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Screen grab – Microsoft Windows 7

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

How to grab a portion of the screen and save as an image file in Windows Seven

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Use-Snipping-Tool-to-capture-screen-shots

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Windows – Font installation

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeInstall.mspx

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Microsoft VPN access using Ubuntu

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

http://geekyprojects.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-vpn-connection/

http://geekyprojects.com/tutorials/how-to-use-the-real-windows-remote-destop-in-ubuntu/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VPNClient

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Disk drive formats and Operating systems

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

(How disk drive formats work with different operating systems…)

Particularly handy for getting OSX and Windows drives to communicate

FAT32

  • Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
  • No individual file larger than 4GB.

NTFS

HFS

  • Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
  • To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive
  • To Read HFS (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer

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Turn Off Unnecessary Windows XP Services

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

A great guide here

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