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Backing Up Files to Prevent Data Loss

Posted on March 22, 2022March 22, 2022

It took years to figure this out and it’s not free, but I don’t ever lose files anymore. Not losing files is worth the $240 I pay for these services…

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Replacing Paragraph Breaks with Double Paragraph Breaks in LibreOffice Writer

Posted on March 15, 2022March 15, 2022

Here’s the problem I was facing. I had a document with a lot of text that I had to analyze. The text had been copied from a spreadsheet and pasted…

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LibreOffice Calc – Conditional Formatting

Posted on March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

I haven’t used this feature of spreadsheet software as much as I probably should, but I have a spreadsheet I have been working with a lot lately and conditional formatting…

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How To Fix PDF Forms Not Showing Contents in Okular (Linux)

Posted on January 18, 2022January 18, 2022

I have had this problem happen twice now, and I don’t know exactly what is causing it, but I found a solution. Here’s the situation… I received a PDF that…

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Plex Playlists with Amazon Echo

Posted on September 19, 2021September 19, 2021

My music library is stored on my NAS. On my primary desktop at home, I mount the music folder and use Clementine to listen to my music. Everywhere else, I…

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LibreOffice – address label merge (from spreadsheet)

Posted on September 14, 2021September 15, 2021

I’ve been using LibreOffice for over a decade and have only had to do an address label merge twice in that time – both of which have been in the…

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R – Finding and Setting Working Directory

Posted on August 27, 2021August 27, 2021

R, like many software programs, likes to have a folder or directory on your computer to operate in. When you start R, depending on how you start it and whether…

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Launching HandBrake 1.4.0 in Kubuntu 21.04

Posted on August 22, 2021August 22, 2021

The fine folks at HandBrake have updated their software and distribution system to a Flatpack approach. Their Flatpack for Linux is based on Gnome, not KDE, which is fine, but…

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LibreOffice Calc – VLookup with dates

Posted on August 22, 2021August 22, 2021

In a different post on this blog, I showed how to use Vlookup to match lists. Someone commented on that post and indicated that it didn’t work with dates. It…

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R – changing mirror in RStudio

Posted on August 19, 2021August 19, 2021

CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network) is a distributed set of servers that allow people to download the various R packages from a bunch of servers that are all “mirrors”…

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