Category: technical

Sites are back up.

Posted on By pukeko
Thanks to the good people at A2hosting, the problem has been sorted and the sites are up. One of the reasons I use them is that they back up everything I have also put up an experimental blog using Ghost. Nothing there yet... . Read More

Towards the electronic gulch of Galt

Posted on By pukeko
There are about six companies that control most of the internet and social media, and they are all infested with Social Justice Warriors and are converged with the narrative.
  • Apple
  • Google
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Sony Entertainment
  • Time…
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Specific therapy is better than generic?

Posted on By pukeko
Getting positive results in a properly don trial of two active psychotherapies is hard, as the generic therapeutic effect is quite significant. There are ways of cheating, such as using wait list comparisons (who get nothing but a place for therapy) but such studies are needed. Read More

On the Pine 64

Posted on By pukeko
The idea is to use this low power box for email and blogging. This does not require much bandwidth. If that works, then I'll look at more challenging things. So...you get your Pine 64, and then the fun starts. You really need a monitor that will… Read More

The disruption is affecting Apple..

Posted on By pukeko
A couple of days ago I talked about the Pine64 and embedded community being now powerful enough to do everyday work. I am getting a pine64 board and will report on if it can handle what I do, from photo processing to running statistics packages.… Read More

The disruption continues: Pine64

Posted on By pukeko
Pine is an interesting company that currently makes single board computers that will run a real operating system fairly well. The ARM version of Android as well as Ubuntu and OpenSUSE. The current cost for the board: 15 to 50 dollars, depending on… Read More

Statistics, annual info.

Posted on By pukeko
This month from Statcounter. Summary Page Loads Unique Visits First Time Visits Returning Visits Total 11,226 6,743 3,952 2,791 Average 362 218 127 90 Wordpress estimates I had 106K visits last year, three hundred less than 2015. Statcounter does things differently, and… Read More