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  1. RandomDroneGuy

    Back to balloon warfare?

    Damn. Sounds like the kind of thing I would say. 😏
  2. RandomDroneGuy

    Back to balloon warfare?

    It wouldn't have to maneuver very much if it were timed so the wind would carry it over the general vicinity of the places of interest. As for the batteries, hydrogen fuel cells could be used in addition to or instead of solar panels to charge LiPo cells, which would reduce the size of the fuel...
  3. RandomDroneGuy

    Back to balloon warfare?

    Perhaps it used a set of four props on vertical spindles with rotation direction paired diagonally, as on quadcopter drones. No fins required. Yaw, pitch, and roll are all controlled by varying the speeds of the props relative to each other. Lateral and vertical movement are propelled by the...
  4. RandomDroneGuy

    Back to balloon warfare?

    Well... we are talking about the commie Chinese here, so I wouldn't put too much stock in the veracity of anything they said. The balloon, by whatever name, wouldn't need very much in the way of maneuvering ability to accomplish its surveillance mission, which likely was the actual purpose...
  5. RandomDroneGuy

    Piper Cherokee 140 - Suffolk, Va - 7Jan 23

    I prefer foot-in-mouth myself. I'm much better at it.
  6. RandomDroneGuy

    Back to balloon warfare?

    Truman should have listened to MacArthur.
  7. RandomDroneGuy

    NOTAM system down

    Please don't insult clowns that way. Thanks!
  8. RandomDroneGuy

    Hydrogen-Fueled Aircraft

    I don't think it's really an issue if we're smart about it. It can be produced with no feedstock except water using waste or free energy (save for the cost of harnessing it). The first two sources are wind and solar. Lysing water might be the most practical use of wind and solar because output...
  9. RandomDroneGuy

    Flying pictures worth sharing.

    No worries. It prompted me to re-render and re-upload the video in 4K, which seems to have reduced the pixelation of the waterfall a bit. (It's not at all pixelated on my rendered file.)
  10. RandomDroneGuy

    Merry Christmas

    And let's not forget Festivus.
  11. RandomDroneGuy

    Flying pictures worth sharing.

    Perhaps a direct link? It plays on every device I've tried so far. Maybe cleaning the browser cache and all that would help. EDIT: It embeds the direct links. Hmmm... Replace the protocol with https:// hxxps://vimeo.com/784262732
  12. RandomDroneGuy

    Flying pictures worth sharing.

    How about a video? Buttermilk Brook Falls, Denning, New York.
  13. RandomDroneGuy

    Hydrogen-Fueled Aircraft

    https://mashable.com/video/hydrogen-powered-aircraft
  14. RandomDroneGuy

    Flying pictures worth sharing.

    In my neighborhood this morning.
  15. RandomDroneGuy

    Ex-UK Military Pilots Paid to Help PRC Military

    MacArthur was right.
  16. RandomDroneGuy

    Spun Up Another Server Today

    A lot of times it's faster to do things in the shell than to even find them in the panel. I usually do whatever is quicker. The other day, for example, I did something that made Postfix vomit with gusto. I'm really not a Postfix expert, having used Exim for many years before I started moving...
  17. RandomDroneGuy

    Spun Up Another Server Today

    I tested Virtualmin on AlmaLinux 8 for about a year before it was officially supported. It seemed to work okay, for the most part. Igor's a smart dude. The problems I had during testing were the sort that were to be expected when one has to hack the panel installer so it runs on an unsupported...
  18. RandomDroneGuy

    Spun Up Another Server Today

    It's an RHEL clone, founded and maintained by Greg Kurtzer (the same fellow who brought us CentOS). Rocky McGaugh was Greg's co-founder in developing CentOS. He passed away in 2004, and Greg decided to name the new distro after him. I have it running on four servers now with zero complaints...
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    Spun Up Another Server Today

    Actually, a VPS, but a respectable one: Eight cores and 16GB of RAM. It will be handling only Web for one very big, database-intensive site, and one small PHP site. The mail will stay on the old server after its OS and panel are updated. The client and I decided to split the Web traffic and the...
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