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Category Archives: Tools and Technologies
Thoughts on focus and gas pressure
Gas flow under the laser focus lens can strongly affect the focussed spot. Continue reading
What I did this year, part one
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
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
Video card ignores config preferences
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
summary of Dr. Gilbert’s testimony about Toyota runaway problem Continue reading
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Learning RoboHelp
Learning RoboHelp by taking a small existing doc and converting it to a Help project. Continue reading
Lessons Re-Learned
Backing up prior to making config changes can save much anguish. Continue reading
Adventures with Inkscape
Inkscape is a pretty nice graphic editor, but still has major limitations for Word (and OpenOffice) users. Continue reading
XP Mounted partitions
Mounting a partition or drive in an NTFS folder sounds useful, but there are drawbacks. Continue reading
OpenOffice vs MS Word
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