Logitech C920e 1080p WebCam – + Microphone Fix
When I needed to use a webcam I usually just pulled out my laptop and do whatever I needed to do on that and transfer to my desktop machine if…
15″ Early 2011 MacBook Pro 2.0ghz – Upgrade
I have a 15″ early 2011 MacBook Pro sitting on my desk which I use as a spare computer and as web browser while I’m working on one of the…
Logitech F310 Game Controller – Adventures @ Goodwill!
Randomly walked into the local Goodwill today as I do a couple times a month or so and found a Logitech F310 game controller. It’s basically a clone of the…
Gaming with a GeForce GT 710
I have an older Dell PC. A Dell OptiPlex 7010 in fact with a 3.2 ghz Intel i5-3470 CPU with 16 gigabytes of RAM and the PNY GeForce GT 710…
Cryptocoin – Month 3 – Checking In
I still have the initial grubstake in Ripple Labs XRP Tokens with the initial buy in of the cryptocoin back in January of 2021. $10.00US minus 0.99US cents in fees,…
Microsoft Azure Portal + Ubuntu
Now with some time under my belt working with Microsoft’s Azure Cloud and getting some understanding of the Portals interface I thought I’d spend some time going over some observations…
cowsay and lolcat – more Ubuntu shell commands
If you read my article about fortune, I mention cowsay and lolcat towards the end of that article. I decided to write another article that expands on cowsay and lolcat…
fortune – Unix/Linux Shell Goody
"You are WRONG, you ol' brass-breasted fascist poop!" -- Bloom County (fortune) fortune is a little program that I install on just about every single Unix/Linux box I administrate. It’s…
There’s a Cursor in My Browser
A little problem started bugging me a few weeks ago. Every once in while when browsing web pages there would be a ‘cursor’ somewhere in the page. The cursor is…
Internet Architecture for Beginners – What are Tiers?
I’ve spent 35+ years of building and deploying internet facing web sites. The front end load balancers and web servers which are tier 1 and sometimes referred to as client…