[MCARC] OT: Full time farming!

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2018 19 Feb 18:39 -0600, Caleb Boston wrote:
> Nate,
> It sounds like you will have more time to pursue your passions. I fear your
> “ retirement” might end up yielding more hours as a result, haha. Either
> way my best to you.

Thanks, Caleb.  I'm ready for whatever is next.  Last week I had time to
do a small mod to my TS-520SE to protect a relay contact.  It's been
working like a charm so far.  Now I'm waiting on a set of electrolytic
capacitors for the DG-5 digital display unit as mine gets noisy when it
warms up.  On a wet/snowy/cold day I can get an hour or two to work on
things now.

> Dennis,
> Regarding the laptops the passsword isn’t a big obstacle. What operating
> system is it? When you say old I assume xp. I would be willing to donate to
> get one so I could program my moble radio without taking it out of my car.
> Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

I think that so long as the entire partition isn't encrypted, it should
be possible set the password to an empty string or some such.  One
utility that comes to mind is 'john' available for various Linux
distributions that are available as "live" CD-ROMS/USB images that can
boot independently of the installed OS.  I'm sure there are other tools
available.

73, Nate

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