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...
Continue reading...Pruning My Garden
I am referring to my garden of websites. I have planted quite a few through the years and some of them were not growing. They just took up valuable space in my little plot of the Internet. Now it’s time to cut out the dead wood and allow space (and my time) to helping the good plants grow. An old weed was one was my BBS websites TEDEX and renamed POSTEX. All it was doing was attracting flies to its...
Continue reading...Very and Ultra Radio Active
I am back on VHF and UHF amateur radio again. My old equipment, an Icom IC-24AT proved out to be a totally dead cat. (Sorry cat lovers, but it happens.) I had to get a new one. The small hand held “Handy Talkies” or Handheld Transceivers (HT) have gained a lot of “features” since the late nineteen hundreds when I purchased the Icom. A plain old HT radio only, no longer exists. The long standing Yeasu FT-60...
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