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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. (continue reading…)

Just got my Palm Pre.  So far it is awesome.  It’ Linux based but Plam’s interface doesn’t indicate what is underneath.  I’ll give more details after this weekend.

During my research into the current status of ISA100.11a, I was surprised to find little information on the web about it. I went ahead and created an entry for it, you can find it here.

ISA100.11a is a standard that is being developed my ISA that defines a radio specification for industrial process control and sensors.  It’s based off IEEE 802.15.4-2006, which operates in the 2.4 GHz ISM band using DSSS.  It defines the method of mesh networking to be used that allows the radios to set up routing between radios to allow all radios in the network to communicate with each other.  This allows a greater range, as each radio can act as a router for other radios. (continue reading…)

Updated my resume, which I try to do every 6 months or so. The web version is formated the same as the pdf version.

I’m selling liquidcable.com, so I’m changing my domain to liquidcable.org.  The change will happen in the few several days. I’ve also purchase the following and redirected them to here :
liquidcableonline.com
liquidcableonline.net
heathholcomb.com
heathholcomb.net
heathholcomb.org

I just moved my work website (otisinstruments.com) to our local server.  I’m an engineer that designs and develops wired and wireless gas detection for Otis Instruments.  We also implemented Zimbra as our new e-mail system.  Althouh, I did have some expert help for the migration.

From about 1998 to 2007 I was a Linux fanboy.  Always praising the positive aspects, ignoring the negative, trashing Windows, saying “…desktop Linux is only a couple of years away..”, and running Linux on very computer I had (but using VMware to run Windows, or dual booting).  I used Gentoo four about 5 years and became an advanced user, even going so far as to write a how-to on embedded Linux for the x86 (that page makes up about 90% of traffic on my website and even got me mentioned in an article in Linux Journal). I eventfully got tired of the constant attention Gentoo required and moved to Ubuntu; a much more polished distro. (continue reading…)

I’ve come accross a few new (at least to me) good websites.
http://clarkhoward.com/ – website for Clark Howard, a consumer advocate
http://repairpal.com/ – a car repair shop database and locator
http://alternativeto.net/ – a website for software alternatives
http://io9.com/ – a sci-fi news website

Just installed Ubuntu 9.04 beta, and I still have no option for mounting a windows/samba share via Gnome or KDE (the two main desktop environments).  It is freaking 2009, Windows has had this feature since 1995.  This is a prime example my I am no longer a linux fan boy.

As along as the developers don’t listen to the users, Linux is always only going to be a server and embedded operating system.