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...
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I was happy today doing some Amateur Radio Operating. I have a computer in my home office that in this case is also my “radio shack”. No, not the electronic stores. The name comes from the ham and ship radio equipment location and operating positions. At one time because of the whine of M/G (motor generator or dynamotor) sets and loud snaps of electrical arcs jumping gaps (rotary and other) radio operators were usually segregated...
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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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