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Excerpt from “More Debian 8 for Beginners”

(This is a draft for one of the chapters.) Networking with Windows It’s rather common for computers to share Internet access from within the same living quarters or an office network. If your Debian box is connected to such a … Continue reading

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Computer Pastor Message

This is a really good time to make sure you have backups of all your important files. In fact, it’s not a bad idea to back up the whole system every week if you can afford the external storage space. … Continue reading

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No Virtual Covenant

You know the drill: This blog is a virtual office for my ministry. I can’t do everything, so some things are excluded by necessity. I’m only human. By the same token, you need not buy into everything you see here. … Continue reading

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The Usual Stupid Nattering about Computers

There is some vague possibility some folks might find this useful… The other day I hauled out my Win7 laptop to complete formatting before submitting my book to the publisher. It had a copy of Word 2003, the last version … Continue reading

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Inspiron 15-3542 and Win7

Hopefully this will be the last time I write about installing any OS. The only reason I do this one more time is that I find Win8 to be an abomination for us older folks who don’t like pretending our … Continue reading

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StT: Second Draft

Did you know that Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club no longer carry USB memory devices? I’m not surprised, given the significance of the threat researchers discovered with the USB protocol. The hardware standard allows any USB device to write back to … Continue reading

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Compute Morally

Can the Law of Noah apply to computers? My wife has run Win7 on her desktop machine since it was released. It’s not that she never found any unwanted malware, but that it never affected the operation of her system. … Continue reading

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Secure Email Communications

As previously noted, I don’t anticipate actually needing encrypted communications for myself. However, some of you may see a need, or other folks may come into my world feeling the need. Encryption is touted as primarily a means of digital … Continue reading

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Laptop Oops

Well, that was a real disappointment. Just when I thought I had everything as I wanted it, Debian began puking on me. Wifi wouldn’t work consistently and the machine crashed three times in one day. In other words, it wasn’t … Continue reading

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Kubuntu Guide 10

(This should be the end of the series. If you have questions, suggestions for topics I forgot, etc., now is the time to pester me.) 10 — Trackballs and Windows-ware So far, no project has seen fit to offer a … Continue reading

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