Technical Quickie – “Issues” after upgrading to Mac OS Sequoia Wow! It has been ages since I have posted a Quickie! This evening I upgraded to Mac OS 15.3.1 “Sequoia” which went off relatively painlessly. There was one issue that … Continue reading →
It was DNS, It’s Always DNS! What is DNS and how I broke it. Last week. Catracing.org suffered a 24 hour downtime. This made my WordPress (blog), the phpBB (Forum site, and the Commodore 64 Bulletin Board system running … Continue reading →
On The Road And On The Air Installing The FTM-500DR Yaesu’s flagship DualBand 2m / 70cm Radio. One of the things I was most looking forward to once I got settled was getting settled and installing an new amateur … Continue reading →
Technical – Adding PETSCII ‘Keyboard Colors’ to MuffinTerm Using MacOS Keyboard Shortcuts Last week we took a look at MuffinTerm, a telnet terminal emulator that supports PETSCII or Commodore Color Graphics. This week we will demonstrate how to add … Continue reading →
MuffinTerm – A Full Featured Terminal Emulator For MacOS and iOS Back in October of 2014 I blogged about the Electronic Bulletin Board System, or BBS for short and its resurgence on the internet and accessible via TELNET (If you … Continue reading →
Technical Book Review: Back into the Storm: A Design Engineer’s Story of Commodore Computers in the 1980s – A book by Bil Herd ex Commodore Hardware Engineer. They say the victors write the history, this is nowhere more true … Continue reading →
Apple Will No Longer Ship To APO Forwarders. I am about to opening complain about Apple.. Does this mean I am no longer a member of the Fanboy club?! I have ordered several Apple products over the years while … Continue reading →
Technical – Oracle Linux “OL”) Drop In Replacement For CentOS 8. Last month we blogged the news that RHEL has decided to prematurely end support for CentOS 8 on 31 Dec 2021. This has left IT departments scrambling to find … Continue reading →
RHEL/IBM Screw CentOS 8 users by early end of life! CentOS project shifts focus to CentOS Stream We interrupt our normal blog schedule (I had planned on releasing the 3rd and final blog in the Muju travel series, but … Continue reading →
Old Tech Vs New Tech – Image BBS Golf Solitaire Vs Glowing Eye Games Golf Solitaire for the iPad. For this long overdue technical blog I thought I would so something a bit…. Ok, very different. As you … Continue reading →