Fri, 22 Jul 2005

Broken Power

TrainNode has been having issues over the last month or two. The thing will not start up while on the train, but it will work flawlessly at home, work, coffee shop, etc. I suspect that power is very dirty or is browning out on the train. I just hooked up the serial console while on the train, and noticed that the PCMCIA system errors out randomly on startup.

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Wed, 20 Jul 2005

Tons of Antennas

I just got yet ANOTHER antenna from someone, a good 24dBi parabolic grid (galvenized steel).

If anyone has a need or project coming up where they need 3 24dBi parabolics, array of omis, sectors, coax, radio cards, soekrises, etc. just give me a call :)

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OCR and Object Recognition

I may be reinventing the wheel, but I am pretty proud of myself tonight...I really don't have a clue on this entire subject -- not even basic understanding of OCR.

I have basic shape recognition working in a couple lines of perl using no libraries -- it just reads the binary image directly.

I am pretty close to reading special barcode data from a mere image. Due to the nature of the system, it will have significant tolerance towards rotated and distorted imagery.

The system could also be expanded towards other things..but I wont get ahead of myself just yet. Wouldn't that be a cool perl module or what?!

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Mon, 11 Jul 2005

.Mobi suffix

In recent news, CNN mentions a new suffix has been approved by ICANN today. This suffix was surprisingly backed by several large telephone and software companies, including the GSM Association.

Thanks guys, for a TLD that takes about 9 key presses on my cell phone. Wouldn't it be easier to type .com instead? You might as well have lobbied for ".aworldwidewebsiteforcellulartelephones"

I am going to stack this one up with other useless TLD's, such as .coop, .biz, .pro, .name, and .museum.

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