Ernie Tech - Can I haz tech cheeburger?

  BOINC is dead. Apathy, stupidity, and incompetence killed it. Sad

  Using Putty for an SSH connection into Linode Here's the link:  Putty with Linode

   I despise RealTek Audio on Windows 10. For so long I thought my Asus Nitro 5's audio system was hosed. It couldn't keep running if my life depended on it. And for too long. Far too long, I blamed Sonic-Pi's  scsynth engine as the culprit. It wasn't. It was RealTek. So I finally chucked the RealTek audio drivers and let Windows use it's own audio. And it sounds just fine. No more problems with my synth's getting hosed or Windows forgetting my audio settings. But the most important thing of all is that Sonic-Pi no long hangs up and refuses to chooch. It would run for a couple of sessions, stop, and never get past the 'Scsynth Server failed to Boot' error unless I...COMPLETELY REINSTALLED WINDOWS 10. Yup, you read that right. So RealTek is gone and Sonic-Pi runs like kitten. And reliably.  Unreal

  I've had this lovely (and I mean LOVELY) Tecsun PL-880 portable shortwave radio for about a year now. I've always been determined to dig into it and really get the best out of it. And I never have...until now. One of the most striking features of this radio, besides the beautiful design, is the superb sound quality. It really has a wonderful tone and solid output. I'm a big fan of classical music, and my go-to station is WRTI FM out of Temple University in Philadelphia. I listen to it online and on the air. And the PL-880 does it justice.  I was going to upgrade to the PL-990X, but I can't see any reason to. The design pales in comparison to the PL-880 and there is nothing especially compelling about it...especially for other $200 US. I'll do a blog post on the basic operation of the radio, followed by hidden features, as there are quite a few

  According to WJ5O, the  NCDXF/IARU International Beacon Network is supposed operate on 28.200 CW. Well 10 meters is fickle band to say the lease, and at 03:14 UTC it's dead quiet. I've heard beacons on before, specifically WB3JOE via groundwave (it's only 10 miles up the road from my QTH).  But I'll leave the G90 on most of the day and listen for any openings

  Tmux is a Linux utility that makes your life so, so simple. Truth is, I wasn't using it until recently. Dumb me. Essentially Tmux is a little environment for your Linux terminal sessions when you can make what I call 'named spaces' for you command line activities. Which means that if you start a process going and get accidently, or intentionally disconnected, that process keeps going regardless. You got that. No more processes getting hoses because of a connection time-out. And what's more, you can have several command windows running at the same time, in the same session, each doing their own thing. Aaaaaand...it's complicated of course. Here's the link to the Tmux Cheatsheet -  https://tmuxcheatsheet.com