By epb on January 30, 2012
So I go off to search for a part (specifically a replacement battery for a laptop) but I don’t have the thing with me since it’s not mine, I’ve just been tasked with finding a replacement. (So, no stickers for me!) As a last ditch effort before contacting the owner, I go googling and grab [...]
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By epb on September 25, 2010
Ran across a problem where I had a bunch of emails in Outlook’s msg format that could not be read (due to lack of Outlook) on someone’s computer. Did some digging and found msgconvert.pl. Did the job handily with only a few quirks. Snag it at http://www.matijs.net/software/msgconv/
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By epb on May 21, 2010
This week I was working on a computer that was having problems with it’s hard drive. I could get it to start once, and then it would fail to start up again. As you can imagine, the drive had some bad sectors, but the people I was fixing this for could not afford another $60 [...]
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