AlaskaLinuxUser's Scratchpad

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. - Proverbs 16:3

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! May God bless you and yours again today, as he already did so many years ago, as we can see in this wonderful song!

Good Christian men rejoice
With heart and soul and voice!
Give ye heed to what we say
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Jesus Christ is born …

Hourglass app: recurring timer option?

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Last week I mentioned the changes to the Hourglass app in regards to manual time entry. As I looked over the commits, I realized that I forgot to mention the addition of a recurring timer option.

As you can see in the picture, there is now a little set of …

Fool's Mate Friday: A Rook-ie mistake!

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The rook is believed to have once been the "rukh", which was some sort of tower shaped carriage that was placed on top of an elephant. Supposedly, the rukh was the actual fortification itself, and the elephant was the means of carrying it around. In the top of this tower …

Edited Hourglass app manual time entry function.

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Last week GitHub user spaetz brought forward a great idea for the Hourglass Android timer app that I made a while back. He recommended that the manual time entry be adjusted so that entering any number without a colon (:) would be counted as minutes. Here you can see his issue …

Fool's Mate Friday: A knight's tale.

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Now that we have a visual board to display, and we've called for the engine to check for all available moves, we need to actually add moves for each piece. Today we are going to start with the knight. I started with the knight because I thought it would be …

CompTIA Mobility+ certificate to be retired on December 15th.

One of the many things that my work requires is various IT certificates. In particular, they require Network+ for the job I am currently filling, and A+, Security+, and Linux+, for various other simulators at my work. So, I make an effort to keep my certifications current, and to have …

Fool's Mate Friday: Getting "board" already?

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They say that the folding chessboard was invented by a priest who was forbidden to play chess. This priest found a way to hide his game by making a folding chessboard. When folded together and put on a bookshelf, it looked like two ordinary books. Wow! The lengths people will …

What exactly constitutes as open source hardware (OSHW)?

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There is a lot of buzz around the net on this idea of open source hardware (OSHW). However, the deeper that I look into it, the more tangled the web seems to be. I've been noticing that some sites tout equipment as OSHW because they have SOME open source hardware …