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...
Continue reading...Growing Pains
I am really taking my bruises while hacking on my Amazon Cloud web server. But I like the abuse. I must be a cyber masochist. My cloud is called the Amazon Web Service (AWS). They provide their smallest server to hackers like me, with a first time free one year trial to play with their toys. It’s not REALLY a toy, but a “for real” cloud server. Actually as good as any server I would...
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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...THMS Store Name Change
I have determined I will have to spend a lot more time developing the new store website to get it to where I want it to be. It’s not like I haven’t been planning this change-over carefully before the old store got caught up in DOS attacks. It has just happened a lot sooner than expected. The old website is again operational, and I have put it back on-line.. It WAS NOT damaged in any...
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