N0NB

Amateur radio, programming, computing, and life.

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

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 …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Tue, Feb 4, 2020

Tinkering in the terminal with tput

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 …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Sun, Feb 2, 2020

N0NB at 21

Me? No, I’m somewhat older than 21. Dearie me! It was 21 years ago today that N0NB became an active callsign in the FCC database assigned to me. My callsign for the prior 15 …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Tue, Dec 17, 2019

Running N1MM+ logger with Wine on Debian Buster

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 …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Tue, Dec 4, 2018

A personal milestone and a look back

35 years ago on November 4, 1983 a somewhat nondescript government envelope arrived in the mail box. It was from the FCC and was the fulfillment of a dream. It was a Novice class …

Posted by Nate Bargmann on Sun, Nov 4, 2018