This is Ron LaPedis' Home Page
To help Carnegie Mellon University digitize books, newspapers, and old time radio shows, I use reCaptcha to protect my email address.
I am a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) with mangagement and architecture endorsements, a Master Business Continuity Professional (MBCP), and a Member of the BCI (MBCI). I serve on the San Bruno Community Preparedness Committee, the San Bruno amateur radio volunteers, and teach CISSP classes for the Silicon Valley chapter of the Information Systems Security Association. |
| Click here to see articles and collateral that I've authored. (link will open in a new window) |
Quick links to the rest of the page
| Pictures from the 2008 HP Community Connect Europe conference |
| Pictures from our cruise down the upper Mississippi river from Minneapolis to St. Louis. |
| Pictures from my 2 trips to SanDisk Israel in May 2007, and the Gartner Security Summit in Washington DC |
| Pictures from RSA Europe in Nice, Cartes in Paris, and Disneyland Paris in Novermber 2007 |
| Pictures from the January 2007 Disneyana show in Anaheim and RSA 2007 held in San Francisco |
| Pictures that for one reason or another never made it to this site. Europe, Asia, the Napa valley, family, and so on. |
| China and our paddlewheeler cruise down the Mississippi river. |
| New Zealand and Asia in July / August 2005 |
| Family and my 8-country tour through Europe and Asia in May/June 2005 |
| An earlier trip through Europe in March 2005 |
| Pictures from my trip to Disney World over Christmas vacation |
| Pictures from the Pan family trip to China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. |
| Pictures from the HP NonStop European ITUG meeting, Canadian World Conference on Disaster Management, and family in May and June of 2004. |
| South African safari! (along with BITUG and SATUG) |
| Pictures from the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco along with some family pictures. |
Pictures
from my trip to (Shanghai) in
November 2002 including 3 at BA4AA and 2 of me at BY4CYL (The Shanghai
#3 Girl's Middle School). The call sign is a play on words. In amateur
radio parlance, YL means Young Lady (XYL means "wife"). So
this call means Chinese girls. Hint: click on the red
"Shang Hai" characters! |
I am an amateur radio operator, instructor, and volunteer examiner. Click the icon to the left to be taken to the American Radio Relay League's home page, click here to be taken to the Pacific Division of the American Radio Relay League's home page, or click here to download a PDF that shows you how to build a Yaesu VX-7 adaptor cable that allows you to use your older Yaesu accessories.
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| Carniverous Plants |
Click here to download my full article on Reverse Osmosis systems including a diagram, construction hints, parts list, and sources. A condensed version of this article appeared in the June 2001 issue of the Journal of the ICPS. |
| www.LaPedis.com | The old new-economy LaPedis family home. |
Interesting
mobile phone info |
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In
the USA, there are multiple incompatible radio signals that can be
used between a mobile (cellular) phone and the base station towers,
called the air format -- GSM, CDMA, IDEN, TDMA, and AMPs.
See the chart at the right. The latter two are older technologies and
are being phased out in urban locales but are still sold into rural
America. This means that you normally cannot use your phone with a
different national carrier even though you can take your phone number
with you. In the rest of the world, all of the carriers in a particular
geography agree to use the same air format. |
Click here for WW GSM roaming info |
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Feedback? Questions? Comments? Send an email to me.
Last Updated: 2009-03-15