Jeremy Sands

Linux In The Ham Shack – Ohio Linuxfest Booth – Talk-In
Simplex: 146.520 MHz

Ohio State University Amateur Radio Club
Repeater: 442.6 MHz (shift: +5 Mhz, PL/CTCSS: 114.8 Hz)

West Central Ohio Amateur Radio Association
Repeater: 145.110 MHz (Dayton and Columbus), Cross-band link: 224.160

University of Cincinnati Amateur Radio Club
Repeater: 147.060+ MHz – 100Hz PL

Southwest Columbus Amateur Radio Club
Repeater: 145.230, (Cross-band link? 444.100)
Net every Friday, 8PM

OH-KY-IN Amateur Radio Society
146.670- (CTCSS 123 Hz), 146.925- (CTCSS 123 Hz), 146.625- (CTCSS 123 Hz)

Dayton FM Group
Repeater: 224.680 MHz, 443.600 MHz, Echolink Node 298502

Capital City Repeater Association
Repeater: 147.24+ (CTCSS 179.9)
NOTE: Do not use break unless it’s for emergency, give call sign to interject conversation.

So I finished my QSL cards. This post will serve as a placeholder showing my current QSL card (and any past ones), as well as an explanation of the items on the card. Pics and details after the jump!

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So … you have an e-commerce checkout page or a secure login thusly giving you the need to have an SSL page. But you don’t want people then staying in SSL the whole time, and adding an additional burden to your servers, do you? Here’s the simple solution, using mod_rewrite. The following two code snippets go into your apache virtualhost config files. This varies quite a bit by distro, but in Gentoo they’re in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/

For the SSL virtualhost, add the following (between its tags obviously…)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /(.*)TheEndOfTheURLOfPageToRedirect\.html\ HTTP/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R]


This will redirect down from SSL all pages except those precious SSL needed pages. Just add additional lines like the 3rd if you have multiple pages that need SSL.

Now add the following to the regular non-SSL Virtualhost entry for the same site:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /(.*)TheEndOfTheURLOfPageToRedirect\.html\ HTTP/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R]


Call it the 5 o’clock whistle. The 5 o’clock send off. The weekend blastoff. The weekend work whistle. The Friday work whistle. Whatever. The point is, hardly anybody does this anymore, and it’s a shame. Below are the ONLY specimens I can find that aren’t some lame DJ blowing a referee’s whistle… but REAL Friday work whistles. Enjoy!

[EDIT: Update! Since apparently I'm not the only person interested in this (I made it on Reddit! Holy cow!) ... I am now offering an updated rapidshare link with NEW whistles, and them all put into one .zip archive.]

It contains all the following:
1) WMXT 102.1 The Fox — Florence, SC — Better start, more music.

2) WROQ Rock 101.1 — Greenville, SC — Longer, more mixed in clips.

3) WKLS 96Rock — Atlanta, GA — The predecessor to 102.1′s version.

4) WHTZ Z-100 — New York City, NY — The version they did in 1984!

5) NEW!! Adam Curry – The Daily Source Code – Fubar Friday (short)

6) NEW!! WNKS KISS 95.1 — Charlotte, NC – Weekend Blast (short)

7) NEW!! WKLS Project 961 — Atlanta, GA — The ALL NEW version airing currently!

Rapidshare Link — Click Here To Download Them ALL!

Tons and tons of pictures and blog entires about the 2010 Southeast Linuxfest after the jump!

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Stephen Spector, Community Manager for Xen, as well as a speaker and exhibitor at the 2010 Southeast Linuxfest, made the mistake of interviewing me. Apparently nobody told him I’m not actually important.

You can watch more interviews at SELF, and got a whole bunch more open source goodness, at Stephen’s blog Open Source Exposed over at Network World.

Apparently they’ll interview anybody on Ubuntu User. Even me. How did that happen?

People, Personalities, and Planners: Who’s behind your FOSS events? SELF10 Planner – Jeremy Sands

Apparently his three previous mailings which all got no response wasn’t enough of a clue.

Click the title of this entry to view the full page containing pics of the letter, and my response.
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You will need:
- Recent ffmpeg
- Panasonic Lumix FZ35 (duh)

ffmpeg -i INPUT-FILE-FROM-CAMERA.MTS -vcodec libxvid -b 7000k -acodec libmp3lame -ac 2 -ab 192k -deinterlace -s 1280x720 output-file.avi