
What was I Thinking?
Goodby Railroad Square Cinema
The RR2, like most movie houses, has been closed for a year now and has no expected reopening date. As it says on the Waterville Creates website, “Due to the current pandemic, all in-person programming has been suspended.” Because part of the plan (depending on fund raising) is to move the cinema to downtown…
Continue readingStarlink offers what?
I was excited about Starlink. Internet from space seems to be hugely kool. Very future. But my thought is that Starlink is currently too expensive. Not that hugely faster internet might be nice, but for most of us we may not see it as worth the price (or even see a difference much of…
Continue readingMaine Rocket Launch
The Maine based company blueShift Aerospace launched it’s first rocket from the Loring Commerce Centre (former AFB). The third time was the charm as weather and temperature allowed the launch….
Continue readingMint LMDE 4, The best Linux OS ever?
Mint has been the Linux on my desktop for years. Linux Mint traditionally has been built on top of the core Ubuntu Linux and Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux . Ubuntu makes quite a lot of changes to Debian. Mint tweaks and improves on Ubuntu. If you are ready to make a move…
Continue readingThe standard WordPress editor for WordPress.com users will be retired June 1 – or not.
There is a discussion ( here ) that starts with “On June 1 we’ll be retiring our older WordPress.com editor and transitioning to the more recent (and more powerful) WordPress block editor.” But that is only true in the broadest sense. The blog post seems intentionally misleading to ‘force’ folks into using the not…
Continue readingWindows 7 is dead – Long live Linux
Unless you are a big organization and wants to send Microsoft lots of money for continued support – support for Windows 7 is over. Over 10 years ago Microsoft launched Windows 7 to help recover from the disastrous Windows Vista. In August 2012 Microsoft released Windows 8 to less than stellar reviews. While Windows…
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