No rest for the wicked this weekend. A neighbor lady on our little lake community was given a surprise 60th birthday party on Saturday. I was assigned the job to do the videotaping. That is one of the hazards of having a prosumer Panasonic video camera. The spouse will always volunteer you for community service. Ha! I spent Saturday morning checking out all the gear and getting batteries charged and so forth. My large lithium...
Continue reading...Hobbies
Fast Scan
Wow! Amazon was fast. They beat their projected delivery date by a bunch. Weak point was whomever their shipping agent was, they did a terrible packing effort. The scanner box was sliding around inside the box with inadequate packing. The Epson box was very well packaged so no damage done. I am not going to make a sales pitch for this scanner. It was my choice and I think I made a good one for...
Continue reading...Pandora
I have been busting my brain modules for about a week (off and on) learning the ropes of setting up a Linux Ubuntu server running Samba, a windows (and UNIX) file server. I decided to do it the hard way and have been playing with Linux in the terminal mode. That means no graphic interface, just the command line. That keeps the dual processor 64 bit system dedicated to just file services. It is wicked...
Continue reading...Re Bourne
The Internet is a strange place sometimes. So much electronic stuff all hooked together in a system that covers the world. It is really a wonder it all works as well as it does. Well today it didn’t work all that well for about an hour for me. I was playing with Ubuntu Linux on my “Playground” computer. Suddenly my web sites were gone and what seemed like all my website URLs were taking me...
Continue reading...