Cool AppleSoft Emulator

I've posted about this one before (7 years ago!) but I've been feeling nostalgic lately so I revisited it... The site is at http://www.calormen.com/Applesoft/ and is an AppleSoft Basic interpreter written in JavaScript. Joshua Bell did a great job with it. I've sent him several programs (4 recently) and he included them in his Samples list. He is a really great guy. You should try the emulator out... be sure to check my programs :)

SharePoint... why...

Why is it that SharePoint 2013 can expose everything except the Meta Data Services / Taxonomy through REST?

CAML Case Sensitivity

Why the heck did the makers of the CAML interpreter make it case sensitive?  This is 2016!  A 'query' language should NOT be case sensitive.

<GEQ> should be the same as <geq> which should be the same as <Geq> why would the last one be the only one that actually works???

Those ppl should be fired.

New Travel Entertainment Pt. 3

So I mounted the TripMate and Hard Drive in a pencil box using velcro straps and it worked perfect.  One handy little box to move around.  I added vent holes to cut down on the heat.  I also added my 12000mha battery just in case.

When we got to the hotel I plugged it into their wired internet and then all my devices had internet without having to connect to their wireless.

Very happy with this setup.

New Travel Entertainment Pt. 2

So, I saw a sale on the HooToo TripMate Elite ($33).  Its the same as the Nano, but with a built in battery pack!  Now my setup is even smaller because I don't need any external power at all.  I have the TripMate Elite and a hard drive and thats it!

Initial test showed that I could run it for 4 hours before needing a charge... I'm redoing the test after fully charging the TME over night.  I'm currently at 2.5 hours and still have 3/4 battery left.  So maybe I'll get 7 hours?

The range is pretty good too.  I could still play movies from 40 ft away.

Definitely recommend both of them... I'll probably sell the nano to a friend, cheap.

New Travel Entertainment

So, the past few years when we take long trips in the car, I've setup a small wireless network with attached storage so the boys could stream movies to their tablets.  Each year I did this, I changed how I did it.

One year I had an RPi serving up the content through a wireless router.  Another year I had a Linksys AC1200 with attached storage serving it up.  Both of those solutions required an inverter and a lot of space.

My new solution, thanks to a friend pointng out a router, is to use a HooToo TripMate Nano, attached storage and a USB power pack.  Testing shows that I can run this setup for about 20 hours before a recharge is needed.  And the recharge takes somewhere from 8-12 hours.  But still... it works great.  No more bulky router & inverter... sweet.

One cool thing using a router like this is that if the hotel has wired internet, I can bring my router in and make my own wireless network and not have to join the hotel wireless on each device.

Now if I could only afford a 1tb jump drive it would be even smaller :)

Stuff

So I had a good friend of mine fix my RPi SD slot (he has a good desoldering station) and it works great.

I added some LEDs to the Saucers in my RFM... I don't like the Green, RED is OK going to try Blue.  Also got a saucer for the SOL hole so that should be cool.

Not much else going on.  Just doing a bunch of coding @ werk, a little playing with some toys.  PC puked so I had to get a new one.  Not fun.

Other than that, things are good.