OK I found a sort of bummer thing about my idea to play around with Knoppix. While I can access all the files on my C drive even when I’m booted into Knoppix instead of Windows, I can’t edit any of my MS Office files in OpenOffice. They open as read-only, and when I try to edit anything I get an “access rights” error. HTML, text, JPG, and other files open and can be edited fine, however. So there’s still some things I can mess around with in there. 🙂
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By the way, as part of doing these staff interviews and research into ethics policies, I’m loving having access to a copy of OneNote to organize all of my notes and various other scraps of information. My only wish is that the other members of the team had OneNote as well so we could take…
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Much is being made, and said, about this news item. Seems that Google is going to start including press releases from corporations or lobbying groups in it’s Google News searches. My response? They always have been, indirectly. I work for an organization that puts out quite a few press releases during the course of the…
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A wife that keeps us straight. Think webloggers don’t have editors? You haven’t met my wife. “You sounded cocky today,” she announced. “I think you’re getting into ‘the royal we.’” Oh, great, everyone is a critic. “Hey dear, why don’t you write a weblog?” My wife does that too, the only difference is that she…
It never fails! Register at a job site, or try to get your resume out as much as possible and then just watch the number of “Work from Home” offers and “Great financial opportunity” spams come rolling in, including some that try to hide as legit responses to your resume. But they’re pretty easy to…