Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair Resources

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What it is all about
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The Guru's Lair is your online tech support service for readers of microcomputer pioneer, researcher, and prolific author Don Lancaster's ezine columns.

These now include his Blatant Opportunist, Tech Musings, Resource Bin, GuruGrams, PostScript Secrets, Hardware Hacker, and similar tutorials.

Don is now the author of 44 books that include the classic CMOS Cookbook, the million+ seller TTL Cookbook, TVT Cookbook, Active Filter Cookbook, and his unique self-help Incredible Secret Money Machine. Along with 2200 plus technical papers, a patent, a PostScript Video and a Hanging Canal Video.

A definitive web resource for the spectacularly engineered and woefully underappreciated hundreds of miles (!) of Prehistoric Bajada "Hanging" Canals, for our exclusive Gila Valley Dayhikes Guide, and our new Lancaster Classics USB Library. Plus his series of blogs and  free eBooks.

Along with Don's eclectic coverage for PostScript, his Incredible Secret Money Machine, guidelines to Avoid Patent Ripoffs, or getting surplus eBay Bargains, or discrediting the absurd Hydrogen energy ludicrosity

Or mastering the secrets of Bezier Cubic Splines, trashing Pseudoscience, going on a Tinaja Quest, or exploring Magic Sinewaves. Plus "pure art" stuff such as our marbelous pancakes, fractal ferns, or avuncular sleezoids.

All based on the premise that if Don personally uses them and is interested in them, others are also likely to.

Included are many hundreds of Don's unique .PSL sourcecode files. These are ordinary textfiles written in the PostScript language and are usually executed in Acrobat Distiller from the Windows command line with a secret magic incantation of "//acrodist /F".

Don Lancaster runs Synergetics, 3860 West First Street, Box 640, Thatcher AZ, 85552. A free technical helpline is often available at email don@tinaja.com Most content is freely available under Creative Commons terms.

A Web Page Sampler
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You can start with this collection of our newer and better files...

Please report any typos and requests. Yeah, only a few pages are mobile so far.

Newer Web Pages
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These are the main focus of current Guru's Lair activity and are our strongest candidates for upgrading to mobile responsiveness.

Please send us any comments or requests.

Archival Web Pages
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These are older "blue button era" web pages that are primarily intended as historic archives. Some of the information may no longer be active or even appropriate. Viewing is best done in larger display formats.

In particular, PostScript these days is ridiculously simpler and easier to use, besides now having GhostScript and Google Drive alternatives. Just use your command line to send your .psl files to Acrobat Distiller via the top secret "//acrodist /F" incantation.

Please send us any comments or requests.

Offsite Links
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Listed below are the top hundred or more third party websites that I actually use often and highly recommend. They are my "best of web".

Please let me know your secret favorites so we can add them here.

Video Links
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Here is a convenient collection of web video sources. Some are free, some include infuriating ads, and some are fee based. We try to keep these links free of scams and malware. Please report any issues.

Our ARA hanging canal video can be found here, and our classic PostScript vid here. Three rather bizarre vids can now be found here, here, and here. The first of these may have been the original birthplace of "WTF"!

My Use Links
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These are most of the links I have on my Chrome Speed Dial...

Please let me know your secret favorites so we can add them here.

SITEMAPS
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FOR MORE HELP
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Answerable technical questions are often handled free of charge by emailing don@tinaja.com. More complex needs can get filled by use of our "cash and carry" InfoPack and consulting services.

Our technical consulting rates start at $157 per hour. Support charges are $47 per hour..

Our secrecy policy: There ain't one! We don't normally do NDA's or any classified work of any sort. Unless paid prearrangements are specifically made, you can safely assume that anything and everything you tell us can and will be reveled to the widest possible audience.

Please note that NO foreign sales and support are available! Besides being something that we simply do not do, such sales are prohibited by certain of our suppliers.

Also please note that our present box number is newly 640 and our area code has long been (928).

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