Hitek Homeless July 23rd, 2008
The Truck:
2001 Ford F-350 Lariat
- Dual rear wheels
- Crew cab
- 4×4
- 7.3L Diesel (International)
- Timbrens
- Front and rear cargo haulers
The Camper:
2008 Arctic Fox 1140
- Wet bath
- Couch seating
- Full-wall cabover wardrobe
- 9k BTU Air conditioner
- No oven or microwave (more storage!)
- Thermal pane windows
The Bikes:
- Trek RST 3700
- Roketa MC-17-50T (Sicily)
The Internet:
Sprint EVDO service (for now you greedy bastards!)
- Novatel U727 EVDO card
- Cradlepoint CT350 Wifi router
- Dual-band Omni-directional external antenna
- 3 Watt Bi-Directional Dual-Band EVDO amplifier
The Network:
- Fujitsu Lifebook 1510
- Dell Vostro 1500
- ReadyNAS 600 (700GB RAID5)
- 2 Cowon A2’s for random movie/music access
The Blog:
- Wordpress
- Gallery2 image gallery
- WAY too many plugins
- Feeds by Feedburner
- Hosting by HostGator
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johnny January 13th, 2008
It’s been quite a few years and I was usually busy reading while Dad drove us to the next destination in the family RV, but the best I can remember, we’d often drive until late in the evening and then find a parking lot relatively close to where we were going, park overnight and then ask the manager if it were OK to park there the following day. Sadly, this is not as effective in this day and age - at least not on the East Coast. So many counties and towns have passed laws against overnight parking that it takes some research ahead of time if you don’t want to sleep in the Lowes parking lot, with your slide in, under the bright sodium arc lamps, half dressed just in case the cops show up to roust you.
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johnny December 30th, 2007
We hope everyone had a great Christmas. We spent Christmas with my parents in the middle of nowhere. Well, 10 miles or so outside of Boone, NC; but 10 miles is a long way in a place where everything is uphill both ways and not even the crow flies in a straight line.
As you can see from our Charlie Brown Christmas tree, Jenn, my brother and I went for a hike until we found something roughly Christmas tree shaped. The process of hiking in, choosing a tree, sawing it down and carrying it out took less time than the last tree we bought off a lot. It’s apparently a lot easier to choose a tree when you’re trying to convince yourself that something looks like a Christmas tree than when you’re trying to decide which Christmas tree is ‘best’. I’m not sure if we were completely on Dad’s land when we found this one, but I doubt the neighbor will miss it.
We spent the first couple of nights down on the road leading up to my parents place. We got in after dark the first night and weren’t brave enough to try the driveway. It’s something like a 30-40% grade and would have our rear jacks dragging if we hit it at the wrong angle.
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johnny November 24th, 2007
Sadly, the camper didn’t make it here prior to Thanksgiving, so instead of packing things into it, we’re moving as much stuff out of the apartment as we can live without. We’ve gotten rid of 75% of the furniture and the rest will go into storage in the next week. Jenn says I need to downsize my workstation even further than this:
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johnny November 17th, 2007
It’s been a pretty good start to the weekend. We’ve managed to get rid of 5-6 bags of old clothes and a couple more computers. Jenn has been putting some of the more hobbyist related computer equipment on ebay and actually getting a fair bit of cash for some of our old toys. We still have a handful of things to list, but it’s encouraging to know we may get a little cash for things I was expecting to have to haul off for recycling.
Last night, I finally found the reason I was having so much trouble getting WDS to work between the cradlepoint 350 abnd the linksys running openwrt. Apparently, WDS support was completely broken on the cradlepoint prior to firmware 1.7. So if WDS is beating you, check your firmware version on the cradlepoint. Once the firmware was updated, WDS was pretty easy to get setup.
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