The basic premise is that there are three doors, behind one is a prize. The contestant makes a guess as to which door has the prize. In this case the odds of winning are one in three. But after the guess is make the host of the game opens one of the two remaining doors, showing no prize behind it. The question is should the contestant change his guess from the original door to the remaining closed door.
Continúa leyendo "Monty Hall Paradox"Mochad, HA-Bridge and CM19a on Zorin
So, in ditching Windows I had to find a solution to my Windows-based X-10 home automation. On Windows I had a CM19a USB based transceiver for issuing X-10 commands to the X-10 modules controlling my house lights. I used a piece of software named Alex10 to command the CM19a, and a Philips Hue Bridge emulator (HA-Bridge) to allow me to give voice commands via my Amazon Echo.
The HA-Bridge software was a Java program with a web interface, so it ported over cleanly from Windows to Linux. What I had to find was something to replace the Alex10 software. Searching the Internet I found some software that did exactly what I needed, Mochad.
Continúa leyendo "Mochad, HA-Bridge and CM19a on Zorin"Moving from Windows to Linux
I finally decided to drop Windows from all of my home computers (currently three systems) and move them all over to Linux. I had already moved two of them, one that I use for a home theater, and one I use for general work. The third was being used for general work and for controlling my old home automation system.
Continúa leyendo "Moving from Windows to Linux"New websites
I recently helped some friends develop their websites. Both are wordpress sites, one was a redesign of a very old hand coded site with a custom coded CMS, the other a new site from scratch.
Continúa leyendo "New websites"Río John Day desde White Elephant Run
Grillos, pájaros cantando y viento. Me encanta estar fuera de la ciudad.
Viernes por la mañana, White Elephant Ranch
Más de Condon, Oregon
Hay algo especial en la vida en un pequeño (muy, muy pequeño) pueblo rural de Estados Unidos. Ver a los niños jugar al béisbol en un parque con dos diamantes, detrás de uno de ellos elevadores de granos y del otro solo campo abierto hasta donde alcanza la vista. O despertar y solo oír el canto de los pájaros. Ni sirenas, ni coches, ni aviones. El ruido más estridente es el de un ternero hambriento.
Condón 2019
Algunas fotos del rancho White Elephant, en el desguace de Condon, Oregón. También, el primo Andrew alimentando a mano a un ternero nacido durante el crudo invierno.
Fortunes
Early in my career, when I was working on Unix systems I started collecting fortunes, quotations, etc and put them into a “fortune” program. Click the button below to see a new fortune.
Web pages never die
In 2013, when I was working with HB Design, I had my personal website hosted on a company web server. That server that was used for hosting employee websites has long since been decommission, and between that and my retirement the HTML table generator web tool that I wrote disappeared.
Now with my new site up I found that the link to the table generator was broken. After looking through all of my backups and archive files, and not finding the code, I decided to try the Way Back Machine and I found the code. Which illustrates how hard it is to lose a web page on the internet.
I was able to copy the source code off the Way Back Machine and, with some simple edits to remove code that the Way Back Machine inserted into the archived page, was able to recreate the tool on this web site.
You can play with the table generator at https://robertjwallace.com///tablegen