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Warwalking Fein pt1.2

Written by Jeff, July 18th, 2008

Well I recieved the amp today. Its of pretty good construction. For a while i thought that it may have been DOA because when I initially plugged it into the wall to try and get it to power up, the led wouldn’t do anything. Then I remembered I had a 802.11b Linksys pci card that sma on the board. I plugged it in and then was able to get some action on it. I guess it only uses power if wireless activitiy is present? I’m not sure exactly so I’ll find out.

The next task is getting pigtails for all of my different types of wireless cards and then creatting a battery pack for amplifier as well as possibly creating an additional one for the C760.

The War Walking Fein

Written by Jeff, July 16th, 2008

With my recent purchased of a shiny refurbed Sharp Zaurus sl-C760, I decided to get back into the wifi arena.

Since the C760 does not support on-board wifi, I’ve purchased an extremely cheap 802.11b compact flash wifi card for around $10. I could have gotten away with not purchasing another wifi card, I already have one for my zaurus sl-5500, however this cheap little guy has an antenna output. I’ve always wanted a cf wifi card with an antenna jack but haven’t seen on in years. Leave it to the Japanese to create something that only 1/10 of 1% of the market would purchase : >

Next I decided to purchase a 1W wifi amplifier. After shopping around I picked one up for around $65 on eBay.

Now I’m waiting for everything to come in the mail… Between this week and next week I’ll be getting about 4 packages from Japan and few from various parts of the US.

My next purchases for this project will no doubt be another 14db antenna and a signal splitter.

http://www.hyperlinktech.com/productfamily.aspx?id=302

http://www.hyperlinktech.com/item.aspx?id=2

Right now I’m not sure if I want to get a 2 way splitter or a 3 way. If I get a three way I will attach a 7db omni directional to it as well.

Getting my feet wet with C#

Written by Jeff, June 14th, 2008

Well I recently started a position at a medical testing facility. I’m an operations assistant to two development teams. One of the questions asked during the interview was, “If given a C# book do you feel that you could learn it?”.

After doing some snooping around, I found a nice little community bookshelf with a jackpot of progamming books in a few dozen or so languages.

One slow morning, I wandered over to the book shelf to sneak it out of its hiding spot. After an hour or so of playing with VS2005, I couldn’t find 2008 any where on the network, I had the interface designed for my first application.

After a week of spending a few minutes a day with the book, I began to understand some of the basics of C#. I decided to show it to my co-worker. He loved it. The next day my Supervisor wandered over to my cube and started chatting me up about it. I went over some of the basic functions, yadda yadda yadda… Then half an hour later, the CIO walks into my cube asking me about this awesome program that I am apparently developing… Kinda surprised the hell out of me that they where all so shocked and awed that I either A. took the initiative to learn something or B. That I’m not a moron and can learn something on my own.

Either way, my first development project in C# has begun at a crawling pace, but at least its going!

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