Author: sroot
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The Stainless Steel Rat (Harry Harrison)
Every now and then you read a book and think “this would make a good film”. This book would make a good film. I could even place half of Hollywood’s famous actors in different parts of it. The story is sci-fi but with all the best sci-fi I have read it could easily be applied…
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Automatic backups of my windows laptop
Backups are important. This tenet will be learned the first time you lose important files. Knowledge in itself is useless, it’s the application knowledge that reaps rewards. Having learnt many years ago the cost of losing data from a computer, I’ve become a dab hand at setting up backup routines for my laptop, desktops and…
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The Floating Madhouse (Alexander Fullerton)
A pre world war one novel of… well, little interest to me as it turned out. The ships are the early ironclads of the 1900’s and although there were sections of interesting detail the story as a whole just didn’t hold my attention. The setting was clever, a Royal Navy junior officer with Russian family…