Spreading the aloha of Macintosh, Hawaiian music and island culture from the sunset side of Haleakala volcano on the wonderful island of Maui

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Sunday, December 12, 2004

Glossary Hawaiian for 'hole' as in "you got one puka in you roof brah, let rain in!" This is a great word for the places in the back of of your computer where you plug stuff in. 8:40:21 AM    comment [] Glossary Hawaiian for 'butt' or 'ass'. A good thing. 8:37:28 AM    comment [] Some comments for your readers about Skype As I freeze my okole off here in the tropics, this email from my taller brother Dale arrived in response to our first attempt to use the very promising Skype program for a trans-Pacific/continental phone call. More about Skype later when my fingers loosen up. Scott, It was great to talk to you yesterday. I hope everything goes well with your blog. At first you sounded like you were far away, deep down inside a plastic drum. There was no echo, on my end, which was great but it was very difficult to understand you. Once you switched the gear on your end the quality improved by 50%. It was still difficult to understand but it got better as I pushed the single head phone into my right ear and plugged my left to cancel out the back ground noise in the room. I was using my son’s USB (free with some kill'em computer game) head set. I believe that, with a little tweaking, the system would work great for free long distance calling. I intend to experiment more when we set up our DSL system in Dry Tortuga. [http://thefloridakeys.com/parks/jefferson.htm] It will be DSL on both ends so I hope the slower satellite speeds will work out for us. Our base camp at Dry Tortuga will be reliant on a self contained power and water system. There is no back up power grid and no cell phone coverage. The only alternative is the unreliable NPS radio phone or the expensive direct satellite phone that costs about $10 per minute. I hope to be able to avoid both. Any suggestions from other DSL or satellite people would be helpful. Dale 7:43:19 AM    comment []