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For reasons mostly lost in the mists of time, we have had a scheduled job on an old Windows 2000 server that launches Internet Explorer with an ASP page. The ASP page does its thing and then closes the browser with a bit of JavaScript. Since the browser is IE 6 this all worked fine. This I’ve been running the same “SOHO” firewall at home since 2001. My trusty Netgear FVS318. A pretty solid unit and hasn’t ever let me down, but old enough not to be upgradeable. This week I decided to have a look around see what else is out there to use. See, while the FVS318 has certainly been One of the older home laptops finally died yesterday. Not totally unexpected, she’d been ailing for a while but she finally had to be put down. * moment of silence, please * The hard drive in that laptop was a 7200 RPM drive so I decided that it would be a nice upgrade on this Dell D600 Continue reading In Which I Finally Discover Clonezilla and GParted  July 21st, 2009 |  Tags: Clonezilla, disk, DriveImage-XML, free, GParted, open-source, utility |  5 comments At work I spend a lot of time and energy trying to do as much as possible while spending as little as I can. To that end, I’ve slowly been rolling out OpenOffice 3.0 to the desktops in place of our very old version of MS Office XP. For some folks that’s been working pretty Continue reading In Which I Finally Discovered OpenOffice Novell Edition Earlier this year I had discovered the joys of running 7-Zip with the multi threaded support. At the time, I saw some incredible time savings. Since then, however, the files being compressed have gotten much larger and I’m back to some inordinately long compression runs. As a quick refresher, 7-Zip is an open source file |
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