X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=blobdiff_plain;f=bdale%2Findex.mdwn;h=b0fce954e7fb7510dbbe2744530cafe3d95b6cb3;hp=2ead2601d1622e0180b008e31e6c2db77f1cd902;hb=d6001643596d65ae7bdd8caf7bac563858373755;hpb=cf7a2252eb066bb03978480318befc828a01e4eb diff --git a/bdale/index.mdwn b/bdale/index.mdwn index 2ead260..b0fce95 100644 --- a/bdale/index.mdwn +++ b/bdale/index.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,168 @@ -Future home of Bdale's Personal Home Page +Bdale Garbee, KB0G +================== + +Welcome to my "new" personal home page. + +At the end of August, 2012, I retired from my long-held position as +[HP](http://hp.com) Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist. From September +through December of 2013, I worked part-time for [Samsung](http://samsung.com) +as Senior Adviser to the Open Source Group that is part of Samsung Research +America. + +I serve on the boards of the [Linux Foundation](http://linuxfoundation.org) +the [FreedomBox Foundation](http://freedomboxfoundation.org), and +[Aleph Objects](http://alephobjects.com), and as +President of [Software in the Public Interest](http://spi-inc.org). + +I remain actively involved in the [Debian](http://debian.org) project, +where I continue to maintain various +[packages](http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=bdale@gag.com), +and chair the +[Debian Technical Committee](http://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte) + +My "spare nanoseconds" are mostly consumed playing with +[rockets](http://gag.com/rockets), which includes managing +[Altus Metrum, LLC](http://altusmetrum.org) along with partner +[Keith Packard](http://keithp.org). + +I think the web is way too picture-oriented these days, but if you're really +curious, there are some pictures of me on my +[bio page](bio/), and associated with the +[Wikipedia page about me](http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bdale_Garbee). If you're +a close friend or family member, email me for credentials to +enter our [gallery](http://gallery.gag.com).. + +I'm most comfortable when there are lots of electrons flowing nearby, mostly +in high-end computer equipment. There are only a few carbohydrates I've met in +my life that I didn't like, I have very eclectic tastes in music, enjoy old +movies, and I have this "German metal habit"... Porsche flavored. +My most recent such toy was a 1987 Porsche 944S, black with beige interior, +that was unfortunate completely destroyed when our home burned in June of 2013. + +Over the years, I've spent a lot of my "spare time" on various facets of +[Amateur Radio](rf/). KB0G is my current callsign, previously I was N3EUA +and before that I was KA3ORU. I'm a life member of +[AMSAT](http://amsat.org/), +President of [CODE](http://gag.com/code/), +a former Vice-President of [TAPR](http://tapr.org/), +a past Chairman and member of the Technical Committee of +the +[Pikes Peak FM Association](http://www.ppfma.org), +and a member of the +[ARRL](http://www.arrl.org). +Perhaps my best-known contribution to the hobby is the silly little mail +program I wrote for KA9Q's NOS networking software, called +[BM](ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/tcpip/mailers), +though I suppose I'm more proud of my role as integrator and documentation +author for the package prior to April 1989. I helped instigate N6GN's work on +[10Ghz packet links](http://www.sonic.net/~n6gn/uwavelink/uwv.html), +and continue to have a strong interest in data transmission over RF +links. I was the project leader for the +[GPS receiver](http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/phase3d/gps) +experiment +on the AMSAT Phase-3D satellite, which launched in November 2000, +after which it was known as +[AO-40](href="http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/sat_summary/ao40.php). +I was also one of the developers of the RUDAK +digital communications processor. My primary focus on the RUDAK team was +communication with the other experiment modules that RUDAK talks to over the +CAN bus... SCOPE, MONITOR, CEDEX, and the thermistor SmartNode boards. I am +pleased to now be working on the IHU design for the AMSAT-NA Fox microsat +program. + +If you want to find me "on the air" for a QSO, about the only chance +right now is to catch us +[roving](http://gag.com/code/rover/) in a VHF/Microwave contest... + +While I was "born and raised" in the era of 4.1BSD, shared a Vax 11/750 +with Eric Crane at CMU, and have run some flavor of BSD on at least one +machine ever since (the Symmetric S/375, a uVax2, BSD/OS, and NetBSD on a +pc532), +I have become a strong supporter of +Linux particularly the +[Debian GNU/Linux](http://www.debian.org) +distribution, because of the emphasis on perpetual free availability of +all of the source code to the system. I've contributed a few packages to +the Debian effort, and now maintain a signficant number, +including some that are essential packages in the base distribution, +and some that are "big hairy monsters". At least it keeps me off the streets +at night... + +Not sure how to pronounce "Linux"? Why not let Linus himself +[tell you](ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.au)... + +In recent years, my son and I have become very active building and flying +small and large model [rockets](http://www.gag.com/rockets). I now hold a +"Level 3 certification", and am a federally-licensed user of +low explosives, which means I'm authorized to buy, store, and fly the largest +motors currently available in the rocket hobby. My personal confirmed +flight altitude record is 21,654 feet above ground, my highest recorded +acceleration is 86 g, and I've flown a rocket to beyond Mach 2.2. I served +on the committee that defined the [Tripoli Mentoring Program](http://www.tripoli.org/Certifications/TripoliMentoringProgram/tabid/322/Default.aspx), and am +proud that my son aced the test to become one of the earliest TMP +participants. My current focus combines rocketry with my electronics +background and strong +interest in radio, see the [Altus Metrum](http://altusmetrum.org) +community web site for more details... * [Bdale's blog](blog) * [Bdale's biographical information](bio) +* [Garbee Gallery](http://gallery.gag.com) +* [Quotations](quotes.html) +* [Talks Bdale has Given](talks/) + +Cool Stuff on the Web +--------------------- + +* [Cabell Garbee](http://www.garbee.net/~cabell), Bdale's brother, restores + neat old vehicles as a hobby. +* [Allen B. Loyd](href="http://sites.google.com/site/allenloyd/Home), + one of Bdale's first cousins, has a site documenting his theatrical set + designs, paintings, and other fun stuff. +* [Space Machine & Engineering Corp](http://space-machine.com), + operated by another of Bdale's first cousins. It's kind of cool + having a waveguide company in the family! +* [Graves Mountain Lodge](http://www.gravesmountain.com), + owned and operated by "my extended family" in Virginia. We used to + visit often... and still get back once in a while! +* >Visit the Radio Farm... a most + unusual place! +* [Colorado Satellite Services](http://www.coloradosatellite.com) + Jim and I worked closely together on AO-40 RUDAK, and he's definitely + "one of the good guys". The EyasSAT educational satellite system + linked to from his page is neat stuff. + +I was named for my +[maternal grandfater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D._Barksdale), +who was a prominent individual in his time. While my father is the serious +genealogist in our family, every once in a while I go do a web search on +various family names. These are some references to Grandaddy that I have +found: + +* He now has a + [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D._Barksdale)! +* A [photo](http://digitalcollections.vmi.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15821coll7/id/2862/rec/1) of him + from 1919, in uniform. +* He was a [Judge of the United States Court](http://air.fjc.gov/servlet/uGetInfo?jid=97) +* Many of his papers were gifted to the + [University of Virginia Library](http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/vivadoc.pl?file=viu00129.xml) +* There are scholarships in his name at + [VMI](http://www.vmiaa.org/AA/Alumni%20Association/Scholar.html) and + [Hollins](http://www.hollins.edu/admissions/scholarship/need_based.htm) + + +I've been asked from time to time if I'm any relation to the Barksdale for whom +[Barksdale Air Force Base](http://www.barksdale.af.mil) was named. My parents +tell me they believe +[Eugene Hoy Barksdale](http://www.barksdale.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4409) was my third cousin twice removed. +< +Encrypting email is good. My currently preferred public key is +
+pub   4096R/C095D941 2009-07-26
+      Key fingerprint = 8470 F20B 0625 9218 7CBA  7BB3 3A93 6196 C095 D941
+uid                  Bdale Garbee 
+uid                  Bdale Garbee 
+uid                  Bdale Garbee 
+sub   4096R/166755FB 2009-07-26
+
+You should be able to fetch that key from any of the major keyservers.