Or maybe he’s right. But for the wrong reason. Over on Medium, which is where I saw his post, Dave said: “The problem of requiring HTTPs in less than 140 chars: 1.Few benefits for blog-like sites, and 2. The costs are prohibitive. There’s actually a #3 (sorry) — 3. For sites where the owner is …
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electric power at every wheel
It seems odd to me that most, if not all, electric vehicles don’t put individual drive motors at each wheel. It’d seem like doing so would be a more efficient transfer of energy from the electrical generation / storage system to propelling the vehicle than having centralized drives like IC-based cars. Or maybe they do, …
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knoppix remastering virtual appliance
In preparation for an upcoming post on remastering {{Knoppix}}, I have made a {{VirtualBox}} {{virtual appliance}} based on the Knoppix v7.6.1 DVD all set for remastering. /dev/sda holds the raw files. /dev/sdb1 is a swap partition. To use the appliance, download the Knoppix 7.6.1 DVD. You’ll need a boot environment for remastering, and Knoppix has …
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haiku appliance
I have been a fan of Haiku for years – and BeOS since way back in the 90s. I run a Haiku mirror, and try to pay attention to the project’s updates. Today I am making available a Haiku-OS r1 alpha 4.1 virtual appliance! Download it from me here (created in {{VirtualBox}}, but in .ova format, so …
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sap bapis and hp oo
Couple quick notes: {{SAP}} is not designed for automated / programmatic access – their “{{BAPI}}”, or binary application programming interface, requires additional licensing beyond just the product to use I made the naive assumption that a “BAPI” was like a {{WSDL}} – and it is, but it’s proprietary, not open (and it’s binary, not plaintext {{XML}}) …
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enable virtualization in the bios of your lenovo t450s
If you install {{VirtualBox}}, like I did last week, [at least] under {{Windows 10}}, and you have not gone into the BIOS ahead of time to enable virtualization, you will be limited to 32-bit guest OSes. Enable {{virtualization}}, and the 64-bit options become available. Not sure why you have to enable the hardware virtualization extensions to get …
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lock screen slideshow in windows 10
In similar fashion to what I wrote about for {{OS X}} last year, and spurred by this article from {{Microsoft}}, here is my brief guide for doing the same on {{Windows 10}}. Click your Notifications button near the clock. Now click All Settings And you’ll see this Click Personalization, then Lock Screen. Select “Slideshow” from the …
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burger king “coffee” isn’t
I went through a Burger King drive-thru recently on my way to a customer office to get a drink. It being relatively early in the day, I thought getting a coffee would be a Good Idea™. It was not. It was bad. Really bad. It was coffee-colored and -scented hot water. I cannot recall the …
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i’m a medium plogger now*
(*Though most people would call me an {{XXXL}} blogger.) Following in the steps of Dave Winer, I am now plogging (sorta) on Medium. And, like Mr Winer, I’m doing it via IFTTT (though not via {{RSS}}, I’m doing it via the {{WordPress}} channel). If you’d like to do the same, use this IFTTT recipe.
remember to vote – myers 2016
Here’s a quick reminder for all you voting types out there – vote for Myers 2016, “I suck less than the other guy”.
time tracking is broken – and “hours” makes it worse
This recent Medium post irked me. It’s by one of the creators / operators / owners of Hours, a “new” time-tracking and -reporting company. The intro had such promise, because it is so true: There is a reason why almost every time tracking service out there says it takes the pain out of time tracking. …
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let’s encrypt centos 6 – truly free ssl
There’s been quite a bit of excitement surrounding Let’s Encrypt recently – a truly 100% free {{SSL}} issuer. Last week I helped a friend of mine get his first Let’s Encrypt certificate generated and configured for his website. One of the things I found incredibly frustrating is that Let’s Encrypt does not have a package …
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prediction look back
Time to look back at last year’s tech predictions. I did this at the half-way point, so let’s see what has changed since then. {{AIX}} is still kickin’ {{HPUX}} hasn’t died yet 🙁 {{Solaris}} is still being clung-to by {{Oracle}} HP split in half – count this a win {{IBM}} has dropped from 162 to …
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i’m not technical
I am. But not really. To paraphrase my prelicensing class instructor, “95% of consulting is not technical work – it’s psychological”. 5% of consulting is delivery. The remainder is listening, empathizing, training, selling, encouraging, improving, and a whole bunch more gerunds. I’m an unlicensed psychiatrist dabbling in technology -just call me Frasier Malone – the single …
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happy 65th
My dad turns 65 today. Congratulations! You can retire… or not – whatever floats your boat 🙂
Join a Missional Community group at Renovation
Part of the lifeblood of Renovation Church are Missional Communities – groups around the greater Lexington area which meet through the week for a fellowship meal, service, and deeper study. Now that weekly worship services are in full swing, it’s even more important than ever for folks interested in Renovation to join one of the …
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dell buys emc
So I missed predicting anything like this one. If you’ve been under a rock, like apparently I was last week, you’ve missed out on hearing Dell is purchasing EMC. For $67 billion. With a “B”. This seems to be taking lots of people by surprise, but it makes perfect sense: Dell is already a huge supplier of servers into not only …
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plogging?
{{Wired Magazine}} recently had an article on the rise of “plogging“. By their definition, “plogging” is “PLatform blOGGING” – or {{blogging}} as part of a network/site/service (DZone, LinkedIn, Medium, Facebook, etc) instead of running your own blog somewhere (WordPress.com, Blogger, self-hosted WordPress, etc). This seems to be a modern representation of what newspapers, magazines, etc …
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facebook is aol
Facebook is AOL. Yes, that AOL. America Online. The one that advertised 20 years ago in conjunction with companies things like, “search AOL keyword ‘ford’”. That’s what Facebook is now. It’s AOL – but without the ISP aspect. Check that – Facebook is (or “has”) an ISP: just look at internet.org. So we’ve come full circle. The ISP …
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Renovation starts weekly meetings this Sunday, 11 Oct
Renovation is starting weekly evening worship services on 11 Oct. Come join us. Currently meeting at the Elkhorn Baptist Association building, 1161 Red Mile Rd, Lexington KY.
subaru isn’t groveling
Subaru released a new vehicle in the Japanese market recently called the Levorg (I saw it on Samurai Wheels on NHK World). It stands for LEgacy reVOlution touRinG. It also spells “grovel” backwards. From the review Samurai Wheels gave it, it certainly doesn’t grovel. But it also purports to do something relatively difficult. Subaru has introduced EyeSight in …
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show only most recent facebook news feed
(Note: I did this in Chrome – it’ll be a little different in other browsers) I have several complaints about the book of the face – not least of which is that it likes to reset your News Feed from “Most Recent” (aka most useful) to “Top Stories” (aka whatever Facebook wants you to see). …
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wsj thinks apple will make and sell cars
Dallas News thought so back in March (see here). And I predicted it back in February. Now WSJ thinks so.
Renovation’s first worship service
It was super exciting to have our first worship service at Renovation Church this past Sunday night! I cannot wait to see how God uses us in this city!
“like” problems: social ‘voting’ is a bad idea
The news story making the rounds about {{Facebook}} the past few days indicates they’re working on a kind of “dislike” button. The problem with the Facebook “like” button is the same problem {{Google}} has with Google+ and their “+1” button: it doesn’t tell you anything meaningful. Voting on Reddit doesn’t really convey much meaning, either. Stack …
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