The tutor shares, to him, a very useful find. Writing an email, I often want to check something else – possibly another email. Sometimes, when I’ve gone to do so, I’ve lost what I was writing (or at least, that’s …
Home computer use: Windows Live Mail 2011: opening a draft to edit Read more »
The tutor brings up a useful command for Windows. The 2015-2016 academic year over, I’m looking into the Windows 10 upgrade. Today I began gathering information: For example, when was Windows 7 installed on this computer? Searching the internet, a …
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The tutor offers a way to view your history when it’s not showing. I love Firefox; it’s the browser I use with my Linux (Ubuntu) computers. Yesterday I clicked, at the top, History. A drop-down menu appeared, showing websites I …
Web browsers: Firefox: Show All History not quite working? Read more »
The tutor digs into a topic that has unnerved him for years. Once in a while, I get a serious email from an unknown party; of course, it goes to junk. However, I check the junk to decide if any …
The tutor brings up another great find from the Windows Start menu. I’ve rediscovered the Windows 7 calculator. It can be opened by typing calc.exe into the search box (Start Menu), or else at the Command Prompt. It’s also available …
Windows 7: accessories: the calculator: standard deviation Read more »
The tutor tells a useful hint he learned from unix.com. Sometimes, searching a directory in Linux, the results are so numerous that the user is plunged to the end, not being able to see the early or middle entries. There …
The tutor continues talking about the usb hard drive he bought perhaps six years ago. Back in my Oct 27 post I described a peripheral hard drive bought around 2009, mentioning it was about $50 at the time, and stored …
External drives: finding unrecognized space (or perhaps even a drive itself) Read more »
The tutor promotes his equal-opportunity point of view towards computing. I use Microsoft’s programs: witness my post from Sept 28 about using Excel to calculate IRR. However, some of my computers aren’t Windows; rather, they’re Linux. I don’t have a …
Spreadsheets: internal rate of return (IRR) on LibreOffice Calc Read more »