Under Linux Conky polls the system sensors to display status for you. It is fairly straight forward for a programmer to configure. My configuration is shared here.
Author: John Nash
Mr. Nash is an experienced systems analyst/programmer and business manager who believes in giving back to the community through producing open source software.
Thunderbird -> Make E-Mail Links Open in Browser
he ThunderBird email client does not open links that I click in the browser. This time, the fix that worked is from
Apache2 access permissions changes — mod apache2.conf to fix
The infamous Apache2 “You don’t have permission to access / on this server” error started appearing after I updated my Mint/MATE system (Ubuntu) to version 17 (14.04). It is fixed by editing /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. Details in this article.
The care, feeding, and breeding of PayPal on your web site
As of today, 20140712, this tutorial actually works for collecting PayPal sales data after your web site visitor uses the PayPal button.
Utilities unprepared for EMP
If every residential and business building had a sufficient amount of solar panels to power itself during the day, then even if a disaster or attack destroyed a part of the grid, or the entire grid, it would not significantly affect people outside that one small area where the event occurred. As it is now, if the grid goes out in Pennsylvania several States could be without power for weeks. This is foolish and unnecessary with the technology we now possess.