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Find capitalized words in Libreoffice or Openoffice

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 12:00:22 +0000

Sometimes you need a way to find capitalized words in Libreoffice or Openoffice. This can make it easier to figure out if the word needed to be capitalized, in the case of a poorly written or edited document. Then you can

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HP splits in two.

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:00:07 +0000

Don’t you feel like trying something new Don’t you feel like breaking out Or breaking us in two You don’t do the things that I do You want to do things I can’t do Always something breaking us in two

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Why I set work aside for a while before calling it done

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:00:18 +0000

A former supervisor called me the other day. He’s having quality control issues at his new gig, and quality control was one of the things I did when I was working for him. He wanted my insight. And he was

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Cringely takes on Ashton Kutcher’s movie about Steve Jobs

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 11:00:29 +0000

Mark Stephens, a.k.a. Robert X. Cringely, wrote last week about his disappointment in Ashton Kutcher’s movie Jobs, about the late Apple co-founder and CEO. Here’s the most important part of his quasi-review: [S]omething happened during Steve’s NeXT years (which occupy

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Cable connections are the last thing most people check…

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:33:10 +0000

Fed up with trying to host a network printer on a Windows 7 box on a mixed network, I broke down and bought a Jetdirect card for my aged HP Laserjet 4100. Don’t worry–used Jetdirect cards are cheap these days.

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How to find all the capitalized words in a Word document

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:50:19 +0000

I recently edited a long document whose original author capitalized way too many words. I needed to fix it. To speed up the process, I needed a way to find capitalized words in Word–all of them, and automatically. Then I could make a

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Shame on you, Medtronic

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:56:41 +0000

Insulin pumps marketed by Minneapolis-based Medtronic have a serious, life-threatening security flaw, and the company couldn’t care less. For these two reasons, this isn’t your typical security flaw, and Medtronic’s response–in 30 years, we’ve ever seen a problem that we

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Is it OK to sell gifts on eBay?

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:04:40 +0000

This is a followup to Friday's post. I really should let this go, but the journalist in me loves a great story, and this story has lots of twists and turns and weirdness.

I wrote on Friday about several people giving gifts to someone they thought was a disabled Gulf War II veteran who was getting into the hobby. As parts of his story began to fall apart, there was a falling out. For some people, the biggest slap in the face came when the gifts they had sent him showed up on eBay.

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Is this Apple a surprise to anyone?

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 02:49:59 +0000

So, Apple unveiled its new Imac today. (I'm sick of improper capitalization. We speak English, not C++.) To no one's surprise, I'm sure, it has a bigger screen. And I'm sure it's not too surprising that they crammed everything into the unit next to the screen. It's the next logical step, after the lamp-shaped Imac.

So how's it gonna do?

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Thinking on Compaq Presario upgrades

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 23:37:57 +0000

I'm going to be upgrading a Compaq Presario 7360 here pretty soon. It should be fun to shatter some of the myths surrounding recent Compaqs. It's a standard microATX PC, nothing more, nothing less. With a $20 replacement power supply (Newegg.com calls the form factor used by low-end eMachines, Compaq, HP, and Gateway PCs "mini ATX"), it'll handle any modern microATX motherboard.

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