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Apple notebooks can run Linux reasonably well, so lots of software life left in them yet!
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Originally Posted By: Ladmo… I have several old Apple Mac laptops … see if they are worth keeping … go either Apple … Apple has announced that 2027 will be the last year for MacOS updates for Intel CPU Macs. The 2026 release this September will only
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Jump to new posts riocar.org photo gallery? by Roger @ Yesterday at 12:25

Not available any more. Did anyone grab a mirror? Specifically: I'm looking for pictures of Hugo and me in Ibiza, 2001 and 2002, probably in July.
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Jump to new posts Re: Simple User Interface for a Backup Program by Ladmo @ Yesterday at 04:38

Tony, I've been using Macrium for a few years now, and the only time I have an issue is when I disconnect the backup disk and forget to plug it in. I usually leave it plugged in. I am running Windows 10 With OpenShell and when I do need to recover a
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Jump to new posts Re: Simple User Interface for a Backup Program by tfabris @ 21/06/2025 18:22

I'm sure we've discussed this before... What other backup systems have you used before besides Macrium and Easeus? For example, have you used Windows Backup? I don't know if it's any good, I haven't been using it. What I'm using: MacOS: Using the
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Jump to new posts Simple User Interface for a Backup Program by tanstaafl. @ 20/06/2025 14:23

It seems to me that Backup and Restore programs like Macrium or EaseUS are so crammed full of features and rarely needed options that the user interface becomes so dauntingly over-complicated that a casual user such as myself literally cannot use the
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Jump to new posts Re: Supported USB Keyboards by tanstaafl. @ 19/06/2025 00:08

[quote=Fred M]Who's had luck with using one, and which model/brand did you use?[\quote] Probably not what you're looking for, but... I have a PS2 keyboard running through a PS2-->USB adapter that works for me. It's about 25 years old, a Gateway
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Jump to new posts Re: CSV editor? by tahir @ 17/06/2025 12:18

Originally Posted By: jmwkingMy son (recently graduated with a degree in data science and starting at Bloomberg this coming week - yay!) laughs at my use of Excel for anything. He cleans up data in R. Kids! My daughter just laughed at me when I m
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Jump to new posts Dead Centrals - some thoughts by Fred M @ 17/06/2025 02:49

Finally got around to putting two of my operational units online. Both of these have hard drives, and the other operational one (out of four) recently got an SSD upgrade - so it has no music loaded yet. But onwards with this tale: The first unit I b
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Jump to new posts Supported USB Keyboards by Fred M @ 17/06/2025 02:31

Who's had luck with using one, and which model/brand did you use? I have a Dell with embedded scroll wheel. 2006ish manufacture, I think? The only thing I can get it to do is enter backspace characters. Tried it to set the Network Configuration but
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Jump to new posts Re: CSV editor? by Tim @ 16/06/2025 13:53

Originally Posted By: K447Originally Posted By: jmwking… "R is a programming language for statistical computing and data visualization… …The inclusion of Fortran in the Wiki description took me back, waaaay back. Some of our Aero Models at wor