MERIDN Digipeater Decommissioned

Sadly, I am moving to Eagle and had to take the MERIDN digipeater off the air. SHAFER has great coverage now and so a fill-in digi isn’t really needed. I’ll implement an Igate at the new house for routing packets to APRS-IS.

Handbrake batch conversion using CLI shell script

I contributed to a Handbrake forum a while back. Thought you might find it useful too. This is my evolving script for transcoding DVDs from MacTheRipper. 1) Save the file in a logical place (I keep it in the Movies Folder… same place I rip movies to). It will...

Find Failed Login Attempts in Logs

Looking for a log to show you failed login attempts to your Linux machine? Look in: /var/log/btmp You can access it by running: /usr/bin/lastb It’s similiar to the wtmp log of user login/logouts and the utmp log showing who is currently logged...

Sync iCal with Google Calendar

Products like Spanning Sync allow you to sync your iCal with your Google calendar. Now Google has a new service called “Google Calendar CalDAV” that allows you to do the same thing. Details at: Enable Google Calendar in iCal I tried it and it works very...