mark on July 31st, 2009

10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day

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mark on July 30th, 2009

WinDirStat is a free utility that displays an intuitive, graphic map of your hard disk; you can see instantly where the hogs are. The map is arranged such that directories nest neatly within rectangles, and you can zoom in on individual directories. In addition, the regions are color-coded and grouped per file type; don’t be surprised to see media files taking up most of the real estate.

Very useful and fun to use; highly recommended.

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mark on July 30th, 2009

I know of a number of casual users who would benefit from the ability to produce their own PDF files. So here is a fairly detailed guide to installing and using the open source tool PDF Forge.

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admin on July 28th, 2009
With this post, I re-launch my blog in the wake of Pam Slim’s Escape from Cubicle Nation Chicago workshop. My orientation right now is very much experimental; an effort to define myself and identify my target audience. This blog will be a mixture of what interests me and what I would expect to interest my audience, so please comment freely whenever you are so moved.