McPherson Green Gizmo™ with modifications!

TL; DR The McPherson Green Gizmo™ is great, without question or complaint. However, at the end of the day, I'm just a Carling-like stomp switch monkey. Although I dug [...]

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Fender Blues Junior Amp Modification Pursuit: Part 2

TL;DR A very important first step in audio electronics work of this kind (especially with amplifiers, but isn't limited just that) is making some safety tools if you [...]

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Trying out the new 'Fish' Atari 2600 Prototype Game just found!

TL;DR From an absolute "cool" factor and nostalgic gaming perspective, I'm not really sure it gets any better than someone on the internet today (in 2025) finding and [...]

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Posts Migrated from Blogspot

I've migrated all worthwhile relic blog posts from my old stomping grounds on Blogspot (doschman.blogspot.com) to here. If you were redirected here, rest assured, it's [...]

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Open for Business!

TL;DR After some accumulated dog years of life, I have come around full circle (again) to start (yet another) blogging platform to contribute to in thought, word and [...]

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Basement Engineered Home Brewing Stirplate

Although my outdated, neglected, who-gives-a-shit blog rarely gets posted to anymore, I have adopted a soft spot in occasionally 'giving back' and sharing to a focused [...]

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Getting Q-logic 2532/2562 (qla2xxx) and Linux-IO SCSI Target Working On RedHat/CentOS 6.7

Having oodles of enterprise shit at work makes me a bit spoiled, so it's nice to have some sliver of that at home. So one of the things I've wanted to do for some time [...]

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Adding 'Hack' monospace font functionality into Spyder IDE in Fedora Core 21

As of late, a lot of the code I have been hacking out for just about anything has been straight, 100% Python. With that, I've also ditched 'vi' + plugins and have grown [...]

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1PPS Support with GPIO For Raspberry Pi in Fedora 17 Remix

One of my projects as of the last 5 months (although slow going) is making a full-out stratum-1 time server appliance out of the Raspberry Pi. I'm going to be using an [...]

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Calculating NMEA sentence checksums with Python

Another feature I wanted to add to my NTP/GPS project I'm doing with my Raspberry Pi is to validate the NMEA sentences I'm reading in by checksum'ing the NMEA sentence [...]

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