With the UK (and the world) fighting the Corona virus a lot of people are social distancing or isolating, and UK schools are closing. This may leave you with time to learn, or may leave you stuck looking for something for young people to do. I thought I would try to help out with some … Continue reading Geek Things To Do In Isolation
More of a personal post as I get to grips with Registers / General Purpose Registers (GPR) and start making notes. The 8 GPR have existed since the 8-bit Intel x86 processor, and they can be viewed using a debugged such as GDB. After the 16-bit era, the 32-bit era added an e (for extended) … Continue reading Registers / General Purpose Registers (GPR)
Whilst growing up I had (and still have) many geeky hobbies, but one I never got into was stamp collecting. Recently though I saw some stamps and decided to visit Royal Mail's special stamp site (https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues) to pick them up as a gift. They've arrived and, as a geek and a retro gamer, I decided … Continue reading Royal Mail Video Game Stamps
With the November Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals flying about some readers may be tempted to pick up an Amazon Alexa. So today I thought I would post a brief article on some of the easter egg type voice commands that you may like, after all Alexa can do more than tell you what … Continue reading Amazon Alexa Commands
As well as allowing for the creation of virtual computers, Virtual Box also gives several settings for virtual networks. Following on from my last blog post (here) I am now going to take a brief look at the Virtual Box network settings. Virtual Box Network Settings Virtual network settings can be found under the "Tools", … Continue reading Virtual Box – Scripting and Network Options (Mac OS X / Linux)
When learning about new systems, applications or trying new settings I find the best way to learn is with a hands-on approach. However, learning hands-on doesn't always end well and the last thing anyone wants is to have to reinstall their computers operating system (host OS) after it was destroyed due to misconfiguration of a … Continue reading Virtual Box (Mac OS X / Linux)
I tackled some of the basics of Git / Git Hub in my previous blog post. Today I am going to look at Ignoring and Logging. Git Log Navigate to a folder that is git repository and run the command: git log This command should make the terminal output the history (i.e. all the changes) … Continue reading Git Ignore & Git Log
Yesterday I created a chat bot that uses an FAQ / Question & Answer knowledge base to answer a users questions. I created this bot using Microsoft Azure and details can be found at: https://geektechstuff.com/2019/03/03/creating-an-azure-qa-faq-chat-bot/ One detail I missed yesterday was adding the chat bot to a web page. Azure allows for chat bots to … Continue reading Adding Azure Chat Bot To Web Page
I've taken a look at using node.js and Python to create a chat bot in the past but never really progressed the idea, mainly because my website doesn't currently need a chat bot. However after completing my recent project around text sentiment using Azure cognitive services I thought I would take another look at a … Continue reading Creating An Azure Q&A / FAQ Chat Bot
For this part of the Raspberry Pi IoT project I am going to be using Microsoft Azure, if you want to follow along please sign up for a Microsoft Azure account. Log in to https://portal.azure.com/ with your Microsoft Azure account. For me it took a few minutes and a few log offs/ons for my free … Continue reading Azure IoT Hub – Raspberry Pi IoT Project
