When I started working with personal computers in the early / mid 70’s, there was no such thing as an operating system. Bill Gates was probably a nerd in grade school. Woz and Jobs were also just two kids. Everything in personal computing was programmed in machine code binary, octal, and hex. A box to contain the computer had not even been necessary or invented. A person had to acquire (purchase) all the separate physical...
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Bright Ideas
There is no fool like an old fool. I am that old fool, but what I just did is not so much foolish as it was ignorance. Ignorant is what one is before learning something unknown. So ignorant is not bad unless you never learn your way out of it. Ha! I have been exploring a lot of new ideas and techniques I have never investigated. So that exploration is what I call a learning...
Continue reading...Blogging is like shaving
…If you don’t do it every day you are a bum. The family business had an old sign in the office that said the same thing about selling. Dad put it up when I was a kid. It had a line drawing sketch of the sad clown Emmett Kelly, right in the middle like a wanted poster. Sometimes my memory of that sign drives my need to post on my blogs. This is a grey scale sketch...
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So what kind of castles have I built? I have to ask myself that question. I currently have about a dozen personal websites and at least six more sub-domain sites and customers sites and maintain them all. Several of my personal sites receive very high access. They have also attracted DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, like in the picture. One attack recently forced my ISP to shut one castle down without my knowledge. It...
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