My Television Picture Was Bouncing
Recently the picture on my television was “bouncing” or jittering up and down. Whacking it on the side or stamping your foot on the floor would make the pict...
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Eisenhower and Elmer’s
For some reason, I always thought that the standard portrait of President Eisenhower looked exactly like the guy on the label of Elmer’s glue. Then I looked...
Sysinternals and PageDefrag
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Dancing with Hobos
Today I had to deal with the problem that the official channels of buying software at my esteemed university were taking too long. This particular software ...
Simple Encryption of Files
Sometimes I generate a pdf or PostScript receipt of an online purchase which I then save somewhere on my computer. It’s nice to have around a record of my p...