Collective Conversation
It's funny how collections evolve. I've been collecting things for a while, heck as a kid I collected pamphlets. What of? Anything really. In hindsight this must have annoyed many stores. This has led me to think of how you can define a collection. My current thoughts are;
- Starting: You have a few of a certain thing in a certain genre but you don't see it as a collection.
- Acknowledgement: You've decided you have a collection.
- Organisation: You have enough (...)
Employing a fitness strategy
Don't get a job as a professional programmer if you want to stay healthy.
Wow. This one was short. Hmm... maybe I'll expand. (No joke intended, but maybe I shouldn't confess about that.)
Continuing on from my last rant I've had issues with weight management for some time. Having an active job helped with this, but things change and I eventually got a job as a programmer which involved spending 8+ hours a day sitting down. Sometimes we'd work all night. The I did for 12 years (...)
The Sky was the limit
OneDrive... oh how I dislike how it's got. It used to be seen as a drive, like the name, now it's trying to masquerade as a one stop storage and backup stop. Which is a shame, as it's horrible as the latter, but generally useful as the former. I've been using it since it was SkyDrive, and I've got the "SkyDrive Photos" to prove it, so I've been riding this horse for a while.
I was one of the few who got into the Windows Phone thing. I got one of the Windows 7 phones, which I still (...)
Reference? Why the truck?
Don't I have better things to do, I'm sure you are asking. Well I do, but the whole point of the reference is saving time kinda. Take the first Reference page. Space Shuttles. I frequently lose track of what one is what and this page, for one, has increased the chance of me actually remembering it this time, but most of all, it gives me a place to gather and share new information. This will save me time as I do have a bad habit of getting caught up in a research spiral over the same topics. (...)
Shuttles; all of them
US Shuttles
Test Articles
(...)| Designation | Name | ...also known as | Location | Notes |
| Inspiration | Columbia Memorial Space Center | Made by Rockwell. First mockup, made of wood, plastic and paper. More on this in Noteworthy Replicas... | ||
| OV-095 | Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL) mockup | Houston | Just a cockpit.... I think. |
New Year, old issue, same solution
My custom site and this site have the current year displayed. Mine is a php element that is used by most pages, this one.... dunno actully. Could be a setting... Need to look into that. Mine is a manual change I do (generally) in early Janurary. But I've often considered making the year auto-update. But there's so many reasons why I don't. For one, the date is based on the server time, which won't align to everyones time so it's going to be at least (...)
Beware the remote desktop password fail
Got my server mostly done now. But one issue has made things complicated; my inability to use Microsoft Remote Desktop on my default profile. To expand, I made my server from the innards of my older desktop to save money. This was the plan before the memory crisis, and by the time I did it, the plan made even more sense. Thus my default profile was active and had on it several years of usage. Stuff I lost unexpectantly when I turned my desktop into the server. It all came out of no where, (...)
Marketing EMails are not forever
'tis been a catch up time for me. On soooo many levels. Don't get me wrong though; not all of it's "work". I'm behind on my gaming too; I was out of the country during the Death Stranding 2 release so that's a high priority too! (Should finish the main story this weekend.) But one of the many things I'm behind on is my "marketing" mail. I tend to send it all to a dedicated box so it doesn't clutter my more important messages, and I tend to give it a quick look, but often miss things if I get (...)
Change is good but too much change can mess up your backup
I've got this complicated backup routine with my photos that gives me confidence that I have 2-4 copies of each photo. There's the one on the camera (at first), the primary one on the server that files are copied to but never overwritten. Then there is an auto copy to another drive of the entire folder, which does overwrite. Then there is a manual move (not a copy) to a third drive than contains a tiered copy to a block segmented folder which is then diffed with (...)
Recycled PS5 is alive
...so the BC-250 worked out fine. Funny stuff really. I bought it as I wanted a PS5 chip for geek value, but since I was overseas at the time I didn't do anything with it, came back and loads of smart people did all the hard work for me. It's now pretty much a case of "install Bazzite and use Steam"... all you need to work out youself is how you're going to power and cool it. Which is where I'm at. If you can find one cheap and have spare power supplies and or a case I suggest getting one (...)
