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Tagged With: software

Phone Spam

I get phone spam now and then, those calls where you say “hello” and then it’s a scratchy recording in Spanish saying you’ve won a free vacation or whatever. There’s a gazillion websites where you can report this stuff. One of the ones I like is Phone Spam Filter…I like to read through and see … Continue reading »

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Linux vs. Windows: Flipping?

For my non-techie friends: I swear I’ll stop obsessing about this soon. So if I’m running Linux in Windows courtesy of VMWare Player, why can’t I run Windows in Linux the same way? I know it’s possible, so maybe I can just make that my solution. I mostly need to run Paint Shop Pro 9 … Continue reading »

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Ubuntu in Windows

But of course…VMWare Player. Why didn’t I think of this before?

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Academic Prices on Software

I’ve been using OpenOffice since I got my new laptop toward the beginning of the school year. My old one had Microsoft Office but this didn’t; it would have cost more to get it. The Word and Excel equivalents are great, but I cannot figure out the PowerPoint equivalent to save my life! I keep … Continue reading »

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Two Techie Things

Thanks to mornhyland‘s mention of it via Twitter, I am now using Backpack. The requirements on the site say you need SP2 and Blackboard 7.2, but I don’t have SP2 and my school is running Bb 7.1, but it seems to work pretty much okay. I think the discussion board stuff isn’t getting downloaded, so … Continue reading »

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Securing Data

I will admit, there are some files on my computer that I don’t want anybody else to see. There’s nothing BAD in them exactly…just kind of embarrassing stuff. And oddly, they’re not files I expect to need on a regular basis – just notes that I might want to refer to at some point in … Continue reading »

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Annoying Blocks

My work has blocked MySpace for a long time. It’s no big deal, I don’t use MySpace much anyway. I set up my own copy of CGIProxy and it was serving me well. Today I noticed that apparently eBay and Photobucket have also been blocked, or are at least not coming up – but they … Continue reading »

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iPod Arrived

My 80GB Snazzy McSnazzersons Video iPod is waiting at home for me! They had said it would be there on the 19th, but I was kind of hoping it would turn up today. I wasn’t able to print the official “shipment release authorization” form due to a lack of a functioning printer, so I handwrote … Continue reading »

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Playstation Emulation

Oh my god! I got ePSXe to run on my laptop and I can play Playstation games on my laptop! I haven’t quite got the configuration right…sound effects play but music does not, which means Bust-A-Groove is much harder to play than on the PSX. But it handles import games (it’s the Japanese version of … Continue reading »

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Browse Happy with WordPress

Tonight :A: and I are babysitting the store for :MK&R:, who are at a baseball game. (The only other employee got free tickets to a Nine Inch Nails concert tonight, so he’s not available either.) We were reading books over on the couch, but some Real Live Customers™ showed up so we moved over to … Continue reading »

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