Jeff McNeill

XCOPY was always my friend, it has some great memory management features. However it required scripting to get anything like a mirror of a directory structure, and it didn’t have shortcut features of copying only the changed part of a file.
Enter Robocopy (Wikipedia), yay! This is a Microsoft command-line utility (free) that comes in the [...]

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For someone who wantes a minimum (low-cost) computing environment with Windows, here are the recommendations.Total about $1,600 with shipping and tax. Have to shop at Amazon, Dell, and Ebay to get the best prices (but it is worth it for the savings, cannot get what you want at one place and cannot get best prices [...]

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Virtual assistants (VAs) are not physically co-located. They can be down the street or on another continent. They help people get stuff done, both professionally, and personally.
Small Business use of VAs and Outsourcing

Making a Little Company Look Big - Annie Field, NYTimes 2007-07-12
Personal Assistants on Call, Just Not in the Next Office - [...]

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No quizzes, no exams
I don’t do quizzes anymore, or exams. Most of the assignments are of the kind “interact with these materials, summarize, analyze, and assess”. There are questions, but also simple reductions and “what is the most important”, “turn that into a set of guidelines”, and basic behavior changes (such as writing better, following [...]

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Edupunk

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