Uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) generally serve three purposes:
Back in the late 1980's, when I first began working with computers, there were a fairly wide variety of devices and OSes from which to choose. TRS-80, Commodore (I had the C-128), MS-Dos based PCs, Apple, Amiga, and so on. The challenge was to determine which device worked best for your intended u...
It seems like people have jumping on the ChromeOS bandwagon in droves since the first Chromebooks debuted in 2011. The draw, as I understand it, was that the laptops were small and inexpensive and required little knowledge of computing. Boot it up, create a Google account (if you didn't already ha...
Somewhere back around 2011 or 2012 I moved from my ISP's email service to Microsoft Office 365 Business plan that offered access to MS Exchange server. I had previously toyed with using Gmail's services with my own domain name but didn't find that it met my specific needs. Too, I really didn't hav...
I became interested in drones in the spring of 2021. My wife was preparing to retire from her teaching gig and considering a new career in real estate. After 15 years in our relatively small town in the mountains of North Georgia, we were planning a move to a little larger to...
I have had an email address with Gmail for probably 20 years. I mean my email address is my name @ Gmail. No numbers, no weird abbreviations, no strange punctuations, just my firstnamelastname @gmail.com How long has it been since that was possible?
Three or four years ago I began receiving email...
I've had several technology projects running for a while now and thought it was time for an update.
Back in February I set up a Nextcloud server and incorporated OnlyOffice. The concepts are pretty cool, but I have abandoned both of those projects. In all ho...
Every once in a while I get this notion that I need to move my data off of sites
like Dropbox, OneDrive, and so forth. When I do, I start playing around with
self-hosted services such as NextCloud, OwnCloud, and so forth. I'm currently in
one of those cycles and have been playing around a good bi...
There's a hint that bookmarks are going away. Services like Delicious that used
to provide great web-based book marking services have closed down. In their
place are the likes of Instapaper and Pinboard and the like that break stuff
into different types. Instapaper to store sites that you want...
Today I fixed a problem that has vexed me for some time. Reading through the
search pages, it seems it has vexed quite a few others, as well. I thought I'd
share my solution to this problem so that others might benefit.
What's the problem? I've setup a VPN server on my Ubiquiti Edgerouter-X...
About eight years ago I spent a couple of years teaching high school. Being a nurse, and coming into the experience with no real educational background it was quite an interesting, and eye-opening experience. Needless to say, I probably learned more than my s...
Two recent articles about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) got my attention this week.
The first article brings to the fore the reality that only about 7% of those who start a MOOC course complete it. This is, of course, a major concern for educators, given that completion rates are...