Check out my latest efforts in lost wax casting. Here is a link to a new post in RD’s Workshop.
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KautzCraft Move
KautzCraft website made a flawless move yesterday. I used Amazon Web Service (AWS), aka “The Cloud” when I performed the previous software update to KautzCraft. My web ecommerce store, Ramblin’ Dan’s Store. is also hosted on that service provider on a separate “instance” or server. I used AWS as mostly an educational experience. I am proud to say it was totally successful in operation as well as a learning experience. The RDS web store works great too, when...
Continue reading...Thunderbird Email Issues (Fixed?)
I standardized on Mozilla Thunderbird email because I check email on both Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux machines. When first installed about 6 months ago, everything seemed to be working just fine. I filter all my many email accounts through pobox.com which has a great implementation of IMAP/SMTP and also a wonderful email spam filter. Then Thunderbird started doing the stumble-bumbling trick, of playing dead for minutes at a time. It would just sit there...
Continue reading...Office Suite Alternatives
Now that I am retired I have moved away from needing “real” MS Office suite tools. I do have MS Office 365 installed on my home “office” computer but I also have two equivalent “suites” of office software available. I am NOT doing any bashing. I like MS Office and they have a free on line Writer version in Windows Essentials. But it only runs in the Windows operating system. I use my Linux box...
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