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Entries from November 2007

Another Paper to Write

by Matthew Smith · November 7th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m missing in action this week because in addition to the rote work of the week, I’m attempting to assemble my thoughts on Luke T. Johnsons’ book Scripture and Discernment. If you couldn’t figure it out, this paper is for my Christianity class (as was the last one) and I’ll be posting it up once [...]

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Categories: General

Windows Scripting and VBScript

by Matthew Smith · November 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments

As you may (or may not) know, I do IT work at a small local school. When I am not busy solving teachers’ problems, I am tasked with performing various maintenance tasks on these computers. Almost every system that I deal with runs Windows 2000 (the rest run XP or 2003 Server) and these are [...]

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Categories: Technology

Simple File Backup/Sync Software

by Matthew Smith · November 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments

In his last post, Chappie mentioned some “nifty software” that came with his new WD hard drive that allowed him to sync folders on his external drive with those on his internal hard drive. I’m sure that the software that came with his drive works wonderfully, but I’m also betting that it’s proprietary WD software [...]

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Categories: Products

Back That [Data] Up

by Michael Chappell · November 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments

A while back, a post was written mentioning the ever-present danger of crashing a hard driving and losing all of your most precious files. In the past week or so, I have noticed that my computer has decided it would rather think for itself than do what I command. Actually, it is showing signs of [...]

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