-- solar activity from the x-ray flux
-- geomagnetic disturbance from the Kp index.
Source for activity icons: www.n3kl.org.
Source for activity report: NOAA Space Environment Center.
Source for solar image: Big Bear Observatory.

The Personal Pages of Walter Gregg of Juneau Alaska

Welcome to my personal home page. I am a lifelong Juneau resident who has variously worked as a legal assistant, as a GS-11 telecommunications specialist for the USDA Forest Service, and as a clerk in a bookstore. This page was created as my own start page for browsing the web. Accordingly, much of what is here consists of links to other websites. I do sometimes post things here that may be of wider interest. Currently, documents are listed by date. That lets search engines handle the job of organizing them and finding anything that might be pertinent to a query. A document's date, as seen in the filename, may be the date first drafted or posted. This will not be changed if the document is later updated. I don't maintain old versions, but web.archive.org has some old versions of pages from W. Gregg's website.

2010

Well, I can't stand it any more. I finally have to say something about health care/insurance reform. The short version: I think what is proposed is a disaster. Of course, I could be wrong. Some of the smartest people I know think I'm wrong. But I don't think so.

• Health Reform

2002

• Solar terrestrial data

2003

• Dialup modems throughput test (also Alaska Administrative Code minimum standard)
• OS/2 "Invalid media type" error when browsing
• Web directories
• Web indexes
• Web news
• OS/2 "Extremely low memory" error in Win-OS/2

2004

• Some pictures from the Mars probes

2005

• FreeDOS FDShield manual. FDShield is a malware protector for DOS environments. It knows nothing about viruses, worms, trojans, and the like, but provides some generic protection by blocking some dangerous actions. The old FluShot and VSafe programs included similar capability.

2007

• GCI Digital Phone service (VoIP). Intriguing technology, but severe issues for dial-up modems including fax machines.
• Privacy and anonymity on the web. Links to a couple of papers and resources.
• Published Juneau artists and authors. Links to pages kept by the bookshops.
• Voting machines. Obsolete. A link to blackboxvoting.org.
• Amateur Radio Rules

2008

• An Experiment in Streaming Sound. This is intended to show that stereo streaming of reasonably high fidelity is possible at dialup compatible modem rates. The MP3 version is passable. The OGG Vorbis version is superior.
• Digital TV Transition. In my view, the FCC has botched the conversion to digital TV. Both cable and antenna customers are presented with a bewildering array of largely incompatible solutions.
• A Webmail Notifier Script for Faster GMail Dialup Access. Webmail Notifier is a Firefox extension that periodically checks one or more email accounts for new mail. It comes with GMail on the menu, but it uses standard access, which is intolerably slow via 56k dialup internet access. This page includes a modified script that adds a G/Html menu item which provides much faster access.
• A Canonical URL Javascript. Web server administrators should offer a means to redirect all visitors who arrive using an alias to a site's official url, typically from the www url to the no-www url. This is important to help keep a site's pages from getting indexed under more than one name, which can reduce pagerank. This page presents a javascript that can be used to redirect most visitors for situations where the server adminstrators fail to provide a better method.