Update First a little computer update. If I believed in a jinx I wouldn’t post this but since I don’t… All my electronics seem to be running fine AND the storms have gone away (for awhile). All is peaceful in the Kautz communications center here in Texas. My Linux box is running perfectly with its’ new Fedora 17 OS. I am enjoying re-discovering how well I can do most daily work with just a free...
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P(r)aying For Rain Water
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...
Continue reading...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...
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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...
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