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Looking for the perfect word processor

A long time ago when I owned an Atari ST, I considered the mighty Protext my favourite word processor. Every so often I do a search to see what happened to it, thinking it might one day move into Freeware territory. And lo, on my last search it has. And so I eagerly downloaded it […]

Only just started using gmail - I’m such a luddite

I’ve been getting sick of the Thunderbird spam filter - too much seems to get through. So I’ve moved over to gmail. What a great spam filter it has.
So now gmail goes off to my pop3 accounts. And I access gmail through imap in Thunderbird.
Any email worth keeping goes off to the local thunderbird folders. […]

1st steps with PCLinuxOS 2007

I had so much trouble trying to reinstall Windows XP on my IBMX23 that I thought I’d see how I get on with PCLinux.