Timeline for fsf list by evan

Brett Smith

First order of business today: a visit to the machine room. Never good news.

Brett Smith

Terms on the radio exam: RMS and ESR. (Root-Mean-Square and Equivalent Series Resistance, respectively.)

Brett Smith Kat Walsh

I'm using hamexam.org which I think is pretty similar. They have flash cards and keep stats on how you do on specific sections.

Brett Smith

Waded into the hardcore electronics part of the study guide and so far I understand it all but I am feeling a bit less confident.

Brett Smith Christopher Allan Webber

Funny how sharp the contrast between those feels, when they ought to be one and the same.

Brett Smith

Of course, being a legal dork, the section about FCC regulations is always easiest…

Brett Smith

Another weekend of radio studying. Got to the end of my General guide and jumped right into Extra. Feeling good so far.

Brett Smith

My personal X60 keeps hitting 86°C and doing a thermal shutdown. Not sure what to do about it, but summer coming makes it a real problem.

Brett Smith

Late to the party I know, but I'm glad that RT 3.8 makes it much easier to assign or change ticket owners. RT++

Brett Smith

Got a docking station for my X220 at the office and It. Just. Works. Big ++ to all the developers who helped make it happen.

Brett Smith Paul Visscher

http://ur1.ca/9aini — stumbled on this myself at work last week.

Brett Smith Mike Linksvayer

@mlinksva Your new profile pic has immediately given my timeline an unnerving edge.

Brett Smith

Of course, right after I tell @jrbl Lenovo has avoided screwing up ThinkPads, they start screwing them up: http://ur1.ca/99iov

Brett Smith

Installed #Zeya tonight and it seems pretty nice. Struggles with FLAC a bit and interface needs love (as ever) but solid out of the box. ++

Brett Smith Christopher Allan Webber

Hear hear! Big part of why I started contributing to #MediaGoblin.

Brett Smith Brett Smith

Curious because I often see ergonomic keyboards that put it on the "wrong" side of the split compared to how I was taught.

Brett Smith

Poll: Which hand do you use to touch type the '6' key?

Joe Blaylock

FLOSS job making science work better, and changing the nature of academic publishing. Come be my boss! http://ur1.ca/93ycg

Brett Smith

#Mozilla surrenders an important line of defense in that debate if #Firefox uses the same technique to support patented H.264 video.

Brett Smith

When #Mozilla asked how it could possibly implement the HTML5 media DRM proposal, some answered: have an external component do the work.