Computers
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The new MacBook Air M1
When the lockdown started last year in March it meant many changes. For one thing we ended up working from home and learning from home for the kids. The oldest one had to follow on line classes and do homework. This meant that my MacBook Pro changed ‘owner’. Where I was using it before for…
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Catalina
I am way behind the curve when it comes to updating my Mac OS. One reason is some bad prior experience with peripherals no longer being supported after upgrading. Sometimes it looks like people at Canon believe that 1 year is an acceptable life span for a printer. I have to say that the last…
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The Y2k all over again
Just learned that Unix has its own version of the Y2k problem and it will happen on January 19th 2038. Not much fuss has been made about it in the press as far as I can tell. Probably too far out to extract dollars out of an article. And most people don’t even know what…
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MOOC
I am currently following a Coursera based IBM Professional Certificate on Data Analysis. Finished the first 7 courses and now busy with the Capstone Project. I’ve followed a couple of online courses over the years from various sites like DataCamp, Stanford, Udacity and so on. But it all started with an experiment in 2011 when…
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For the love of vi!
Linux users seem to love vi as a text editor. There are even sites giving you reasons why you should use it. I guess it makes sense if you spend most of your time on the command line. If you use it every day then you will have no problem remembering all the key combinations…
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Response Status 418
If you wonder where Response 418 is coming from, this is a ‘fake’ http status code from 1998 that was invented as an April fools day joke. The response is part of the ‘hoax’ Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol or htcpcp versus the real Hyper Text Transfer Protocol that you use daily surfing the…
