Normally, I’m all for the ‘what can we throw an RPi (or Arduino) at’, but when the alternative is to add a DPDT switch (for $1.00) vs oh, $40 or so of solid state, I have to stop and ask, ‘really?’ Not seeing the ‘value added’ in this function. As for those critiquing the ‘crushing isn’t good’, ‘can’t get the paint…

Does anyone actually know what Microsoft’s ‘end-game’ plan really is? I mean, they keep releasing products and the destroying them as fast as they can (Win 7, Media Center, etc.) often junking them, obsoleting them, or just dropping them. Simultaneously, they “want out of the software business”, but aren’t releasing…

The beauty of Linux, is YOU CAN DO THIS! I’ve got a Pi running a nearly full 14.04LTS suite (more than Mate), but I know some that have theirs running as nothing more than a stripped down NAS system. Half the cost of any Chrome chip in itself, the Pi is super-flexible, and the Linux makes it super-attractive, no…

Though I have two graduate degrees now, when I was young, both in high school and undergraduate college, I really fought with mathematics. Teachers seemed to drill from the book, the book, the board and the book. I just fought to get B’s constantly. Then, due to catching a credit-hour discrepancy of 1-hour, I had to…

Decent for bulk ‘black-only’printing in a SOHO, but in a lot of instances, that isn’t the only color you need to print with. One of the best (if not the best) printers on the market (albeit, an inkjet) is the Canon Pixma iP2820 (or any of the Pixma line). I’ve had (close to) 100 printers in the past 30-years, and the…

Decent for bulk ‘black-only’printing in a SOHO, but in a lot of instances, that isn’t the only color you need to…

Don’t forget that many genes used in GMO are crossing the flora-fauna barrier for product bulking results. Do you really want BSE (Mad Cow Disease) because a cow gene was used to make your bread higher-protein without glutin? GMO has NOT been tested long enough to be such a ‘trusted household idea’. You need 2-3…

If my Beefsteak Tomato cross-polinates with my Better Boy Tomato, that’s a natural hybrid. At no time did one of my pigs have a go at it with one of my tomatoes, and thus create a genetic potential for gastroentestinal cancer in 5-10 years because I ate the resulting offspring. This is GMO, and what pro-GMO never…

Two words - Ubuntu and LibreOffice. That’s how you ‘master’ Microsoft’s Office. Having been sick of their ‘virtual monopoly’ on overpriced software for decades, saying ‘I proudly bailed out’ of their products as a result of Windows 10 is an understatement. My last server gets a Linux re-do this weekend, as I finally…

So, I have to install a 3rd party program to stop Microsoft from taking the Win7 I own, from me; and forcing Win10 (which I would merely be a user), on me, only for Microsoft to work around this program in a week or so? The answer to Microsoft is Linux. Sadly, I now see them putting bash-shell into Win10, which makes…

It’s one thing to tell the blatant-truth to the DMV or Bank while you’re standing in their office, but when it comes to ‘online quackery’ (aka social websites), the wisest thing to do is to simply ‘create’ a pseudonym or nickname and use it, singularly, as your account. Contrary to myth, you are NOT under obligation…

Actually, for 1st-time car buyers, the better-way to look at this is to take the car purchase price (the actual amount down at time of purchase), and consider it separately from annual, or ‘maintenance’ costs. So, if the car cost $30k, but you only put $5k down to buy it, now your notes are $600 monthly, and your…

Just curious, but you do realize that Adobe has ‘Distiller’ that can run on your network as an automatic DOC(X) to PDF virtual-type print queue, right? I mean, for a one-off, just open the document in Word or LibreOffice Writer and export. If you have ‘a bunch of DOCX’s’ to convert, then the resident program Distiller…

I have to somewhat agree. Even though I really like the photo of what commenter ‘MeriCatExiled’ did with his in-wall mounted box (awesome image), I fear that a lot of these concepts are way overblown. With a micro-ATX case, I house 12-Tb of storage. I have one Netgear router and one printer (plus thsuperfluous…

All three are also FREE, versus paying for a font (which is beyond insane, unless you own the font and are wanting a paycheck for your ‘artwork’).

LibreOffice’s ‘Candara’ is a great sans serif font, as well as Carlito and Calibri. All three are better ‘ink savers’ than Arial, and present-better when typing anything with a ‘sans serif’ look, anyhow.

I bought a ChromeBit for my wife for Christmas, and have to say, she absolutely loves it. I compared the specs between the Intel and Google chips, but the perks (100GB online storage, integration flawlessly with Google Drive, and more) were just far better than Intel’s offering for $85. I mean, to touch this on Intel,…

Actually, a lot of others are questioning why we need to do this useless task, when they have installed Chrome inside of Windows, but why install Chrome at all? I mean, go to drive.google.com, then work there. Want the apps? Then download the ‘desktop apps’ and run them. This is not an issue, this is superfluous…

The much larger question has nothing to do with ancestry. The first time I saw Ancestry.com’s TV commercial, I instantly saw it for what it was. They are building a data archive of all people’s DNA, just like they have their word and data histories. The scary part of this whole thing, considering that Ancestry is…

at 17, I left a bad home with $100 and a bag of clothes. 20-years later, I was a Director of Engineering for a large corporation. School loans and long hours, along with terrible diet were common. There’s a LOT you didn’t mention that could have helped that you didn’t mention. Military service? Great way to start out…

Really hard to feel pity here, and paying will most-likely only exacerbate the problem. This comes from years of gamers screaming FTP (free-to-play), and crushing multi-million dollar game platforms for the sake of them playing their A.D.D. style of ‘beat it and move on in 12-hours’ type of play, expecting ‘addicts’…