Oshawa is one of the best places in North America for over the air TV. We get signals from the CN Tower, Hamilton, and many of the Buffalo stations. Using the setup I’ll describe, I’m currently receiving 21 (or more) digital TV channels with no rotor, and many of them are HD! Digital TV provides a crystal clear signal. It provides a higher quality signal than Cable TV, particularly with the HD signals, as there is no compression applied to the channel. Best of all, your monthly payments are reduced to $0!
I was trying to update the BIOS of my new SATA controller (a Syba SD-SATA2-4IR, or SD-81012336 – you decide), as the system will not boot with the RAID BIOS, unless you have a logical drive defined. Since this fakeraid is generally garbage, and I’ll be using ZFS as well as gmirror, I thought I would try and work around it.
I’ve recently added a page describing my little update to my home wiring. If you are not getting the full sync rate out of your DSL modem, or are experiencing frequent disconnects, this procedure may help you…
So, doing my usual morning garden check-over, I found a new friend!
When I went to check in the evening he was gone, so I don’t know if it’s a permanent resident or not.
Toads and slugs both happen to be on this fellow’s diet, so I have mixed feelings about whether it will ultimately be good for the garden. I figure the more diversity the better though.
I’ve been working in the garden again. Yesterday I finished raking out the soil, so that I had a nice, even bed. I also decided to pile the rocks I pulled out in a little more functional and aesthetic way. Today I finally got to the good stuff… Read more…
At the theremin workshop, I was able to add my two pitch oscillators, and tested them successfully at 260kHz. It took me one session for each oscillator (3 and 5), but I was done early on the second oscillator.
During session 6 last week, I added the tuning circuit for the oscillator that is attached to the control panel. (not in picture)
