Category Archives: Linux

Coping With Color on the Linux Console (and XTerm and friends)

Posted on 03 Feb 2020 by Nate Bargmann 302 views

In the previous post about ANSI escape sequences, terminfo, and the tput utility, what I did not mention is that even though a given color such as blue or cyan is requested, it is beyond the program’s control the actual … Continue reading →

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Tinkering in the terminal with tput

Posted on 01 Feb 2020 by Nate Bargmann 136 views

While it looks like a throwback to the 1980s or even the late 1970s, the terminal is a very capable way of performing tasks on a POSIX (BSD, GNU/Linux, etc.) computer.  Some tasks are simply better suited to a Text … Continue reading →

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Running N1MM+ logger with Wine on Debian Buster

Posted on 03 Dec 2018 by Nate Bargmann 3,871 views

I’m certainly not the first to attempt to run the popular N1MM Logger+ contest logging program on Linux through Wine.  I do think that I’m one of the few (NF8M, W2NRL (thanks to both of you for putting your experiences … Continue reading →

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Compiling WSJT-X 1.7.0 on Devuan Jessie

Posted on 23 Dec 2016 by Nate Bargmann 3,775 views

The latest version of WSJT-X, 1.7.0, was released on 19 December, 2016.  I found that the available Debian formatted package would not install as it is biult for Ubuntu 16.04.1 (and variants) which has a newer version of Qt5 on … Continue reading →

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Running Electraft utilities on Linux amd64 and multiarch

Posted on 31 Jul 2016 by Nate Bargmann 2,316 views

At this time the Elecraft utilities for Linux are only available as i386 32 bit precompiled binaries.  Other architectures such as amd64 or armhf (Raspberry Pi) must use another means, if possible.  The Debian Linux distribution and its derivatives (Ubuntu, … Continue reading →

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Enabling sysvinit on Minibian Jessie 2016-03-12

Posted on 28 May 2016 by Nate Bargmann 2,305 views

As I was building a very minimal system for running APRX (N0NB-10) I chose to use Minibian as the starting point rather than stripping down the full Raspbian image to run on a Rasberry Pi model B.  Stripping the system … Continue reading →

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Debian 7.3.0 (Wheezy) in VirtualBox

Posted on 23 Jan 2014 by Nate Bargmann 2,788 views

To test a software build I installed Debian 7.3.0, a.k.a. Wheezy, into a VirtualBox drive.  All seemed well except the VirtualBox Guest additions did not seem to be active as a shared directory to the host computer could not be … Continue reading →

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“Ghost” a partition contents with rsync

Posted on 06 Nov 2012 by Nate Bargmann 17,009 views

The rsync utility may be one of the best kept secrets on any platform.  Certainly, its use as a backup tool is well known, but perhaps a bit less well known is it’s ability to replicate a complete partition’s contents … Continue reading →

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A QEMU image for Debian armel

Posted on 08 Mar 2012 by Nate Bargmann 12,428 views

My interest in the Raspberry Pi has led me to setting up an ARM based virtual machine in QEMU.  A bit of searching turned up instructions on setting up QEMU on MS Windows 7, which, in turn linked to instructions … Continue reading →

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Fun with the FUNcube Dongle

Posted on 27 Jul 2011 by Nate Bargmann 6,427 views

Late last year a new Software Defined Radio (SDR) project hit the amateur radio market place, the FUNcube dongle from AMSAT UK (FCD).  It is a receiver covering the spectrum of approximately 64 to 1700 MHz and presents a USB … Continue reading →

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