I don’t really get how there are a bunch of different passwords in Ubuntu so when I decided to change my password to something a little less arduous to type, I ran into some problems because I ended up changing my password for some things but not for others and...
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Stop Delayed Shutdown in Ubuntu 9.04
I meant to write up lots of things about using Ubuntu after I installed in on my laptop. Unfortunately (well, fortunately for me), everything worked fine, so I didn’t have anything to write about! I just upgraded to 9.04 and have had some problems with my computer seeming slow sometimes....
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I am a complete newbie in the Unix/Linux world. I used some Unix workstations at university, but I never really had a very clear understanding of how they worked, so I think I can safely downgrade myself to “absolute beginner”. I have decided to jump into the world of Linux...
Continue reading...How to Embed Picasa Web Album Slideshows into WordPress.com Blogs
As an addendum to the post that I just wrote about adding a slideshow to your website, I would like to add some more information about adding a Picasa slideshow to a site that is hosted on http://www.wordpress.com. It is not possible to embed Picasa slideshows into websites that are...
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One of my friends asked me how to add a slideshow like the one above to a website. Here is what I told her. 1. Get a gmail account (http://www.gmail.com) if you don’t already have one. If you think that you will do this often for the particular website, make...
Continue reading...Simple Macro to Delete Two Blank Worksheets and Move One Worksheet to Another (Master) File
Here is a macro that will delete Sheet 2 and Sheet 3 from one file and then move the remaining worksheet from that file into another file called master.xls. Hope someone finds this useful one day. Sub deletemove() ‘ deletemove Macro ‘ Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl+l Sheets(“Sheet2”).Select ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Delete Sheets(“Sheet3”).Select ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Delete ActiveSheet.Select...
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Today’s problem: I had a large collection of Excel worksheets (around 200 or so) that were all in separate files and I wanted to merge them all together into one master file. (To be clear, I needed the resulting file to contain all of the 200 worksheets in order —...
Continue reading...Vista Control Panel Disappears and Can't Print
One of my colleagues had a very strange problem with her computer (Dell Optiplex 755 running Windows Vista). First of all, she found that she couldn’t print anything this morning, despite being able to print in the past. So, she called me over to see if I could figure out...
Continue reading...Keeping a Record of Changes when Copying and Pasting
The “track changes” function of Microsoft Word is a very useful tool for editors and people who work on documents in teams. With it you can keep a record of who made what changes and when they were made. If only one person is working on a particular document at...
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As I mentioned earlier, I have recently started using Office 2007. So far, it hasn’t wowed me, but I don’t really have complex needs in the word processing department, so I guess I haven’t really fully tested its abilities. The main thing that I need a word processor to be...
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