This is a subject I haven’t discussed in Ramblin’ Dan. I have been an amateur radio operator for almost 40 years. I was first licensed as a Novice in 1969. I was permitted to operate a 75 watt (input) crystal controlled transmitter, Morse radio code only. My call was WN8EHS. I am now W5EHS. Just the year before I became a “ham”, I had come off active duty in the Navy and married my sweetheart...
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Progress Report V64
Most of my major (32 bit) software has been installed over in the Vista64 OS. That is all my Microsoft office and accounting programs and all of my Adobe suites. Also a few other apps I consider important such as WS_FTP pro from Ipswitch, and a new version of CMS IntelliCAD 6.6 Pro. The CMS IntelliCAD is the only 32 bit software so far that hasn’t let me install in both 32 and 64 “worlds”...
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I have been playing with my home office computer. I discovered a $60.00 (yes sixty) Seagate 500 Gig SATA internal drive when I went to the computer store (dangerous place) for some CD cases. It was the Saturday after black Friday. At first I passed it up thinking, “Wow! That’s a good price,” Especially when the standard price on the box was $119.95. On the way out, I passed the display and Mr. “T” (Temptation)...
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This is “Black Friday” but I am not out spending my meager salary on all those bargains! What I actually did was a little house keeping on my personal home office computer. Anyone reading this should heed this bit of advice. Computers need their guts blown out at least once a year. Sounds a bit drastic but what I am saying is nothing but a little dusting and cleaning. Computers get hot inside so there...
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