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.

Old magician who likes old cars, and old whisky
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.
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
I just setup WordPress on Amazons EC2 service. I didn’t find a good set of instructions on how to do it, but pieced together the following from various sources. Note that my PC is Linux based.
Continúa leyendo "Setting up WordPress on AWS"In a linux terminal on the awm ec2 VM, enter the following commands:
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
sudo mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
mysql -uroot
use mysql;
update user set authentication_string=PASSWORD("mynewpassword") where User='root';
flush privileges;
quit
Some of the most magical effects are effects that have an element of luck involved. While such effects are often impossible to repeat, they are also impossible for the audience to figure out. They are effects that build reputations.
Continúa leyendo "Using Luck…."Trabajé para Intel Corporation desde junio de 1994 hasta junio de 1998 (aprox.). Finalmente, recuperé la cordura y dejé la empresa. Cuando empecé a trabajar allí, trabajaba en la División de Sistemas de Supercomputación (SSD) y publiqué esta página, que fue guardada el 9 de enero de 1997 por Internet Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/19970109235501/http://ssd.intel.com/
Como ingeniero de software jubilado, me aburrí, así que escribí un juego de Faro en línea. Es un proyecto en desarrollo. Puedes encontrarlo en https://robertjwallace.com///faro-game.
Puedes encontrar las reglas y la historia del juego en varios sitios web. Ver:
Continúa leyendo "Faro – online game"I have written a simple faro shuffle simulator which you can access here: https://robertjwallace.com///faro
It supports some common stacks and I will be adding more as time permits. Instructions are below.
Continúa leyendo "Faro Shuffle Simulator"