I am a pro-Linux supporter. I started using Linux back in my early DOS experience days. I was at the edge of CPM. But never had a need to play with it. DOS was all the rage. But then an amateur radio (ham) friend clued me into Linux in year 1993 or so… Linux needed to be compiled from source code (Slackware Distro) and could be exactly configured to match hardware. This of course made...
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Keyboard problems here. I broke the charging USB port on my Logitech MX Keys S for Mac. My fault. It is because of the way I support the keyboard on my desk drawer. No problem when not charging. But the USB plug gets forced a bit when plugged in for charging. I just re-designed my support ramps to prevent the problem. I should have done that 10 months ago… Lesson learned. This was a chance...
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While I was employed by Schneider Electric (an energy conservation business) one of my many tasks was to collect “timecards” or “hours worked” by our large group of field project management people. All these people including myself were salaried employees but the accounting department wanted reports on actual hours worked and especially where. They said “for job costing” to apply hours as a job cost factor. Salaried employees are suppose to be exempt from reporting...
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I have forever heard reference to John Steinbeck’s 1937 novel “Of Mice and Men”. I knew or thought it had something to do with the plans and dreams of mice and men of great things that never come true. I have never read the novel or seen any of the many movies and plays it created. I just saw a movie clip of when George kills Lennie. It blew my mind on what was going...
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