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Bits and Pieces 4
I had forgotten how sharp an old “safety razor” could be. I also forgot how much they hurt. The blades are very cheap, if you can find them. I found a copy of Corel WordPerfect Office X5 Standard someone had … Continue reading
User Abuse
If I can get the Senior Editor’s attention, this article will be posted at Open for Business in the next day or so. My readers here get to see it first. ********** I remember my first encounter with a computer … Continue reading
Moral Accountability
Accountability is the eternal question; it can be addressed from many angles. My faith asserts we are all accountable to God. If there is one thing I will seek verbally in holding your feet to the fire, this is it. … Continue reading
Eating My Words
Pardon me while I walk my talk. I have to eat my words. The previous post in this space was about the joys of Cygwin, a POSIX emulator which made it possible to run something like Linux on your Windows … Continue reading
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Technocracy of War, Part 4
She waited patiently, her paws crossed as she lay in the small patch of sun available in the fenced yard. Once each week, he walked past on the newly paved street which had replaced the gravel. In her mind, the … Continue reading
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Notepad++ and Aspell on Win7
Update: (28 June 2013; lots of folks still land on this blog post) Notepad++ 6.3.3 now uses DSpellCheck. The default dictionary is not US English. If you check this page (scroll down a bit) you’ll learn not only where the … Continue reading
FOSS for Windows
The acronym is popular in some places: FOSS = Free and Open Source Software. Some of the best stuff I use on this Win7 laptop are free. Libre Office: This is the recent fork of Open Office once owned by … Continue reading
Work and Play on the Computer
Much discussion and gnashing of teeth over at Slashdot on Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? Yes, we do. That is, unless our only contact with computers is as phones and tablets, which is apparently now the majority. So … Continue reading
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Windows 8, Linux and FUD
The debate between MS fans and Linux fans regarding the new secure boot and replacing the old BIOS on computer hardware is getting stupid. Since I’m a nobody, I don’t expect anybody to pay any attention, but I figure on … Continue reading
Silly Disputes over Jobs and Apple
Go ahead and use your favorite search engine. You’ll find many tributes to Steve Jobs, and a growing number of slams. Dig a little deeper, and you’ll see a somewhat finer division among the tributes. Most say he did big … Continue reading