Passive location, position, navigation and mapping. News and entertainment media as well as now common devices such as cell phones have obscured the true function of GPS (Global Positioning System). Its only function is to provide accurate position information to a receiver that can “hear” three or more orbiting satellites that transmit signals toward earth. Sometimes a transmitter at a known place on earth is combined with information from the satellites to increase accuracy. The...
Continue reading...Trouble In Paradise
My Ramblin’ Dan’s Store is hosted on the AWS cloud server. Paradise is sometimes imagined as somewhere up in the clouds. My trouble was SSL certificate that encodes and decodes all communication between my store server and my customers had expired. I knew it was coming so I had purchased a new certificate well over a month ago. I thought I had installed it properly but I had not. The store site stopped working and...
Continue reading...Thunderbird Email Issues (Fixed?)
I standardized on Mozilla Thunderbird email because I check email on both Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux machines. When first installed about 6 months ago, everything seemed to be working just fine. I filter all my many email accounts through pobox.com which has a great implementation of IMAP/SMTP and also a wonderful email spam filter. Then Thunderbird started doing the stumble-bumbling trick, of playing dead for minutes at a time. It would just sit there...
Continue reading...Office Suite Alternatives
Now that I am retired I have moved away from needing “real” MS Office suite tools. I do have MS Office 365 installed on my home “office” computer but I also have two equivalent “suites” of office software available. I am NOT doing any bashing. I like MS Office and they have a free on line Writer version in Windows Essentials. But it only runs in the Windows operating system. I use my Linux box...
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