Penguin Sightings

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Version: 0.7
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It’s always nice to be able to undo things. In real life, particularly, but that usually isn’t an option.

With computers, though, it is! Most software (particularly word processors and office-type stuff), nowadays, features an undo button; allowing you to revert things to the way they were before. But what if you don’t realize you’ve totally messed things up until a week later? After you’ve closed all applicable applications or permanently deleted files?

That’s when it’s time to click that system-wide undo button — and run Back In Time.
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Version: 6.10
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Those of you who read this site regularly, or pay attention to the dates at the end of each post, may have noticed that it’s been a while since I last posted anything here. This is, of course, due to many factors (I’ve been alternately very busy and very lazy, these past couple months); but one major one is the problems I’ve had with my computer. A while ago I upgraded my distribution to the latest version, only to receive a GRUB Error 21 upon rebooting. After hours of reading documentation, searching online, asking for help on IRC (Thanks, cathbard, MichMash, and EchoLynx!), and a couple reinstallations, I finally realized that all my problems were caused by a simple mistake in my GRUB menu.lst file, which was easily fixed.

But not before I had, somehow, corrupted my NTFS partition.
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If you’re anything like me, you probably find it quite easy to entirely forget things that you’re supposed to do in a day — particularly if your obligations take place in real life, and you’re using the computer. Perhaps you have a dentist’s appointment this afternoon, and just as you’re heading out the door to your doom, you decide to check your email one last time. Now it turns out one of your friends sent you a link to icanhascheezburger.com, and, whether intentionally or by accidental mouse reflexes, you click it. A little later you look at the clock — and realize you’ve just spent two hours looking at pictures of cute cats with hilarious captions, and completely missed your appointment. Considering the nature of the appointment, you might not be too chagrined; but another such incident could be disastrous.

Something must be done about this. You need some way to automatically remind yourself when things need to be done. And KAlarm fills the bill nicely.
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Version: 4.0 beta3
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There will undoubtedly come a time in your life when it becomes necessary for you to have a look at a .chm file — a Microsoft Windows compiled HTML help document. It’s happened to me multiple times. Nearly all Windows programs use the chm format for their documentation, and some eBooks are chm, too.

But these are Windows help files. What to do if you exclusively run Linux? . . . Fire up KchmViewer!
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