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]


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

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

Things you will need:
- Linux
- ffmpeg
- A Droid, dummy

Warning: I do have all the freedom hating codecs installed. You will have to output to H.264, and depending on your inputs, you may need to hate freedom even more than that.


ffmpeg -i filein.mp4 -y -subq 6 -deinterlace -level 30 -f mp4 -acodec libfaac -ab 160k -ar 48000 -ac 2 -vcodec libx264 -b 2000k -maxrate 2000k -bufsize 2000kb -rc_eq 'blurCplx^(1-qComp)' -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -coder 0 -refs 2 -flags +loop -vol 256 -trellis 1 -me_method umh -async 1 -s wvga fileout.mp4


For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft started a program through House Party to encourage people to throw Windows 7 House Parties … by giving them a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Signature Edition … and a bunch of surplus stuff from Party City. Being a big Linux and open source advocate, I immediately saw this for what it really was: a great chance to show people Linux!

Here’s a look at what comes in a Windows 7 Party Pack….

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