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Care and Feeding of your Taurus SHO Has a lot of good stuff, recalls and notes, and user comments, good even if you drive own a regular Tuarus.
Repairing a Faulty window on your Taurus via DIY Network.
Lock and Latch Repair via Faqfarm.
Car Forums seems like a good place to go for regular forum advice. Use Google’s Site search option for the domain to find what you want.
My origional problem this time was, that the driver side door would not latch shut. I think there was some frozen spring or or stuck part. I WD-40′ed it and after getting the car really warm inside the problems seemed to be be solved. I was sticky a for a little while, but it always more or less closed.
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a few interesting open source software links
0 Comments | Posted by Dan in Computers, Technology, misc
Here are a few links to open source programs that I use. They may be a little rough around the edges but, I think in about 3-4 years Adobe’s impact amy be diminished.
Graphics-Sound-Video
The Gimp An open source image editor
Sodipodi Open source vector graphics program -still under dev
Inkscape Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics Editor
AutoTrace (for inkscape) Converts bitmap to vector graphics
Nvu Open source wysiwyg editor for html.
Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL license.
Lives is a Video Editing System
Dyne:bolic Instant bootable GNU/Linux CD (use with lives)
Audacity a free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
VSTs and other plugins for audacity.
Another link for free or open source VSTs.
Windows utilities
CDBurnerXP Pro Free cd-dvd burning software, works great have burned dvds with it.
ERUNT The Emergency Recovery Utility NT -also registry optimzer
BHODeamonBrowser helper Object Deamon -for IEx
Internet Utilities and Sites
bug-me-not Free logins for News and other web pages.
Macintosh
Macworld performance comparisons
Web Server Utils
AWStatsGives pretty good stats for web usage.
-Due to the number of spam comments comming from a compromised linux box in Holland, I am suspending comments on this article.
to add this story to digg or other place just click on the appropriate link at the bottom of the story. It’s a little old though. I’ll try to update it soon.
thanks
Dan
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interesting story on workers who don’t under stand physics.
0 Comments | Posted by Dan in misc
http://www.delta.edu/slime/cancrush.html
