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 …
Category Archives: Computer
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, so I assumed I’d have to be billb27 or something like that. 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.
Blue blocking glasses and eye strain
I was listening to a Podcast I enjoy and they had a sponsor who sold blue light blocking glasses. This got my attention because I often have eye strain from staring at the computer screen too long. So I went to the website and was put off by the over $100 price even with the …
Typing special characters
Ctrl+shift+u (a underlined u will appear) release the key combo (the underlined u will remain) Type the HEX value of the character (it will appear next to the underlined u) Press Enter the special character will replace the underlined u and HEX code For example using the HEX value…2186 will display the down arrow ↆ266A …
60 Year old AA battery
Apparently others don’t think this is as cool as I do. Posted on Twitter and not a single reaction. Here’s what I said… “I found this old AA battery (probably from the 1960s) in some old electronic device. Very surprised at no sign of leakage and my meter showed it had 1.43V. My dad worked …
AliExpress signup
Can’t ignore this Chinese company’s prices. Apparently you need a phone to signup. Can’t slide with a mouse.
Playing old games
It seems to me the easiest way to play old console games is to buy one of these retro game machines already setup and preloaded with thousands of games. They are android or tiny MS-Windows computers running various emulators to play games from many different consoles. I never intended to get deep into this topic. …