DOUG  &  PEGGY'S  SITE
PC Basics. If you have an interest in Personal Computers and you don't know anything about your hardware, check in here for a brief look  inside.
Cloning a Hard Drive. Make an exact bootable copy of all the data that's on your hard drive. It's saved
my data from several hard drive crashes.
BASIC COMPUTER INFORMATION
Our 1870s House. Its Web site is still
 under construction. Maybe someday ... .
One of Peggy's hobbies is making Peddy Teddy Bears. Come visit Peggy's Bear House.
Some of Peggy's Bears.
Peg making Bears.
We adopted this sweet Scottish Terrier named Chloe after she was rescued from a puppy mill. See her story. 
Chloe and her treat.
Daisy, Chloe and Mac
Read the life and death story of my Scottish Terriers Ms Bear and Mr Bear.
Mr Scottie Bear
Mr Scottie Bear
Have an older vehicle with unidentified engine problems? Maybe your problem is Ethanol.
          FLASH! I think it's fixed!
         This is a partial Index only. Scroll down to find links.  
                 PC Basics (hardware),  Cloning hard drives, 
           Dead Computer Repairs,  Peggy's Teddy Bear House, 
                         Story of our Scottish Terriers,
               Rescuing a Scottish Terrier from a puppy mill,  
                   Ethanol problem in my 1984 van engine,
           My Memories of the Great Depression and Beyond.
            Dickens of Hurricane Creek TN,    Rainbow Bridge
           Have a gas furnace? See our cracked heat exchanger.
                     Make a Hard Drive Selector Switch.
                Make a wired switch for wireless doorbells.

This Website is authored and maintained by Howard D. Dickens (Doug)  and constructed using Web Studio.  Copyright © 2004 – 2008.        Click E-mail to send questions or comments.

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1943
Spend a few moments with some childhood memories from the early 1930s and to the present. This site is now located on the Dickens site.
On Rainbow Bridge
Dickens of Hurricane Creek.
Methodist Church at
Hurricane Creek
Dickens Cemetery at Hurricane Creek.
MrBear,  2/16/91 - 2/9/03
Searching for OLD CLOCK ID:
Make a simple motherboard jig for your workbench, pg 3 of 
                           Dead Comp Repairs.

After over 3 years since migrating to UBUNTU Linux, I'm happy
to recommend UBUNTU Linux to anyone who wants a free,
well maintained, fully functional operating system that is 100%
supported by the UBUNTU Linux community.       

Do you have a wireless doorbell? Would you like to use it many feet beyond its range or would you like it to signal when someone has opened a remote gate or door? I'll show you how I modified mine to do these things. It doesn't take an electronics whiz to do it. Click the link below.
Peggy suffered a heart attack Christmas morning of 2006. We are happy to report that no such event happened Christmas morning of 2007. Click the link below to read an account of how it happened in 2006 and links to articles that explain important differences in male/female heart attack symptoms.  

Now dual booting with Linux.
  Info now added to clonimg.

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When you send an Email, please place something relevant in the subject line or my spam blocker won't let it pass. If it does pass and I don't recognise what's
in the subject line, I won't open it.
Calculus Test 
from an Email.
My kind of logic.
I have a method of using two hard drives, each with a different operating system, on one desktop computer, using an external toggle switch to choose between the drives. I don't want any internal communication between the two systems. This works for me using Linux on one drive and another system on the other.  This might not work on all motherboard/drive combinations - it does on my three computers. I've now used this method on several computers and it works fine.  12/01/07. Click the link below:
To our visitors from around the world:  
Thank you for visiting and do come back often.
I was 70 when we bought our house and began 6 months of work in 2002.

Order a new version of Ubuntu by mail free and postage paid. It's great. Easy way to order yours is go to search and type in: Order Ubuntu. SHIPIT Ubuntu will come up with simple instructions. You may also download it if you wish. 

Go to VIEW in the upper left top of your Browser and adjust the Text Size once or twice.
The Dickens section has grown so much that it now has it's own Web site. For Hurricane Creek, Robertson County TN, Edward Glover (Ned) Dickens and others, click the link below: 
Dickens visitors : scroll down to the Dickens of TN link near the bottom of this page
for a link to our new site or click the link here. Thank you.
WELCOME to Doug and Peggy's site.
Their Web site covers many subjects of interest to International visitors from gardening and family
to computers and travel. There are links provided to several sites offering free computer services
and other items of interest.
If you send an Email, please place something relevant in the subject line
or my spam blocker won't let it pass. If it does pass and I don't recognise 
what's in the subject line, I won't open it.
Viewing Problems?    Text overlap or dropped words:
What does the government do with your Social Security tax payments? You might be surprised. 
Do you need to wash out the gutters on your house? Here's a simple device that you can make in a few minutes that will reach your low-hanging gutters without using a ladder. 

Public Notice: there are several handyman  do-it-yourself  items on this Web site that require some care when using them or the tools and/or electricity when constructing them. I offer my ideas freely and if you use any of these ideas you are responsible for all aspects of that use. If you attempt to construct and/or use any of these items, you do so at your own risk.  Thank you, Doug Dickens.

If you would like a program to build your own Web pages, Kompozer is a free and complete
editor. It works with Linux, Windows, and MacOS X. You can download it below:
How to make Web pages in Kompozer. This tutorial will help you get started.
See our new ClustrMaps above. Just click on the map. Our first ClustrMaps were archived on Nov. 20, 2007. In the past 20 months there have been  6,505 visitors to this home page. 
Help make the World better
               in 2008.
What's wrong with our economy? Read pages 3, 5, 6 and 7
of my story about life in 1932. It answers that question.
                       Click the link below.
Optimised for 800x600 screen resolution.
Linux users : if my pages don't display correctly,  make sure you have
                              "msttcorefonts" installed.

COMPANION PET PAGES

Scroll down a few lines to access a link to see Rex.
Bridget and Theo.
Rex and Jemma.
Michelle and her K9 Cart.
Lucy and Leo.

Pet Pages has outgrown the Home Page so I've made a Pet Pages section just for our animal friends. Visit our Pet Pages and send me
your pet pictures.

I answer all Email but there are times that my answers are returned as undeliverable. If you don't receive a reply from me, know this - I tried several times.
Please don't send me any Political hate mail. I make up my own mind about who to vote for.
Mark holding Max
QUESTION: How many of our politicians are benefiting directly or indirectly from fuel prices through stocks or by other means? Who is getting the money?
I added some improvements on May 9, 2008.
NEW:  Companion Pets Memorials. Just lose a special companion pet? Send me the information and I'll make a memorial page for it. Click the link below to visit.
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