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In an earlier thread, I mentioned that I use a spreadsheet to keep track of my finances. I started building it in Excel 2000, and have been upgrading it over many years. The last upgrade I did was to add the SUMIFS command to automate a lot of the functions. That is when I found out that...

This procedure will also work for installed Solid State drives. This installation assumes that you have a USB Thumb drive with all your Quicken 6 data files backed up on it, along with some type of media containing all the quicken 6 program files. It also assumes that you have Laplink 5. If...

I have been doing some research, and experimentation with my Pi 4, in an attempt to speed things up without overclocking. What I have is the Canakit Raspberry Pi 4 starter MAX kit, which includes a Samsung 64 GB EVO plus micro sd card which came pre-installed with NOOBS. This is a C10 U3 V30...

I have been looking at the data on the Raspberry Pi CM4 modules, and wanted to try the 8gb model with no EMMC and both Wifi and Bluetooth (The CM4108000), only to find that it does not appear to be available ANYWHERE on the web!:( Whilst researching it however, I discovered this little Gem...

One of the things I have enjoyed about the Raspberry Pi is updating from the Command Line Interface, Like in Slackware, but due to problems with not being able to watch youtube videos, I reloaded with the latest version. I did the CLI updates as usual, but while running the browser, I noticed...

When I attached the second monitor to my PI 4, It was a learning experience. It came up with the same display on both monitors, including the task bar. As I moved the mouse, I saw it move on both, as if the new monitor on the left was a mirror image. This somewhat defeated the purpose I had...

For all you hams out there with a pi 4, there is a new pi top board called the radioberry. It has a software defined radio onboard. Check out this video for the introduction. This is very exciting. Happy Trails, Paul

A few months ago, I lost the sound from the HDMI output of my Pi, after an update. I am using the 4gb Pi4. After much cursing and gnashing of teeth, I rebooted, held down the shift key, and reloaded the noobs version of Raspian. The sound worked fine through numerous restarts, that is until...

Oh yes, boys and girls!! "It continues the quad-core CPU design of the BCM2837, but uses the more powerful ARM A72 core. It has a greatly improved GPU feature set with much faster input/output, due to the incorporation of a PCIe link that connects the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports, and a natively...

while doing some research on Software Defined Radio Control, I was directed to the link below https://gist.github.com/krippendorf/139566dc2caa840181ea17180941d818 This is a text document with the commands required to install the GNU Radio Companion, and other software in Raspian Buster. I...

I found an ISO of the Guttenburg project. This one was from about 10 years ago. Since it was an ISO file, I thought of burning it to a Cd, but thought that I would try a thumb drive instead (16GB sandisk Cruzer). Using Mint cinnamon, I set it up just like I would for a Linux ISO. It did not...

While looking through all my old Hand drawn schematics from the past, I decided it was time to update my procedures. I went back to my previous media, a 18 x 12 inch drawing pad, and took a look at some work I had done on a project called "the Roanoke Doppler" for VHF direction finding. The...

Many moons ago, (actually Many, Many, many moons ago) I started experimenting with the basic stamp Microprocessors, and have embedded them in a machine or two, to add functionality, or use a new type of sensor. I have also experimented with them as a hobby.

In the February 2020 edition (#90) of Magpi Magazine, Page 36, Luci Hattersly introduces the reader to overclocking the pi 4. Since I just happen to have one of the 4GB Pi 4's sitting on my bench, I decided to try it out. The processor is advertised as a 1.5GHZ quad core, but it actually...

I finally received all the video adaptors I needed to do the first bootup on my Pi 4. Everything went well until I decided to get the audio up and running. My research showed that I needed the 4 conductor plug, because composit video was on this connector also. So I broke out what I perceived...

So I finally bit the bullet and bought a Raspberry Pi. I haven't received it yet, but I plan to use Slackware. Having no experience with arm processors, it should be a hoot. I will try to document my journey in this thread. Film at eleven.:rolleyes: Happy Trails Paul

I ran Lubuntu from the USB drive, and it seemed to work fairly well. I pulled the hard drive, and put in an old one which came from an older laptop. Then I took the plunge, and loaded Lubuntu on it. It seems to work fine, with one tiny problem. When I attempt to watch a video on you tube, I...

Ok, Here is a new twist to the single board computer craze. Pine64 has a notebook out now, based on the board used in their Pine A64 module. Check it out: The price is only $99.00 US.o_Oo_O What a steal! Hardware: CPU : 1.2GHz 64-Bit Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 RAM ...

Ok, What was your first Personal Computer? Mine was a Timex-Sinclair ZX81. It had a thin film keyboard, no storage of any kind, and a WHOPPING 1k of ram! The clock speed was 1MHZ!o_O:D:D

For Ham radio operators out there, you might consider KB1OIQ Andy's Linux. It is available on Sourceforge at https://sourceforge.net/projects/kb1oiq-andysham/. It is a remastered version of Ubuntu 14.04LTS. The recommended system would have a 1GHZ CPU, 1GB of memory, and 10-15 GB of drive...