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.

Reviews

Review – Rocketman

★★☆☆☆ I wish I knew why I didn’t enjoy Rocketman. I grew up with Elton John music. He was and still is one of the most bankable flamboyant acts ever. He certainly deserves to be call Sir Elton John. Perhaps it is because this biopic was a biopic being done…

Roland HughesJanuary 20, 2020January 25, 2021

Reviews

Review – Mary Poppins Returns

★★★☆☆ The sequel is never quite as good as the original. In this case I don’t know if anyone “of a certain age” could provide a fair review of Mary Poppins Returns. If you were a little kid back when people actually clapped at the movie theater, the original Mary…

Roland HughesJanuary 20, 2020January 25, 2021

Experience Technology

The Secret to Installing and Running Oracle Virtualbox

Since I’ve been using a lot of VMs lately testing out LibreOffice bugs, and one of my fellow authors may well be using VMs sometime soon to try out Linux, it’s time to write this post. (Yes! He’s leaving the dark side. Doesn’t want Microsoft collecting more information about him…

Roland HughesJanuary 18, 2020January 28, 2020

Experience Technology

Why People Pay $400 for WordPerfect Professional

It is no secret that many years ago I used WordPerfect to write “Zinc It! Interfacing Third Party Libraries With Cross Platform GUIs” and the follow on book covering UIW_Table. What you may find interesting is that it was WordPerfect under OS/2. Later I got into Lotus WordPro because it…

Roland HughesJanuary 9, 2020

Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Lorem Ipsum Generator – How Cool is This?

Given all of the platforms I have to use in my geekly work, I tend to find a never ending list of bugs. True, most of the “support” people always want a production writer to “upgrade to the latest version” before they will provide even one nano-second of help. I…

Roland HughesJanuary 6, 2020

Experience Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Non-zero Zero

As a geek I’m used to the concept of a non-zero zero. It happens when you are using floating point numbers. They can’t really store any number exactly, always just a close approximation. I’m less accustomed to it in the real world. This morning I was pulled out of bed…

Roland HughesJanuary 4, 2020January 10, 2020

Experience Society Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Trump Impeachment Trial Should be Held in Illinois

The Trump Impeachment Trial should be held in Illinois. We are really grate at putting politicians in prison. Besides, #MassacreMitch has already told the world he has rigged the trial for Trump to be set free instead of sent to prison. Both he and President Trump are already guilty of…

Roland HughesJanuary 1, 2020January 16, 2020