I took a laptop from the “used” stack when I took over as Commander of the local DAV. As it had belonged to one of our Chapter Service Officers, I didn’t even boot it to the OS prior to wiping the hard drive. Our older batch of laptops came with Windows 10 Home Edition and […]
MariaDB Root Issue
Recently I discovered that I had lost all root privileges on my MySQL (MariaDB) server. Now there are a number of reasons that this may have occurred. It’s possible that I pulled the privileges from the root user and set up a different one for security reasons and simply forgot. Or perhaps I was mucking […]
Corvette Audio Woes
Speaking of audio system repairs (in my last post), I have to do something with the sound system in the Corvette as it’s slowly dying. The radio works, usually, but the CD player is dead. I don’t even have cassette tapes any more, although to play stuff from my phone, I use a cassette tape […]
New Project….
As most of you know, the kids are growing up. Lily is 18 now and is taking her drivers’ license test very soon. She’s also working a bunch and that’s problematic as her mother and I are working a bunch as well. Usually in a different direction at different times. (Sunday, she was in at […]
Quick Tech Post: Raspberry Pi is a really useful platform…
I have two Raspberry Pi computers. If you’re not familiar with the brand, they are a UK based company that has created a simple computer-on-a-card model with the intent of keeping cost down to allow the teaching of computer-related subject in developing countries. The original version was released in 2012, and I got mine in […]
All lives matter. But that’s not the point.
I was commenting on a friend’s post about protests shutting down local (to him) primary roads after yet another black man was shot by police. It got me thinking and I’m reminded of Thoreau’s _Civil Disobedience_ in which he stated: If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to […]
Repugnicans vs Libtards…
Friends, This isn’t a post about hizzoner or the lies which, even for the DC political scene are creating a new definition of the word “normal.” But I’m not going to write about that. Really. It’s a challenge but… We’ve been had. Rather, I want to write something about how “Patriots” […]
Apples and Oranges
In this day and age of high-speed, low-drag technology, there seems to be a notion that wars can be fought without the collateral, non-combatant casualties that happen. Americans have forgotten that our armed forces have one basic mission: to kill people. That can be prettied up any number of ways, but the basic mission of […]
An Open Letter to President-elect Donald Trump
Mr. Trump, Well, sir, here’s your opportunity. The “whiny millennials,” who are legitimately frightened for themselves, their families, and the friends in their extended families are calling for leadership with their protests. Now, you probably know this already, but it’s not just millennials that you’re hearing from right now, it’s Americans from all over the […]
I see… Well, who am us, anyway?
From the same people who brought you We are all Bozos on This Bus, and The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, an old Firesign Theatre bit asks, “who am us anyway?” Well, I just popped in on a Facebook conversation about the sighting of a white supremacist in PA, “SS decals on the truck. Nazi tattoos, […]