console2 with cygwin bash shell and ssh behind it (and a lot of other UNIX commands too, like ls, and find and grep and awk and gpg…) has turned out to be a good solution. I discovered that cygwin sets the terminal as TERM=cygwin. That plays hell with vi on SUN servers. I found…
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My ideal workstation to manage UNIX servers is kubuntu, running KDE. I recently did a day of off-site work. I used a laptop running exactly that environment. I fell back in love with the terminal program Konsole. There are two primary reasons I use KDE instead of Gnome in the desktop wars. Konsole, and…
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I have photographs my grandmother had taken at a photo studio in San Francisco in 1927. I have other photographs of her dancing with a straw hat through fields in Italy taken in the late 1940’s. I don’t have the negatives, but I do have (black and white) prints, that have stood up pretty…
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…sort of. My ISP fixed the DNS flaw. In doing so, they managed to stop caching ANY DNS results and slowed every action from within my local network to a crawl. This lasted for about nine days. Aaaarggggg. Tech support or any kind of customer service from Verizon is a nightmare. So are they all,…
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I fixed two bugs in this site design… The first was a failed comments function. The “Submit Comment” button failed to submit any actual comments. I hadn’t tested it. I was looking through google’s picture of the website, and found google complaining that /comments/feed (the rss url for comments) didn’t exist… OK, I can fix…
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The first project I was given when I started at Evergreen Investments involved IBM’s WebSphere MQ messaging application. I took a development instance of the application and translated that to the requirements for a production deployment of the application. It has been completely bulletproof. Set up correctly and sized appropriately, it just works. Eventually all…
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I love using abobe photoshop C2’s automation – especially when resizing a series of images for the web. I would love to run linux entirely – but linux keeps falling short in graphics programs (yes, I use gimp – sorry, but Photoshop is better) and printer drivers – linux still can’t run my Canon Pixma…
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I was searching for an image to put at the top of the page on this weblog – I searched for engineer. I figured I would find a triangle and a compass, something engineer-like – perhaps a slide rule… And I found… this. The engineer as superhero? Outstanding. I found this comic book at daraja.com…
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UPDATE 20181003 Wednesday… Genesis Framework and Child Themes from StudioPress. Extremely easy to customize, responsive design with beautiful mobile presentations. I get bored every 2 – 5 years and redesign and tweak. This makes that doable, without relearning everything from scratch. This is very old… Like beginning of the internet old. -Ish, anyway….
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