Kev's Development Toolbox

October 18, 2014

Mac OS X Yosemite

Ars Technica has a fantastically detailed review (25 pages) of the latest OS X release, Yosemite. I’m browsing though the article as my 5.1GB download is slowly coming across the tubes. Maybe sometime tonight it will have completed and I’ll be ready to install 🙂

In the meantime, I’m wondering whether I like the ‘flat’ UI look, and prefer the 3d style icons and shadows in my dock, but I’m sure I’ll get used to it.

October 12, 2014

More TNC Commands

MCON ON : monitor all packets to/from other stations, not just your station

MCOM ON: monitor all packets sent (including ack packets etc)

MONITOR ON: turn on monitoring while not connected

October 12, 2014

Parallels 9 update for Mac OS X 10.9.5

Just tried to start up Parallels and got an error message that the Parallels service could not start – the link to this article says this is due to the last OS X update, and there’s a link to a download for an update to Parallels to address the issue.

October 10, 2014

Kantronics All Mode TNC – useful commands and tips

I’m still learning what the different commands are, but here’s what I’ve worked out so far (some of this might be wrong, if so leave me a comment!)

c callsign : connect to callsign
c callsign1 via callsign2 : connect via some other station you can hear
unproto name via call1, call2, etc : sets the routing list of stations where your want your packets to be sent when in conv mode (?)
when you connect (c) direct to another station, you enter conv mode with that station
conv: enter conv mode when not directly connected to another station (packets are broadcast to the stations in your unproto string)
Ctrl-C : to exit conv mode, and get back to cmd: mode
perm : write settings to eprom

Useful commands when connected to someone’s bbs:

l : list all messages
lm : list messages to me
b : list broadcast messages
s callsign : send message to callsign
r # : read msg #
b (bye) : exit