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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The Centurion Computer
Stumbled upon this obscure mini-computer through a YouTube channel recommendation…”I Bought a PDP-11/83!” which led me to “I Bought a Minicomputer from 1980! – Part 1“. He basically built a whole lab based on his affection for this computer. So I found this web page about it. For me it’s just an interesting footnote about …
Sweet Home 3D Video walk-thru
The basic layout if my living room with doorways and furniture placement. Minus all the clutter. Sweet Home 3D creates a .mov file which I translated to a .mp4 using ffmpeg. I also use kdenlive to slow it down. I got involved with this because I wanted an idea to scale of what a area …
Sweet Home 3D first try
Wanted to visualize a 8’x10′ rug, that I can buy off the shelf, in my small living room. Two PDFs first try. See page 3 for top down view. They needed a clutter object for me to place in the room to make it more realistic. These images do not do the program justice. You …
Sweet Home 3D
Need to rip out my ratty old carpet and wanted to visualize a large area rug in my living room. So I first started looking at CAD software. Truthfully it’d be faster/quicker just to draw it out…but where’s the fun in that. I first downloaded the LibreCAD-2.2.0 appimage. And then I remembered a program I …
Cisco routers
Just for my information I configured Cisco 2501 routers at the bank, in mid 1996. They stopped selling them in 2002.
LastPass Password Vaults Stolen By Hackers
Glad I switched years ago.
Detwinner
Spotted this duplicate file remover on my system. It’s version 0.4.2. So I deleted it after going to website and finding the latest version is 3.0 and if yo click download it only offers an .exe. Also it’s a flatpak.
Quickemu
Just watched a Chris Titus Tech video about Quickemu. Looks very cool to rapidly deploy various OSs.
Brave and Chrome browser gripe
I installed the Brave browser maybe a week ago, and it reminded me of why I dislike chrome which it was obvious to me that it is based on. And it has to do with a bad habit I have of keeping too many tabs open. In Firefox the tabs mostly stay the same size. …