Personal Page of Kurt THEIS
Welcome to my virtual world on the 'Net. I have some varied
interests which I showcase here. You can view them my clicking on the Site Catagories links on the right
or above.
While the majority of this site is accessable to everyone, some
links are password protected. This will be noted next to the link.
Software - I sometimes write
programs in C, Perl and TCL/TK for my use, and sometimes for work.
Maybe you can use them also.
Amateur and Experimental Rocketry
- I make solid rocket motors for rockets that fly faster and higher
than a jet fighter. Some information to get you started doing this.
Amateur Radio - I've been
making radios since I was a teen. Pictures and some useful information
on VLF, EME (moonbounce) and real-time propagation data.
Astronomy - Pictures and
information on webcams for telescopes.
Gallery - Sometimes I take
pictures when I travel.
Click this link
if you wish to send me an e-mail. This
is the only link on this site to contact me. The rest are part
of my fight against spam.
If you are a spam bot (automated software pulling e-mail addresses
for later spam use) then send e-mail to spam@landfall.net,
I will take your I.P. address from your e-mail headers and block you
forever from my sites. I used to have my e-mail address posted on my
web pages - bad idea. You can see how I block spammers by going to my
Software
page.
You can see the I.P. addresses I've blocked so far. If you run your own e-mail servers you can use this list as your own blacklist. It seems to grow daily.
Miscellaneous
These don't seem to fit any catagory.
Music List (Password Protected)
CD Ripping Software
Freeware Windows software to make MP3's from your CD collection.
Backpacking Stoves
Some information of lightweight backpacking stoves and cook kits.
This site has been up since 1997. Seems like forever in internet time.
If you want to create your own web server, I'd recommend using the
L.A.M.P. set of software:
- LINUX - a unix-like operating system that runs about 70% of the internet.
- APACHE - the web server that runs on Linux (and others). Ultra stable.
- MySQL - Database server that runs on unix/varients and Windows.
- PERL/PHP - scripting programs that make life a lot simpler
This software is all open source. Open source software is freely available and written by people all over the world, not by some big-name corporation. The source code is available for you to modify, or fix if you find some problem or bug. Many of the developers are available via e-mail if you have an issue. There are also many newsgroups and mailing lists for support.
Why LANDFALL.NET? I did some sailing in the past. I like the ocean. Originally this site had more of a maritime feel to it. I also had a lot of links and information for sailors. I hope to again someday....