Category Archives: Andrew’s Technical Updates

Technical updates regarding the technology used on Teresa and Andrew’s travels. This blog is targeted at a technical audience.

Destruction!

Hi Folks… Lost our website, but have recovered much of it. I am in the process of rebuilding it and fixing broken links. I found an old SQL backup and wrote something to move the posts from Community Server’s SQL … Continue reading

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Linksys router tinkering

Linksys pretty much started a revolution in cheap networking hardware quite some time ago.  I continuously ran one of their broadband router/firewalls ever since my old linux NAT router got hacked.  (A long story, but the net sum of it: … Continue reading

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Nokia PC Suite Sync

My Kyocera 7035 smartphone has died. Sometimes my phone will be at 100% signal strength and drop to zero. When I restart the phone, I get this message: My best guess is that something in the antenna shorted out. In … Continue reading

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Gallery RSS and Camper shell update

Let’s get the technicalities out of the way… I just installed an upgrade to Gallery at http://www.koransky.com/gallery/.  You can now subscribe to our new Gallery RSS feed thanks to the new Gallery RSS plugin. Our camper shell worked very well … Continue reading

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Tech Update Through Alaska

Another technical update… Here’s how all of our parts and pieces that make our trip possible are doing:Digital Camera: Our Canon S70 camera started acting up in May.  A spring went bad in the slide mechanism that covers the lens, making … Continue reading

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Where Am I?

The Where Am I web application is complete!  Unfortunately, I didn’t really get too far with the photo geoblogging bit.  Everything took a whole lot longer than expected.  But that’s how development goes, especially when you are moving into unfamiliar … Continue reading

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Technical Catchup

Time for a Tech Update!  I hope to use this space to type of musings about how all the various bits of technology are functioning on our trip.  It’s been a while since my last post, but I hope to … Continue reading

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