Total credit for this post goes to Jason, KM4ACK Fighting sinus headache plus cold/flu symptoms this morning and having a bit of difficulty focusing – and yet, I was able to follow along with the instructions provided in Jason’s latest YouTube video and have “Pat Winlink” running just fine on my Raspberry Pi 4b 4gb. Have already received and responded […]
While I had previously mentioned installing the “gparted” package for “Graphical Partition Editor”, as a package I want to learn in detail soon, I want to point out there is a wonderful little tool provided in Raspbian’s graphical interface/menu system. Raspberry | Accessories | SD Card Copier If you are using the CANAKIT Raspberry Pi 4 4gb Starter Kit mentioned […]
Along with a full install of LibreOffice, I was tickled to see that VLC, (my favorite multimedia player), was loaded by default in the latest “full” version of Raspbian “Buster” off of the provided “NOOBS” installer provided by Canakit. I did install a few more packages by force of habit soon after the install and shared the following with Phil, […]
In a time long, long ago, in a world long forgotten, I was introduced to something called “Unix” and a command line interface via a Unix “shell” called “bash” via an on-line company known as “NetCom.com”. It’s been many years, but I still remember the fascinating power of those commands available to my fingers – all I had to do […]
One of the things I learned early on in playing with Raspberry Pi’s is the sheer convenience of operating them remotely using a program called “VNC” (for Virtual Network Computing/Computer), server edition on the Pi and a “VNC Viewer” on my laptop computer. My existing “Pis” are in a room in the back of the house we call our “Ham […]
I have a bit of experience, not at a very deep level, with previous iterations of the Raspberry Pi, (2, 3B, 3B+, 0, W), and they have *all* been fun to mess around with. After a couple years, my interest waned, and I kind of moved on to other things, but just the same ordered one of the Raspberry Pi […]
Update: Before you get started with this post – want to warn you that it is long and probably somewhat boring – the areas outlined below have been covered many times elsewhere on the Internet and, I’m sure, in a lot clearer fashion and with tons of pictures/illustrations. You might want to consider having a look at the CHIRP beginner’s […]
Well, finally getting around to updating this old blog again… I just deleted an entry that read: Donating our old 30 foot Fleetwood Wilderness 5th Wheel trailer” As that has already happened. We had started that process when Heidi’s Mom, Katharina, fell after an early morning walk out in front of her home June 3rd, 2019. Fortunately, the lady she […]
Thursday morning we took Missy (our Shepherd), for a nice, long walk. There are a lot of amenities available at Santee Lakes, but walking Missy was the one we were interested in exploiting. They have a huge dog-walk all around most of the North end of Santee Lakes and over the years we have logged some pretty good miles on […]
Well, its about brunch time – we slept surprisingly well and by golly how about hash browns, breakfast sausage, and scrambled eggs cooked outside on the griddle? Heidi took her Mom to make an appointment, then they would be coming over to Santee Lakes so I asked that she text me when they were starting over and I would have […]