What Did You Do Today???

Not doing a blasted thing. I hurt yee ole back, lol. go figure right? Pain runs right down into my hip, killin me. Been chewing up the advil like candy. Oh wait, got fired last night, lmao!! Me and the leader had been going round and round since day one. This Idiot got mad because i wouldn't cut aluminum extrusion on the big wood saw. Oh well. gotta go back and grab my tools. NEEEEEEXT!!

I know all about the back pain. I have been fighting it for a few months now. I can't hardly do anything that I used to be able to do. Hell, just mowing the lawn or sitting here at the computer is painful!

Sucks about your job! I know that feeling as well...

I tried to warn four of my friends that were in the path of the following area of circulation that was intensifying last night/early this morning at 12:30am... only one heard the phone ringing ... Thankfully, it didn't end up developing a tornado..... but it was trying pretty hard. I was surprised they didn't tornado warn this, more surprising was the TV stations didn't even start broadcasting about it until about 5 minutes later...

Hey Randy, been busy this morning but was going to give you a call back. I didn't hear the phone ring, but the phone was still lit up when lightning hit just outside my house, which DID wake me up and I saw that I had a missed call from you. I hadn't even received the voicemail yet and I fired up the phone to look at radar and saw that beautiful little circle just east of me coming from the south. I sat there and watched it for a while and saw that it was weakening and then your voicemail came through.

I greatly appreciate you giving me a call on that one. I never even would have known it was there if it was not for your call and that lightning strike. If it was just the phone call, I would not have heard it. If it was just the lightning strike, I would have just went back to sleep. But seeing the light on my phone made me check it. I'm glad I did.

Tony said:

If it was just the lightning strike, I would have just went back to sleep. But seeing the light on my phone made me check it. I'm glad I did.

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... NOTE to self....

Install Lightning generator... LMAO ...

hahaha, I think it hit this new power pole in my back yard which is grounded really well and sticks way up in the air. Man it was loud! Usually lightning doesn't wake me up, but that one sure did lmao.

Setup and flew a Goblin 420. Scorpion, Hobbywing, and BK Servos. Very nice kit, too bad it wasn't mine... Next... Goblin 570...

Got off a ship after a weeks cruise to Cairns Queensland, and charged all my batteries for flying tomorrow.

rdsok said:

I tried to warn four of my friends that were in the path of the following area of circulation that was intensifying last night/early this morning at 12:30am... only one heard the phone ringing ... Thankfully, it didn't end up developing a tornado..... but it was trying pretty hard. I was surprised they didn't tornado warn this, more surprising was the TV stations didn't even start broadcasting about it until about 5 minutes later...


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What weather app are you using? Is it free?

jacobcreek said:

What weather app are you using? Is it free?

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The image I shared is from the GrLevel3 v2.71 program I have and it costs about $80. While it only shows level 3 radar data, it's my favorite since I can ( and have ) fully customize it to my own preferences. In that shot above, I've created my own color tables, added detailed street maps and also have a few other non-radar weather placefiles ( add-ons for other things that aren't radar related like temps, lightning, frontal locations etc ). They also carry a high end level 2 radar software called GrAnalyst 2 that includes hi-def level 2 radar, volumetric scans as well as many other features and is also fully customizable... but it runs $250. Both of those programs only display single site radars... they don't have a national composite map. They do have one that does have a national composite ( MEHS ) that also displays forecast model info but it requires a monthly/yearly subscription as well as costs $180. Each program is made for different niches... and they've become the defacto standards and you'll often see screens of them on TV, in NWS offices and other places.

Another good one that is an app is called Radarscope. There are versions for Android and iPhone that run about $10 as well as a Mac and a Windows 10 app that runs $30. It's also pretty nice and combines a little bit of standard definition level 3 radar as well as some hi-def level 2 stuff. It isn't as customizable but still a good product.

I don't know of any decent free radar apps or programs for a Windows based computer and of the Android based ones that I've seen/used, they don't have many options to offer. If you want free... go to your local NWS weather website or one of the other weather websites.

How hard could it possibly be to make a backup of all of your files and a system image...

So I have finally setup a Network Storage where I can hold all of my files and my backups of all of my computers so that I don't have to keep files on them. So I decided today that I would go ahead and get the full backup setup and done and that is just what I did. As it was running, it took forever to get the file system done for the first time which I knew would happen, but then it tried to do the System Image and failed every single time.

I ended up creating another partition on the NAS just for the system image thinking maybe it just didn't like the space available on that other partition. I started the backup and as soon as it started creating it, it would fail.

So finally I went and grabbed an old SSHD that I took out of my laptop when I put the SSD in it and put that in my desktop and started the backup again, and guess what.... It actually completed...

I started doing some research on this issue and it turns out, if you want to do a backup of your file system, you can do it on a NAS and you can have a username and password protecting it. But if you want to create a system image, it can NOT have a username and password for some stupid reason. Randy, do you have any idea why it is done this way and a solution so that I can create an image on my NAS directly? I know you can only have one, and one is all you need and I have it, but I still have to do all of this on multiple other computers and I really don't want to have to backup the files to the NAS and the image to a separate disk and then move it to the drive... So if you have a solution, let me know.

So yea, that is pretty much what I have been up to today... My head hurts now...

I can't say exactly... I don't use a NAS for any of my backup storage that I perform and even if I did.... the specifics and combinations of them are boggling...

Combine... the system being imaged and what OS it has, along with the OS found on the NAS, along with the software being used to perform the image... not to mention the hardware found in the systems may have an affect... and you've got a lot of variations that any one or combination of several could mess up the whole situation.

I keep my backups simple... I do a disk image backup ( not a system one even if it contains the boot drive ), I back to a secondary drive in my main computer usually and then transfer that image to a larger external drive later as time permits. When dealing with my clients drives, I typically attach their drive to my main computer that I used for backing up since it's faster than attaching a USB drive to the clients system.

Of course, many times an image backup is more than is needed... what I typically need are access to the user files which will go onto another new computer. Usually in these cases I just attach their old drive to the new system to do the file copy with. If their new system also has room for the old drive ( and my builds they usually do )... I leave that drive attached as a secondary they can use for backups or whatever they wish.

This is a pretty simple setup actually. I just have an 8TB drive (WD RED) that is attached directly to my Asus router and I just have it as a network drive and I have put different partitions on it (actually I guess they are just folders lol) which have a separate user and password (user and password so that anyone on my network can't access any of the files other than what they need to). Computer is just W10 and forget the W10 backup settings, I go into the old control panel and do it that way. I have way more control in there.

I just didn't know if there was something in windows that you knew about that could allow me not having to do this. I don't work on anyone elses computer outside my network so it is easier to just find a network drive and set the backups to it. If I was just doing a single computer, I definitely would just put a second hidden drive in the computer that is there just for backups. but in my situation, this was by far the easiest for me.

Try Aomei Backupper ... it can do image or file backups. It can also create a boot disk that will allow you to do an image restore without having to first install an OS.

I will look into that. Thanks.

Today, testing my "new-rebuilt" TRex 500. Not crash related, just reprogramed my Skookum again and will see what the results are.

Holy hell, I just killed a 5' (that is FIVE FOOT) snake that can climb a tree better than a monkey. Now I need to figure out what kind it was and if it was justified. I killed it because my grandma has a very small dog, and this snake could eat her lmao. But if this turns out to be just a normal rat or gopher snake, I'm going to feel bad. But when this thing started rattling its tail in the leaves, yea, it was time for it to die. And no, it is not a rattle snake, it doesn't have a rattle, but it mimics the sound, which is actually pretty cool. But small kids and small dogs, big snakes have to go.... Pics to come...

Here is the snake.

Further investigation states that this is a Texas Rat Snake. More yellow down south, but north species are darker as this one is. And they grow to 4-5 feet long, so this one had a full life lol. At least that is what I'm telling myself right now... I still feel bad...

Trying to, yet again, clean this friggin desk off so I can do some work on a Goblin 420 and a Goblin 570. Once those are done (they are customer helicopters I'm working on) then the Goblin 380 will be going on the bench and we will get the ESC setup (finally have a program card for it) and FINALLY get the gyro tuned in for the last time before the MAIDEN FLIGHT

I know it has taken me way too long to get this helicopter done, but it is getting done. Murphy is also in line as is the new SE V2. Oh yea, and some new gyro videos! Lot of stuff planned.