If you live in the Amarillo area and need computer help, swing by Amarillo Technical Helpers [AmaTechHelp.com]. They provide computer service and repair, custom software and website development, and network installations, among other things. Their page includes a handy “Tech Tip of the Week,” which gives you some good information that can save you money.

Currently they are offering a “PC Tune-Up” for $75 – 50% off regular price.

Want a free X-server? Cygwin too bloated and slow? Don’t want to spend money on XWin-32? Check out X-Deep/32. A freeware version was released in ’04 and can still be found. I found my copy here: [http://www.caslab.queensu.ca/LabHelp/XServer/]. The site gives you a good summary of how to configure X-Deep and use PuTTY to run X11 apps from a Linux box on your Windows PC.

To help you out with learning Vim, here’s Jonathan McPherson’s “Efficient Editing With vim”

[http://jmcpherson.org/editing.html]

If you’re a serious geek and you’ve never tried Vi (or Vim), you should read this article and then give it a shot. Give it a little while to grow on you, once you get used to it you won’t want to use anything else.

The article:
[http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html]

Get Vim:
[http://www.vim.org/]

“Graphical vi-vim Cheat Sheet and Tutorial”
[http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html]

This should tick some people off… A collection of “inspirational” posters for Linux distros.
[http://forums.invisionpower.com/lofiversion/index.php/t199177.html]

Take a walk down memory lane with a gallery of screenshots of GUI’s from 1984 to present (actually future, if you include Vista).
[http://r-101.blogspot.com/2006/08/evolution-of-desktops.html]

Microsoft has just announced that you can download Virtual PC for free from their site.
[http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx]

This site has command line references for Oracle 9i, Linux, Windows, and OSX. Pretty handy.
[http://www.ss64.com/index.html]

This is what I’ll do to it:
[http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/3a61ca25b29db010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html]