Some Notes on the Machines

I don’t like to keep all of my eggs in one basket. Here are two sources of books I have used with excellent results:

thriftbooks.com

alibris.com

This is great, once you have a PayPal account:

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_ship-now

This tool:

wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/

did the job very well.

Right here:

https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/download/

Try this:

https://www.7digital.com/

I imagine some readers are aware, and probably many suspect, that Wikipedia editorship has been taking large numbers of valuable articles out of commission in the last year or two, and refusing publication of many others, for widely questioned reasons. Happily, well-equipped others have noticed, and have set up a replacement:

http://everipedia.org

It has everything Wikipedia does (Wikipedia licensing requires permission to copy), plus more and more.

Rather nicely set up:

http://glassdoor.com

A page has been recently deleted from the UPS web site, which included:

If I connect to UPS servers through a firewall, are there any known issues?

Because the response from the UPS server may show as unsolicited to your firewall software, you may need to configure your firewall software to accept messages from our unique range of UPS IP address ranges: “207.24.0.*”

At this writing, an in-site search on http://ups.com and a Google search still brings up the page reference, but the page is gone.

Today I found it ridiculously difficult to download IE11 on a Windows 7 box which had not seen updates in a while. If you suffer so, browse here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/18520/download-internet-explorer-11-offline-installer

Offline installers in many languages.

Google stores all of your historical Google searches, YouTube video searches and views, and lots of other interesting things. Here’s a new tool to control this.

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity