Raspberry Pi Printer I was telling myself I had a pretty good mini PC (computer) in the form of a Raspberry Pi (RPi). It was capable of doing everything I thought a small computer should do. But then, it hit me. Not the computer but a realization. There was no way for me to send any of my documents from the RPi to a printer. There is no printer set-up in a stock Raspberry Pi....
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NUC / GTI Performance Update
My tiny but high performance Intel NUC has been performing very well since the fan (blower) transplant. It is everything I need for the job I ask it to do. There is no worse feeling when a new and expensive item suddenly goes sour. The fan is probably one of the least expensive components in the computer. It was an easy fix. Probably a low bid component selection by Intel. It’s that sort of thinking...
Continue reading...SandBox Loves Cindy
I just updated Sandbox to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS but it was such a dog update, I decided it was time for a real change. I totally blew everything off the Sandbox C: drive and did a bare bones partitioning and formatting using Linux MINT – LMDE3 Cindy 64 bit OS. The LMDE is an acronym for Linux Mint Debian Edition. The Cindy hints at the default “Cinnamon” desktop. Here is the link: https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php Normal Linux...
Continue reading...Spoofing Myself
I have been writing about the move of all my websites from one Internet Service Provider (ISP) to another. It wasn’t just an owner and name change. All my website software and all the support software systems that support them, were physically (electronically) moved from servers in one location to servers in a totally different part of the USA. What that produced was two totally functional installations of all my 15 or so websites in...
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