I have now attended several meetings of the NTMS (North Texas Microwave Society) and paid some dues for membership. I started down this path way back in 2009. Where has the six years gone since I first started in this direction! Yipes! There are posts here in RD back then when I first got interested. Since then I obtained some ideas and leads on how to build my first microwave transverter. I reported 6 years...
Continue reading...Win 10 Pro
I was just upgraded (free) by Microsoft to the full blown Windows 10 on my sandbox computer. I have been running the trial “Technical Version” for many months, but this last upgrade (by Microsoft) has brought me up to the full Pro version. The Technical Version number no longer appears on the desktop page. It is still not able to sleep properly with my old Asus motherboard, AMD processor, and memory configurations. Therefore I cannot...
Continue reading...Joomla 3.4 Update
I use content management software (or system) (CMS) to create almost all of my web publications. One of them is called Joomla!. Late last year the organization stopped supporting the version I used to build two of my major (high content) websites. For security, I won’t mention which. They could run for years but there was not going to be any security updates or improvements made on the older version. All the CMS programs I use...
Continue reading...Raspberry Pi Again
I posted on this little computer when I first acquired it in December 2012. Raspbery Pi was first released (model A) in January that year. The entire computer is contained on the single PC Board seen in the photograph. It is powering the full screen HD graphical display seen on the monitor. The cost was $25.00 for the complete board. This one is called “Raspberry Pi” Model B and was released in October 2012. The design has gone...
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