Computer/Software

My thoughts and experiences working and playing with a wide variety of personal computing systems and software.

A Good Look

Purchased a second Elecrow 10.1” video display a couple of days ago from Amazon. My identical first one has been operating flawlessly for more than a year and a two thirds. (Ordered Dec 25, 2020) One day delivery from Amazon. Identical unit. Great! Except it didn’t operate. Bad vertical sync. It’s not a perfect world. Exchange was extremely easy. A few questions on-line and free shipping return and immediate shipping (next day) of another monitor. ...

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Keyboards

A friend and I are having a chat discussion on the merits of a “tactile” or mechanical click keyboard over the now conventional laptop low force silent type. These are stand alone bluetooth and not laptop built-in. In particular, the comparison is the tactile KB, a Keychron K2 and the Logitech K800 “soft” style. Both brands produce many variations and we are not micro-dissecting the variation within a brand. Just the keyboard action styles. I...

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AWS Cloud

I didn’t mention in the previous post the new KautzCraft LASER website is installed on its own virtual server in the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud. Of course its actual location is irrelevant and only of interest to me. One of my many hobby interests is building web sites. Because I can.  The easiest way to deploy a web site is through the use of a website provider. I presently use Mochahost. GoDaddy is another well...

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Kenny Keyboard

I tease the family with examples of how my (our) Frisco home is haunted with mysterious light reflections and apparitions appearing within the house. Of course, I believe none of that is real haunting. It’s just normal visible phenomena that could alternatively be explained using the same creepy format of all the “bad science” programs shown as popular entertainment on video media channels. Bad Science is a rant for another time. Let me just say, fake...

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