This & That
For no particular reason I updated WordPress to the most current version yesterday evening and managed not to break anything, so I updated my Raspberry Pi to Raspbian-Jessie and got a surprise – it is now a very usable computer with LibreOffice and a competent browser. I use the same wireless keyboard and mouse on the Pi and my Dell XP box by simply moving the transceiver – no installation, no questions, it just works.
As long as I was puttering inside I decided to add some programming to my “SmartTV” [A cold front came through and I don’t want to do the last big fix I need to make outside. There’s always a cold front Easter week.]
The Cable company has been ratcheting up the price on the basic service my Mother had, so I finally cut it off and replaced it with the Internet service I had at my old place. Well, when people come by they expect television, and the wonderful woman who cleans the house likes the TV running in the background, so I signed up with something called Hulu, another called Acorn, and the BBC News. Hulu has a variety of shows that are apparently familiar to people who watch television, Acorn features British TV shows. All of this is costing a third of what the Cable company was charging.
It would have been nice if the people who programmed the SmartTV had included an on screen keyboard to enter account names and passwords.
March 21, 2016 31 Comments
