Author: Roland Hughes

Roland Hughes is the president of Logikal Solutions, a business applications consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS platforms and Qt on Linux. Hughes serves as a lead consultant with over two decades of experience using computers and operating systems. With a degree in Computer Information Systems, the author's experience is focused on systems across a variety of diverse industries including heavy equipment manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, stock exchanges, tax accounting, and hardware value-added resellers, to name a few. Working throughout these industries has strengthened the author's unique skill set and given him a broad perspective on the role and value of technology in industry.

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First Look at RCA Viking Pro 10

Working in the embedded systems world usually means needing new toys. Well, it doesn’t always mean it, but it sure is a nice excuse! This time it left handedly meant it. Current client wants me to get more involved in configuring development environments for employment and debugging. For those who…

Roland HughesMay 29, 2017November 9, 2017

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Time to Prosecute the New York Times as Both a Russian and ISIS Agent

I know, we try not to write anything overtly political on this blog because it is our thoughts about writing and life itself. Sadly this is about writing. It is also about all of those posts both past and scheduled where I warn you about the pitfalls writers face. Somewhere…

Roland HughesMay 28, 2017November 8, 2017

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The 100,000 Mile Thrill is Gone

In its never ending attempt to jamb more technology in a vehicle inflating the price exponentially automakers have shot themselves in the foot then watched the bullet ricochet off the pavement going through both tush cheeks. It’s a rather impressive feat of managerial ineptitude. When tech first started appearing in…

Roland HughesMay 28, 2017November 8, 2017

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Why Don’t I Get Any Writing Done?

Some of you will consider this an extension of my April 16, 2017 post “For the Love of a Keyboard” and to some extent you would be correct, but only a very limited extent. There are two things I hear repeatedly from writers and want to be authors. I don’t…

Roland HughesMay 28, 2017November 8, 2017

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The Scents Which Define Us

I guess one has to be a bit older to have scents define your person or “take you home again.” Presumably you would have to be old enough to have left home in the first place. We have a bit of a timey-whimey thing going on with this post as…

Roland HughesMay 21, 2017November 8, 2017

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All Because of Vermin

It’s amazing the amount of pain we humans go through because of vermin. No, I mean it. Sometimes the vermin is Jamie Dimon, CEO of a financial institution which engaged in mortgage fraud and bribery without a single care about the lives ruined or any resulting suicides. Other times the…

Roland HughesMay 20, 2017November 6, 2017

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[Information Technology] Why Mars Matters

Many people complain about the money spent on space exploration but I for one do not. Yes, I hear the cries about how they would better spend the money here. When you dig into it though you find that they always have short sighted personal interest at the heart of…

Roland HughesMay 20, 2017November 6, 2017