Eric Arthur Blair, more commonly known by the pen name George Orwell, was very much against totalitarian governments. His writings reflect that, especially 1984 and Animal Farm. In addition to being opposed to bad governments, Orwell was opposed to bad writing. He gave 12 tips to better writing in his essay, Politics and the English [...]

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It seems like a trendy thing to do these days. Drop Windows and switch to Linux. Asian nations are trying to switch to open source, and so are China, Brazil, and Norway. Now Cuba is trying to drop proprietary software.

Cuba wants to switch away from Windows because they don’t trust Microsoft and the U.S. government. [...]

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Version 6 of Internet Explorer had an easy to use FTP browser. All that you had to do was enter the FTP site in the address bar and then hit enter. You would get an error message and after this dialog box is closed, open the File menu and select Login As. Then enter your [...]

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I write a great deal of software documentation and I use screen captures to make the document easier to read and look at. People tend to avoid reading large amounts of text. Placing images, links, or tables in the document tends to make it less threatening.

I normally use Corel Capture which comes with the Corel [...]

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This happens to everyone at one time or another. You go on vacation and when you come back, you forget all of the passwords on your computer. Well, I only forgot one password: the login for Webmin.
I failed logging in several times and then Webmin blocked my IP. Getting localhost blocked isn’t a good thing [...]

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