Unlike many of my “journey” post series, I actually have to complete most of this. It’s not experimenting for the sake of experimenting. It’s a need which keeps coming around every year. Those of you who have read “The Minimum You Need to Know About Qt and Databases” ISBN-13: 978-0-9823580-5-4 have an inkling about this. Please allow a thumbnail sketch for those less well read. Whenever I’m experimenting with/trying to learn some new tools there … Qt – Printing – Taxes — Pt. 1Read more
Experience
What life gives you when it doesn’t give you want you want.
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That Annoying Seagate Clunking
If you own a Seagate Backup Plus Hub you know what I’m talking about. That continuous and annoying clicking clunking sound while idle. This is really annoying. If you have the drive running on a nice solid desk shell the sound becomes amplified enough to keep you awake at night from two rooms away. There have been many a post on this subject. Seagate appears to be hiring Keller MBAs who cut costs without any … That Annoying Seagate ClunkingRead more
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Submission Rules
This is an updated version of a post I made on Interesting Authors blog also called Submission Rules. There is a limit to how geeky I can get when writing posts there as most come to read some interesting prose and a few tips from the trenches when it comes to writing. Featured image by succo from Pixabay ==== Makes you go hmmm… A while back an email with a link to this arrived. Yes, the … Submission RulesRead more
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Best Linux Word Processor in 2019
Now that The Minimum You Need to Know About the Phallus of AGILE is out for another round of editing, I have a bit of time to experiment with word processor software on my KDE Neon 64-bit desktop. Some of you will remember that I kicked some tires back in January. Regrettably I started a free trial for the commercial version of Textmaker then didn’t do anything with it and it has something stored somewhere … Best Linux Word Processor in 2019Read more
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Did AGILE make the 737 Max fall from the sky?
AGILE. The new corporate buzz phrase for hacking on the fly. Keller MBAs in a room sounding like a yard full of chickens chanting “cut costs, cut costs, cut costs” have been falling all over themselves because when you remove engineering from “software engineering,” it’s cheaper. You can even use lower skilled, lower cost developers because they don’t have to know much to do AGILE. Software engineering is the application of principles used in the … Did AGILE make the 737 Max fall from the sky?Read more