First impressions…me like! Looks like the picture I previously posted. I said it before…why didn’t I do this sooner? No more straining my eyes at 4AM to see the characters. No more retyping my password over 5 times because each time I’m sure I pressed the right key. No manual or even url where you …
Author Archives: billb
Re-tweak my YouTube Star Trek vid…again!
Every time I think I have everything put together correctly I play it and find problems. I must have re-edited/uploade this at least 5 times. I’m getting sick of watching my own video.
Ordered a lighted keyboard
Why didn’t I do this sooner? I often get up when it’s still dark and I like subdued lighting. Except I keep typing my password wrong…and other things. So I switch on the overhead light, which is annoying to my eyes, type the correct characters…then turn the light off. These keyboards are often pitched to …
New 2FA app consideration
Bitwarden asked what 2FA app do you use, on Twitter. A couple of user recommended open source 2FA apps, I should look into, to replace FreeOTP who quietly made some good updates to their app. However they didn’t tell me about it, causing me a lot of problems. I last talked about it here. These…Aegis …
Top 20 programming language
Someone posted on Twitter…Top 20 programming language https://tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ Very surprised to see Delphi/Object Pascal at #11. Even more so Visual Basic at #6.Pleased to see Go at #10. How can Javascript be below Visual Basic?
OpenVMS
Just a little note about this OS. As a fan of DEC and vintage emulation, I was excited to hear about OpenVMS. I actually contacted a recruiter out of college specifically to get a job working on a DEC PDP 11/70 hopefully running RSTS/E, but not a requirement. However that is what I was familiar …
Fitness watch
I found my old inexpensive Letsfit Fitness Tracker, Activity Tracker Watch, I purchased in 2019. Charged it but date/time was wrong. Needed phone app to set date. App want’s logon info which I don’t have and it wasn’t required when I got it, otherwise it would be in my password manager. No…that was for the …
Elon publishes Twitter Recommendation Algorithm
On github Here. A pretty cool thing to do.
Firefox problems
For the last month or maybe longer Firefox has been giving me problems. Problems that don’t exist on Google Chrome. A few biggish ones lately. A few days ago it just stopped loading pages even after restart. Today after watching many YouTube videos, sound stopped working on one…just one…so far. It almost seems like selective …
Backups
Just watched a YouTube video that touts the Synology 4-Bay DiskStation DS923+ for backup. He points out that removable hard drives are great…but they are a single point of failure. This maybe true however for me the the Synology solution…or others like that…are expensive! If you have the money it could be great. But there …