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Do  you feel as if your palmtop is a one trick pony now. Can your palmtop do all this? They can! Either through a web browser or a remote desktop viewer.  having a local web server, you can install applications that will run without the internet but do work with the local intranet.There is even software that will emulate a computer desktop. Most palmtops have terminal server clients.  With the remote desktop viewer you can access another working computer on the network be it Linux, OS/x, or even Mswindows. You start the rdp (remote desktop protocol viewer) software and then enter the hostname address. Of you will need to set up a login and password on the host for if nothing else minimal security restrictions. Once your in, you can use the hosts as if that operating system was on your palmtop! Here we have access a remote Linux computer. You can even get a remote Raspberry Pi desktop, so the RPi does not need a monitor. For more inform...

Untested: use at your own risk. What is new with Serial in Windows 10 The Serial Communication protocol is everywhere; it is broadly available, easy to learn, and low cost.   It is used across many different transports: typically over USB, in cases over Bluetooth and even over TCP/IP.   Many people are familiar with COM ports and programs that read data from and/or write data to them.  Today we find Serial Communications in both 30 year old hardware like natural gas meters and new products like many 3D Printers or those in the prototyping stage based upon Arduino boards.   We listened to customer feedback on Serial while planning Windows 10 and acted upon two high level points: Improve Serial over USB driver support from Windows. Provide a Windows Runtime API for communication with Serial devices. This blog entry focuses on enhancements for USB connected Serial devices in Windows 10, and how customers can provide addit...

Return on investment.What is that exactly? Theory is that as you make an investment, the cost for you will diminish and you have a larger share of the profits to use. The longer you can use an investment, it is like putting dollars in the bank, because you do not have additional investment costs. When was the last time you heard a major software company mention their ROI for you? They just want to keep taxing you incrementally. . Which of the two do you think you will get the best return n investment from? Eventually you will want to upgrade equipment, but if you can delay those costs, are you not in a better position to bargain?

PC oscilloscope or how to save yourself hundreds of dollars before you buy an oscilloscope. Sometimes when I build simple ttl (Transistor–transistor logic) circuits I like to see the results of the output. An example would be the pwm (Pulse-width modulation) that might control a robot motor. I do not have the money to buy an oscilloscope. so I am using this project to fulfill those needs. Note I am assuming you know how to use this set up. If you are not sure, please get a professional to help. If you are unfamiliar with electronics do not do this without help of a professional. Improper probes could destroy your computer, what is connected to your computer, and as well as not be safe. Step 1: Input probe. You may want to build this input probe from the first diagram. http://nte01.nteinc.com/nte/NTExRefSemiProd.nsf/$$Search is a good place to go to get equivalent part numbers.  Also included are other...

Guess I am old fashioned, but a computer is not a real computer if it does not have slots.This Pentium 1 is not MSWindows 10 ready. Who cares Slackware 14,1 runs just fine. Some computers may never die.

Please keep your systems up to date!    For linux depending on the distro: $ sudo apt-get update; sud apt-get upgrade $ sudo yum update; sudo yum, upgrade $ sudo pacman -Syu etc etc

What was the diagnosis from the famous MSWindows PC Tech doctor say about the linux box? It's terminal.

People have have running web applications on the desktop for years. If your running a web application, you probably getting from a linux machine. In effect, you have a linux desktop.

Translating from one batch file system to another can be interesting. As a former admin, I had to do that with Novell scripts and convert them to MSWindows batch files when we were changing systems. Someone wrote a batch file for emulate a menu to launch the browser to go to different sites that could of been a bit more precise for dos, but I decided to translate it to bash. Dos: @echo off color 0e Title Website Starter (by Prof. Pickle) :Menu cls echo --------------------------------------------------------------------- echo This is the Website starter echo. echo Select the number of the website you wish to select echo Or press E to exit. echo --------------------------------------------------------------------- echo. echo. echo 1. facebook echo 2. youtube echo 3. google echo 4. redtube echo 5. other set /p web= If %web% EQU 1 start www.facebook.com If %web% EQU 1 goto Menu If %web% EQU 2 start www.youtube.com If %web% EQU 2 goto Menu If %web% EQU 3 start www.google.com If %web% EQ...

If you have access to MSWindows machines (XP, 7, or 8), you can build an MSWindows tablet for under $50 dollars. Purchase a cheap Android tablet for under fifty dollars and the add a free rdp (remote desktop) app from the app store and you have an instant windows desktop. Just connect to your mswindows box.  If you do not have access to mswindows systems then get a cheap system for a few hundred dollars. Still cheaper than the tablet per se. You come out ahead.

If you have access to MSWindows machines (XP, 7, or 8), you can build an MSWindows tablet for under $50 dollars. Purchase a cheap Android tablet for under fifty dollars and the add a free rdp (remote desktop) app from the app store and you have an instant windows desktop. Just connect to your mswindows box.  If you do not have access to mswindows systems then get a cheap system for a few hundred dollars. Still cheaper than the tablet per se. You come out ahead.

Even the Sega Dreamcast runs nix and not MSWindows. Nix runs on almost anything. Linux is available for amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64 mips mipsel powerpc sparc s390 s390x source multi-arch   Bsd is available for:   (openbsd) alpha Digital Alpha-based systems amd64 AMD64-based systems armish ARM-based appliances (by Thecus, IO-DATA, and others) hp300 Hewlett-Packard HP 9000 series 300 and 400 workstations hppa Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture (PA-RISC) systems i386 Standard PC and clones based on the Intel i386 architecture and compatible processors landisk IO-DATA Landisk systems (such as USL-5P) based on the SH4 cpu loongson Loongson 2E- and 2F-based systems, such as the Lemote Fuloong and Yeeloong, Gdium Liberty, etc. luna88k Omron LUNA-88K and LUNA-88K2 workstations macppc New World PowerPC-based machines, from the iMac onwards mvme68k Motorola 680x0-based VME systems mvme88k Motorola 881x0-based VME...

Even the Sega Dreamcast runs nix and not MSWindows. Nix runs on almost anything. Linux is available for amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64 mips mipsel powerpc sparc s390 s390x source multi-arch   Bsd is available for:   (openbsd) alpha Digital Alpha-based systems amd64 AMD64-based systems armish ARM-based appliances (by Thecus, IO-DATA, and others) hp300 Hewlett-Packard HP 9000 series 300 and 400 workstations hppa Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture (PA-RISC) systems i386 Standard PC and clones based on the Intel i386 architecture and compatible processors landisk IO-DATA Landisk systems (such as USL-5P) based on the SH4 cpu loongson Loongson 2E- and 2F-based systems, such as the Lemote Fuloong and Yeeloong, Gdium Liberty, etc. luna88k Omron LUNA-88K and LUNA-88K2 workstations macppc New World PowerPC-based machines, from the iMac onwards mvme68k Motorola 680x0-based VME s...

# Santa 's workshop is putting another old pc back to work with # openbsd or # tinycore linux for someone. Installed Tinycore linux. Many networking systems such as firewalls and routers run some type of Bsd. Even the mac osx traditionally has been run on bsd underneath. Rumor has it though ios will replace the current format. Installed Openbsd on a system I call a Pentium 1.5. It was the AMD Socket 7 upgrade to the traditional Pentium 1.

Malware threats are something to keep aware of. A good web page to keep up with the details is: http://www.hal-pc.org/alerts.php From their page: More reasons to uninstall Java A new attack that targets a security vulnerability in Oracle’s Java is spreading through the hacker underground.Fake Microsoft calls claiming your computer is infected. Below are some web sites on the subject. Trying to unmask the fake Microsoft support scammers! Microsoft Windows Support Call Scams: 7 Facts  Virus phone scam being run from call centres in India  Reveton malware still active. FBI Issues Ransom Malware Warning After Being "Inundated" By Victims The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued an urgent warning about a major ransomware campaign after being "inundated" with complaints from U.S. consumers locked out of their PCs. By John E Dunn Sat, August 11, 2012 " The malware causing the damage is called Rev...

More and more computers are going back to the command line. This is being done so that it takes less resources to run that system. It also makes it easier to have what is known as virtual machines all running on one piece of hardware, thereby saving money. That includes Microsoft products such as their server. Yes, they will have a product that runs without MSWindows. Just like the old DOS machines. With Linux, BSD, and etc have been doing this all along. Two invaluable tools are DVTM (a command line window manager and SCREEN (a command line connection or session  detacher/reattach). With SCREEN you can free yourself of that ssh or rlogin session and then reattach to the session later from the same or another computer. For details see: http://www.instructables.com/id/Linux-screen-play/ . With DVTM you can have multiple windows or more than one usable prompt at a time. You could be working on your favorite  spreadsheet doing important reports while watching an...

Wanted a no fee and a bit more basic introduction to web programming, So I deleted the previous article.   Hopefully this one is free all the way through. If you are using linux, you can certainly use, gedit, nano, or vim to create a file for the video. They default to the ascii format automatically. These videos use the old style html programming, but it is still a good start. The intro video: Second video: Later.