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VisiCalc, Excel, and The Rise Of The Spreadsheet
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Microsoft’s Lost Decade
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Mechanical Computing From Babbage To Bush
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Install node and npm on Ubuntu 18.04
Just a quick and dirty process for getting npm and nodejs running in an Ubuntu 18.04 environment on an AWS EC2 instance: curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash - ; npm --version ; sudo apt install nodejs ; node --version
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Simple Persona Template
I usually work on user personas in Sketch but I’ve recently started keeping way more graphical templates in Keynote and Power Point. So this morning whipped up a simple template for making personas in Keynote. Here’s both the .keynote and a .pptx.
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Some Basic Chromeos Troubleshooting (Under the hood)
Chromeos is one of the easier operating systems to use. It’s matured a lot over the years and there are now some great troubleshooting options under the hood. One thing I hate doing is mashing buttons without at least some semblance of proof of a hypothesis about what a problem is. In other words, I like to start troubleshooting with logs. For this let’s use Ctrl+Alt+F2 to bring up a virtual terminal. From there: A standard place for logs since Unix System V has been /var/log. In there are files such as libcros_log, which is where chromium dumps logs from services. /var/log/messages and subdirectories of /var/log/window_manager/chromeos-wm.LATEST and /home/chronos/user/log/chromoeos-wm.LATEST /home/chronos/user/log/chrome_log which…
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Apple: The Apple I computer to the ///
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Finding Nirvana With Apple Contacts
Contacts have been one of the hardest things to get… just… right… on the Apple platform for some time. This began back in the era of Now Contacts syncing with Apple’s Address Book applications and Palm Pilots and has persistently been a thorn in the side of many a tech, engineer, and consultant for a long time. The generations of contact pain flowed into different CRM systems and getting contacts on iPhones and Outlook. The result has been years of duplicate contacts found in silos that get out of sync when that iPad in the closet or the old MacBook that still has something we suddenly need gets fired up…
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MacAdmins 200: Rosetta 2 And All The Things