Category Archives: Tools and Technologies

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Thoughts on focus and gas pressure

Posted on October 20, 2016 by jay

Gas flow under the laser focus lens can strongly affect the focussed spot. Continue reading →

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What I did this year, part one

Posted on December 8, 2014 by

Recently, I worked at Magelllan GPS for about six months. I got to brush up on my FrameMaker skills, and learned to use InDesign pretty well. Also learned something about crop and bleed. And learned something about Android, BTLE, and … Continue reading →

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Vintage Computing

Posted on January 1, 2013 by

Time to clean out some of the junk/old computer stuff. I looked around, and it looks like there’s a bit of activity in old computers and parts. So, maybe I can make a few dollars and save some of this … Continue reading →

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Video card ignores config preferences

Posted on July 19, 2010 by

Video card reverts to analog output if digital monitor not detected at startup. Continue reading →

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Toyota Runaway: How it Might Happen

Posted on March 15, 2010 by

summary of Dr. Gilbert’s testimony about Toyota runaway problem Continue reading →

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Learning RoboHelp

Posted on March 4, 2010 by

Learning RoboHelp by taking a small existing doc and converting it to a Help project. Continue reading →

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Lessons Re-Learned

Posted on January 16, 2010 by

Backing up prior to making config changes can save much anguish. Continue reading →

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Adventures with Inkscape

Posted on December 14, 2009 by

Inkscape is a pretty nice graphic editor, but still has major limitations for Word (and OpenOffice) users. Continue reading →

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XP Mounted partitions

Posted on December 14, 2009 by jay

Mounting a partition or drive in an NTFS folder sounds useful, but there are drawbacks. Continue reading →

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OpenOffice vs MS Word

Posted on July 10, 2009 by

When saving to Word format, a documents using advanced features may break because Word doesn’t directly support those exact features. Some features Word doesn’t support: Xref to contents of text box. Xrefs/bookmarks with spaces in names. Tries to fix by … Continue reading →

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