Tech Support: Old Style
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A plain computer illiterate guy rings tech support to report that his computer is faulty.
Tech: What’s the problem? User: There is smoke coming out of the power supply. Tech: [...]


Open Office Extensions
I much prefer Open Office to the Microsoft version. OK, yes it’s free, but if MS Office was such a good suite, I wouldn’t hesitate to shell out the bucks for it. It has some good ideas, and some good integration ideas, but it’s slow, and unwieldy, and that’s on a machine with an [...]
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