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OneNote

I am thinking Microsoft OneNote may be a better way to maintain my rambling thoughts for this blog than writing using a Word document. My blog Word documents have usually been more like a text note than a truly formatted Word document. OneNote may be a far better tool. I won’t have a directory full of random Word docs. OneNote saves everything internal without using a save button. Another benefit is OneNote can live in...

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A Driving Need?

I have a home computer network. Duh! That should not come as a surprise. I have written many times about my computer escapades. I have had a personal network from the time the components were first available. My router/switch has a USB port where I can connect an external hard drive. I have never used the feature as I had no real need for a slow external hard disk on the network. That changed yesterday....

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AWS, a Good Choice for an ISP?

More of my thoughts on moving to the cloud. I have my new ecommerce store software running on its own instance of a web server in the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud system.  My website is but a mere speck of fly poop compared to the power users on the service. I am pleased that there is consideration for the little guys like me. There are many ways to go and grow in the AWS...

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A Really Big Byte

I launched off into exploring the “cloud” as well as trying to understand a new piece of software and discover how it needed to be set up. What I really did was take a very big byte (bite) of new learning experience. I have been running a crash course on how to set up a web server in the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud. First let me say I picked AWS from several good options...

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