Migrated from mastodon.social to fosstodon.org that I created here
Category Archives: Computer
LibreOffice Base
Import I always loved MS-Access…a great MS product for quick databases so I started playing with LibreOffice Base. Thought I’d import my dog database. Found a import extension that wasn’t intuitive and the fonts were so small it gave me trouble. Errors just bounced right to the code. So I had enough of that. Anyhow …
Wikipedia…again with the begging
Gave on 11//3/22…a little over 3 weeks ago! How about that button I asked for?
Elon Musk
Today marks one month since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. After less than a week people were complaining about Twitters direction. “Nothing’s changed”! As if his ultimate plan could be realized overnight. Not to single one person out but I follow conservative Catturd. So I notice his posts. Talk about turning on a dime. …
Saving my old house phone number to Google voice
This is something I did years ago, but I wondered if the old number worked. I figured I’d document it for posterity and before senility sets in. So I asked my daughter to call me using the old number and it did ring my cell phone. The only thing unusual was a voice telling me …
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Birthday database change
After all these years of entering a note in my Famous birthday database. I had to increase it’s size. I increassed it from 300 to 500. Because my entry for Sacheen Littlefeather was being truncated. In the grand scheme of famous people she ranks very low on the list however the note length to describe …
My Mastadon
How I got billb again (except it’s lower case) at fossdon is a mystery to me. I think there were 22K users when I signed up. Today there are 25K users. mastodon.social has 234K today. mastodon.social fosstodon.org
Mastodon stuff
Mastodon has become a talking point since Elon Musk bought Twitter. For me it’s nothing against Twitter under Elon, still…it might be good for Mastodon. It has certainly boosted it’s exposure. I’m considering moving to a different Mastodon instance. From here where I joined Oct 11, 2018… to Fosstodon, because it may be a better …
The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie
Thought I’d mention these vids concerning this famous book. Here’s my 1978 (1st Edition) copy…
My old Atari 2600…by Sears
Was watching a video about Atari’s 50th anniversary…and got nostalgic. So I dug out my old Sears Cartridge Tele-games System Video Arcade built by Atari, sold by Sears and bought by my parents.