Month: June 2021

Many years ago I wrote a web posting of how to solve the Cracker Barrel golf tee triangle board peg game puzzle. This is now located on this blog in a preceding post here. In updating that blog for a solution of finish hole equals to the starting empty hole, I was troubled that the […]

When visiting the Cracker Barrel restaurant, you will find a 15-peg triangle board game on each table.  This page describes how to solve the puzzle from any starting position. Update: June 2021. Moved from web page to blog and added solutions for finish position equal start position. The game board is a triangle with 15 […]

In setting up WordPress recently on this website, I discovered that getting SMTP working for blog email notifications was more complicated than I expected. This post shows the solution. No, I don’t have the ability for anyone to post or comment yet, but someday that will come and it will be sure welcome to get […]

Updated my website to use version 8.0 of PHP and B2evolution stopped working. Was able to repair it enough to see blog posts again and managed to extract the content. This was the sign I needed to retire the old blog manager and move into the times with WordPress. Technically I used WordPress before B2evolution, […]

Bought a new computer a couple months ago and its nagged me since, that about half the time after the machine goes to sleep, it immediately wakes up.  Windows 10.  I’ve “solved” this so far, by holding the power button down until power is removed and that makes the machine quiet and without lights, but […]

When Windows 10 starts and users logon, the operating system by default will automatically restart all the applications that were running when the system was rebooted including launching them to reload the documents and revisit web browser URLs.  Handy in concept this is not how I want the machine to behave.  I would like a […]

Among the jobs of an operating system is to maintain the disk file system including the directory structure, file names and for each file, the file size and the pertitent date information for when the file was created, modified and potentially accessed.  I have been editing some videos lately and after producing a MP4 using […]

The DOS world’s need for memory grew and the 64KB available to .COM executables was no longer adequate.  The NE “new executable” executable file format was invented and uses the .EXE file extension rather than .COM.  The first 2 bytes of these files includes a tag at the front to identify the format and if you guessed […]

In the beginning, the DOS .COM file format was the format for executables of size less than 64KB and let’s face it, who would really need more.  I’m headed down a path to discuss PE file format executables and no good discussion is right without a foundation.  In the beginning, there was DOS; life was […]

Had an interesting one today when outlook 2016 prompted me to permit a website to configurre email settings for a user that isn’t me.  In this case, it was for a user that doesn’t work at my company anymore and this led me to ponder if someone in IT was trying to connect me to […]