In the past week I’ve gotten three of them. Honestly, I thought those days were over.
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October 18, 2010It’s Happening Again
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October 15, 2010Roll Your Own Windows Recovery DiscYour PC should have come with a Windows disc. The best disc is the installation disc. The next best disc is a recovery disc. The least best disc is no disc at all. Even when you find yourself in that least-best situation, all hope isn’t lost. It’s possible in Windows 7 and in Windows Vista to create a Windows Recovery Disc. In fact, it’s stupidly simple. October 13, 2010Printing a DirectoryThere is no way in any graphical operating system I’ve ever used to print out a list of files in a folder. In the older days, at the command prompt, back when it was called a directory of files and not a folder, the command was simple. But not today! October 12, 2010Free Public Wi-Fi ExplainedA pretty good explanation of what that “Free Public Wi-Fi” thing is, which you may occasionally see when browsing for public wireless networks. It’s not what you think.
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October 11, 2010Binary MondayToday is 10-11-10. That’s a binary number! It’s 2-3-2 in decimal. But if you write the number as 101110 it’s the value 46. That’s ASCII for the period character. Hexadecimal it’s 0x2E. O, I love being a nerd!
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Text Mode Task ManagerHere’s a really nerdy blog post for you: There is a command line version of the Windows Task Manager. Unlike the Task Manager window, with all its graphical fun and folly, the command line task manager is all about business. October 8, 2010What Do You Do With a Second Monitor?I’ve put two monitors to work on my computers since 1988. That’s about how long the technology has existed, but the real question is: Why bother at all? October 6, 2010UPS and DownsThere was a power outage at my house last weekend. Three of my computers are on UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) systems. Two of them survived the blackout. October 5, 2010Internet Explorer Down to 50 PercentAfter nearly two decades of dominating the browser market, Internet Explorer is passing the 50 percent mark, on its way down. Firefox is holding steady. The big increase is coming from Google Chrome. October 4, 2010Text Editing With SwypeThe Swype keyboard is brilliant for quickly typing text, but you may think that it falls far short when it comes to editing that text. Au contraire, mon frere!
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