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By Perry, 4 years and 5 months ago

Worth reading this morning This OP Ed piece in to...

Worth reading this morning

This OP Ed piece in today's New York Times, Behind the Rise of Google Lies the Rise in Internet Credibility makes the point, «The Web has moved from the periphery of a good researcher's awareness in 1998 to the very center of it in 2004. « This is a short read and in my opinion well-worth your time because it may help expand your thinking about how to use Google productively in your own experience of the Internet. Another point this article makes is that the rise of Google makes portal services, like AOL or Yahoo, much less relevant or necessary.

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By Perry, 4 years and 5 months ago

Useful Resources about Windows XP The other night...

Useful Resources about Windows XP

The other night my friend Paul asked «What is Virtual Memory?» because he had begun to receive messages from his system that his Virtual Memory was low. As I researched the question for him, I came across this article by Alex Nichol, an MS-MVP, Virtual Memory in Windows XP, and I forwarded him the link so that he could understand what it is and what he might do about his issue. However, that search prompted me to do some further exploring of the links in that article, which lead me to some really useful articles that I though you too might find useful.

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By Perry, 4 years and 6 months ago

Backing up your data with Windows XP This morning...

Backing up your data with Windows XP

This morning I ran across The Elder Geek while searching the net. It looks like a real find, a resource well worth bookmarking. In particular, I found the following link of interest because my buddy, Paul, has been struggling to find a reliable and satisfactory solution for backing up his data for quite some time.

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By Perry, 4 years and 6 months ago

My, My how Google has changed things! In this art...

My, My how Google has changed things!

In this article, Search For Tomorrow from the Washington Post, Joel Achenbach observes: «Only now in the bright light of the Google Era do we see how dim and gloomy was our pregooglian world.» My friend Paul Moor pointed this article out to me yesterday, and I found it fascinating. It's hard to disagree with anything Mr. Achenbach says about Google. I find it positively indespensible almost every day. For instance, yesterday when replying to an email from Phil Petty, I wanted to refer to Michael Dukakis's running mate and I couldn't recall his name (it was Lloyd Bentsen), so I just typed «Dukakis» and had my answer in no time.

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By Perry, 4 years and 6 months ago

Another warning from Microsoft Although it's gett...

Another warning from Microsoft

Although it's getting to be routine, Microsoft has once again said in this article: «people who use its operating system software must patch their computers yet again, or their PC's will be vulnerable to attacks that could cede control to hackers.» They call the flaw «critical» which is the highest level of vulnerability. I guess it's time to drift on over to their Web site and grab the patch.

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By Perry, 4 years and 6 months ago

HTML for Phil This entry is prompted by my friend...

HTML for Phil

This entry is prompted by my friend Phil's phonecall last night. He wanted to know how I was able to cause any word to become a link to some web site. That gave me the idea to give him a poor man's explanation of HTML tags here in this brief article, even though I have already suggested that if he'd just put HTML or «HTML tags» into the Google search engine, he'd get thousands of links to many well-thought-out tutorials on HTML as a result.

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By Perry, 4 years and 6 months ago

A productive weekend As I prepare to return to wo...

A productive weekend

As I prepare to return to work today, I look back at the short visit Jeff, Dustin and Carole made to Knoxville over the weekend with great satisfaction and a lot of gratitude. They all chipped in willingly and joined Mike in getting my house prepared for the new carpeting that is coming later this Spring. The house, that looks and sounds bare now because the floors are down to the wood and they echo when you walk on them, seems bigger because furniture that was stuffed into a few rooms is more evenly distributed throughout the house. And my spare bedroom in the basement is taking shape as an office. There's still a lot to do as this Spring rennovation progresses, but it was a satisfying weekend to see us get this far.

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By Perry, 4 years and 6 months ago

I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter...

I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter ...

Imagine yourself sitting in your favorite easy chair with the Sunday newspaper and a pair of scissors and leafing through the pages, clipping out articles that interest you as you scan each page and laying them aside to be read later. If you can envision that picture, you'll understand a strategy I've begun to use when surfing the Internet.

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  • Cast in a new role:
    • David Steele: Perry: Last week when I was in Las Vegas I had the opportunity to see your house. It is gorgeous! I understand it is on the National Register of Historic Places and the fact you can walk to work each day to our business incubator on campus will be wonderful. I have absolutely fallen...
    • Jeff Nelson: Wow!!! I am tickled to death about this opportunity that has come your way at this time in your I really should be helping you with all of the particulars that go along with such a move, but find myself trying to keep up with the train of my life as it moves down...
    • Perry: Thank you, Tom. I'd welcome your visit if it works out.
    • Tom Wright: Perry: Didn't realize it was for 2 years--which doubles my chances I will get out there to see you. My friend Steve lives in Santa Fe and has extended an invite, so things are looking very New Mexico-ey for the future. Best of luck on this and everything.
    • Perry: Thank you, everyone, for your good wishes. In particular, to you Tish about the award you've given me, I can only quote Jack Benny who said, "I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either." ;-) Also thanks for pointing out the error you get when posting...
    • Tish: Perry, I'm getting a long list of code errors when commenting. You may want to check that out.
    • Tish: Congratulations, Perry! I hope everything goes well for you! :) Btw, I have presented you with a very well deserved award over on my blog. :)
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    • Lee Collier: I know this is an old thread, came up in google as I'm searching for an answer to an Ubuntu boot problem. Just had to mention: Perry - the reason that Gutsy is detecting your sound card in VMware but not running natively is that, as far as I know, VMware presents a very...

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