The Technic Alley

I have been using VNC server on Solaris, and a viewer on Windows for a while and have been able to copy text from the VNC client to Windows easily. I have also been able to copy text from Windows to an Emacs *scratch* buffer, sometimes, but that’s about it. I recently started using VNC [...]

I was using Turbo Tax Home and Business 2007 and wanted to send the final PDF to a tax consultant for some review. I wanted to create an encrypted PDF from Turbo Tax; I couldn’t find a way to do this. Then I figured that an alternative would be to “ZIP” the unencrypted PDF, and [...]

Do you own a smartphone or do plan to get one? What do you plan to do with it? Why did you consider getting one?
A few years ago, I used to use the Palm based Visor Neo Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), where I used to store my address book, notes, calendar, etc. I used to [...]

I have been using the Norton Ghost 9.0 for a couple of years now. When I started using it, I used to connect an external USB harddisk to my PCs and backup frequently. In some cases, I tried backing up data from one PC to a shared drive on another PC (see Strategies For Backing [...]