Now that I am retired I have moved away from needing “real” MS Office suite tools. I do have MS Office 365 installed on my home “office” computer but I also have two equivalent “suites” of office software available. I am NOT doing any bashing. I like MS Office and they have a free on line Writer version in Windows Essentials. But it only runs in the Windows operating system. I use my Linux box...
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Zombie
A backup saved my butt again. It is also the golden rule of computer data and programming. Save, save, save. I was just working here on my Ramblin’ Dan (.org) blog. I contribute to it quite often as I consider it my base of operations. It’s like a personal diary. I am not sure exactly what I did wrong, I had several things on my computer desktop open at the same time. I was poking...
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I am very pleased with the operation of WIN 10 on my “Office” box. (My computer) Most of it is due to the upgrades I made in the video card and a couple of 1 Terabyte hard drives. The HD’s have 64 MB buffers and fast 7400 rpm platters. Mostly it’s the video card that made the biggest difference as far as hardware, However the WIN 10 gets some praise as a snappy OS. The...
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“I walked through the valley of the shadow of WIN 10 OS death, but I felt no evil: for my help files are with me and my rod (USB boot stick) and a staff of support (help) writers, comfort me.” I wish it really was as easy as that sounds. I almost made a fatal error doing an update to my new WIN 10 install on my “office” computer. I have been hearing a low grinding noise when...
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