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.
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

This Website is authored and maintained by Howard D. Dickens (Doug)  and constructed using Web Studio.  Copyright © 2004 – 2010.        Click E-mail to send questions or comments.

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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
Methodist Church at
Hurricane Creek
Dickens Cemetery at Hurricane Creek.
MrBear,  2/16/91 - 2/9/03
Searching for OLD
Industrial CLOCK ID:
Make a simple motherboard jig for your workbench, pg 3 of Dead Comp Repairs.
Peggy suffered a heart attack Christmas morning of 2006. We are happy to report that no such event happened again. 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.  
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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. Posted on 12/01/07 - still using them daily in 2010. Click the link below:
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. An 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. 

The Dickens section has grown so much that it now has its own Web site. For Dickens at Hurricane Creek in Smith Co. TN, also Robertson County TN, Clayton Co. Iowa 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.
Their Web site covers many subjects of interest to International visitors from gardening and family to pets, computers, and travel. There are links provided to several sites offering free computer services and many other items of interest.
What does the government do with your Social Security tax payments? You might be surprised. 
What's wrong with the economy? Who's delaying universal health care in the USA? Maybe a congressperson near you. Read pages 3, 5, 6 and 7 of my story about life in the 1930's.  I was a Great Depression child. Click the link below.
Linux users : if my pages don't display correctly,  make sure you have
                                 "msttcorefonts" installed.

COMPANION PET PAGES

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.

DOUG  &  PEGGY'S  SITE

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.

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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.
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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.
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. Click the link below:
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.
The information below is very basic. I've built and repaired many basic computers - nothing fancy or cutting edge - but they are inexpensive, work well, and are adequate for daily use.
See our new ClustrMaps above. Just click on the map. Our ClustrMaps for the past year were archived on Nov. 21, 2009.
 
In the past 37 months  there  have 
been 9,148 visitors to this home page. 
Updated February 07, 2010.
To our visitors from around the world: thank you for visiting and do come back often.

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I can recover personal files from a corrupted operating
system - if the hard drive itself is not damaged and will still run. I use Ubuntu 9.04 for that operation. I made a page to show how I do it. Click here for information.
Can't locate a replacement transflow/crossflow blower for your fireplace insert? I found one.

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We adopted this sweet Scottish Terrier named Chloe after she was rescued from a puppy mill. See her story. Update: Chloe was diagnosed with
congestive heart failure on March 14, 2009. She is still surviving today, February 07, 2010.
There is a new page explaining Chloe's CHF.
aaaaaaaaaaaaiii