Aaron S. Jackson - Blog
This blog is primarily a dumping ground of unfinished projects. Feel free to browse. Unless otherwise stated, assume code is MIT licensed. Feedback is welcome by email.
2022
- 11 Jun Joining Nottingham Hackspace (and making something)
- 6 Jun EMF Camp 2022
- 21 May e-ink display for Home Assistant & Grafana
- 22 Mar Improving my desk situation
- 19 Mar Making some progress with the cabling
- 21 Feb Notes to myself about YubiKeys
- 9 Jan Going a bit crazy with Home Assistant and Zigbee
2021
- 23 Oct A Continuous Integration Pipeline for the PDP-11 (2.11BSD)
- 7 Oct The Surly Disc Trucker
- 14 Oct Writing Drivers for 2.11BSD
- 25 Sep Fixing the PDP-11 Power Supply (again)
- 22 Aug Work In Progress - Rewiring my home network 😲
- 15 Aug Dynamic DNS Updates with Terraform
- 15 Aug Migrating a Virtual Machine from Scaleway to Proxmox
- 7 Aug Packer with proxmox-clone
- 6 Jun An update, I guess
- 8 Apr Getting to Wales
2020
- 19 Dec RL02 - A Disk Pack of Worms (Work in Progress)
- 26 Nov Playing with a Photomultiplier Tube
- 14 Sep DEC VAX 4000-300 up and running
- 4 Sep Standing Desks and Other Office Related Stuff (oh, and I got a new bike)
- 6 Jul Thinking about bikepacking
- 17 May 12AX7 Pre-amp build
- 3 May Quadrature Amplitude Modulation in MATLAB
- 10 Apr Loftboratory April 2020 Status
- 10 Apr Garmin Varia UT800
- 6 Apr VT220 Debugging (again...)
- 4 Apr Photos from March 2020
- 3 Apr Slurm and Hardware Accelerated OpenGL
- 14 Mar Garmin 130 Edge
- 21 Jan I switched to clipless pedals
2019
- 14 Dec Graduation No. 2
- 30 Nov Goodbye escher, thanks for all the mail
- 13 Sep Photos of RCA AR88
- 10 Sep Leak Stereo 20 Restoration
- 3 Sep Crosstour CT7000 RTSP WiFi
- 28 Aug Portable HF Bag
- 19 Aug Going Portable with Ham Radio
- 4 Aug History of Nottingham University [Amateur] Radio Society
- 27 Jul Let the brewing begin
- 5 Jul PhD Viva
- 20 Jun WEFax and HF Radio Stuff
- 10 Jun 9:1 Unun
- 25 May A Visit to National Museum of Computing
- 17 May A nice "Personal Day"
- 31 Mar I'm Dill, the dog.
- 16 Mar Gretsch G5622T
- 24 Feb Arduino home power monitor
- 12 Feb ZFS (on Linux) Quotas over NFS
- 3 Feb Uhoh, fat again
2018
- 8 Dec Distributed Learning in PyTorch
- 25 Nov New ZFS Storage for the Computer Vision Lab
- 8 Nov Hyperparameter Optimisation with Slurm
- 16 Sep It is time to move house
- 16 Sep ECCV 2018, Munich, Germany and Deutsches Museum
- 25 Aug I passed my foundation radio exam!
- 25 Jul Problems with PCIe switching
- 22 Jul Trying Strava
- 24 Jun I built a curve tracer
- 4 Jun VAX 4000 Power Supply
- 29 May HiFiBerry with PulseAudio over Network
- 24 May Inside the NAD C 338
- 22 May NAD C 338
- 3 Apr GPIB to USB Adapter
- 29 Mar Have I found the problem with my RL02 Drives?
- 29 Mar New Osmelloscope (... oscilloscope) Tek TDS420A
- 17 Mar RL02 Progress
- 19 Feb Cleaning/Repairing Crashed RL02 Heads
- 18 Feb Lofboratory Status Feb 2018
- 15 Feb Playing with Linux on AlterPath ACS, in the hope of replacing OpenSSHd (Part 1)
- 11 Feb AlterPatch ACS Console Server
- 4 Feb Bittersweet Victory
2017
- 21 Dec A bit more RL02 progress
- 17 Dec RX02 Drives are working! Say hello to RT-11
- 17 Dec RL02 Sadness
- 9 Dec Making progress with the RX02 drive
- 9 Dec I got a logic analyzer
- 25 Nov WiFi Rain Meter
- 14 Nov Finally started insulating the loft
- 10 Nov Making progress with RL02 Drives
- 5 Nov RL02 Spinup Failure
- 2 Nov RL02 debugging
- 31 Oct More Debugging of the PDP-11 H7861 PSU (I fixed it!)
- 29 Oct Mystery PDP-11
- 29 Oct ICCV 2017, Venice
- 8 Oct Thinking about audio
- 30 Sep Rex configuration management
- 24 Sep The PDP-11 is here
- 17 Sep Tiring week
- 11 Sep Office365
- 27 Aug Escher has a case
- 26 Aug More Complexity - dhcpd
- 25 Aug Potato Harvest
- 19 Aug Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire
- 17 Aug Playing around with MRTG
- 16 Aug Automatic reverse DNS zonefile generation
- 4 Aug I have a PDP-11!
- 2 Aug Email Auto Responder - inotifywait
- 24 Jul RX02 8in Floppies
- 18 Jul UoN Computer Science turns 30
- 17 Jul The night before the event (2.11BSD UNIX Repair)
- 16 Jul (Even More) Fun with bnl
- 15 Jul (More) Fun with bnl
- 12 Jul Cleaning up my Emacs config
- 11 Jul Dilbert went for a wander
- 5 Jul Blocking countries with pf
- 2 Jul Plant Update
- 26 Jun I bought a Camera
- 24 Jun RAID 6 mdadm + NFS sync/async
- 17 Jun Brian Kernighan
- 14 Jun Fun with RL02 Drives
- 31 May ThinkPad X220 Replacement Battery
- 26 May PDP-11 leads
- 19 May Growing Food (Poorly)
- 16 May iD Mobile
- 6 May VT220 Restoration (Part 2)
- 3 May Extreme Spam Filtering
- 29 Apr VT220 Restoration
- 27 Apr Smart Meter
- 14 Apr COMPUTER MUSEUM!
- 29 Mar Baked Beans
- 26 Mar The Search For The Perfect UMPC
- 23 Mar Speaking email notifications
- 22 Mar Fun with Environment Modules
- 19 Feb Remembering Birthdays
- 26 Jan Obtaining free Cisco IOS Updates
- 25 Jan 1-Wire bus for temperature logging
- 23 Jan Cisco Switch Graphing
- 21 Jan I bought a new bike
- 3 Jan Bike needs repairing, but is it worth it?
2016
- 31 Dec We finally furnished the lounge
- 26 Dec Goodbye Facebook
- 22 Dec Dirty Load Balancing
- 18 Dec Round Two: Fish Numbers
- 16 Nov Torch on GCC 6.2 (Fedora 24)
- 15 Nov Insulating and Boarding the loft... Planning, no progress
- 5 Nov My Stew - Recipe
- 3 Nov Calculating Projection Matrices for MATLAB/Simulink Virtual Reality Toolbox
- 10 Oct ECCV 2016, Amsterdam
- 6 Oct Sun Blade 150
- 28 Sep SSSD simple_allow_users Management Script
- 17 Sep New Things!
- 17 Sep Cats are stupid
- 3 Sep House Progress #1 - Experiments with Polyfilla
- 27 Aug We bought a house!
- 22 Aug No-NAT ISP Comparison Chart
- 17 Aug VAXstation 3100/M76 Crashing when Warm
- 10 Aug WWAN Setup
- 10 Aug Planting & Harvesting Plan
- 6 Aug Thinking about Home Automation
- 5 Aug Exploring WWAN Options on ThinkPad X220
- 14 Jul OpenBSD on a VAXstation 3100 M76
- 22 Jun VT420 Meta (Alt) Key
- 30 May Found a HP 712/60
- 27 May GNU Screen. My Personal Reference.
- 22 May Okay, DIY Oral Irrigator
- 20 May Glorious VT420
- 8 Apr Glorious X220
- 28 Mar First RTTY Reception
- 21 Mar Maildir Notifications
- 15 Mar Syntax Highlighting in Caffe Prototxt on Emacs
- 3 Feb Monthly Review: January 2016
- 3 Jan 2015 in Pictures
- 2 Jan Räksmörgås
- 1 Jan Monthly Review: December 2015
- 1 Jan Bucketlist for 2016
2015
- 22 Dec Caffe Logging and Loss Plotting
- 1 Dec Monthly Review: November 2015
- 25 Nov Working Remotely
- 1 Nov Monthly Review: October 2015
- 23 Oct Quick Update
- 8 Oct Monthly Review: September 2015
- 22 Sep Moving to Nottingham
- 19 Sep Matlab Tinycode
- 17 Sep Org-Mode Clock In and Clock Out
- 10 Sep Swedish Recap #1 - General Phrases
- 8 Sep Dell XPS 13 (2015) Display Switch on Linux
- 8 Sep Org-Mode Tag Index (for blogging!)
- 7 Sep Monthly Review: August 2015
- 7 Sep How My org-mode Blog Works
- 6 Sep A Blog Post