I gathered my silver casting work I still have around, and put it together on my work bench lamp base. So here is a group picture. It’s all 100% Sterling and 100% made in the USA (even the raw silver is from the USA) I am doing the wax work and the casting (lost wax process) and having a load of fun being creative. Silver price has been dropping so the investment in what is shown is not very...
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A Driving Need?
I have a home computer network. Duh! That should not come as a surprise. I have written many times about my computer escapades. I have had a personal network from the time the components were first available. My router/switch has a USB port where I can connect an external hard drive. I have never used the feature as I had no real need for a slow external hard disk on the network. That changed yesterday....
Continue reading...AWS, a Good Choice for an ISP?
More of my thoughts on moving to the cloud. I have my new ecommerce store software running on its own instance of a web server in the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud system. My website is but a mere speck of fly poop compared to the power users on the service. I am pleased that there is consideration for the little guys like me. There are many ways to go and grow in the AWS...
Continue reading...A Really Big Byte
I launched off into exploring the “cloud” as well as trying to understand a new piece of software and discover how it needed to be set up. What I really did was take a very big byte (bite) of new learning experience. I have been running a crash course on how to set up a web server in the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud. First let me say I picked AWS from several good options...
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