

Last rain of any sort was the Saturday after Thanksgiving with about half an inch, and before that was Oct 30th with a quarter inch. Not nearly as bad as Oklahoma has, but bad enough to give us an exciting Christmas Eve.

One transistor FM radio project

One transistor FM radio project

Another project to queue up for when the kids are ready.

After exhaustive research into the early articles and some key assistance from a modern day guru in regenerative circuit design, I have developed this simple radio kit. It is a remarkable circuit. It is sensitive, selective, and has enough audio drive for an earphone. Read more about theory behind this radio on the low-tech FM page.

Ubuntu Network Interface Issues.

If you are having problems with a new network card showing up on eth2 or eth1, take a look at /etc/iftab.  More than likely eth0 (and maybe eth1) are assigned to another MAC address.

Change the MAC address to set the interfaces, or comment out the lines and Ubuntu will assign the interfaces in the order the modules are loaded.  Be sure to look in /etc/network/interaces if you change the order of the interfaces.