As part of the weekly maintenance, when I run one of the week’s backup sessions, I defrag the hard drive. Let me first say that there are many people who do not defrag their hard drives. I fall into the ‘do defrag’ group for one major reason and two minor ones.
The [...]
There is a police matter that points to a loophole in the law. A man was charged with ‘upskirting’ - and his lawyer says that women do not have expectation of privacy:
“A lawyer for a Florida man who walked behind a woman and snapped a photo up her skirt with his cell phone says [...]
Book sellers and authors must dread numbers like this. Approximately twenty five per cent of the U.S. population have not read a book in the past year:
“…Analysts attribute the listlessness to competition from the Internet and other media, the unsteady economy and a well-established industry with limited opportunities for expansion.”
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The dual monitor display that I have for my desktop has spoiled me. It really makes working so much easier - and having the two screens decreases numerical errors significantly. I was bemoaning the fact that I am not able to have more than one screen, while on the laptop, when a ‘techno-geek’ [...]
One’s initial thoughts on buying a laptop are not about how it will someday end up in a landfill. However, that is what Fujitsu has in mind:
“Fujitsu is offering a laptop with a biodegradable chassis made out of plastic derived from cornstarch.
Traditional plastics are manufactured from non-renewable resources such as oil, coal and [...]
A picture of a gun, drawn by a thirteen year old student, was enough to result in a school suspension:
“QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. — A 13-year-old student who drew a picture of a gun on his homework at Payne Junior High School in Queen Creek was initially suspended for at least five days, but his father [...]
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