Someone recently tweeted a computer game book cover on Twitter. I responded with a screen shot of my 101 Computer games book from digital. I probably bought that book because I loved playing Star Trek on the school’s PDP-11 computer. And I wanted to port it to my TRS-80. But it wasn’t in that book. …
Monthly Archives: November 2021
Linux file search
Just realized Mint must have changed their GUI file search. Which is what I use most of the time. Not finding what it use to find. I’ve never really liked…or should I say understood, KDEs file search. Any way it’s back to the command line. And this is what I want to do 95% of …
Tumbleweed updating 51 packages!
Success.
Go and SQLite
SQLite DB access is very important for my personal projects. So I wrote a Go program that did a SELECT on an existing SQLite table. I found this link helpful… https://astaxie.gitbooks.io/build-web-application-with-golang/content/en/05.3.html
What ever happened to Charlene Lamb?
This is a strange topic for a place where I log my Computer activities. This is the only thing I’ve ever posted that sounds bloggy. However I often enjoy listening to old radio broadcasts, often called Old Time Radio. So I was listening to You Bet Your Life, starring Groucho Marx. This episode like most …
Greenbar comparison and PDF file sizes
One thing I thought I remembered about the Python greenbar program was how small the PDFs were. So I ran a test comparison and found I was right! The input for both was 10.4K text file. Here are the results: PDF/Size Python/14.4K Go/36.3K One thing I don’t like about the Go PDF is there is …
Go greenbar final touches?
Here it is. Added another hole at the bottom. Increased font size. Also successfully tested the executable, created on Mint on my Tumbleweed distribution. Go executables are supposed to be static self contained binaries and don’t depend on other libraries to run, so I expected that. Even though I ‘m way more familiar with Python …
Tumbleweed updating 560 packages!
Success! I haven’t been on openSUSE Tumbleweed for a week or more. Happy over on Mint getting things done. I see the new Fedora 35 is out. Maybe I’ll try that!
Go greenbar progress
Great progress can be seen here an actual mainframe printout. Quite honestly I didn’t expect to make this much progress today. Currently the file location is hardcoded in the program. So I’ll need to accept command line arguments, also the option to print blue. I did successfully test several other Hercules MVS (TK4-) printout files …