General Archive
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Moving From Windows 7 to Ubuntu 11.10 – Day 3
Posted on October 26, 2011 | 2 CommentsOn Day 2, we converted out Microsoft Outlook .pst files and imported them into Thunderbird, found LibreOffice Writer and Calc as replacements for Microsoft Word and Excel and connected to... -
It’s Cool to be Square – When Dollars are Involved
Posted on October 25, 2011 | No CommentsSquare. Four sides, equal in length at 90 degree angles. Well sort of. In real life, it is a service that uses a device that is a cube. Does that... -
Moving From Windows 7 to Ubuntu 11.10 – Day 2
Posted on October 25, 2011 | 1 CommentOn Day 1, I took the plunge from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 11.10. We walked through installation, email, calendaring and skype. Today we’ll tackle the following: Convert Outlook archive .pst’s... -
Moving From Windows 7 to Ubuntu 11.10 – Day 1 Part 2
Posted on October 24, 2011 | No CommentsIn part 1 of this series, I took you through my experience taking the plunge in an attempt to free myself from Windows 7 and move to Ubuntu 11.10. Previously... -
Moving From Windows 7 to Ubuntu 11.10 – Day 1 Part 1
Posted on October 21, 2011 | No CommentsSo after my recent exploits once again playing with Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 betas, I decided to see if I could make the switch from Microsoft Windows 7 to Ubuntu... -
Lytro – Snap now, Focus later
Posted on October 20, 2011 | No CommentsIf you like photography and gadgets, I came across one that I found intriguing, the Lytro no-focus camera. Yes, I said no focus. The concept is that the Lytro, in... -
Ubuntu – Why is archive manager opening .docx files?
Posted on September 28, 2011 | 3 CommentsI’m sure others have posted similar but today I had an odd issue appear after updating my Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 laptop. I double-clicked on a Microsoft Word 2007+ .docx... -
Moving Outlook .PST emails to Thunderbird on Ubuntu Linux
Posted on September 27, 2011 | 3 CommentsDuring a recent disagreement between Windows 7 64-bit and my internal hard drive, I made a change. First, Windows 7 lost and the hard drive kept its life. The change...
