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Problem: Given an item in the Internet Archive, e.g. The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, you may be tempted to download the PDF for its exactness. Admirable! However, my e-reader is horribly slow for opening it and turning pages. I find slow page turning aggravating; it makes me lose my train of thought and strains my reading comprehension.
This extra work is well worth it for me.
See also PDF? I haven't tested it, but I wonder if "repairing" a PDF would also help with e-reader speed.
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Software > Web browsers >
Pale Moon >
The "default browser" setting for Pale Moon does not work. This is how to do it manually.
working
I have trust issues with all storage, but flash memory-based storage is particularly unreliable.
TL;DR - Stubby metal drives are a problem.
See also Testing USB storage
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Windows > Windows 10 >
Some commands from the cmd.exe prompt to run various GUI utilities.
(source unknown)
Just a quick review of Windows XP console utilities for Windows 10.
When a USB stick has been used for, say, a bootable Linux distribution, it usually cannot be re-used as a mass storage device by, say, Windows. These instructions are to wipe/reset a usb stick so it will work as it used to.
See also:
(largely untested)
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Windows > Windows XP >
To remove Microsoft DRM from Windows XP SP2 (*.dll's will not die)
(source unknown, untested)
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Windows > Windows XP >
Some commands from the cmd.exe prompt to run various GUI utilities.
(source unknown)
For Windows 10, see Windows 10 console utilities
Problem: Keep an air gapped (airwalled) computer updated via a sneakernet.
This project focuses specifically on Devuan, though it ought to apply any Linux distribution based on Debian.
See also: APT, the package management tool/system for Debian.
