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How to Specify an Exact Time in a Rumble Video Link
Everyone knows for years that to specify a particular time in a youtube video, you add &t=XmYs at the end of the link of the video — where you fill in the X and Y […]
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Extending the Hard Drive of a VMWare in VMWare Player
VMWare is one of the great inventions of the past 30 years in the computer software industry. It is and has been used by countless computer software professionals to create virtual computers within your computer. […]
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Rumble Videos — How to Remove Large Black Borders on WordPress Sites
Rumble is the relatively new video platform that is all the rage — so many popular content creators moving to it after so many people were banned from youtube. It is the Freedom of Speech […]
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The Rise of “Big Data” & AI, and the Most Popular SQL & NoSQL Databases Today
Relational databases have long been the king of data storage — but the world is now quickly turning to Artificial Intelligence querying Big Data databases. Most Popular Databases Today, according to a source at a […]
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Pluto = Planet = Forever
By Dick “Scorpio” Laresch So the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a body comprised mostly of Euro-weenies – has “voted” Pluto off the planet roster. Oh yeah? How come I still think it’s a planet? Because […]
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The Story of the Transistor, Silicon Valley, & Snuffy’s Steakhouse in Scotch Plains, NJ
I chose to pursue an Electrical Engineering degree because I was good in math and wanted to know what made my dad’s amplifier system work. He had a big music system, which I used all […]
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Larry Hagman and NEXRAD
I was working at Unisys in the early nineties when the cold war ended and the “Ill Wind” scandal hit at the same time, causing Unisys to shed jobs at its Great Neck, Long Island […]
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Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut — Book Review
“Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut” by Astronaut Mike Mullane Review by Richard Sheppard If Tom Wolfe’s 1979 “The Right Stuff” remains the definitive astronaut story – a magnificent introduction to […]