Author Archives: Dan

April 6, 2009
20:53
by: Dan

Communications Academy 2009

This past weekend, I was up in the Seattle area (again) for the 2009 Communications Academy conference.  This was my first time attending, and I found it to be quite good.  There was a lot of good information on various … Continue reading →

Posted in Radio

March 23, 2009
21:33
by: Dan

Microhams 2009

This past Saturday, I presented at the Microhams 2009 Digital Communications conference.  I covered a basic demo of D-RATS functionality and showed the new 0.3.x UI I’m working on.  Response was quite good and the questions I received were refreshingly … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous

March 19, 2009
19:35
by: Dan

Expectations

I think that one of the hardest things to do as a programmer is anticipate the ways in which your product will be used.  If it’s not very powerful to start with, then it’s not likely that people will try … Continue reading →

Posted in Codemonkeying Tagged

March 4, 2009
21:22
by: Dan

A change for me at work

When I started full-time with IBM, I was working on the Open Virtualization team, specifically on some core bits of the Xen hypervisor.  I really enjoyed that work, as it was close to what I wanted to be doing.  I … Continue reading →

Posted in News

February 27, 2009
18:09
by: Dan

KD7RFI D-STAR Repeater on the air!

This past weekend I met three other hams at the Synopsys site in Hillsboro to install our group’s D-STAR repeater.  We have had the components of this stack for a while now and have been testing it at a low-level … Continue reading →

Posted in Radio

February 15, 2009
15:25
by: Dan

Using Py2App with GTK

In order to present D-RATS as a nice and neat App package on MacOS X, I have been using Py2App.  When it works, this utility generates a App package that contains everything D-RATS needs aside from the base operating system … Continue reading →

Posted in Codemonkeying Tagged

February 5, 2009
20:57
by: Dan

Running strerror() from the shell

Reasonably often, I have a need to convert an errno variable to its string error message right at the shell.  This seems to come up relatively often in kernel development, but occasionally elsewhere.  Where I can, I usually just go … Continue reading →

Posted in Codemonkeying

February 3, 2009
00:34
by: Dan

A CI-V interface box for my IC-718

This weekend, I met some local ham geek types at a restaurant for breakfast.  The group is really focused on QRP, but they asked me to come and show them D-RATS.  They’re mostly hardware-focused, and probably more interested in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Radio

January 25, 2009
08:57
by: Dan

A year ago today…

A year ago today (January 25th, 200, I released the first beta version of D-RATS.  It was version 0.1.1 and was posted for early testing with my local ARES group.  I had been working on the code for about a … Continue reading →

Posted in Radio

December 19, 2008
07:39
by: Dan

Outpost on Linux with WINE

I recently decided to play around with packet radio while I had some time off of work for the holidays.  I just wanted something to get my feet wet with, not knowing if it would be something I really wanted … Continue reading →

Posted in Radio