Where We Are and Where We Are Going

We just found out that running anything older than Windows XP, as a server will not work. Therefore we will not be building those application servers. Instead, we will be moving onto another category of servers.

What we will do with that software is this: We will eventually build a client machine for install, which will use a type of Linux. Then we will use virtual box on Linux to run some real clients. We will directly install that Linux on the machine, which will have that virtual box. Then we will install scripts which will download virtual box images from a server. We will have some sort of a menu for which one to install. Then we can run the clients chosen from virtual box.

This is our form of network booting. We will run clients older than Windows XP in this way. They will be choices for our network booting.

--- Dennis Earl Smiley ---

vwin98

vwin98 is not possible. For the technical reason why, see the other blog for the network.

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vwin98

vwin98 is being worked on now. vwin98 is an application server, so that we can still run older programs. There are going to be two of these older application servers. There will be vwin98, and vwin95.

--- Dennis Earl Smiley ---

Grocery Shopping

We now have our full grocery shopping procedure working. We add new items with the Alexa app. Then when it is time to do grocery shopping, we print out the list with any.do. Then we go grocery shopping. When we get home, we add to the shopping list of Google Home, which is our inventory. Then we check off the items in the alexa app of the alexa. Anytime we need a printout of our inventory, we can get it with keep.google.com. All we have to do is say print, which converts it to a pdf, which we can then actually print. Not intuitive, but that's the way it works.

--- Dennis Earl Smiley ---

Amazon Echo

Now we have Amazon Echo (Alexa). We can now have our full shopping list procedure. We can do many things on it that we could already do with Google Home. However, there is more we can do by combining the power of the two. We can make a to do list, and access a shared google calendar. We are still beginning to tap the power of this device.

--- Dennis Earl Smiley ---

Google Home

Google Home is now in operational. What does that mean? Well, as specified before, now the shopping process has changed.

We can ask about our day in the morning, being able to hear what we need to hear. Now each time we head out the door, there is no excuse for not knowing what temperature to expect it to be.

Need the time but aren't able to look at a clock? Just ask! What about simple questions? They can be answered easily. Need a 50/50 decision made? Flip a coin first. Bored? Then you need to tell it so! You will find lots to do by asking it about stuff.

We are just beginning to tap the power of this device.

--- Dennis Earl Smiley ---

The Changes in Shopping

We all make shopping lists before we go shopping (or should), especially for groceries. The methods for doing this in this household are slowly changing.

The original method, was to look on a list for if the item is something to keep in the house or not. Then you write the item if it's needed on a whiteboard on the refrigerator. When it's time for grocery shopping, you copy all the items you are going to get onto a piece of paper. Then you erase those items. At the store, you check off the items you got in the basket. Then you do a check to make sure you have everything once you get home.

Then there was the intermediate method. You do the same thing with the item 'till it gets to the whiteboard. Then, you put them into the household phone's shopping list when you get ready to shop. Then you take that to the store and mark the items off as you go. You do a check when you get home, to see if you still have all items, and then you move them to the pantry. The pantry is where the inventory of supplies goes. Sometimes when putting an item on the list, it's possible just to move it from the pantry to the shopping list.

Then there will be the new method, which reduces copying and is easier to enter. You have Google Home and Amazon Echo. You enter the pantry items onto Google Home's shopping list. You enter the items to get on Amazon Echo's shopping list. Then you copy the appropriate items from the Amazon Echo's shopping list to paper when it's time to shop. Then you do as before with the paper, and the items you get home go in the pantry (Google Home's shopping list).

There is the temporary method of shopping used too. This will be used inbetween getting the Google Home and also getting the Amazon Echo. You keep the pantry as was before. But then you take the items on the shopping list, and stick them on the Google Home. The whiteboard will be gone as one of the next phases.


--- Dennis Earl Smiley ---