My musings on tech and life

The Life and times of John McCance


As I’ve gleefully told a lot of folks, the first really meaningful job I ever had was at a Radio Station. We had a few different radio stations there – one was more Mainstream/Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR), one Country, one was more Adult Contemporary, and one was more Standards oriented. I worked a lot of ball games and babysat equipment, for lack of a better term, and eventually, I’d pick up the Sunday morning “Hangover” shift full of religious programming on the AM Simulcast of the FM Standards station.…
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Upgrading the Firmware on your AR-705S


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Finding a good soldering iron


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DEFCON and the Delta Variant


We’re a week out from DEFCON 29. Clark County, Nevada just decided to re-implement the 100% mask mandate. All of the DEFCON talks are pre-recorded. While DEFCON was “Vaccinated-Only” this year (and required proof of vaccination), I made the decision a few months ago to forgo the trip to Vegas and do my Blackhat/DEFCON week completely remote. I’m glad that I did. Welcome back to the mask club, kids. The biggest question that I want to know is:…
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My PiDP-11 Experience


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