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Open Office Opens Doors

I have recently downloaded and installed Open Office for my Windows XP machine. The installation was smooth and simple. The only application I have tested to any extent is Writer (their answer to MS Word). Each application  includes a PDF’er.  It’s output is clean … Continue reading

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Virtual Putty Meltdown Solved

I use a desktop manager called Virtual Dimension.  Great thing.  It allows me to have multiple desktops (Linux style) in Windows.  Once you get used to having multiple desktops there is no turning back. I also use PuTTY for my … Continue reading

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Desktop Icons on the Fly

Thanks again to Lifehacker for bringing to my attention another great utility.  It’s called Desktop Media and it gives Windows functionality which other operating systems have had for many years. It will create, on the fly, a shortcut icon (soft … Continue reading

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The FAT32 of the Land

I recently did some file recovery off of a hosed NTFS partition and ran into some interesting and useful experiences as I moved these files onto a FAT32 drive for sharing between my Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems.  It … Continue reading

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Bring out Yer Dead [Partition]!

So, about a year ago I was making some changes in my systems because I was adding a new server and this allowed me to move a lot of data off of my working machine and onto that new server. … Continue reading

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