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.

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2021

• <2021-04-08 Thu 20:39> - Getting to Wales [update added 2021-04-11]
  

2020

• <2020-12-19 Sat 21:20> - RL02 - A Disk Pack of Worms (Work in Progress) [update added 2020-12-21]
  
• <2020-11-26 Thu 22:59> - Playing with a Photomultiplier Tube
  
• <2020-09-14 Mon 19:36> - DEC VAX 4000-300 up and running
  
• <2020-09-04 Fri 23:21> - Standing Desks and Other Office Related Stuff (oh, and I got a new bike)
  
• <2020-07-06 Mon 22:32> - Thinking about bikepacking [update added 2020-08-03]
  
• <2020-05-17 Sun 11:55> - 12AX7 Pre-amp build
  
• <2020-05-03 Sun 01:36> - Quadrature Amplitude Modulation in MATLAB [update added 2020-05-03]
  
• <2020-04-10 Fri 17:57> - Loftboratory April 2020 Status
  
• <2020-04-10 Fri 21:49> - Garmin Varia UT800 [update added 2020-04-16]
  
• <2020-04-06 Mon 21:40> - VT220 Debugging (again...) [update added 2020-04-13]
  
• <2020-04-04 Sat 00:15> - Photos from March 2020
  
• <2020-04-03 Fri 23:48> - Slurm and Hardware Accelerated OpenGL
  
• <2020-03-14 Sat 10:21> - Garmin 130 Edge [update added 2020-03-25]
  
• <2020-01-21 Tue 21:28> - I switched to clipless pedals [update added 2021-01-31]
  

2019

• <2019-12-14 Sat 17:33> - Graduation No. 2
  
• <2019-11-30 Sat 12:45> - Goodbye escher, thanks for all the mail
  
• <2019-09-13 Fri 09:40> - Photos of RCA AR88 [update added 2019-09-16]
  
• <2019-09-10 Tue 22:02> - Leak Stereo 20 Restoration
  
• <2019-09-03 Tue 18:59> - Crosstour CT7000 RTSP WiFi [update added 2019-09-07]
  
• <2019-08-28 Wed 16:24> - Portable HF Bag
  
• <2019-08-19 Mon 22:20> - Going Portable with Ham Radio
  
• <2019-08-04 Sun 23:37> - History of Nottingham University [Amateur] Radio Society [update added 2019-09-05]
  
• <2019-07-27 Sat 10:22> - Let the brewing begin [update added 2019-08-26]
  
• <2019-07-05 Fri 18:22> - PhD Viva
  
• <2019-06-20 Thu 22:54> - WEFax and HF Radio Stuff
  
• <2019-06-10 Mon 19:17> - 9:1 Unun
  
• <2019-05-25 Sat 17:21> - A Visit to National Museum of Computing
  
• <2019-05-17 Fri 22:12> - A nice "Personal Day"
  
• <2019-03-31 Sun 22:44> - I'm Dill, the dog.
  
• <2019-03-16 Sat 17:36> - Gretsch G5622T
  
• <2019-02-24 Sun 22:43> - Arduino home power monitor
  
• <2019-02-12 Tue 21:57> - ZFS (on Linux) Quotas over NFS
  
• <2019-02-03 Sun 11:42> - Uhoh, fat again
  

2018

• <2018-12-08 Sat 18:44> - Distributed Learning in PyTorch
  
• <2018-11-25 Sun 22:45> - New ZFS Storage for the Computer Vision Lab
  
• <2018-11-08 Thu 22:21> - Hyperparameter Optimisation with Slurm
  
• <2018-09-16 Sun 18:59> - It is time to move house
  
• <2018-09-16 Sun 14:22> - ECCV 2018, Munich, Germany and Deutsches Museum
  
• <2018-08-25 Sat 17:54> - I passed my foundation radio exam!
  
• <2018-07-25 Wed 22:41> - Problems with PCIe switching
  
• <2018-07-22 Sun 21:57> - Trying Strava
  
• <2018-06-24 Sun 17:06> - I built a curve tracer
  
• <2018-06-04 Mon 23:38> - VAX 4000 Power Supply [update added 2018-06-19]
  
• <2018-05-29 Tue 17:59> - HiFiBerry with PulseAudio over Network
  
• <2018-05-24 Thu 18:47> - Inside the NAD C 338
  
• <2018-05-22 Tue 23:13> - NAD C 338
  
• <2018-04-03 Tue 21:25> - GPIB to USB Adapter
  
• <2018-03-29 Thu 23:21> - Have I found the problem with my RL02 Drives? [update added 2018-03-31]
  
• <2018-03-29 Thu 16:00> - New Osmelloscope (... oscilloscope) Tek TDS420A
  
• <2018-03-17 Sat 20:38> - RL02 Progress
  
• <2018-02-19 Mon 21:14> - Cleaning/Repairing Crashed RL02 Heads
  
• <2018-02-18 Sun 20:13> - Lofboratory Status Feb 2018
  
• <2018-02-15 Thu 00:23> - Playing with Linux on AlterPath ACS, in the hope of replacing OpenSSHd (Part 1)
  
• <2018-02-11 Sun 15:27> - AlterPatch ACS Console Server
  
• <2018-02-04 Sun 00:21> - Bittersweet Victory
  

2017

• <2017-12-21 Thu 11:08> - A bit more RL02 progress
  
• <2017-12-17 Sun 11:17> - RX02 Drives are working! Say hello to RT-11
  
• <2017-12-17 Sun 17:09> - RL02 Sadness
  
• <2017-12-09 Sat 23:09> - Making progress with the RX02 drive
  
• <2017-12-09 Sat 23:29> - I got a logic analyzer
  
• <2017-11-25 Sat 09:49> - WiFi Rain Meter
  
• <2017-11-14 Tue 22:58> - Finally started insulating the loft
  
• <2017-11-10 Fri 23:05> - Making progress with RL02 Drives
  
• <2017-11-05 Sun 17:47> - RL02 Spinup Failure
  
• <2017-11-02 Thu 22:34> - RL02 debugging
  
• <2017-10-31 Tue 20:23> - More Debugging of the PDP-11 H7861 PSU (I fixed it!) [update added 2017-11-01]
  
• <2017-10-29 Sun 14:44> - Mystery PDP-11
  
• <2017-10-29 Sun 19:48> - ICCV 2017, Venice
  
• <2017-10-08 Sun 00:04> - Thinking about audio [update added 2017-10-16]
  
• <2017-09-30 Sat 17:30> - Rex configuration management
  
• <2017-09-24 Sun 19:14> - The PDP-11 is here [update added 2017-10-01]
  
• <2017-09-17 Sun 20:59> - Tiring week [update added 2017-09-18]
  
• <2017-09-11 Mon 18:01> - Office365 [update added 2017-10-02]
  
• <2017-08-27 Sun 14:29> - Escher has a case
  
• <2017-08-26 Sat 19:44> - More Complexity - dhcpd
  
• <2017-08-25 Fri 19:20> - Potato Harvest
  
• <2017-08-19 Sat 15:33> - Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire
  
• <2017-08-17 Thu 13:18> - Playing around with MRTG
  
• <2017-08-16 Wed 16:25> - Automatic reverse DNS zonefile generation
  
• <2017-08-04 Fri 16:04> - I have a PDP-11!
  
• <2017-08-02 Wed 00:08> - Email Auto Responder - inotifywait
  
• <2017-07-24 Mon 18:14> - RX02 8in Floppies
  
• <2017-07-18 Tue 16:47> - UoN Computer Science turns 30 [update added 2017-08-10]
  
• <2017-07-17 Mon 22:18> - The night before the event (2.11BSD UNIX Repair)
  
• <2017-07-16 Sun 22:19> - (Even More) Fun with bnl
  
• <2017-07-15 Sat 22:27> - (More) Fun with bnl
  
• <2017-07-12 Wed 19:45> - Cleaning up my Emacs config
  
• <2017-07-11 Tue 16:55> - Dilbert went for a wander
  
• <2017-07-05 Wed 20:16> - Blocking countries with pf
  
• <2017-07-02 Sun 20:56> - Plant Update
  
• <2017-06-26 Mon 15:24> - I bought a Camera
  
• <2017-06-24 Sat 12:17> - RAID 6 mdadm + NFS sync/async
  
• <2017-06-17 Sat 19:36> - Brian Kernighan
  
• <2017-06-14 Wed 23:10> - Fun with RL02 Drives [update added 2017-07-20]
  
• <2017-05-31 Wed 18:56> - ThinkPad X220 Replacement Battery
  
• <2017-05-26 Fri 17:33> - PDP-11 leads [update added 2017-05-29]
  
• <2017-05-19 Fri 20:40> - Growing Food (Poorly) [update added 2017-05-27]
  
• <2017-05-16 Tue 22:51> - iD Mobile
  
• <2017-05-06 Sat 11:48> - VT220 Restoration (Part 2) [update added 2017-05-11]
  
• <2017-05-03 Wed 17:41> - Extreme Spam Filtering
  
• <2017-04-29 Sat 20:12> - VT220 Restoration [update added 2017-04-30]
  
• <2017-04-27 Thu 15:11> - Smart Meter
  
• <2017-04-14 Fri 20:04> - COMPUTER MUSEUM!
  
• <2017-03-29 Wed 19:43> - Baked Beans
  
• <2017-03-26 Sun 23:45> - The Search For The Perfect UMPC
  
• <2017-03-23 Thu 15:39> - Speaking email notifications
  
• <2017-03-22 Wed 20:07> - Fun with Environment Modules
  
• <2017-02-19 Sun 18:10> - Remembering Birthdays
  
• <2017-01-26 Thu 21:00> - Obtaining free Cisco IOS Updates
  
• <2017-01-25 Wed 22:08> - 1-Wire bus for temperature logging
  
• <2017-01-23 Mon 22:02> - Cisco Switch Graphing
  
• <2017-01-21 Sat 20:55> - I bought a new bike
  
• <2017-01-03 Tue 23:09> - Bike needs repairing, but is it worth it?
  

2016

• <2016-12-31 Sat 19:03> - We finally furnished the lounge
  
• <2016-12-26 Mon 18:40> - Goodbye Facebook
  
• <2016-12-22 Thu 16:14> - Dirty Load Balancing
  
• <2016-12-18 Sun 21:17> - Round Two: Fish Numbers
  
• <2016-11-16 Wed 22:37> - Torch on GCC 6.2 (Fedora 24)
  
• <2016-11-15 Tue 22:26> - Insulating and Boarding the loft... Planning, no progress
  
• <2016-11-05 Sat 22:26> - My Stew - Recipe
  
• <2016-11-03 Thu 20:47> - Calculating Projection Matrices for MATLAB/Simulink Virtual Reality Toolbox
  
• <2016-10-10 Mon 09:13> - ECCV 2016, Amsterdam
  
• <2016-10-06 Thu 20:40> - Sun Blade 150
  
• <2016-09-28 Wed 23:16> - SSSD simple_allow_users Management Script
  
• <2016-09-17 Sat 13:53> - New Things!
  
• <2016-09-17 Sat 00:22> - Cats are stupid
  
• <2016-09-03 Sat 21:55> - House Progress #1 - Experiments with Polyfilla
  
• <2016-08-27 Sat 09:27> - We bought a house!
  
• <2016-08-22 Mon 17:33> - No-NAT ISP Comparison Chart [update added 2016-08-29]
  
• <2016-08-17 Wed 01:54> - VAXstation 3100/M76 Crashing when Warm
  
• <2016-08-10 Wed 10:44> - WWAN Setup
  
• <2016-08-10 Wed 22:22> - Planting & Harvesting Plan
  
• <2016-08-06 Sat 10:46> - Thinking about Home Automation [update added 2016-08-07]
  
• <2016-08-05 Fri 12:10> - Exploring WWAN Options on ThinkPad X220
  
• <2016-07-14 Thu 19:30> - OpenBSD on a VAXstation 3100 M76
  
• <2016-06-22 Wed 01:19> - VT420 Meta (Alt) Key
  
• <2016-05-30 Mon 19:17> - Found a HP 712/60
  
• <2016-05-27 Fri 22:51> - GNU Screen. My Personal Reference.
  
• <2016-05-22 Sun 22:13> - Okay, DIY Oral Irrigator
  
• <2016-05-20 Fri 22:49> - Glorious VT420 [update added 2016-06-05]
  
• <2016-04-08 Fri 23:25> - Glorious X220 [update added 2016-12-23]
  
• <2016-03-28 Mon 19:14> - First RTTY Reception
  
• <2016-03-21 Mon 21:21> - Maildir Notifications [update added 2016-03-28]
  
• <2016-03-15 Tue 15:30> - Syntax Highlighting in Caffe Prototxt on Emacs
  
• <2016-02-03 Wed 21:38> - Monthly Review: January 2016
  
• <2016-01-03 Sun 07:00> - 2015 in Pictures
  
• <2016-01-02 Sat 21:54> - Räksmörgås [update added 2016-01-03]
  
• <2016-01-01 Fri 23:42> - Monthly Review: December 2015
  
• <2016-01-01 Fri 00:00> - Bucketlist for 2016
  

2015

• <2015-12-22 Tue 22:16> - Caffe Logging and Loss Plotting
  
• <2015-12-01 Tue 18:33> - Monthly Review: November 2015
  
• <2015-11-25 Wed 20:00> - Working Remotely
  
• <2015-11-01 Sun 12:22> - Monthly Review: October 2015
  
• <2015-10-23 Fri 22:18> - Quick Update
  
• <2015-10-08 Thu 20:25> - Monthly Review: September 2015
  
• <2015-09-22 Tue 08:47> - Moving to Nottingham
  
• <2015-09-19 Sat 09:35> - Matlab Tinycode
  
• <2015-09-17 Thu 23:03> - Org-Mode Clock In and Clock Out
  
• <2015-09-10 Thu 22:11> - Swedish Recap #1 - General Phrases
  
• <2015-09-08 Tue 12:12> - Dell XPS 13 (2015) Display Switch on Linux
  
• <2015-09-08 Tue 02:26> - Org-Mode Tag Index (for blogging!)
  
• <2015-09-07 Mon 18:03> - Monthly Review: August 2015
  
• <2015-09-07 Mon 15:16> - How My org-mode Blog Works
  
• <2015-09-06 Sun 18:20> - A Blog Post