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Used Linux Terminal Server Clients

December 9th, 2011 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

A few years ago a company was selling off some of their old thin clients. We purchased a whole bunch of them for about $50.00 each for the non-profit I was working for and started using them to connect to our Windows Server 2000 and 2003 Terminal Servers. They worked really well for us connecting [...]

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Find International Country Codes for Phone Calls

December 9th, 2011 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

One of the challenges with having friends, family and co-works all around the world is figuring out how to call them. Although I love to use Skype for most of my international voice and video calls, occasionally an actual phone call is needed. I came across a site that tells you all the telephone country [...]

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Looking at Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP)

December 9th, 2011 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

We’ve been playing around with the Linux Terminal Server Project for a while now and Some who I used to work with managed to get it up and running on a few different Linux boxes! At the time we were running a primarily Windows Terminal Server network, which has been working really well for us [...]

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OverDrive Media Console Incompatible with New Apple iOS 5

October 25th, 2011 by Bill Hutchison · 8 Comments

Overall my experience with the new Apple iOS 5 on my iPod Touch has been a positive one. All of the main applications on the device are compatible and the device is still quite responsive and snappy. There is one problem that I have however… OverDrive Media will not transfer my audio books to the [...]

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Help Prospective Mothers in Papua New Guinea

May 6th, 2011 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

Sometimes it’s amazing how much you can help, through something so little… In rural Papua New Guinea one in seven women die in childbirth! Yep, that’s right, 1 in 7 women die in childbirth! That’s a shocking statistic to say the least. To give birth to a child a mother has a 15% chance of [...]

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Convert vcards to csv in bulk

October 26th, 2009 by dcouper · 1 Comment

There are several ways to convert vcards to csv on the web – but most only do one card at a time. I recently needed to transfer about 400 vcards into one csv file for a mail-merge – so one at a time was not too helpful! I found this tool at http://www.inter-help.com/toolbox/aaron that will [...]

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