Computers

How To Save Money #12: Use Free Software

Software doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. There are many fine low-cost and free alternatives to even the biggest and most popular software packages. I use and can recommend a number of them. In the following table, the software on the left is perfectly fine software, but the prices may be out […]

MS DOS DEL versus ERASE

Long ago in the MS DOS days. I recall being told that there was a difference between the DEL and ERASE commands. One just deleted the directory entry for the file (and therefore the file could in theory be restored), the other actually erased all the data from all the sectors that file was stored […]