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Brother gave me a belated present. It was an electric/acoustical guitar. Of course, you have to integrate it with the computer. By laying down a track at a time you can simulate an orchestra by using Audacity. $ sudo apt-get install audacity Well have not done anything yet, Have to overcome an impairment in my left hand to start playing again. Just takes some practice. As an incentive, I have to practice everyday or the guitar would be taken away.  Here is the guitar which was purchased for allegedly five dollars. Pardon the picture. Hope to have an update soon. Not my tutorial but it might be a good start. You may need some kind of adapter cable to plug the guitar into the computer. You could also get a book of harmony to help you alon or even a guitr instruction book.

Finally decided to do something with my Raspberry Pi.  Made a desktop to put it the den. Normally I use a composite monitor, but I decided to use a VGA monitor with an HDMI to VGA adapter. Unfortunately the adapter did not support sound, so I had to use the standard analog audio adapter. Well I hooked everything up and everything was working but the sound. Hmmm. The sound worked before. Did a bit of research and found I had to use a utility to change the default sound output. $ sudo raspi-config  You want to choose advanced options, then  The you want to choose the audio option, then And then lastly choose the output device desired. Wow, the sound worked again. By the way I used xrdp to remote into the rpi to make screen capture easier.

Under construction. Controls      Standalone time-based controllers Optional telephone interface for status and control You will neeed a moded (modulator/demodulator) Remote infrared, wifi  or simple wireless (RF) controllers Optional telephone interface for status and control Local network:         Local PC only         Local PC w/Internet access enabled

So many years ago I worked in a small family owned computer store. At one time we needed a second repair tech whose primary job would be to repair and upgrade equipment. One particular tech came from a highly advertised tech schools,who was  highly recommended and was suppose to be the cream of the crop. Our existing tech wanted to hire the individual. So he gave the prospective employee an easy test. The potential employee was asked to point out a ram chip. The potential employee picked out the Motorola cpu as the ram chip. Obviously that was the wrong answer. Our existing tech thanked the potential employee and sent him on his way without a job. Unfortunately, later all the employees had a big laugh over the incident. Even if you are not familiar with that motherboard, usually the biggest chip is the cpu or other control chip of which there is usually only one.. Generally ram chips are in multiple banks of eight or nine. Also too, the prevalent chip number at the time was 41

Thinking back oh so many years ago when the internet was not universal yet and everyone used dial-up bulletin board systems to communicate with. There was a lot of messaging as there is today. When it came to file transfer, that was another story. At that time, the only way to download a binary file was to download a file full of hex data. The hex data ascii file was then converted to the binary file. There was no error checking so that if you have line noise and extraneous data  was captured, you usually had to recapture the file. Not fun especially with large files and slow download speeds. Eventually. There was a file transfer technique known as xmodem that would allow portions (known as packets) of the file to be downloaded and checked for integrity till the full file was downloaded.   But there laid a small problem, My commercial terminal program for the commodore 64 did not support xmodem.  Knew how to program the hardware to get get and send data, so then I went on a re

Use city name  or zip (some people also say that case insensitive and, if you want to specify the nation, you can append an underscore and the nation's iso 2 or 3 letters code or the full nation name, it seems. I.e.: curl http://wittr.in/Milano_usa curl http://wittr.in/Milano_it curl http// wittr.in/Milano_italy ) $ curl http://wttr.in/austin $ curl http://wttr.in/77337 --------------------------------- Script in progress: Get your ipaddress:   $ dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com   23.43.247.204   Get location from ipadress: $ curl ipinfo.io/23.43.247.204 { "ip": "23.43.247.204", "hostname": "a23-43-247-204.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com", "city": "Cambridge", "region": "Massachusetts", "country": "US", "loc": "42.3626,-71.0843", "org": "AS4436 nLayer Communications, Inc.",