Tuesday, 02 December 2014, 02:41 CST

I've been running fluxbox on FreeBSD for a few weeks now.  It's on an old 
3GHz Pentium 4 with 2.5GB of RAM.  It runs quite well, and I've actually 
been using it for some things.

I also just got a new shortwave radio.  The DX-398 still works quite well, 
but I wanted one even more portable, so I bought a Kaito KA321.  It's 
small enough to fit in a shirt pocket and the reception isn't too bad, so 
I'll probably be carrying it around during the holiday season.

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Sunday, 07 December 2014, 02:46 CST, 08:46 UTC

I've been using the new shortwave radio quite a bit.  I'm pleased with it.  
It won't pick up the weakest signals, but it picks up enough of the 
strongest ones to be worth the $20.

FreeBSD continues to perform well as a desktop.  I have X running on a 
single monitor, but my video card has a TV output that's hooked up to an 
old CRT TV.  The X server detected it in the initial automatic config, but 
I had to comment all that out to get it to work correctly.  I may see if I 
can get X running on both the monitor and the TV this weekend.