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Network Tap

Something like this maybe? At least it’s something affordable to me. Many are over $100-$200.

Posted bybillbDecember 31, 2022December 31, 2022Posted inComputer

Firefox not connecting

Sporadically lately Firefox has been taking very long to connect to sites at startups.It just acts like it’s trying to load a page. Simply closing and reopening sometimes fixes the problem.

Posted bybillbDecember 30, 2022December 30, 2022Posted inComputer

Go method receiver functions

I took a pause on the Go course, and was concentrating on other things. I was having some problem following Derek’s teaching on defined types (#26). Specifically these functions that begin with parenthesis () I don’t remember him talking about them before. Seem perhaps more related to Go method receiver functions. So if I google …

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Posted bybillbDecember 30, 2022January 1, 2023Posted inComputer

PHP special characters

Added PelĂ© to my birthday database and name wasn’t displaying correctlyThe following was needed before the mysqli_query() to display special characters: mysqli_set_charset($conn, ‘utf8’); $result = mysqli_query($conn, $select)

Posted bybillbDecember 29, 2022December 29, 2022Posted inComputer

Amazon speaker

I mentioned here that I had a specific Anker Soundcore 3 Bluetooth speaker I wanted to buy and they kept suggesting speakers of that brand but not the one I wanted. It has 16W output and USB-C my old soundcore had 6W output. Well a few days ago I just happened to stumble upon it …

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Posted bybillbDecember 29, 2022December 29, 2022Posted inComputer

Gambas one more example

I spent quite a bit of time with Gambas today. Mostly getting use to the documentation and lack thereof. Also knowing MS-Access/VB is both helpful and a hindrance. Trying to make Gambas do what I was sure they could do. And just plain forgetting things, For example I didn’t remember that you use Cstr to …

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Posted bybillbDecember 27, 2022December 29, 2022Posted inComputer

Gambas SQL query and display records

It’s beginning to look a lot like MS-Access. Press Get Records button. Query my Dogs SQLite3 database. Display them in a scrollable grid control. I have to give a lot of thanks to this web page for showing me the steps to use databases in Gambas. Despite it’s December 3, 2004 date it was very …

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Posted bybillbDecember 26, 2022December 29, 2022Posted inComputer

Helpful Gambus links

https://www.linux.com/news/gambas-speeds-database-development/https://gambaswiki.org/wiki?l=enhttps://codedocs.org/what-is/gambashttps://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Gambas

Posted bybillbDecember 26, 2022December 26, 2022Posted inComputer

Stack Overflow Survey Finds More Developers Now Use Linux Than MacOS

Saw this interesting article.

Posted bybillbDecember 26, 2022December 27, 2022Posted inComputer

Sweet Home 3D rug compare

I saw an 8×10 area rug (below right) in a store. And wanted to visualize it in my living space. It looked a little small, so I went looking for a larger one, and found (below left) a 9’5″x12’4″. Even though inches were involved it was a simple matter of changing the dimensions (enter them …

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Posted bybillbDecember 26, 2022December 26, 2022Posted inComputer

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