No! Tell me I am wrong. It can’t be mid October already. What happened to September? Was it cancelled this year? There is something happening to the time/space continuum as I grow older. Or is it the space/time continuum? Experts diverge on that idiom. Any who… I seem to be moving faster into the future than I intended. Unfortunately there is a flaw in my time machine because as I travel, my mind and body...
Continue reading...Generation Facebook
I have seen this term posted around quite a lot lately. I assume Generation X has been superseded by Generation F. I guess as I get older it is harder to keep track. I know what it means but I don’t assume that it is important. I am the leading edge of the real baby boomers having been born less than a year after WWII ended. Each generation seems to have established a new title...
Continue reading...Win7 Floppy
The title of this post is the search string I used last night to solve a problem with my main home computer. The search string led me to the solution… eventually. I had copied some files from a CD to several 3.5 inch floppies for my wife and her friend in Ohio. The friend in Ohio sent the disk back and said it was blank. I checked the identical disk I made for my wife...
Continue reading...Shiver Me Timbers!
I have a computer (I have many computers) that I use for just experimenting and trying new programs. It has a network name of “playground”. That should tell you something. I use it with my ham radio right now so it is not a critical machine. I have written about it before in this blog and have described the special small keyboard I bought to go with it. I had a SUSE Linux OS installed...
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