SIRIM Malaysia is spreading Malwares throughout its website
Computers, Funny, Internet, Technology May 30th, 2008
I was searching for some information when I encountered these warning from Google. Apparently our SIRIM website security has been compromised and was spreading malwares to viewers around the world. Upon closer inspection, SIRIM seems to have taken down its website as of May 30,2008.
Probably SIRIM should perform a thorough checking on its website before publishing it to the internet, there must be a “Standard” for website security I assume?
Tags: Internet, malaysia, security, sirim, standard, standards, website
CWIRc : Send Morse Code in IRC – tools for Amateur Radio Operator
Computers, Ham Radio, Internet, Technology May 28th, 2008
Eager to practice your CW skills but you have nobody to practice with? In some countries like Malaysia, CW knowledge and proficiency is still required to operated HF portion (except 10 meter) of the Amateur Radio band.
Having said that, I’d like to present CWirc, an XChat irc client plugin which enables you to send and receive morse code through IRC. Developed by a fellow ham F8EJF, CWIrc has a lot of features which really enhance your CW experience on the internet, including the option of hooking up a real CW keyer using serial port interface.
CWIrc enables you to exchange morse code with fellow irc users on the internet, provided that the other users also knows morse code and has installed CWIrc. Though this might sound a little bit of a stretch when thinking the odds of meeting people with both requirements, it is actually not so in reality. You can find those kind of people exactly in #cwirc on irc.freenode.net server who are eager to chat with you in CW.
Screenshot
Requirements
Both XChat and CWIrc are included in Ubuntu (as well as Debian) software repository, so you don’t need to compile or download separate package from their respective websites.
Tags: amateur radio, Computers, cwirc, hamradio, irc, linux, morse, plugin, qso, ubuntu
Youtube: Morse Code Practice Oscillator in Action
Ham Radio, Technology, Videos April 19th, 2008
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For starters… It does not actually sounds like that, I had to lower the voltage because the speaker output is too loud and you can hear that i’m not a good at sending morse too.
Still in progress, I’m still looking to modify it abit and put it in a nice box and attach it with a decent key.
Tags: amateur radio, cw, diy, hamradio, homebrew, morse, morse code
Please… We only want your blog post, not your music
Internet, Music, Rants, Technology March 12th, 2008
Even in 2008 in the era of blogs and webservices, there are people who are still stuck in the 1990s.
Embedding music player and playlist of your favorite song is okay, as long as you don’t auto play it when somebody surf your blog. Worse of all, when you don’t include a button to make the music stop.
Please, we visit your site to read blog posts, not to listen to your favorite music. If we want to listen to your music, we would already have it on our computer.
Its annoying to be forced to listen to the music that you don’t want to hear, much less it interferes with our own music player. I wouldn’t be surprised if people would rather choose to depart early from your website without even finishing your post for that reason.
Tags: blog, blogosphere, blogs, midi, mp3, Music, Rants, stupidity
How to turn PC Power Supply to power mobile rigs
Ham Radio, Hobbies, Technology March 11th, 2008
Here is a guide to modify your PC power supply unit to power up your mobile rig. If its done correctly you can have a cheap (regulated) VDC power supply solution for your mobile rig to operate at home.
Step I
First get a ATX PC power supply from the nearest computer store. Price is around RM30-70.
Make sure it could supply sufficient current. Look at the label. We need at least 10-17amp at 12V for a sufficient operation of mobile rig. Lower Ampere rating means that your mobile rig cant transmit with a typical HiGH setting (50w).
Step 2
Look for ATX power connector. It should look like this.
Look for black and green wire at the ATX connector. The wire position is 4th from the top left side of the connector and 4th from the bottom right side from the connector as pictured above.
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Tags: amateur radio, diy, Ham Radio, hamradio, Hobbies, hobby
Free online Morse Code Ringtone generator
Ham Radio, Hobbies, Technology March 8th, 2008
Fancy CW? Now you can have morse code as your ringtone for your mobile phone with the help from Free Morse Code ringtone generator website.
Another interesting thing is, you can use it to generate training tone for learning morse code on your mobile phone.
Try it now!
Tags: amateur radio, cw, hamradio, mobile phone, morse code, phone
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