After a hard summer last year of extended drought conditions, north Texas has been blessed (?) with double average rain amounts. This comes to us in severe thunderstorms and multiple tornadoes. Mother Nature has seemed to have left out nice long gentle rains from her bag of weather tricks. Like Morton salt, “When it rains, it pours.” However it comes, the rain is welcome. The problem for me has been the electrical activity that an...
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Beefy Miracle
I posted a little fun countdown in the bottom of the right column. It is titled Beefy Miracle. It is the name and date of the next release (version 17) of the Fedora Linux distribution. The following (next) version already has the name “Spherical Cow“. There is a complex method of how these release names are selected. I am not getting into the details here, but if you want to know, you can do some...
Continue reading...Feeling Clean
I took a bunch of time awhile back to upgrade “The Hobbyist Machine Shop” from what was and had become a mishmash of HTML coding and various styling forms. I won’t go into the details as that information can be found elsewhere. What I did was use some of the latest web CMS (Content Management System) publishing tools available. This RamblinDan Blog is a form of CMS. A few folks were kind enough to point...
Continue reading...My Look at Linux Again
Linux today is a much improved desktop computer operating system suitable for todays Internet based computer use functions. I highly recommend it as a free alternative system of choice for general purpose tech and non tech users. I started working with the Linux computer operating system (OS) a few years after it was first developed as a free version of MINIX. Nearly forgotten MINIX was an educational use only minimal UNIX-like OS. Linux has come...
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