Category: technology
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Ubuntu: Enabling USB Support in Virtualbox
While Ubuntu does about 95% of what I need my OS to do, there are a few things it doesn’t do (or at least doesn’t do well). I occasionally need to recognize the text of documents. There are a few programs for this for Linux OSes, but they all suck – really, they do. Since…
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Ubuntu: How to Automount Internal NTFS Drives
For most new users of Linux, automounting an internal NTFS drive is probably not a concern as you’ll just have one hard drive and it will be reformatted to either EXT3 or EXT4. But for people who dual boot Windows and Linux, like I do, being able to mount the NTFS formatted drives in your…
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Goodbye Windows (mostly). Hello Linux!
After about three years of toying with each new release of Ubuntu Linux, the latest version, Jaunty Jackalope 9.0.4, sold me. It’s about 95% there, and that’s enough. So here’s the rundown of what works and what doesn’t… I installed the latest version on five computers: 2 custom built desktops, a Lenovo laptop, a Compaq…
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how to open Google Reader links in a new tab without changing focus
If you’re a fan of Google Reader, like I am, that means it is now part of your life – something you’re not sure you could live without. I use Google Reader pretty much every day to read the news and keep up with the blogs that I can (mostly family, some friends). I love…
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OpenOffice Macro to fix UTF-8 and iso-8859-1 encoding issues (–, —, â€, “, Â)
I’m not exactly sure why it is happening (probably cut and paste issues), but occasionally I get some encoding errors on my blog. Quotes and dashes end up as: –, —, â€, “. You can see an example in this photo: According to this website, this is an issue of browsers not playing nice using…
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new video!
A little less than a year ago I posted footage of a shuttle launch filmed in Titusville, which is about as close as you can get to a shuttle launch for free. Well, one more perk of living in Florida is that it is narrow enough that you don’t actually have to go to Cape…
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Sony HDV “AV/C Subunit” Error
I have a Sony HDR-HC1 camcorder that I use for shooting video. It’s a great camera with lots of features. The only problem I ever really have with it is trying to get the HD video off it and onto my computer for editing (getting SD video off is easier). It usually boils down to…
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have you done your part?
If you haven’t downloaded Firefox 3 yet, you still have a couple hours to participate in their Guiness World Record setting attempt at the most software downloads in 24 hours. We’ve downloaded a new copy for each of our 6 computers:
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software everyone should know about
I run into people all the time who are fighting technology. Not everyone spends as much time in front of a computer as I do; and not everyone has the time I do to fidget with computers. But I think people could save themselves hours of frustration and thousands of dollars if they just knew…
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recommended software page
I added a page on here with some software recommendations. I talk to a lot of people who don’t know about this software, so I figured I’d put it on my website for anyone interested. If you have any suggestions I missed or I don’t know about, share!